MIRRORS
feat. Jamie Klimek, Jim Crook, Craig Bell, Paul Marotta & Paul Laurence
with Home and Garden & Rainy Day Saints

July 19th, 2008 at Beachland Ballroom
Cleveland, OH
8PM doors / ALL AGES / $8.00

MORE INFO: Julian Cope on Mirrors

Male Odor Monsters

A group exhibition featuring original works by

Brian Chippendale
Matthew Thurber
C.F.
Carlos Gonzales

Wednesday, July 16, 7pm – August 5

Hope Gallery – 1547 Echo Park Ave 90026

Featuring four artists known for their visionary work in comics, this show presents new pieces that explore collage, watercolour, silkscreen, acrylic, and crayon, with the same inventiveness of form as their narrative work.

A founding member of Providence’s Fort Thunder collective, Brian Chippendale was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial (as Forcefield), and shown at Deitch Projects (Panic Room, 2006), and D’Amelio Terras (2006). He has published two graphic novels with PictureBox, Ninja (2006), and Maggots (2007). He is also drummer in the band Lightning Bolt, and has collaborated on projects with musicians such as Bjork, Thurston Moore, and the Boredoms.

Matthew Thurber is the creator of the ongoing comic book series, ‘1800-Mice’ (PictureBox), and has had work included in the anthologies Kramer’s Ergot, and the Ganzfeld. As a performer he has appeared as Ambergris at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and as Saxophonist in Soiled Mattress and The Springs, shared bills with Gang Gang Dance and No Age.

C.F. is the alias of Christopher Forgues, creator of the serialised graphic novel ‘Powr Mastrs’ (PictureBox). His work has appeared in exhibitions at Loyal Gallery (Stockholm), The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Watari, Japan), and New Image Art (Los Angeles). Under his musical moniker Kites, he has several recordings with Load Records.

Author of the xeroxed comics, Slime Freak, and Rat’s Cocoon, Carlos Gonzales’ work featured in Kramer’s Ergot 6. His musical project, Russian Tsarlag has released cassette tapes on the Unskilled Labor label.

Hope gallery is jointly curated by the bookstore ‘Family’, and the record label ‘Teenage Teardrops’. familylosangeles.com teenageteardrops.com

Hope Gallery
hopegalleryla@gmail.com
323 782 9221

From Grady Runyon:

WHEN: Tuesday, 7/15, 8-10pm
WHERE: Grady’s Record Refuge, 2546 E. Main St., Ventura, 805-648-5565
WHAT: The Pink Snowflakes and The Bad Trips

Yes, it’s some FREE Tuesday-night rock featuring:

The Pink Snowflakes (8pm), all the way from Portland, on tour supporting their new release Sun Chasing……..the band has been claiming a psychedelic buzz of late with their “awe-inspiring Flaming Lips-hobo guitar-wash” (or is it unwashed) sound…….

…….and Ventura’s The Bad Trips (9pm), making a rare local appearance, conjuring their “real-deal, acid-casulty stripper pole music” for all to see…….

So shut down your computer, find your O-mind, and come on down to Grady’s Record Refuge for this unique Ventura County experience!

Remember it’s FREE! See you there!
-GRR

http://www.myspace.com/thepinksnowflakes
http://www.myspace.com/theebadtrips
http://www.myspace.com/gradysrecordrefuge

Drawing on Film
May 29 – July 24, 2008

The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10013
t212-219-2166
Tuesday – Friday, 10 AM – 6 PM; Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM

“Drawing on Film” will survey the practice of “direct film”—the process of drawing, scratching, or otherwise manipulating film stock to create images without a camera. The exhibition will present works spanning from the late 1930s to the present and will highlight an overlooked facet of experimental film. Many of the works to be exhibited are seminal films in the history of the genre—including Len Lye’s A Colour Box and Norman McLaren’s Blinkity Blank—while other, more contemporary works are being screened for the first time. By showcasing films from over seven decades, Drawing on Film will present an overview of the rich legacy of direct film.

The exhibition will transform the Drawing Room into a screening room with a program of films by eleven artists that will screen multiple times each day. In addition, individual installations, one by Jennifer Reeves and one by Jennifer West, will run for one week each. Two separate evening screenings will feature works by Stan Brakhage and by Dieter Roth and Amy Granat, respectively.

Artists include: Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Amy Granat, Pierre Hébert, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Bärbel Neubauer, Jenny Perlin, Jennifer Reeves, Richard Reeves, Dieter Roth, Harry Smith, and Jennifer West.

Screening Schedule
Thursday, May 29 – Saturday, July 5 (daily)
Tuesday, July 22 – Thursday, July 24 (daily)
Len Lye, A Colour Box, 1935, 4 min.; Norman McLaren, Blinkity Blank, 1955, 5:15 min.; Harry Smith, Early Abstractions no. 3: Interwoven, 1947–49, 3:20 min.; Bärbel Neubauer, Roots, 1996, 3:44 min.; Dieter Roth, Dot, 1956–62, 2:39 min; Jenny Perlin, Lost Treasures, 1999, 2:33 min.; Pierre Hébert, Op Hop – Hop Op, 1966, 3:30 min.; Richard Reeves, Linear Dreams, 1997, 7 min.; Jennifer West, Double Fast Luck Film (16mm film leader sprinkled with Red Luck Oil, Green Luck perfume, soaked in mint, cinnamon and vanilla), 2006, 2:44 min.; Len Lye, Free Radicals, 1958 (revised 1979), 4 min.; Robert Breer, Eyewash, 1959, 3 min.; Pierre Hébert, Memories of War, 1983, 16:10 min.; Bärbel Neubauer, Moonlight, 1997, 4:11 min.; Norman McLaren, Scherzo, 1939, 1:25 min.; and Amy Granat, Valentines Day Film, 2008, 6:57 min.

Courtesy BKD!

Thanks: DCT, SFJ

“West Nile Style”
at D’Amelio Terras

M.V. Carbon with works and performances by Cat Chow, Tony Conrad, Chris Duffy, Nicholas Emmet, Brooke Hamre Gillespie, Jay King, Severiano Martinez, Zeljko McMullen and Doron Sadja with a special appearance by Johnny Misheff

Opening reception Wednesday July 9th from 6-8pm
Summer Hours Monday through Friday 10-6

D’Amelio Terras
525 W 22nd St
New York, NY 10011

D’Amelio Terras invites Brooklyn-based, artistic performance space Paris London / West Nile to inhabit the gallery and present a group exhibition of animated objects, sound, sculptures and performance. “West Nile” is a street-level warehouse founded in October 2006 by M.V. Carbon, Zeljko McMullen and Doron Sadja. In addition to free events open to the public, West Nile houses studios used for photography, painting, video and sound. With high, arched, corrugated metal ceilings, West Nile is hot for live recording and rehearsing. Their selective program brings together an array of internationally active performers working at the forefront of visual music.

The spirit of collaboration central to West Nile’s programming will be highlighted in the multifarious display of works at D’Amelio Terras. Workspace installations will theatrically reframe active atmospheres, punctuated with live performance. West Nile produces experimental ideas in a shared site where people meet, perform, work and influence one another. This re-presentation of West Nile artists and actions aims to address new models for exhibiting time-based media.

M.V. Carbon (Violet Raid) is a painter, composer, “soundscaper and scraper”. Her recent paintings explore concepts of territory, impact and atmosphere. She is interested in defragmentation that occurs within landscape, rhythm, physiology and narrative perception. She is a co-founder of Paris London West Nile.

Cat Chow is an artist, designer, educator and performer. Her labor-intensive work, minimal in form, suggests paradoxical tensions between seduction/repulsion, beauty/desire, control/restraint and fetishism/power.

Tony Conrad is a composer, filmmaker, video artist, media activist and writer. While occasionally exhibiting and teaching, he continues to produce, perform and record at West Nile. He presents basic theoretical and practical aspects of the harmonic perception of sound.

Chris Duffy “had a hot sweaty love affair with glass blowing that lasted about four years, now they are just good friends.” His recent works incorporate electrified mixed media sculptures, drawings, machines and social chartings.

Nicholas Emmet states, “every piece of metal can be an antenna or a fork, and I want to find out which is more essential.” Through sculpture and performance, composting all the experiential remnants he can, Nicholas hopes to “nurture the neurons in our exquisitely damp and frenetic lives.”

Brooke Hamre Gillespie is an experimental artist and musical-innovator-inventor-performer-visionary. Brooke employs modern alchemy in creating new sounds through voice, various instruments and electronics that take on old forms.

Jay King is an artist, director, videographer and performer. He plays in the ensemble SYMBOL and Forrest Gillespie’s Dome Theater. He has presented solo and collaborative work at venues including Glasslands Gallery, The Juilliard School, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore), “a goth speakeasy in Greenpoint”, the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid) and PS1.

Zeljko McMullen studied orchestral and electronic composition and sound art/installation and is currently pursuing an MFA in Music/Sound at Bard College. He creates immersive environments with walls of acoustic and electronic sound as imaginary architecture. He is an active experimenter with both binaural perceptive beating and spatial recordings. He co-founded both Shinkoyo art + music collective and Paris London West Nile.

Doron Sadja is a sound/visual artist who studied in London, Berlin, at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and is now pursuing an MFA at Bard College. Doron creates dark, psychological collages. Visually, he uses dense splashes of color, texture and action. Sonically, he employs electronic and acoustic feedback, mutated instruments, multiple speaker arrangements and extreme frequencies. Doron co-founded both Shinkoyo art + music collective and Paris London West Nile.

For more information about West Nile and for live performances at D’Amelio Terras visit http://www.shinkoyo.com

D’Amelio Terras
525 W 22nd St
New York, NY 10011
t 212 352 9460
gallery@damelioterras.com

Mea Culpa by Brian Eno & David Byrne. A film by Bruce Conner.

Mongoloid by Devo. A film by Bruce Conner.

Bruce Conner, a San Francisco artist renowned for working fluently across media, died at his home of natural causes on Monday. He was 74.

Mr. Conner was one of the last survivors of the Bay Area Beat era art scene that included Jay DeFeo (1929-1989), Wallace Berman (1926-1976), and Wally Hedrick (1928-2003).

“We were all anonymous artists here in the ’50s,” Mr. Conner told The Chronicle in 2000, shortly before the opening of his retrospective “2000 BC The Bruce Conner Story, Part II,” at the de Young Museum.

Despite an enviably long record of gallery and museum exhibitions, Mr. Conner met with little recognition outside the worlds of contemporary art and independent film. More.

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/arthur/328/confessions-of-a-barista