NY/LA Opening Reception featuring Adam Berg & Georgi Tushev

The Santa Monica Museum of Art invites you to join us for the opening reception of NY/LA, a new annual project room series, this Friday, January 13 from 6 - 8 pm.

NY/LA will debut at SMMoA with two exhibitions on view from January 14 through February 25, 2012: Adam Berg: Endangered Spaces (LA) in Project Room 1 and  Georgi Tushev: Strange Attractor (NY) in Project Room 2.

Lisa Melandri is curator of Adam Berg: Endangered Spaces--a new, multi-dimensional video, sculpture, and photo installation that explores the relationship between man-made environments and displaced wildlife. In this work, Berg identifies a parallel future between endangered animals and threatened architectural spaces. Adam Berg (b. 1962) was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and works and lives in Los Angeles.

Jeffrey Uslip is curator of Georgi Tushev: Strange Attractor, which presents a series of paintings and works on paper that investigate the effects of oil paint exposed to extreme magnetic fields. Tushev considers the cellular cycle of life and experiments with the material possibilities of paint. Georgi Tushev (b. 1969) was born in Bulgaria and lives and works in New York City.

We hope that you will join us in celebration of these two incredible exhibitions!

NY/LA is an innovative program that diversifies SMMoA's curatorial voice in an all-new, annual exhibition series. Organized by SMMoA Deputy Director Lisa Melandri and New York-based independent curator Jeffrey Uslip, NY/LA connects emerging contemporary artists on the East and West coasts. With NY/LA, SMMoA continues to reshuffle and revitalize its programs, and promote an ongoing discourse that links contemporary art across the United States.