L.A.'s Best Art Shows To Visit This Thanksgiving Weekend

::Installation and Sculpture::

Room to Live

Eerie, beautiful, gigantic, sexy - these are a few words that describe the plethora of artwork in the Room to Live exhibit at MOCA. Collecting works from several artists all dated from the 1960s until now,Room to Live displays work from diverse media usage, including sculptures, paintings, drawings, photography, video and room-sized installations. You can walk into a clown funeral in Marnie Weber's "A Giggle of Clowns" and continue on to view a 3D installation at Samara Golden's "The Fireplace." See if you can feel the heat from the fluorescent lights in Mark Handforth's "Desert Sun." With a wide variety of installations, artwork, and artists, you can spend your entire day at MOCA finding a room to live in. October 5, 2013 - January 12, 2014 MOCA Grand Avenue 250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 [Photo via, @mocalosangeles]

Joel Otterson

Joel Otterson takes domestic handicrafts and traditional sculptural materials to make traditional feminine crafts into a masculine art. He removes boundaries between high and low culture, and art and craft through his creations for the past 30 years. View Otterson's new work at the Maloney Fine Art gallery. November 1, 2013 - December 21, 2013 Maloney Fine Art 2680 South La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90034 [Photo via] - - - - - - - -

Candice Breitz: The Woods

The Woods is a video trilogy based on three major film producing cities: Hollywood (Los Angeles, USA), Bollywood (Mumbai, India), and Nollywood (Lagos, Nigeria). In the first two parts of Candice Breitz's trilogy, The Audition (filmed in Los Angeles) and The Rehearsal (filmed in Mumbai), showcase current aspiring and working child actors. Breitz wanted to capture the process of how these children mimic adult actions, from applying makeup to copying adult speech that somehow merge into their own understanding of what adulthood is. The last part of the trilogy, The Interview (filmed in Lagos), features two adult Nollywood stars who attained celebrity status through their own mimicry of children behavior. Blending in the worlds of the performance of adulthood and the performance of childhood, Breitz's video installations and photographic works capture the difficulty of maintaining "a sense of selfhood" in the cinematic world, as well as everyday life. Head to Perry Rubenstein's Gallery for a different kind of movie night.

October 19, 2013 - November 30, 2013

Perry Rubenstein Gallery 1215 N. Highland Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90038 [Photo via]