Artist, Ami Motevalli

ARTNIGHT

WAR AS A WAY OF LIFE
Curated by Clayton Campbell

September 27 – December 19, 2008
Reception: Saturday, September 27, 6:00-9pm
Main Gallery

Artists Include: Susan Crile, Binh Danh, Fady Hadid, Marty Horowitz, Ronald Lopez, Christina Mcphee, Cathy Opie, Stacy Peralta, David Reeb, Sinan Leong Revell, Daniel Ruanova, Larry Scarpa, Mark Spencer, and:

Amitis Motevalli , 18th Street Artist Fellow

Artists, Los Animistas

CITIZEN ARTISTS MAKING EMPHATIC ARGUMENTS
Curated by Al Nodal

July 12 – September 13, 2008
Reception: Saturday, July 12, 6:00-9pm
Main Gallery

Artist include: Ala Plastica, Lauren Bon, BULBO, CoLabART, Echo Park Film Center, Fallen Fruit, Natalie Jeremijenko, Tom Reddock, Shannon Spanahake, Kim Stringfellow, Robert Tannen, and:

Los Animistas, 18th Street Artist Fellow

Artist, Kyungmi Shin

ART CHURCH hosted by KYUNGMI SHIN & TODD GRAY

Friday, June 27 at 7:30 pm

In conjunction with "RICH," located at 1629 studio #2

Art Church is an evening of performance art loosely structured like an absurdist southern church revival. Deacon Gray introduces the congregation to four different works by performance artists. The evening will be capped off with a southern style supper. Art Church is organized by Todd Gray and Kyungmi Shin. Art Church III will be presented at the 18th Street Arts Center studio #2 on Friday, June 27th at 7:30 pm in conjunction with "Rich," the project room installation by Kyungmi Shin.

STATEMENTS

I am hosting Art Church III at the 18th Street Art Center in
conjunction with my project room installation, "Rich". Tyler
Stallings invited me to create an installation in the project space to accompany the main gallery exhibit, "100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions".

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Artist, Matthew Bryant

100% OTHER: ARTISTS AND PSYCHO-DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITIONS
Curated by Tyler Stallings

EXTENDS TO FRIDAY, JUNE 27th & CLOSES WITH GALLERY WALK THROUGH WITH TYLER STALLINGS

Friday, June 27 6:00 pm

April 12 – June 27, 2008
An art exhibition that tracks the connections and separations between our changing cultural landscape and our oftentimes lagging civic outcomes.

Artists include: Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge, Perry Vasquez, Reggie Woolery, Yasuko and in our Project Room

RICH, an installation by Kyungmi Shin, 18th Street Artist Fellow

Artist, Kyungmi Shin

ARTNIGHT

Saturday, April 12, 6-9pm

100% OTHER: ARTISTS AND PSYCHO-DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITIONS
Curated by Tyler Stallings

Main Gallery: Opening Reception for artists 6-9pm

April 12 – June 13, 2008
An art exhibition that tracks the connections and separations between our changing cultural landscape and our oftentimes lagging civic outcomes.

Artists include: Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge, Perry Vasquez, Reggie Woolery, Yasuko and in our Project Room

RICH, an installation by Kyungmi Shin, 18th Street Artist Fellow

WORLD STAGE, Outdoor Stage, 6:15-8:30

LA's African American poetic and musical ensemble comes to Santa Monica hosted by

Michael Datcher with spoken word by Mr. Foster, jazz performer Hillard Street, and neo-soul/jazz by Nailah.

Open Studios for International and local Artists
(selected list)
Barbara Drucker, California Lawyers for the Arts, Clayton Campbell, Continuum Studio, Diane Meyer, Electronic Cafe, Highways, Ian Haig (Australia)
Ichiro Irie, Judith Margolis (Israel), Marco Tadic (Croatia), Marcos Castro (Mexico), Michael Barnard, Otis (MFA Public Practice Program)

Marketing Corner
Come out and learn about our neighboring organizations that are doing some amazing things as well:
Organizations include:
SPARC, Virginia Avenue Park, Artillery Magazine, Tu Ciudad Magazine

Bar Hosted by HPNOTIQ and IZZE sparkling juice

March 29, 2008

PATRIOT ACTS

Last day of exhibition

Saturday, March 29, 2008 / 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
18th Street Arts Center

March 25, 2008

Those Weird Subsidies!

Discussion with artist Ian Haig + Deputy Consul General of the Netherlands, Hans van den Dool

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 / 7:30 PM
18th Street Arts Center

We hear about it all the time. What's up with those privileged artists in far away countries whose art-making is largely underwritten by government sponsored subsidies -- be they individual grants or project grants. How does that work? Does it make for good art? Does it make for happy artists? Happy collectors? Join us in this unscientific sociological cultural economic investigation.

Current artist in residence Ian Haig is the recipient of a plethora of art project funding over the past 20 years. From numerous discussions about the relationship between art and funding, Ian has been cornered into sharing with us his candid views and the uncensored version of what this does to art production, and the pros and cons of being a bona fide funded Aussie artist.

Hans van den Dool is Deputy Consul General of the Netherlands in Los Angeles since 2003. As both Consul for Economic Affairs and Consul for Cultural Affairs, Hans actively promotes the synergy between thses two tasks, forging links between the creative industries and the world of art. A sociologist and political scientist, he received his higher education by the State University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

March 21, 2008

THE OTHER WOMAN

Presidential Campaign Resurrection Rally

With Sue Dakin + Friends

Friday, March 21, 2008 / 8:00 PM
18th Street Arts Center

25 years ago citizen artist Susanna Dakin emerged from a swim in the Pacific Ocean to launch her campaign to become United States' first "Artist for President". Said Dakin in one of her many press interviews at the time, "He who refuses to rule is sure to be ruled by someone worse. ....Which is what we've got today". Join us as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of this spectacular expression of patriotism!

March 19, 2008

An Evening with EZTV

Screening and discussion with Strawn Bovee, Kate Johnson, and Michael Masucci

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 / 7:30 PM
18th Street Arts Center

Created in 1979, EZTV has been one of LA's key independent video organizations, at the center for the creation and investigation of video art in all its manifestations. Its award-winning artists, in addition to their own work, have collaborated with and / or presented hundreds of major works in video art, documentaries, multimedia and computer art. Find out more about this compelling group that helped shape the Los Angeles media scene in an evening of discussion and screening of early and current work.

www.eztvmedia.com

ELECTION PRECINCT #6250025B

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
18th Street Arts Center

18th Street will be a polling site on Super Tuesday in conjunction with its current exhibit Patriot Acts

** Image: PATRIOT ACTS curator Linda Pollack, with County of LA Registrar-Recorder Field Supervisor Alfred Duron, giving the green light to the 18th street arts facility to serve as polling site.

How to improve the world [you'll only make matters worse]: Artist-citizens on hope, apathy, healing, and piece of mind [during wartime]

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008, 1 pm
18th Street Arts Center @ the Habeas Lounge

A round-table discussion presented by artSpa

Followed by a group participatory performance of What do we do now?, Performance for Ensemble dedicated to the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest

January 2008:

"How Many Delegates Does it Take to Select a Party Candidate to run in the 2008 Presidential election?"

Monday, January 28th, 2008, 7 - 9 pm
18th Street Arts Center @ the Habeas Lounge

Robert Stern, President of the Center for Governmental Studies and former General Counsel to the California Fair Political Practices Commission - will discuss the various selection methods used by political parties to field a representative to run in the upcoming presidential election, with a special focus on California. (Presented in cooperation with the League of Women Voters). RSVP by calling the Habeas Lounge: 310 450.0383

Patriot Acts

+ The Habeas Lounge

Curated by Linda Pollack

January 14 – March 28, 2008
Reception: Saturday, January 26, 6:00-9pm
Main Gallery
The Habeas Lounge at 1629 18th Street Studio #2

Linda Pollack has curated an art exhibition that departs from recent manifestations of patriotism (Go out and shop, the USA PATRIOT ACT) and has invited eleven artists to create new works about different constitutional issues for PATRIOT ACTS. While the works themselves do not offer a prescription for how to be a patriot, the exhibit explores visions about core constitutional issues confronting us today. Artists include: Irina Contreras, Zeal Harris, Sara Hendren, Vincent Johnson, Hillary Mushkin, Meena Nanji + Tommy Gear, Adam Overton, Rebecca Ripple, Susan Silton, Pam Strugar, and Shirley Tse.

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ADAM OVERTON
Performance Artist

Saturday, January 26th, 2008, 6 - 9 pm
18th Street Arts Center during the Patriot Acts Opening Reception

Adam Overton and friends will be performing Positions [ of Potential and Respite ] for Musician or It's up to you to save the world, Eric km Clark, during which the musicians inhabit the moments of hope, desperation, and strained anticipation one might find at the brink of action."

OPEN STUDIOS for VISITING INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS

Eric Siu (China)
Jee Un Park (Korea)
Kieran Boland (Australia)

Morgan Barnard Speaks

Sentimental Plastics

Thursday January 17, 7:30pm
@ The Habeas Lounge (1629 18th Street Studio #2)

Morgan Barnard, currently residing in New Zealand, teaches at the Victoria University School of Design in the Digital Media Design program. Barnard is also apart of an arts collective called Sentimental Plastics.
Barnard, will be discussing the various cross-disciplinary approaches to working with digital media in a design context.
He will also be introducing us to Sentimental Plastics, a council project that was part of Wellington Urban Design week. The project focused on the plastic bag; how people use them, what people think about them, how they make them feel, and offered solutions on ways to upcycle bags to be re-used rather than thrown in the dump. Sentimental Plastics aim was to raise people’s awareness about this common object in the urban environment and hopefully make them think about how they use plastic bags.

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS @ THE HABEAS LOUNGE

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008, 7:30 - 9 pm
18th Street Arts Center @ the Habeas Lounge

Members of the League of Women Voters of Santa Monica Program will give a thorough and lively lesson in ballot measure process for the February 5 2008 Presidential Primary Election and other local issues.

September 2007:

Mark Steven Greenfield:

Incognegro

September 29 – December 15, 2007
Reception: Saturday, September 29, 6:30-8pm
Main Gallery

Mark Steven Greenfield’s multimedia photographs, paintings and sculptures offer a contemporary critique of race through the exploration of one of America’s infamously controversial forms of entertainment: Black-face performance. 

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Guatemalan Forced Migration:

September 29 – December 15, 2007
Reception: Saturday, September 29, 6:30-8pm
Main Gallery

“Guatemalan Forced Migration” consists of a series of photographs of Guatemalan forced migrants that challenge the normative approach to photographing refugees by mainstream media and international humanitarian organizations that stereotype women as domestics and men as bread winners.

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