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In Conversation: Lynn Aldrich and Laurie Frick with curator Carl Berg

Saturday, February 25, 2012/ 4:00 PM

6018 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles

Join curator Carl Berg as he leads a conversation with artist Lynn Aldrich and Laurie Frick about selected projects that lead to a discussion of the intersection of materials and process, craft and aesthetics in each of the artist’s practices.

Lynn Aldrich is a Los Angeles based artist who has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world, with large scale installations most recently seen at Art Center College of Design (2008), Otis College of Art and Design (2009), and a public fountain sponsored by the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena (2010). She received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Award and the Art Here and Now Los Angeles County Museum of Art purchase award. Aldrich received her B.A. in English Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her MFA at the Art Center College of Design.

Laurie Frick was born in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in Austin, Texas and Brooklyn, New York. Formerly an executive in high technology, she holds an M.B.A from the University of Southern California. In 2007, she completed her MFA from New York Studio School and has since completed many artist residencies, most recently at the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Djerassi Program. Her recent solo exhibition at Edward Cella Art+ Architecture, Sleep Patterns (2011), was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times.

Carl Berg, the guest curator of the exhibition, has been deeply engaged in the Los Angeles contemporary art community as a curator and former gallerist. As Director of the newly formed experimental art space, THE PROSPECTUS, which is part of the Pacific Design Center’s DESIGN LOVES ART program, Berg provides artists, writers and curators with a venue to propose their ideas. Berg is also currently the curator at the Irvine Fine Arts Center the City of Irvine.