Friday, December 4, 2009

Betsy Seder @ Las Ciengas Projects
















RAY BARRIE / DAVID LAMELAS / BETSY SEDER
December 19, 2009 - January 16, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 19, 7-10 pm
Las Ciengas Projects

more information can be found here

















The surface is all you've got. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. - Richard Avedon

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Kerry Tribe, A Birdsong Sampler



A Birdsong Sampler, 2001
Audio CD, 13:28 minutes

"For this project, I invited the participation of ten friends, all artists, to imitate the bird of their choice. The results were digitally mixed to produce an ambient soundtrack in the sprit of a sound effects CD or New Age nature sampler. The work circulates both as an audio CD and as a site-specific audio installation."

To listen, click HERE.

Bruce Bickford



Bruce Bickford (born Seattle, 1947) is a maker of animated films who works primarily in clay animation. From 1974 to 1980 he collaborated with Frank Zappa. (Wikipedia)

You can see more of his work HERE, and learn a lot more, HERE

Roger Ballen











Roger Ballen, Outland & Shadow Chamber

Find more images, books, exhibition information, HERE

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Quote:


"No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others." Martha Graham

[via Royal Quiet DeLuxe]

"Do you wanna find hell with me?"


Jesse is addicted to images and currently Danzig. I don't think she would stick to one label of art making, but I can tell you that she is an amazing photographer, purely from an observational standpoint.

look . . .

Thursday, November 26, 2009













Portrait of Charles Batchelor, The first photograph ever taken with incadescent lamps. 1879

This and more in the US Department of Interior Image archives, HERE.

















Explore more images at the New York Public Library Digital Gallery, HERE.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving from From Here to There!

Monday, November 23, 2009

Helena Kvarnström


Website

But does it float



LINK

Elijah Gowin


Elijah Gowin, Of Falling and Floating

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Whats in store from the Impossible Project:

Seafair Megayacht is basically art on a boat






from the website
"SeaFair is the world's first mobile megayacht venue and the fourth largest privately owned yacht in the United States. Groundbreaking in scale, ingenuity and style, the yacht - which remains dockside during each event - pairs international fine art, jewelry and collectables with harbor view dining and special events in cities along the eastern seaboard."

much much more here

15 Year Gallery Artist Group Exhibition : ACME


Miles Coolidge
Hedge, 2009
pigment inkjet print

15 Year Gallery Artist Group Exhibition
November 21 - December 19 2009

ACME
6150 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90048

Fork whets Pasadena's artistic appetite -- latimes.com

Fork whets Pasadena's artistic appetite -- latimes.com

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Julia Fullerton-Batten


Website

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Polaroid Coming Back From the Dead!

Read more here.

Peabody Museum Collections Online



















(Japanese samurai in colorful armor, albumen print with applied color, circa 1865–1875. )

Explore the Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology Collections Online, HERE.

Benedict Redgrove















Benedict Redgrove, HERE

Fonville Winans















(Fonville Winans, Mardi Gras Revelers)

Wikipedia on Fonville Winans: HERE
Images! HERE

Five Point Reading @ workspace TONIGHT

The Five Points Readings are a semi-frequent series hosted by workspace. Five Points is a showcase for all literary forms and beyond. The series is organized by Kate Wolf and Nikki Darling. Reading include refreshments and a brief intermission.

Thursday, November 19, 2009, 8 pm
In Honor of the Closing of Blueboy: Hedi El Kholti | Sarah Wang | Margaret Wappler. Organized by Kate Wolf and Nikki Darling.

workspace is located in Lincoln Heights at 2601 Pasadena Ave, Los Angeles, 90031

31 Women in Art Photography - early submission deadline TOMORROW



LINK

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

My Story Workshops: Portland, Oregon







"My Story is a non-profit arts organization based in Portland, Oregon. We design and facilitate photography workshops that put cameras in the hands of young people. Photography is a uniquely accessible medium that empowers young people to express what's most important in their lives.

Our workshops build young people’s confidence and offer them new ways of sharing and understanding each other’s experiences. The youth we serve gain a strong sense of their own identity, a meaningful connection to their community, and an opportunity to share their stories with the world.

About Our Workshops

We partner with schools and community organizations in designing projects that engage the interests and experience of young people. Previous My Story workshops have included autobiographical projects, community projects, and photographic dream narratives.

Each of our workshops includes a presentation of young people’s work to the community in the form of a gallery show, a public art installation, or a printed publication."

For more information, go HERE.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Block Party


Block Party is a one-night tour of contemporary art exhibitions in non-traditional spaces, including apartments, studios, and storefronts. Organized by Daniel Ingroff and Paul Pescador, the event will occur November 21, 2009 from 6-10 pm and will feature exhibitions in Highland Park, Lincoln Heights, and Mt. Washington. Block Party is bicycle friendly, and accessible via Metro Gold Line.

Website

HEY MAN, YOU'RE SAVED at Monte Vista

HEY MAN, YOU'RE SAVED
November 21 - December 6, 2009

Opening reception – Sunday, November 22, 5-8 pm

Monte Vista is proud to present Hey Man, You’re Saved, a group exhibition of new work by nine insightful and diverse artists from the USC Roski School of Fine Arts. Operating between the ideal world of the concept and the structured site of the gallery, the work of these artists manifests through different mediums to explore appropriated sound and imagery, photographic process, fantastical and constructed landscapes, and the flux of identity. Hey Man, You’re Saved. So come in and be rescued from the monotony of visual consumption. Let’s get saved!

Website

Sunday, November 15, 2009



Hans Richter! more exloring at UBUWEB, HERE

Saturday, November 14, 2009

MOCA Celebrates 30 Years: Free Admission Sunday Through Friday

MOCA--the Museum of Contemporary Art--opened 30 years ago in Los Angeles. To celebrate the anniversary, the museum opens its largest installation tomorrow, featuring more than 500 works from more than 200 artists from its own permanent collection.

The new exhibition features a comprehensive look at contemporary art history from the past 70 years, including pop art, abstract expressionism and photography. Highlighted artists and works include: Jackson Pollock’s Number 1, 1949 (1949); Willem de Kooning’s Two Women with Still Life (1952); Alberto Giacometti’s Tall Figure II and Tall Figure III (1960); Roy Lichtenstein’s Man with Folded Arms (1962); Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Six Crimee (1982) and Edward Ruscha’s Chocolate Room (1970-2004).

To find out more, click HERE.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Musica Obscura

Heres a little play on words.


I've noticed that photography and music pressed on vinyl seem to hold hands quite often. The other day I came across a website that might be interesting to those of you with an inclination towards this - warmer sounding way of life.
This person is devoted to finding odd records or at least posting them. I connected immediately because I have a similar fascination with odd records, but more for the amazing cover art, than the odd or "lost in the heat of fashion" music that is found on these discs.

DSC_0058 by you.


Who wants a an ENLARGER

Yeah! some free shit!
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/zip/1463389687.html

go out there and be all the thrift you can be.

Between the Surface // Art Harvest LA



Between the Surface / Art Harvest LA
Curated by: Alexis Hudgins, Laura Kim
Stephen Cohen Gallery : 7358 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036

Opening reception: Saturday, November 14, 4 - 10 pm

Between the Surface is a photographic exchange in response to the use of beauty within contemporary image making. Among other participating Los Angeles photographers, Calvin Lee both reveals and dismantles constructs present within imagery found in daily life, resulting in photographs that are not so readily consumable. In her piece from the series Nami, Kelly Kleinschrodt re-photographs images of waves, engaging with the photographic surface while simultaneously denying the viewers' ability to dismiss its status as a reproduction. Also joining this conversation: Alison J Carr, Gilda Davidian, Elyse Graham, Greg J Hayes, Alexis Hudgins, Ivan Iannoli, Ian James, Laura Kim, Sidonie Loiseleux, Lakshmi Luthra, Joanne Mitchell, Job Piston, Maria Schriber, Katie Shapiro, April Totten, Lindsay Tunkl, and Katrina Umber.

Find out more HERE.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Library of Congress














"We've been acquiring photos since the mid-1800s when photography was the hot new technology. Because images represent life and the world so vividly, people have long enjoyed exploring our visual collections. Looking at pictures opens new windows to understanding both the past and the present. Favorite photos are often incorporated in books, TV shows, homework assignments, scholarly articles, family histories, and much more.

The Prints & Photographs Division takes care of 14 million of the Library's pictures and features more than 1 million through online catalogs. Offering historical photo collections through Flickr is a welcome opportunity to share some of our most popular images more widely."

(Image Rothstein, Arthur,, 1915-, photographer, HERE)
Lose yourself in the Library of Congress Flickr photostream, HERE

I LOVE THAT PHOTO














ILOVETHATPHOTO.NET is an online photography magazine. Check out images, interviews and more, HERE.

(image, Jens Windolf)

John Gerrard













'Sentry (Kit Carson, Colorado) 2009' depicts a brilliant red oil derrick stooping repetitively to the earth to draw oil to the surface.

'Sentry' is the brand name of the pump, clearly visible on a large badge on the arm of the machine. The work is designed to function within a temporal space identical to our own – that is to say, the scene progresses through an ongoing chronology and constantly changing play of light that runs, accurately, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

You can see this work at the Hirshhorn, November 5, 2009 to May 31, 2010.

Visit John Gerrard's work, HERE

The Hirshhorn, HERE

Mitch Epstein















Mitch Epstein's photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including New York's Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Epstein's seven books include the recent retrospective monograph, Mitch Epstein: Work (Steidl, 2006), Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988 (Steidl 2005), Family Business (Steidl 2003), which received the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award.

Epstein's Website, HERE

Steidl(ville), HERE

GOLDEN AGE


















Golden Age is a concept shop that sells publications, music, apparel and other editioned works created by artists. Golden Age makes a statement about an alternative mode of making and selling art; that it can be straightforward, accessible, and moderately priced.

Golden Age was established in 2007 by Marco Kane Braunschweiler and Martine Syms.


For more radness like the above image from the book by Nicholas Gottlund - Plain and Fancy, go HERE.

University of California Riverside


















Smoke and Mirrors
September 26, 2009 - January 02, 2010

Pictures from potatoes? Before mass produced subtractive color film became available in the 1930's, the Autochrome was the favorite color method of professional photographers and amateur artists. First sold in 1907, and invented by the Lumière brothers, simultaneous inventors of the moving picture with Edison, the Autochrome process used miniscule grains of potato starch dyed red, blue, and green to create a chromatic screen through which to capture color with an ease never before possible.

See the show, look at other fascinating things, HERE.
(Image: W. Edwin A. Gledhill, 1914, autochrome)

The Sympsychograph!















David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, published an article (1896) in Popular Science Monthly describing the discovery of a new form of photography that he called Sympsychography. Starr explained that it allowed invisible brain waves to be made visible on a photographic plate -- similar to the way in which invisible X rays produce an image on a photographic plate.

Learn about this joke and see other hoax images, HERE.

PRINT SOCIETY


















PRINT SOCIETY
Print Society is an open, free virtual marketplace for prints and original artwork online. Our goal is to empower galleries to sell more art, build relationships with many thousands of new art buyers online, and enable art fans everywhere to find and spread your art online while still giving your gallery complete control of your artwork. The power of the social web has been proven many ties over, and Print Society is making it easy for your gallery to take advantage of it, connect with art buyers everywhere, and build a following.

Sell art, buy art, HERE.

ROYAL ROAD TEST 1967















ROYAL ROAD TEST 1967
"Basically some time in 1966 the artist Ed Ruscha, his buddy writer and musician Mason Williams ('Classical Gas') and the photographer Patrick Blackwell took Highway 91 out of Los Angeles into the desert in a a 1963 Buick LaSabre. Getting up to 90 miles per hour on a deserted road with Ed Ruscha driving, Mason Williams (designated thrower) ejected a Royal Typewriter from the window and Patrick Blackwell photographed the incident including shots of the scattered parts and the keys." (via bookride)

FInd this and other rare books, HERE.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Emma Thompson curates art installation based on story of woman forced into sex slavery

Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present


An NYT review.

And slideshow.

Two friends/artists I adore.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

LA Times art review 'Locating Landscape' @ Sam Lee Gallery














Sharon Mizota reviews "Locating Landscape" at Sam Lee Gallery.
Article in the L.A. Times can be found here.

Noah Sheldon @ Cherry & Martin





































opening reception is Saturday, November 7th, 2009 from 6-9pm.
More info @ Cherry & Martin

"The First Six Years" @ Western Project Opening Tonight









Opening Reception @ Western Project - Saturday, November 7, 5 - 8 PM
Featuring many artists including Joe Schmelzer, Arne Svenson & Eric Freeman.

More info @ Western Project

Friday, November 6, 2009

Heather Rasmussen: Women In Photography














Heather Rasmussen

DeconstructConstruct
Solo Showcase at Women In Photography :: Nov. 3- 23, 2009

Check it out, HERE.

(Untitled. (M/V Excelsior, Koln, Germany, March 2007). 2008)

Thursday, November 5, 2009









I can't get enough of Sarah Palmer's work. Go HERE, HERE and HERE.

Exactitudes


comparison's to august sander, etc--- most interesting thing is the website.

http://www.exactitudes.com/