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.
Guillaume Zuili
Exposed Cities
June 21 â August 9, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 21, 6 - 8 pm
Couturier Gallery will be presenting French photographer, Guillaume Zuili, in his solo exhibition opening June 21st. The exhibition will include photographs of urban landscape, addressing the interaction between urbanism, nature, and humans. These photographs, like fossils, expose layers of various shapes and forms of buildings, and street culture “producing ghost like qualities, symbolic of lost moments and untold narratives.”
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CONTRADICTIONS AND COMPLEXITIES: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM INDIA
Showing at Western Project:
SHOBHA BROOTA
SANTANA GOHAIN
Showing at d.e.n. contemporary:
SHEBA CHHACHHI
ANITA DUBE
CHITRA GANESH
MITHU SEN
Curated by Patricia Hamilton and Peter Nagy
June 21 â August 2, 2008
Opening receptions: Saturday, June 21,
5-8pm at d.e.n. contemporary art
6-9pm at Western Project
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The American Lifescape
June 14 â September 6, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 14, 6-10pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, August 30, 6-10pm
Downtown Pomona gallery, dba256 is bringing together a poignantly varied collection of installation, painting and photography to celebrate the The American Lifescape. The show will run from June 14 through September 6, 2008 with a reception open to the public on Saturday, June 14, 6-10pm (during Pomona’s monthly second Saturday Arts Walk). This exhibit will highlight work from local emerging artists to internationally recognized artists.
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Los Angeles Center for Digital Art presents:
“New and Improved”
June 12 - July 5 2008
Reception: Thursday, June 12, 7-9pm
in conjunction with the downtown art walk
It is common knowledge that (for all of the usual reasons) artists often become pigeonholed in a particular style, or that the ever present curatorial “trend,” “theme” or “concept” can become somewhat tyrannical in terms of dictating the way in which artworks take shape. For this exhibit LACDA curator Rex Bruce invited selected artists to try something new or show some un-exhibited work that they would like to have seen. In one sense the exhibit is curated, in that the artists for the show were selected, and in another it is self governing in that the artists were allowed to choose the works they wish to show. The only influence would be that this choice came with a healthy dose of encouragement to experiment.
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Joe Clower: Past and Present
Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture
June 28- July 26, 2008
Artist Reception June 28, 2008 6-8 p.m.
Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art is presenting an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by Joe Clower, an important if perhaps little remembered participant in the transformation of Los Angeles art culture that occurred in the decade of the 1980’s.
Clower arrived here from Colorado in the late 1970’s and he has since returned to that state. In the years he lived and worked in Los Angeles, Clower was an early and effective proponent of what might be called the “comic book paradigm” in contemporary art. Besides publishing his own comic book “Modern Drawing” (with Mary Jones) in 1979, Clower embarked on an ongoing series of paintings that powerfully leverage his insights into comic book aesthetics, often finding there a formal beauty hidden in plain sight. In the same spirit the artist would deliberately blur the distinction between high-art and popular culture as when, years later, he took his self-made collection of flying saucer photographs around to UFO conventions where he once won the award for “best picture.”
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Launa Bacon
New installation: A Council of Nicaea
June 12 - 30, 2008
Opening Reception: June 12, 6 â 9 pm, during the Downtown Art Walk
A Council of Nicaea, Launa Bacon’s latest multi-media installation, examines psychic states that frequently remain unnoticed in daily life. Bacon presents a series of visual parables, observing the fundamental qualities of human existence, paying special attention to the ideas of creation and lifecycle.
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Prison to a Slave
Derric Eady, Eric Medine
Suzanne Oshinsky and Nam June Paik
June 5âJuly 12, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 5, 6-9 pm
AndrewShire Gallery will be presenting Prison to a Slave, a group exhibition by new media/video artists Derric Eady, Eric Medine, Suzanne Oshinsky and Nam June Paik. The artists draw on contrasting methods of production such as video projection, installation and object making to reflect on ways in which free thought can be held captive and sometimes enslaved by language.
Derric Eady uses the unending vastness of spaces associated with videogame technology to propose virtual landscapes in which watchers/partakers can venture into lucid dreamlike states while remaining connected to the sights and sounds of their non-dream worlds. Signs float in and out of Eady’s videos the way images appear in the mind and exit from it inexplicably. Symbols that seem to be connected with current world affairs or conflicts are in truth used without narrative or investigative analysis.
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The Stephen Cohen Gallery has announced a new exhibition of photographs by Brian Finke. Flight Attendants will be the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery. As with his previous work 2-4-6-8: American Cheerleaders and Football Players, Finke gives us a calculated and compelling study of one of the most fascinating cultural niche’s ever to be examined through a camera lens. An opening reception for the artist sponsored by Anthem Magazine will be held on Thursday, June 12, from 7-9pm.
Embedded on fifteen plus airlines, Finke illustrates the gamut of the air travel experience from Hooters-Air to the renowned Icelandair. With a body of work spanning two years, Finke manages to reveal some stunning insights into the airline travel industry and challenges our initial notions of those smiling employees flying those friendly skies at 40,000 feet. The photographs capture the intrigue, allure and peculiarity of those who volunteer themselves to the always-accommodating transient lifestyle.
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Well, this festival was definitely not in the same scale as the other cultural street affairs I have attended in the last couple of months, but between the pony ride, the petting zoo, the Hye Riders Harleys and some of the booths, I had enough subject matter to pull a good sized photo essay. Enjoy.
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Tino Rodriquez and Virgo Paraiso: Lullabies for the Dark Ages
June 7 â July 5, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 14, 8 â 11 pm
“Let the beauty we love be what we do Don’t go back to sleep.”
(Rumi 13th century)
Defying simple classification, the work of Tino Rodriguez exists in a subliminal space, embracing an ambiguity that expands perspective. The confounding of gender within reminiscently religious surroundings creates disorientation. Yet, this disorientation is akin to a waking dream, allowing for the possibility to experience the images of fantasy. Rodriguez’s paintings manifest the artist’s search for a spiritual philosophy that transcends simple duality. The restrictive dualities of Western religions good and evil, heaven and hell, spirit and body intermingle in a vision that deconstructs such ordering. Rodriguez represents human exuberance and decadence in his exploration of the complexity of human sexuality, transformation, longing and transgression. With the total abandonment of rationality, he creates a syncretic universe in which all is integrated, whether it be good or evil. Rodriguez was born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, and holds an MFA from the University of Albuquerque. His work has shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, New Mexico and Montana.
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Tomorrow, get to the polls and help make the future brighter for California’s wildlife!
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s broad re-interpretation of eminent domain in 2005, Californians need new state-level protections to stop city, county or local governments from seizing their private property and handing it over to developers on a whim.
Don’t be fooled. Proposition 98 masquerades as eminent domain reform to protect property owners from government land grabs, but closer inspection reveals unmistakable proof of greedy specials interests at work.
If we don’t stop Proposition 98, it will jeopardize important environmental regulations and zoning laws that allow the state to:
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Two “Spirit of the Horse” exhibitions
June 6 - July 6, 2008
Artists’ Reception:Â Friday, June 6, 5-8pm
For thousands of years, men and horses have been a team, originally out of necessity but more recently from desire. One of the most economically important of domesticated animals, the horse has played important roles in agriculture, transportation and warfare. And as the horse’s economic importance declined, its leisure and sporting value rose.
With the lives of men and horses so entwined, it is not surprising that artists have been depicting these noble, multi-talented animals through the ages. From the earliest European cave paintings to the present day, man has drawn, painted, sculpted and photographed the horse at work, play and leisure, capturing its grace, beauty and spirit.
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