Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 9:00pm
Join us for SOULSIDE at Fais Do-Do in Los Angeles at 5257 West Adams Blvd.
Featuring Virginia Ann, Lee Joseph of Dionysus Records, Marv Mack and DJ Scott from Records LA. Visuals by Mystery Machine.
$5.00 before 10pm, $10 after.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
6pm – 9pm
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
(Soap Plant / Wacko )
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
info@laluzdejesus.com
www.laluzdejesus.com
Los Angeles might be the capital of conspicuous consumption, but the other cliché about “La La Land”—that it’s a cultural wasteland—couldn’t be further from the truth. For every “Extreme Makeover—Club Edition” (in which would-be impresarios continually swankify their establishments in a relentless quest to be “the” hot spot du jour), there is a well-worn drinking hole full of history, serving up a far more elusive and seductive mix of stiff drinks, loose atmosphere and keep-it-real regulars.
In Los Angeles’ Best Dive Bars, you’ll get the scoop and the poop on the city’s liveliest, lowlife n’ liquor-soaked landmarks. This essential booze bible has the lowdown on which bars serve free food, which have great—and not so great—karaoke, bars that appear in your favorite movies and much, much more. Whether you’re looking for a friendly spot where “everybody knows your name,” a filthy blackened cave where nobody ever will, a gently-gentrified hole specked with dive-obsessed hipsters or a dusty relic full of hip-replacements, you’re sure to find a spot to soak up—and get soaked in—here in these pages.
LINA LECARO is the nightlife columnist for the LA Weekly. She has been patrolling Los Angeles’ most decadent after dark dens and its grungiest grottos with equal aplomb for over twenty years (i.e. before she could actually drink legally). A born and bred Angeleno, she’s no angel when it comes to digging deep into LA’s most harrowing drunkard-approved hovels . She might prefer her cocktails sweet, but her favorite bars (and barflys) have always been anything but.
Lina will be at the event to sign her book. There will be free Sino Tequila along with other liquor and food. All dive-bar hoppers, nightlife fans and lovers of Los Angeles are welcome.
Rick Araluce, JAW Cooper, Jessica Dalva, Bonni Reid, Krystopher Sapp
June 4 – 27, 2010
Reception for the artists, June 4th 8 – 11 PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
info@laluzdejesus.com
www.laluzdejesus.com
Rick Araluce makes miniature constructions. That means he makes everything himself by hand, including the boxes that contain the collections. He’s spent years inventing methods to fashion (from scratch) a turned table leg, door hardware, a light bulb, a clock case, elaborate trim moulding, and whatever else is required to complete the illusions. Rick has created flutes less than an eighth of an inch in length, functioning miniature clocks measuring less than a quarter inch in diameter, and light switches that illuminate rooms seventeen miniature floors beneath them. No detail is sacrificed by the diminutive scale -even if those flourishes go largely unnoticed by the casual observer; however is nothing casual about the art of Rick Araluce, who makes his return to La Luz de Jesus after more than a decade abroad.
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JAW Cooper “Tarnished”
JAW Cooper’s series “Tarnished” explores the allure of imperfection. “I’ve created a world inhabited by the deformed, tainted, injured, and alien, where external imperfections are echos of internal struggle, and beauty is undeniably in the eye of the beholder. Behind every flaw is a story waiting to be discovered,” states the artist. Cooper was born in England and grew up in Africa, Sweden, Ireland, various other locations throughout Europe, and California. She has always cultivated a deep curiosity for the natural world and is inspired by forms found in nature, curio cabinets, fashion photography, and nipples in general. Cooper currently lives and works as an illustrator and gallery artist in Los Angeles, California. The artist will be in attendance.
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Jessica Dalva “Tie Strings Into Knots”
Jessica Dalva’s new series of sculptures and oil paintings is only her second featured exhibition at La Luz de Jesus, but marks one of the most anxiously awaited series of new work from an emerging artist in recent memory. The centerpiece of “Tie Strings Into Knots” is an eerie, hanging chandelier that instills a sense of wandering for home, while illuminating a lost sense of virtue. Sometimes a lamp is just a lamp. But this is not one of those times. Dalva’s marionettes and mobiles inject their surroundings with instant nostalgia via a modern craft-esthetic rooted deeply in antiquity. The artist will be in attendance.
“Gone West” was an expression used in the air force during wartime to describe a brother-in-arms who was shot down and killed in combat. When pilots gather, they often open meetings with a toast to those who have “gone west”. They face the west and drink to those who have died. West, in this case, refers to the place the sun sets and extinguishes; the metaphor is clear. This somehow softens the reality of death in a line of work rife with mortality. Bonni Reid has co-opted this expression ion titling her most recent body of paintings. Representing transformation, passage, and change, the title takes on an added, metaphysical tone, not unlike the Death card in a tarot deck. this exhibition features all new, never-before-seen work. Bonni Reid lives in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia. When not brewing her own visual concoctions, she freelances as a color designer for animation productions including six seasons of Cartoon Network’s “Ed, Edd ‘n Eddy”.
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Krystopher Sapp “Exoskeletal Engine”
Krystopher Sapp’s mixed media assemblage is a sculptural study in discarded ephemery. His workshop is a literal hereafter for broken toys, liberated fixtures, and kippered insects. Rich dioramas of recontextualized doodads transform into a steampunk nirvana of Victorian futurism, both resplendant and refined, but with a secret tinge of horror within each dark dimension. La Luz de Jesus is proud to welcome back Krystopher Sapp for his third featured exhibition, for which he’s dialed back volume but escalated detail to produce a collection of ambitious perfection. The artist will be in attendance.
featuring AZALiA SNAiL & SYLViA JUNCOSA
Monday, May 31st, 9 pm
The Echo Curio
1519 Sunset Blvd LA CA, 90026
www.echocurio.com
$5.00 cover
Joining Azalia for her LA shows will be sax players Emily St Amand Poliakoff and Anastasia Shepherd. and guitar goddess Sylvia Juncosa as part of this COOLING SYSTEM night.
“Azalia Snail has been making her uniquely sweet, viscous, noise-inflected, tempo-bending psychedelia for almost two decades, recording a dozen or so albums between 1990 and 2006 on labels including Funky Mushroom and Dark Beloved Cloud. She’s back with a disc on Silver Lake’s experimental True Classical Records, a dense haze of swooning vocals and seething synths cut by abrasive swaths of indie guitar mayhem. The music has its share of discordant moments and harsh textures, but somehow these are enveloped in a softening sheen; as Snail sings in the opening track, it is “Heavy mental/ Honeysuckle gentle.”
Neumusic review
“Azalia Snail appeared on the stage. Right away at the beginning one felt that the audience would be given a special performance, even if only for four songs. While building a pedestal with a silver cover, over which she put her little white synthesizer, this feeling was only further strengthened. Azalia Snail, who was formerly known as the “Queen of lo-fi,” did not actually need to do very much to place the audience under her spell. Already the first song, Golden Slumbers, fascinated with the typical mix of Azalia Snail church organ and psychedelic indie sounds.”
Hamburg Press review
Azalia Snail has toured the USA, Europe, Japan, and New Zealand and has jammed with Beck, The Black Heart Procession, The Grifters, Trumans Water, Low, and many other unique musical artists.
The Hukilau 2010 presents “Poly Blend” – a group art show curated by Harold Golen featuring SHAG and many others.
Shag “Mai-Kai Tiki #1” and “Mai-Kai Tiki #2″ Both: Acrylic paint on Canvas 9″ x 19″
Participating artists: SHAG, Atomic Kitty, Atomos, Bosko, Crazy Al, Dave Burke, David Parise, Dawn Fraiser, Derek Yaniger, Donnela Vitale, Doug Horne, Haikai Sarnes, Heather Watts, Joe Vitale, John Kissee, Ken Bernstein, Ken Ruzic, Lisa Petrucci. Luiz Diaz, Marc Paper Scissor, Mitch O’ Connell, Mookie, N! Satterfield, Netherland, Robb Hamell, Rod North, Sam Gambino, Scott Scheidly, Skot Olsen,The Pizz, Thorsten Hasenkamm, Tiki Tony, Tom Fowner
Opening reception
Thursday, June 10, 5 – 7:30 pm
Bahia Mar Commodore Ballroom
801 Seabreeze Blvd,
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316, USA
(954) 764-2233
www.bahiamarhotel.com
Lisa Petrucci “Miss Menehune, 2010” – liquid acrylic and envirotex on wood 14” x 8”
Tiki Kiliki Productions in association with Harold Golen presents an on-site “Hukilau” group art show, “Poly Blend” as part of the opening night of the Hukilau 2010. “Poly Blend” combines a world-wide, multi-media mix of art that is exotic, tropical, modern, and primitive, in a Mid Century Modern flavored installation. The show includes paintings, sculptures and curiosities from Africa, Asia, The Bahamas, Brazil, Easter Island, Hawaii, North America, Peru and beyond.
The name “Poly Blend” is derived from the term “Poly Pop” or “Polynesian Pop” and this group show puts into perspective how visual “exotica” is a blend of many different styles, elements, geographical, cultural and ethnic art and icons.
Harold Golen is an art collector and curator who introduced the Pop Surrealist art scene to Florida via his gallery, Harold Golen Fine Arts, in the Wynwood Art District of Miami.
Start summer off right with another all DJ Bullet dance party! Join Bullet DJs Arthur Allblack, Lee Joseph, Dan Electro, Jason Pandora,Jackie Hoodoo, Dr Ray and DJ Ladybug who will be laying down top Mod, Soul and Garage vinyl sounds all night!
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 9:00pm
Hollywood Studio bar and grill
6122 W. Sunset
Los Angeles, CA
– Big dancefloor
– Booth seating
– Intelligent lighting fx
– 60s video projections
– Outside smoking/drinking area
– Food Service til 1030pm
– $5 Jack n Cokes / $3 Stellas before 10pm
– FREE PARKING
HELP SPREAD THE WORD! INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO THIS EVENT! RSVP / INFO
Cocktail Party #5
Saturday May 22nd 8pm till Late
e3RD Lounge 734 East 3rd St. LA CA 90013
Ode to Jazz – A Classic Old Fashioned Cocktail Party in Downtown LA
Live Music by Drew Lesso
Fine Art by Erik James
MC Emmeric Konrad
Old Vintage Visuals by Terry Ellsworth
Blacklight Art by Jerico
On Thursday, May 13, in conjunction with Downtown Art Walk, “California Surf, ” a site-specific art installation by black light artist Jerico Woggon will go on display at the Museum of Neon Art – Downtown Los Angeles.
Born and raised at the beach in Summerland, California, surfing was a childhood activity that became Jerico’s passion into adulthood. Currently living in Downtown LA, Jerico still derives inspiration from images related to nature, the beach, and surfing which is a major influence in his black light art. The surfing theme will continue inside in the lobby gallery with neon works by Larry Manson, Richard Ankrom and Randy Noborikawa.
Following the MONA opening and Downtown Artwalk, Join Jerico and friends for Jerico’s Art Bar, a Thursday Night Mellow Mixer Downtown LA at Boyd Street Bar and Grill for Jerico’s Art Bar: 410 Boyd St. LA CA 90013
May 8 – May 29, 2010
Reception for the artists: Saturday, May 8, 2010, 8 pm – 11:00 pm
Copro Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave. T5
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-829-2156
CoproGallery@live.com
www.copronason.com
CUT & STITCH (18″ x 24″) Acrylic + Ink 2010
Luke Chueh’s “Beginnings / Endings (And Other Worthless Epiphanies)” bears all the stylistic stamps Chueh’s fans have come to love. Employing minimal color schemes, simple animal characters, and a seemingly endless suite of ill-fated situations, Chueh balances cute with brute, perched on the fine line between comic and tragic.
Chueh studied graphic design at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obipso where he earned a BS in Art & Design (Graphic Design concentration). Employed by the Ernie Ball Company, he worked in-house as designer/illustrator creating award-winning designs, and was featured in the design annuals of Communication Arts and Print Magazine. As if this were not enough, Chueh also created, produced, wrote, designed, edited and published “E.X.P.”, a ‘zine dedicated to the “Intelligent Dance Music (IDM)” genre. In 2003, Chueh moved to Los Angeles to further pursue a career in design, only to join the ranks of the under-employed. He resorted to painting as a way to keep both his edge and his sanity. When the Los Angeles underground art show, Cannibal Flower, invited him to exhibit at their monthly events, Chueh began his ascent into the LA art scene. Chueh has since established himelf as the arbiter of disarmingly benign menace. Ever the designer, Chueh also has a new toy coming out through Munky King. www.lukechueh.com
DECADENCE
Mari Inukai “Decadence“
Mari Inukai works in oil on canvas, and graphite and charcoal on paper to create a world straddling childhood and adulthood, sexuality and decadence, “between the choices I’ve made and where life has put me,” states the artist.
She draws a contrast between sweet and bitter, soft and hard, the yummiest chocolate and the deadliest poison. “Riding that line – that edge between the two – between the yin and the yang,” states Inukai.
A native of Nagoya, Japan, Inuaki came to the United States in 1995 to study art. She has since amassed a long list of credits including work for Sanrio, Disney, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon, as well as clothing and ceramic figure design. Her animated short, Blue and Orange, was an official selection at Sundance 2003 and was the Japanese Gran Prix winner at the Short Shorts Film Festival EXPO 2005. www.mariinukai.com
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