OPENING RECEPTION {LOVE IN A CEMETERY}
Saturday, January 23, 7-10pm

PARKING will be AVAILABLE at Les Kelley Medical Center on Colorado between 19th & 20th

photo by Conseulo Velasco

David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton (Australia), Magic Mountain, 2009

JungHo Oak (Korea), Central Park, 2008

Susanna Knittel (Switzerland), Matrilineage Project, 2009

MAIN GALLERY:
LOVE IN A CEMETERY
curated by Robert Sain

January 23 – March 26, 2010
Reception: Saturday, January 23, 7-10pm

On Saturday, January 23, 18th Street Arts Center kicks-off its 2010 season with Love in a Cemetery. Robert Sain, LACMAlab founding director, and LA based visual artist Andrea Bowers, art administrator Pauline Kamiyama collaborate with the students of Otis MFA Public Practice and guest artist Olga Koumoundouros to transform 18th Streets gallery into a unique visual arts laboratory. This expansive collaboration between artist, curator, graduate students, and community organizations will consist of a participatory laboratory that sponsors community dialogues, public presentations and interventions, exhibits of artworks and project data to explore the social and political dimension of art organizations.

Otis students and their community organizations are as follows:

Jamie Crooke
- Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic

Rachael Filsinger & Ella Tetrault
- Homeless Youth

Gabrielle Levine & David Russell
- Pico Youth And Family Center
- Rise Above Plastics
- Surfrider Foundation
- Algalita Marine Research Foundation

Felicia Montes & Rodrigo Marti
- Homies Unidos

Carmen Uriarte
- Norco Rehabilitation Center Medium Security Correctional Facility

More on the Exhibit >>

Visiting & International Artists
Open Studios

Australia
David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton

Korea
Jung Ho Park

Switzerland
Susanna Knittel

Local Artists-In-Residence Open Studios

Arzu Arda Kosar
Ichiro Irie

Pasillos I
Selected artworks from Santa Monica City College Fine Art Program

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.