Leora Lutz Go About: MOCA Los Angeles and Echo Park

Saw the Collecting Collections exhibit at MOCA. Perhaps in looking at some of my favorite MOCA artists, one can see my curatorial eye.
Images shown are not necessarily from the MOCA collection itself, just referential.
Claes Oldenberg vs. Paige Wery and David E. Stone and clairearents!


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Lari Pittman and Fred Tomaselli vs. Jessica Robbins and Julie Hughes


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As always, there was some fun dancing going on - but not a fraction of the craziness that ensued when Le Tigre DJ'd the Wack! show.

Later we stopped at Echo Curio - because their openings usually go until midnight...it's a real free-spirited, free-for-all kind of space. Just a bunch of open call/non juried/non selection shows in addition to lots of kooky bands/musicians booked and theatrical/performance art things, arty shop and such.
We bought 2 paperdolls which you can color in, and whose bodies are comprised of a toilet paper roll and popsicle stick for $1 each.
I got Freud, Mickey got Buddy Holly.

Not sure if there is something uncanny going on...


(personal photos from Michael Hsiung's show with Cole Gerst this past June and Ashley Goldberg this past August.