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March 16-23
Laguna College of Art and Design

“Color It Orange” is an Annual Juried Youth Art Exhibition of Orange County Public and Private School students from Kindergarten through Grade 12, including CHEP and individual entries.

“Color It Orange” encourages and celebrates youth art and creativity. Over 4,500 juried entries are expected from many different genres: drawings, paintings, sculpture, prints, and photography by hundreds of students.

Reception Sunday, March 16, 2008
LCAD Campus
2222 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651

All of the above was lifted from the LCAD website.

What I have to add is that my son is one of the artists selected to exhibit his work in this show. I am beaming with pride.

Instead of an actual definition of Surreal, it should just read one person's name and that is Salvador Dali. The dude was Surreal in all aspects of his life.

End of 07, beginning of 08, LACMA hosted a show of Salvador Dali's work. It was extensive from early art, to set designs for the movie Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound to the co-collaboration with Walt Disney called Destino, which was truly amazing.

For some reason the project was scraped, either from budget issues or personality issues or a bit of both. In 2003, Disney opened the archives and finally completed the animation.
I was suprised how small the painting The Persistence of Memory was. When you see it in books or in photos, it seems so larger than life but it's only 8x10, if that.
Dali loved Hollywood. He is quoted by saying . . ."I’m in Hollywood, where I’ve made contact with the three American Surrealists, Harpo Marx, Disney and Cecil B. DeMille."

I like how LACMA used large screens and video to capture Dali's work and yet traditional display of his work. One room had one end of the room screening Dali's screen test that he did for Andy Warhol and then at the other end was the same screening but upside down. There was no sound and it didn't show much. In fact it didn't make sense but I guess that was the point. There was a lot of work to view. To much in fact that it became overwelming and that they were letting in a lot of people at one time, so things were bottlenecked at certain points.

September 1 - October 21, 2007

http://www.mutatovisual.com/html/reports/calstate0 | see press

Also shown at the CSUF Main Gallery

CSUF GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER
125 N. Broadway Santa Ana, CA 92701

This exhibition features more than 400 photographic works by the artist in the Project Room Gallery. A 288-page hardcover book Beautiful Mutants published by Grand Central Press and designed by Ryan DiDonato will be released at the opening.

Nike SB, The City of Glendora California, Mutato Muzika and CSU Fullerton and the Grand Central Art Center came together to make this exhibition and book possible.

Mark Mothersbaugh was born in 1950 in Akron, Ohio. In 1957 he received his first pair of spectacles and simultaneously became interested in art. In 1968 he enrolled at Kent State University fine arts department. In 1970 Mothersbaugh protests the war in Viet Nam and meets Jerry Casale at Kent State and co-conceptualizes the art band DEVO. Mothersbaugh has his first solo gallery show in 1975. From 1976 to present, Bob, Jim and Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob and Jerry Casale release award winning short film "In the Beginning was the End - the Truth About De-evolution" and European chart topping singles. During this time period, Mothersbaugh created along with Jerry Casale and Bob Mothersbaugh all of Devo's film, graphics, music and stage shows. DEVO continues to record and perform. From 1984 to present, Mothersbaugh has been composing music for film, TV, radio, video games and the web. Since 1987 Mothersbaugh has shown in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions.

The photo-image manipulation of The Beautiful Mutants were intended to be a form of palindromic poetry, where a story is created by a half-truth folded and placed next to itself, thereby creating a self-referencing, yet completed visual poem.
- Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh's art leads the viewer to see the hidden mutant in us all. The artist renders a "study of humans via symmetry using photos, both recent and vintage" in which each photograph is, like the "self" in Jungian analysis, transformed to "emerge from its chrysalis as something with expected and uninvestigated properties. It no longer represented anything immediately known... Rather, it now appeared in a double guise, as both known and unknown."

Viewers resonate with these images at the interstice between individual subconscious and collective unconscious. Mothersbaugh is, indeed, a master of this interstice, offering the potential "miraculous" experience that art can provide. As Gombrich describes it, "the true miracle of the language of art is not that it enables the artist to create the illusion of reality. It is that under the hands of a great master, the image becomes translucent. In teaching us to see the visible world afresh, he gives us the illusion of looking into the invisible realms of the mind-if only we know...how to use our eyes."

- from the essay The Cryptomnesia of Mark Mothersbaugh: Beautiful Mutants in Einfall and Shado by Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte

Collages and Journals
June 9 – July 14, 2007
Opening reception for the artist: Saturday, June 9, 5-8pm

Western Project
3830 Main St., Culver City, CA 90232
Contact, Erin Kermanikian
(310) 838-0609, fax (310) 838-0610
Web site, http://western-project.com

This Saturday is a very full day in downtown Long Beach with the Ink & Iron Tatto & Music Festival and the East Village Art Walk. As well as the usual 2nd Sat. of the month art walk, the Walker and Kress Loft artists will be opening their studios and showing their work on the bottom floor of the Walker Building (Pine & 4th St.).

See you there.

Kurt Halsey's unabashedly romantic, wistful designs will be featured in a solo show at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, May 17 - June 15, 2007.

Don't be afraid to fall in love with these images.

American Zombie on MySpace

And you just thought half this city "acted" braindead....

If you are a history, art, or architecture fan, check out The LA Conservancy's new online exhibition Curating the City: Wilshire Blvd (via Glenda the Good). The site is a fun multimedia run of the whole length of Wilshire Blvd. from downtown LA to Santa Monica with great photos and information.