In this Month's
18th Street News:

• Successful Holiday Fundraising
• Main Gallery: Shangri L.A.
• Project Room: Marcos Novak
• Pasillo Gallery: Intimate Odditites
• ARTIST-IN-RESIDENT:
  Marina Day
• NEW VISITING ARTIST-IN-RESIDENT from ALASKA:
  Sonya Kelliher Combs
• NEWS
• News from Previous Artists In Residence
• LINKS

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Welcome to News From 18th Street, the email newsletter of
18th Street Arts Center.

Our Holiday Fundraising efforts a Success!

We appreciate the many dear friends who contributed to 18th Street’s end of year campaign – collectively you contributed $5,265 dollars. Thank you all so much!

We look forward to sharing another year of provocative artmaking with you and your families.
Jan, Clay, Ronald and Ramla

Gary and Maddy Le Mel, Suzanne Lacy, Perry Vasquez, Lee LaPlante, Bruria Finkel, Charles Schewene, Barbara Smith, Lisa Freeman, Chris Burden, Karen Constine, Susan Crile, Phyllis Green, Cynthia Hypki, Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz, Steven Durland, Justin Yoffe, Bruce Robertson, Michael Fink and Melissa Bachrach, Madoka Yamamoto, Annette Johnson, George Minardos, Clayton Campbell, Angela Wales Kirgo, Valerie Fowler, Martha Koplin, Counterintuity, Marc Pally, Zoey Zimmerman, Steven Laff, Linda Yudin, Victor Ekpuk, Tara Sterling, Jeeun Park, Richard Erickson, Marvin and Judith Zeidler

Anibal Catalan, Debris Project, Installation, 2008 Courtesy of the Artist

SHANGRI L.A.: architecture as a state of flux
Shangri L.A. approaches architecture as something fluid and ephemeral, at times virtual, interactive, recycled and purely cosmetic, building on and dissecting what is already there, exploiting in between spaces, and shifting as needs, values, emotions and desires shift. The exhibition celebrates architects, and non-architects, who make work that serves as visual/structural enhancers and pressure valves which might one day help Los Angeles or a city like it be more fun and less monotonous, more livable and less alienating.

Artists include: Anibal Catalan, Debbie Hu Ricks, InfranaturaL, Marcos Lutyens, Daniela Frogheri, Fernando Meneses, Oyler Wu Collaborative, James Rojas, Chris Tallon
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Marcos Novak,Selected images from Garanti Galeri in Istanbul, 2008 Courtesy of the Artist

Project Room Gallery:
An Installation by Marcos Novak, 2009 Artist Fellow
A parallel project, Turbulent Shangri L.A., that will be taking place in the Project Room Gallery will be by our first 2009 Artist Fellow, Marcos Novak.  Through the encounter of this theme with the specific character of a particular city, Los Angeles, the project involves a challenge to develop a critical and visionary response rather than a quotidian extrapolation of statistics.  Mr. Novak, through an “eversion” technique, will fabricate forms based on viewers’ interactions with virtual and invisible components. 

Elena Wolek ,Untitled, plastic shopping bags Courtesy of the Artist

Artists include:
Melanie Berry, Sarah Boyce, Joseph Cochrane, Helen Geisler, Lucas Kazansky, Ka Man Lee, Cedar Miller, Gustavo Muñoz, Elyse Reardon, Zoma Crum Tesfa, Sarah Theden, Nathan Warner, Elizabeth Weber, and Elena Woley

Intimate Oddities - Curator's Statement

Intimate Oddities is a title that came to be as a result of photographs bearing witness to intimate sexual escapades with partners of both sexes, mixed media drawings containing silhouettes of women filled with the phone numbers of the artist’s ex-boyfriends, small ink drawings on paper depicting various people picking their noses that seemed odd yet true of us all...
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Marina Forstmann Happy Days Are Here Again , Mixed Media Assemblage Courtesy of the Artist

Marina Day's art making is a meditative form of experience and comminication. She utilizes materials that are fragmentary, yet familiar: old maps, prescriptions, ledgers, stamps, fabrics, children's game pieces, and journals. Her collages are missives documenting the precarious preciousnes of life. Every scrap is used as evidence of proof.

Currently, Ms. Day's work can be viewed at Pharmaka's group show.

Sonya Kelliher Combs,Fern Walrus Family Portraits, video still Courtesy of the Artist

Sonya Kelliher Combs, Artist In Residency is funded by a generous grant from the Rasmuson Foundation.

"Returning back to the 18th Street Art Center from holidays back home in Alaska I am reminded of what if feels like to sweat. The 90-degree difference and abundance of sun are opposites of home right now. I welcome the change of opening windows and turning on the fan versus applying layers of clothing and starting the wood stove. This is a time for me to meet new people, see great art, walk the beach, and continue the dialogue of making art. I carry on the conversation through paint, mark, stitch and bead. Although back home I employ similar technique and material I am looking to see how the California life will impact the work I make. I know that this time and place will afford me a chance to reflect and work, this I am thankful for."
Mrs. Combs on her residency with 18th Street

Visiting Int’l Artists in January
Anthony Jonhson, Australia
Margaret Bong, Malaysia

The James Irvine Foundation Continues There Support

It is with great joy that we share with you some exciting news, The James Irvine Foundation has awarded us with a $225,000 grant that will cover our programming that will support California artists to create new work and engage with audiences for the next 3 years.

Visions from the New California has been approved for renewal from The James Irvine Foundation!

Visions from the New California celebrates, supports, and promotes the work of six outstanding California visual artists in a calendar year from diverse communities - artists whose work may as yet be unfamiliar but whose compelling visions will define California in its next decades. The project also aims to introduce the artists and their communities to the opportunities for support available through artist residency programs in one of the six notable and highly regarded centers in California.

Consortium of participating residency programs:

18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica

Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside

Exploratorium, San Francisco

Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito

Kala Art Institute, Berkeley

The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

Visions from the New California is an intitiative of the Alliance of Artists Communities

Lisa Adams currently has a new works on display at Lawrence Asher Gallery

Suzanne Woodruff is icurrently in a group show at Pharmaka

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