MOCA Versus Yves Klein Butoh

I was fortunate enough to be invited to vlog a Butoh Protest Performance at the MOCA Art in the Streets opening last Saturday. Jeffrey Deitch and friends at MOCA decided to whitewash an anti-war mural painted on the Geffen Contemporary by Italian artist Blu causing a huge controversy. The Butoh performers were protesting that act of censorship. Their performance was fantastic. Check it out!

Oh Yeah...

I forgot about this blog for awhile. It was previously the "LA Art Network" blog which I extracted from the original Tribe.net group that I moderate. But, I decided I'd rather not be that formal so I'm turning this blog into one that's just generally focused on what I'm doing art-wise. Much more fun for me.

So, what am I doing these days? Well, I'm working on a few music videos for songs that I recently wrote. I'm in this band called Technostress and we're releasing our EP digitally in September. We needed something to promote it so I thought I'd take a stab at putting something together. I'm making some costumes for it that are coming out pretty well. See a headdress for one of them below.

Create:Fixate February 10th

I'm going be displaying many of my "Dynamic Portraits" at Create:Fixate in Hollywood, Saturday, February 10th. CF is a well curated, well attended contemporary art & music venue that's been a popular destination in LA for the last 5 years. I'm excited to show my new work. So, c'mon down! http://www.createfixate.com/nexteventM06.html

Susan Cianciolo Opening

There's an interesting event happening down at LACE in Hollywood this Friday. I'll be volunteering during the opening. C'mon by.

http://www.artleak.org/cianciolo.html

New Work, Hive Show, Tarfest

I've got several photos of new work I just uploaded to my web site. These pieces were made with new materials I've been working with. Check out the gallery section. http://www.treiops.com/art

& Just a reminder,

I will have a new painting in this year's Tarfest,
http://www.tarfest.com.

The Art Program Opening Reception is Friday, October 6th from 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. at the Korean Cultural Center 5505 Wilshire Blvd. (next to The El Rey Theater).

If you go to this page you can see a preview of the 60 artists work in the show: http://tarfest.com/art.html

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Also, there will be our monthly group show at The Hive Gallery in downtown LA. I will have several new pieces which are made out of recycled elements. I'm excited to show them so, come on down.
http://www.thehivegallery.com

Tarfest

I will have a new painting in this year's Tarfest, http://www.tarfest.com, which is a great film, art, & music festival held every year in the Wilshire district in Los Angeles. If you haven't gone previous years, definitely check it out this time. It's well worth it.

The Art Program Opening Reception is Friday, October 6th from 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. at the Korean Cultural Center 5505 Wilshire Blvd. (next to The El Rey Theater).

If you go to this page you can see a preview of the 60 artists work in the show: http://tarfest.com/art.html

Should be a very lively opening.

LACE in Hollywood

Wednesday I volunteered at this great gallery in Hollywood called Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. It's right in the middle of all those wig shops & lingerie stores. It's been there 11 years, I think. They had a great opening for two artists, Dustin Shuler & Alexander Apostol.

Dustin's piece was this massive "vivarium" environment that mimiced condidtions in a rain forest. The piece was filled with live animals like tree frogs, lizards, turtles, and a few birds. The whole thing was miked. You gotta go down & see it. In the other part of the gallery was some digitally altered photographs of buildings in Caracas, Venezuela done by Apostol. There were also a few of his video art pieces playing. Good stuff. I'll be down there tonight (Friday) again. C'mon down.

http://www.artleak.org/