FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Annual Downtown Artists Grants Exhibition
Allan Barnes, Bumdog, Heather Carson, YaYa Chou, Jennifer Cunningham, Martin Durazo, Richard Godfrey, Jaime Scholnick
Exhibit Dates: August 11--September 8, 2007
The exhibition opening celebration: Saturday, August 11, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
1020 E. Fourth Place (between Molino and Mateo Sts.), Los Angeles, CA 90013
Chinatown Adjacent
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Los Angeles, CA - Earlier this year, The Downtown Artist Project http://downtownartistproject.org announced its ongoing plans to distribute grants to selected Downtown Los Angeles artists. A jury of distinguished cultural leaders (independent of Dangerous Curve) chose eight artists to receive various amounts to complete projects. This year's winners were Allan Barnes, Bumdog, Heather Carson, YaYa Chou, Jennifer Cunningham, Martin Durazo, Richard Godfrey, and Jaime Scholnick. The artists have since been busy completing their projects. Dangerous Curve is happy to be hosting the results: this year's Annual Downtown Artists Grants Exhibition.
The celebration of the exhibition is on Saturday, August 11, 2007, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., featuring vegetarian food. The live music includes some mariachi music sets and more TBA. The exhibit is up until September 8, 2007.
We're located two miles from Chinatown, at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts, #102, between the Fourth Street Bridge's (on the LA River side of downtown) two on/off ramps. See our website http://dangerouscurve.org for directions, pictures, and updates.
More about the Artists
Allan Barnes http://www.allanbarnes.com, who lives just east of the LA River, has been a photojournalist/editorial/fine art photographer for over 20 years. He has an MFA in Visual Communication from Ohio University, and a BA in Spanish from Wayne State University. He teaches Spanish Language and Culture at California Design College, and has been an Adjunct Professor of Photography at both Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, and University of Michigan-Flint. Most of his career was in Detroit, but he has also lived and worked in Guam and Mexico City. He is currently in the Teaching Credential Program at CSULA. In 2004, he exhibited his work at Groundwork in the Arts District. His Downtown Artists Grants project is a series of still photographs exploring the lives of the mariachis who live and practice their trade in and around the Mariachi Plaza and the Boyle Hotel, the unofficial Chelsea Hotel for musicians in East Los Angeles/Boyle Heights. He has a deep appreciation for people who dedicate their lives to making art or music.
Bumdog http://www.myspace.com/bumdog, who lives among the homeless, is the author of a book, essays, a theater piece, and a movie project (the last with the same name as the book: "Sketches of Nothing by a Complete Nobody"). He is also has been an art curator at Bedlam Gallery, Regent Gallery, and Phantom Galleries LA. He used to live in the Fairfax District, until he hurt his knee and came Downtown. Although he lives among the homeless, he relates more to those with swankier accommodations, especially the creative types. His Downtown Artists Grants project is a digital movie.
Heather Carson http://www.heathercarson.com has an interest in light that is spatial and architectural. She uses both the light-producing instrument and the light it produces to "physically build with light." She was born and raised in Los Angeles, which, being the birthplace of the Light and Space art movement, has been a major influence on her work. However, so has NYC (to which she moved to establish herself in the theater world). She moved back to Los Angeles in 2004 to head up the lighting program at Cal Arts. She has been designing modern, avant-garde opera and theater productions around the world for over 29 years and doing her own artwork for over 10. Her first piece, "Light Action:up/Down," was part of Elizabeth Streb's Action Occupation performance that took place throughout the Temporary at MOCA. Carson attended the Skowhegan Art Program, and has received a Durfee grant, the Rome Prize, two NYFA grants, and an NYFA Artists Fellowship. She was just recently picked up by ACE Gallery after they saw her Downtown Artists Grants project, "Light Action: light/CONCENTRIC," in Phantom Galleries LA's Beverly Hills space. We will exhibit a piece of this large installation, courtesy of ACE Gallery.
YaYa Chou http://www.yayachou.com was born in Taipei, Taiwan and now resides in Los Angeles. She has an MFA in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts and a BA in Mass Communications from Fu-Jen University in Taipei. She was in a two-person exhibition at Gallery Revisited, plus numerous juried and invitational exhibitions such places as Angels Gate Cultural Center, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago's Woman Made Gallery, Michael Napoliello Gallery, Gallery 825, LA Artcore, Artcore Brewery Annex, Pomona Arts Colony, Kellogg University Art Gallery, James Gray Gallery, Cisco Home, Bonhams & Butterfields, Haus, The Brewery Project, Gallery Revisited, Another Year in LA, Minneapolis' Altered Esthetics, Cal Poly Pomona Downtown Center, Art-Works Studio, Southport, UK's Atkinson Art Gallery, The Hive, SCA Gallery, Taipei's Cafe La Boheme, Gallery 207, and Taipei's Little Fish Cafe. She has won awards from The Durfee Foundation and several national film festivals. Her Downtown Artists Grants project is about the deleterious effect of artificial "food."
Jennifer Cunningham http://www.jennifercunninghamart.com moved to Los Angeles in 1982 from Boston. She has a successful career painting the city's landmarks, such as Grand Central Market, the Bradbury Building, Union Station, Phillips, Library Tower, Wells Fargo Center, Felix Chevrolet, Engine Co. 28, Chinatown's West Gate, City Hall, the Eastern Columbia building, the Petroleum Building, the court house, and Disney Hall. Her Downtown Artists Grants project was to paint historic theaters on Broadway: The Orpheum, The Palace, The Los Angeles, United Artists, and Million Dollar Theater, and then make postcards of the paintings.
Martin Durazo http://martindurazo.typepad.com has an MFA in Art from UCLA and a BA in Art and English Literature from Pitzer College, Claremont. He was also in Boston University's London Internship Program for the Visual and Performing Arts. He's had solo shows at Mark Moore, University of LaVerne, Bank, MDF in Mexico City, American Intercontinental University, 667 Shotwell in San Francisco, Susanne Vielmetter, Ben Maltz Gallery, Deep River, Cherry, Lemon Sky, Richard Heller Gallery, POST, and Dollhouse Gallery. He's also been in numerous group exhibitions and done performances throughout the U.S. and in Mexico, Vienna, and Amsterdam. He also curates exhibitions and was a co-founder of Miller Durazo Contemporary Artists Projects (1995-2003). His Downtown Artists Grants project is "In My Next Life," a video, performance and installation combination, using an Air Stream trailer.
Richard Godfrey http://www.richardgodfrey.com has been investigating spatial perception for a while now, exploring how the visual of an idea can intersect with its expression. His illusionistic volume installations are not to be missed. With his spinning pieces, your analytic geometry textbook comes alive. Godfrey spins a huge crooked line element around its endpoints, lighting it to look like a giant solid volume. Here, the ephemeral seems to turn into a concrete object. Time and space are homogenized inextricably. The architecture is implicated. The thing takes over the environment. It takes over your eyes. Godfrey is well known around these parts and around the world. An Arts District established veteran, he has also shown internationally. Godfrey received his BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He's had dozens of solo shows, exhibiting in both galleries and museums, including Japan's Kitayushu Museum, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, and The Laguna Art Museum.
Jaime Scholnick http://www.jaimescholnick.typepad.com has a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Sacramento, and a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University. She has had several solo exhibitions at such places as Angles Gallery, University of LaVerne, Bank, POST, Miller Durazo Contemporary Artists Projects, Whittier College Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, and galleries in Japan. She has been in group shows all over the U.S., plus in Japan and The Netherlands. Her work is in Ken Belson and Brian Bremmer's "Hello Kitty: The Remarkable Story of Sanrio and the Billion Dollar Feline Phenomenon," published by John Wiley and Sons. Her Downtown Artists Grants project is about incarcerated animals and humans.
The Downtown Artists Grants Jury
Adolfo Nodal, former General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
David Lawrence of David Lawrence Gallery
Angelene Campuzano, MTA Senior Public Art Officer
Bert Green of Bert Green Fine Arts Gallery
Alina Gatti, Assistant Director of Sixspace Gallery
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Dangerous Curve exhibits:
Through August 4: Marc Nimoy sound installations "sound box and others."
August 11--September 8: Annual Downtown Artists Grants Exhibition, with Allan Barnes, Bumdog, Heather Carson, YaYa Chou, Jennifer Cunningham, Martin Durazo, Richard Godfrey, Jaime Scholnick
Live Art Series:
TBA
New Music Series:
Friday, July 27, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
Ryan Tanaka http://ryangtanaka.com
Marc Nimoy http://www.digitanalog.net
Sunday, July 29, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Ellen Burr http://www.ellenburr.com/eburrmusic.html
Susan Rawcliffe http://artawakening.com/soundworks
Liam Mooney http://www.calarts.edu/~lmooney/index.html
Friday, August 3, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
Jody Redhage www.jodyredhage.com, http://myspace.com/jodyredhageAu
KIOKU http://www.kiokugroup.com
Sunday, August 5, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
CTRL+ALT+REPEAT returns!
Sunday, August 12, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
OGOGO http://ogogo.org, http://www.myspace.com/ogogoigor plays "Swing Your OGOGO"
Andre LaFosse http://www.altruistmusic.com, http://www.myspace.com/andrelafosse
TBA
See more on our website. Everything's subject to change. More good things being added by the moment. Check http://dangerouscurve.org for updates/changes and subscribe to our email list to get announcements.
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Also:
Dangerous Curve can print your wide-format (up to 44") archival prints for you. We print on canvas, too. We also do museum-quality framing and other art services. Call 213 617 8483 for information on affordable pricing. We also can frame your art: museum-quality and archival.
Kathryn Hargreaves teaches a Live Body class, incorporating Kundalini Yoga and artmaking with body awareness, at Dangerous Curve for all types of artists and non-artists: visual artists, writers, performers, musicians, dancers, lawyers, you name it. The current class is on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m., just after the Arts District neighborhood walk. Call (213) 617-8483 if you need more information.
Take a look at our column, Dangerous Blurb, on http://eyespyla.com, where we write occasionally about art collecting and other things art-related, and sometimes make event recommendations.
Artists, submit your art for art-in-windows installations in Los Angeles County. Dangerous Curve sometimes curates for Phantom Galleries LA http://phantomgalleriesla.com. See the website for submission information. This is an ongoing open call for installation art, sculpture, video or new media, 2D visual art, and even live art/visual art performance.
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