On February 19, 6pm-10pm, 18th Street kicks-off its 2011 Legacy theme with the debut of the exhibitions, Richard Newton’s Have You Seen My Privacy and Vincent Ramos’ Outsider Art: Others From Elsewhere Doing Something Altogether Different…Sort of. In the spirit of the Getty Foundation’s sponsored project, Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980, 18th Street has declared 2011 its “legacy” year. Artists chosen to activate the galleries will create projects to commemorate or pay tribute to California’s influential Contemporary Art Movement.
image for Richard Newton's "Have You Seen My Privacy"
Richard Newton is in residence in the 18th Street Gallery. His project, Have You Seen My Privacy, will involve multiple presentations of video, ephemera, and correspondence accompanied by public dialogues with artists active in Southern California from 1960 and onwards.
image for Vincent Ramos' "Outsider Art: Others From Elsewhere Doing Something Altogether Different…Sort of
Vincent Ramos will occupy 18th Street’s Project Room with his research-based project, Outsider Art: Others From Elsewhere Doing Something Altogether Different…Sort Of. Ramos’ project will look at works developed in Southern California in the 1960’s by artists who were not from the region, but whose projects informed and influenced the work of local artists.
Highways Performance Art Space
image of Visting South African Artist, Mlu Zondi
Performance artist, MLu Zondi lights up the Highways Performance Space with his performance art work that romantically weaves together the various art forms of visual art, contemporary dance, acting and poetry that audiences will find both emotionally inspiring and intellectually compelling.
Pasillos I- Young at “Art”
Students from Santa Monica College’s Fine Arts Mentor Program takeover the 18th Street Pasillos to debut this year’s aspiring and gifted, young Contemporary Artists’ work. 18th Street’s Program Coordinator, Ronald Lopez, is curating this student group show.
Pasillos II- Womenfound Presents Children’s Art from Gongathi Sunitha Shelter, Heyderabad, India
image from the Gongathi Sunitha Shelter in Heyderabad, India
Womenfound, is an organization dedicated to raising money and awareness for some of the most impoverished and under-served women and girls in the furthest reaches of earth, where a combination of tradition, lack of education, antiquated laws and a lack of reproductive options mire people in a debilitating cycle of misery. Gongathi Sunitha’s shelter serves about 200 orphan children, 69 widows and 89 young women whom she has ejected from dire circumstances where they would have been sold into prostitution or the equivalent of slavery. The artwork on display was created by the children from the shelter and will be for sale to raise money and awareness for them.
There will also be open artist studios from our artists in residence and food will be available for purchase by Asia Dog Food Truck
