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Parallel and Simultaneous: Paul Farance at Garage Projects
by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Posted
9/21/09
Brushes are too clinical and unfeeling for Paul Farance. He doesn’t trust them with the measured truth of his mark anymore. Generically prefabricated and chronically detached, they are standardized and lifeless. Farance has always sought something more intimate, more urgent and more palpable in his art, which privileges the privacy of his own often-untranslatable sensory experiences and actions over their public expression.
For his season opener at Garage Projects, A Way You’ll... [more]
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Post-American L.A. in Santa Monica
by Michael Shaw
Group Show at 18th Street Arts Center
August 1st - September 25th
Posted
9/8/09
Though of course art has no rules, sometimes it finds itself falling into the terrain of soft sciences like sociology, with which its search for straightforward answers and clean conclusions sidelines certain aspects of art (aesthetics, ambiguity, open-ended inquiry) that, well, makes art art.
In the case of Post-American L.A., sociology is used to look at America’s projected shift and decline as seen through Los Angeles, ten years into the future. An intriguing and perhaps even noble venture... [more]
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Kamikaze in Downtown
by Michael Shaw
Fumiko Amano, Barbara Benish, Jenn Berger, Tami Demaree, Michael Gomez Burton, Fatima Hoang, Steven Hull, Daniel Ingroff, billy kheel, Linda King, Mark D. Lyons, Nathan McChristy, George Keskeny / John Rose, Danny Shain, Donnie Stroud, April Totten, Osvaldo Trujillo, Evan Walsh, Matt Wardell at PØST
September 1st - September 13th
Posted
9/8/09
PØST, the seminal downtown artist-run space, has returned after a four-year hiatus. During its original run from 1995-2005, artist/director Habib Kheradyar (aka HK Zamani) mounted up to 20+ exhibits each year, including in the elevator if his loft building on East Seventh Place.
Zamani made a bold return last April with Erased, in which he took six artists’ works linked to the gallery’s past and still in Zamani’s possession – among them Linda Besemer and Brad Spence – and ‘eras... [more]
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THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO WAS PART OF "URBAN GRAVITATION"
by EFREN LUNA
Ray Aliviado, Paulina Bouyer-Magaña, Peter Bukasa, Steven Amado CHATISMO, ENRIQUE CHIU, Jesus Martinez CHUYMOSCA, Annie Dubber, Maria Guadalupe, JavierYamakawa, Joshua Lewis, Lana Lingan, Rosalie Lopez, EFREN LUNA, Jusus Magaña, Efrain Martinez, Ben Morado, Johnny O, Jesse Perez, Zully Perez, Nadia Ramirez, Eddie Rodriguez, Rick Rodriguez, Izelle Rose, TITUS, Octavio Vargas at Green Turtle Bar & Restaurant
July 12th - July 12th
Posted
7/26/09
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO WAS PART OF "URBAN GRAVITATION"
A couple of weeks have passed since we had "URBAN GRAVITATION" Art & Music Show on Sunday July 12th, 2009. Our show consisted of 3 events in 3 separate spaces within one venue (THE GREEN TURTLE Whittier, CA). A gallery space, a patio with live graffiti artists, and the main bar with live bands and rappers on stage. Our theme "URBAN GRAVITATION" was inspired to bring in artworks and music that expressed some aspects of urban life. Becau... [more]
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This show was a tremendous success.
by EFREN LUNA
Ray Aliviado, Steven Amado, Raymond Berrellez, Peter Bukasa, Daniela Campons, Miguel Cervantes, Jesus Christos, KatherineBianca Clark, Morgan Cook, Ashley Costello, Annie Dubber, Jose Espinoza, Mike Gomez, Adriana Gonzalez, Jennifer Gutierrez-Morgan, Desirae Hepp, Jose Hernandez, Taylor Kawata, Jesus Eduardo Magana, Jesus Martinez, Edson Mbaki, Marissa M Mercado, Shefali Mistry, Ben Morado, Emily Neptune, Jesse Perez, Jesus Perez, Zully Perez, Sheree Reed, Michael Reid, Eddie Rodriguez, Jonathan Sanchez, Nadia Santacruz, Jason Saunders, Kevin Tong, Maria Guadelupe Torres, Octavio Vargas, Daniel Velasquez, Cynthia Villasnor at Basswerks
December 6th, 2008 - December 6th, 2008
Posted
7/26/09
I am an artist also a curator. This was the first show I curated and was a tremendous success. I curated a group show with over 40 artists. The show was titled "Set-In-Motion" December 6th & 7th, 2008. It took place at Basswerks Gallery in Los Angeles, USA. www.basswerks.net
This was a 2-day show. I combined a variety of media like photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, architecture, sculpture, and Music. (and many more) I had 3 bands (Random Ninjas www.myspace.c... [more]
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Jeff Hassay in Death Valley
by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Posted
7/26/09
Take a trip to Death Valley in late summer or early fall. It’s only about four or so hours driving from Los Angeles. You can see the salt flats, Zabriskie Point, the sand dunes, Artist’s Palette, and the mysterious Devil’s Racetrack. All striking and each benefiting from the blushing glow of morning or evening light. The dunes are best. You can see all the usual tour book attractions, but you can’t see Jeff Hassay’s See Through Mountain, 2009. Even though it’s there. Follow these directions and ma... [more]
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Excerpted Primer on Appropriate Art World Etiquette (If There Even Is Any)
by Andrew Berardini
Posted
7/6/09
Rather than dive headfirst into troubling eyewitness accounts of the punishing social dynamics of the art world, I thought we’d begin with a little etiquette lesson. Recently I was asked by the daring and creative editors of Paper Monument to contribute to a handy pamphlet they were publishing on etiquette in the art world, the pamphlet is in the offing and I offer this as a sneak preview on one account of art world etiquette, handy at every opening anywhere for any reason, if only as something t... [more]
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Work in a Range of Mediums
by Andrew Berardini
Simone Forti at The Box
June 27th - August 1st
Posted
7/6/09
Simon Forti has danced through the last forty years of contemporary art like a Zelig of modern movement. After studying with Anna Halprin, Merce Cunningham, and Martha Graham and becoming a pioneering member of the Judson Dance Theater, Forti went on to become a rare choreographer who’s variety of activities led to her contributing to Artforum, performing Dance Constructions in Yoko Ono’s loft, and collaborating with minimalist composer Charlemagne Palestine. Her practice always worked between so... [more]
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The Art of di.Lo is
by Eugenia di Lorenzo - di.Lo (artistic name) -
Eugenia di Lorenzo - di.Lo (artistic name) - at World Art Foundation
June 7th - June 14th
Posted
6/9/09
The Art of di.Lo is Matter, light, sign, integrated in an original figure of painting. Her research is vibrant: the colours are tactile, the matter is impregnated with meaning, that alludes to a metaphysical transcendence. Mixed media canvases that become a metaphor for emotional spheres, of memories, of inner journeys marked by the traces of oneiric colours that create fascinating and charming atmospheres. Yes Contemporary, but with a very mystical aftertaste. An art in art, an inherent dualism that makes... [more]
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Designs by Rosalie
by Rosalie Marsh-Boinus
Rosalie Marsh-Boinus at Sawdust Art Festival - Laguna Beach, California
June 26th - August 30th
Posted
6/6/09
Over 200 artists in booths demonstrating and selling their artistic work in a beautiful setting of trees, entertainment daily, wine and beer served, several restaurants available in a cafe like setting
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