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Posted on: July 28, 2010 by: Michael
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Renegade Craft Fair July – 24th-25th
Posted on: July 23, 2010 by: Michael
Join us for the 2nd Annual Renegade Craft Fair in Los Angeles – July 24 + 25 from11am – 7pm in Los Angeles State Historic Park (aka The Cornfield, located at 1245 N Spring Street)!!
Always FREE-TO-ATTEND – our craft, art, design and DIY spectacular will feature over 250 of today’s finest indie-craft talents from all over the nation, free workshops,entertainment + other features!
You can expect to find all sorts of incredible handmade goods at the Fair! Get a sneak-peek of who will be setting up shop at this year’s Los Angeles event on our Artist Page!
We hope you’ll join us by biking or taking public transportation to the Fair! If you have access to theMetro Rail, the park is less than a block away from the Chinatown Station on the Metro Gold Line. Visit LA Metro to plan your trip!
Present your Metro-ticket stub at The Renegade Craft Fair Welcome Station and receive a free issue of Juxtapoz Arts + Culture Magazine while supplies last!
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SEA NO EVIL ARTSHOW – July 31st
Posted on: July 23, 2010 by: Michael
Categories: Art & Events
Karen Ann Myers
Posted on: July 2, 2010 by: Michael
Price: Free
When
Opens Saturday July 3 (5–8pm)
July 3 – Aug 7
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
Where
Luis de Jesus Los Angeles
Bergamot Station Art Center
2525 Michigan Ave, F-2
South Carolina-based artist Karen Ann Myers paints pictures of the beauty women desire, often at the expense of their own sanity.
Myers’ psychologically intense, densely decorated portraits examine our culture’s hypersexualized obsession with glamour and physical beauty, touching on its aesthetic extremes, seductive appeal, and emotional casualties. Each image represents a certain aspect in a sort of collective self-portrait, with her subjects inhabiting a kaleidoscope of loneliness, power struggles, cocktail dresses, and clashing patterns.
Luis de Jesus Gallery says:
In this new series of paintings and screen prints, Karen Ann Myers continues to explore what it means to be a young woman in contemporary society. Rooted in self-portraiture and autobiography, her paintings are documents that capture both the world around her and within her. Myers approaches her paintings like short stories or mini-narratives that are influenced by her intimate experiences with friends, family, and lovers. While the female figures that she depicts are often strong and confident in their sexuality, the paintings also offer a glimpse into the confusion and doubt felt by women in their moments of solitude. In this way, her paintings serve as psychological self-portraits. Each one is a reflection of feelings and experiences that she has lived through, as well as a projection of the moods and emotions experienced while painting them.
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The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Posted on: July 2, 2010 by: Michael
Price: Free
When: May 14 – Aug 22
Tuesdays–Fridays (10am–5pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
Where: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
8949 Wilshire Boulevard
310.247.3000
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says:
A new exhibition showcasing the work of stop-motion animation and visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen (It Came from Beneath the Sea, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,Jason and the Argonauts, One Million Years B.C., and, notably, the original Clash of the Titans).
Long before the recent quasi-blockbuster version, there was the originalClash of the Titans, a 1981 tour de force starring Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Ursula Andress, and the stop-motion gods and monsters of iconic animator Ray Harryhausen. With a penchant for ancient mythology and cosmological fantasy, Harryhausen’s creatures and their interactions with human co-stars were remarkable, even in their day, not for their realism, but for their artistry. His particular magic lay in the ability to incite fear, loathing, awe, and even love in audiences who were in no way fooled as to the life-likeness of his stop-motion animated characters. The Academy’s current exhibition celebrating his work sheds light on why even today’s extremely sophisticated audiences still seem to prefer the handmade original.
-Shana Nys Dambrot
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