Night Gallery and Workspace in Lincoln Heights both surged forward, with better and better exhibitions (Eli Langer at Night Gallery and Marina Pinsky at Workspace) and big outpourings of community support. Farther north in Highland Park, Public Fiction, launched by Lauren Mackler, both founded a church and opened a grand hotel for artists. In such works, Public Fiction in particular feels founded on this notion of the permeability of fiction and reality in L.A., implied by the poetry of its name.
All of these different projects found cheap rent and room to move east of downtown, and with all the museums and commercial galleries caught up in one version of Pacific Standard Time or another, these young spaces sometimes felt like the only places committed to new art.
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Category: Galleries
Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park
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Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA Grand Avenue)
250 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Museums
Region: Out of Town
Actual Size Gallery
741 New High St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Galleries
Region: Chinatown/ Elysian Park
Thomas Solomon Gallery
427 Bernard St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Galleries
Region: Chinatown/ Elysian Park
The Box Gallery
977 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Galleries
Region: Chinatown/ Elysian Park
Public Fiction
749 Ave. 50
Highland Park, CA 90042
Category: Performing Arts Venues
Region: Northeast L.A.
David Kordansky Gallery
3143 S. La Cienega Blvd., Unit A
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Category: Galleries
Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park
When it came to the artists from the PST period of 1945 to 1980, some of the best projects in commercial galleries were Richard Jackson at David Kordansky Gallery, "Announce" at Thomas Solomon, and Bettye Saar at Roberts & Tilton. Jackson's was hardly a retrospective gesture, but a major thrust forward, ever refining and pushing his expanded field of painting that mixes sculpture and performance into his messy splatters and tableaus. "Announce" at Solomon brought together individual collections of ephemera from various figures in and around Los Angeles, each collection slanted toward the collector's proclivities. Saar's cryptic and intense assemblages and installations dealing with black historical conditions found a home both at Roberts & Tilton and in "Now Dig This!"
Midway through the PST retrospective of Los Angeles, there's a temptation to feel like we're past the rowdy youth it chronicles and finally getting all grown up. One of my favorite songs about Los Angeles, which I've replayed again and again all this year, is from Washington, D.C., band Unrest from 1992, "West Coast Love Affair." Under a simple and hypnotic rhythm, the singer tells of a fractured love affair and the chorus repeats again and again how Los Angeles is a place of potential, where love affairs are consummated, new desires and stories still possible: "I'll meet you in L.A. I'll kiss you in L.A. I'll meet you in L.A. I'll kiss you in L.A."
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