LA ART NEWS
ARTS AND CULTURE IN THE NORTHEAST OF LOS ANGELES SECTION B
VOLUME 4 NO. 8
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NOVEMBER 2016
ARROYO ARTS COLLECTIVE DISCOVERY TOUR
A SELF-GUIDED TOUR OF THE ARTISTIC RICHES OF NORTHEAST L.A. The Arroyo Arts Collective Discovery Tour, now in its 24th year, affords tour participants the rare opportunity to see art in the historic homes and colorful art studios in which it was created. There will be painting, drawing, mixed media, sculpture, jewelry, woodworking, ceramics, fabric art, and more by over 80 local artists. A tour goer may come upon a blacksmith working in her backyard teepee. There may be the realization that the abstract painting one is admiring is influenced by the view from the artist’s hillside home. Art pieces of widely varying prices will be available for sale directly from the artists, providing an excellent opportunity for both novice and seasoned collectors. The Discovery Tour celebrates the Northeast as an historic arts community of Los Angeles. It also provides access to the area’s vibrant artistic present. The tour begins at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, then spreads across Highland Park, Garvanza, Eagle Rock, Cypress Park, Mount Washington, and Montecito Heights. Tour stops are accessible by car, bicycle, foot and Gold Line. (Expect hills; wear comfortable shoes.)
Artist Jeanie Frias and guests
24th Annual Arroyo Arts Collective Discovery Tour An Eclectic One-Day Art Fair across Northeast Los Angeles November 20 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Begins at Avenue 50 Studio, 131 North Avenue 50, where participants will receive maps and tour badges. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 on the day of the tour. Advance tickets are available at www.arroyoartscollective.org or in person at (1) Galco’s Old World Grocery, 5702 York Blvd., (2) Future Studio, 5558 N. Figueroa St. or (3) Avenue 50 Studio, 131 N. Avenue 50, all in Highland Park.
Hand-painted silks by Cicely Gilman
A Preview Party featuring sample work from Tour artists will be held Saturday, November 12, 7-10 p.m. at Rock Rose Gallery, 4108 N. Figueroa Street, Highland Park, during the NELAart Second Saturday Gallery Night. The preview show is an excellent way to discover artists whose work one would like to see more of on the tour. There will be live music and refreshments.
The Arroyo Arts Collective was established in 1989 as a community organization of artists, writers and performers who live and work in Northeast Los Angeles. By encouraging neighborhood involvement in the arts and presenting innovative art-driven activities and exhibitions, the goal of the Collective is to address the cultural needs of the area, link the creative community with the neighborhood at large, and make art available to underserved audiences of Northeast Los Angeles.
EAST LOS STREETSCAPERS
FROM CRAYON BUDDIES TO PUBLIC ARTISTS The art of David Botello and Wayne Healy is part of the public consciousness on the Eastside of Los Angeles. The story of how their works came to be includes elements of coincidence mixed with talent and hard work. Botello and Healy met in kindergarten, where they liked to draw together. The title of a current retrospective of their work refers to them as “Crayon Buddies.” But freeway construction beginning in the 1950s divided many communities, and in 1955, the new Long Beach Freeway separated the two friends, then fourth graders, from each other. It would be 20 years before they would come across each other again. Botello was in advertising illustration. Healy was in aerospace engineering. But they David Botello & Wayne Healy, “Ganas, That is all You Need” were both still passionate about their art, which now had everything to do with the burgeoning Chicano Civil Rights Movement. In 1975, Botello and Healy became East Los Streetscapers (ELS). Their art pieces were executed on weekends, and planning was done evenings, after their day jobs. They had progressed from crayons to competency in a variety of media, reflective of an illustrator’s rendering abilities and an engineer’s understanding of structure and geometry. Their public art pieces, such as the iconic Chicano Time Trip mural at Daly Street and North Broadway in Lincoln Heights, presented the history of people who were missing from text books, celebrated family and community life, and spoke to aspirations for the future.
David Botello, “Stop the Violence”
dA Center for the Arts in Pomona is currently presenting “dAztlan 2016--From Crayon Buddies to Public Artists,” a show honoring Botello and Healy. On exhibit are collaborative works and pieces by the artists as individuals. Also on view is a group show, featuring works by many artists, several of whom are family members of Botello and Healy. The show is presented not only to honor East Los Streetscapers, but also to inspire students in the realization continued on page 18
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that their dreams are attainable. “The life of an artist is often romanticized as free of worldly thoughts and full of bohemian parties,” says the dA Center statement for the show. “However, ELS’ experience is that professional art is a job that requires a work schedule that goes beyond a 9 to 5 day, 40 hour per week commitment. The rewards are great when calculated in life experiences. As preteens, Wayne and David did not know much about the world beyond their community of East LA. Today their art has been exhibited and/or installed in six continents.” dA Center for the Arts 252 Main Street, Pomona Through November 19 dacenter.org
East Los Streetscapers, D Botello y W Healy, “La Misma Raza,” 1993 (top) Individual pieces by Wayne Healy (left), David Botello, (center), Wayne Healy (right)
Wayne Healy, 1993
East Los Streetscapers, Botello, Delgado y Healy, “El Regreso del Penacho,” 1992
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DAY OF THE DEAD AT AVENUE 50 STUDIO By Tatiana Preciado
Death is not the loss of a life, it is the transition into the next life. El Dia de los Muertos is the celebration of that transition and the remembrance of lost loved ones who have gone through that transition. Rooted from the cultures of indigenous people before Spanish colonialism and brought back by Californian Mexican-American artists, celebrating Day of the Dead is nothing less than a community collaboration. Beginning in the early 1970s in East Los Angeles’ Self-Help Graphics and San Francisco’s Galeria de la Raza, the artistic and cultural revival of this lost celebration was spreading all over the states. In partnership with Avenue 50 Studio, the UCLA Latin American Institute held a special workshop for kindergarten to twelfth grade teachers. In preparation for the Day of the Dead, these teachers were allowed the chance to learn from Los Angeles artists about the history of Dia de los Muertos from Pre-Columbian times to modern times, learned to build altars, and learned to create papel picado designs from different techniques. The LAI supports research by funding grants and foreignlanguage instruction, and disseminates scholarship through conferences, workshops, public programs, teacher training. Executive Director of UCLA LAI, David Arriaza, says “teachers are provided an opportunity to better understand the history and culture of their students.” Latin Americans make up the largest racial minority in the United States. It is no wonder the UCLA LAI are striving to bring the rich culture of these multicultural communities into an academic setting. As stated by Arriaza, “Avenue 50 Studio serves as a bridge where Latin American Studies and the local community meet in the middle.” The Day of the Dead isn’t just for Mexican and MexicanAmerican communities, it’s a celebration shared across cultures. Every culture deals with death and loss of loved ones. Day of the Dead is for celebrating those loved ones and bringing their memory back to life.
WE HEART EAGLE ROCK FIRST SATURDAYS Saturday, November 5
Colorado Wine Company - 2305 Colorado Blvd. Dionysus, The God of Wine? 7-10 p.m. Occidental College Professors Debra Freas & Damian Stocking will hold an engaging dialogue exploring the uncanny, divine figure whom the Ancient Greeks held as the God of the Vino; Dionysus. Though most commonly known as the God of Wine or Wine Making, he was also the God of Tragedy, Excess, Theater, Ecstasy, Becoming, Ritual Madness, Harvest, and much more. Craft Beer Cellar Eagle Rock - 1353 Colorado Blvd. Dia De Los Muertos Art Show & Benefit Party 5 p.m.-midnight In collaboration with RicRok Tattoos, to benefit AMP Los Angeles, a youth mentoring program in Northeast LA, join Craft Beer Cellar Eagle Rock for a Dia de los Muertos Art Show featuring local artists Grace Andrea & Esteban Ramon Perez and a benefit party. Beer will be flowing, special keg for a cause with 100% of proceeds benefitting AMP LA. Aztec Dancers, DJ, Food Truck, & Silent Auction.
Sean Chao, Watermelon Chopping at Leanna Lin’s Wonderland
Good Eye Gallery - 4538 Eagle Rock Blvd. Loved Ones 6-9 p.m. Loved Ones features five local artists and their unique takes on pet and people portraiture. Join them for their opening reception, where you can get custom commissions starting at $100. Leanna Lin’s Wonderland - 5024 Eagle Rock Blvd. My Favorite Things 6-9 p.m. Join Leanna Lin’s Wonderland for their annual holiday ‘cash and carry’ show, My Favorite Things! Artists will explore their favorite subjects, just in time for the holiday gift-giving season. All artwork will be 10 x 10 or smaller and ready to take home upon purchase. 10% of the art sales will be donated to The Animal Hope & Wellness Foundation. One Dog Down Eagle Rock - 2150 Colorado Blvd. Henna Tattoos 3-5 p.m. Come get tattooed at One Down Dog....with henna (so they’re temporary!). Yoga teacher and henna artist, Audrey Guedelekian, is offering henna designs. Prices based on design.
Debra Broz, ceramic animal sculpture at Good Eye Gallery
Pop Secret Gallery - 5119 Eagle Rock Blvd. Around L.A. in 30 Days 6-10 p.m. Every day, thousands of people move to LA to chase their dreams. Nic Gregory and Shaun Bryant are no exception, moving to Los Angeles two years ago to turn their animation dreams into reality. Through Nic’s plein air paintings and Shaun’s character designs “Around LA in 30 Days” captures the people and places that caught their attention.
Eagle Rock City Hall - 2035 Colorado Blvd. Eagle Rock High School ARTS 2-6 p.m. Join Eagle Rock High School ARTS for a student curated and student generated art show. The collection will demonstrate interpretations of the theme, “CONTRAST”. Alongside will be a Dia de los Muertos pop-up collection, which celebrates the iconic imagery of the Latin American Day of the Dead celebration. Live Music beginning at 3 p.m.
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The Contemporary Crafts Market
Meet Today’s Modern Day Masters Crafting The New Classics. The Contemporary Crafts Market is home for The Holidays! Enter an oasis of fine, hand-crafted, American-Made functional, decorative and wearable art. Meet the makers, acclaimed artisans who weave, sculpt and paint their passion and personal stories into everything you see! This public, juried 3-day event takes place only once a year in historic Old Pasadena. It’s your best chance to discover one-ofa-kind products versus mass produced everything else. Available for purchase: fine furnishings, hand-crafted ceramics, textiles, jewelry, blown glass, metalwork and more. Not a mass produced product in sight! It’s the Holiday Shopping “Miracle” of the Season! Celebrating 31 years, The Contemporary Crafts Market is one of the longest running of its kind. The credit goes to the Founder and CEO Roy Helms and partner Chris Andrews. Here they are, vintage 1985! Of course, Roy and Chris remain timeless, ageless and priceless. Just like the functional, decorative and wearable art they showcase! As with fine craft, longevity creates excellence. CEO/Founder Roy Helms “I first created the show because I could never find anything I wanted in the stores. Here, I want every beautifully crafted product I see! I am not alone. The public demand for hand-crafted, American-Made, artisanal work has never been higher. This show meets the demand. It’s a magnet for designers, collectors, decorators and anyone else who treasures fine craftsmanship. Our 3-day show meets at the artful intersection of traditional techniques and modern tastes. Creativity and imagination are a recipe for magic. That’s our Holiday gift to you!” The Contemporary Crafts Market Pasadena Convention Center, Exhibit Hall 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, California, 91101 November 11-13, 2016 Friday-Saturday-Sunday 10am-6pm Tickets $8 Dollars at the Door Learn more at www.craftsource.org Opening Day, Friday-November 11, Veteran’s Day, all Veterans Admitted for Free
Souphong Manikhong Lois Sattler Marianne Hunter
Ivy Shuman
A HEART FOR THE HOMELESS Recycled Resources invites the public to its first gala, "A Heart for the Homeless." The event will feature a delicious dinner, excellent wine, live entertainment, fabulous prizes, and a special premiere screening of a new documentary "A Community Response to Homelessness". A Heart for the Homeless is an opportunity to confront our homeless crisis and and to unite to take action. This event will bring together business and community leaders, philanthropists, and Los Angeles' top brands, to partner with Recycled Resources to make a difference in the lives of those most in need. Recycled Resources is expanding its efforts to help up to 200 people in need this year. One hundred per cent of funds will be used to support the organization's 2017 Winter Shelter, providing a safe place for our neighbors without a home, and and to make the Drop-In Center a more permanent fixture in NELA. A Heart for the Homeless is supported by Grizzly Republic Wines, Café de Leche, Max City BBQ, and The Travel Troubador. It is endorsed by City Councilmembers Gilbert Cedillo and José Huizar. "A Heart for the Homeless" Recycled Resources for the Homeless Saturday, November 5, 6-9 p.m. All Saints Episcopal Church, 5619 Monte Vista Street Ticket information: www.recycledresources.org
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continued from page 26 China: Through the Lens of John Thomson CSUN Art Galleries 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge 91330 To December 10th McCarren/Fine: And/Or University Art Museum CSULB 1250 N Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach 90840 To Dec 11th Altered Objects at CSUDH CSUDH Art + Design 1000 E Victoria St, Carson 90747 To December 12th Deeply Uncompromising: 125 Years of Mission University of La Verne College of Law Library 320 E D St, Ontario 91764 To December 16th Thomas Hirschhorn: Stand-alone The Mistake Room 1811 E 20th St, Los Angeles 90058 To Dec 17th Permanent Score at The Luckman Gallery The Luckman Fine Arts Complex 5151 State University Dr, Los Angeles 90032 To December 17th Chie Hitotsuyama: To Hear Your Footsteps MOAH: CEDAR 44857 Cedar Ave, Lancaster 93534 Opening Oct 2nd 6-8pm To January 7, 2017 Harry Dodge: The Inner Reality of Ultra-Intelligent Life Armory Center for the Arts 145 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena 91103 To Jan 8th WORK over School exhibition opening
Craft and Folk Art Museum 5814 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angele 90036 To January 8th S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom Barnsdall Art Park 4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles 90027 Through January 8th Beatriz Cortez : Nomad World Vincent Price Art Museum 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park 91754 To January 28th Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A. Skirball Cultural Center 2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles 90049 Through March 12, 2017 Surveying the Land: Presented by Curate Joshua Tree Outpost Projects 2658 Keeler Avenue, Yucca Valley 92284 To March 26th 2017 LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (LACMA) Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters Through November 27th, 2016 James Turrell, Light Reignfall Through May 29, 2017 Picasso and his Printers Through January 2, 2017 The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L. to January 2nd 2017 Toba Khedoori To March 19, 2017 MOCA Gaetano Pesce: Molds (Gelati Misti) To Nov 27th Doug Aitken: Electric Earth to Jan 15th, 2017 Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady? to Feb 6th, 2017
GETTY London Calling Bacon Freud Kossoff Andrews Auerbach Kitaj Through November 13th MOAH Lancaster British Invasion Opening November 19th Artist Talks Startup Art Fair presents ‘Art Fairs: What Are They Good For?’ Coagula Curatorial 974 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, California 90012 November 6th 1-3pm Artist Talk with Shana Nys Dambrot at Jill Joy Gallery Jill Joy Gallery 456 S La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90036 November 12th 2-4pm The Carpet Sessions: Polly Apfelbaum in conversation with Jennifer Steinkamp, artist and Professor of Media Arts at UCLA Otis College of Art and Design- Ben Maltz Gallery 9045 Lincoln Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90045 Sunday, November 13, 4pm, Free Doug Aitken: Electric Earth The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90012 November 16th 630-9pm Zeal Harris - Solo Show - Artist Talk Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 825 N La Cienega Blvd, West Hollywood, California 90069 November 16th 7-9pm Roski Talks: Beatriz Cortez Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower at 30th Street, Los Angeles 90007 November 29th 6-8pm
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DODGER STADIUM
The last home game of the season As seen by artist Stuart Rapeport
Dodger Stadium
Dodger Dog
Dodger Pizza
Chef Merita
Bobblehead
First Pitch Guest Relations
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Rita Cabana
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Sisters of Survival (S.O.S.), an anti-nuclear performance art group that emerged from The Woman’s Building in Los Angeles in 1981, staged a reunion performance as part of the 11th annual Archives Bazaar at USC in October. The performance took place in association with the Metabolic Studio.
Art meets function in the new movable shade structure in Downtown’s Grand Park, created in the form of giant paper airplanes by artists Dean Sherriff and Elenita Torres.
CUPS OF GOLDEN, MIND-BODY COMFORT Autumn is definitely here, in more ways than just the fact that it’s November. Here is a wonderful way to get some warm, satiating healthy fats into your body with the awesome benefits of turmeric and other spices, featuring a Turmeric Spice Blend from our local healing tea guy Peter Bedard of Create Your Health Teas. This recipe is inspired by the classic Golden Milk recipe, but the emulsion blender gives it a modern twist, and adds to the creamy aesthetics. This is sure to comfort your soul on a chilly evening or morning. The fat from the almond milk and coconut oil makes the turmeric more bioavailable, for an overall wonderful, healing cup of wellness-- fuel for the body and the mind! Enjoy!! Bullet Proof Turmeric Spice Latte 2 cups almond milk 1 tbsp. Turmeric Spice Blend (from Create Your Health Teas) or comparable turmeric spice blend 2 tbsp. virgin coconut oil 1 tbsp. (or more if you like it sweet) Jaggery sugar, Piloncillo, or other natural sweetener In a small sauce pan, whisk the almond milk, spice blend, and sweetener until well blended. Warm on low to medium heat until it just starts to simmer. Lower the heat to simmer, add the coconut oil, and blend with an immersion blender for about 20 seconds. If you don’t have an immersion blender, you can transfer the mixture to a conventional blender and blend on medium high for 10-15 seconds. When using a conventional blender, be careful when starting the blender, starting on low and gradually getting faster, as the hot liquid tends to produce a lot of pressure. Pour into 2 mugs, and top with optional frothed milk and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS 2016
Altar tribute to Jose “Jojo” Estrada by Claire Sandoval at Plaza de la Raza
Alice Bag, Self Help Graphics 43rd annual celebration, Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High School
Marianne Sadowski’s “Official/Unofficial Voting Station: Voting For All Who Legally Can’t,” made in collaboration with Plaza de la Raza students and parents George Labrada and Johnny Quintana, El Velorio at Plaza de la Raza Plaza de la Raza
El Serano Dia De Los Muertos Festival
Julian Mendoza: Lisa Love, El Velorio at Plaza de la Raza El Velorio at Plaza de la Raza
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Olvera Street
Teatro del Barrio at Olvera Street Rachel Hoye at Grand Park
El Serano Dia De Los Muertos Festival
Quetzalcรณatl Altar Temple, Lore Productions at Grand Park Marcus Pollitz, Lore Productions at Grand Park
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ART HAPPENINGS AROUND LOS ANGELES PRESENTED BY SHOEBOX PR
UPCOMING OPENINGS Night Stand Exhibit Opening Women’s Museum of California 2730 Historic Decatur Road, Barracks 16, San Diego 92106 Opening November 4th 5-9pm Militant Friction: A Solo Exhibition by Amanda Kirkhuff Last Projects 6546 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles 90028 Opening November 4th 7-11pm The Electric Lodge presents High Voltage Electric Lodge 1416 Electric Ave, Venice 90291 Opening November 4th 830-11pm Two Heads on Fire: Charles Swenson & Wyatt Mills Coagula Curatorial 974 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles 90012 Opening Nov 5th 7-10pm Reception: Jack Davidson “smoking a fag, kissing a man” CB1 Gallery 1923 S. Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles 90021 Opening November 5th 3-6pm On the Map (at Angels Gate) Angels Gate Cultural Center 3601 S Gaffey St, San Pedro 90731 November 5th 1-5pm Helen Pashgian Opening Reception Peter Blake Gallery 435 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach 92651 Opening November 5th 30-530pm Opening Reception: Surreal / Unreal Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc. 357 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles 90036 Opening November 5th 4-7pm Enoc Perez and Carlos Rolón/Dzine (Main Gallery) Chimento Contemporary 622 S Anderson St, Spc 105, Los Angeles 90023 Opening November 5th 5-7pm MAE ENGRON:No Date,No Title Sixty29 Contemporary 6029 Washington Blvd, Culver City 90232 Opening November 5th 6-9pm Loved Ones Good Eye Gallery 4538 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles 90041 Opening November 5th 6-9pm Organic Integration: Aline Mare & Michael Giancristiano Jill Joy Gallery 456 S La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles 90036 Opening November 5th 6-9pm Art Opening of NEXUS group show with SANER curated by Thinkspace Brand Library & Art Center 1601 W Mountain St, Glendale 91201 Opening November 5th 6-10pm ALLOY Opening Reception Laura Korman Gallery 2525 Michigan Ave, Ste D2, Santa Monica 90404 Opening November 5th 6-8pm I Can’t Park Myself – Cima Rahmankhah MiM 2636 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles 90034 Opening November 5th 6-9pm FotoFIlmic’16 Opening Reception DNJ Gallery 2525 Michigan Ave, Ste J1, Santa Monica 90404 Opening November 5th 6-8pm Opening Reception: “Hybrid Moments” Open Mind Art Space 11631 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles 90025 Opening November 5th 7-10pm The BLUE Show The Loft at Liz’s 453 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles 90036 Opening November 5th 7-10pm Jacob Lehman The Good Luck Gallery 945 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles 90012 Opening Novemnber 5th 7-10pm Pulling the Forest Along the Road CSUF Grand Central Art Center 125 N Broadway, Santa Ana 92701 Opening November 5th 7-10pm Slippery Stories Durden and Ray 1950 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles 90021 Opening November 6th 12-6pm Mutant Monkey Business - an Installation By Joe Lewis The Lodge 1024 N Western Ave, Los Angeles 90029 Opening November 8th 6-9pm Chairs in Conversation! Studio Channel Islands Art Center 2222 Ventura Blvd, Camarillo 93010-6655, United States November 9th LIVE Artillery Presents: The Grossmalerman! Show Ace Hotel Los Angeles 929 S Broadway, Los Angeles 90015
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November 11th 8pm-midnight Rhizomatic Studio: Shared Practice Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles 90024 November 11th 11-6pm FINAL MAS Attack TAM Torrance Art Museum 3320 Civic Center Dr N, Torrance 90503 November 12th 5-9pm Wishlist Gabba Gallery 3126 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles 90057 Opening November 12th 7-11pm Inglewood Open Studios Tour Beacon Arts Building 808 N La Brea Ave, Inglewood 90302 November 12th and 13th 12-5pm Caverna: Infinite Universe. Artist Talk and Closing Reception HB Punto Experimental 2151 Logan Ave Section B, San Diego 92113 Opening November 12th Los Angeles: Detailed Annenberg Community Beach House 415 Pacific Coast Hwy, Santa Monica 90402 Opening November 15th 630-830pm Group show: ROLL CALL L.A. Louver 45 N Venice Blvd, Venice 90291 Opening November 16th 6-9pm Rhizomatic Studio: Shared Practice Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles 90024 November 18th 11-6pm Femmebit 2016 Human Resources 410 Cottage Home St, Los Angeles, 90012 November 18th British Invasion Opening Reception Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH 665 W Lancaster Blvd, Lancaster 93534 Opening November 19th 4-6pm To January 22nd Memory In Forms. Exhibition Opening Neutra Institute Gallery & Museum 2379 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles 90039 Opening November 19th 6-10pm MYTHS Building Bridges Art Exchange 2525 Michigan Ave, Ste F2, Santa Monica 90404 Opening November 19th 6-10pm Nathan Redwood JAUS 11851 La Grange Ave, Los Angeles, California 90025 Opening November 19th 630-930pm Zoo-Manity Gallery Opening at Art Share L.A. Art Share-LA 801 E 4th Pl, Los Angeles, California 90013 Opening November 19th 7-10pm 24th Annual Arroyo Arts Collective Discovery Tour Avenue 50 Studio 131 N Avenue 50, Los Angeles 90042 November 20th 930-5pm ONGOING EXHIBITIONS Caverna: Infinite Universe HB Punto Experimental 2151 Logan Ave Section B, San Diego 92113 Through November 5th Ana Rodriguez & Nano Rubio at Launch LAUNCH LA 170 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles 90036 To November 5th Thinkspace art opening with Sandra Chevrier & Sean Mahan Thinkspace Gallery 6009 Washington Blvd, Culver City 90232 To November 5th DISSENT:what they fear is the light Open Air Prisons Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 6522 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles 90028 To Nov 6th Marnie Weber “Chapel of the Moon” Gavlak 1034 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles 90038 Opening Saturday Sept 17th 6-8pm To Nov 5th Jen Smith: This Body Is Free Elana Mann: The Assonant Armory Commonwealth and Council 3006 W 7th St Suite 220, Los Angeles 90005 Through November 5th New works by Kiel Johnson and Mark Dean Veca JAUS 11851 La Grange Ave, Los Angeles 90025 Opening Sept 16th 630-930pm To Nov 6th Hollowforms: feat. Orr Herz & Brian Robertson CES Gallery 711 Mateo St, Los Angeles 90021 To December 11th
SECOND SIGHT: Recent Work by Christina McPhee Cerritos College Art Gallery 11110 Alondra Blvd, Norwalk 90650 To Nov 12th Karon Davis: Pain Management Wilding Cran Gallery 939 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles 90021 To Nov 12th Casper Brindle, Aura & Strata William Turner Gallery 2525 Michigan Ave E-1, Santa Monica 90404 To November 12th Eric Ernest Johnson: Running Water The Lodge 1024 N Western Ave, Los Angeles 90029 To November 12th Ann Mitchell: The Chance Chronicles Groundspace Project 1427 E 4th St, Los Angeles 90033 To November 12th Sacramental Vessels Opening Reception Gregorio Escalante Gallery 978 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles 90012 To November 13th Bibi Davidson | The Girl in the Red Dress - solo exhibition Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 825 N La Cienega Blvd, West Hollywood, 90069 To November 18th Countenance Divine and 3 Solo exhibitions at Gallery 825 Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 825 N La Cienega Blvd, West Hollywood 90069 To November 18th Topological Skew Crossroads School, Sam Francis Gallery 1714 21st St, Santa Monica 90404 To November 18th Metaphysics “the matters of being” ANDLAB 600 Moulton Ave. #303, Los Angeles 90031 To November 20th Opening Reception: She Was Just a Dream Washington Reid Gallery 6110 Washington Blvd, Culver City To November 21st Developing Story through Drawing & Painting w Zeal Harris Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean 1450 Ocean Ave, Santa Monica 90401 Opening October 22nd 11-2pm To November 23rd Liz Nurenberg: Body, Object, Body, Mark Eastside International 602 Moulton Ave, Los Angeles 90031 To November 26th Edgar Allan Poe Ashton Gallery at Art On 30th 4434 30th St, San Diego 92116 To November 26th Linnea Kniaz // A Noiseless Patient Spider VACANCY 2524 James M Wood Blvd, Los Angeles 90006 To November 26th David Buckingham: Nobody Likes A Smartass Laemmle Monica Film Center 1332 2nd St, Santa Monica 90401 To November 30th Human Condition Former Hospital previously known as Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center 2231 S Western Ave, Los Angeles 90018-1302 To Nov 30th Jill Joy “Emotion” Opening Reception Jill Joy Gallery 456 S La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles 90036 Through November 30th Systems + Process = Aesthetics Surrogate Projects 686 E Union St, Pasadena 91101-1820 To December 3rd This Wicked Tongue - Curated by Cindy Rehm Charlie James Gallery 969 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles 90012 To December 3rd Erika Rothenberg - House of Cards Charlie James Gallery 969 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles 90012 To December 3rd Rebecca Farr: Out of Nothing Opening Reception Klowden Mann 6023 Washington Blvd, Culver City 90232 To December 3rd Kelly Berg “Divergent Earth” Opening Reception SLOAN Projects Bergamot Station Arts Center 2525 Michigan Ave B5, Santa Monica To December 3rd Life During Wartime: Opening reception Diane Rosenstein Fine Art 831 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles 90038 To December 3rd
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CLASSES IN NELA
Besides being a haven for artists and creative types, Northeast Los Angeles is the home of a fine array of arts classes, especially the industrial arts, but not limited to them. Below is a list of some of the businesses in the area that have classes. Do check with the facility to verify times and prices of their classes. As we find more places we will bring that information to all of you. Adam’s Forge 2640 N. San Fernando Rd. Los Angeles, CA 90065 Adamsforge.org You may email Nancy with questions at blacksmithclasses@gmail.com Please check their web site for a listing of all of their classes and special events. Check out a Discovery class. The Glass Studio 5668 York Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90042 323.387.9705 info@theglassstudio.net Check www.theglassstudio.com for a list of glasses ranging from glass blowing and torchwork to fusing and slumping and jewelry making. O&M Leather 5048 Eagle Rock Blvd. 323-274-4640 www.ommleather.com
Please check their web site for a listing of all of their classes and special events. They’re in a new location next to Community Woodshop. Cool new space! Rock Rose Gallery 4108 N. Figueroa Street Highland Park, CA 90065 (323) 635-9125 www.rockrosegallery.com Visit: Rock Rose Gallery News, Instagram & Twitter KIDS CREATIVE ARTS 2-4 yrs Art, Music, Movement Sat. 9:30am-11am, $5 LATIN PERCUSSION Sat. 12pm-2pm, Bring your conga, etc. Instructor Robertito Melendez, $15
Basic Leather Working Classes Leather 1 - Leather Basics $200 Leather 2 - Cutting and Skiving $200 Leather 3 - Hand Stiching $200 Leather 4 - Color, Finishes, and Leather $200 For information about scheduling call their store at (323)274-4640 or email them at ommeather@gmail. com Toros Pottery 4962 Eagle Rock Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90041 323.344.8330 Mon. 11:30am-2:30pm Class Mon. 6:30pm-9:30pm Class Tues. 6:30pm-9:30pm Tues. 4:30pm-6:00pm Thurs. 6:30pm-9:30pm time Fri. 11:30am-9:30pm dio time Sat. 11:30am-1:30pm Parent
Molten Metal Works NEW LOCATION 3617 San Fernando Rd Glendale, CA 91204 moltenmetalworks.net
Adult Adult Adult Class Kids Class open studio open stuKids &
Blue Rooster Art Supply Company blueroosterartsupplies.com blue@blueroosterartsupplies.com 4661 Hollywood Blvd LA, CA 90027 (323) 302-5613 They offer a variety of art classes. Check their web site for more information about their classes and events. Sugar Mynt Gallery 810 Meridian Ave. South Pasadena, CA 626.222.7257 sugarmynt.com
RINCON RUMBERO EAST w Troy Parker 3rd Sat. 3-6pm. Bring your drum $5 New! FREE FOR ALL Artist Only Creative Night Every Wed. 6-9pm, Artist bring your own supplies. Table & Hospitality provided. $10 GUITAR - Please call regarding interest. Six students required. Ball Clay 4851 York Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90042 310.954.1454 ballclaystudio.com Intermediate Ceramics Pottery Class 6 class sessions Check web site for start date $240 A Place to Bead 2566 Mission St San Marino, CA 91108 626.219.6633 aplace2bead.com Find a variety of jewelry making classes, including stringing and wirework. Bullseye Glass 143 Pasadena Ave. South Pasadena, CA bullseyeglass.com They offer a full range of kiln forming glass classes as well as regular free artist talks. Leanna Lin’s Wonderland 5024 Eagle Rock Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90041 323.550.1332 Check Leanna’s web site for a current list of workshops and events.
Paint and Pinot Twice a month. Check their web site for more detail.
co-LAB Gallery 5319 York Blvd. http://co-lab-gallery.myshopify.com
Los Angeles County Store 4333 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039 / 323-928-2781
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Community Woodshop NEW LOCATION 3617 San Fernando Rd Glendale, CA 91204 626.808.3725 www.community woodshopla.com These guys offer a wonderful selection of classes from beginner to advanced, membership, and private lessons. Please check their web site for more information and a list of classes. New Stone Age Mosaic Studio 1754 Colorado Blvd Eagle Rock They offer mosaic classes on Mondays and Tuesday. All classes are on going and open to all skill levels.We also do mosaic birthday parties. Call Mary at (323) 547-2021 for more information. Little Knittery 3195 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90039 thelittleknittery@gmail.com Beginning Crochet Saturdays 3:30-5:30 Tuesdays 1:00-3:00 Beginning Knitting Sundays 3:30-5:30 Wednesdays 1:00-3:00 Check schedule for new macramé classes Deb3321 3321 Pasadena Ave. Los Angeles, CA email: deb3321@gmail.com Uninstructed Figure Drawing Saturdays 11:00am - 3:00pm $5.00/hr Strictly Charcoal 11am - 1pm First two Saturdays of every month. Christine Haenen Artists Crit Saturdays Starting at 3:30 $5/session Crit with Karen For more information go to: http://www. deb3321.com/linda-vallejo-fall-2016 Stained Glass Supplies 19 Backus Street Pasadena, CA 91107 626-219-6055 Stained Glass Class Tues. 9-12 or 6:30-9:30 Wed. 9-12 or 6:30-9:30 Thurs. 9-12 or 6:30-9:30 Sat. 9-12 $95 - 8 weeks Tools - $45 - $125 Materials $45 - $100 Classes are ongoing Barndall Art Park 4800 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027 323.644.6295 http://www.barnsdall.org Check they’re web site for upcoming classes.
Please check their web site for a listing of all of their classes and special events. LA ART NEWS SECTION B
GREETINGS FROM... TUCSON
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RANCHO LINDA VISTA by Cesar Padilla
I was discussing Rancho Linda Vista, site of the legendary Andy Warhol western "Lonesome Cowboys", in Oracle, Arizona, with a local. She then said, "Someone's conservative aunt once said, "There is blood on the walls of Rancho Linda Vista.'" This quote alone would have made me pack my bags and head to Oracle had I not already been standing in Oracle drinking with a local. I began my trip to the Tucson area at the invitation of Paula Taylor of Tucson Fashion Week. I was being brought in to mount a vintage clothing rock n roll runway show inside the grand Rialto Theater in downtown Tucson. Before the runway show I was given 3 days at the Miraval Spa and Resort to work out the final details.. A healing haven in a succulent landscape, Miraval was and is epic. Nestled north of Tucson at the base of the Catalina Mountains, Miraval verges on utopic. Gorgeous cacti after cacti after cacti line the horizon and smiles abound as you turn every corner. You begin to ask yourself, "Can people really be this happy?" I soon posed this question to one of the staff. The response, "If they aren't genuinely an adjusted happy person, they won't make it here six months." By day three, I soon realized this was true. The positive attitude seemed genuine and infectious. . I already had a basic understanding of the healing powers of the desert, of escaping the trappings of New York City and being in the middle of nowhere. I was there and it was working. I would find my way to the small mystical desert town of Oracle thru social media. My friend Jim Pollack had relocated to Oracle, about 45 minutes north of Tucson and saw I was in Tucson. Jim reached out and invited me to a former dude ranch he is now running, The Triangle L Ranch. He offered to pick me up at Miraval one evening and show me around. Off to the Triangle L Ranch I went. It was dark already as we made our way to the ranch. A million stars lined the sky. Jim made his way around and turned on the tastefully art directed Malibu lighting that illuminated some of the vast acreage of the ranch. Purchased in 2001 by mixed media artist Sharon Holnback, the Triangle L Ranch has now been transformed into a haven for artists in search of residencies to disappear and create. Around a dozen early 1900's adobe buildings are scattered. Some occupied, some not, and the grounds are for the most part an incredible sculpture garden of nature meets man. Oracle, Arizona, was founded because of the discovery of gold and silver mines around 1870. It currently has a population of over 3000 inhabitants and was rediscovered by a group of renegade beat/hippies when The Rancho Linda Vista was purchased in 1968. Much like the Triangle L, Rancho Linda Vista is also a haven for artists and residencies. At the time of the purchase in 1968, Warhol's crew would also arrive. Legend has it the Warhol crew were chased out of the Old Tucson Studios after only three hours on set and a deal was quickly struck to film and head north 45 minutes at Rancho Linda Vista. I can only hope I channelled the original limp wrist, my hero, beat poet, filmmaker, Warhol Superstar and one of the stars of "Lonesome Cowboys" agent provocateur Taylor Mead as my limp wrist made its way around the ranch. You see, I worship Taylor Mead. In many ways, Taylor is the most modern of all limp wrists. The nelly who put nelly in nelly. One of the ones who walked the walk so that ALL others could be flamboyant and most importantly free. Or rather be who you need to be and are. Taylor was one of those badasses. Taylor was no coward. Taylor was a revolution unto himself. Taylor was pre Warhol, pre Stonewall, pre post modern, and pre sexual revolution. I would be fortunate to meet Taylor on many occasions. In other words, Rancho Linda Vista is SACRED GROUND to me and now I had magically ended up here. I could feel the magic of Oracle everywhere I turned: at both ranches, at the community theater rehearsal I witnessed and at the old watering hole still operating since the olden times, "The Ore House." Most of the original architecture of the Rancho Linda Vista still stands as it did in Lonesome Cowboys and many of the buildings have been preserved by the founders and artists who live there year round. Artists have since converted many spaces into their studios and the town seems to sustain itself. None of the original founders survive but because of laws within the purchase, Rancho Linda Vista stands to stay the same for a while. On a most magical of evenings I was treated to the Oracle State Park for the Super Moon Trail Music Festival. A special one night event consisting of local musicians spread out along a 1.2 mile hiking trail was happening. Much like Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, there was a surprise at every turn. A tree with a Mad Hatter perched underneath synthesizing sonic landscapes then an ancient adobe wall and a banjo player picking up intense natural reverb. Like Alice, I was feeding my head in Oracle.
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APPLE ORCHARDS
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By Jen Hitchcock
At this point in time, I’ve been in Los Angeles for over half my life. I still can’t believe I’ve lived here longer than the place where I grew up, Guilford, a small town along the shoreline of Connecticut. And by all accounts I am definitely now a Californian. I can’t imagine life anywhere else. Yet still, around this time every year, I am reminded that New England still runs through my veins. I will never be able to a get autumn out of my blood. It creeps in slowly until one late September or early October day I am going through the mundane tasks of every day life and it hits me--I feel it. Even if it is 99 degrees here in Southern California, fall takes a hold of me. It is a melancholy, a sense of longing, and a conflicted ache to want to both nest and wander. The wandering being not a travel that physically takes you somewhere, but one that is contemplative—the need to move with no destination while you disappear within yourself, reassess and find solace. I find myself staring out the window or getting in my car to drive and “escape” up Laurel Canyon and into the hills to meander along to Mulholland Drive for a few hours, although, this drive never quite takes me where I want to go. This year, mostly because of an essay I have been working on, I am thinking a lot about the apple orchards that were prominent in our town. Autumn is apple season. Every fall the flocks of out of towners that had just left at the end of summer, return in droves on the weekends to pick apples and take in the colorful foliage of our quaint town. Hot cider is a staple at many of the roadside fruit and vegetable stands. Now, I didn’t spend a lot of time hanging out in the apple orchards, but they did provide the scene for a few key coming-of-age moments. I took my first sips of alcohol amongst these trees—Southern Comfort was the drink of choice. I learned how to stick it to the Man for the first time using the orchards. We had always heard rumors that the family who owned all of the orchards would shoot you if they caught you amongst their trees. If they didn’t shoot you, well, they would definitely prosecute you to the highest extent of the law, you betcha. With this in mind, during the height of the season, my friends and I would hop the barbed fences to steal an apple each, and walk home thinking we were pretty bad ass. And also between the rows of trees is were is where I became blood sisters with my best friend who was also the first of many tortured and woefully unrequited love affairs in my life. Sigh. Oh, New England autumn! I am grateful you return to fill me with a sweet despair every year. It is the kind of longing that oddly feeds me and will help carry me through the excruciatingly mild beautiful weather our Southern California winter bestows on us. Jen Hitchcock is the owner of Book Show, a book and gift shop on N. Figueroa St in Highland Park. 5503 N. Figueroa St, 90042. www.bookshowla.com.
BOOK SHOW EVENTS Tuesday November 1st Collage & Cry Come do some collage! No need to cry if you don’t want to. Hosted by Rachel Curry 6:30 – 9pm $5 suggested donation Saturday November 5th Magic Workshop With Daniel perez 8pm-9:30pm $50.00 Friday November 11th Vermin on the Mount Literary reading Hosted by Jim Ruland 7:30pm Free Wednesdays November 16th and 30th Book Show Comedy Open Mic Hosted by Allison Sciulla Sign up 7:30 Starts at 8pm 5 minutes Free Friday November 18th “Waiting To Be Forgotten: Stories Of Crime And Heartbreak Inspired By The Replacements” Reading Featuring Josh Stallings, Eric Beetner, S.W. Lauden, Jay Stringer 7:30pm Free Saturday November 19th Les Bohem (Gleaming Spires, The Sparks) Performing and reading! 8pm Free Book Show will be closed for Thanksgiving November 23rd, 24th & 25th ONGOING EVENTS and WORKSHOPS EAT ART OPEN MIC Monthly, every 1st Friday Poetry and Prose open mic 8pm sign ups
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“IF I HAD A HAMMER”
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A READ Books Eagle Rock Flashback by Jeremy “Crunchy” Kaplan I AM WRECKING BALL January of 2007; my friend Ray & I enter a vacant storefront with grim countenances forming upon our mugs & heavy sledge hammers abiding upon our shoulders. We are here to deconstruct. We both bring our own specific skill sets to the party. Ray is an ex-marine. At an age when I was gingerly placing LSD blotters on my tongue & playing White Light White Heat on a loop, Ray was waking up every morning at 5 in the a.m. to do push-ups, run in mud, and get cursed out by older, accoutered men with guns. A fella like Ray is bound to be efficient with a sledge hammer and then some. Me? I once read “The Destructors” by Graham Greene. We are both prepared in our own ways. The storefront we were about to desolate had been, until recently, a tailor’s shop. Word on the street was that the original owner had retired and bequeathed the space (and rent) to his assistants, who had then taken to living, rather than tailoring, in said space. Tailoring, apparently, would have been a more effective means toward earning rent money. They were gone now, all those tailors, leaving behind a 650-sq. foot space with a dilapidated counter cutting across the center of the room and myriad empty cabinets unaccountably clustered about the walls. Ray and I planned on demolishing anything that was neither wall nor toilet. The void would soon be filled with shelves, books, and things literary. Smashing shit is to exercise what eating pizza & drinking beer is to consumption; this ain’t work, ‘tis gluttony. The hard part, aside from not smashing more than necessary, is dealing with the debris produced by all that conviviality. Ray’s first idea was to make use of his nearby American Legion dumpster, but subsequent to loading the bed of his truck and driving the requisite block-and-a-half, we discovered that a Legion member not named Ray had already filled said dumpster with his own personal detritus. With his sniper’s eye, Ray pinpointed a larger dumpster at the Foster’s Freeze, drove our load across the street, and then instructed me to ask a manager for permission to dump our load in their can, so to speak, while he maneuvered his truck into dumping position. I wanted to tell Ray that this was a bad plan, because (following a year of blissful unemployment) I no longer spoke to people, but I somehow felt that a declaration of my handicap might be met with unsympathetic skepticism from Mr. Marine. Thus, against all odds, I heroically confronted my social fears, and then reported back to Ray with the intel as he prepared to empty the trash from his truck. “Nuh uh,” I said truthfully. “Not gonna’ happen.” “What did you say? Did you talk to the manager? You offered him money, right?” Recalling what that Twain guy allegedly said about telling the truth, I told Ray: “This is way tootraumatic to remember. I was asking somebody something, somebody stared at me for eternity and then said something back. It just wasn’t ‘yes’ is all. It was the opposite. Let’s go.” “God almighty,” declared Ray. “You’re gonna make a funny kinda business man.” This was when it first occurred to me that opening a bookstore was going to make me a funnykind of business man, perhaps proffering me with innumerable opportunities to interact with grown people. Christ? Was it really worth it? Well, I was running out of money, and it beat getting another job.
SHELF BUILDING
In addition to having been an engineer in her pre-me life, my wife was raised by a father who routinely went around building stuff. Debbie knows all about tools, measurements, wood, joists, and other manly crap. Ray & I having effectively executed the baboon task assigned to us, Debbie entered the desolate premises the following morn with a fistful of diagrams, boxes of screws and nails, a screwdriver, a hammer, much wood, a saw, a neat power tool, and me. Her role in this shelf building business was to be planner, thinker, administrator, teacher, and problem solver. I was, as the previous sentence implied, the last tool in her sentence. “Shhh,” cooed Debbie, patting me on the head. “You don’t talk so much. Just hit the little nail with the little hammer and try to look pretty.” I wanted to use the power tool. Hitting the little nail with the little hammer was less fun than smashing the hard wood with the big sledge hammer, because the former demanded more accuracy than the latter. I lacked. The first half of the day began with me bending as many nails as I drove home. The second half of the day culminated with somebody creating a hammer-shaped indentation in a wall. I was beginning to suspect that I lacked a certain flair for creating, or at least harbored a certain flair for tantrums. “How are you able to make things,” I asked my wife that night, “without breaking them instead, or getting really mad and throwing tools through walls?” She shrugged. “My father was always building & repairing stuff around the house. From watching him, I guess I gathered that when you have a problem you find a solution & calmly work through it.” “That’s fucking weird,” I said. “In my house, like when the lawn mower didn’t work, my dad would stomp the shit out of it. Yeah. I watched my dad too. Once when he was having trouble chopping down a dead tree, he threw the axe over the fence and it hit a car driving by on the road behind our house. It was kinda funny when it was him.” “Not so funny now, is it, Chuckles?” “I feel like I’m gonna have an aneurysm & start cussing like a Scottish sheepherder. Is that funny?” Always full of plans, Debbie spent the next week teaching me how to be a creator. She edified me in the science of screwing & hammering. She learnt me about angles and hand measures and hownot to strip a screw head. When I made an error she’d offer words of encouragements such as now don’t throw my fucking hammer against our god damn wall you idiot. She halved my morning coffee intake. By the end of the week, under her sagacious tutelage, I had constructed several lovely bookshelves. Math Hurts “Tomorrow,” I said, “we should get here early and maybe we can build two whole shelves.” “Sure. At this rate,” she answered, “we might be open for business by March.” “But I thought the plan was to open in February. On mah birthday!” “It is the plan. But we have another 25 shelves to build. And then secure to the walls. And then fill with books. If we’re going to be building at a rate of two shelves per day…” “Sounds like math,” I sighed. “Sounds like math is going to curtail my dreams. Again.” That is the story of how I learned patience, manly building skills, and problem solving, while constructing 10% of READ Books’ bookshelves, prior to learning how to hire a competent handyman beginning to suspect that I lacked a certain flair for creating, or at least harbored a certain flair for tantrums. “How are you able to make things,” I asked my wife that night, “without breaking them instead, or getting really mad and throwing tools through walls?” She shrugged. “My father was always building & repairing stuff around the house. From watching him, I guess I gathered that when you have a problem you find a solution & calmly work through it.” “That’s fucking weird,” I said. “In my house, like when the lawn mower didn’t work, my dad would stomp the shit out of it. Yeah. I watched my dad too. Once when he was having trouble chopping down a dead tree, he threw the axe over the fence and it hit a car driving by on the road behind our
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POPULAR MURAL UNDERGOES RESTORATION One of the oldest surviving murals in Highland Park is in the midst of a major restoration project. “Mexico-Tenochtitlan: A Sequence of Time and Culture” was painted in 1996 by the mural arts collective “Quetzalcoatl Mural Project,” made up of Anthony Ortega, Andy Ledesma, Jaime & Dominic Ochoa, Ralph Corona, John “Zender” Estrada, and Jerry Ortega, on the side of what was then the Arroyo Furniture Store (now ZMS Academy). The 100-foot long mural depicts scenes of Chicano history and culture. The mural is visible to pedestrians and motorists on North Figueroa Street as well as to Gold Line passengers. In the wake of recent graffiti incidents, the popular mural is being restored by local artists Andy Ledesma, Anthony Ortega, Dominic Ochoa, Joe Bravo and friends. The team is working under the fiscal umbrella of Avenue 50 Studio and will happily accept any donations toward completion of the restoration project.
continued from page 32 house. It was kinda funny when it was him.” “Not so funny now, is it, Chuckles?” “I feel like I’m gonna have an aneurysm & start cussing like a Scottish sheepherder. Is that funny?” Always full of plans, Debbie spent the next week teaching me how to be a creator. She edified me in the science of screwing & hammering. She learnt me about angles and hand measures and how not to strip a screw head. When I made an error she’d offer words of encouragements such as now don’t throw my fucking hammer against our god damn wall you idiot. She halved my morning coffee intake. By the end of the week, under her sagacious tutelage, I had constructed several lovely bookshelves. Math Hurts. “Tomorrow,” I said, “we should get here early and maybe we can build two whole shelves.” “Sure. At this rate,” she answered, “we might be open for business by March.” “But I thought the plan was to open in February. On mah birthday!” “It is the plan. But we have another 25 shelves to build. And then secure to the walls. And then fill with books. If we’re going to be building at a rate of two shelves per day…” “Sounds like math,” I sighed. “Sounds like math is going to curtail my dreams. Again.” That is the story of how I learned patience, manly building skills, and problem solving, while constructing 10% of READ Books’ bookshelves, prior to learning how to hire a competent handyman
LA ART NEWS SECTION B
ARTISTS
Joanne Chase-Mattillo Manny Cosentino Raoul De La Sota David Abernethy Ruth De Nicola Linda Johnstone Allen Elaine Dizon Drewcilla Annese Jaydee Dizon Margaret Barto Karen Duckles Fern Bealmear Ann Dudrow Diane Behrens Edem Elesh Eric Bellis Troy Evans Jorge Bernal Laurie Fiacco Thomas Breeden Natalie Fratino
Elizabeth Medrano Carey James Gwen Freeman Antoinette Miller Amanda Kazarian Jeanie Frias Gurdon Miller Susan Kromka Cicely Gilman Cathi Milligan David Lasky Carlo Gian Gomes Daniel Gonzalez Kenneth Burton Lang Jr Mike M. Mollett Susan Moss Elva Lauter Leonard Greco Julie Nagesh Patricia Lee Rebeca Guerrero Karen Neubert Sonny Lipps Betty Wan Hamada Diane Owens Linda Lyke Cidne Hart Michelle Perone Sue Malloy Kevin Hass Beth Peterson Rosamaria Marquez Lynn Heinz Rebecca H Pollack Heather McLarty Sandy Huse
Guadulesa Rivera Connie Rohman Eliot Sekuler Carolyn Schiers Liz Smith Roderick Smith Kevin Spitze Stormie Art Barbara Sultan Howard Swerdlo Sergio Teran Toris Tngrian
J. Michael Walker Greger T. Walnum Hiroyuki Watanabe Tyler Waxman Todd Westover Wm. Earling Wheeler Madam X Ann Yu Chris Zambon Pierre Zubrinsky Madeleine Zygarewicz