Description: Documentary film screening Q & A with Filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya. Russian filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya was one of the women pioneers to take on camera work and cinematography in Soviet documentary production for TV and film. Please see website for more information. FREE/ Reservations Recommended.

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Description: From May 17 to 20, over 10,000 art enthusiasts and collectors will return to the iconic Phoenix Hotel for the second edition of ArtPadSF, San Francisco’s only hotel-based art fair. ArtPadSF promises a break from the traditional booth fair, featuring innovative programming, and much more.

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Description: ECO-FRIENDLY ARTISTS JANET ROBERTS AND BILLY ZANE PAINT NEW PICTURE FOR THE CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY-BENJAMIN CENTER 30 ORIGINAL FINE ART PIECES SOLD TO BENEFIT THE CSC-BENJAMIN CENTER 7:00 – 10:00 PM, Cocktails, Hors d’oeuvres and Live Entertainment, $250 General Admission proceeds benefit CSC

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Description: Engaging in abstraction while alluding to ornamentation, French’s curiously shaped sculptures reference the past and in their subtext, a darker aspect of contemporary society.

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Description: The visual complexity in King’s vibrant new paintings is a combination of fluid movements of paint with hardedge shapes and flat intense backgrounds, which shifts the viewer’s eye as shape becomes negative and space becomes shape. They challenge visual perception while investigating order and chaos.

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Description: Another Year in LApresents the 3rd in a series of 3 shows focusing on a specific art activity: Painting (LA), Sculpture (CA) & now. Drawing (Los Angeles). Featuring works by Jackie Freedman, John Knuth, Stas Orlovski, Christopher Russell and Alisa Yang.

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Description: Musee16 presents : The opening of The Mushroom and Hot Dog Basement Show! Thursday, May 17th, 5-10pm Join us as many brilliant artists will be displaying their works in the gallery... Along with a special performance by Origins of Coal.

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Description: NEW YORK, NY (May 18th & 19th, 2012)- Last Rites Gallery presents the homecoming of Cruciatus Aeternum, Paul Booth’s exhibit of works for the Giger Museum.

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Description: Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 has featured over 26 shows since October 2012. For the penultimate experience, we celebrate with an incredible range of films and videos that we haven’t squeezed into other screenings, with frequent breaks for socializing!

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Description: Avi Roth debuts his exhibit entitled, “Interpretations." Roth masterfully manipulates coffee to satisfy his obsession with pattern, texture, light and shadow, composing aesthetic images in a medium he calls Coffeegraph®. A bold new direction and character to the visual language of abstract art.

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Description: The night will consist of a silent art auction showcasing donated art by local artists. Simultaneously we will be screening short films with one particular piece put together by the youth at the Echo Park Film Center. DJ Salinger and Slam Dunk will be spinning out tunes all evening.

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Description: For her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Michelle Blade considers the concept of impending doom in relationship to cultural shifts currently underway. In "Hanging Fire", she expands upon previous bodies of work, considering ritual and prophecy and the real and unreal.

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Description: Susanna Vapnek’s paintings tap into the intensity of shared community experience with emotive, apocalyptic representations of the Santa Barbara fire season.

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Description: UCSB MFA 2012 Exhibition: Headgear for Tony presents fresh talent from the Fine Art graduate department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

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Description: Just one weekend a year the art community's most exciting talent (artists, architects, designers, gallerists and more) provide a glimpse into their creative process, opening up their beautiful Venice, Santa Monica, and surrounding area studios and homes for community tours and auctioning off their artwork all to support the Venice Family Clinic - the largest free healthcare clinic in the nation. This year the event has stepped things up a notch, partnering with Google Inc. as the official sponsor and a celebrity host committee to provide an extraordinary community celebration. Venice Art Walk & Auctions includes exciting Art & Architecture Tours, offering a rare peak into some of the most stunning and creative properties, studios, and galleries in and surrounding Venice, a Silent Art Auction showcasing original paintings, sculptures and photographs, and an incredible After Party with live entertainment, celebrity DJs, and gourmet food trucks. Venice Art Walk & Auctions raises over $600,000 annually, helping Venice Family Clinic serve over 25,000 men, women, children, teens and seniors free of charge each year (97% of which are low income residents of the Westside of Los Angeles). This event is FREE to the community, and tickets for the Art & Architecture Tours are priced between $50-$125. Please visit www.theveniceartwalk.org to purchase tickets, make a donation, access a full schedule of events and all additional information.

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Description: Get out from under the table, look out the window, is a reinterpretation of Richard Newton’s 1980 performance Get under the table, don’t look at the windows.

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Description: In the early 1980s, Filmforum’s Terry Cannon assembled a few mixed shows for touring experimental films by L.A. filmmakers. This screening is a fitting conclusion to Alternative Projections, revealing the state of the art in Los Angeles, circa 1980. Celebratory reception after the screening!

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Description: Scaramouche is pleased to present Double-Jointed, an exhibition bringing together new and recent work by Cameron Crawford and Jibade-Khalil Huffman, both of whose practices rely on the articulation of visual ideas through language.

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