For over five decades, artist Nancy Buchanan has been a vital part of the Los Angeles art community, creating performance, video, drawing, collage, digital art, sculpture, and mixed-media installations, and teaching for over thirty years as a respected core faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts.

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the appointment of artist Ken Gonzales-Day, museum leader Lisa Mark, and artist Cauleen Smith to its Board of Directors. They join Chair Edward Rada and members Elizabeth Armstrong, Connie Butler, Gianna Drake-Kerrison, Claire Peeps, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas.

Grant takes its name from Mike Kelley’s work Infinite Expansion, underscoring the reverberating impact of artists and arts organizations on their communities.

Manual Arts is excited to present an exhibition of 16 photographs from Mike Kelley’s Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction series (2000–11).

With the video ‘Vice Anglais’ as a foundation and starting point, the works on view reveal the artist’s versatility while underscoring a number of key recurrent themes central to his artistic practice, such as adolescence, class, sexuality and subcultures, as well as his multifaceted engagement with the nature of memory.