The wonderful staff from the Florence Library along with my friends that are just as amazing from the LA County Arts Commission are having an artist reception in celebration of my new Mural, El Movimiento on April 21st. Here is the event flyer.
Archive for the ‘Panel & Artist Talks’ Category
Artist talk with Joel “Rage” Garcia from SHG
Mar 24th, 12
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Self Help Graphics & Art has a long history of producing art that speaks out about many societal issues long before making it to the supreme court or prime time television. Civil Rights, farm workers rights, discrimination, discrimination due to sexual orientation and other issues in the LGBT community, women’s rights here in the U.S. and abroad, gentrification, the concentration of wealth, police brutality. These are just a few of the issues that have been addressed in the thousands of prints produced by some of the most important Chican@, Latin@ and Political artist at SHG in the past 40 years. I am honored to be part of such an important East LA institution, archive and to be exhibiting along side such great artist.
I will be participating in an artist talk along with Joel “Rage” Garcia, a fellow artist and Program Manger for Self Help about art and politics moderated by Crewest Gallery owner Man One.
Affair of the Art
Sep 20th, 11
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I’ve been participating in this art sale and fundraiser for I believe 6 years now and it is always a great event. All proceeds go to Ryman Arts. It is held at the beautiful home and garden of Marty & Leah Sklar. Here is the info
Set Sail with Ryman Arts
Twenty Second Annual Art Show and Sale
Benefitting Ryman Arts Core Programs
Saturday – September 24, 2011
7:30 – 10:00 p.m.| $100 per person
Includes hors d’ouevres and cocktails
Patron Event: Dreaming Big
5:00 – 7:30 p.m.| $300 per person
Includes pre-event reception, viewing, and purchase opportunity.
How BIG did KARL HOLZ, JOE LANZISERO and Walt Disney Imagineers dream? So big that The Disney Dream – the Disney Cruise Line’s third iconic ship – has been sailing the Caribbean since January with 4,000 passengers aboard, hosted and pampered by a crew of 1,500 in the quintessential cruising experience.
Join us to see the design concepts and hear the behind-the-scenes stories of The Dream from Joe Lanzisero and Karl Holz.
Zocalo’s Street Art Panel Discussion
Jan 16th, 11
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Had a good week. On Thursday went to the Fowler Museum for Zocalo’s Street Art panel discussion with my good friend and collector Ed Sweeney. Before we went in I ran into Shervin Shahbazi from Morono Kiang a great gallery in downtown LA. Also had a good talk with Carol Wells from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
The talk itself was nothing great. Had it not been for my good friend Retna and Man 1 from Crewest gallery the talk would have lacked in substance and been a bit boring. It would have been nice if the moderator, Jori Finkel from the LA Times would have brought up the topic which was “does street art humanize cities.” Also seems as if no one wanted to talk about the elephant in the room, censorship or more specifically the removal of Blu’s antiwar mural from MoCA. Perhaps they did not want to offend Jeffery Deitch who was in the audience.
The reception proved interesting with LA Raw setting out a long print of Blu’s mural before it’s removal as well as an image of the whitewashed wall. They also handed out some condom’s reading “Don’t be blu Deitch, Practice safe art.
My friend and fellow board member at Self Help Graphics, Rudy Espinoza and I got to chat a bit with Deitch but he seemed a bit frazzled and anxious to get out of there. Go figure.
*Photos by Aaron Salcido.