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Nancy Buchanan and; Joseph Santarromana Present in association with Phantom Galleries LA:
The Long Weekend
Installations and Performances
Jordan Biren and Corrina Peipon, Ashley McLean Emenegger, MaryLinda Moss and Nikii Henry, Danial Nord, Cielo Pessione & John O'Brien, Astra Price, Natasa Prosenc, Joseph Santarromana & William Roper, Evelyn Serrano, Suzanne Siegel, Kyungmi Shin & Todd Gray
Organized by Nancy Buchanan & Joseph Santarromana
Phantom Galleries LA in Pasadena
680 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena 91101
Friday, March 28, Saturday March 29, Sunday March 30
7 to 10 pm
For information:
Liza Simone
Phantom Galleries LA Executive Director
PhantomGalleriesLA.com
213.626.2854
Examining themes of fashion and consumption, we will present durational performances and installation works in this former furniture store's windows. Questions regarding the relationship of art and commerce today are myriad, and while there are no simple answers, most observers agree that there are many troubling implications of the influences of speculation, branding and celebrity on the current climate. Giving away the aesthetic experience through such a temporary event is a return to earlier, more idealistic times, yet placing the work within a shopping district anchors it to the realistic present. We imagine this to be an exciting event which will attract art audiences, as well as provide an unusual experience to passers-by.
Jordan Biren and Corrina Peipon present a tableau/performance, "The Exchange of the Avant-Garde" inspired by quotes taken from a recent Norman Klein discussion of the late Jean Baudrillard:
"...avant-garde strategies are now central to the branding of all products..."
"...The simulacrum was simply the original itself. It had emerged as the glowing center of all global branding...It was simply the mood that sold anything. "
The tableau represents the "look" of a business transaction, while an inner dialogue belies conflicted psychological realities of personal negotiation through a world of branded transactions. With the supporting text contradicting the appearance of the action, only the image of the event remains, an image meant to draw attention to the presumptions, or "branded" recognition, of what is taking place. A search for what defines in what we see that which we are told we are seeing. _
Nancy Buchanan's "3 Fates" sees myth reduced to marketing; throughout cultural history, sacred and mythic women have appeared in threes, sometimes also merging into one mythic figure. In Greek mythology, the three Fates personified destiny and controlled the thread of life from birth to death (and beyond). The Greek word moira (_____) translates as a part or portion—and so, one's fate is the part one is destined to play in life. While their forerunners were draped in white, could the gowns worn by these fashionable "Fates" hint at what lies beyond fashion? Siren-red satin, prison-jumpsuit orange, camouflage (with glitter).
In Ashley McLean Emenegger's "Judgment Day," colorful felt cut out dolls hang in the balance above a miniature, faux mythological environment, the Garden of Eden meets a metaphoric apocalyptic collapse, where the yearning for sincere expression clashes with the expectation and imposition of compliance to the contemporary notion of aesthetics. Beckoned by the allure and idealization of the Promised Land below, the dolls, both identical and unique, are naturally confused by the conundrum of self declaration versus the desire to fit in.
MaryLinda Moss collaborates with Nikii Henry to create a Performative Installation. Through the evening figures moving through space will leave an imprint, a record of the presence of the body in the world. Using gauze and plaster, 'clothing" will be formed on the body. As the body moves on, it's image is left behind to create a record of the journey through time and space
Danial Nord addresses the troubling relationships between art and commerce, and the implications and influences of speculation, branding and celebrity on the current art-making climate. His inspiration comes from Hollywood's historical misrepresentation of artists, and overheard dialogues between dealers and potential clients at recent Art Fairs. Nord's installation centers on a projected clip from the film "On the Town" which shows a ballerina as an artist, described in the film as "the perfect urban woman", making a painting.
Cielo Pessione & John O'Brien create a tableau in which two personages appear in the dark at the center of the space, like a players in a theatre. The female personage will have a pile of rags or fashion magazines under her She could be a Queen, he a Poet. Each has a different style of dress, which means different ways to live and to consider the capitalism of attire.
Astra Price addresses what food we have and what food we use. Inspired by constantly seeing fruit trees that have gone unharvested and unused, this two-part work will repurpose unused domestic fruit in two phases. On night one, she will process this food; juice, simple salad, etc… and serve it to the people on the streets. Given the city of Pasadena's origin having strong ties to citrus production, this work addresses some issues of site specificity, but can just as easily be applied to larger concepts of consumption and waste.
Natasa Prosenc's installation, "Innocence – Dissolved" metaphorically performs the impasse of fast lane consumerism wrapped into the ideology of progress; the discarded toys suffocating in the thickened gooey mass of the past embodied emotional investment, that has nowhere else to go except release into obsession with possession and consumption. As our environment is cluttered with an unprecedented excess of material objects, our culture witnesses a steadily dissolving ability to infuse these objects with emotion. It is this emotional investment that animates our relationship with objects and with materiality as such. Now that this emotional link is loosening, our world is changing. These old-fashioned toys, once brimming with the energy from a child's power of imagination and warmth of her touch are now discarded, as are the imaginative and emotive habits that go along with them.
—Media and film theoretician Maja Manojlovic
Joseph Santarromana & William Roper reprise their 2007 "Malambing Thang in which the artists contemplated the nature of desire and longing and how these emotional states create and/or affect the perception of ones identity. In the current 'Malambing Thang (Live),' these same issues of longing, desire and identity attempt to play themselves out as pure commodity. Viewers on the street will see the backs of a group of people in the video projection and will have to look around the projection to view the live performers.
Evelyn Serrano invites viewers to a session of dysfunctional, mid-air storytelling, where the "truth" is spinned, Serrano has engaged a sign spinner to manipulate a short poem exploring connections between the spectacle of corporate identity, the branding of culture and the contemporary choreography of meaning.
Suzanne Siegel once shopped for chairs at this very furniture store – she recalls that they were expensive and the salespeople had attitude. Siegel's "Shopping Expedition" references memories of shopping trips to the city (Boston) as a child and also nostalgia for a gentler consumer experience.
Kyungmi Shin & Todd Gray will create a performance and a video projection piece for "The Long Weekend" during the performance night, Todd will be installed in the window space and drum for the duration of the evening; this drumming will trigger a random choice of short video projection sequences created by Kyungmi of Kumasi market in Ghana. The Kumasi market is the largest open-air market in West Africa, and the video was shot walking around the market.
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About the artists:
JORDAN BIREN has recently resumed his long dormant performance practice to augment over two decades of work in single channel video. In both video and perfomance, his work considers permutations of meaning behind narrative articulation. He teaches Video Art at Cal State University San Bernardino.
Nancy Buchanan addresses issues of power and money in her work, taking the form of video, drawing, collage, and installation. She is faculty of Film/Video at CalArts.
Todd Gray has exhibited his photo based work internationally and is represented in the permanent collections of museums and universities here and abroad. Gray maintains studios in both Inglewood, California and Takoradi, Ghana.
Ashley McLean Emenegger is by tradition an assemblage artist whose work questions established "absolutes", reveres and summons the feminine, and speaks to the tender parts of the soul. Her felt installation work also contends with the issues of absolutes versus personal mythology but in a more humorous manner with vibrant color, child-like media, and less subdued irreverence.
MaryLinda Moss delves into the ephemeral, the transitional, the transformative in ourselves, the vulnerable point from which we come to a new awareness of self. Her sculpture relates to the body and its processes, and has a unique quality in its use of organic matter in conjunction with other materials. Her sculptural and installation pieces are an abstracted embodiment of our emotional and spiritual experiences often relating to the cycles and elements of the natural world.
Danial Nord's work critiques the influence of consumerism and commercial media in our overstimulated environment. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Nord studied at the Tyler School of Art and the NYU Center for Digital Multimedia. This past year he exhibited solo projects at HAUS and Fringe in Los Angeles.
John O'Brien was born in Sagamihara, Japan; he currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California and Umbria, Italy. His work has shown itself to bear an effective confluence of diverse attitudes and disciplines. Installation, video, performance, sculpture, painting and drawing come together in an artistic practice pointed at the investigation of objects and their significance to us. His practice encompasses studio art, public art, art writing and curatorial work.
Cielo Pessione was born in Rome Italy, she currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California and Umbria, Italy. After finishing her art degree at the Liceo Artistico, she completed her University studies with a doctorate in Modern Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome. She works in the visual arts (fiber arts, installation and printmaking) and works with performance in both traditional and experimental settings.
Astra Price is a new media artist interested in exploring the non-static
world in art and life. Currently she gives shape to her explorations through
video in a variety of forms including improvisation, installations and
single channel work and has been recently been focusing on concerns of food
in her kitchen and in her art.
Natasa Prosenc is an internationally acclaimed visual artist whose work challenges the conventions assigned to video art and narrative film. By escaping the categories her visual concepts tap into the preconscious sentient self prior to all thought and theory.
William Roper is an artist working in the disciplines of music, theater and the visual arts. He eagerly awaits the return of The Great Waschbär.
Joseph Santarromana's work is biographical, addressing the perception and construction of identities. His work has been exhibited internationally and he is currently teaching at California State University in Long Beach and the University of California in Riverside, He also runs a video art DVD Publishing company: www.system-yellow.com.
Evelyn Serrano is a Cuban artist, mother, and independent curator currently living in Los Angeles County, California. She is also the Assistant Director of Programs at the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP). She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Serrano feels honored to have worked with talented groups of visual artists, writers and actors for several exhibitions and art events she has curated both nationally and internationally.
Kyungmi Shin is an installation artist whose work weaves the language of photoraphy, sculpture, painting and video. She studied at SF Art Institute & UC Berkeley, and currents lives and works in Los Angeles and Ghana.
Suzanne Siegel is an assemblage artist whose work focuses on social/feminist concerns. She has been exhibiting locally and nationally for thirty years.
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Malibu Let The Funshine Pop-up Ely's Yard Truman’s Brewery London Attractive Ladies One in Black with Cowboy Boots #LetTheFunshine #Malibu
Michael looks like a freakin' rock star. This was shot with a Nikon 180mm manual focus lens put on my Canon with an adapter ring. The thing I primarily learned through shooting with this setup was that trying to quickly and accurately focus something like this in the tiny viewfinder of a crop body yields results that are very much hit and miss. Not an ideal setup, but workable to an extent.
A Piece of Today No. 186
PopUp Durham is like the American Underground for food and retail - a low-cost incubator for new businesses and ideas.
For 10 days only, Mark Free from Brother Baba Budan is curating the Black Coffee Popup Shop at the Somewhere Gallery on Little Collins.
Serving black coffee only with beans from an extensive collection of Melbourne's roasters the idea is to experiment with brewing methods and putting espresso, milk & sugar on hold for a bit and re-discover the flavours of pure black coffee.
I was there today helping out and will be there tomorrow, Wednesdasy August 10th, come on down and say hi! It's awesome and it won't last.
For 10 days only, Mark Free from Brother Baba Budan is curating the Black Coffee Popup Shop at the Somewhere Gallery on Little Collins.
Serving black coffee only with beans from an extensive collection of Melbourne's roasters the idea is to experiment with brewing methods and putting espresso, milk & sugar on hold for a bit and re-discover the flavours of pure black coffee.
I was there today helping out and will be there tomorrow, Wednesday August 10th, come on down and say hi! It's awesome and it won't last.
Having fun with my flamingos. I used the Hero Arts Layered Flamingo on an altered 3D Pop up cut file from Lori Whitlock to make a beach scene.
Hero Arts:
"Flamingo Color Layering" CL962
Silhouette Cut File:
Design ID # 134162 "Pop Up Box Card Dinosaur" by Lori Whitlock
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Let there be Light
28 Light based installations in 25 locations for 42 nights.
Pedestrian viewing, 5pm – 1 am nightly.
Let there be Light
28 Light based installations in 25 locations for 42 nights.
Pedestrian viewing, 5pm – 1 am nightly.
Photo by Dan Scott
AmericanImageGallery.com
Self Guided Art Walk. Published and online Map and Cell Phone Audio Tour guide available at DowntownLongBeachArtWalk.com and throughout Downtown Long Beach.
Dates: December 5– January 15, 2010
Artist Reception/Celebration: December 19, 2010
Locations: 390-342, 122, 106, 104, 102 E 3rd Street, Pine Ave at 3rd St, 309, 248, 246, 257 Pine Ave, 170 N Promenade, The Pike at Rainbow Harbor 81 Pine Ave, 150 Bay Street, 21 & 24 Aquarium way.
Media Contact:
Contact: Liza Simone, Executive Director, Phantom Galleries L.A., 213.626.2854. Liza@phantomgalleriesla.com
Long Beach, CA: Phantom Galleries L.A. brightens up this holiday season by invigorating the streets of Downtown Long Beach with 28 light-based art exhibitions that illuminate 25-plus vacant storefront windows along Downtown Long Beach’s Pine Avenue, East 3rd Street, Promenade and The Pike at Rainbow Harbor.
Just after sundown on December 5, Phantom Galleries L.A. will switch on Let There Be Light, a stellar display of artists and art installations, including video, neon, and kinetic light sculptures.
Let There be Light hosts an impressive array of 28 artists, both emerging and renowned, including: Richard Ankrom (neon sculpture), Kent Anderson Butler (video), Laddie John Dill ( Neon and Sand installation), Nancy Braver (sculpture/installation), Enrique Chiu (neon), Susan Chorpenning (site-specific installation), McLean Fahnestock (site specific installation) , Candice Gawne (neon), Richard Godfrey (Sculpture of light and Movement), Parichard Holm (video installation) Beth King (glass sculpture), Helen Lessick (site specific intallation) Karen Lofgren (light based sculpture) Justin Lui (light based sculpture) Joella March (neon), Eric Medine (video), Uudam Nguyen (Light Based Sculpture) , Rebecca Niederlander (Light based Sculpture), Christina Pierson (video instllation) Astra Price (video installation), Jeremy J Quinn (video), Deanne Sabeck (ligh based sculpture), Ben Shaffer (site specific installation), Klutch Stanaway (sculpture) Kazumi Svenson, David Svenson (neon), and Philip Vaughan (neon works and installation), Meeson Pae Yang (site specific installation).
Each exhibition and site-specific installation is accompanied by a Guide by Cell Audio Tour, allowing viewers to listen to an illuminating description of the art on view.
Highlights
Returning Phantom Galleries L.A. artist Richard Godfrey’s site-specific TwentyFourSeven installation is an exciting integration of light, space, and motion. His piece, TwentyFourSeven, is in constant rotation and infuses the storefront in a vibrant hue. (on view thru March 1, 2010)
Susan Chorpenning will present Fiat Lux IV, her most ambitious installment of her series Fiat Lux (“Let There Be Light,”), three in the series presented through Phantom Galleries L.A. The dazzling new work expands 11 ft x 35 ft, and will invigorate the space with the joyous commingling of numerous brightly-colored twinkle lights, lava lamps, collored bulb and light based works, both wall-bound and strung. (On View thru March 1)
Known for his iconic neon sculpture set atop the Hayward Gallery in London, Philip Vaughan will present the West Coast debut of “freefall” featuring a colorful cascade of neon tubes.
Nancy Braver will display an enchanting mobile-like piece comprised of die-cut luminous butterflies, made of mirror that float, swirl, and cast a warm glow.
Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles native, who was born in Long Beach, creates a new site-specific work of silica sand mix and neon.
Seven days a week, from dusk till dawn, Long Beach locals and visitors, holiday shoppers, and art-minded and art-curious alike can embark on a self-guided Art Walk and Audio Tour of Let There be Light. At each storefront, viewers can connect via cell phone with a personalized message from the exhibiting artist or curator through the Guide by Cell Audio Tour, presented in partnership with The Long Beach Redevelopment Agency.
Trifold map of the exhibition sites are available at various Downtown Long Beach restaurants, vendors, hotels, as well as at various exhibition locales. Maps may also be downloaded from DowntownLongBeachArtWalk.com or PhantomGalleriesLA.com. The exhibitions are on view 24/7 however, it is recommended that the exhibits be viewed from 5 pm- 1am order to see all the works turned on and at its best and brightest. Richard Godfrey and Susan Chorpennings work is best viewed at various times of the day.
Phantom Galleries L.A. is a Los Angeles County-based organization that transforms properties in transition into 24/7 public art galleries. Each installation forms a unique collaboration between the participating artist, curator, and property owner. Exhibits are curated by local arts organizations, galleries, independent curators, and artists.
For more information on Let There Be Light and Phantom Galleries L.A., please visit www.PhantomGalleries LA or DowntownLongBeachArtWalk.com
Special thank you to Hillcrest Development Partners, Pacifica HOA, Wokcano Restaurants, Charles Dunn Company. The Pike at Rainbow Harbor, Dev Mavi, Dr Illya Zak, and to The Downtown Long Beach Associates for helping to make programming possible.
Partners
"The Long Beach Redevelopment Agency is proud to partner with Phantom Galleries LA, not only to revive empty storefronts along our major corridors, but also to showcase the arts and build a sense of community and culture in our Downtown," said Craig Beck, Executive Director of the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency. LongBeachRDA.org
I got this popup book entitled ''Disney Frozen: A Pop-Up Adventure'' by Matthew Reinhart. I got it a couple of weeks ago from 20th Century Music Company on Main Street in Disneyland. It had just been released last month (October 2016). It came wrapped in clear plastic, with a paper insert in the back. It tells the story of Frozen in pop-up drawings depicting actual scenes from the movie. There are six double page pop-ups, with some of them transforming into two separate scenes by means of pull tabs. There are also many smaller pop-ups tucked inside of side panels next to the main pop-ups. It costs $40.
2013-04-05 - Now it's almost a ritual: every morning, if there is some sun, my cat takes a nap on the couch.
Putting a warming gel over the onboard flash reduces its output too much, so I've come up with a tinted reflector for a Warming version of the Lightscoop™ to achieve a, well, warmer look. (http://www.lightscoop.com)
Phantom Galleries LA at the Torrance Art Museum
12 GAUGE SERIES: Featuring 3-Day-Only Shows in Gallery Two
These exhibitions provide a short, sharp, rapid-fire look at current artistic practices amongst contemporary artists today, particularly in Southern California, and act as a real time barometer of art here and now.
TorranceArtMuseum.com
Phantom Galleries LA is proud to be invited to showcase current and past PGLA programming at The Torrance Art Museum. Five curators who participate in PGLA programming have been given a project area to showcase an artist and or project. A visual history documentary of past PGLA exhibits will be screened and looped.
Participants include:
Heather Carson
curated by Liza Simone.
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Alex Garcia
curated by Christine Faraci.
AlexGarciaArt.com
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Daena Title
curated by Sophia Louisa.
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Eros/thanatos
Curated by Tricia Lawless Murray
Project coordinator Stephanie Allespach
Contact:
TriciaLawlessMurray.com
Allespach.com
Eros/thanatos Artists:
Marc Adelman, Stephanie Allespach, Nancy Buchanan, Carolyn Castaño, Victor Cobo, Anne Colvin, Catherine Daly, Adrienne Fernandez, Amber Fox, Phyllis Green, Jason Hanasik, Evah Hart, Micol Hebron, Elise Irving, Zsolt Kadar, Ellina Kevorkian, Ali Kyeradyar, Tricia Lawless Murray, Elizabeth Looke-Stewart, Leigh McCarthy, Lucas Michael, Museum of Viral Memory, Claudia Parducci, Christopher Picon, Nancy Popp, Joseph Roseberry, Jessica Rosen, Amy Sampson, Pascal Shirley, Jessica Skloven, David Sotelo, Felis Stella, Casey Stroud, Karen Stuke
Dates:
March 25-27 11 am- 5 pm
Reception
Saturday March 27, 3-5pm
Location:
The Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, CA 90503
TorranceArtMuseum.com
Phantom Galleries LA_March 25-27, 2010
Phantom Galleries LA is a Los Angeles County based organization that transforms properties in transition into temporary public art galleries. Local Arts Organizations, Galleries, Independent Curators and Artists organize and curate exhibits. Phantom Galleries LA’s primary focus is to forge partnerships and exciting collaborations as we produce and organize Art Interventions that inspire community building and promote general participation by and awareness of the contemporary art scene here in Los Angeles. In doing so we strive to create a stimulating and educational environment of unexpected art experiences throughout the urban landscape, 24/7, 365 days a year.
April 1, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“Lazor Funfetti: an Epic Tale” an Exhibition by USC Roski School of Fine Arts Graduating Seniors
Exhibition dates: April 8-13, 2008
Opening reception: Friday, April 11, 2008, 6:30-10:30 pm
PASADENA--Phantom Galleries presents “Lazor Funfetti: an Epic Tale,” a collective series of works from graduating seniors from the USC Roski School of Fine Arts. The exhibition will include window installations, sculptural installations, video projections, and work in design, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking.The exhibition takes advantage of the distinctive interior of a former furniture store.
Exhibiting artists include:
Shaun Avnet, Alexis Blank, Christopher Cass, Nick Chatillon, Vance Coisman, Riko Conley, Melissa Dacher, Kimberly Epstein, Sabrina Fan, Hajime Himeno, Peggy Huang, Marie Jaen, Jazimar Jones, Theresa Keifer, Catherine Lee, Juli Lindsey, Michelle Liu, Richard Masland, Caroline McCulloch, James Meiser, Sativa Novak, Ismael Perez, Audrey Pustka, Angela Quan, Jacob Reed, Maggie Romano, Shiloh Schneider, Laura Schneiderman, Hayley Strauss, Phillip Solis, Eron Surdam, Chaney Trotter, Valerie Wei, Mona Whittemore, Doug Wilmar and Vanessa Yee.
The opening will take place on Friday, April 11, 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm inPasadena, California at the corner of East Colorado Boulevard and El Molino Avenue in the building that formerly housed Homestead House Furniture. Alternate times for viewing the show will take place between April 8 and 13. [TBA] Admission is free.
And also visit the Phantom Galleries Website atwww.phantomgalleriesla.com
Contact: Melissa Dacher & Caroline McCulloch
e-mail: lazorfunfetti@gmail.com
website: lazorfunfetti.blogspot.com/
Call the Roski School of Fine Arts for more information at 213-740-2787
Galt Popup Toy
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conception: Ingrid Siliakus.
Ce temple zen, construit en 1397, est classé au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO depuis 1994 et a la particularité d'être recouvert de feuilles d'or d'où son nom
Phantom Galleries LA and
Edgar Varela Fine Arts Closing Reception October 30, 2008
6-9pm
Edgar Varela Fine Arts and Phantom Galleries Los Angeles are proud to present:
Cuba Now: New photographic works by Meeno Peluce
October 9th– October 31st , 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday October 18th, 2008 from 7 to 11pm
Venue: Phantom Galleries Los Angeles @ PE Lofts
601 S. Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles CA, 90014
Gallery Hours: Open by appointment. Please contact Edgar Varela Fine Arts, 213.494.7608
Hosted by Traci Lords. Sponsored in part by POV Print Studios, Hpnotiq, Pama and Agua Luca
www.EdgarVarelaFineArts.com www.PhantomGalleriesLA.com
Edgar Varela Fine Arts is proud to present artists, Meeno Peluce in “Cuba Now” which will have over 20 large scale photographs of modern Cubana life as documented by the unique eye of Peluce
Meeno Peluce
Big breasts, decaying American metal 8's, chickens in pots, the stolen electricity of street carnivals, a reverence for the daily news and health care and education and the human beauty that's "turned out on conveyor belts" as Graham Green said. All of it as seen in Meeno's squares. As if they'd all been pushed like rice into latex gloves, or ghosts into empty department stores or the plush velveteen of color into a favorite easy chair, which is, mind you, is an amazing emblem of personal possession, and played out in baseball games with a taught bag of knots for a ball, and everywhere color and the decay of color into other colors, into the warm natural reclamation by nature, as if you front lawned your horse, or blued your slacks and Tata, as if you were house bound an slow and still beloved by your President C. and your deity Ch.... All of this as seen by Meeno. Cuba.
Meeno is professional photographer living and working in Los Angeles. www.MeenoPhoto.com
Edgar Varela Fine Arts is dedicated to bringing new and emerging artists to the spotlight. EVFA showroom
is located at 542 S. Alameda Street (at Palmetto St.) in Los Angeles, between 5th Street and 6th Street.
Open by appointment. For more information please contact Edgar Varela at 213 494 7608 -
info@edgarvarelafinearts.com or visit www.edgarvarelafinearts.com
Arrived in Seattle today for the GPP Pop-up event, and had a little opportunity to take a look at the city from a different perspective before things get underway tomorrow.
This is a float plan moored on Lake Union, just north of downtown. They say that Seattle has more boats per capita than any other major city in America. I don't find that hard to believe.