Join moderator Michael Ned Holte in a panel discussion with Nine Lives artists Lisa Anne Auerbach, Kaari Upson and Charlie White. As all the artists live and work in L.A., Nine Lives embodies many of the psychic complexities and paradoxes of the cityit is at once beautiful and frightening, refined and unruly. Tireless and prolific, Lisa Anne Auerbach makes work in a wide-range of media including knitting, bicycling, soap-making, photography and writingshe's practically her a sub-culture of her own. Kaari Upson has spent the last four or five years studying a man she's never met. For her contribution to the exhibition, she's taken on the iconic Grotto from the Playboy Mansion (a frequent haunt of her main man, Larry), and uses the replica as a site for ridding herself of her subject's possession over her. Photographer Charlie White ventured into the worlds of teens and transgenders for his new portrait series and his experience researching these communities has inspired a new body of work that's moved out of Hollywood and into considerably more private terrain.

In conjunction with the exhibition Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.