“Making Change,” Elena Siff
October 23-December 17, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 23, 6-10 pm (Project Room)
Visual Artist Elena Siff will address how the Internet plays a major role in this new artistic economy by setting up an actual and virtual marketplace that will allow participating artists, whose work focus on political and environmental art, an opportunity to sell their creations in person and online. For three months 18th Street’s Project Room will be transformed into an enlightened and socially conscious marketplace flourishing with novel artists from all over Los Angeles who have come to showcase their designs or utilize the space to work on new creations.
Siff’s blog: http://artofmakingchange.blogspot.com/
Elene Siff has been a mixed media artist for the last 30 years (collage, assemblage, installation, unique book objects) and has also curated several large exhibitions such as The Magic Show, an exhibition of international mail art in 1983, Southern California Assemblage: Past and Present for the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and the Museum of Santa Cruz in 1986. In 2004 Siff curated Radiant Spaces: Private Domain, an exhibition of the work of 80 artists from all over California who are challenged with developmental differences. This exhibition was presented in three venues in Southern California. She also is the co-founder of Women/Beyond Borders, an international exhibition which has been traveling around the world for the last 13 years and which started modestly in Santa Barbara, Ca. in 1995 with 12 women. There are currently 1000 pieces in the exhibition by women from nearly 30 different countries.
Since 1993 Siff has been awarded 4 small grants (under $5000) through the NEA, William Keck Foundation and the Santa Monica Arts Commission to create temporary interactive public art installations. Several of these had to do with the public perception of people with developmental differences. Siff created a large interactive structure in a shopping mall (Santa Monica Place) where she was given an empty storefront where the public could create art to place in the installation and dialogue with her about the issues she presented.
Elena Siff also is an active book maker and creates unique book objects which have been in many international exhibitions and are sold through Vamp and Tramp Booksellers. In 2008 she curated an exhibition of book objects in Santa Barbara having to do with books made from recycled non-traditional materials. She has also taught workshops in book arts in various venues in Southern California.
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