: Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) is proud to celebrate LA Art Month with the multi-destination Urban Intervention project in partnership with Germany’s Artlab 21. Urban Intervention will feature German and Los Angeles artists creating site-specific art installations throughout Los Angeles and continue with an exhibition opening at LAAA’s Gallery 825 on January 16, 2010. Curated by Peter Mays, this international collaboration showcases artists Flora Kao, Rebecca Lowry, Amely Spoetzl, Bernd Zoellner and Josef-Bernhard Zuenkeler. The exhibition at Gallery 825 features a compliment of work by each artist, and a teaser of the work that was created for the urban landscape. The curious art lover can seek out the urban installations on view in parks, streets and parking signs throughout Los Angeles. The delight of the resulting endeavor is the revealing alignments and contrasts that each artist contributed to the project. Spoetzl’s playful flower dispensers convey an uncommon lyricism for participatory art-making that easily dovetails with Lowry’s dialog on the meaning of landscape and the rules that govern landscape. Kao’s ephemeral time-based documentation of urban light and beauty create the perfect foil for Zuenkeler’s search for the ugliest locale in Los Angeles. The latest in LAAA’s international collaborations, Urban Intervention functions as an opportunity for artists to expand the expectations for cross-cultural discourse while exploring the everchanging definitions of a formal exhibition experience. LAAA will also host a panel discussion featuring the participating artists and LACMA Associate Curator Edward Robinson at noon on January 17, 2010. Click here to read more.