I cannot wait to see the physical manifestations of the statement below. Thank you in advance.
To live and work as an artist in Los Angeles is to daily travel with too much awareness through a land filled everywhere with images of ghosts and ghosts of images. It is to confront head on the problem of never knowing exactly what is real about the city you call home, and to find some truth in that. In a place like this, to state the obvious is thus to state quite a bit. This is a show of artists who live and work in Los Angeles.
BEATEN OFF
A group exhibiton responding to the LAndscape. Featuring new work by:
Andrew Cameron, Jonathan Fields, William Kaminski, Lisa Madonna, Jake Michaels, Zac Montanaro,
Evelena Ruether, Sahil Shah and Brandon Smith
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, August 21st 7-10pm
Control Room
2006 East 7th Street
Los Angeles CA 90021
control-room.org
Some photos from the Summer Drawing show at Family, which is incredible and will be up until September 7. If you’re in the area, you should go! (photos: Justin Hantz) More after the jump.
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Though this may be possibly one of the girliest posts known to man, there’s something to be said about extreme nail art. These women need to be given an ode to, they forgo hygiene, wiping their own behinds (and possibly causing internal bleeding), essentially any intimacy, and also the capability of holding any object within reach. Maybe they’re our modern day monks, maybe.
Happy Easter and Passover.
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A basement in Queens full of Afghani Rugs depicting mechanical and militaristic imagery is not where you expect to run into friends from LA. But last night, after being invited by a friend who is a collector of these curious artifacts I found myself doing just that. The What-The-Fuck?! feelings I was having were multiplied by woven images of mechanical warfare with dates and place-names in cyrilic, arabic, farsi, and roman (english) script; sometimes depicting such lost-in-translation hilarity as the above-depicted “three towers” Sept. 11 commemorative throw. War Rugs. It’s a whole world I had no idea about, and the “hot war” in Afghanistan has ground their production to a halt. You can learn more about these beauties here, but you can’t buy them, because the seller in the US (with the biggest collection in the western hemisphere) is an artist and is taking a year sabbatical to do petroglyphic rock carvings in the wilderness of the western United States. Seriously, I couldn’t even make this shit up if I tried.
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While I’m sure all of you reading this are respectful of views and beliefs of our brothers and sisters, but sadly not everyone else is. Have a look at what one hundred plus artists have brought forth in the name of advocacy.
In particular: Aaron Farley, Ashley Snow Macomber, Ashley Thayer, Barry McGee, Cali Dewitt, Matt Goldman, Chris Johanson, Dan Monick, RJ Shaughnessy.
And be sure to check the Busy-Being Pop Up Store!
This looks to be a great show. Sixpack France have curated an art opening this weekend in Culver City featuring an installation of new works by National Forest founders Steven Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer with Brigitte Sire. Also featuring domestic and overseas friends Akroe, Honet, ILL-Studio, Pmkfa, Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, Jonathan Zawada, Neil Krug, Daniel Sparkes, Cody Hudson, Russell Maurice and Mark Owens.
Pre party at Verdugo Bar Friday night.
Gallery Preview
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THIS February 11th, 2010
I’m really excited to be apart of THIS gallery’s opening show “These Friends”. Click above to explode. More info and artist interviews at THIS site.
“Letter to Jane Magazine is a new culture zine that is free to view or download at http://lettertojane.com/mag. The project–spanning across 180 ad free pages– features contributions and interviews from Yoko Ono, Passion Pit, No Age, Hedi Slimane, Aziz Ansari, Peter Bjorn and John, and many more. Issue 01 carries the torch for its namesake (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean Pierre Gorin’s 1972 film Letter to Jane) by looking at culture and trying to find new questions to ask of it. Today’s Letter to Jane gives understanding of our 21st century creative community through the lens of the artist’s themselves; their views, their thoughts, their voice on contemporary culture”
