WEST SOUTHWEST: ABQ-LA Exchange
1 Exhibition in 2 cities at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque and LA Artcore in Los Angeles
Catalog download, photos from the LA opening.
516 ARTS: April 4 - May 16, 2009
Opening reception: Saturday, April 4, 6-8pm
516 Central SW, between 5th & 6th Streets, Downtown Albuquerque
LA Artcore: April 1 - 30, 2009
Reception: Saturday, April 25, 5-8pm at the Union Center for the Arts location in Little Tokyo
+ Open house at the Brewery Annex 3-5pm, with artists’ talks at 4pm
Union Center for the Arts: 120 Judge John Aiso Street, Downtown Los Angeles (Little Tokyo)
Brewery Annex: 650 A South Avenue 21, Los Angeles
INFO: 516 ARTS, tel. 505-242-1445, 516arts.org LA Artcore, tel. 213-617-0303, laartcore.org
ARTISTS:
from Los Angeles:Saúl Álvarez
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from Albuquerque:Lea Denise Anderson |
video artists in 788.34:Stephen Ausherman |
788.34 is a video program to be presented ongoing throughout the exhibition in both cities, with a screening event on April 16 in Albuquerque for the Experiments in Cinema V.4.2 film festival. According to MapQuest, 788.34 is the total mileage that separates New Mexico and Los Angeles. Curated by Bryan Konefsky, 788.34 features moving image art from both cities.
EXHIBITION PROGRAMS IN ALBUQUERQUE:
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 4, 6-8pm
Nuevo flamenco music with Cielo
788.34 Screening & Talk
Thursday, April 16, 7:30pm
LA-ABQ video program in conjunction with Experiments in Cinema V 4.2 film festival, with opening films by students from Albuquerque Academy, Public Academy for Performing Arts, and YDI’s Mi Voz program. Video curator Bryan Konefsky says, "I’d like to think that the creative work in 788.34 embraces elements of an idea that film artist Stan Brakhage spent an entire career studying. For Brakhage, the poetry of cinema was lost in popular forms that he found to be too empirical and declarative. Specifically, film declares itself 18 - 24 frames per second and NTSC video, 29.97 frames per second. According to Brakhage, the true meaning/voice of cinema exists somewhere between all those frames, and maybe for us, somewhere around mile marker 394, in a safe place amongst the Joshua trees." More details download flyer basementfilms.org/experiments.html
516 WORDS reading with Michael Datcher
Saturday, May 9, 7:30pm
Michael Datcher, poet and critically acclaimed journalist from Los Angeles and the author of the New York Times Bestseller Raising Fences, will read at the Outpost Performance Space. More Details.
Downtown Artscrawl Open House
Friday, May 15, 5-8pm
Treehouse Poetry Reading & Open Mic, sign-up at 7:30pm
Saturday, May 16, 8pm
SPECIAL PROGRAM IN LOS ANGELES:
Brewery Annex Artwalk
Saturday & Sunday, April 18 & 19, 11-6pm
The Brewery Annex is one of the largest arts facilities in the country with over 200 studios, and it is home to one of LA Artcore’s two galleries hosting the West Southwest exhibition.
ABOUT LA ARTCORE
LA Artcore was founded in 1979 by Lydia Takeshita, who was a Professor of Art at California State University, Los Angeles. The mission of LA Artcore is to support and nurture the careers of artists from diverse cultural backgrounds in a way that transcends social barriers and encourages a vibrant and dynamic community with innovative contemporary art. LA Artcore maintains two exhibition spaces, the Union Center for the Arts and the Brewery Annex, where new and original art works are displayed each month. LA Artcore also sponsors exchange exhibitions which bring artists from around the globe to Southern California, and provide local artists with opportunities to show their work abroad. For more information, please visit laartcore.org.exhibition press release