guests

Dewey Ambrosino and Fugitive Insides group show

2011-04-02T15:41:52Z

Las Cienega Projects this Saturday. Join us Saturday, April 9 from 7-10 pm for the opening of 2 new exhibitions: Dewey Ambrosino Sound Stove (Main Gallery) and Fugitive Insides, a group exhibition featuring work by 100Xbtr, Tim Durfee, Didier Hess, Austin McCormick, and Ben Pruskin (Project Space).

Book signing with Slug and author/photographer Dan Monick

2011-04-02T01:21:26Z

Gingko Press, Rhymesayers, The LA Weekly, and Turntable Lab present

Seven Years with Atmosphere and Rhymesayers

Book signing with Slug and author/photographer Dan Monick

Turntable Lab LA
424 North Fairfax Ave
LA CA 90036

323-782-0173

7-9 PM Friday April 1st

Giant Robot Benefit Show for Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, Saturday, 3/19

2011-03-19T15:05:39Z

Giant Robot Benefit Show for Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, Saturday, 3/19

Saturday, 3/19, 6:30-10pm

GR2, 2062 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles, 90025

Baseman joins several artists for a group art show at Giant Robot that will benefit the US Fund for UNICEF in their humanitarian efforts to raise funds to help children in Japan impacted by the recent earthquake and tsunami. This is an unusual decision, as Japan is a donor to UNICEF, not a recipient of its assistance. However, due to the unprecedented nature of the epic disaster and its impact on children, resources are going to be critical in helping provide for the very unique needs of children.

Please support the cause.

The Mythology of Interiors

2011-03-09T21:23:01Z

The Mythology of Interiors

When	Fri, March 11,7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Where	Mondrian Hotel
Admission	Invite Only
Description	A Curatorial Project by Janet LevyWritten & Directed by Artist, Nicole Cohen Live Video PerformanceFriday, March 11, 2011, 7-10 pmMondrian8440 Sunset BoulevardWest Hollywood, CA 90069Video installation from the projectOn view, March 11- May 31, 2011Mondrian Los Angeles presents 'The Mythology of Interiors', a curatorial project produced and curated by Janet Levy, Independent Curator and Gallery Owner/Director of See Line Gallery in Los Angeles.The Mythology of Interiors" is an original live video performance of short acts, written and directed by New York and Berlin based Artist, Nicole Cohen. The opening performance will take place on March 11, 2011, from 7-10pm. After the performance launch, a video installation will be exhibited at Mondrian Los Angeles from March 11- May 31, 2011. The video installation will be produced and fabricated from the site-specific live performance that was made at the boutique hotel in Los Angeles. The audience arrives, receives a program, will sit on pillows and watch the performances in the hotel setting. "The Mythology of Interiors" is a performance about interior design spaces, using the bodies of art world actors/ performers as screens. Video will be projected onto their white clothing and will follow their movements. All thirteen of the special guest performers represent the international art world. The performers are artists, curators, actors and museum professionals acting on a small outdoor white stage with white theater curtains at SKYBAR at Mondrian.The short acts were written to describe historical interior spaces as they also are inspired and relate to mythology. There will be a detailed program, which will be online shortly for more specific information about the script. The short acts include The Pomegranate Seeds, The Golden Fleece, The Seduction of Lo, Atlas, Mount Olympus, and The Underworld. These scenes all describe interior design in relation to mythology. The myths will be acted out and an emphasis will be placed on the space and the interior design where they are and how they relate to the environment. In all acts, there will be humor and a twist of a myth about how historical spaces can relate to contemporary design and space.This project is a site-specific performance made for Mondrian Los Angeles. Based on SKYBAR and the Mondrian being well known for their exquisite interiors, this project was formed and created to reference both the sky (mythology) and the interiors. The short plays show an energetic and lighthearted way of physically expressing design, space and mythological references, made with a contemporary twist. The outdoor entertainment will create an evening of intelligent writing and connections with how the body and new digital media can be used to describe interior design. For additional information, please contact, Curator Janet Levy, janet@seelinegallery.com. By invitation only rsvprsvpla@morganshotelgroup.com Janet Levy is a curator and gallery founder/director born in Los Angeles, CA. She presented her first curatorial project in Luzern, Switzerland in 1990 and brings years of curatorial, gallery and marketing experience to her success in producing and promoting significant projects by prominent contemporary artists. Levy has demonstrated an extraordinarily intuitive ability for selecting talented visual artists and, in 2006, she founded See Line Gallery, an exhibition space dedicated to supporting the work of these exceptional contemporary artists. Nicole Cohen, (b. 1970) in Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, lives and works in New York and in Berlin, Germany. She received her BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and her MFA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited at the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA), the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and at different venues in Berlin, Germany; Bergen, Norway; Paris, France; Shanghai, China and Harajaku, Osaka, Kobe, and Tokyo, Japan. From 2007-2009 she had a commissioned video solo exhibition at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. In January 2011, she had her third solo museum exhibition called< 'Driving in Circles' at the American University Museum Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C.Morgans Hotel Group Co. (NASDAQ: MHGC) is widely credited as the creator of the first 'boutique' hotel and is a continuing leader of the hotel industry's boutique sector. Morgans Hotel Group operates and owns, or has an ownership interest in, Morgans, Royalton and Hudson in New York, Delano and Shore Club in South Beach, Mondrian in Los Angeles and South Beach, Clift in San Francisco, Ames in Boston, and Sanderson and St Martins Lane in London. Morgans Hotel Group and an equity partner also own the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and related assets. Morgans Hotel Group also manages hotels in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico and Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Morgans Hotel Group has other property transactions in various stages of completion, including projects in SoHo, New York and Palm Springs, California. For more information please visit www.morganshotelgroup.com.

Actual Size Gallery // Birthing Valley of the Blood Poppies

2011-03-09T18:15:52Z

Birthing Valley of the Blood Poppies
A group exhibition featuring Christopher Miles, Adam D. Miller, Allison Schulnik and Nora Shields.
March 12 - April 8, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 7-10pm

..."You can stare into those places where the evening has pooled beneath the distant trees, and glimpse an ambiguous shifting of the darkness: something large, large and slow, its movements solemn and inevitable, heavy with clotted, sodden weed that forms its flesh. Its skeleton of tortured root creaks with each funereal pace, protesting at the damp and sullen weight. Within their sockets its eyes float like blood-poppies in puddles of ink."
- Saga of the Swamp Thing, 1984

Actual Size Los Angeles is pleased to announce Birthing Valley of the Blood Poppies, a group exhibition featuring new work by Christopher Miles, Adam D. Miller, Allison Schulnik and Nora Shields, curated by Adam D. Miller. The exhibition explores ideas of nature and identity alluded to in Alan Moore's 1984 comic book series, Saga of the Swamp Thing. The artists participating in the exhibition engage with these concepts through a range of media.

Allan Moore's Saga of the Swamp Thing weaves a complex narrative, drawing from Gothic literature, mysticism, theology, mythology, and psychoanalysis. Moore creates a character that searches to understand his role in life, which is predicated upon the individual's relationship to society and environment. The Swamp Thing is defined by what separates him from his own kind. The exhibition, Birthing Valley of the Blood Poppies, brings together four artists with practices that investigate the individual's identity by a process of negation; the self as delineated and defined by it's relationship to a larger community.

At the opening reception, a publication elaborating on themes within Birthing Valley of the Blood Poppies will be available in a limited edition of 300 copies. The covers are hand silk-screened. Contributing writers are Trinie Dalton, Adam D. Miller, Evan Calder Williams, and Gavin Williamson.

Christopher Miles completed his MFA at the School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, and a BA at the College of Creative Studies. He is an artist, writer and curator. He has taught at multiple art schools and departments in Southern California. Miles serves as the Chair of the Department of Art at California State University, Long Beach.

Adam D. Miller received an MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2008 and a BA from California State University of Sacramento. Adam Miller has recently curated and exhibited work in The Night Goat Demands Reparations at the Pacific Design Center, 2010, In the Eyes of Lions at 533 Gallery, 2010, Banquet of the Black Jackal at the Luckman Gallery, 2011. Miller designs and publishes catalogs for the exhibitions he curates.

Allison Schulnik earned her BFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts. She has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Rome and London, and has exhibited in both visual arts shows and film screenings around the world. Her work can be seen in the public collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, KS, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, The Chaney Family Collection, TX, Museé de Beaux Arts (Montreal) and the Laguna Art Museum, CA. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Nora Shields received her MFA from the Art Center College Of Design, Pasadena, Ca, 2010, a BA (HONS) in Art History, from University Of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and a BA in Art History and English Literature, from University Of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Shields is an artist and designer with a background in fashion and set design. She has shown work in a number of group exhibitions in Los Angeles, CA.

OHWOW // Scott Campbell: Noblesse Oblige

2011-03-05T15:45:23Z

Scott Campbell
Noblesse Oblige
March 19 - April 22, 2011
Opening Reception March 19, 2011 6-9pm

OHWOW Los Angeles
937 N. La Cienega
Los Angeles, CA 90069

LOS ANGELES - OHWOW inaugurates its Los Angeles gallery with a solo exhibition of recent work by New York based artist Scott Campbell. In Campbell's West Coast debut, Noblesse Oblige, he uses copper, currency, graphite, ink, and neon, to transform tattoo subculture iconography into delicate and tempered work.

Campbell expands his use of cut currency, sourcing uncut sheets of dollars directly from the United States Mint, to create large, intricate work with a sunken relief effect. One piece uses $5,000 worth of currency sheets to create an over two-foot cube, into which a three dimensional skull is carved-out. These works employ the familiar blue-collar vernacular of tattoo flash-boards - a skull smoking a cigarette, a skeleton's hand in a provocative gesture, a single eye emitting a penetrating ray - and highlight the irony that exists within that imagery.

Noblesse Oblige also includes a suite of prints. Using a tattoo gun, Campbell has engraved a collection of copper plates to make a group of etchings. By using the same plates to compose the separate prints, the artist plays with visual semantics - how meaning changes through arrangement. A series of drawings, executed onto the interior of ostrich eggshells, also flirt with interpretation. Morbid images, rendered in graphite onto these fragile surfaces that represent birth and transformation, point out the delicacy of opposition.

The title Noblesse Oblige implies that whoever claims to be noble must conduct their life accordingly, and in a manner that conforms to one's position. In Campbell's case, his "nobility" is his tattoo-artist origin, and it is to that position and reputation his compliance is fashioned. In exhibiting a chronicle of working class imagery, customarily inked onto skin, Campbell seeks to construct a new context for the genre - an alternative narrative for consideration.

Palm Springs Photo Festival March 27

2011-03-05T10:11:19Z

March 27 - April 1, 2011

NEWSLETTER
America's Most Talked-About Photography Event
QUICK LINKS:
PSPF Website Register No Fee Slide Show Contest Our Sponsors Volunteer / Intern at the Festival
IMPORTANT DEADLINES APPROACHING
Workshops
If you are considering entering our extraordinary workshop program - the time has come to make a decision! Don't wait until the last minute - register now to assure your place in the following workshops:
Arno Minkkinen: Framing a New Vision  Peter Turnley: Documentary, Reportage & Street Photography Master Class  Lois Conner: The Black & White Desert Landscape  Keith Carter: Finding Your Voice  Christopher Griffith: The Still Life Revisited  Graciela Iturbide: The Master Class  Doug Menuez: Formal Documentary Photography  Lorne Resnick: The Art & Commerce of Travel Photography  Gillian Laub: Creating and Executing the Documentary Photo Essay
Portfolio Review Registration Deadlines
All those who pre-register for our Portfolio Review Program before March 1 will be eligible to have a free page devoted to their work (including photo & contact info), included in our Portfolio Review SourceBook, printed by Blurb, which will be distributed to each of the portfolio reviewers at the festival. Each reviewer (even those you don't sign up to see) will have this special book to keep.
In addition, all those registered for Portfolio Reviews before March 10 will be able to submit their top reviewer choices online. We will be able to grant at least 60% of these requests in nearly all cases! The remaining portfolio reviews will be available to all others once the pre-registered attendee's requests have been assigned. Of course attendees will be able to sign up for reviews at any time up to and including the festival days - but the largest possible choices will be reserved for those registered before the March 10 deadline.
The first 75 photographers signed up for Portfolio Reviews will be able to participate at no cost, in our Open Portfolio Review on Sunday, March 27. Over 500 people will visit this event.
No Fee Slide Show Contest Deadline is March 4
Enter our Free Slide Show Contest! Your winning work will be seen by the entire Palm Springs Photo Festival audience during our nightly Evening Presentations. Four finalists will be selected for gifts from our sponsors - and the grand prize winner receives a complete Canon T2i Kit, a $500 gift certificate from Blurb, $300 Gift Certificate from Samy's Camera, a Western Digital TV Live Hub Media Player and more! Blurb will send a film crew to make a 5-minute film about the Grand Prize Winner. In addition, all 16 slide shows shown at Connect 2011 will be considered for an outdoor projection at this year's "Night of the Year 2011" at the Rencontres D'Arles festival in France! Hurry because the deadline is March 4th! Click HERE for complete information.
REGISTER ONLINE NOW or call us at 1-800 928-8314 today!
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We have a total of ten EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER SCHOLARSHIPS available! Click HERE for complete information.
A WEEK IN THE CALIFORNIA DESERT
Now is the time to make your decision to join us in the most exciting single week of photography available. Participate in our remarkable Workshop program, studying with celebrated, real world working photographers. Learn a tremendous amount of new information, essential to your work and career in our Seminar program. Attend important discussions about our current business environment at our daily Symposiums. Get your work in front of over 60 industry influencers in our Portfolio Review program (this year we'll offer over 850 portfolio reviews!) and submit your work in our No Fee Slide Show Contest and possibly have your work projected for the entire festival audience as well as win great gifts from our sponsors.
Here's what's included in your $75 daily registration fee:
* Admittance to 10 Seminars during the week
* Our important daily Symposiums: The Business of Fine Art, The Convergence Conference, Pursuing Your Passions: Funding Personal Projects and PDN Presents: Strategies for the Emerging Photographer
* Four Networking events with wine tastings from prominent California wineries
* Unlimited access to our Sponsor Headquarters. See the latest from Canon, Epson, Leica, Samy's Camera, Fuji, X-Rite, Western Digital, onONE Software, Academy University, ASMP, Blend Images Agency, Aperture Foundation, and Marshall Electronics!
* Access to the Open Portfolio Review Sunday, March 27 at the Hyatt Regency. Over 80 photographers will be presenting their work!
* Invitation to our Opening Reception immediately following our Open Portfolio Review.
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2011 SEMINAR PROGRAM
The Canon Digital SLR System Identify Clients and Bring In New Business with Maria Piscopo Understanding Color Spaces, Profiles and Calibration Social Media Marketing: Put Facebook, Twitter & Linked-in to Work for You Seeing the World Through a Leica Rangefinder Viewfinder With Justin Stailey  Lightroom from Shoot to Finish With Peter Krogh Pricing & Negotiating Strategies for Commercial Photographers With Maria Piscopo Creating Pixel Perfect Photographs with Photoshop with Lee Varis How to get your Photobook Published  Blurb Presents: The Photographic Book: Edit, Sequence, Design and Market Your Book. Final Cut Pro: How to Mix Motion, Stills & Audio into Short Films  DSLR Convergence: Storytelling with Canon's Hybrid Cameras: Making Multi-media Films with Vincent LaForet Photography & the Written Word With Colin Finlay An Introduction to Marketing Your Photographs with Mary Virginia Swanson Aperture 3: A Complete Primer with Martin Gisborne Digital Asset Management: with Peter Krogh

Most importantly, you can join the community - meet like-minded people, exchange ideas, keep your work fresh and exciting. We're about the passion for photography. These are exciting times! Call us at 1-800 928 8314 for more information or go directly to our website at www.palmspringsphotofestival.com. See you in the desert!

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The Wonderful world of the White family

2011-03-02T15:40:06Z

The White family. Thought they were just a bunch of White supremacists which they probably are, but they are also a kooky family. They kill people, smoke crack, talk dirty, shoot, jump around, talk trash, skin squirrels and live in their own little West Virginia world of white trash style. "I just went on a rampage". There is a lot of "bleeping". by MTV, Dickhouse and Jackass.

Disturbing and crazy, but like a train wreck, you can't look away.

International Conference: The Now Museum in NYC, March 10-13

2011-02-28T22:18:11Z

What do museums of contemporary art stand for today? The last two decades have seen an unimaginable diversification of the museum as a place for exhibiting art and telling histories, producing innovative education models, promoting international collaborations, forming alternative archives, and facilitating new productions.

This conference aims to tackle key questions around the museum as an institutional entity and contemporary art as an art historical category. Speakers will provide an overview of developments across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Particular attention will be paid to the construction of historical narratives (or their abandonment) through collection displays, the role of research in relation to contemporary art, the alternative models that are already having an impact, and their relationship to more traditional museum infrastructures.

Presented by the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center, Independent Curators International, and the New Museum.

Tickets for whole conference:
$30 general public | $22 members | $15 students

Tickets per day:
$16 general public | $12 members | $8 students

Click here for more information or to purchase tickets.
SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 10 | 7-9 p.m. | New Museum

7:15 p.m. "Exhibition Machines"
A conversation with artist Paul Chan and Philippe Vergne, Director, Dia Art Foundation, New York.

Friday, March 11 | 10 a.m.-6 p.m. | CUNY Graduate Center

10:15 a.m. "Revisiting The Late Capitalist Museum"
A panel discussion with Bruce Altshuler, Director, Program in Museum Studies, New York University; Manuel Borja-Villel, Director, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid; and Beatriz Colomina, Professor, Department of Architecture, Princeton University.
Chaired by Johanna Burton, Director, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies.

12 p.m. "Sources of the Contemporary Museum" 
A conversation with Carlos Basualdo, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Curator at MAXXI, Rome, and Pamela M. Lee, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University.

2:30 p.m. "The Artist's Perspective"
A conversation with artist Dara Birnbaum and Ute Meta Bauer, Associate Professor and Director, Visual Arts Program, MIT.

3:40 p.m. "Contemporanizing History/Historicizing the Contemporary"
A panel discussion with Okwui Enwezor, Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Annie Fletcher, Curator, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions, New Museum, New York; and Terry Smith, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh.
Chaired by Claire Bishop, Associate Professor of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center.

Saturday, March 12 | 12-6 p.m. | New Museum

12:15 p.m. "Extending Infrastructures, Part I: Platforms & Networks"
A panel discussion with Zdenka Badovinac, Director, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Anthony Huberman, Distinguished Lecturer, Hunter College and Director, The Artist's Institute, New York; Maria Lind, Director, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; and Lu Jie, Director and Chief Curator, Long March Project, Beijing.
Chaired by Kate Fowle, Director, Independent Curators International, New York.

2:30 p.m. "Extending Infrastructures, Part II: Bricks & Mortar"
A panel discussion with Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; curator and artist Gabi Ngcobo, Johannesburg; and Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Director, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas.
Chaired by Eungie Joo, Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs, New Museum.

4:45 p.m. "What does the museum stand for now?"
Responses by Katy Siegel, Professor, Department of Art, Hunter College and Dominic Willsdon, Curator of Education and Public Programs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Sunday, March 13 | 2-6 p.m. | New Museum

2 p.m. "Graduate Students Respond"
A graduate student symposium co-chaired by Claire Bishop, Kate Fowle, and Martin Grossmann, Professor, School of Art and Communications, University of São Paulo.

Mark Jenkins @ VOLTA NY

2011-02-28T21:47:38Z

Booth A1
7 West 34th Street
between 5th and 6th Avenue / 11th floor
New York, NY 10001
USA

You must RSVP to rsvp@carmichaelgallery.com by Sunday, February 27, 2011.

Mark Jenkins' installation at VOLTA NY will transform Booth A1 into an unconventionally furnished family room. "I've been doing a lot of experimentation with resin and fiberglass," says the artist of this new series, which includes five and a half life-size sculptures and a range of smaller pieces, "finding more original ways to make hand casts and improving structural solidity through new bracing techniques." For the first time, Jenkins will present his works within a site-specific environment purposefully created to provide greater contextual authority and definition to his aesthetic and thematic considerations. "An empty space can feel sterile," he observes, "as if a giant eraser has removed all context. The works become more like pinned butterflies. I have taken a different approach with (the presentation of) Family Room. This time it's about creating a place for the sculptures to live in, so, in addition to clothes, I've been thrift store shopping for plants, drapes, rugs and chairs." Both individual works and the installation as a whole will propose non-traditional commentaries on the institutions of family and home.

Mark Jenkins (b. 1973 Washington, DC, USA)

Mark Jenkins is an internationally acclaimed American artist and one of the most unique mixed media sculptors working today. His enigmatic brand of hyper realistic conceptualism is playful, innovative and thought-provoking, making him a very important figure in the history of contemporary sculpture and installation art. By placing his works in institutional, urban and environmental settings, he brings cities, landscapes and interiors to life in a new way, transforming the ordinary into the unexpected.

Jenkins' process involves dry-casting everything from fire hydrants and toy ducks to baby dolls and people, often himself or his assistants, with box sealing tape, the latter often dressed to appear scarily life-like. When placed outside or slipped indoors, announced or otherwise, these sculptures have the ability to both camouflage into their surroundings and elicit spectacular amounts of attention from viewers.

Jenkins has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums, festivals, art fairs and other cultural institutions throughout the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Belgrade, Vienna, Washington D.C., London, Barcelona, Malmo, Moscow, Tokyo and Seoul. Whether indoors or out, his work engages its viewers and provokes a complex examination of self and surroundings.

KEN GONZALES-DAY DORIT CYPIS

2011-02-27T21:34:35Z

KEN GONZALES-DAY
DORIT CYPIS

March 5 - April 2, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday March 5, 7-10 pm

Join us Saturday night, March 5 from 7-10 pm for the opening of the solo exhibitions Ken Gonzales-Day: PROFILED (Main Gallery) and Dorit Cypis: A Symmetry (Project Space).

for more info please visit:

www.lascienegasprojects.org

Las Cienegas Projects is an artist-run project space and gallery focusing on large-scale, collaborative and project-based artworks by a broad range of local, national and international emerging and mid-career artists. LCP was co-founded and is co-directed by Steven Hull and Amy Thoner. The gallery is located 1 1/2 blocks north of I-10 at 2045 South La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90034, between Cadillac and Guthrie. PARKING IS AVAILABLE. For further information, please contact Amy Thoner at 213.595.8017

A U S T I N E X P A N S I O N P A R T Y

2011-02-24T18:37:34Z

http://www.scottcooner.com/

A U S T I N E X P A N S I O N P A R T Y
THURSDAY, MARCH 3RD
5:30 - 7:30 PM

Scott + Cooner
115 West 8th Street
Austin, TX 78701

ARTISTS:
Leslie Begert
Liddy Blackbird
Mattia Biagi
Davis Birks
Bill Blair
Erin Cunningham
Andrew Long
Michael Mew
Greg Miller
Julio Cesar Morales
David Malcom Scott
Shawn Shepherd
Al Souza
Grant Watson
Robert Yoder

In 1995 Lloyd Scott and Josy Cooner-Collins set out to make the Southwest a more modern place. Today they have over 15,000 square feet of modern furniture showroom space in Dallas and Austin Texas, and carry over 70 lines of classic and contemporary furnishings.

Eberhard Havekost: Take Care opening

2011-02-24T17:21:37Z

Eberhard Havekost
Take Care

February 26 - April 2, 2011
Opening Reception Saturday, February 26th, 6 - 8pm

Roberts & Tilton is pleased to announce, Take Care, an exhibition of new paintings by Berlin based artist, Eberhard Havekost. Works included in Take Care, Havekost's second show at Roberts & Tilton, travel from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden, Germany. These recent paintings investigate the relationship between painted images and photographic sources, from which Havekost typically derives his motifs. Havekost's photographic references drain the image of its recognizability and as Barry Schwabsky notes in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen's catalogue, Ausstellung:
It is liable to distort or decontextualize and thereby alienate things from their images, and this tendency of the photograph to alienate its referent is clearly something that greatly interests the artist. For this reason one would be tempted to describe many of his more recent paintings...as abstract. But on further consideration, it would be better to resist that temptation; it would be better to say that they are like abstractions, or that they resemble abstractions, than that they are abstractions. If anything, it would be preferable to say that they are representations of something that refuses to be identified.

But what about the paintings-and there are many of these as well-in which the motif is quite legible? [...] One has no trouble naming the motifs of these paintings. But still, in these cases, there is a certain invitation to project, as in the quasi-abstractions, and also a similar evocation of the futility of doing so. In the depictions of figures, this can at least in part be accounted for by the fact that in every case, the face is obscured.

Gamboni has pointed out that ambiguities which invite the viewer's imaginative projection are favored by the Romantics [...] Havekost is no Romantic. The "abstinence from imagination"(1) evidenced by his reliance on photographic sources allies him with the Realist tradition from Courbet onward. In this Realism lies Havekost's contemporaneity. Today, the imagination is no longer opposed to matter, but assumed to be one of its manifestations. Our propensity to project meaning into meaningless images no longer appears to be liberating but compulsive.
That's why the beauty of Havekost's paintings is melancholy. [...] Eberhard Havekost's works conjure a similar relationship in how they apply simplification by subtraction to the subjects they portray.

http://robertsandtilton.com

Ebony G. Patterson installation and new work Chicago

2011-02-20T17:45:46Z

Ebony G. Patterson on the Wall and in the Gallery @ Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago

A Night at Sunlight

2011-02-18T20:54:37Z

Proto Homes is officially putting out the welcome mat! Please join us for a special reception hosted at the Sunlight Place Residence to preview the first Proto House to be completed by this innovative new LA builder. Sustainable, modern, evolved. Think of Proto Homes as the iPhones of modern homes: perennially modern and easily adaptable. Come experience a next gen smart house and stay for a cocktail.

Sunlight Place Residence
5182 Sunlight Place
Los Angeles, CA 90016

Please RSVP to christine@secretagentpr.com. We hope to see you there.

About Proto Homes (www.protohomes.com - website to be launched on 2/19)

By pulling from the rich architectural legacy of Los Angeles and pushing toward a lighter, more sustainable future, Proto Homes is changing the modern home-building game. In the tradition of Eichler and the Case Study Houses, Proto Homes has re-envisioned the modern house. This paradigm shift in building is marked by approaching the house as a product - "We wanted to rethink the way that homes are built," explains CEO and founder, Frank Vafaee. By "productizing" the home, Proto Homes delivers a home that it is innovative, simple to use, efficient and modern.

With a tested, refined and streamlined home-building system in place, the first houses are starting to roll out of the Proto Homes Idea Lab and onto lots around the Greater Los Angeles Area. The first proof of Proto Homes' postulations is a modern and innovative home nestled among the single-story houses of Baldwin Hills. The Baldwin Hills site was specifically chosen to illustrate the practical affordability of houses by Proto Homes, and to offer a vision of the possibilities that they can deliver to buyers in many markets. "There is never a time not to innovate," says Vafaee. "We know that a lot of people are anxious during these economic times and are concerned about the housing market. However, we believe it is the time for optimism - truly: not irrational exuberance, rather a change in perspective. There are things worth getting excited about and this is definitely one of them."