Thursday, Oct 9

• Amir Nikravan x Scott Benzel, at Various Small Fires, Hollywood. Citing Photoshop’s command collapsing visible layers into one conglomerate layer, Merge Visible features perception-bending 2D paintings & sculpture from Amir Nikravan. In the courtyard, Scott Benzel presents site-specific sound installations Inverted Capitol Spire, Programmatic Architecture Displacement 5-7, & the multi-channel piece Inversion V. opening reception 6-9pm | thru Nov 8

Friday, Oct 10

• Expanded Cities Closing Reception LA, at Curio by AFN, Venice. A light x space x time installation by Ela Boyd x Aaron Farley, the temporary telematic series triangulating three cities comes to an end— with simultaneous performances happening in Richmond, Virginia x Mexicali, Mexico.  Facebook Event. closing reception 6-9pm
• Freewaves: Question the Projection, at Side Street Projects, Pasadena. Freewaves x ArtNight Pasadena present interactive public work exploring current attitudes towards art x global events.  Video screening x micro projections from Vera Makianich, Daniel Garcia, Megan May Daalder & more.  Facebook Event. 6-10pm
• JPW3: 32 LEAVES I DON’T THE FACE OF SMOKE, at Night Gallery, DTLA. Facebook Event opening reception 7-10pm | thru Nov 15
• Michel Auder / Józef Robakowski: Street Life, at Farenheit, Boyle Heights. Selected videos by avant-garde filmmakers, Michel Auder x Józef Robakowski explore tensions between public & private realms through depictions of everyday life.  Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum. opening reception 7-10pm | thru Dec 18
• Siobhan Aluvolot x Xara Thustra: Lovewarz Wallwerks, at LAST Projects, Hollywood.  Xara Thustra & Siobhan Aluvolot join multidisciplinary forces to create a egalitarian, anti capitalist, queer utopia amidst Hollywood’s Friday night lights.   With books [donation based x give-away], this collaborative send-off invites public participation with a performance by Jeff Zilla (COOLWORLD), DJ Little Dinosaur, & complimentary food. closing party 7-11pm
• RENDEZVOUS! (The Month of Macabre edition), at Hyperion Tavern, Silver Lake. Screening of All the Colors of the Dark (Italy, 1972), Giallo trailer by Jonny Redman, DJ guests Spaziale, Todd Gilchrist x residents Alfonso Carrillo, George Ben Sun, Carlos Rossi, Dina Juntila, Giacomo. PLUS you could win Bruno Nicolai’s limited ed. red vinyl score… need we say more??? 8pm-2am

• Cameron: Songs for the Witch Woman, at MOCA PDC, West Hollywood. An extensive survey of artist, performer, poet, occult practitioner, x provocateur Marjorie Cameron.  Exhibition includes approx 91 artworks x ephemeral artifacts. open to the public today thru Jan 11
• Gracie DeVito: Changing of the Guard, at 356 S. Mission Rd, Boyle Heights. Hourly performance[s] by Gracie DeVito with Indah Dafan, Jake DeVito, Sara Gomez, Luke Harris, Sarah Johnson, Julia Leonard, Jillian Risigari-Gai, Ethan Swan, Joseph Tran (& let’s hope Danny DeVito makes it too). 11am-6pm
• Nevine Mahmoud & Kathleen Ryan: 2 X 2 X 2, at Favorite Goods, Chinatown. Facebook Event opening reception 7-10pm | thru Nov 23
• CODA: by Kerry Hyatt aka KHno7, at Gold Haus Gallery, Highland Park. New works in paint & collage juxtapose archetypal x pedestrian images with saturated graphics in digital collage x serial paste-ups. Sponsored by The Work Magazine.  Curated by the i-i Will Atkinson & Jb Jones. opening reception 7-11pm
• Derek Frech: Secure Document, at Actual Size, Chinatown. Works utilize encryption technologies to alter them symbolically & materially— stripping original content to restructure hierarchies of information transmission & reveal hidden mechanics of communication. opening reception 8-10pm | thru Nov 29
• Celebrate Everything: 1 Yr Anniversary Party, at 1205 N Main St, DTLA. The soiree dedicated to showcasing emerging purveyors in live electronics alongside acclaimed musicians celebrates One!  Feat. David Scott Stone, Bandito Overlord, Logreybeam, Twin Braids (Baseck x Joy Through Noise), Standox (WMX x Wet Mango) & KrOn.  Visuals by Alex Pelly.  Early-birds win a modular synth demo with Muffwiggler!!! Facebook Event | Tickets | 18+ 9pm-2am

• soundShoppe, at Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock. Monthly FREE unstructured noise jam for experimental musicians & sound artists. Presented by SASSAS & Center for the Arts Eagle Rock. doors 12:30pm | 1-4pm
• Maja’s Magic School: The Pyramid & Its Occult Function, at Besant Lodge, Beachwood Canyon. 6pm

Tuesday, Oct 14

• David Lucien Matheke: Interior Void, at CSUN Art & Design Center, Northridge. New paintings, sculptures, & a performance from the multidisciplinary visual & sound artist (of Endometrium Cuntplow). opening reception 6-8pm performance 6:15pm

// Wednesday, Oct 15

• I IM EYE MY + FILTHY HUNS + Video Art by SUZY POLING, at HRLA, Chinatown. Video screening of works by Suzy Poling (Pod Blotz) followed by sounds from Filthy Nuns (Daughters of The Sun members) & I I’m Eye My. 9pm-12am
• LOST & FOUND FILM CLUB: Our Disgusting Bodies, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood. The latest 16mm monthly ‘shorts-tacular’ gives a physical guide through hormonal vintage shorts, with a retro tribute to the repulsive meat of our corpus & more… a night of phys-ed promising to be both gross & enticing. 10:15pm

last-looks

• John Knuth: Base Alchemy, at 5 Car Garage, Santa Monica. Fly & mylar paintings by the LA artist.  RSVP for address. Through Oct 10
• Min Song: Tromp L’oeil Depression, at Young Projects, Hollywood. Ea. work comprised of a box atop a photo decal adhered to the floor. Through Oct 11
• New Gravity, at Overduin & Co., Hollywood. Group show feat Frank Benson, Judith Hopf, Angie Keefer, Kitty Kraus, Mahony, Oliver Payne, & Chadwick Rantanen. Curated by Olivian Cha & Eli Diner. Through Oct 18