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.

Zittel’s work is internationally recognized, exploring all aspects of day-to-day living. Clothing, food, and furniture all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs. The Panelshop is a continuation of the artist’s long-standing aesthetic investigation into the daily routines and functional experiences of everyday life. Designed to be a profit-making enterprise with social awareness, the Panelshop also generates income for non-commercial artists who are not yet self-sustaining and is comprised of artists from Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Berlin, and South Portland, with various creative backgrounds. 

Panelshop debuted at the Portland Museum of Art under it’s original name, Group Formerly Known as Smockshop in September, 2010 and has since exhibited at the Pacific Design Center in the Design Loves Art program, Los Angeles; Amy and Wendy Yao’s Swapmeet, Yucca Valley; and Mt Fuji General Store Pop-Up shop at the Ace Hotel, Palm Springs.
Artist Andrea Zittel trained at San Diego State University and Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy; Sadie Coles HQ, London, England; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; and Schaulager, Basel.

 

 

 

Monte Vista Projects is at:  

5442 Monte Vista St (at Ave. 55) 

 

 

Los Angeles, CA 90042.

 

 

 

 

 

Panelshop is open for the month at Monte Vista Projects, and I’ve got a new BAND! | 2011 | Exhibited work, installation artwork