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Edward Colver’s exhibition and book titled, Blight at the End of the Funnel, are epic explorations.  The 200-page book and the exhibition examine the artist’s creative life from his many years documenting the punk music scene in Southern California, to his evocatively witty and poignant assemblages.  The exhibition will feature 20 selected photographs and 15 assemblage works in the Grand Central Main Gallery, while the Grand Central Project Room features an original installation. The 200-page book, co-published by Last Gasp Press (San Francisco) and Grand Central Press (Santa Ana), is available in both hard and soft cover editions and feature more than 300 black-and-white and color images. Mick Farren, Mat Gleason, Larry Reid, and Jocko Weyland contributed essays for the book.

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Iva Hladis was born in the Czech Republic in 1965. At fifteen, she was associated with “Charter 77″, an underground political group that championed human rights in Russian-occupied Czechoslovakia. Her early work reflected these political activities. More recently she has begun a series called Origins Extinct, with an ecological message. Ginkgo leaves are suspended on cast away computer memory boards. The interplay of fine gold wires, glass seed beads and living energy make for an interesting comparison and the work raises questions about the permanence and delicacy of nature. The work is exceptionally well-crafted.

650 A South Ave. 21, Los Angeles, CA 90031
 

August 3-30, 2006

Monday, August 21, 2006
8pm (Door opens around 7:30pm)

Supernature.cc and Atelier Zero present: Monday Film Night at Art Share

A free film screening of ORPHEUS (”Orphee”, 1950) by Jean Cocteau;

and various cuts from THE BLOOD OF A POET (1930) by Jean Cocteau; UN CHIEN
ANDALOU (1929) by Luis Bunuel; and L’AGE D’OR (1930) by Salvador Dali

*Programmed by: Supernature.cc (supernature.cc); and Atelier Zero
(soniclady.livejournal.com)

@ Art Share Los Angeles
801 E 4th Place, Downtown LA CA 90013

For directions, call Daniel at Art Share 213.687.4278

There are only 96 seats available. First come first served base. Bring
your own brown bag.

MONDAY FILM NIGHT AT ART SHARE, a community-based free film screening and
discussion event is in part sponsored by Art Share http://artsharela.org
and LARABA (Los Angeles River Artists Business Association, www.ladad.com)

To subscribe a monthly film screening announcement, please register at
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/artfilmla/ or email to Fumiko Amano
mailto:atleierzero@belairmail.net

LONDON. The crime writer Patricia Cornwell has promised to donate 82 works by the artist Walter Sickert to the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is part of Harvard University. This massive collection, worth millions of dollars, was assembled while Ms Cornwell was writing Portrait of a Killer, published in 2002. The controversial book concludes that Sickert was Jack the Ripper, who brutally murdered prostitutes in London’s East End in 1888.

The Art Newspaper can reveal that the promised donation is a result of contacts developed recently, after the publication of the original edition of Portrait of a Killer.

Ms Cornwell lives not far from Harvard, just outside Boston, and knows Marjorie Cohn, who was acting director of the Fogg Art Museum in 2003. Ms Cohn introduced the crime writer to staff at the Fogg’s Straus Center for Conservation, to see if they could assist her investigation into a connection between Sickert and Jack the Ripper.

Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission announces 2006/2007 grants totaling $108,000 awarded to 16 local cultural organizations and artists.
The grants program is designed to bring the creative process into classrooms, support the work of individual artists and sustain the growth of Pasadena’s cultural institutions. 

The Arts & Culture Commission funded the top applicants in each of four categories: Individual Artists, Art and Culture I, Art and Culture II, and Arts Education Partnership.  

Individual Artists grants of up to $5,000 each were awarded for career development through the support of exhibitions, performances or special projects.  This year’s recipients are Stephen Berkman for his photographic project entitled “Between Two Worlds” that seeks to reconcile the genres and ideals of 19th century photography with the present; Cheryl Connely for her one-woman show “A Tribute to the Women of Jazz” showcasing jazz artists and their contribution; Daniel Douke for a comprehensive, color-illustrated catalog of his art featuring approximately 35 major paintings produced  

from 1975 to the present; and Bia Goyotto for “Conversation Piece,” a large-format, photographic retrospective that will feature various groups in Pasadena working collectively toward a common goal.

Show your work at our gallery in our Un-Juried Show: Snap to Grid. In our third annual exhibition of this kind participants each upload one image to be printed on high quality paper and hung in a grid in our gallery. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.

After the exhibition the images and artist information will be available to view in our artist portfolios. Artwork for future exhibits will be selected from the portfolios, and will also be available for review by area gallerists, curators and arts journalists. The ultimate exhibit. The ultimate resume builder. Everybody wins!

Entry fee $30US. Proceeds benefit gallery programs.

Show is international, open to all geographical locations.

Entrants submit one JPEG file of original work up to 3mb. All styles of 2D artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Digital video stills and screen shots of web/new media are acceptable.

SNAP TO GRID: the UN-Juried Show
Every Entry Shown!
September 14-October 7
Opening Reception Thursday September 14, 7-9pm
Deadline for entries: August 27, 2006
Entry fee is $30US.
Click here to register: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=113493

As part of NIGHT VISION: MOCA After Dark, Los Angeles-based Artist/Film curator, Fumiko Amano presents: “Poetic Collaborators,” an evening of short films, including “THE COLLABORATORS,” which features two of the most influential artists who collaborated with Robert Rauschenberg, composer/performer John Cage and choreographer/dancer Merce Cunningham. Amano has chosen very rare short films that feature the most innovative and poetic minds of the era.  One screening only.  Total running time: 47 minutes.
 
About the Films:
- THE COLLABORATORS (1983, 25 min. A KETC Television interview moderated by David Vaughan), featuring an informal dialogue among Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg.  This film highlights their unique collaborations in modern dance - Sound by John Cage, Costume and Set design by Robert Rauschenberg, and choreography by Merce Cunningham.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
Ahmanson Auditorium
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Contact: Programmer, Fumiko Amano
mailto:atelierzero@belairmail.net
310-418-5425
For information, call 213.621.1734 or visit http://moca.org/nightvision

is pleased to announce its major exhibition for the fall of 2006. Conceived and organized by RAM Senior Curator Peter Frank and RAM Associate Director Andi Campognone, “Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1950-1980” provides a succinct but thorough survey of non-objective painting in southern California during the postwar decades – the thirty years during which Los Angeles (and its surrounding region) came of age as a major American art center – and began its emergence into the international art scene.

“Driven to Abstraction” goes on view on August 26, 2006. The gala reception, with many of the artists in attendance, will be held on Thursday, September 7, from 6 to 9 p.m. The Museum is offering a free coach ride from Bergamot Station to Riverside and back for the night of the Gala on a first reserved basis.  The exhibition will remain on view until October 14.

Riverside Art Museum
3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA  92501
Contact: Andi Campognone, Associate Director
Daniel Foster, Director
Peter Frank, Senior Curator
(951) 684-7111, ext. 306, fax (951) 684-7332
E-mail, mailto:acampognone@riversideartmuseum.org
Web site, http://www.riversideartmuseum.org

is pleased to announce its major exhibition for the fall of 2006. Conceived and organized by RAM Senior Curator Peter Frank and RAM Associate Director Andi Campognone, “Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1950-1980” provides a succinct but thorough survey of non-objective painting in southern California during the postwar decades – the thirty years during which Los Angeles (and its surrounding region) came of age as a major American art center – and began its emergence into the international art scene.

“Driven to Abstraction” goes on view on August 26, 2006. The gala reception, with many of the artists in attendance, will be held on Thursday, September 7, from 6 to 9 p.m. The Museum is offering a free coach ride from Bergamot Station to Riverside and back for the night of the Gala on a first reserved basis.  The exhibition will remain on view until October 14.

Riverside Art Museum
3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA  92501
Contact: Andi Campognone, Associate Director
Daniel Foster, Director
Peter Frank, Senior Curator
(951) 684-7111, ext. 306, fax (951) 684-7332
E-mail, mailto:acampognone@riversideartmuseum.org
Web site, http://www.riversideartmuseum.org