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Located inHollywood,Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is a nonprofit exhibition space and archive of thevisual arts for the city ofLos Angeles,California, United States, currently under the leadership ofSarah Russin.[1]
In the mid-1970s, artists began living in large, inexpensive lofts built into the empty warehouses ofdowntown Los Angeles. LACE was initially located in the same area on Broadway, later moving to an industrial neighborhood near the Los Angeles River, and finally to Hollywood.[2]
Founded in 1978 by a group of thirteen artists and based upon principles of grassroots community organizing and social change, LACE committed from the start to presenting experimental works of art in all media, including the then-experimental media ofperformance art andvideo. In 1982, Joy Silverman was appointed the first executive director. LACE provided an early venue for artists likeLaurie Anderson,Nancy Buchanan,Chris Burden,Gronk,Ishmael Houston-Jones,Mike Kelley,Martin Kersels,Linda Nishio,Paper Tiger TV,Adrian Piper,Judith Simonian,Johanna Went,David Wojnarowicz,Bruce and Norman Yonemoto,Margaret Tedesco,[3] andLiz Young. The presence of performance art and video in major museums suggest that these experimental media are now part of the artistic canon and testifies to the success of LACE to promote these media to a wider audience.
Originally located in Downtown Los Angeles, LACE moved to Hollywood in 1994. LACE has partnered with various organizations likeYMCA, theLos Angeles LGBT Center,My Friend's Place, andWoodbury University. LACE also partners with other organizations including theGetty Museum, theFellows of Contemporary Art, theCalifornia Institute of the Arts, theCalifornia College of the Arts in Oakland,Washington University in St. Louis,Kent State University,Atlanta College of Art, andContemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia.
In 1998, LACE inaugurated Contemporary Editions LA, a fine-art publishing venture featuring Los Angeles-based artists, with editions in its first year byPaul McCarthy,Martin Kersels, andSharon Lockhart. The following year, space published three new editions by artistsKevin Appel,Evan Holloway, andJames Welling. In 2002, LACE published Contemporary Editions byJohn Baldessari,Laura Owens, andRaymond Pettibon.
In 2005, LACE published new editions with artistsAmy Adler,Jeff Burton, and the 2006Whitney Biennial artistMonica Majoli.
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