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Dada Entry

Nov. 4th, 2009 | 09:20 pm

I'm totally going to apply for the Dada Entry job.


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Cheap Art III

Oct. 13th, 2009 | 12:07 pm

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Allison Schulnik, Red Head on Green, 14 x 18 inches, gouache on paper, 2009

 
Please join us Saturday, October 24 from 7.30-10p for our TERRIFYING ART AUCTION, an event to raise funds for the printing of
MATERIAL Issue 2, forthcoming this December. Our goal is to raise $5000. The event will take place at our MATERIAL Headquarters in Mandarin Plaza in Chinatown. Luckily, Michael Akin, the amazing auctioneer from last year's event, will be returning to kick up some dust.

Stay tuned for the upcoming silent auction taking place Sunday, October 18 to Friday, October 23. We will send out a PDF of the works that you can then bid on by email or phone. Those of you far and wide will be able to pitch in and support MATERIAL's fundraising efforts.

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Participating artists include:
Stella Baraklianou
Adam Berg
Ellen Birrell
Olivia Booth
Christine Brandt
Josh Callahan
Frank Chang
Phil Chang
Marcus Civin
Andy Cline
Ginny Cook
Zoe Crosher
Mara De Luca
Robin Dicker
Alyssa Gorelick
Hilary Graves
Jesse Green
Nicholas Grider
Christian Hagemann
Emilie Halpern
Daniel Hockenson
Sunnifa Hope
David Horvitz
Emily Joyce
Farrah Karapetian
Pete Kirby
Marie-France Kittler
George Kontos
Alison Kudlow
Tom Lawson
Wiebke Leister
Max Lesser
Katie Lewis
Jed Lind
Jay Lizo
Sidonie Loiseleux
Shana Lutker
Dash Manley
Max Maslansky
Jacob Melchi
Jessica Minckley
Melanie Nakaue
Jill Newman
Alisa Ochoa
Alex Olson
Arthur Ou
OUMI
Julie Orser
Karri Paul
Hirsch Perlman
Chris Peters
Regine Petersen
Brett Cody Rogers
Kim Schoen
Allison Schulnik
Roland Seto
Julie Shafer
Emma Shercliff
Charlotte Smith
Jesper List Thompsen
Mike Underwood
Max Warsh
Emma Wieslander
Dee Williams
Eric Yahnker
Wendy Yao
Viola Yesiltac
Bari Ziperstein

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Group Show: Cal State LA

Oct. 7th, 2009 | 11:30 am

 

Concrete Drawing: Extending the Line

Bill Anderson, Steve Bankhead, Sky Burchard, Enrique Castrejon, Mark Dutcher, Alison Goldberg, Kristi Lippire, Micheal McMillen, Kaz Oshiro, Tim Quinn, Stuart Rapeport, Jesse Robinson, Denise K. Seider, Nicola Vruwink, Carrie Whitney and Liz Young.

Exhibition Dates: October 10th – November 5th, 2009
Opening Reception: October 10th

Fine Arts Gallery, Fine Arts Building
Gallery hours: Mon.-Thu. & Sat., noon-5 p.m.

Call the CSULA Fine Arts Gallery at (323) 343-4040 for more information.

“Concrete Drawing: Extending The Line” is an exhibition that discusses the idea of line that expands beyond the page.  It explores the structural aspects of making, not only in a formal way but how the elements of line can come off the flat surface and is used to describe issues beyond conventional methods.  The premise of Concrete Drawing evolves from a construction of a flat idea, a realization of content into a more dimensional arena, not only representing a spatial world but also pushing the possibility of the core principles of expression and discussing them using a broad range of materials and techniques.

The works of 15 artists from the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara areas use a variety of materials and methods to create a hybrid of drawing, video, painting, sculpture and installation.  This results in an innovative way to think about line and it’s possibilities. This exhibition was curated by Barry Markowitz.

 

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Upcoming Group Show I'm in:

Oct. 7th, 2009 | 10:52 am

I'm Gorgeous Inside
OCTOBER 17, 2009

Five-Thirty-Three 
@ 7pm

533 Los Angeles Street
2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90013

ARTISTS:
Jasmine Little
Max Maslansky
Jessica Minckley
Jared Neilsen
Gabie Strong
Stephen Walters
Morgan Wells
Chris Wilder

Curated by Jasmine Little and Morgan Wells



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More photography

Oct. 2nd, 2009 | 11:28 am

http://www.a3x10.com/

A3x10


1.0 will be released in winter of 2010

2.0 will be released in spring of 2010

with 8 more volumes to follow over the next 4 years

 

a series of limited edition photographs by ten contemporary artists


artists include kathryn andrewssteven bankheadzoe crosher joão enxuto daniel everett rob faucette karl haendelemilie halperndawn kasperlauren lavitt matt lipps jacob melchitaidgh o'neillchristopher russellasha schechter yanai toister bari ziperstein

and more

 

 

 

 



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Open studio in Chinatown- 2 friends' work

Sep. 29th, 2009 | 07:45 am

******Please join Zoe Crosher & Laurie Nye*******

for a studio party this coming Sunday, October 4th
from 5-9pm
to celebrate
a New Wall & New Work!



970 N Broadway #214A
LA, CA 90012
2nd floor storefront in Mandarin Plaza
at the corner of Bernard & Broadway
in Chinatown

323.216.6038

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RESIST COMPLACENCY, CONSIDER URGENCY

Sep. 23rd, 2009 | 10:23 am


Cal Crawford 
Skylar Haskard 
Julian Hoeber 
Dawn Kasper
Christopher Michlig 
Maya Schindler
curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

September 26 - October 31 at Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
Opening: Saturday, September 26th 7-10pm

Resist Complacency, Consider Urgency explores the vacillating states of motivation (or lack thereof) in a contemporary artistic practice and an artists' attempt to locate a sense of urgency in their work, reflective of what may (or may not) be felt in society at large, both in the fading aftermath of the 2008 presidential election and the thick of this recession. 

A limited edition publication designed by Brian Roettinger accompanies the exhibition.

Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, 2225 Colorado Boulevard, Los Angeles  90041
323-226-1617, www.centerartseaglerock.org.

Gallery Hours: M-F 11:00am-5:00pm or by special arrangement

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S E BARNET

Sep. 19th, 2009 | 05:26 pm

LITHUANIA PROJECT

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Her website

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533 Los Angeles St. this Friday!

Sep. 16th, 2009 | 06:40 pm

EVENTS HERE AND ELSEWHERE 14 SEPTEMBER 2009
 
 

ULLI AND LUCRECIA'S LUSTIGE GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNG MIT PARTY,
LOS ANGELES 2009


FRIDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 8PM - 12AM

CURATED BY:
LUCRECIA ROA AND ULRICH WULFF

ARTISTS:
JULIA ABSTADT
ANNE-KATHRIN AHRENS
MECCA ANDREWS
DANIELA BELLM
SEBASTIAN DACEY
LINA DALY
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK
TJORG DOUGLAS BEER
SARAH BOHN
HEATHER BROWN
ANDRE BUTZER
SARAH CROMARTY
EDUARDO CONSUEGRA
HEATHER COOK
SUMMER COOPER
MARIO CORREA
CHRISTIAN CUMMINGS
GREG DALTON
GERALD DAVIS
DOMINIC
SIBYLLA DUMKE
FABIAN FOBBE
THOMAS GROETZ
DOUG HARVEY
JUSTIN HANSCH
LISA HERFELDT
HAZEL HILL
LEIKO IKEMURA
CHARLES IRVIN
BARRY MACGREGOR JOHNSTON
NORA JOUNG
VISHAL JUGDEO
WINSTON AND SAM KAHN
PETER KLARE
HEIKE KELTER
FELIX EDLER VON KREPL
PAUL J. EDLER VON KREPL
BETTINA KRIEG
JEFF KOPP
PETER KLARE
HEIKE KELTER
FELIX EDLER VON KREPL
PAUL J. EDLER VON KREPL
BETTINA KRIEG
JEFF KOPP
JOCHEN LENGENFELDER
JOACHIM LENZ
DENNIS LOESCH
LIA LOWENTHAL
RENE LUCKARD
BRETT LUND
LEE LYNCH

 








SAMANTHA MAGOWAN
MAX MASLANSKY
ZOE CLAIRE MILLER
ADAM MILLER
JESSICA MINCKLEY
SHINJI MINEGISHI
LESLEY MOON
JOSHUA NATHANSON
PAT NGOHO
JONAH OLSON
NORA JEAN PETERSEN
YOANN PISTERMAN
CECILE QUILTU
HEATHER RASMUSSEN
LUCRECIA ROA
JEREMY ROCINE
OLGA SAGAY
JEFF SCHOEN
MEIK SCHLITZ
ROUVEN SCHMITT
FABIAN SCHUBERT
ALLISON SCHULNIK
PHILIP SCHWALB
TIF SIGFRIDS
NATASCHA SNELLMAN
CAMERON SOREN
ADAM STAMP
MARLENE STARK
VALERIE STAHL VON STROMBERG
AMI TALLMAN
MATEO TANNATT
SAMANTHA THOMAS
BRENDAN THREADGILL
LIA TRINKA-BROWNER
HENRY VINCENT
RAUL WALCH
TIM WANDELT
LANDON WIGGS
THOMAS WINKLER
DOMINIC WOOD
BOBBI WOODS
PETER AND SAMANTHA WU
ULRICH WULFF
ERIC YAHNKER
COCO YATES
JASON YATES

PERFORMANCE:
MECCA ANDREWS
SARAH CROMARTY AND CHARLES IRVIN
FIREWORKS
TIF SIGFRIDS
ULRICH WULFF

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My kind of show

Jul. 9th, 2009 | 02:09 pm

 Open Call To Artists: A Book About Death
via Art Fag City by Art Fag City on 6/29/09

I’m not typically a fan of open calls (uncurated shows tend to attract those who can’t), but I can get behind a solid show concept employing the format.  One such case can be seen in A book About Death, an exhibition asking over 1000 artists to produce an unbound book of 500 post cards.  Conceived by Matthew Rose, the show couldn’t be more timely;  it’s been a big year for death.  Not to state the obvious, but Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett’s death last Thursday gives us all quite a bit to respond to.  Art Fag City, however, will take a different track;  we’re considering submitting the subscription inserts of now-defunct magazines as our contribution to the project.

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Friends @ Cottage Home

Jul. 9th, 2009 | 01:59 pm

 Please join us for the Summer Group Show @ Cottage Home co-organized by Sister | China Art Objects | Thomas Solomon Gallery, July 11- August 15, 2009.
 
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 11, 7-10 pm
 
 
Walead Beshty
Bart Exposito
Mimi Lauter
John McAllister
Christopher Michlig
Eric Wesley
Pae White
John Williams
 
 
Thomas Solomon Gallery@Cottage Home
410 Cottage Home Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
310-428-2964
 

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Lisa Williamson surfaces in NYC again

Jul. 9th, 2009 | 01:55 pm

http://www.invisible-exports.com/exhibitions/summerrreading/summerreading.html

“Television:  chewing gum for the eyes.”  ~Frank Lloyd Wright

INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is pleased to announce SUMMER READING – A video
program curated by Mike Bouchet, with special guest Luke Butler.

Featuring Lucas Ajemian I Daniel Beerstecher | Born in the Wrong Body
I Boston Legal | Cedric Brelet von Sydow I Cribs I CSI Miami | Die
Tödliche Doris (The Deadly Doris) | Sebastian Clough I Cops I Family
Guy | Martina Geiger-Gerlach I Oliver Heinzenberger I House I Patrick
Jackson I Jeopardy I Byung Chul Kim | Florian Klette I Susan Krupp I
Lidia’s Italy | Dana Munro I Shane Munro I Peter Müller | NASA
Connections I Palm D’Or Entertainment inc. | Anahita Razmi I Michael
C. Riedel I Christina Rodrigo Marco Schmitt I Scrubs I Seinfeld I The
Simpsons Axel Stockburger I Kestutis Svirnelis I Twilight zone Two and
a Half Men I Tyler Perry’s House of Payne I US Open Challenge I The
View I Lisa Williamson | Virginie Yassef and many many more

Invisible Exports
14A Orchard Street, New York NY 10002
212 226 5447
 

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1830 Film screenings and events

Jul. 9th, 2009 | 01:45 pm

 

eighteen-thirty and summer present:

 

 

Sunday, 12 July 2009   

Screening: Echo Park & Various Shorts

Curated by Echo Park Film Center, www.echoparkfilmcenter.org

In conjunction with the Echo Park Community Festival

 

EPFC curates a night of film on the eighteen-thirty rooftop. The evening’s program explores various short films culminating, appropriately, with a presentation of Robert Dornhelm’s 1986 film, Echo Park.

 

Doors 8:30pm I Screening 9pm I $5 I Bring a blanket

 

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UPCOMING: 

Sunday, 19 July 2009    

Screening: Civic Statues Unfrozen for One Hour: Clothed Women and Unarmed Men

Curated by Freewaves Director Anne Bray

 

Doors 8:30pm I Screening 9pm I $5

 

Saturday, 25 July 2009 

Dinner: A raw vegan gourmet Thai dinner under stars and moonlight

Chefs Stephen Hauptfuhr (MOOI) and Bryan Au (Raw in Ten)

 

Doors 8pm I Dinner 8:30pm I $25

RSVP required info@eighteen-thirty.com

 

Saturday, 1, 15, and 29 August 2009

MUSIC: TRAUERMUSIK, a three-part series exploring the evocation of sorrow through music

In collaboration with HumanEar

 

For more info, please visit www.eighteen-thirty.com 

1830 Sunset Blvd. I Los Angeles I 90026
                                             
--eighteen-thirty is a performance arts space that embraces a variety of media, minds and means to cultivate dialogue and situations in experimental art--

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Benefit in the Time Travel Mart, call for donations

Jul. 7th, 2009 | 08:57 pm



 I have been organizing a benefit event recently with some of my friends who work within the art collective TIWWI.  The event will be a one night concert/party/exhibition downtown and all of the proceeds will go to 826LA.  This is a great non-profit organization that offers creative tutoring for youth in the area, specifically for those who attend public schools that can't afford after-school arts programs.  Check them out here:  
 
http://www.826la.org/ 

And I am contacting YOU because I am helping to curate an art exhibition at the event of which the proceeds will also go to 826LA.  I would love to include your work and I am asking for your help to find other artists who may be willing to donate a piece or two as well.  
 
Anything donated is appreciated: sketches, studies, photographs, collages, etc.  The artwork will be sold for low prices (no more than $50)  and I understand if you or others do not want to put your name on the work.  Pieces can be donated anonymously.
 
I want your work and the work of those you like because ya'll are very talented and have good taste.  This is going to be an excellent event and I want to put together an exhibition to impress.
 
Please let me know if you are interested in donating/getting involved, submitted works are due by July 24th.
 
Thank you!
 
- Ian

(comment on this entry and jessiminx will email you contact info.)

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CURIOUS SILENCE

Jul. 7th, 2009 | 08:47 pm

If you are in or plan to be in the Seattle area in the coming weeks, please stop by for our recently opened exhibition "Curious Silence," that I co-curated with Heather Rasmussen and also included work.  If you can't make it, Heather has crafted a fantastic website for the show with installation views here:

http://www.curioussilenceshow.com

And here is the website for the gallery, a beautiful artist-run space:

http://soilart.org/

This was a fantastic space with an even better group of talented artists.  







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The Drama of the GIfted Child

Jun. 24th, 2009 | 01:24 pm

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Drama of the Gifted Child:
The Five Year Plan
June 28 - August 30, 2009
Opening reception, Saturday, June 27, 7-9 p.m.
David Burns, curator

The exhibition consists of new work by ten of Los Angeles’ emerging artists, all Southern California art school MFA graduates of the last five years: Dan Bayles, Spencer Douglass, John Knuth, Julie Lequin, Julie Orser, Marco Rios, Amy Robinson, Christopher Russell, Kelly Sears, and Bari Ziperstein. The exhibition is organized by David Burns, a member of the artist collective Fallen Fruit and the former Assistant Curator at the Armory.

The works included examine these artists’ recent work as a process by which they explore the relationship between an often-hyped academic training and the raw demands of a career. The exhibitions consists of videos, sculptures and installations and reflects the various practices of artists trained in the new millennium, after 9/11 and after the crash of what appeared to be an unendingly growing international art market.

Each of the artists selected could be characterized by the combination of their studio practice and growing exhibition record, however considered as a group, each of the projects in the exhibition generates a larger internal and external dialogue. The work is bold and experiments with its materials and messages. Representing some of the more outstanding emerging artists in Los Angeles right now, Drama of the Gifted Child: the Five Year Plan suggests the relationship of artists to career goals and academics that has fostered the opportunity for success as a contemporary artist today. Each of these artists employs a bold directness that is hard to deny.

(P.S.: The Drama of the Gifted Child is a GREAT book. There is writing on artists, such as Buster Keaton, therein.)

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Film Posters

Jun. 9th, 2009 | 09:34 pm

I'm researching film posters for a project I'm doing
and these are some of the great ones I've come across tonight in my travels
on
Film Art Gallery Online & in L.A.:

More, 1969


Out Of Africa, 1985



Rosemary's Baby, 1968

And from CinemaMasterpieces.com

         
      

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My Friends' 'Gallery', Downtown LA

Jun. 9th, 2009 | 05:08 pm

 Gallery 1927


Thursday, June 11, from 6- 9 pm for the opening reception of a solo show by David Gilbert.  Gilbert is currently working on a Masters at UC Riverside and created this show, centered around his examinations of the idea of a display window, especially for the Gallery 1927 space.  Light refreshments and soft liquor will be served.  

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wtf 3

Jun. 9th, 2009 | 04:13 pm

Jogging Hurts
Website for Bras with a really weird animation...

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(no subject)

Jun. 8th, 2009 | 01:08 pm

I am in a show in Las Vegas
June 6 - August 15
Ambient Art Projects
7432 Silver Palm Ave.
Las Vegas, NV.  89117
702.233.3777 Phone
702.454.6333 Fax
 
 

Here is an image of the new piece I made for it.
 
Treble, 2009
Watercolor on paper
30 x 20 inches
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Frnd Frnd Frnd Show 533

Jun. 1st, 2009 | 09:29 am


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Diamonded

May. 13th, 2009 | 01:17 pm

My friend's new blog:
Diamond Dusted & Rhinestoned




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Hands

May. 12th, 2009 | 06:49 pm



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Mexico, Lebanon, New York, London, more.

May. 5th, 2009 | 09:13 am

Found an amazing website, and what I can tell, pretty interesting projects, though written information is limited.
Emilie Halpern has a show up currently (as well as many other events listed on her site.)

May 2-May 24, 2009
Galeria Perdida
Project Row Houses, Houston, TX





Also while talking with this friend, he mentioned Harun Farocki:

And said I could find his films on UBU
(I guess this is like HULU for art!)
UbuWeb resource is presented in partnership with Art Torrents

Although, most of these films were [Removed by copyright holder's request]
This one by Stan Douglas was available:
Der Sandmann (1995)
Originally an installation: Two-track 16mm black-and-white film projection and stereo soundtrack.

"The film installation Der Sandmann investigates the intersection of history and memory as witnessed against the backdrop of post-Cold War Germany. Shot on 16mm film in the old Ufa studios near Potsdam, the piece fuses E.T.A. Hoffmann's eponymous tale, Freud's citation of it in "The Uncanny," his study of repression and repetition, as well as the social impulses behind 19th-century German urban planning, which instituted the Schrebergärten, plots of leasable land on which the poor could grow their own food. Projected as two separate but intersecting videos showing the garden at different chronological points-in use during the 1960s and as a construction site some 20 years later-Der Sandmann contemplates temporality and the transformative effects of history." -- Nancy Spector


And I watched a film by Mona Hatoum for the first time.
She is a Lebanese artist who shows at White Cube in New York.
Link to that film


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AVAILABLE FOR FILMING

May. 4th, 2009 | 09:18 pm

Anyone need a place to shoot?
Film Listings....com? Who knows if this will work?
I hope I can generate some revenue from my storefront!

I found this though:
A picture stroll of North Figueroa Street, dated 2005.
My place is the Fiesta Travel Agency!


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Twitter!!!

Apr. 28th, 2009 | 05:31 pm

www.kcrw.com

Art Talk with Edward Goldman
 
To Tweet or Not to Tweet, That Is the Question

To Tweet or Not to Tweet, That Is the Question

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Looking back at the past thirty years, I see the pattern of my initial reluctance to embrace the technology of the modern world. First, I had to learn to drive a car, though some of my friends tell me that I still drive like a Russian peasant. Then, there was an especially embarrassing moment when I heard for the first time the word ‘fax' and mistook it for, hmmm...an unprintable profanity, and that's how l learned about the existence of fax machines. When I started to do my Art Talk, I would write and edit the text on an old-fashioned typewriter, until an assistant of mine eventually persuaded me to start working on a computer, so I got a used one, courtesy of her husband.

at090428a.jpgNow, years later, I am spending most of my working hours staring at a screen, reading and sending an endless stream of emails. Every time my program is broadcast, I receive responses from people who hear it on the air as well as from those who get the email version text plus images and links that goes to over 5,000 people on the Art Talk mailing list. Several weeks ago, a new feature was added to the Art Talk page on the KCRW website, where listeners can now post their comments. Slowly, very slowly, I've come to the understanding that I must have a website of my own, and as luck would have it, one of the participants in my Art Collecting class, Good Samaritan that he is, took it upon himself to build one for me.

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to make sense of all the fuss over yet another mysterious way of communicating these days Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So, I'm asking you to help me decide: Is it worth doing? And if so, which one do you think I should choose, or should I embrace them all? It would be great if you would post your comments online.

at090428b.jpg With all the wonderful advantages that technology provides, there is still no substitute for face-to-face interaction in real space, in real time. Tomorrow, Wednesday April 29, at 7pm, I will be moderating a panel discussion at the Getty Center about ‘Ethical Dilemmas in the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art.' Ironically, many works made from new and untested materials create more problems for conservators than traditional artworks made hundreds of years ago. Many contemporary works of art were not intended to last, however, as they enter museum collections, we are forced to confront this paradox: how to preserve a work of art which is not supposed to last? In my opinion, it was smart to throw out Damien Hirst's deteriorating shark and replace it with a new one, but what would you do if the famous (or if you prefer, infamous) work of Italian artist Piero Manzoni, his 1961 Merda d'artista small cans of his feces started to leak? Do you replace it, and if so, with what?

at090428c.jpg All that and more will be discussed tomorrow night by a panel of experts, including conservators, collection managers and curators. I invite you to attend this free event, but you will need to call (310) 4407300 or make a reservation online. And if you tell them that you are an Art Talk/KCRW listener, you will be given not only preferential seating, but a souvenir as well. How about that? I also suggested a bottle of Russian vodka for each of you but, alas, was told that it's illegal...

Ethical Dilemmas in the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art
Wednesday April 29, 7pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center

If you’d like to share your thoughts on today’s show, you can post your comments on today’s show page at kcrw.com/arttalk

Edward Goldman is an art critic and the host of Art Talk, a program on art and culture for NPR affiliate KCRW 89.9 FM

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Nother Cool Blog Attack

Apr. 28th, 2009 | 03:43 pm

MO CO LOCO

Art, Design, Etc....

Not the greatest blog ever, but has my friend Bas Louter's work on it, so that's awesome!

Bas is renting my studio until the end of May. It's really nice to have him there, and be privy to his process.
Thanks Bas!




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Small Press

Apr. 17th, 2009 | 05:11 pm

 
Shelf Life: A Big Day for Small Press

April 18, 2009
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
USC University Park Campus
Harris Hall

 

 

12 p.m. to 4 p.m.: Bazaar, Harris Hall Courtyard
1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.: Panel, Gin D. Wong Auditorium (Harris Hall 101)

 

A diverse group of independent publishers, artists, writers and designers whose voices and images question and push the boundaries of popular culture will come together at this vital and historically charged event. Today, a few large corporations control publishing and distribution, and independent publishers are rapidly going out of business. What are the dangers of corporations deciding what we are able to buy and read? Who will continue to publish new material without compromise? Who is the audience for independent publishing? What is the impact—and potential benefit—of digital technology for today’s small publishers?

 

To address these questions and many more, a dynamic panel will be presented, featuring V. Vale, founder and publisher ofSearch & Destroy and RE/Search, San Francisco; Rachel Kushner, critic, novelist and editor of Soft Targets, Los Angeles;Bruce Caen, artist, publisher and author of Sub-Hollywood, Los Angeles; Brian Kennon, artist and owner of 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles; Joe Carducci, writer, producer, and former A&R of SST Records; Aaron Rose, artist and publisher ofANP Quarterly; and Emily Roysdon, artist and editor of LTTR.

Additionally, a festive and free-wheeling bazaar will feature small publishers, artists and independent stores, who will have their printed matter on hand. Vendors include Afterall, The Ice Plant, Semiotexte, Primary Information, 2nd Cannons, Black Clock, Les Figues Press, Beautiful/Decay, Beyond Baroque, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and many, many more. The bazaar will also include free food and music by DJ Wendy Yao, artist and owner of the store Ooga Booga in L.A.’s Chinatown. 

http://roski.usc.edu/calendar/event/868902/visions--voices-shelf-life-a-big-day-for-small-press 

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Group Show

Apr. 17th, 2009 | 05:01 pm

Friends' show



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If walls could talk

Apr. 3rd, 2009 | 05:42 pm


Braille Wallpaper.
Lame but awesome.

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Who I want to be when I grow up

Mar. 29th, 2009 | 09:27 am

http://johannareed.blogspot.com/ 

What a great art resource.
I told my friend "This makes art look cool and fun. The plethora of images is so much more rewarding because it's selective. With a cross-section of interesting images, like The Flog, and so many great art blogs these days, I can just choose and browse on end. It's really intimidating on the one hand, but so much more comprehensive than a day-to-day art experience on the other. Wow."

Heather Rasmussen was mentioned here recently for her L&W show! yay!

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Standing Ovation

Mar. 29th, 2009 | 09:20 am

Soon, the gallery I co-run will  be having its first physical exhibition.
Until now, we have been creating "fake" shows, which are not really all that fake.
Fore the sake of more information vs. less about the space, we decided to do an interview with OVATION TV.
They also have a YouTube with interviews by artists, etc.
Here is the LINK to the article about Light & Wire Gallery.
Hopefully this will make it all make sense.
Show opens April 11th in conjunction with Circus Gallery


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Bike Oven

Mar. 28th, 2009 | 06:59 am


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Going into business for myself.

Feb. 23rd, 2009 | 01:07 pm

I think I'm going to stop shaving my armpits and start making crystals.
I wonder if Bank of America would give me a loan to start a full on Etsy production where I can buy huge bags of salt and rock salt from Smart&Final and sell jars of crystals with light bulbs through the top at Gem Faires.
I think my dad should move down here and we can stop working and start hanging out in the garage and buying Bell Jars online all day.
I think I'll hole up in my house without a car, and without a job, and I'll start existing only online, and I'll post pictures of myself on Flickr only.
I'll be a virtual friend and girlfriend, and I'll get really fat and lay in bed on my laptop all day and sleep.
Maybe I'll start to develop crystals on my upper lip, and then sell those too.

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NY Times Article

Feb. 21st, 2009 | 06:55 pm

What's "Happening" to the Art Market

"And where is art in all of this? Proliferating but languishing. “Quality,” primarily defined as formal skill, is back in vogue, part and parcel of a conservative, some would say retrogressive, painting and drawing revival. And it has given us a flood of well-schooled pictures, ingenious sculptures, fastidious photographs and carefully staged spectacles, each based on the same basic elements: a single idea, embedded in the work and expounded in an artist’s statement, and a look or style geared to be as catchy as the hook in a rock song."

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Grave Robber

Jan. 30th, 2009 | 10:56 am


Jason Meadows

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cool!

Jan. 24th, 2009 | 12:03 pm

As you may know, I'm a huge fan of Google and their products.
They have really skyrocketed me into internet obsessive, which I never dreamed I would be.
If you would have told me five years ago that I'd be running an online art gallery, blogging like mad, and obsessed with networking, I would have laughed at you.
"I'm a painter!"

Alas, I have to share a find with you.
Google Alerts has led me to these wonderous pages:

http://blue-onblue.blogspot.com/

http://fredbutlerstyle.blogspot.com/

(both of the above are run through Blogger, a Google product,)
and

http://www.artrabbit.com/uk/home

Enjoy yourself out there.
More soon.
xo
Jess

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Introducing Kim Calder

Jan. 23rd, 2009 | 05:22 pm

Writer Extraordinaire:
She speaks on internet radio:
 
 
And a link to her personal oeuvre.
 

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Flirting

Jan. 5th, 2009 | 11:00 pm

It's David, from the Cafe. I checked out your art.  You're work is very beautiful. 
Here is the poem i was talking about by ee cummings.
Enjoy, hope to see you again soon.
Best,
D.



somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond    
by E. E. Cummings

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

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salt lake in a nutshell

Jan. 4th, 2009 | 12:51 pm


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Beauty

Dec. 18th, 2008 | 12:43 pm




Luisa Lambri
Untitled (Casa de Vidro, #01-03), 2003
Laserchrome prints

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Material Press dot org

Dec. 11th, 2008 | 08:46 am

the grain of the voice

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MATERIAL Issue Two fundraising art auction and holiday party
Saturday, December 13, 7:30-10p
5502 Monte Vista St.
Los Angeles, CA 90042



PRESS RELEASE

"It is this displacement I want to outline: the very precise space (genre) of the encounter between a language and a voice.”
 —Roland Barthes, “The Grain of the Voice”, from Image/Music/Text.

Every auctioneer perfects his or her own ‘chant’; their own speed, rhythm, cadence and ‘grain’ of voice. “The grain,” says Barthes, “is that materiality of the body.”  For our holiday auction, MATERIAL is excited to host a live performance with a professional auctioneer: Michael Akin. Michael travels throughout the state of California auctioning off such things as cars, truck parts, jewelry, and cattle, and next Saturday, December 13 he will auction off artwork, donated by friends of MATERIAL. You will also be able to see Michael in Kim’s video installation “Quick Chant” in early 2009. We are lucky to have Michael take the bull by the horns, along with a surprise performance by Robin Dicker, to help us raise the funds to get Issue Two off the ground. 

We will also be screening two videos that deal with performance and the voice. The first, by Chris Peters, entitled “The Last Variety Show,” is a dark look at the language of televised variety shows. We watch on amid static and interruptions as the structure of the show's musical acts and comedic skits completely falls apart and the hosts' voices are silenced. Julie Orser’s "Not Yet Tomorrow" is a 1980’s style sci-fi fantasy musical comedy. The characters, lost in a dark dimension searching for each other, encounter nonsensical incantations in a black void as the characters sing a cappella about their circumstance and impending disappearance.

We begin with a Silent Auction, starting today, December 7, at 5pm (Pacific Standard Time) and closing Friday, December 12 at 5pm. To place a bid on any of the works featured in the attached images and PDF available here, please email info@materialpress.org. We will note the bids by time and date, and update participants via email about any higher bids that come in on the artworks, so people may up the ante if they so choose. On December 12 all spoken-for works will be considered ‘sold’ to the highest bidder. Anyone from anywhere in the world can bid! And we warmly invite you to do so. All payments can be made quickly and easily through our PayPal account, and the work will be mailed to you.

The rest of the works, as well as special ‘live auction’ works, will be kicked off with Michael Akin and his quick chant on Saturday, December 13. So be ready with your bidding paddles (our re-crafted fans from Chinatown) to get your hands in the air starting at 8 p.m. We cannot say/stress/intone or brag enough about how wonderful these artworks, and the artists who donated them, are. All work has low enough starting bids so that everyone may participate. This is your chance to own works by artists whose work sells for exponentially more. They are perfect for holiday gifts for anyone interested in preserving—nay celebrating!—the artist's voice and helping to build a strong community of people who support it.

If you're in Los Angeles, we hope to see you Saturday, December 13. We’ll have a glass of Crown Royal waiting, and we look forward to celebrating the holiday season with you.

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MIAMI

Dec. 5th, 2008 | 01:58 pm

The era of Art Fairs died with the stock market, but the masses are running for their 4th quarter deals.
I've been included in 2 showings in Miami, neither at the illustrious Art Basel Miami Fair:

JMOCA Genius, Justin Baner Hasch, has concocted a Totem Pole (my favorite!) to display multiple JMOCA contributing artists in an exhibition (not listed on their website?):
Locust Projects:

Locust Projects is an alternative, not for profit, Miami-based exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas and methods without the pressures of gallery sales or other limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work; Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods.  Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artist.

   



And fette's gallery is at the Aqua Art Fair, where my piece is included in the exhibition:



Jessica Minckley
Topiary Owl, 2005
Mixed media
12H x 6W x 6D" inches


Stay tuned for more pictures of Fette's booth HERE

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Christian Jankowski performance, Miami

Dec. 4th, 2008 | 02:28 pm



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Ornament is a Crime

Nov. 26th, 2008 | 04:02 am

Ornament is a Crime
November 13th - December 8th , 2008

Gallery 1927
811 West Seventh Street
Los Angeles, CA 90017


A collaborative venture from Brian Kabateck and Mark Geragos, two Los Angeles attorneys, "Gallery 1927" is actually the ornate, two-story "courtyard" lobby of downtown's Fine Arts Building. In keeping with original architects Walker and Eisen's notion of a working environment for artisans who could, in turn, use the lobby's bronze and glass cases as a showcase area, Gallery 1927 hosts monthly openings timed to coincide with the Downtown Art Walk.


 
Artists included:
 
Danielle Adair
Greg Curtis
Kristen English
Jenny Herrick
Betsy Hunt
Nick Jones
Jason Kunke
Kelli Manthei
Carolyn Mason*
Anna Mayer
Jessica Minckley
Morgan Satterfield
Grant Stevens
Natasha Subramaniam
Nichole van Beek
Luke Whitlatch
Rosha Yagh



The bones of this space are fetching. The Fine Arts Building is a carved and sculpted
shell housing 17 tomb-like golden cases. Since its inception in 1927, the display space
has gone through periods of disuse and, despite the occasional art show in its later life,
has been largely under-used. In the early 1900s, architecture was moving toward clean,
modern lines, as highlighted in a fervent essay by leading architect Adolf Loos which
stated “Ornament is a crime,” or decorative architecture is a waste of time. Today,
the newly christened Gallery 1927 opens a series of shows in connection with the Art
Walk with a celebration of the building’s unapologetic extravagance. Ornament is a
Crime showcases 17 works, one per gilded cage, addressing some notion of decoration,
excess, or crime through sincerity or irony, alternately.


(c) Jessica Minckley
Draftwork, 2008
Installation

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