Doing my first TOY!
January 26, 2012
Thanks to a buddy from Bomit I get to paint (and/or otherwise ‘do up’) an eight inch vinyl doll, for an upcoming exhibit at Crewest Gallery called “Blow Up LA”. Usually I’m not that into blowing up a city I love, but this is a different case 
Anyways – here’s the flyer:
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21st Century Judy Chicago (or: How I learned to love dry ice and road flares)
Maybe I’ll write more about this later, but for now I’ll just tell you that sometimes all you need to do is answer a call for help and you could be well on to one of the more amazing experiences of your life so far.
I’m talking about answering the call for volunteers by Silverlake based Materials and Applications, to participate in a re-envisioning of Judy Chicago’s 1968 performance installation “Disappearing Environments” to kick off the performance art series of Pacific Standard Time.
Here’s a little interview I did about my experience for www.PerformanceArtist.com. Hope you enjoy!
www.performanceartist.com/judy-chicago/
And here’s a little time lapse video of the group doing a test build during the third workshop with Judy Chicago
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Photos from the opening :-)
November 29, 2011
***Photos courtesy of Michael Fox and Barbara Teitelbaum***
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Until These Memories Ring True
November 11, 2011
My sister and I are having an art exhibit opening Nov. 27
Please visit:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=302378066440639 for more information and the full press release!
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Joyride Art Show
June 21, 2011
I have a piece in the Bicycle Film Festival’s art exhibit JOYRIDE.
It opens on Thurs. June 23 at Spencer Brownstone Gallery #3 Wooster St.
Stop by if you’re in NYC… It’s a great line up!
JOYRIDE Flyer
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Panelshop is open for the month at Monte Vista Projects, and I’ve got a new BAND!
March 13, 2011
My new band is called “The Panels”. We are an art performance band concept created by Panelist Peggy Jo Pabustan to promote Panelshop through music ‘jingles’ about the project. Guitar and lyrics by Panelist Peggy Jo Pabustan, vocals by Panelist Ashira Siegel, with drums by the amazing Kimberly Shin. This is us performing at Monte Vista Projects and below that are some images of the CD covers I made for our first very limited edition of CD’s. And below that is the press release for our opening at Monte Vista Projects.
Monte Vista Projects is pleased to present Andrea Zittel’s latest enterprise, ‘Panelshop’, an artist collective making products for an ongoing series of “pop-up” experiments in galleries, stores, and non-profit venues across North America. The Panelshop project succeeds Smockshop, a similar endeavor in which artists produced more than 300 simple garments, as reinterpretations of Zittel’s original design. The new collection begins with a simple dictate to create a rectangular product or “panel” which each artist then interprets according to his or her own skills, interests and special talents. Having precedents in Zittel’s “A-Z Personal Panel Uniforms” and “A-Z Carpet Furniture” and “A-Z Purity Privacy Panels”, the Panelist’s are encouraged to explore a variety of functions with the rectangular form. They design a range of products including garments, furniture, accessories, and stationery which have the capacity to contract and expand, morphing from a single surface to fully functional objects. As a testament to Zittel’s governing principle that “rules make us more creative” each object conforms to a basic rectangular shape, yet manifests in an infinite array of colours, texture, materials and functions. The project explores the intersections of function and fashion, design and life, commerce and art, limitation and freedom.
Los Angeles, CA 90042.
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12/12 from noon to 7pm – The Exchange!
December 06, 2010
Come one, come all! Come visit my studio and get some great art for cheap! Music by Dublab, live silk screening by Hit + Run, Beer and raffles!!
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Just messing around….
November 27, 2010
Inspired by my awesome seamstress friend Laura McMillian, I made a batch of reflectively silkscreened, fabric, neon feathers. I’ve been giving them out very sparingly, and selling them a bit, but they’re not quite ready…. dunno how many I’ll make.. thinking about an installation again….
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“The Group Formerly Known as ‘Smockshop’” open for business!
A while back (read: a few months ago), after 300 ‘smocks’ and 13 exhibition shows, Andrea Zittel (after speaking with us members) decided it was time to archive “Smockshop” as a project. I missed it terribly and was thrilled when Andrea rounded us up again and introduced a new version of a Smockshop style project. She explained the idea of a panel and her work with panels, and invited us to make our own panels. For now we are calling ourselves “The Group Formerly Known as Smockshop“. We’ve added a few members over the last couple months to round out and diversify a bit, and have a an entirely different set of rules that brilliantly and completely corallates to Andrea’s body of work, and Smockshop as an entity. Everything must be this panel shape. Everything must also be something functional.
Members are making everything from clothing to duvet covers to tables, bags, blankets and other random things. I’ve been making cozy sewn panels that are hooded scarves, regular scarves and neck warmers. All with hand dyed and/or reflective material. Here’s a couple photos
We’ve had three sales so far. The first was at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine. Then we were at High Desert Test Sites annual Art Swap Meet in Joshua Tree, and then as a part of the event “Design Loves Art” at the Pacific Design Center here in LA. Next Month we will be down in Palm Springs at ACE Hotel. Please come check us out if you are in the area 