Raised between Utah and Colorado, Emberly chose to forsake the comforts of city life at an early age and lived in a nest of shrubbery padded with the guard hairs of foxes. Subsisting on grubs and mulberries, she supplemented necessary mineral content by licking mud from creek banks. Emberly was discovered by two hikers at the age of 18, one being a curator at the Whitney Museum; who took her to New York City and fostered her career in art. She has been lauded as one of the most original and influential performance artists of our age. Emberly now resides in Los Angeles where she runs an ESL program for cats.
POKER NIGHT
Greg Miller, Jay Kelly, John Garrett, Tim McCarthy, and Jai Hall
July 19 - August 16, 2008
Reception Saturday, July 26, 7-10pm
VENICE, CA-Commissary Arts is pleased to announce Poker Night, a group show with works by Greg Miller, Jay Kelly, Tim McCarthy, John Garrett, and Jai Hall. For nearly a decade, these Los Angeles based artists and creative individuals have come together regularly to partake in the quintessentially American male ritual, “Poker Night.” The game itself is not the subject, but rather the event to bring together the work of five diverse creative individuals and explore their varied approaches to synthesizing media, pop culture, and urban environments in their work. With “a chip and a chair,” each player comes to the table.
Veteran LA artist Greg Miller draws upon classic American icons of the 1950s and 60s to create his collage and resin paintings. Integrating fragmented photographic imagery, familiar objects, and celebrated novels, Miller juxtaposes word and image in layered and worked painted surfaces that suggest memory and the loss of innocence. Miller has created a selection of small works especially for this exhibition.
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Pulchritudo Vaga: Regina Wilson
Australian Master Painter
July 19 - August 3, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday, July 19, 6.30-9pm
“The beauty we feel when we let go of a thing’s purpose and just delight in how it is”
- Immanuel Kant
This is the first U.S. solo exhibition for this award-winning Australian Aboriginal Artist from Peppimenarti Community, in the Northern Territory, Australia.
The exhibition runs from July 17th through August 3rd, 2008. Private previews July 15th & 16th. For an appointment email mc@tjala.com
ARENA 1
A project of Santa Monica Art Studios
3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA. 90405
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July 19 - August 16, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 19, 8-11pm
Merry Karnowsky Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by renowned British artist, photographer, filmmaker and writer Dave McKean. PERSISTENCE OF VISION is a glimpse inside McKean’s mind. His paintings and drawings capture the mystery of silent film and serve as postcards from his travels around the world. In a series of skeleton drawings, a man becomes pathologically aware of his own skeleton and the feeling of his bones grinding and sliding against each other inside his skin. McKean’s striking photographs depict an ironic, sub-atomic tarot deck for an unseen world, combining traditional tarot iconography with tables of quarks and fermions of particle physics.
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Doug Henry & Joe Potts
Still Life with Dancer: New Video Work
August 2 - August 30, 2008
Reception: Saturday August 2, 2008 6-8
Celebrate the birth of Cubism with Doug Henry and Joe Potts at Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art. The new video installation, “Still Life With Dancer” by Henry and Potts commemorates the centennial of the birth of Cubism, widely viewed as the first systematic attempt to break down traditional modes of representation.
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OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST
SATURDAY, JULY 12th
8:30 - 10 PMT
THROUGH SEPTEMBER
This new body of work, which Melanie Pullen began in 2004, is an examination of historic battle imagery and the social impact of conflict, combat, the stylization of war, and the viewpoint of victory. It includes light-box portraits of soldiers from different countries and eras, battle scenes, individual and groups of jumping soldiers, and images of biowarfare select agents such as anthrax. This is the first work in which Pullen makes use of the light-box which gives the artworks a floating cinematic effect. For Violent Times, Pullen enlisted the help of set builders, makeup artists, actors, models, stylists, and stunt crews, among others. To create one of the monumental battle scenes she worked for several months with one of the top movie studios to build large sections of the city of Berlin and then populated this shot with a cast of hundreds.
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AT THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
19 July - 16 August, 2008
Reception: Saturday, 19 July 7 - 10PM
Gallery Five Thirty Three is pleased to present At the Middle of Nowhere. The exhibition runs from July 19th to August 16th, with a reception for the artists on Saturday, July 19th from 7-10PM
To exist at the middle of nowhere brings solace to some and distress to others. Each artist in this exhibition bends, stretches, and portrays relationships to familiar surroundings in unique ways, either transferring the viewer to a space of ease and contentment or leaving them with no footing at all.
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Joshua Clay: Un autre Monde
Also showing in our project room:
Erik Siador & Jose “Emroca” Flores: Royals & Crocodiles
July 11 – August 1, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, July 11, 7-11PMJoshua Clay was born on a cloudy February day in 1983. He is a fine artist in the purest sense of the word, seeking perfection in every aspect of his craft without the use of computers, stencils or projectors. The work that Clay creates some would label Illustrative, Lowbrow or even as Pop Surrealism, but to him, it’s his voice in its purest form, untainted by established expectations of what “Fine Art” should look like.
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Altars - Offerings - Totems & Tip Jars
July 3 - 26, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday July 5, 6-10pm
Live Music July 5th, 12th and 26th
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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, in Conjunction with RVCA and Monster Media are Proud to Present
Sea No Evil, An Art Benefit
Silent Auction: Saturday, July 12, 2008 (Preview 2 weeks prior to event)
Raising money and awareness for the protection and conservation of the world’s oceans, the 2nd annual “Sea No Evil” Art Benefit is set to become a major event on the art and conservation calendar in years to come.
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JUDITH LIEBE
“PANDORA’S BOX - Transformation of a Woman”
July 10 – 27, 2008
Opening Reception: July 10, 7 – 10 PM
“Provocative Love, seductive Love, hopeless Love. Liebe’s images of women reflect triumph, power, loneliness and pain.”
-David Glover, Curator
German artist Judith Liebe returns to Los Angeles with her most striking U.S. show yet. Focused on ‘the fearless Female’, which Liebe marries images of the female body, fashion as well as erotic media, created in the form of photo collage, as well as paintings of nudes, both brazen and unapologetic, with a direct connection to the poetic.
As in her earlier works, women take the center stage. The body remains the focal point of all forms of love.
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North African Vibes: Music from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
Thursday, July 31 | 8 pm
LACMA just added a new concert to it’s summer line-up, and its FREE! But you gotta reserve tickets now, they will go fast.
The region known as the Maghreb or North Africa is home to a vibrant array of musical styles reflecting its long history of blending indigenous and Islamic traditions with African, European, and Middle Eastern influences. This ensemble of distinguished singers and musicians will showcase captivating Arab-Andalusian melodies from Granada, the uplifting vocals of Jewish-heritage songs from across the Maghreb, and the pulsating rhythms of rai which have swept around the world and found a home in Los Angeles. Sponsored jointly by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
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Four Solo Exhibitions
Rebecca Rutstein, Thomas Jackson, Lori Cozen-Geller, and Harrison Storms
June 25-July 19, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, July 5, 2pm-4pmSylvia White Gallery is pleased to present the winners of their 2008 National Juried Exhibition in four solo shows. The artwork of Rebecca Rutstein, Thomas Jackson, Lori Cozen-Geller and Harrison Storms will be on display in Ventura, CA from June 25 to July 19 with an opening reception July 5, 2008.
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