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Dan Quintana, Brian Viveros “Desensitized” and Bad Otis Link “You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead” Closing Party with live music from The BillyBones. New art prints available.

Saturday, February 6, 2010, 6 – 10 pm
FREE!

CoproGallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave. T5
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-829-2156
www.copronason.com

Dan Quintana, Brian Viveros’s “Desensitized‘ & Bad Otis Link’s “You’ll be Sorry When I’m Dead“ exhibitions end next Saturday, February 6 with a closing party from 6:00 – 10:00 PM, featuring live music from the The BillyBones and more of the same excitement from the “Desensitized” opening reception. Come have one last look at this great art exhibition and all the films that were shown on opening night. All the giclee prints and the “Desensitized” poster will also be available. For those that can’t make it, the gallery now has the prints available online while they last and some great photos from the opening: www.copronason.com

The BillyBones is a punk rock band from Los Angeles, California and features Steven Williams “Billy Bones” Fortuna, formerly of The Skulls, guitarist Alex Mack, bassist Drew Milford, and drummer Alex Gomez, formerly of U.S. Bombs, The Mau Maus, The Livingstons.) The BillyBones will be premiering new material from the upcoming “The Complexity of Stupidity” album produced by Steve Fishman (Deadbeats, Bent, The Stranglers) along with Skulls favorites.

Bad Otis Link has collaborated with Billy Bones on several projects. He directed the “Night of the Living Skulls” and The Skulls “On Target” video, and Billy acted in his award-winning film “The Sugar on Top.” Link also plays sax on the new The BillyBones record.  www.myspace.com/thebillybones

Bad Otis Link “The Hunter“

Click the links for show previews:

Miran Kim “Uncomplicated Treats“
Danni Shinya Luo “Spiritual Deficiencies”
Kim Scott “Peep Holes and Magic Windows”
Transmission Atelier “If the Shadows Could March“

Feb. 5 – 28, 2009
Artist reception: Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 ~ 8 pm – 11 pm
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243
www.laluzdejesus.com

Interview with artist Danni Shinya Luo about her show “Spiritual Deficiencies“

Stinker’s Truck Stop First and Last Annual Auction.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Preview: 8:00 pm
Auction: 9:00 pm

Stinker’s Truck Stop
2939 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026-2127
(323) 661-6007

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Bobby Green (coined the Walt Disney of Los Angeles area theme bars) has decided he’s bored with the theme of Silver Lake watering hole Stinker’s Truck Stop. So, to celebrate the birth of a brand new bar, Bobby has decided to auction off all the custom designed skunk, truck stop, and 70’s themed paraphernalia from the bar. Items to be sold include the memorable skunk butts, a late 70’s Trans Am hood, skunk dioramas, actual CB radios and of course more Burt Reynolds items than anyone needs. This is the perfect opportunity for collectors of kitsch or anyone looking to outfit their “Man Zone” with that vintage White Line Fever poster or a bathroom condom machine. Part of the night’s proceeds will go to support the local animal rescue and adoption organization the Santé D’Or Foundation http://www.santedor.com/

The auction will be held Tuesday, February 9, 2010. Viewing for all items begins at 8:00 p.m. with the festive, Colt 45 infused, live auction starting at 9:00 p.m. The event will also feature giveaways such as Stinker’s air fresheners, stickers, t-shirts trucker, hats. Also on hand to entertain the crowd will be DJs and an appearance by Stinker himself.

Stinkers invites everyone to come down and enjoy spraying skunk butts and loud trucker horns!  Who knows what the next incarnation the 1933 Group will bring to their Silver Lake local.

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Hyperion Avenue and Griffith Park Blvd.. 1927

Sunday, January 24 from 5:00 – 8:00 pm
The Other Side
2538 Hyperion Avenue
(just south of Griffith Park Blvd.)
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 661-0618
NO COVER
Full bar/Full restaurant menu

An eclectic early evening cabaret/salon
with
John Fleck
Madame Pamita
pianist Lou McMullen
Dick and Jane (w/special guest Lee Joseph on bass)

plus screenings of short subjects:
“Uncle Bob” (excerpt)
directed by Robert Oppel
“My Southern Can is Mine” (short)
produced by Madame Pamita & James Gerrity.
directed by James Gerrity
“The Other Side” (promo)
directed by Jane Cantillon

www.flyingleapcafe.com

mailing list: dickandjane1(at)gmail.com

This show also features the music of Joe Wood and the Lonely Ones (Joe is a former member of TSOL) and food from the Don Chow Taco Truck!

This Saturday, January 16, 8:00-11:30 PM, Copro Gallery presents  “Desensitized” with the art of Brian Viveros & Dan Quintana. This is an incredible show for both artists and all the work is amazing. Its going to be a multi-media event in 5D with films being projected, soundtracks of bizarre music and sculptures as well as live music and costumed Desensitized girls. Everyone is encouraged to participate so please dress up in military gear like a Viveros or Quintana painting and get a free “Desensitized” poster. In gallery two, Bad Otis Link’s “You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead” which will also be in 5D with films, twisted puppets and warped art.

In a culture where we are bombarded with overwhelming visual stimuli, have we become desensitized to art? From sexual content on TV, graphic violence in the news, and flashy ads everywhere we look, obtrusive images are in constant competition for our attention. Brian Viveros and Dan Quintana are two painters whose respective backgrounds lie in creating the strong commercial imagery we see everyday, and this striking style has carried over into their fine art. Both of these artists know how to arrest your attention, and aim to captivate even the most jaded eyes.

Acting as book markers of the 20th Century, their paintings are both reflections of their own inner worlds and society at large; realms where fantasy intermingles with pop culture. Whether it be a doe-eyed beauty with a Marlboro dangling from her lips, or a Dominatrix acting as sheriff in the untamed West, in these painstakingly rendered vignettes romance battles vice and sensuality meets consumerism.

Adhering to the show’s theme, the opening reception itself will be an attack to the senses. In addition to the art on the walls, the event will feature a loop of Brian Viveros’ films “Dislandia” and “Southern,” a custom made sculpture of one of the paintings, cocktail servers costumed like the art, and the live music of Joe Wood and the Lonely Ones. Designed to open your eyes and invigorate your mind, this culmination of creativity is not to be missed.

Bad Otis Link
You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead
(More Junk for a World Out of Order)
with music by
Joe Wood and the Lonley Ones

In the words of Bad Otis Link, his new show consists of works “all done wrong, perfect for our current atmosphere.” In this show, Link revisits ink and watercolor on Bristol. “I worked with these mediums in  the ’80s and recently realized that I miss this style” states the artist, who puts a slightly different twist on the pieces, using more line work and less stipple than in his previous works. The show will also consist of acrylic on hardboard and some three dimensional pieces: puppets and experimental foam work. “You’ll be Sorry When I’m Dead…” is inspired, in title only, by a recent death hoax of a close friend and even more so, something Link’s mother always told him when he was young. Though there is no consistent theme to this show, Link’s work has (believe it or not) an environmental message. “I am somewhat of a realist, not in my art but in observation. I continue my attempts to illustrate how, as humans, we are so out of synch with the rest of the natural universe, noticing our human flaws and our collective mental illness and denials of the obvious, all that is wrong. I also like to inject odd little creature, birds (messengers in many ancient myths) and structures I would like to inhabit into the work” states Link.

Self-taught and self-educated, Link sharpened his distinct style in the late 70s through the mid 90s as one of Los Angeles premier and most notorious punk rock graphic artists. Link played saxophone in local punk bands while designing band logos, record covers, posters and producing merchandise for The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Damned, Social Distortion, TSOL, The Adolescents, Danzig, The Circle Jerks, Wasted Youth, Goldenvoice Concerts and many others. In the early 90s, he designed and published the “True Life Murderers Trading Cards” which was the first set on the subject matter and attracted mass media attention. Link’s art has appeared in countless magazines, films and his projects have been praised and equally viciously attacked in the media by moralist groups and media hungry politicians. Link is entertained by the reactions of our puritan and mentally ill American culture. Aside from an occasional art exhibition, Link currently focuses his psychotic energy on filmmaking, puppet making, clothing design and directing. www.badotislink.com

The Bullet moves to a new location on Sunset in Hollywood! Now with a huge dancefloor, intelligent lighting, live 60s projection video mixing, outside smoking and drinking area plus top mod, soul and garage DJ sounds all night!

DJs:  Dionysus Records’ DJ Lee, Soulshaker, Rick Barzell, Jason Pandora, Jackie Hoodoo and Tony the Tyger. Live performance by The Living Sickness

Saturday, January 23, 2010
Hollywood Studio Bar/Grill
6122 W. Sunset Blvd
Doors at 9pm, Full Bar, 21 and over
Free before 10pm, $10 cover after

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Saturday, January 23, 2009
6 pm – 9 pm
LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243
www.laluzdejesus.com

As a journalist In the early 1970s, Farren contributed to the UK Underground press such as the International Times, also establishing Nasty Tales which he successfully defended from an obscenity charge. He later wrote for the main stream New Musical Express, for which he wrote the article The Titanic Sails At Dawn, an analysis of what he considered the malaise afflicting then-contemporary rock music and which described the conditions that subsequently resulted in punk. To date he has written 23 novels, including the Victor Renquist novels and the DNA Cowboys sequence. His 1989 novel The Armageddon Crazy deals with a post-2000 United States which is dominated by fundamentalists who subvert the Constitution. Farren has written 11 works of non-fiction, a number of biographical (including four on Elvis Presley), autobiographical and culture books (such as The Black Leather Jacket) and much poetry.From 2003 to 2008, he was a columnist for the weekly newspaper Los Angeles CityBeat. Farren also co-wrote and edited “Bomp – Saving the World One Record At A Time,“ a chronicle of one of the most important independent record labels in modern pop hisotry.

Please join us for an evening of words and sounds. Refreshments will be served!

Photos from Jennybird Alcantara and George Thomas’ art opening at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, January 8, 2010