The J. Paul Getty Museum Presents Off the 405 x Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

Celebrate Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA at a special extended Off the 405 event! This afternoon to evening program features an artist intervention by LA-based artist Krysten Cunningham, curator-led tours, and a DJ and performance by Maria Chavez, leading up to a 7:30 p.m. concert featuring the mesmerizing cosmic melodies of Ecuadorian-American electronic musician Helado Negro. Cash bar featuring local beers and bites.

WHAT: Off the 405 x Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

Helado Negro is the electronic music project of Roberto Carolos Lange, a South Florida native born to Ecuadorian immigrants and now based in Brooklyn. His upbringing provided the essential elements for his songwriting, including his consistently bilingual lyrics. Influenced by the electro and Miami-bass he heard on the radio in his youth, Lange also incorporates shades of krautrock into his mesmerizing rhythms, loops, and hair-raising melodies. Known for his craftsmanship, he has honed his identity, ideology, and musical dexterity with constant artistic and introspective development, pouring his heart and full sincerity into his music.

Born in Lima, Peru, Maria Chávez is an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Aspects of chance and coincidence are recurring themes in her work and unite her sound sculptures and installations with her solo turntable performances.

Los Angeles-based visual artist Krysten Cunningham will create a site-specific installation on the sloping green lawns of the Getty Center’s Central Garden that is inspired by the exhibition, Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Utilizing brightly-colored textiles that fluoresce at night, Cunningham installs a dynamic set of “lawn drawings.” Her composition, hovering between two and three dimensionality, seeks to echo the innovative and poetic forms of geometric abstraction created by avant-garde South American painters and sculptures associated with the Concrete art movement.

WHEN: Saturday, October 14 from 1:00 -9:00 p.m.; concert at 7:30p.m.

WHERE: The J. Paul Getty Museum l 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles 90049

WHY: This event is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at more than 70 cultural institutions across Southern California. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.