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MANIFESTATION - Sept 24th reception @ Pacific Design Center

Hi Everyone, 

So after you stop by the New Wight Gallery for the 'Without' exhibition, I suggest you head over to the Pacific Design Center for the MANIFESTATION installation with Carrie Paterson, another Cal State Fullerton connection. 

Carrie is an interdisciplinary artist and writer, based in Los Angeles.   She graces the halls of CSUF art department as instructor of a graduate writing class.  We are proud to announce her participation with Carl Berg Projects at the Pacific Design Center.

Here's all the info you will need:

MANIFESTATION

September 8 - October 16

at the Pacific Design Center 

with Carl Berg Projects

http://www.carlbergprojects.com

 

Reception to be held in conjunction with the Design Loves Art event
Thursday, September 24
5-8pm

http://www.pacificdesigncenter.com/_pdf/Art_Map.pdf 

Carl Berg Projects @ Pacific Design Center

8687 Melrose Avenue, spaces B215 and B315, West Hollywood, CA 90069

Manifestation, installation in progress (SPACE B215)

Joshua Aster, Phil Bower, Claudia Bucher, Lindsay Brandt, Tanya Brodsky, Byoung, Claus Castenskiold, Mike Cronin, Steve DeGroodt, David DiMichele, Brian Hollister, Mitsuko Ikeno, Kristi Kent, Matthew May, David McDonald, Michael C. McMillen, Donnie Molls, Patti Oleon, Carrie Paterson, Paul Paiement, Max Presneill, Ephraim Puusemp, Matthew Ready, David Redwood, Allen Tombello, Allard Zoetman

Erin Dunn, Salt Spray Garden, solo exhibition (SPACE B315)

Carl Berg Projects

Carl Berg Projects (CBP) is a new art venture by Carl Berg that will engage in the organization and curation of exhibitions around the greater Los Angeles area. Its primary venue is at the Pacific Design Center  (PDC) in SPACES B215 and B315 where it will be hosting ongoing exhibitions. CBP will be joined by several other galleries and curatorial projects at the Design Center over the next several months.

CBP’s two spaces at the Design Center occupy over 10,000 square in two very different spaces. SPACE B215 is a 4500 square foot large open space with a more traditional gallery look.  SPACE B315 on the other hand is a multi-room space that has distinctive architectural features reminiscent of a small European provincial museum where the architecture is preserved, and not subjugated to the display of the art.

The Pacific Design Center is located at 8687 Melrose Avenue on the corner of Melrose Avenue and San Vicente Boulevard in the heart of West Hollywood.

  

Opening Sept 24th - 'Without' UCLA New Wight Gallery

Check out the group exhibition featuring Cal State Fullerton's very own Daniel Porras, MFA Painting. Hope you all can make it.  Good luck Danny!

j

Without

September 24 - October 8, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 24 at 5-8pm

Without is a themed exhibition of works by California MFA students curated by Meleko Mokgosi, graduate student in the UCLA Department of Art. This exhibition begins with the stipulation that all featured artists are either from or descendants of "non-Western" regions and cultures. As there is no trenchant division between "Western" and "non-Western," especially given today's transcultural context, we apply these terms in the loosest sense. Our definition of "non-Western" includes countries—specifically those in Africa, Asia and Latin/Central America—whose cultural and material histories have often been excluded within the Western canon of art history.

Observing individual artistic practices will re-locate the need for specificity in the gallery context; a need that has been lost within many contemporary trends that ignore differences in order to produce a more uniformed, global (and arguably more digestible) culture. Biographical details—where someone is from, receives an education and currently resides—are inescapable factors contributing to one's creative production. This exhibition will not only further engage viewers' sensitivities to geographical and cultural diversity but also examine how "non-Western" art is displayed and historicized.

Cat Chiu Phillips Bulsa I (Pockets), mixed media 24" x 24"		Connie DK Lane Born in China, clay slips, burlap, and mixed media, dimensions variable
Noritaka Minami Conflating Modernity, mixed media, 27" x 48"		Steven Kim Blue, oil on canvas, 24" x 24"
Rashin Fahandej Maku, video still		Allison Alford 211, acrylic paint, digital image print on panel, 7" x 7"

Artists:

Allison Alford Claremont Graduate University	Rashin Fahandej San Francisco Art Institute	crystal am nelson San Francisco Art Institute
Daniela Campins Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara	Rema Ghuloum California College of the Arts	Thinh Nguyen Claremont Graduate University
Carlos Castro San Francisco Art Institute	Steve Kim Claremont Graduate University	Daniel Porras California State University Fullerton
Cat Chiu Phillips San Francisco Art Institute	Connie DK Lane California State University Long Beach	Carlos Ramirez California College of the Arts
Harry Diaz California State University Long Beach	Noritaka Minami University of California, Irvine	Kenneth Tam University of Southern California
Alexis Disselkoen University of California, Irvine	Kusum Harchandrai Nairi San Francisco Art Institute	Paulina Velázquez Solís San Francisco Art Institute

New Wight Gallery
1100 Broad Art Center
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Gallery Hours:
Monday-Friday, 9:00am-4:30pm

Admission is free

Daily parking in Lot 3, $10
Short term parking available (payable at paystation) in Lot 3 North, $3/hour

Directions to Broad Art Center

For further information, please call (310) 825-0557

This exhibition program of the New Wight Gallery is made possible through the generous support of Dallas Price-Van Breda.

in love with NIGHT- Guggenheim Gallery @ Chapman University

Now that summer is winding down and everyone is back in school, the fall exhibition season has begun.

Last night I stopped in to Chapman University's Guggenheim Gallery for the group exhibition 'in love with NIGHT,' curated by the dynamic duo Ciara Ennis and Max King Cap.   Excellent exhibition and live performance by LA based collective Department of Nocturnal Affairs (DNA).  Totally worth the trip up to Orange, so get on out there.  

There will also be a follow-up performance by DNA on Tuesday, September 15th at 7pm, departing from the Guggenheim Gallery.  Hope you can all join them for an investigation of nocturnal affairs on the Chapman campus.  It sounds like fun!

Here is the exhibition info:

IN LOVE WITH NIGHT
Curated by Max King Cap & Ciara Ennis
At the Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University
September 8 – October 9, 2009
Opening Reception:  Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Artists: Department of Nocturnal Affairs • Ken Gonzales-Day 
Inga Dorosz • Shana Lutker • Chris Oliveria • Chloe Piene 
Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso • Alex Slade • Evan Dorkin 
& Jill Thompson • Erik van der Weijde • Michiko Yao

Here are some pics from the opening 

Caroline Maxwell, part of DNA, during performance at opening.

Tubes of paint matching colors found during research and investigative work by previous DNA interventions.  Call me silly but I just loved these pieces!! 

I can imagine tubes of paint for 'morning under-eye bags,' 'old coffee', and even 'toe jam' . . . why hasn't anyone thought of this before!!

installation

Ken Gonzales-Day's over-sized photographs were stunning.

Artist Michiko Yao still from video installation that was mesmerizing, referencing Dutch still life painting with a 21st century spin.  

Another gallery shot for your enjoyment.  If you look closely you can spy Chapman's very own Richard Turner hard at work.

Last but certainly not least, Chloe Piene still image from the creepy yet intoxicating Blackmouth (2004).  

This is just a taste of the works featured in the gallery. Hope you enjoyed the photos and have put next Tuesday's performance on your calendar.

peace, Joanna

Forever Fullerton at Fullerton Museum Center

If you like the mid-century style that inspires SHAG, just think, people used to live in homes like that.  Ultra-hip lamps and couches, now the holy grail of flea market fans, were once the hallmark of suburban living.  This forever cool, mid-century standard is on display at the Fullerton Museum Center, captured in black and white images by architectural photographer Julius Shulman.  In Forever Fullerton: Julius Shulman photographs of backyards, schools, living rooms, and kitchens from the 1950s and 1960s hang in the gallery.  Not quite postcards, but not too intimate every photo makes me wish I was there.  Beyond the Bauhaus influences, boomerang patterns, flagstone patios and Eames furniture that appear throughout the images I can imagine Schwinn bicycles, Hula Hoops and “Avon Calling.”  While the photographs successfully capture a nostalgic charm the highlight of the exhibit is a mid-century living room assembled in the middle of the exhibit.  Part Sears showroom, part prize package from Let’s Make a Deal, part Shag painting the living room set includes furniture, paintings, architecture and accessories from the era. The only thing missing is Buddy Holly on his Fender Guitar.

Forever Fullerton: Julius Shulman closes July 19, 2009

Jay Sagen

Here are some images from Saturday night at @space.

Now that I am a bit freer, I have more time to go looking again. I swung by @space to say hello to Julie and to chat with her.

My friends and I had one of our galleries night out. We wanted to go to Riverside to see the new Jeff Soto show, but decided against it because of time. We ended up at our usual second Saturday hangout, Pomona, to do their artwalk and grabbed some dinner.

The show of Jay Sagen will be up until January 3. Swing by to show your support.

--James

California Biennial 2008

Julio Cesar Morales, Interrupted Passage, 2008; Film still, from a performance by Julio Cesar Morales with
Max La Riviere-Hedrick, Norma Listman and Daniel Gorrell; Courtesy of the artist and Julio Duffo, 2008

Just a reminder that the California Biennial opens this Sunday at OCMA. Looking from all the off-site projects, I don't know if you can actually even attempt to see everything.

The 2008 California Biennial continues the Orange County Museum of Art’s four-decade long history of presenting new developments in contemporary art. This year’s biennial is guest-curated by Lauri Firstenberg, founder and director/curator of LAXART in Los Angeles. Firstenberg’s approach to the 2008 California Biennial is expansive—the exhibition includes works by more than 50 artists and, for the first time, incorporates off-site projects with collaborating venues from Tijuana to Northern California. The 2008 California Biennial is on view at the Newport Beach and Orange Lounge galleries from October 26, 2008–March 15, 2009.

Off-site project locations include:
The city of Culver City; LAXART, Los Angeles; Five Thirty Three Gallery, Los Angeles; Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles; Artist Jim Skuldt's Studio, Los Angeles; MacArthur Park & NOKIA LA LIVE, Los Angeles; The Standard Hotel, West Hollywood; The city of West Hollywood; Hollywood & Highland Center, Hollywood; Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale; The Lab, Costa Mesa; UAG/ROOM Gallery, University of California, Irvine; Estación Tijuana, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico; Lui Velazquez, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico; EL CUBO at Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, B.C., Mexico; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara; Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; and High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree with works by Joel Kyack, Hannah Greely, Ry Rocklin, Patrick Jackson, Alice Konitz, Jack Pierson, Yoshua Okon, Amy and Wendy Yao's Art Swap Meet, Jonathan Hernandez, Thom Merrick, The Wonder Valley Institute for Contemporary Art, Julia Scher, Ann Magnuson, Marnie Weber and the Spirit Girls.

--James

Soundwalk2008

Soundwalk2008 is going down tomorrow, September 20th, in the LBC. Head down to the East Village Arts District and join in on the fun. I'm a sound art fanatic, so I think I've been down there almost every year since its inception. Always an interesting experience.

--James

Hilary Pecis @ Receiver

I think I was told by two people at two separate galleries that should catch this show. So I hopped on the BART down to the 24th Street station to go to Receiver. I don't know much about the artist, but I do like the work. The Flickr slideshow probably won't her art justice. So many small collaged elements.

--James

A Moment For Reflection @ RATIO 3

Lydia Fong strikes again. S/he is currently having a show at RATIO 3 in San Francisco's Mission District. Nice installation by Barry McGee as always.

--James

Twilighty @ Hibbleton

--James