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Friday, February 25th

6-8 pm [LA]
exhibit: 'David Hockney: Hand Eye Heart'
LA Louver Gallery (45 North Venice Boulevard; Venice)
info: 310-822-4955; info@lalouver.com
detail: Opening reception. Mild-mannered painter and photographer David Hockney has attracted equal parts adoration, emulation, and dismissal in his more than 40-year career (most of which he has famously spent in SoCal, on account of the special light we have here). Recently, he proved himself a gifted writer and researcher with a polemical tome on the use of the camera obscura throughout the history of Western painting — and that really made some scholars mad! For this highly anticipated new body of work, Hockney uses watercolor to return to the land, sky, and earth of his bucolic English childhood. The results are emotional, masterful, and disarmingly simple — but you'd better come on out tonight and judge for yourself. Through April 2nd.

7-11 pm [LA]
exhibit: 'Mark Licari: Menage-A-Not'
Equator Books (1103 Abbot Kinney Boulevard; Venice)
info: 310-399-5544; mail@equatorbooks.com
detail: Recently featured in Art on Paper's first ever "New Prints Review," artist Mark Licari has been creating a buzz in the Los Angeles art world for over a decade. His ink drawings sprawl across the paper in meticulous detail, oozing organic life into mechanical objects to meld fantasy with reality. And considering his proclivity for the fantastical, it's only fitting that his latest work finds itself on the walls of Equator Books. Inspired by Haruki Murakami's short story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo," he created a large-scale mural depicting the titular hero saving Equator Books from a book-eating worm. Let your imagination travel to Licari's world tonight and celebrate the store's survival — thanks to a giant Japanese-speaking Frog.

830 pm [LA]
presentation: 'Carter Tutti, Chessmachine'
REDCAT (Walt Disney Concert Hall; 631 West 2nd Street; downtown LA)
info: 213-237-2800
detail: Part of 'Visual Music: See Hear Now!', an experimental performance series exploring the resonance between contemporary music and visual art. Members of the legendary group Throbbing Gristle, artists, musicians, and subcultural collaborators Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter give their first US performance in a decade. Designed specially for REDCAT, the performance includes both new works and excerpts from their vast musical catalogue. Richard Chartier and Ivan Pavlov (CoH) open the evening with the US debut of the conceptual work 'Chessmachine'. $14 MoCA members, $18 general admission. More info available at moca.org/seehearnow