L.A. Louver will be hosting an artist conversation with Grant Stevens and writer/curator Paul Young on Saturday, January 19, at 11 am. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Stevens speak about his works in the context of his current exhibition.
The event is free, however reservation is required.
**Please RSVP to Susan Yi at (310) 822-4955 or rsvp@lalouver.com**
About the participants:
GRANT STEVENS was born in Brisbane, Australia, and earned a Ph.D, from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, where he now teaches. Stevens has exhibited at Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in Australia, while international shows include the Central Academy of Fine Art Museum, Beijing; National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; and Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome. Screenings and public art commissions include Resfest: Digital Film Festival, ACMI Melbourne and the Opera House, Sydney, 2005; Boo Hooray, ABC television 2005; Artists versus Hollywood at Curzon Cinema, London (and traveling), 2006; and Mingling, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 2012. Supermassive is Stevens’ first solo West Coast exhibition.
PAUL YOUNG is a journalist and curator based in Los Angeles. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Variety, Artnews and Art & Auction. He has also been an art columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Angeleno magazine, and served as a senior editor at Daily Variety. More recently, he authored Art Cinema (Taschen), a comprehensive overview of how art practices have converged with moving imagery. Young curates video programs and exhibitions worldwide and which have recently included the AIVA video art festival in Angelholm, 2012, “Supertemporal” at the Kulturhuset Museum in Stockholm, 2012; “Portugal Arte,” Lisbon’s first biennial, and “The Humorous” at REDCAT/Disney Hall, 2011. He is also the founder and director of Young Projects in Los Angeles, a contemporary art space devoted to moving image art forms.