OPENING RECEPTION {LOVE IN A CEMETERY}
Saturday, January 23, 7-10pm

PARKING will be AVAILABLE at Les Kelley Medical Center on Colorado between 19th & 20th

photo by Conseulo Velasco

David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton (Australia), Magic Mountain, 2009

JungHo Oak (Korea), Central Park, 2008

Susanna Knittel (Switzerland), Matrilineage Project, 2009

MAIN GALLERY:
LOVE IN A CEMETERY
curated by Robert Sain

January 23 – March 26, 2010
Reception: Saturday, January 23, 7-10pm

On Saturday, January 23, 18th Street Arts Center kicks-off its 2010 season with Love in a Cemetery. Robert Sain, LACMAlab founding director, and LA based visual artist Andrea Bowers, art administrator Pauline Kamiyama collaborate with the students of Otis MFA Public Practice and guest artist Olga Koumoundouros to transform 18th Streets gallery into a unique visual arts laboratory. This expansive collaboration between artist, curator, graduate students, and community organizations will consist of a participatory laboratory that sponsors community dialogues, public presentations and interventions, exhibits of artworks and project data to explore the social and political dimension of art organizations.

Otis students and their community organizations are as follows:

Jamie Crooke
- Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic

Rachael Filsinger & Ella Tetrault
- Homeless Youth

Gabrielle Levine & David Russell
- Pico Youth And Family Center
- Rise Above Plastics
- Surfrider Foundation
- Algalita Marine Research Foundation

Felicia Montes & Rodrigo Marti
- Homies Unidos

Carmen Uriarte
- Norco Rehabilitation Center Medium Security Correctional Facility

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Visiting & International Artists
Open Studios

Australia
David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton

Korea
Jung Ho Park

Switzerland
Susanna Knittel

Local Artists-In-Residence Open Studios

Arzu Arda Kosar
Ichiro Irie

Pasillos I
Selected artworks from Santa Monica City College Fine Art Program

Diane Meyer,Corinne Marguerite Bird (Santa Monica College Student & Starbucks Barista), 2009
Courtesy of the artist

MAIN GALLERY:
DIANE MEYER
Without A Car In The World

October 17 – December 11, 2009
Reception: Saturday, October 17, 7-10pm

Without A Car In The World (100 Car-less Angelinos Tell Stories of Living in Los Angeles ) opens Saturday, October 17, at the 18th Street Arts Center. This final exhibition of 2009 features 100 photographs by artist Diane Meyer with accompanying narratives from persons who live without a car in Los Angeles.

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Yvette Gellis, Aqueous/Igneous, 2009
Courtesy of the artist

PROJECT ROOM:

October 17 – October 30, 2009
Reception: Saturday, October 17, 7-10pm

Resident artist Yvette Gellis’ project entitled, Aqueous/Igneous is a continued investigation and outgrowth of her practice as a painter. By expanding the idea of taking painting into a three-dimensional space and challenging the distinctions between installation, painting and environment she is able to resist the constraints of the spatial limitation of the canvas, and redesign the work within the given space.

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Aaron Nieh, TBD, Photo on paper, 2009, (Courtesy of the artist)

David Keating, (Installation view) Say Over Again, and yet once over again, Table Tennis table, Mirrors, 2008

Open Studios

Current visiting International artists
David Keating (Australia) and Aaron Nieh (Taiwan) will open up their studios to present works in progress.

ARTNIGHT, August 1, 2009
{A Free Event} Click here for press release

Francisco Aguabello
(Image: Courtesy of artist)

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE at 8pm:

Francisco Aguabella and his Latin Jazz Ensemble ,

"Aguabella is the John Coltrane of the Conga Drums.”
-- Dizzy Gillespie

http://www.franciscoaguabella.com/

New Playwrights Foundation at 6:30 pm
Two to three local playwrights will present readings from some of their recent works.

Adrian Paci, Centro di Permanenza Temporanea
Photograph, 2007
Courtesy galeria francesca kaufmann
(Post-American L.A.)

MAIN GALLERY:
Post-American L.A.
Curated by Pilar Tompkins

August 1 – September 25, 2009
Reception: Saturday, August 1, 6-10pm

On August 1st, 18th Street continues its 2009 exhibition season with the exhibition Post-American L.A. curated by Pilar Tompkins for our main gallery and project room. The exhibition features artists that question the scope and impact of American predominance, from the international stage to municipal politics, including Carolina Caycedo, Sandra de la Loza, Hugo Hopping, Ashley Hunt, Vincent Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Adrian Paci, Vincent Ramos, and Chen Shaoxiong.

GALLERY >>

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Sandra de la Loza(2009 Artist Fellow), The Revolution Will...
vinyl sticker, 2009
Courtesy of the artist

2009 ARTIST FELLOW :

Sandra de la Loza, will host a series of encounters and discussions in the Project Room (1629 18th Street, Studio #2) entitled The Revolution Will... bringing together individuals from diverse sectors to interface on topics such as environmentalism, labor and alternative economies, and the future of cultural production.

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Chuck Koton, Kenny Burrell, photograph

The Pasillo's I (building 1629):

CHUCK KOTON

About The Work
Jazz Moods II is a collection of work visualizing Koton’s lifelong commitment to Jazz. Inspired by Francis Woolf’s black and white photographs that adorned many of the Blue Note records purchased by Koton, his portraits of live jazz, shot in the Los Angeles area over the last ten years, share with us the passion and creativity of dedicated jazz artists. Mesmerized by live performances by musicians like Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Rahsaan Roland, and Kirk and Pharoah Sanders...
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Jess Koehler, Student of Jorazu
Digital prints on Epson Velvet fine art paper mounted on wood panels

The Pasillo's II (building 1653):

JESS KOEHLER

About The Work
La Palabra de Los Ninos (The Voice of the Children) is Koehler’s collection of work that spans the globe from Honduras to the West Indies, Cuba to Mexico, and also includes Zambia. This current body of work is an exploration of various impoverished children who are not only connected by latitudinal region, but by the similar struggles they face.  Amongst other things, Ms. Koehler has recently concentrated on children that have become orphaned due to the HIV/AIDS virus that has been growing within these developing countries.  
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HIGHWAYS PERFORMANCE SPACE :
(dub)zeck
Patrick Kennelly w/Kate Fox in collaboration with: Aaron Drake, Andrae Gonzalo, and Matt Mellinger

Performers: Gregory Barnett, Gia Battista, Marissa Casados, Radick Cembrzynski, Sonia Oleniak, Eliezer Ortiz, Jonathen Osborn, Paul Outlaw, Justin Streichman

In the gallery:

Jess Koehler, ESCUELA, TRABAJO, Y HOGAR

Luciana Abait, detail: Ivy, mixed media cut outs, 2009

Open Studios
New and recent works by 18th Street Artists-In-Residence:
Bernadette Fox, Cindy DeSantis, Clayton Campbell, Continuum Studio, Dan Kwong, David McDonald, Electronic Cafe International, EZTV, Ichiro Irie, Lita Albuqurque, Luciana Abait, Marina Day Forstmann, Michael Barnard, Yvette Gellis, International artists: Matt Hinkley (Australia)

Otis College of Art and Design Graduate Public Practice Studio will be open, for more info click here

18th Street Connect:
An opportunity to learn about Santa Monica based and greater Los Angeles organizations.

Organizations include: American Red Cross of Santa Monica, California Laywers for the Arts, Inner-City Filmmakers, New Playwrights Foundation, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and The Argonaut

Bar Hosted by:

IZZE sparkling juice

Pama Pomegranate Liqueur

HPNOTIQ

LunAzul Tequila

ArtNight is supported in part by the cultural funding initiatives of the City of Santa Monica.

This concert is sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

The 2009 Artists Fellows is made possible by the National Endowment of the Arts

ARTNIGHT, May 2nd, 2009 {A Free Event}

18th Street and Highways celebrate 20 Years

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE:

"CPR: a Public Training in Life Saving Skills",

developed and performed by members of Santa Monica's OPCC: Ocean Park Community Center and the LAPD All-Stars. Directed by John Malpede and Henriëtte Brouwers. Returning from the edge, undercover heroes share the extraordinary wisdom that accounts for their against all odds survival. LAPD: lost and presumed dead.
Project includes visual collaboration with Otis Integrated Learning program: Linda Samuels and the students in her class 'The Right to the Street'. Project partners include LAPD, OPCC, 18th Street Arts Center and HIGHWAYS.

http://lapovertydept.org/

Fallen Fruit, Neighborhood Infusions, detail: participatory installation, 2008
(LA 2019: Cults, Collectives, & Cocooning)

MAIN GALLERY:
LA 2019: Cults, Collectives, and Cocooning
Curated by Ciara Ennis

May 2 – June 26, 2009
Reception: Saturday, May 2, 6:00-10:00pm

Artists Include: Cathy Akers, Heather Cantrell, Fallen Fruit, Olga Koumoundouros, Jason Middlebrook, Bede Murphy with Unarius, Machine Project with Jim Fetterly, William Ransom, Stephanie Smith (Wanna Start A Commune?), Joel Tauber, and:

GALLERY >>

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Nuttaphol Ma (2009 Artist Fellow), longing and not BE longing
detail: installation, 2009

2009 ARTIST FELLOW :

Nuttaphol Ma
Mr. Ma will transform part of the main gallery into a lemongrass tearoom made from the lemongrass planted in and around 18 Street Art Center. click here for more

Raul Baltazar

RAUL BALTAZAR

and his class from Virginia Avenue Park Teen Center will present

It Takes More Than Balls, inter active, mixed media sculpture, 2009

Lead artist Raul Paulino Baltazar recipient of the 2009 Latino CAP Grant, worked over the past few months with artists Edgar Andres, Daniel Andres, Crystal Andres, Angel Villanova, Julian Ayala, Paul Daniels, and father Raul Torres Baltazar Sr. and Arnoldo Magana at Virginia Avenue Teen Center.

Mr. Baltazar has been leading a sculpture workshop where students learned design, how to use power tools and how to create a “sculpture”. Baltazar is interested in creating complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple and often recycled means. Lawn sculptures, aluminum studs, wood studs, astro turf, casters and pulleys are among some of the mixed media included. He is hybridizing games like futbolito/ fuzz ball, pin ball, miniature golf, and carnival games with fine art sculpture inspirations such as Tim Hawkinson, Jason Rhodes and Ruben Ochoa. The biggest obstacle has been to create an art piece that thrives on the razor’s edge between fine art and a device for a game.

Pamela Lamas,Existentialism the Past and Pending
Digital print, 2009

The Pasillo's: Suburban Legend

A selection of work from the Oxnard College Art Department

Featured Artists:
Richard Arcia, Anna Carrillo, Aaron Dadacay
Yi Gao, Antonio Garcia, Olivia Jones-Hernandez
Pamela Lamas, Andrew Lepe, James Santistevan
Olguin Tapia Heredia, Maria Villote

GUEST CURATOR: Heather Jeno Silva
Heather Jeno Silva is an art critic and independent curator residing in Santa Barbara, CA. Silva received her Masters of Arts degree in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Southern California in 2003 and has variety of experience in curatorial work, including the USC Fisher Gallery and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Silva's art criticism has been published in numerous print and online publications, including various exhibition catalogs, art.blogging.la, RiM Magazine, the Santa Barbara New Press, THE Magazine Los Angeles, and the Pasadena Weekly among others and writes a column, Off the Wall, about visual art in unconventional venues for the Santa Barbara Independent.

Paul Adair

Open Studios
New and recent works by 18th Street Artists-In-Residence:
Clayton Campbell, David McDonald, Electronic Cafe International, EZTV, Lita Albuqurque, Luciana Abait, Marina Day Forstmann, Markus Keiland-Nazario, Michael Barnard, Nadia Reed, Robin Adsit, Yvette Gellis, International artists: Paul Adair (Australia), Joaquin Segura (Mexico)

Otis College of Art and Design Graduate Public Practice Studio will be open, for more info click here

18th Street Connect:
An opportunity to learn about Santa Monica based and greater Los Angeles organizations.

Organizations include: Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, Santa Monica Historical Society Museum, California Laywers for the Arts, Chrysalis, New Playwrights Foundation, Pico Youth and Family Center, S.P.A.R.C., and Citizen LA

PARKING LOT EVENTS:

Markus Keiland-Nazario
presents

The HIGH PERFORMANCE (C)ART

The High Performance (C)Art is a mobile, interactive portal into the pages of High Performance Magazine. The HIGH PERFORMANCE (C)ART‘s mission is to go directly to the streets providing uniques art experiences reflecting the multiplicity of visions and perspectives found in the pages of High Performance Magazine.

High Performance was a quarterly arts magazine founded in 1978 and published until 1997. Its editorial mission was to provide support and a critical context for new, innovative and unrecognized work in the arts. It was also the first magazine to focus on the then nascent form of “Performance Art”. Over the years High Performance was a leader in viewing the arts in the larger context of contemporary life, examining how the arts contribute in addressing social and cultural concerns, and also how those concerns impact the arts. High Performance was published by Astro Artz which later became The 18th Street Art Center.

Performance Art Karaoke: Using the original 1983 vinyl pressing/record album HIGH PERFORMANCE, participants can “perform” the songs of their favorite performance artists including Paul McCarthy, The Kipper Kids, The Dark Bob, Linda Burnham and Jacki Apple, or perform selections from the magazine.

Graffiti painting demonstration with Teens of Virginia Avenue Park led by artist Alex Kizu

Bar Hosted by HPNOTIQ & IZZE sparkling juice, Pama Pomegranate Liquor & Burnett's Vodka

ArtNight and Santa Monica Latino CAP Project are made possible (in part) by the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission.

The 2009 Artists Fellows is made possible by the National Endowment of the Arts

Curator Ichiro Irie playing with James Rojas’ interactive
3D model at Freewaves Hollywould Media Arts Festival
2008
(Shangri L.A.)

Marcos Novak, Selected images from Garanti Galeri in
Istanbul, Sculptures/Installation, 2008
(Turbulent Shangri L.A.)

Helen Geisler, Untitled, Digital print, 2008
(Intimate Oddities)

ARTNIGHT, February 7, 2009

Main Gallery: SHANGRI L.A.: architecture as a state of flux
Curated by Ichiro Irie

February 7 – March 27, 2009
Reception: Saturday, February 7, 6:00-10:00pm

Artists Include: Anibal Catalan, Debbie Hu Ricks & Cedar Miller, Infranatural, Marcos Lutyens, Daniela Frogheri, Fernando Meneses, Oyler Wu Collaborative, James Rojas, Chris Tallon, and:

Project Room: Turbulent Shangri LA

An Installation by Marcos Novak, 2009 Artist Fellow
@ 1629 18th Street Studio #2

ThePasillo's: Intimate Oddities

Selected artworks from
Santa Monica City College Fine Art Mentor Program
Curated by Ronald Lopez

Artists Include: Susanne Melanie, Sarah Boyce, Joseph Cochrane, Helen Geisler, Lucas Kazansky, Ka Man Lee, Cedar Miller, Gustavo Muñoz, Elyse Reardon, Zoma Crum Tesfa, Sarah Theden, Nathan Warner, Elizabeth Weber, and Elena Wolek

Open Studios, New and recent works by 18th Street Artists-In-Residence: Michael Barnard, Luciana Abait, Lita Albuqurque, Yvette Gellis, EZTV, Electronic Cafe International, International artists: Anthony Johnson (Australia), Judith Margolis (Israel), Sonya Kelliher Combs (Alaska), and

Otis College of Art and Design Graduate Public Practice Studio will be presenting a special panel discussion:
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY PANEL
Andrea Bowers, Suzanne Lacy, Kathleen Johnson, Consuelo Velasco & MFA Public Practice Students (for more info please click here)

18th Street Connect: An opportunity to learn about Santa Monica based and greater Los Angeles organizations.

Organizations include: New Playwrights Foundation, Pico Youth and Family Center, S.P.A.R.C., Artillery Magazine, THE Magazine, Citizen LA's Senior Writer Jim Marquez presents his latest book The Beast from the East: A Rambler's Tales Circa LA, Santa Monica Mirror, California Laywers for the Arts, and a special graffiti art demonstration by the youth of Virginia Avenue Park Teen Center

Bar Hosted by HPNOTIQ & IZZE sparkling juice

ArtNight is made possible (in part) by the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission.

The 2009 Artists Fellows is made possible by the National Endowment of the Arts

GALLERY >>

Aztlan Underground
Photo courtesy of Benjamin Anayo

Cathy Opie
Immigration Rally Photo

Amitis Motevalli, Traditional Shia Shrine
(Sculptural element for Threshold of the Innocents and Martyred), work in progress

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Free:

On Stage: AZTLAN UNDERGROUND

Formed in Los Angeles in 1990, AUG has been true to their name and beliefs by playing political rallies and underground venues and anywhere that the doors are not closed. Creating a new sound that is still evolving, AUG captures the psyche and transcends to all ethnic groups, capturing a universal rhythm to convey their message of "self-determination and decolonization.

Main Gallery: WAR AS A WAY OF LIFE

Curated by Clayton Campbell

War as a Way of Life, concludes our four part series, The Future of Nations, a year long conversation about important election year issues. Presenting a stellar group of international and Californian visual artists, War As a Way of Life examines the phenomenology of how people who are exposed to long term effects of war or conflict are transformed. Using photography, video, mixed media, and painting, the artists look at how war which is either abroad, in our own neighborhoods, or even in our families, is affecting future generations perceptions of themselves and their communities.

Artists include: Susan Crile, Binh Danh, Barry Frydlender, Cindy Kane, Hometown Baghdad, Marty Horowitz, Ronald Lopez, Christina McPhee, Catherine Opie, Stacy Peralta, David Reeb, Sinan Leong Revell, Daniel Ruanova, Larry Scarpa, Mark Spencer, and

Project Room: Threshold of the Innocent and Martyred

An Installation by Amitis Motevalli, 2008 Artist Fellow
@ 1629 18th Street Studio #2

1653 Gallery: Poli Marichal's Codices Workshop,

For the last 3 months Poli, (our 2008 Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Latino Co-Arts Grant Recipient) has been working with youth at Virginia Avenue Park helping them to create their own codices and it culminates on this night with a reception.

Open Studios

International Artists
Sue Ching (Taiwan), James Newitt (Australia), and Vedran Pekrov (Croatia)

Bar Hosted

by HPNOTIQ and IZZE sparkling juice

GALLERY >>

Artist: Shannon Spanhake

Saturday, July 12 , 2008

Free:

CITIZEN ARTISTS MAKING EMPHATIC ARGUMENTS

Curated by Adolfo V. Nodal

Regarding the complete body of work, Adolfo Nodal states, “Together they represent a great mix of ideas and approaches that are becoming a critical mass of activism and capturing the imagination of the world.… They all serve as emphatic arguments in the development of the discourse on the future of the planet.”

Artists include: Ala Plastica, Lauren Bon, BULBO, CoLabART (Lynn Small + Dennis Paul), Echo Park Film Center, Fallen Fruit, Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison, Invisible 5, NAtalie Jeremijenko, Tom Reddock, Shannon Spanhake, Kim Stringfellow, Robert Tannen, and

LOS ANIMISTAS

An Installation by Los Animistas, 2008 Artist Fellow
@ 1629 18th Street Studio #2

Open Studios for International Artists
Michael Arcega (Visions from the New California Recipient), Peter Atkins (Australia), and Hui-Yu Su (Taiwan)

Bar Hosted by HPNOTIQ and IZZE sparkling juice

GALLERY >>

April 12 , 2008

Free dance & music performances:

100% OTHER: ARTISTS AND PSYCHO-DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITIONS

Curated by Tyler Stallings

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

RICH

An Installation by Kyungmi Shin, 2008 Artist Fellow
@ 1629 18th Street Studio #2

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
Barbara Drucker, Bernadette Fox, California Lawyers for the Arts, Clayton Campbell, Continuum Studio, Diane Meyer, Electronic Cafe, Highways, Ian Haig (Australia), Ichiro Irie, Judith Margolis (Israel), Lita Albuquerque, Marko Tadik (Croatia), Marcos Castro (Mexico), Michael Barnard, Otis College of Art & Design(MFA Public Practice Program)

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

Bar Hosted by HPNOTIQ and IZZE sparkling juice

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January 26 , 2008

Free dance & music performances:

PATRIOT ACTS

Curated by Linda Pollack
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.

+ The Habeas Lounge

Conceived by Linda Pollack
@ 1629 18th Street Studio #2

Open Studios for International Artists

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

September 29, 2007

California Choro Collective

and Bobby Matos Afro-Cuban Jazz

Mark Greenfield: Incognegro

Guatemalan Forced Migration

July 14, 2007

Oguri & Adam Rudolph

Nature (Interrupted)

Republic of China, without People!