December 1, 2011-January 31, 2012

Ahn Sungseok was born in South Korea in 1985. He graduated from the Sangmyun Univeristy with a degree in Photography and visual media. His artist practice consists of him synthesizing or juxtaposing two spaces on one photograph for his own special experiences producing an accidental “deja-vu” like image. The memories in Ahn’s head meet new images in reality creating two different time periods.  When searching for inspiration for his work, he looks for things whose surroundings have been changed, but have not lost their original form and cultural heritage itself have remained unchanged.

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MATANA ROBERTS PHOENIX: A Radical Exploration of Sight/Sound/Journey

 Matana Roberts: Saxophone, composition

Jeff Parker: Electric guitar

Alex Cline: Drums

Friday, February 17, 2012

8:00 pm

The Edye Second Space at the Broad Stage

Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center

1310 11th St., Santa Monica, CA 90401

 Santa Monica, CA-18th Street Arts Center is pleased to announce internationally recognized saxophonist, composer and sound conceptualist, Matana Roberts in concert at the Edye Second Space at the Broad Stage in the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center on February 17th at 8 pm. Roberts and her dynamic ensemble will premiere her latest original works in an intimate performance.

 More than a jazz musician, Roberts is an artist who translates images, memories and personal experiences into avant-garde compositions. Inspired by her own African American genealogy and oral traditions, as well as the roots and history of the New Orleans jazz scene, Roberts’ pieces are often musical journeys through time and space. By using improvisational sound techniques and visual elements, Roberts gives her audience an electric, multi-sensory experience.

Chicago-born and New York-based, Roberts has performed across the U.S., Europe, and Canada and has recorded five solo albums and numerous collaborative projects. Investigating various forms of performance, she has created alongside visionary experimentalists in the disciplines of dance, poetry, visual art and theater. Roberts is the first recipient of the 18th Street Arts Center’s Make-Jazz Residency funded by the Herb Albert Foundation.

While free and open to the public, this event has limited seating. Reservations required by February 14, 2012.

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RSVP by February14, 2012 at rsvp@18thstreet.org

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For press passes and inquiries please contact Amber Jones, 310-453-3711 Ext 108, ajones@18thstreet.org

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ABOUT 18TH STREET ARTS CENTER

18th Street Arts Center is a community which values contemporary art making as an essential part of a vibrant, just and healthy society. Its mission to provoke public dialogue through contemporary art making.

18th Street Arts Center supports the work of individual artists and nonprofit arts organizations and fosters the public’s engagement with a spectrum of approaches to contemporary ideas that reflects the cultural richness of the region.  Focusing on financial and technical support of the creative projects by California artists, 18th Street maintains three programs that reflect its mission: a Residency Program, a Visiting Artist-in-Residence Program, and a Public Events and Presenting Program.

Gallery hours: Monday – Friday, 11 am – 6 pm

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A memorial service planned by his family will be held on

Saturday February 4^th, 11:00 am at Mosaic Church

7107 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles. The service is open to the public.

Ronald was a part of the 18th Street Arts Center family for twelve years having begun his journey with this organization as an intern in 1999 before spending several years living in Istanbul, Turkey where he developed and directed the Aden Art Center, a space dedicated to exhibitions, performances, artist residencies and workshops. He returned to Los Angeles in 2005 and served as Art Director Assistant at 18^th Street until 2007. That year he was promoted to Program Coordinator, a position that he held until 2011 when he moved on from 18th Street Arts Center to new opportunities.

Ronald was a dedicated father of two amazing boys, a friend and a supporter of artists from all over the world. He had a true love of the arts, a great sense of humor, robust energy and great passion for life. He will be sorely missed as part of our community. We mourn his loss, and send wishes for peace, comfort and love for his family.

Ronald is survived by his two sons Everen and Devante, his mother and father Annette and Rafael Lopez, his sisters Robyn Tubbs and Danielle Lopez, his brother Rafael Lopez and his wife, the mother of his two children, Christine Lopez.

18th Street Arts Center has set up an altar at our offices in memory of Ronald. We invite his loved ones, friends and colleagues to contribute to this remembrance through flowers, candles and cards.

Loving contributions are appreciated and may be made in care of his sister Danielle Lopez through PayPal at https://www.paypal.com. Please click on send money and then direct your gifts to Danielle’s email address at dnlllopez(at)yahoo.com

Please check back again for more details regarding his memorial and other ways to support Ronald’s family. We will continue to update this webpage.

Cards may be sent to his parents home
4026 E. Michigan Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90063

Sincerely,

18th Street Arts Center

The Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival is organized by Glenn Phillips of the Getty Research Institute and Lauri Firstenberg of LAXART.

Spine of the Earth was originally created on El Mirage Dry Lake bed in the Mojave Desert of California in the Fall of 1980.
It was an ephemeral pigment based land work that was commenced with a performance by Long Beach State University art students who laid red, yellow and black pigment on the desert floor in a geometric pattern over six hundred feet in diameter.

Albuquerque used the earth as an almost two-dimensional drawing surface and the final piece could only be seen in its entirety from the sky above.
For Spine Of The Earth 2011, Albuquerque will emphasize the connection between the piece on the earth and its view from above with a performance event at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook.

Note: Lita needs volunteer participants for this large scale performance. If you are interested in being a part of this historical piece and available Sunday January 22nd from 8am to 2pm, please sign up HERE

Location: Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook

6300 Hetzler Rd Culver City, Ca 90232

Time: 12 pm- 2 pm

More information on this public performance coming soon…….

February 17, 2012 8:00 pm

Seating is limited at this event and rsvp is required.  rsvp@18thstreet.org

Musician Line-up

Matana Roberts on saxophone, composition

Jeff Parker on electric guitar

Alex Cline on drums

Location: the Edye Second Space at the Broad Stage

1310 11th Street, Santa Monica

Matana’s Work: Matana (mah-tah-nah) Roberts is a dynamic saxophonist, composer and improviser, who tries to expose in her music the mystical roots and spiritual traditions of American creative expression. She has appeared on recordings and in performances in the U.S., Europe, and Canada with her own ensembles as well as with the jazz trio Sticks And Stones, of which she was a founding and core member.
Check out one of her performances,”Live in London”:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwwuubhJTLc

With less than a week left until the unveiling of Lita Albuquerque’s Performance, Spine of the Earth 2012, Lita is still accepting volunteers interested in participating in this re-interpretation of her seminal 1980 Mojave Desert earthwork. Volunteer for this performance and become a part of art history! This large-scale outdoor project is presented in conjunction with 18th Street Arts Center and the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival organized by Glenn Phillips of the Getty Research Institute and Lauri Firstenberg of LAXART.            

To participate in this historical piece taking place at the breathtaking Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook (6300 Hetzler Road, Culver City) on Sunday, January 22nd from 8am to 2pm, please sign up at:  www.spineoftheearth2012.com  PROJECT ROOM: Michiko Yao
Artist Michiko Yao is in residence in the 18th Street Arts Center Project Room from January 3rd through March 31st.  Michiko is a recipient of the 2012 Visions from the New California Award supported by the Alliance of Artist Communities. Continuing 18th Street’s approach of presenting its galleries as artist laboratories, Michiko will produce new photo and video works and host several open studio nights to dialog about her practice. Feel free to join her on the following Thursday evenings from 4 pm to 7 pm: January 26th, February 2nd, 11th and 23rd, and March 8th and 22nd.  Born in Osaka, Japan, Michiko is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the psychology behind unique social behaviors and fantasies of Japanese women, and the relationship of Western and Japanese imperialism. For more information on her work visit: www.michikoyao.com

This month, 18th Street Arts Center and artist Vincent Ramos kick-off the 2012 Latino Community Access Participation (CAPS) project, consisting of a 10-week series of investigative art workshops taking place every Saturday to serve Latino youth at the Virginia Avenue Park Teen Center in Santa Monica. The workshops will focus on exploring the history of the Mexican-American community in Santa Monica through walking excursions, group projects, guest speakers, and film and video viewing. At the end of the workshop, the youth participants will fuse their findings to create an art installation to present at 18th Street’s next ArtNight on April 14.

18th Street Arts Center will host its intimate Benefit Dinner where friends will join together in celebration of 18th Street’s many successes as an internationally recognized creative community supporting contemporary artists and culture.  Private studio tours with resident artists, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, guest speakers and a raffle of an artwork from a notable artist will also be a part of the gala. Mark your calendars for April 21, 2012 from 6-10 pm, because this is an event you won’t want to miss!

Thanks for Helping 18th Steet
 18th Street Arts Center thanks all of our friends, supporters, and artists that donated to our 2011 Year End Appeal. With your generous help, we are able to continue our work in supporting local and visiting artists or provide free events to the public. Thank you very much! If you would like to help us reach our $3,000 goal for our year-end appeal, it’s not too late – we are almost there. Click HERE to Donate Now. (Image Caption “Collaboration Labs” Opening, September 24, 2011, photo cedit: Wyatt Colon) 
Artist in Resident News  

Resident Artist Yvette Gellis is participating in a group show entitled To Live and Paint in LA, opening at the Torrance Art Museum on January 21, 2012. (Image Caption: “Breaking Point”, Exterior, 66″x102″, oil, acrylic, pencil, 2011, photo courtesy of artist)

Resident Artists Henriette Brouwers and John Malpede, founders of L.A.P.D.(Los Angeles Poverty Department) are hosting the Festival for All Skid Row Artists on January 27th and 28th from 12 pm to 4 pm in Gladys Park for participant artists from that community. California Lawyers for the Arts, an organization in Resident at 18th Street, is offering three workshops this month that will address the following issues: artist immigrant/non-immigrant visas, business entities for creative projects, and a live webinar on public art contracts. For more information on the dates and location of these workshops visit: http://www.calawyersforthearts.org/calendar/socal

Resident Artist Arzu Kosar, organizer of 18th Street’s notorious yarn bombing at our 2011 June ArtNight, is continuing the momentum of her group, YBLA (Yarn Bomb L.A.). On January 22, 2012 at 6:30 pm, YBLA will present their works for Art Soup Night at the BA restaurant in Highland Park in efforts to raise seed money for their upcoming project Chains of Friendship. They also have a new show entitled Forest for the Trees opening this month at the Craft and Folk Art Museum. The opening reception is January 28, 2012 from 6 pm to 9 pm.

18th Street Organization in Residence, Otis College’s M.F.A.Public Practice debuts in an exhibition entitled Portable Parks IV: Past, Present, Future = A.L.L., by Bonnie Ora Sherk, January 27 through February 5. This is a large-scale garden and series of public art projects that will be at the Santa Monica Place Mall in conjunction with the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. For more information on this project visit: http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/events/portable-parks-iv-past-present-future-a-l-l-by-bonnie-ora-sherk/

Get Your Tickets to the Affordable Art Fair L.A, running January 18-22, 2012. CLICK HERE to buy tickets.
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Kristian Skylstad (born in Oslo, Norway 1982) has been working as a photographer, gallerist, curator, fiction writer, art critic and videoartist and is dealing with an ongoing conceptual art practice that is mostly connected to poetry, which lately has been built down to give more time for his documentaries. The last three years he’s been working on the 97 min long documentary Violence of Silence, which is made in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, and is dealing with the ongoing great depression. One year ago he started the artist run gallery NoPlace (Oslo) together with Stian Gabrielsen, Petter Buhagen and Karen Nikgol. His work is mimicking a strongly subjective approach, but this is just a method for getting attention towards an extensive output of the collective research, aesthetics and political standpoints of his own generation. Click here to see more of Kristian’s work

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Lita Albuquerque Re-imagines Historic Ephemeral Art Work

                            January 22, 2012 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook (6300 Hetzler Road; Culver City)

Santa Monica, CA-In conjunction with the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, 18th Street is proud to present resident artist Lita Albuquerque’s recreation of her seminal work Spine Of The Earth.

 This large-scale art performance will take place at the breathtaking Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City, in conjunction with the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival organized by Glenn Phillips of the Getty Research Institute and Lauri Firstenberg of LAXART. 

Spine of the Earth was originally created on the El Mirage Dry Lake bed in the Mojave Desert of California in the fall of 1980. It was a transient pigment-based land work that commenced with a performance by Long Beach State University art students who laid red, yellow and black pigment on the desert floor. Albuquerque used the Earth as a two-dimensional drawing surface with a spiraling geometric pattern that was over six hundred feet in diameter. The final piece could only be seen in its entirety from hundreds of feet in the air.

For Spine Of The Earth 2012, Albuquerque is re-imaging her seminal project from 1980 in an entirely new context with an innovative component of suspense that emphasizes the spectral line connecting the Earth’s core to the sky above.  At 12:00 pm, over 500 people participating in this performance will reveal the surprise to spectators watching at the base of the hill with choreography by LA based choreographers Wife. Attendees to this phenomenal event are guaranteed to walk away with an unprecedented art experience.

To sign up to participate in the performance, volunteers should visit: http://www.spineoftheearth2012.com/

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ABOUT LITA ALBUQUERQUE

Lita Albuquerque is an internationally renowned installation, environmental artist, painter and sculptor. She has developed a visual language that brings the realities of time and space to a human scale in ways that are simultaneously ancient and futuristic. For decades she has created large scale ephemeral pigment pieces in desert sites including the Pyramids of Giza and more recently the ice desert of Antarctica where she led an expedition and team of scientists and artists that culminated in the first and largest ephemeral art work created on the continent. Often best seen from space, Albuquerque’s work challenges perspective, and the perpetually shifting relationships between bodies in space.

Her paintings are a materialization of the ideas about color, light and perception first created in her ephemeral works. Through her use of pure pigments, gold leaf and copper, she engages perceptual and alchemical shifts in the viewing subject.  Her work was recently seen at MOCA in The Artist’s Museum exhibition and was featured in Art Paris 2011. Her solo show 287 Steps opens on January 21^st, the night before her large scale ephemeral work Spine of the Earth 2012 is performed in conjunction with the Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time Performance Festival. 287 Steps features a new body of work and will be on view at Craig Krull Gallery in Bergamot Station through February 25^th, 2012.

Albuquerque is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including three National Endowment for the Arts, the Cairo Biennale Prize and a National Science Foundation Artist Grant.  Albuquerque’s work is included in collections at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Trust, and The Los Angeles County Museum, among others. She has been a Professor on the Core Faculty in the Fine Art Graduate Program at Art Center College of Design for over twenty years.

ABOUT 18TH STREET ARTS CENTER

18th Street Arts Center values contemporary art making as an essential part of a vibrant, just and healthy society. Its mission to provoke public dialogue through contemporary art making.

18th Street Arts Center supports the work of outstanding individual artists and fosters the public’s engagement with a broad spectrum of approaches to contemporary ideas that reflect the cultural richness of the region. With 5 studio buildings in Santa Monica, 18th Street provides a hub for contemporary art through two program areas that reflect its mission: 1) A Residency Program that fosters inter-cultural collaboration and dialogue and 2) A Public Events and Presenting Program that focuses on engaging the public and revealing the art-making process to them through exhibitions, events, publications and other opportunities.   Gallery hours are Monday – Friday 11am-6pm.

18th Street Arts Center is located at 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica.

For more information on Lita Albuquerque’s Spine of the Earth performance visit: www.18thstreet.org or http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/

Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. Initiated through grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time will take place for six months beginning October 2011. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.

 Los Angeles was a key international birthplace of performance art.  Engaging the innovative spirit of that period and LA’s vibrant contemporary art scene, the Performance and Public Art Festival will transform Southern California over eleven days (January 19-29, 2012) during Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980. Featuring more than 30 major performances and large-scale outdoor projects, the festival will include new commissions, reinventions, and restagings inspired by the radical and trailblazing public and performance works that were created by artists during the Pacific Standard Time era. Performances and projects will be located at institutions and sites throughout Southern California, in close proximity to more than two dozen Pacific Standard Time exhibitions. The festival is organized by the Getty Research Institute and LA><ART; support is provided by the Getty Foundation.

In conjunction with the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, 18th Street is proud to present resident artist Lita Albuquerque’s recreation of her seminal work “Spine of the Earth.” Originally performed in the Mojave desert in 1980, this performance will take place at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook on Sunday, January 22, 2012 from 12-2pm. Lita is seeking volunteer performers for this large scale performance. To participate in this historical art event, sign up here: http://www.spineoftheearth2012.com/. The Pacific Standard Time Performance and Pubic Art Festival is organized by Glen Phillips of the Getty Research Institute and  Lauri Firstenberg of LAXART.

For more event information on this performance visit: www.18thstreet.org

Visiting Artist Kristian Skylstad and his gallery in Oslo, Norway known as “NoPlace” has organized an all Norwegian-artist exhibition entitled Calma Maria Magdelena. The show will debut in Kristian’s studio (1629 18th Street, studio # 3) on December 21, 2011 from 8pm-11pm. The exhibition is a constellation of artists from different segments of the art world in Norway. What the artists have in common is that they don’t have much in common with other artists. In that sense you could say that each and every one of them represents themselves and have a subjective approach to art, which is related to their emotions and fragments of their geographies. This is a very common method in Norwegian art, music and literature that has roots in the isolation the weather and Norway’s regional placement on the planet forces the mental sphere into. By showing these personal mysteries in the more open minded Los Angeles art scene, NoPlace hopes the friction between the pieces will create an energetic counteraction that will end up as a vague but powerful question: “How to talk about the big silence?” For more information on the participating artists in this exhibition visit: http://www.noplace.no/

With its unique content and its showcase of true trailblazers during the artist space movement of the 70s, 18th Street’s Pacific Standard Time Show, Collaborations Labs: Southern California Artist sand Artist Space Movement has quickly become a press favorite. Landing rave reviews from both LA weekly and the Los Angeles Times during the first month of its opening, Collaborations Labs has proven to be a “one of a kind” exhibition out of the Getty’s PST shows. Due to popular demand,18th Street is now extending the successful exhibition through March 16, 2012. Click on link to read the reviews by LA Times or LA Weekly.

Image Caption:  Suzanne Lacy / Leslie Labowitz-Starus, “Three Weeks in May” (1977), Color photographs and frame, 88″ x 51.5″ (Collection of the artists)

18th Street Receives Money For 2012
The National Endowment for the Arts awarded 18th Street Arts Center a grant in the amount of $15,000 to support our gallery residencies and presenting programs for the year 2012. The grant will be used to directly support in the creation of new work for six visual artist labs and one formal exhibition.
New Visiting Artist: Kristian Skylstad-Norway

18th Street’s is excited to introduce a new young and vibrant Visiting Artist in Resident, Kristian Skylstad. Kristian is a visual artist from Olso, Norway. His residency is a partnership  between the Office of Norway, Contemporary Art and 18th Street Arts Center. Kristian has been working as a photographer, gallerist, curator, fiction writer, art critic and video artist. He deals with an ongoing conceptual art practice that is mostly connected to poetry, which also informs his work with documentaries. The Norwegian native claims that living in 18th Street’s studio has incited so much creativity and artistic ideas within him, that during the first week of his residency, Kristian created two new art pieces that were immediately sold by his gallery in Norway by an arts collector. For more information on Visiting Artist Kristian Skylstad visit www.18thstreet.org

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE NEWS
 Local Artist in Residence, Luciana Abait has two new exhibits running from November 16, 2011 through April 24, 2012 at the Los Angeles International Airport called Mixed Nature Series (located in Terminal 1-Arrivals) and Underwater Series (located in Terminal 1-Gate 1). For more information on these exhibitions visit: http://www.lawa.aero/welcome_LAX.aspx?id=1610 Image Caption:Mixed Nature Series.LAX-Terminal 1-Arrivals Installation Detail

On January 12 through February 1, 2012, 18th Street Artist in Residence, Suzanne Lacy, in partnership with Los Angeles students, art groups and multiple political organizations, presents a new public art performance called Three Weeks in January: End Rape in Los Angeles at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions).Three Weeks in January is also a part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. For more information on this performance visit: www.threeweeksinjanuary.org

Image Caption: TWIM_1977.jpg, Suzanne Lacy, Three Weeks in May, 1977. Pictured, Katja Beisanz stamps a rape
report on the map of Los Angeles. Courtesy of Suzanne Lacy.

Local Artist in Residence David McDonald is having a solo show of a recent sculpture at Carter and Citizen in Culver City. The show opens January 7 through February 18, 2012. The opening reception will be held at Carter and Citizen museum on January 7, 2012 from 6-9pm. For more information on his solo show visit: http://www.carterandcitizen.com/

Image Caption: Self Portrait (Protected Self), 2011 Wood, Cement, Hydrocal, Re Bar, Enamel Paint 34″ x 16″ x 18″ 18th Street PST “Picks”
On December 17, 2011 from 1pm -4:30 pm, the Watts Towers Arts Center will host an opening reception for its Pacific Standard Time Show, Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Art Center. The exhibition explores the intertwined histories of two of Los Angeles’ oldest and most diverse centers of artistic activity, both now operated by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. For more information on this exhibition visit: www.pacificstandardtime.org
Image Caption: Captive Image # 1(Ethnicity Heritage Group)(1970-72)
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