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Sarah Cromarty at Circus Gallery.
Sarah Cromarty & Mirror Mirror – Jane Cantillon, Waylon Dobson, Oliver Held, Seth Kaufman, Rachel Mason, Reed McMillen, Sabina Ott, Mary Anna Pomonis, Allison Stewart, Elizabeth Wild, Eve Wood and Julie Zemel – Curated by Mary Anna Pomonis and Eve Wood @Circus Gallery (September 5 – October 11, 2008)
Sarah Cromarty.
Death of a Raver.
Upstairs Group Exhibition.
Mirror Mirror Group Exhibition.
Hugo Arcier/Niko Bellic Night Swim on GTA IV.
French director/graphic artist Hugo Arcier uploaded this melancholic and quite lyrical video of GTA IV character Niko Bellic swimming in the darkness of Liberty City’s troubled waters.
(Image from Hugo Arcier’s blog.)
I Am Not Your Friend.
And now with a little interlude.
CalArts MFA Open Studios.
CalArts MFA Open Studios. April 13, 2008.
Nery Gabriel Lemus.
Robert Frashure.
Christina Ondrus.
Megan Sant.
Kara Tanaka.
Miller Updegraff.
Kichul Kim.
Monica Elayne Hicks.
Dan Finsel.
Nikki Pressley.
Liz Glynn.
Alejandro Sanchez.
Nicholas Grider.
Green Porno by Isabella Rossellini.
Finally!
Sundance Channel just released Green Porno, the complete series of (very short) films conceived, written, co-directed by and featuring the fabulous Isabella Rossellini to the internet masses. I was reading about it earlier during the Sundance festival and was eager to finally lay my eyes upon these masterpieces.
And these eight pieces clearly solidified my knowledge of critters sexuality in a magical way.
(But really, did Monsieur Lynch make a cameo during the Bee fight?)
(All images from Sundance Channel. Screen captures of Green Porno. Left is Earthworm, right is Bee.)
Hamburger Eyes and Film is not dead.
The San Francisco based collective Hamburger Eyes is invading Los Angeles this weekend starting with a show at Hope Gallery.
The communal photographic project which started in 2002 with B&W xeroxed paper is now the magazine published tri-annually, still in B&W but off-set printed and in an edition of 3000 copies.
At the beginning of the year, they published a book with powerHouse Books. Check the post on Fecal Face about the massive show they had at the Arena back in March for the release of the volume.
The show slash book release opens Saturday May 3rd from 7 to 10 pm at Hope Gallery.
(Left image, flyer for the LA show. Middle & right image from Amazon, Hamburger Eyes: Inside Burgerworld (Hardcover))
To stay on the photographic topic Film is not dead it just smells funny is somewhat like a serious side of my Friday Flickr Finds dedicated to film photography (you know, as opposed to digital).
It’s Film son. Nothing else on the world smells like that. I love the smell of argentic film in the morning…
(Thanks Michael!)
(All images from FINDIJSF. Left Joel Aron, April Snow in Red Square – Leica M6, Leica Summicron 35mm, Ilford Delta 100. Flickr Ref. Middle Michael Napper, nomad (in a landscape) – Agfa Isolette I, Kodak Plus-X. Flickr Ref. Right Sean Wood, no title – Hasselblad 503cx, 50mm Distagon cf T*, Fuji neopan 400. Flickr Ref.)
David Horvitz’s Sunsets for SiteLA.
New York based artist David Horvitz is in Los Angeles until May 12th.
Among a million other things I am sure he might be working on at the moment, Horvitz is currently wrapping up a project entitled “To a Sunset in Palos Verdes” which he started and will complete at SiteLA – a space put together by Quicksilver with invited curators who will feature their ongoing projects and collaborations.
From the press release:
__Every afternoon for the duration of the show, Horvitz will follow the setting sun in a daily commute from siteLA to Palos Verdes. He will take the bus west to watch and photograph the sun’s decent from one of his favorite cliffs. siteLA’s storefront window will advertise the times for each of these witnessed sunsets as itinerary, invitation and record of this repeated action. Horvitz encourages participation in his daily pilgrimage, and bus fair will be provided for those in need.
Although the gallery is only open Wednesday to Saturday from 1 to 6 pm, Horvitz will be making this photo expedition every day so you can find him there before 4 pm, en route to Palos Verdes.
(All images David Horvitz, from To a Sunset in Palos Verdes. Right image is view of a newsprint available at SiteLA or on sale for $5 (With a giant letter on it))
A lot of Horvitz’s projects remind me of Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher’s own collaborative endeavors found in the fascinating Learning To Love You More assignments, which are now compiled in a book!
Last year, Horvitz collaborated with the band Xiu Xiu (who will be on tour in Europe starting May 1st!) and shot 1000 polaroids which were used for the cover of a Xiu Xiu/High Places split seven-inch. Each record has a real physical polaroid on the cover. This project was also concluded by a book.
(All images David Horvitz. Polaroids.)
All That Heaven Allows at Bonnelli Contemporary.
Vito Acconci, Anonymous, Kristian Burford, Claude Collins-Stracensky, Drew Dominick, Shannon Durbin, Hedi El Kholti, Matt Fishbeck, Paul Gellman, Mim Goodman, Iris Klein, Jennifer Lane, Sylvere Lotringer, Richard Nielsen, Andy Prince, David Schafer, Jessica Schieffer, Sarah Vanderlip, and Goody-B. Wiseman: All That Heaven Allows – curated by Lisa Tchakmakian @Bonnelli Contemporary (March 1 – April 12, 2008)
A Dead Serious Group Show at Sister.
Henry Taylor, Jeni Spota, Claude Collins-Stracensky, Liat Yossifor, Brian Kennon, Arnold Kemp, Adam Helms, Matthew Spiegelman, Michael Lazarus, Michele O’Marah, Tim Jackson and David Jones: A Dead Serious Group Show @Sister (April 5 – May 3, 2008)
