Please come by for our next opening, Sat. Feb. 11 for some sculptures by Dan Van Clapp.
It's almost Valentine's Day and the shop will be open for some sweet trinkets...
01/09/2012
12/06/2011
Second Saturday, December 10, 2011
Opening from 7 to 10 pm
Part of NELAart.com Second Saturday Gallery Night
Open by appointment to Jan. 6, 2012 (call 323-254-4565)
PST Poster Project celebrates Los Angeles art, the city’s art scene, and the beauty of education in the streets. It is inspired by The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time/Art in L.A. series of exhibitions.
Kelly Thompson has created 30 sets of twelve hand-painted printed posters that depict randomly-selected events, artists, galleries, and museums from the city’s art scene between 1945–1980.
At the gallery in December, individuals (you) will be invited to participate in the project. Each invitee will be given one or two posters. Instructions will be provided to either wheat paste or tape the posters to garbage cans, telephone poles, etc., throughout the city. Once the poster is installed, participants will document it with a photograph. These images (with participant’s name, location, and date of installation) will be included in a book to be released at the conclusion of the project.
“My hope for this project is to bring together my fellow Angelinos so that they can learn something new about their city’s art history and institutions. I know I sure did!”
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Art Bonus: Jpy Magazine award-winning yarn bomb, Chicken in the Clouds (subject of the Dec. trading card) by Beth Elliott & Amy Inouye, will be parked in front of the gallery during the opening. After this, the Cloud is being retired. Janus Chicken Boy will continue to make appearances with yarnbombingla.
09/20/2011
Second Saturday, October 8, 2011
Gang of Carp Ephemera
1970s Performance and Installation
Alternative Artworks Contemporary Art Ephemera
This is the first of our Pacific Standard Time-ish exhibits
OPENING: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 from 7 to 10 pm
OPEN: Saturdays in October (15, 22, 29) from 1 to 5 pm and by appointment to Nov. 4
Kim Jones, Wilshire Blvd. Walk, 1976, Carp mailer.
“Gang of Carp: Ephemera” will open Saturday October 8, 2011, from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. at Future Studio Gallery in Los Angeles (Highland Park), 5558 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles 90042. The installation will include dozens of examples of contemporary art ephemera and documentation—such as exhibition announcements, mailers, snapshots and archival photography, posters and correspondence—related to performance and installation art in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area sponsored by Carp, and including other independent actions.
Carp was an alternative arts program formed in Venice, CA in the 1970s for the exhibition of experimental artworks in various public and private spaces, mass media, and other venues; the NEA-funded organization had no permanent space. Founders and curators are Barbara Burden and Marilyn Nix.
Among the documents to be shown are ephemera and documents from such artists as Chris Burden, Jon Hassel, Kim Jones, Ilene Segalove, Alexis Smith, Tom Marioni, Bruce Nauman, Richard Newton, and Robert Wilhite. In addition to completed projects, Carp will show materials related to incomplete projects proposed by Gordon Matta-Clark and Michael McMillen.
Carp’s mix of installation, performance, television, video, print magazine and street influenced many experimental art organizations that have followed. This exhibit reflects an under-appreciated but growing-in-importance aspect of contemporary art—ephemera. It includes the early and experimental work of both well- and lesser-known LA artists in the 1970s.
