Wednesday, November 27, 2013

WILD THING wrap up!

Last Saturday at PROJECT we welcomed White Faux Taxidermy in a group
show benefiting S.T.A.R.T Animal Rescue. The night was a huge success, and it was great seeing some of our favorite artist friends working on an entirely different and unique medium. Lina from the LA WEEKLY posted a slideshow and LA Confidential Magazine wrote about it HERE! The show is there through December 8 and fits the holiday vibe quite nicely!

opening night

lion by CANTSTOPGOODBOY

bear by brandon boyd


Wednesday, November 13, 2013

SO much going on!


Time has flown by and the Serj Tankian DISARMING TIME exhibit will open to the public this Friday! Go to www.eyeforsound.com to download Serj's app and play a song created for each art piece. This interactive exhibit is the first of its kind and we are REALLY looking forward to it! Read about it here in Los Angeles Magazine!

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Brandon x Ernie Wolfe Gallery
Brandon has curated a bad ass (and completely unique!) show at the Ernie Wolfe Gallery, opening reception next Wednesday and all are welcome!! Come say hi to us! And to Brandon before he leaves for South America with Incubus!


DETAILS!

WHERE: Ernie Wolfe Gallery
             1653 Sawtelle Blvd.
             Los Angeles, CA 90025
            (310) 478-2960        

WHEN:   Wednesday, November 20, 7pm – 10pm open to the public reception
              Exhibit runs through December 8, 2013

CONTACT: Gallery: Ernie Wolfe, (310) 478-2960
                 Press: Jen DiSisto, jen@artduet.net, (323) 718-1391

Ernie Wolfe Gallery presents ‘The Horror The Horror’ and celebrates the publication of Extreme Canvas 2: The Golden Age of Hand Painted Movie Posters from Ghana.  The exhibit, excerpted from Wolfe’s latest book, features 23 paintings by 8 artists, carefully selected by musician, artist and horror flick aficionado, Brandon Boyd. The featured posters are all published, hand painted, unique and original works of art, by known artists from the Golden Age of this exclusively Ghanaian tradition that existed fleetingly from the late 1980s until the late 1990s, and were created for use within the context of their local tradition.

Says Wolfe about the collection,  “Starting in about 1985 and continuing until just before the millennium, there existed a Golden Age of hand-painted imagination-driven movie posters in Ghana. This was a time when market forces from abroad were minimal and these unique and exotic paintings were created solely for the local Ghanaian movie viewing audience. The best and brightest artists of a generation competed fiercely and directly in the public eye for this exciting new work, being careful to sign and date the great majority of these paintings. Their hand-made artistry stood its ground against the inevitable tide of printing technology that globalization inexorably thrust upon them, and for a short while, carved out a small oasis in time where man actually won out over machines.” 

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Coming up!

'Wild Thing' is a RAD group art show and charity event happening at PROJECT with hip home decor company, White Faux Taxidermy. Come to the November 23 event and support the incredible local animal rescute organization, START Rescue.org.



DETAILS...

WHAT:  PROJECT Gallery is proud to host: White Faux Taxidermy Presents ‘Wild Thing’, a group art show and charity auction to benefit animal shelter and rescue team, STARTrescue.org. Home design company White Faux Taxidermy was created with the idea that their uniquely customizable and stylish faux pieces would pay homage to outdoor life without hurting animals in the process. For ‘Wild Thing’, White Faux Taxidermy resin animals have been given to twenty carefully selected artists, both local and international in their rawest form, creating a highly unique blank canvas. Each artist has made their chosen piece their own with only one simple rule: honor the animal. The results are handcrafted, original, one-of-a-kind pieces never seen before from these artists.

WHERE: PROJECT Gallery              
               1553 N. Cahuenga Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028

WHEN:   Opening reception with silent auction: Saturday, November 23. 7p – 10p
              Exhibit through December 8

CONTACT:  
Gallery: Sarah Gough, sarah@projectgallery.net; 323-462-1100
Press: Jen DiSisto, Art Duet, jen@artduet.net; 323-825-5221
WFT, Event Coordinator Debbie Dexter ddmagster@yahoo.com 323-309-4977

Participating artists are: Anthony Ausgang, Bob Rickett, Steve Olson, Ian Ross, Adam Wallacavage, Christopher Conn Askew, Nicolas Bowers, Marsha Perloff, Clam Lynch, Dominique Nagel, Brandon Boyd, Jeremy Kille, Lauren Virdone, Frank Infante, Kevin Lozano, Allison Torneros, CANTSTOPGOODBOY, Holly Purcell, Elizabeth Conley and the Kenmore Elementary School/Kenmore, Washington.

ABOUT WHITE FAUX TAXIDERMY: WFT is a young, urban home design company with playful animal pieces that pay homage to outdoor life, rather than being a hunter’s trophy. White Faux Taxidermy products have adorned the walls of thousands of clients, businesses, hotels, magazines and design television shows.  Sought after by well known interior designers from six of the seven continents, WFT has created a highly talked about and creative culture for the animal lover in every one of us.  For more information please visit http://www.whitefauxtaxidermy.com/art-for-start-selection-page
ABOUT START ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM: Every day thousand of pets are killed in Southern California shelters. S.T.A.R.T. was formed in order to address the issues of overpopulation by providing two very important components: 1) Transports
animals are rescued from high kill shelters in central and southern California and transported to northwestern rescue organizations, where they are re-homed. 2) Spay/Neuter
funding veterinary clinics in local communities to facilitate free spay/neuter services. http://startrescue.org/