ARTNIGHT {A Free Event}
Saturday, May 1, 6-10pm

PARKING will be AVAILABLE at Les Kelley Medical Center on Colorado between 19th & 20th
& at Crossroads Scholl for Arts & Sciences

MAIN GALLERY:

Carla Herrera-Prats
(photo courtesy of artist)

PROJECT ROOM:

Matthias Merkel Hess
(photo courtesy of artist)

International Artists Open Studios:

Chris Fox (Australia)

Pasillos I:

Clayton Campbell, from the Digital Wagner series

ON STAGE:
TBA

Saturday, May 1, 6-10pm

Join us for another amazing night of art! In the parking lot we will have a surprise performance and throughout the evening we will have VICC Entertainment who will light up the evening with video screens and projections of our very own present and past artists.

MAIN GALLERY:
CARLA HERRERA-PRATS
I Overheard Two People Striking Up A Conversation About The Injustice of Working Together

April 1 – June 25, 2010
Reception: Saturday, May 1, 6-10pm

Artists Carla Herrera-Prats and Matthias Merkel Hess elevate 18th Street’s vision for an interactive arts laboratory to the next level. On May 1, 2010 Pratts and Hess will welcome the public into their projects that foster experimentation and investigation tied to 18th Street’s Status Report: Creative Economy theme.

Herrera-Prats' project explores the role creative processes play in pairing standardized education and democracy. Herrera-Prats looks closely at the history, design and fabrication of the first standardized test-scoring machines.

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PROJECT ROOM:
MATTHIAS MERKEL HESS
Fine Art 626-394-3963

April 1 – June 25, 2010
Reception: Saturday, May 1, 6-10pm

Hess’ approach to his project will consist of him contracting out his artistic services to the public. Merkel Hess services will include expertise in a variety of media, which will be advertised around Los Angeles through bandit signs; the same type of guerilla marketing used for many fly-by-night businesses. The project’s overall goal is to comment on the economic status of artists and how our society values artistic labor, and at the same time bring Merkel Hess recognition as an artist.

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Visiting & International Artists
Open Studios

2009 Open Studios New and recent works by 18th Street Artists-In-Residence: Luciana Abait, Lita Albuqurque, Karl Doerrer-Attaway, Michael W. Barnard, Clayton Campbell, Continuum Studio, Electronic Cafe International, EZTV, Marina Day Forstmann, Bernadette Fox, Yvette Gellis, Ichiro Irie, Arzu Arda Kosar, Dan Kwong, David McDonald Australia
Chris Fox

18th Street Connect:
An opportunity to learn about Santa Monica based and greater Los Angeles organizations.

Organizations include: Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, California Laywers for the Arts, Pico Youth and Family Center, PS Arts, Music Angelica and YWCA

Pasillos I
Clayton Campbell presents his Digital Wagner series, a collection of digital prints, in-conjunction with LA Opera's, Richard Wagner's The Ring

Pasillos II
TBA

Bar Hosted by: IZZE sparkling juice, Pama Pomegranate Liqueur & HPNOTIQ

ArtNight is supported in part by the cultural funding initiatives of the City of Santa Monica.

18th Street Arts Center programs are generously funded by the City of Santa Monica, the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, California Community Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Irvine Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and the Getty Foundation.