artSpa energy assessment of the Hammer
View my contribution here:
http://plus1plus1plus.org/artSpa-energy-assessment/index
http://plus1plus1plus.org/artSpa-energy-assessment/ClaireCronin
(from the artSpa website, via Adam Overtone:)
In late August & September of 2009, artSpa completed an energy assessment of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, produced in partnership with Machine Project, to help kick off a year-long engagement between the two institutions. The assessment employed several artist-intuitives, -psychics, -ghosthunters, and -psychonauts in order to energetically map the Hammer, and to provide suggestions for improving its energetic interface for visitors, spirits, and museum administrators.
As with all artSpa events and programs, the contributors to this project are wonderful, accomplished, experimental artists and performers, who are also engaged in some form of healing-, psychic-, and/or shamanic-practice – some as "professionals," some as "dabblers," and others somewhere in between.
What likely underlies each of these artist-intuitives' dual-practices is a willingness to experiment with the most basic elements of thought, belief and sensation, and their capacity to both challenge and embrace the outcomes of their study. They are sublime investigators of purpose, presence, and practice, and through their toil they present us with yet another perspective, likely fantastic, and possibly real.
The following assessements are presented as a series of playful but serious documents that genuinely reflect the experiences of the artists involved. It is with the utmost sincerity that we offer these insights to the staff and visitors of the Hammer and Machine Project as they embark upon their journey together in what we all hope will be a warm and fruitful partnership.
We extend our gratitude to the Hammer Museum and Machine Project for making this project possible. Special thanks particularly to Mark Allen and Liz Glynn at Machine, and Ann Philbin, Ali Subotnick and the staff we encountered at the Hammer for their warmth and assistance. And of course a very special thanks to Claire Cronin, Davis & Davis Research Labs, Ecstatic Energy Consultants, Inc., Krystal Krunch, and Team Ouija for their heartfelt and studious contributions to this assessment.
http://plus1plus1plus.org/artSpa-energy-assessment/index
http://plus1plus1plus.org/artSpa-energy-assessment/ClaireCronin
(from the artSpa website, via Adam Overtone:)
In late August & September of 2009, artSpa completed an energy assessment of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, produced in partnership with Machine Project, to help kick off a year-long engagement between the two institutions. The assessment employed several artist-intuitives, -psychics, -ghosthunters, and -psychonauts in order to energetically map the Hammer, and to provide suggestions for improving its energetic interface for visitors, spirits, and museum administrators.
As with all artSpa events and programs, the contributors to this project are wonderful, accomplished, experimental artists and performers, who are also engaged in some form of healing-, psychic-, and/or shamanic-practice – some as "professionals," some as "dabblers," and others somewhere in between.
What likely underlies each of these artist-intuitives' dual-practices is a willingness to experiment with the most basic elements of thought, belief and sensation, and their capacity to both challenge and embrace the outcomes of their study. They are sublime investigators of purpose, presence, and practice, and through their toil they present us with yet another perspective, likely fantastic, and possibly real.
The following assessements are presented as a series of playful but serious documents that genuinely reflect the experiences of the artists involved. It is with the utmost sincerity that we offer these insights to the staff and visitors of the Hammer and Machine Project as they embark upon their journey together in what we all hope will be a warm and fruitful partnership.
We extend our gratitude to the Hammer Museum and Machine Project for making this project possible. Special thanks particularly to Mark Allen and Liz Glynn at Machine, and Ann Philbin, Ali Subotnick and the staff we encountered at the Hammer for their warmth and assistance. And of course a very special thanks to Claire Cronin, Davis & Davis Research Labs, Ecstatic Energy Consultants, Inc., Krystal Krunch, and Team Ouija for their heartfelt and studious contributions to this assessment.
BAD THING: A DARK PERFORMANCE PLAY January 22- 24th
Los Angeles, CA - Nasty, poetic, and surprisingly funny, BAD THING is a unique amalgamation of theater, installation, performance and painting. BAD THING circles around the body of American violence, exploring ideas of Western guilt and pleasure in a series of shifting scenarios that are often grotesquely humorous, sometimes tender, always distressingly familiar. This dark performance features six characters (a hallucinating conquistador, a brutally sadistic monk, a paranoid hidalgo, a grotesquely obsequious servant, and Jesus Christ in the guise of a fox) and six paintings that explore and complicate archetypal themes of dominance, submission, boredom, paranoia, and transcendence. BAD THING takes inspiration from17th century Spanish playwright Lope de Vega’s story of a repentant sadistic noble La Fianza Satisfecha, the diaries of Spanish conquistador-turned-healer Cabeza de Vaca, and Eduardo Galeano’s classic Open Veins of Latin America.
Audiences sit close to the action in an installation of Hartman’s crypto-religious paintings ensconced in a lumpy architecture of bloated Spanish colonial facades. What unfolds is a poetic narrative of sound, dialogue, silence, and image deftly articulated by performance, sound and visual artists. BAD THING features performance artists Franc Baliton, Rochelle Fabb, Simone Gad, Michael Morrissey, visual artist Candice Lin, and artist-musician Claire Cronin. The sound is scored by artist Adam Overton.
BAD THING runs two nights only, Friday January 22 and Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at Sea and Space Explorations at 4755 York Blvd in Highland Park. Admission is FREE. Reservations are recommended, as space is limited. Performance begins at 8pm sharp and will last just under an hour. No late admittance. For more info visit www.seaandspace.org or call (323) 982-0854.
Biographies
PAINTER-DIRECTOR
Asher Hartman
Asher Hartman is a painter, performance installation artist, and filmmaker. Hartman’s work has been exhibited extensively in Los Angeles and elsewhere including at the Whitney Biennial in collaboration with Curious Notch and Charles Long, the Beijing Open Performance Festival, the Images Festival, (Toronto), the Cultural Center of the Philippines (Manila), Recontres International (Paris/Berlin), MIX/NYC, and in solo and collaborative exhibitions at Sea and Space Explorations, LACE, Track 16, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Highways Performance Space, and New Image Art. He has curated a number of exhibitions including “Defense” at the Sweeney Art Gallery in Riverside, “Until We Come to One that Reminds Us,” (with Amy Green) at Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, and “Instruments of Risk” (with Carol McDowell) at Sea and Space Explorations. He served as co-director of Crazy Space, a gallery for experimental art and durational performance in Santa Monica, from 2000 to 2005 and teaches at the University of California, Riverside. Hartman received his BA from UCLA and MFA from CalArts. www.asherhartman.com
SONIC ACCOMPANIMENT
Adam Overton
Adam Overton is an artist, composer, performer, teacher and massage therapist living in los angeles, and is currently involved with a variety of non-profit artist spaces including Sea and Space Explorations, Machine Project, and the wulf. He teaches at Otis College of Art, College of the Canyons, and other institutions of higher learning.
CAST – Leonido, a young nobleman
Franc Baliton
Franc Baliton is a performance and installation artist who has written and performed numerous solo pieces, including works with the Rachel Rosenthal Company. Additionally, with his partner/collaborator, Michael Morrissey, he created works that include “It is Decidedly So,” “But Beautiful,” “Who Dreams the Dream” and “The Ties that Bind (Come Rain or Come Shine),” pieces for “Fairy” (Lauren Hartman, director), “Give and Take,” (Highways Performance Space). He has appeared with Empire of Teeth in Michael Sakamoto’s “Dr. Chi,” Rochelle Fabb’s “The Last Waltz,” and Empire’s presentation in Suzan Lori Park’s 365 Plays/365 Days. He performed with the Fabulous Monsters (“Voluptuous Madness,” “Psych Cabaret”) and with Keegan & Lloyd. He is a classically trained dancer who has received several commissions from the Japan American National Museum and other venues.
CAST - Philosopher
Claire Cronin
Claire Cronin makes drawings, paintings, performances and songs. Her work is usually an attempt to contact psychic worlds and express religious longing. In her past life, she was a monastic in a very strict order of ascetic nuns. She was born in the 80's and lives in Los Angeles.
CAST - Tizon, a servant
Simone Gad
Veteran performance and visual artist Simone Gad has exhibited and performed internationally in the New York, San Francisco, and LA performance scene since the 1980's. Her paintings have been exhibited widely including exhibitions in Belgium, Germany, Austria and Spain and she has performed in places such as The Knitting Factory, Dixon Place, the Nuyorican Poetry Club, Track 16 and Crazyspace. An actor since the age of 4, Simone has co-starred and guest-starred in films and television including Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Munsters Today Show, Speed and Lucinda/Serena/Marca Get High. She is a 6 time grant recipient and is represented by L2K Kontemporary in Los Angeles and Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco.
CAST – Jesus Christ
Candice Lin
Candice Lin received her MFA in New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004 and her double BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics at Brown University in 2001. Lin's work has been exhibited widely in Los Angeles, including Chung King Project, Luckman Gallery at California State University Los Angeles, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman College, China Art Objects, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Happy Lion, Armory Center for the Arts, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Betalevel, and the Los Angeles Tom Bradley Airport. Lin has also exhibited at the New York Underground Film Festival, Lisa Dent Gallery (SF), Milliken Gallery (Stockholm), Valenzuela Y Klenner Arte Contemporaneo (Bogota), and at Kino Lab at the Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw). She is a cofounder and director of the artist space, Monte Vista in East Los Angeles and has taught drawing and printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, Self-Help Graphics, and Chaffey College. Lin was awarded an artist residency at CESTA (Czech Republic) in 2004 and a 2009 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.
CAST – Cabeza de Vaca, an explorer
Michael Morrissey
Michael Morrissey has been performing for over 20 years in various venues across the U.S. and internationally. He was founding member of Al’s National Theater, and has performed in Los Angeles with the Actor’s Gang (“Porno”), The Fabulous Monsters (“Voluptuous Madness”) and Bottom’s Dream (“Erotic Curtsies”), and Empire of Teeth (“The Crook,” “365 Days/365 Plays”). He is a member of the Rachel Rosenthal Company, with which he has toured extensively. His original work, “Sacred Rabbit” was presented at Espace DbD in Los Angeles. He has reared numerous installations with his partner Franc Baliton. Morrissey holds an MFA from CalArts.
CAST – Monk
Rochelle Fabb
Rochelle Fabb is an award winning contemporary artist as well as a Producer/Writer/Director/Lighting Designer/Performer and Publicist working in theater, dance, art and television. Her mercurial, fantastical pieces range from solo performances to large scale, site-specific works incorporating installation and performance. Exhibition and performances include works at LACMA, Track 16, LA Theater Center, The Knitting Factory, Miles Playhouse, The 13th Annual New Genres Fest (Tulsa), Mobius, Boston, RAW Tempel, Berlin, Theatre Nogent, Marnay sur Seine, France, Ex-Teresa Int'l Festival (Mexico City), Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Espace DbD, and numerous productions at Highways Performance Space and Crazy Space in Santa Monica. She served as Co-Founder and Co-Director of Empire of Teeth, an artist collective developing new interdisciplinary performance works incorporating a broad range of media, and as a co-director of Crazy Space in Santa Monica. Her conventional theater credits include starring roles as: Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Alice in Alice in Wonderland, Mrs. Kendal in The Elephant Man, and Lizzie in The Rope Dancers.
Audiences sit close to the action in an installation of Hartman’s crypto-religious paintings ensconced in a lumpy architecture of bloated Spanish colonial facades. What unfolds is a poetic narrative of sound, dialogue, silence, and image deftly articulated by performance, sound and visual artists. BAD THING features performance artists Franc Baliton, Rochelle Fabb, Simone Gad, Michael Morrissey, visual artist Candice Lin, and artist-musician Claire Cronin. The sound is scored by artist Adam Overton.
BAD THING runs two nights only, Friday January 22 and Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at Sea and Space Explorations at 4755 York Blvd in Highland Park. Admission is FREE. Reservations are recommended, as space is limited. Performance begins at 8pm sharp and will last just under an hour. No late admittance. For more info visit www.seaandspace.org or call (323) 982-0854.
Biographies
PAINTER-DIRECTOR
Asher Hartman
Asher Hartman is a painter, performance installation artist, and filmmaker. Hartman’s work has been exhibited extensively in Los Angeles and elsewhere including at the Whitney Biennial in collaboration with Curious Notch and Charles Long, the Beijing Open Performance Festival, the Images Festival, (Toronto), the Cultural Center of the Philippines (Manila), Recontres International (Paris/Berlin), MIX/NYC, and in solo and collaborative exhibitions at Sea and Space Explorations, LACE, Track 16, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Highways Performance Space, and New Image Art. He has curated a number of exhibitions including “Defense” at the Sweeney Art Gallery in Riverside, “Until We Come to One that Reminds Us,” (with Amy Green) at Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, and “Instruments of Risk” (with Carol McDowell) at Sea and Space Explorations. He served as co-director of Crazy Space, a gallery for experimental art and durational performance in Santa Monica, from 2000 to 2005 and teaches at the University of California, Riverside. Hartman received his BA from UCLA and MFA from CalArts. www.asherhartman.com
SONIC ACCOMPANIMENT
Adam Overton
Adam Overton is an artist, composer, performer, teacher and massage therapist living in los angeles, and is currently involved with a variety of non-profit artist spaces including Sea and Space Explorations, Machine Project, and the wulf. He teaches at Otis College of Art, College of the Canyons, and other institutions of higher learning.
CAST – Leonido, a young nobleman
Franc Baliton
Franc Baliton is a performance and installation artist who has written and performed numerous solo pieces, including works with the Rachel Rosenthal Company. Additionally, with his partner/collaborator, Michael Morrissey, he created works that include “It is Decidedly So,” “But Beautiful,” “Who Dreams the Dream” and “The Ties that Bind (Come Rain or Come Shine),” pieces for “Fairy” (Lauren Hartman, director), “Give and Take,” (Highways Performance Space). He has appeared with Empire of Teeth in Michael Sakamoto’s “Dr. Chi,” Rochelle Fabb’s “The Last Waltz,” and Empire’s presentation in Suzan Lori Park’s 365 Plays/365 Days. He performed with the Fabulous Monsters (“Voluptuous Madness,” “Psych Cabaret”) and with Keegan & Lloyd. He is a classically trained dancer who has received several commissions from the Japan American National Museum and other venues.
CAST - Philosopher
Claire Cronin
Claire Cronin makes drawings, paintings, performances and songs. Her work is usually an attempt to contact psychic worlds and express religious longing. In her past life, she was a monastic in a very strict order of ascetic nuns. She was born in the 80's and lives in Los Angeles.
CAST - Tizon, a servant
Simone Gad
Veteran performance and visual artist Simone Gad has exhibited and performed internationally in the New York, San Francisco, and LA performance scene since the 1980's. Her paintings have been exhibited widely including exhibitions in Belgium, Germany, Austria and Spain and she has performed in places such as The Knitting Factory, Dixon Place, the Nuyorican Poetry Club, Track 16 and Crazyspace. An actor since the age of 4, Simone has co-starred and guest-starred in films and television including Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Munsters Today Show, Speed and Lucinda/Serena/Marca Get High. She is a 6 time grant recipient and is represented by L2K Kontemporary in Los Angeles and Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco.
CAST – Jesus Christ
Candice Lin
Candice Lin received her MFA in New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004 and her double BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics at Brown University in 2001. Lin's work has been exhibited widely in Los Angeles, including Chung King Project, Luckman Gallery at California State University Los Angeles, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman College, China Art Objects, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Happy Lion, Armory Center for the Arts, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Betalevel, and the Los Angeles Tom Bradley Airport. Lin has also exhibited at the New York Underground Film Festival, Lisa Dent Gallery (SF), Milliken Gallery (Stockholm), Valenzuela Y Klenner Arte Contemporaneo (Bogota), and at Kino Lab at the Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw). She is a cofounder and director of the artist space, Monte Vista in East Los Angeles and has taught drawing and printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, Self-Help Graphics, and Chaffey College. Lin was awarded an artist residency at CESTA (Czech Republic) in 2004 and a 2009 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.
CAST – Cabeza de Vaca, an explorer
Michael Morrissey
Michael Morrissey has been performing for over 20 years in various venues across the U.S. and internationally. He was founding member of Al’s National Theater, and has performed in Los Angeles with the Actor’s Gang (“Porno”), The Fabulous Monsters (“Voluptuous Madness”) and Bottom’s Dream (“Erotic Curtsies”), and Empire of Teeth (“The Crook,” “365 Days/365 Plays”). He is a member of the Rachel Rosenthal Company, with which he has toured extensively. His original work, “Sacred Rabbit” was presented at Espace DbD in Los Angeles. He has reared numerous installations with his partner Franc Baliton. Morrissey holds an MFA from CalArts.
CAST – Monk
Rochelle Fabb
Rochelle Fabb is an award winning contemporary artist as well as a Producer/Writer/Director/Lighting Designer/Performer and Publicist working in theater, dance, art and television. Her mercurial, fantastical pieces range from solo performances to large scale, site-specific works incorporating installation and performance. Exhibition and performances include works at LACMA, Track 16, LA Theater Center, The Knitting Factory, Miles Playhouse, The 13th Annual New Genres Fest (Tulsa), Mobius, Boston, RAW Tempel, Berlin, Theatre Nogent, Marnay sur Seine, France, Ex-Teresa Int'l Festival (Mexico City), Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Espace DbD, and numerous productions at Highways Performance Space and Crazy Space in Santa Monica. She served as Co-Founder and Co-Director of Empire of Teeth, an artist collective developing new interdisciplinary performance works incorporating a broad range of media, and as a co-director of Crazy Space in Santa Monica. Her conventional theater credits include starring roles as: Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Alice in Alice in Wonderland, Mrs. Kendal in The Elephant Man, and Lizzie in The Rope Dancers.
video up on THIS los angeles
view it here: http://www.vimeo.com/8432246
or: http://thislosangeles.com/blog/
or: http://thislosangeles.com/blog/
CALL IT FOLK blog write-up
http://callitfolk.blogspot.com/
"Claire Cronin reveals so much of herself in her music and her art, yet very little of her life. We know she was born in Santa Monica in the 1980s. She plays guitar, writes very intimate, quiet, personal songs, and her thought-provoking art includes watercolors and pencil illustrations..."
"Claire Cronin reveals so much of herself in her music and her art, yet very little of her life. We know she was born in Santa Monica in the 1980s. She plays guitar, writes very intimate, quiet, personal songs, and her thought-provoking art includes watercolors and pencil illustrations..."
since last spring:
**residency at ELSEWHERE artist collaborative in greensboro, nc. you can hear songs from my final project there on the internet, or order a copy from me. here's more information: http://elsewhereevents.vox.com/library/post/a-conversation-with-claire-cronin.html
**various music shows, updated on the myspace.
coming soon: november 7th at 1431 ocean ave, santa monica (bleicher/golightly gallery), 8 pm with neil holyoak. november 16th at the el cid in echo park, 8:30
**various music shows, updated on the myspace.
coming soon: november 7th at 1431 ocean ave, santa monica (bleicher/golightly gallery), 8 pm with neil holyoak. november 16th at the el cid in echo park, 8:30
more belated news:
*solo show at indie collective in culver city, "pilgrims of doubt and sacrifice," drawings and paintings. february 28th- april 10th. fmi: www.indiecollective.com
*illustrations appearing in the past two issues of razorcake zine, a non-profit punk DIY deal. fmi: razorcake.org
*illustrations appearing in the past two issues of razorcake zine, a non-profit punk DIY deal. fmi: razorcake.org
Gawdawful performing at "Sound in Space II"
On February 13th, I will be performing a medieval morality play with Gawdawful, the mystical theatre group at "Sound in Space II."
To take place at the Sea & Space Explorations gallery.
http://www.seaandspace.org/soundinspace2.html#begin
Friday, 2/13/09 at 8PM - Heavenly Hex
- A MISTical magical show show and tour of the deep regions of your twilight zone.
Get your stars read or partake in a group hypnosis and if you still have questions, ask the Ouija. On this Friday the 13th, the heavenly hex will be lifted, the secrets of the universe will be unlocked and the riddles of existence will be answered. Performances and presentations by Susan Allen, Gawdawfful Theater, Katie Bachler, Hiss-Jico-Hum, Candace Lin, and Madam Pamita.
To take place at the Sea & Space Explorations gallery.
http://www.seaandspace.org/soundinspace2.html#begin
Friday, 2/13/09 at 8PM - Heavenly Hex
- A MISTical magical show show and tour of the deep regions of your twilight zone.
Get your stars read or partake in a group hypnosis and if you still have questions, ask the Ouija. On this Friday the 13th, the heavenly hex will be lifted, the secrets of the universe will be unlocked and the riddles of existence will be answered. Performances and presentations by Susan Allen, Gawdawfful Theater, Katie Bachler, Hiss-Jico-Hum, Candace Lin, and Madam Pamita.
Talking to Saint Francis: Claire Cronin, A Solo Show
At Sea and Space Explorations, November 29th - December 7th, 2008
Reception: Saturday, November 29th, 8- 11 PM
FMI: http://seaandspace.org/
Reception: Saturday, November 29th, 8- 11 PM
FMI: http://seaandspace.org/
belated news: illustrations in LA record
i've been making pictures of bands for LA record.
issue 8 (forthcoming): deerhoof
issue 7: calexico
issue 6: witch, the spits
issue 8 (forthcoming): deerhoof
issue 7: calexico
issue 6: witch, the spits
picture show at sirens & sailors boutique
i'll be showing some paintings and drawings at sirens & sailors in echo park. there is an event attached to it:
fall new goods party!
october 3rd, 7 to midnight
1104 mohawk street, echo park
pictures by claire cronin
sounds by the sweet sweet things
new fashion by a lot of designers
drinks sponsored by sparks (oh my)
come on over!
fall new goods party!
october 3rd, 7 to midnight
1104 mohawk street, echo park
pictures by claire cronin
sounds by the sweet sweet things
new fashion by a lot of designers
drinks sponsored by sparks (oh my)
come on over!
zine: the society for salvific love & night vision
a collaborative zine of writings and images on occultish activity and "spirituality." the first issue is finished and can be found in bedrooms and a handful of special places across the country. contact me to obtain a copy!
mermaid shell divination at Sea & Space
As part of this summer's artSpa series of performances, lectures and adventures...
Sunday July 27
dedicated to the sea, and to birthday transcircumnavigator Jeanne Baré (b. 1740)
2 - 4pm: Performative Mermaid Shell Readings with Claire Cronin
Exploring the role of the sea siren in archetype and myth through telling free fortunes with sea shells. Expect elaborate pageantry and underwater insights.
at Sea and Space Explorations
4755 York Blvd Los Angeles CA 90042
http://seaandspace.org/resort.html#start
Sunday July 27
dedicated to the sea, and to birthday transcircumnavigator Jeanne Baré (b. 1740)
2 - 4pm: Performative Mermaid Shell Readings with Claire Cronin
Exploring the role of the sea siren in archetype and myth through telling free fortunes with sea shells. Expect elaborate pageantry and underwater insights.
at Sea and Space Explorations
4755 York Blvd Los Angeles CA 90042
http://seaandspace.org/resort.html#start
fortune telling performance at eighteen-thirty
this saturday, may 31st, I will be telling fortunes using paper oragami oracles (remember, 1st grade?) as part of the softboiled eggies record release party.
information follows:
May 31 2008
Time: Doors at 8pm
Cost: $7 before 10pm, $10 after
*eighteen-thirty and Tiny Creatures present: "Soft Boiled Bodies" A Record Release Celebration*
Local Los Angeles DIY band Softboiled Eggies will be celebrating the release of their second album on UK Label Upset the Rhythm May 31st, 2008 on the eighteen-thirty rooftop overlooking downtown Los Angeles with other local bands: Black Black, Pocahaunted, and Weave; and artists and performers: Ellen Nguyen, Tall Paul Gellman, Claire Cronin, Emily Kuntz, Mecca Andrews, and Crops and Rawbers
As Tall Paul embroiders elaborate body costumes in one room, Mecca Andrews performs her enchanting dance show on the central staircase, and mystical fortune readings in the fire escape, the rooftop will host video projections by Emily Kuntz, free desserts presented by Crops and Rawbers, and live musical performances by local DIY bands Black Black, Pocahuanted, and Weave. The night will be topped off with a musical art performance by LA artists Tall Paul Gellman and eighteen-thirty's Samuel White and Alex Black. Softboiled Eggies will be headlining the night and performing songs off their new album, as well as favorites from their debut album, "Egg Soldiers".
For more info, go to www.myspace.com/thesoftboiledeggies or www.eighteen-thirty.com
information follows:
May 31 2008
Time: Doors at 8pm
Cost: $7 before 10pm, $10 after
*eighteen-thirty and Tiny Creatures present: "Soft Boiled Bodies" A Record Release Celebration*
Local Los Angeles DIY band Softboiled Eggies will be celebrating the release of their second album on UK Label Upset the Rhythm May 31st, 2008 on the eighteen-thirty rooftop overlooking downtown Los Angeles with other local bands: Black Black, Pocahaunted, and Weave; and artists and performers: Ellen Nguyen, Tall Paul Gellman, Claire Cronin, Emily Kuntz, Mecca Andrews, and Crops and Rawbers
As Tall Paul embroiders elaborate body costumes in one room, Mecca Andrews performs her enchanting dance show on the central staircase, and mystical fortune readings in the fire escape, the rooftop will host video projections by Emily Kuntz, free desserts presented by Crops and Rawbers, and live musical performances by local DIY bands Black Black, Pocahuanted, and Weave. The night will be topped off with a musical art performance by LA artists Tall Paul Gellman and eighteen-thirty's Samuel White and Alex Black. Softboiled Eggies will be headlining the night and performing songs off their new album, as well as favorites from their debut album, "Egg Soldiers".
For more info, go to www.myspace.com/thesoftboiledeggies or www.eighteen-thirty.com
Jane Goodall and The Wild Chimpanzees at TELIC
I'll be performing with a workshop group at TELIC this Saturday, May 24th around 8:30, as part of artist Rachel Mayeri's "Primate Cinema" project. To quote directly from TELIC's site:
The live performance Jane Goodall and The Wild Chimpanzees explores what it means to be animal, and how documentary dramatizes nature. The troop includes: Suzan Averitt, Claire Cronin, Penny Folger, Estela Garcia, Dave Johnson, Diane Lefer, Adam Overton, and Joe Seeley. This performance is one of a series of experiments developed in the 3-week workshop, How to Act Like an Animal.
FMI: http://www.telic.info/jane-goodall-and-the-wild-chimpanzees.yeah
The live performance Jane Goodall and The Wild Chimpanzees explores what it means to be animal, and how documentary dramatizes nature. The troop includes: Suzan Averitt, Claire Cronin, Penny Folger, Estela Garcia, Dave Johnson, Diane Lefer, Adam Overton, and Joe Seeley. This performance is one of a series of experiments developed in the 3-week workshop, How to Act Like an Animal.
FMI: http://www.telic.info/jane-goodall-and-the-wild-chimpanzees.yeah
featured artist in MULE magazine, issue five!
Some of my work, as well as a nice little interview page appears in Issue 5 of the fabulous Chicagoan art and music zine called Mule. You can view it all online at www.mulemagazine.com, or head over to one of the various nationwide locations where you can pick up a copy for free!
CDs used for Gary Wilson show
Some of my hand-painted CD cases were used to house the inimitable Gary Wilson's latest release on the Human Ear Music label. This was on April 26th at Eighteen-Thirty in Echo Park.
Issue V of groupworkLA: the portrait issue
An image from the wolf series was included in this echo park zine. You can pick one up for $10 at:
eighteen-thirty
1830 sunset blvd
los angeles, CA
eighteen-thirty
1830 sunset blvd
los angeles, CA
Tiny Creatures group show
Art Opening no. 9
Tiny Creatures, Family Bookstore, and The Smell present:
"The Three Burritos"
Saturday March 29th, 2008
628 N. Alvarado, Echo Park
8-11pm
with work by Athena, Broccoli, Cali De Witt, Claire Cronin, Jerry Hsu, Jesse Spears, Kevin Spanky Long, Matthew Hopkins, Pocahaunted: Amanda and Bethany, and Sammy Harkham. More TBA!
Closing show on April 19th with No Age and other performerz.
Echo Curio group show
Some of my new and glittery pieces are in the Echo Curio group show in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Expect to find a cape of many colors, voodoo wolves and two delicate drawings. Check out www.echocurio.com for information like this:
ECHO CURIO EXHIBITION OPENING AND RECEPTION
OPEN CLOSETS - SIx Toes and a Tail
Friday, August 31st - 8pm to Midnight
Friends + Food + Drinks + Cover Bands
ECHO CURIO EXHIBITION OPENING AND RECEPTION
OPEN CLOSETS - SIx Toes and a Tail
Friday, August 31st - 8pm to Midnight
Friends + Food + Drinks + Cover Bands
Painting featured in MISQ magazine
Order your copy from http://www.myspace.com/MISQmag! 02/07
