ARTNIGHT
18th Street Arts Center throws a landmark ArtNight for the opening of Collaboration Labs: Southern California Artists and the Artist Space Movement. Guest curated by Alex Donis and featuring seminal artists and artists groups Rachel Rosenthal, Barbara T. Smith, Suzanne Lacy/Leslie Labotowitz-Starus, Electronic Café International and EZTV, Collaboration Labs is 18th Street’s contribution to the Getty Foundation’s unprecedented initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980. Celebrate the artists who helped make Los Angeles and 18th Street venerable landmarks for conceptual art and avant-garde culture in LA.
5:30–6 pm VIP PREVIEW RECEPTION
6–10 pm INTERNATIONAL VISTING ARTISTS OPEN STUDIOS
6–10 pm OUTDOOR ARTMARKET
7–8:15 pm OUTDOOR STAGE: BALI & BEYOND Gamelan orchestra
“This concert is sponsored by Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky.”
8:30 pm HIGHWAYS PERFORMANCE SPACE: THE ALL STARS OF NONVIOLET COMMUNICATION, A blue vaudevillian poem in three parts
DANGEROUSLY GOOD, SERIOUSLY CHEAP EATS PROVIDED BY KOMODO FOOD TRUCK
COMPLIMENTARY COCKTAILS PROVIDED BY IZZE Sparkling Juice, PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur, Hpnotiq, Liqueur, LunAzul Tequila & Burnett’s Vodka
ArtNight is made possible (in part) by the cultural funding initiatives of the City of Santa Monica, the Santa Monica Arts Commission, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, the James Irvine Foundation, the California Community Foundation, and The Getty Foundation.
Looking forward to this show. 18th Street’s view on this period of LA art will be a highlight, for me I suspect, of PST.
[...] 1971, (courtesy of the artist and The Box Gallery, L.A.) Join me at the opening event of Collaboration Labs: Southern California Artists and the Artist Space Movement, on Saturday, September 24. This show at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica is part of the [...]
[...] On Sat, Sep 24, 6–10 pm, 18th Street is proud to host a landmark ArtNight that also celebrates its contribution to the regional initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA, 1945–1980, organized by the Getty Foundation. As part of the project, 18th Street presents, in its Main Gallery and Project Room,Collaboration Labs: Southern California Artists and the Artist Space Movement, curated by Alex Donis and featuring the work of Rachel Rosenthal, Barbara T. Smith, EZTV, Electronic Café International as well as Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz-Starus. The evening features the Indonesian-inspired performing arts company Bali and Beyond playing gamelan music on beautifully handmade percussion instruments; an artist marketplace organized by past 18th Street Artist Project Room Resident Anna Guajardo; open studio visits with our current international visiting artists; the “dangerously good food” of the Komodo Truck; and complimentary drinks provided by Izze Sparkling Juice, Pama Pomegranate Liqueur, Hpnotiq and LunaAzul Tequila.In conjunction with this special night, one of 18th Street’s Resident Arts Organizations, Highways Performance Space, presents The All Stars of NonViolet Communication, a blue vaudevillian poem in three parts that unleashes the vitriol of four dead, under-appreciated gay entertainers of the 1970s. LEARN MORE! [...]