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Feb 19: Ruby Ray “First Wave Punk Photography” at La Luz

Ruby Ray
“First Wave Punk Photography“

February 19 – 28, 2010
Reception for the artist: Friday, February 19, 2010, 8pm – 11pm


La Luz de Jesus Gallery

4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243
www.laluzdejesus.com

Friends, collectors, and strangers know Ruby Ray’s work –even when they don’t. Ruby Ray’s iconic portrait of Beat author / Punk Avatar William S. Burroughs’ vibing, serene, Interzone menace can be seen on MySpace.  Her photo of late punk rock legend Darby Crash is the cover of Darby biography Lexicon Devil. Other photos appear in magazines, on book covers, album covers, posters. Her punk rock photography pops up uncredited on fansites and music history websites. Ruby Rays’s esoteric studies and close collaboration with musicians and artists helped spawn a current that became trance music.

Photographer, artist, and journalist Ruby Ray entered the shock wave that was the punk rock underground in 1977. Ruby became a member of seminal San Francisco punk culture magazine, Search & Destroy, documenting and fostering the emergent scene.  When Ruby criss-crossed continents on a trip to London and Egypt, S&D’s in-your-face music and culture inflammation went global. Ruby ran London-based Rough Trade Records’ San Francisco store, and sheltered their traveling bands from England.  In 1980, she co-founded with v.vale the more deeply focused alter-culture publication RE/Search magazine. During this first San Francisco era, the RE/Search studio on Romolo Street in San Francisco’s North Beach became an international locus of cross-pollination, one of those places where artists feel the freedom and compulsion to redefine themselves and their genres.

An early multi-media artist, Ruby found inspiration in haunted post-industrial cityscapes, insect wings, and the golden thread of the mystic. Investigations compelled her to lie in the sarcophagus of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh…read widely…decipher hieroglyphs…work with a Gurdjieff group.  Meeting up with industrial music mavens Factrix, she added live, multi-image projections to the influential industrial band’s performances. In the first exhibition of her original anti-art, Nart, shown in 1980 at San Francisco’s Target Video, Ruby would project new work in a new medium: stereo slides. That same summer she helped create the flaming “debutante ball” summer solstice celebration, held under a freeway near the railroad tracks, and shut down by police.

In the early 80’s, Ruby Ray migrated again, becoming part of the next international art explosion –New York City’s East Village. In the East Village, she exhibited photographs and continued experiments with live, multimedia projections of her growing body of work. Joining with musical collaborators to create the group Saqqara Dogs, Ruby’s lightshows mixed her multi-image photography with collaged found materials. Investigating how altered states are evoked with colors, symbols, and sonic instigators, the Saqqara Dogs performance introduced a novel music and visual experience fans claimed generated powerful synesthesia. Saqqara Dogs combined psychedelia with Middle Eastern rhythms to produce a new music event which later morphed into rave culture.  While SDs’ hallucinogenic music and visual onslaught was presented in dives and museums across the U.S., the band gained a notorious fan. In 1987, Andy Warhol featured an interview and performance of the group on his New York-based TV series, Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes.

After the birth of her son in 1988, Ruby took sabbatical for subtle energy and consciousness studies, learning the healing arts.  She returned to photography with a trip to the Indian ruins of New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, and had her first solo exhibit in 2004.

For those who lived through it, for musicians and musicologists, culture critics, anthropologists and anyone who takes their inspiration with a non-sterile, extra-pointy edge, Ruby Ray is completing her photographic memoir of First Wave punk rock in California. The collection of 250 images reveals the raw, amazing California punk scene, 1977-1981. And now, new large digital photo works and a visual blog, Songs of Nart, are in progress. Ruby Ray sustains her original-issue profile:  high-functioning cultural enzyme who shows us how to keep surprising ourselves with non-virtual living.  She continues her search for mind altering images.

-Debra Xit 2008


February 11, 2010by Dionysus Records
Art, Events, Free Event, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, Silver Lake

2/5: Four person art show opens at La Luz de Jesus

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“

February 3, 2010by Dionysus Records
Atwater Village, Book reading, Events, Free Event, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, News, Stuff We Like

Mick Farren book signing and reading Jan 23 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery

Mick Farren
Zones of Chaos
Book reading accompanied by master guitarist Andy Colquhoun.


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

Mick Farren is a legendary poet, musician, author, critic, activist, countercultural icon, and one of the last true gonzo journalists. Enter his paranoid, radical, drug-addled and excruciatingly beautiful world; go to jail during the L.A. Earthquake, meet Doc Holliday and take a ride in Diabolo’s Cadillac. ZONES OF CHAOS is a maelstrom of poetry, prose, essays, lyrics, commentary, and fiction. It includes an introduction by Michael Moorcock.

Farren was the singer with the proto-punk band The Deviants between 1967 and 1969, releasing three albums. In the mid-1970s, he briefly revived his musical career, releasing the EP Screwed Up, album Vampires Stole My Lunch Money and single “Broken Statue“. The album featured fellow NME journalist Chrissie Hynde and Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson.

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!

January 13, 2010by Dionysus Records
Art, La Luz de Jesus, Photoblog, Sidebar Photoblog, Stuff We Like

Jennybird Alcantara and George Thomas art opening photos

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

January 11, 2010by Dionysus Records
Art, East Hollywood, Events, Free Event, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, News, Sidebar Photoblog, Stuff We Like, Uncategorized

Preview – George Thomas’ Mid-Century motel paintings

Here are a few of George Thomas’ pieces which will be in his show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, opening tonight at 8pm. The show will remain up until January 31.


“40 Winks”
Oil on canvas
11″ x 14″
$450.00


“Maverick”
Oil on canvas
11″ x 14″
$450.00

“Pancakes, Steaks, Salads”
Oil on canvas
11″ x 14″
$450.00

“Shadow Mountain Club”
Oil on canvas
11″ x 14″
$450.00

“Starlite Motel”
Oil on canvas
11″ x 14″
$450.00

“Starliter with Pool”
Oil on canvas
11″ x 14″
$450.00


“Tip Top”
Oil on canvas
11″ x 14″
$450.00

January 8, 2010by Dionysus Records
Art, East Hollywood, Events, Free Event, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, News, Sidebar Photoblog, Silver Lake, Stuff We Like

First art show of ’10 at La Luz: Jennybird Alcantara + George Thomas

Jennybird Alcantara – George Thomas

January 8 – 31, 2010
Artist reception: Friday, January 8, 2010,  8:00 -11:00 pm

LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243
www.laluzdejesus.com

Click here to see more images



Jennybird Alcantara “Swooning at the River of Oblivion”

In a mingling of underwater and space realms, Jennybird Alcantara’s “Swooning at the River of Oblivion” depicts characters positioned between the waking world and the world of sleep, and a continued exploration of dual nature, created with oil on wood, acrylic on paper and mixed media dolls. The works are inspired in part by the mythology of Nyx, the primordial goddess of nighttime, Morpheus the Greek god of dreams as well as a quote from a Nick Cave song that reads “You jump into the Abyss to find, it only goes up to your knees”.

Alcantara’s work has at its core a narrative; She explores the complex interconnectedness of opposites as seen through the prism of myth, fable and fantasy using the symbolism of duality to explore the connection of life and death, as well as the relationship between the beauty and cruelness of nature, that of the natural world as well as human and animal nature. The anthropomorphic qualities in her characters show the relationship of the central figure to the world she inhabits. Her inspirations come from a wide variety of sources including fairytales and fables, mythology, the flora and fauna of the natural world and freaks of nature, melancholy and classical music, Victorian customs, folk art, costuming, creepy religious statues and paintings, Symbolism, carnivals, trips down memory lane, broken dolls and objects out of place, as well as all the beautiful and sad things that could not exist one without the other, life and death and the veil in between. Alcantara attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she earned her BFA, and currently lives and works in San Francisco. http://www.jennybirdart.com

George Thomas “The Best Cars Of Our Lives”

George Thomas spent his formative years surrounded by Googie architecture, automobiles with tremendous tailfins, theme parks, advertising and old Hollywood movies  in 1950s-1960s Orange County, California and it reflects in his art. Mixing the real with the surreal, sometimes separately and sometimes in the same piece, Thomas uses oil on canvas to portray a variety of subject matter, from landscapes and floral pictures, cars, mid-century architectural portraits, and iconic allegories, the latter of which are intricate, complex, retro-futuristic and nostalgic. Thomas, a father of three, is a graduate, with honors, from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and currently lives in the high desert country of the Antelope Valley. www.artbygeorgethomas.com

January 8, 2010by Dionysus Records
La Luz de Jesus, Los Feliz, News, Stuff We Like

Vintage ephemera and toys at La Luz de Jesus Gallery

Vintage ephemera, deadstock toys, posters, patches and more from the ’30s-’60s on sale at the Vintage Xmas Bazaar runs through January 3 at La Luz de Jesus. These make perfect Xmas gifts!

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243

Just in time for Christmas, La Luz de Jesus Gallery has recruited their friend Bernie Shine of Shine Gallery to install a special vintage memorabilia exhibit and sale at La Luz De Jesus Gallery. Shine specializes in rescuing genuine vintage items in unused condition from dusty warehouses, old factories, and closed stores. Here you will find bona fide period items mostly from the 1930’s through the 1960’s, all guaranteed to be authentic and vintage. Show runs from December 4, 2009 thru January 3, 2010.

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December 15, 2009by Dionysus Records
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