Monday, February 2, 2009
LOS ANGELES DIGITAL ART EXHIBITION - Feb 12 - Mar 7, 2009
Ferro · Gantman · Salerno
Recent Digital Work
February 12-March 7, 2009
Reception for the artists:
Thursday, February 26, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Please note that the reception is scheduled to coincide with the College Art Association's 2009 Annual Conference held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Pharmaka and Bert Green Fine Art will be hosting concurrent receptions for their exhibitions.
Martin Gantman From the "Welcome to Davos" Series
Jean Ferro
Photo artist/conceptual artist Jean Ferro challenges the art of 20th century masters and her own creativity. As a student of art history, Ms. Ferro transports her medium into new dimensions, taking the original concept and delving even deeper into her own creative unconscious, to produce something fresh, spontaneous, iconic...and most important...artwork that elevates the soul.
Ferro's standards are her own. Her body of self-portrait work began in 1974 and is based on a singular intuitive visual intelligence, sometimes emotional, delightfully playful, or thought provoking social commentary. "Lots of people write about their lives...I visualize my life and transform it into film."
The large scale Statue of Liberty B/W, 2009 resonates the "freedom of self expression" theme of Ferro's 1996 Global Liberty exhibit at the Henry P. Rio Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall. Her alter ego piece, ducks-in-a-row #1 series is a large scale reproduction of the SX70 Series produced for Focus On Aids Charitable auction. Multiple ducks #9 is a digitally photographed image created in 2009.
Martin Gantman
Every year in January Klaus Wachs, founder and president of the World Economic Forum, announces the opening of the Forum's annual conference with the words: welcome to Davos. The conference is populated with elite members who have been selected and invited from the worlds of business, politics and entertainment. They are there, ostensibly, to discuss issues of global importance with respect to improving the quality of life of the world's inhabitants and the ecological systems within which they reside.
This project, "Welcome to Davos," strives to portray in a discernible way the seemingly contradictory notions of bottom line economic performance and human benefit. Centered on Davos, Switzerland, where each year the World Economic Forum conference is held, the work projects, as a device, the idea of Davos as the capital of an economic empire, as was Rome its empire's capital.
Michael Salerno
Michael Salerno has a special relationship to the line as a formal element of drawing. Lines traditionally delineate space. Rarely can an artist use one element exclusively and arrive at form without shape, and fewer still can manage such a conjecture with the linear element. But there it is, nothing but lines, or perhaps, everything possible of line.
Beyond this essence, the doors are wide open to almost any perception. The rigidity of definition associated with line is hardly extant. Your imagination is required. While some artists have arrived at all-over pictures in color and shape, Salerno has approached the magnificence of the irresolute in his own manner. That which would stand as a border is the device manifesting the borderless.
The current work is a true hybrid of painting as effected by Salerno's own recipe of digital processing.
-Mat Gleason
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art is dedicated to the propagation of all forms of digital art, supporting local, international, emerging and established artists in our gallery. We have an ongoing schedule of exhibits and competitions, and produce editions of wide format archival prints.
L.A. Center for Digital Art
http://www.lacda.com
Recent Digital Work
February 12-March 7, 2009
Reception for the artists:
Thursday, February 26, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Please note that the reception is scheduled to coincide with the College Art Association's 2009 Annual Conference held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Pharmaka and Bert Green Fine Art will be hosting concurrent receptions for their exhibitions.
Martin Gantman From the "Welcome to Davos" Series
Jean Ferro
Photo artist/conceptual artist Jean Ferro challenges the art of 20th century masters and her own creativity. As a student of art history, Ms. Ferro transports her medium into new dimensions, taking the original concept and delving even deeper into her own creative unconscious, to produce something fresh, spontaneous, iconic...and most important...artwork that elevates the soul.
Ferro's standards are her own. Her body of self-portrait work began in 1974 and is based on a singular intuitive visual intelligence, sometimes emotional, delightfully playful, or thought provoking social commentary. "Lots of people write about their lives...I visualize my life and transform it into film."
The large scale Statue of Liberty B/W, 2009 resonates the "freedom of self expression" theme of Ferro's 1996 Global Liberty exhibit at the Henry P. Rio Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall. Her alter ego piece, ducks-in-a-row #1 series is a large scale reproduction of the SX70 Series produced for Focus On Aids Charitable auction. Multiple ducks #9 is a digitally photographed image created in 2009.
Martin Gantman
Every year in January Klaus Wachs, founder and president of the World Economic Forum, announces the opening of the Forum's annual conference with the words: welcome to Davos. The conference is populated with elite members who have been selected and invited from the worlds of business, politics and entertainment. They are there, ostensibly, to discuss issues of global importance with respect to improving the quality of life of the world's inhabitants and the ecological systems within which they reside.
This project, "Welcome to Davos," strives to portray in a discernible way the seemingly contradictory notions of bottom line economic performance and human benefit. Centered on Davos, Switzerland, where each year the World Economic Forum conference is held, the work projects, as a device, the idea of Davos as the capital of an economic empire, as was Rome its empire's capital.
Michael Salerno
Michael Salerno has a special relationship to the line as a formal element of drawing. Lines traditionally delineate space. Rarely can an artist use one element exclusively and arrive at form without shape, and fewer still can manage such a conjecture with the linear element. But there it is, nothing but lines, or perhaps, everything possible of line.
Beyond this essence, the doors are wide open to almost any perception. The rigidity of definition associated with line is hardly extant. Your imagination is required. While some artists have arrived at all-over pictures in color and shape, Salerno has approached the magnificence of the irresolute in his own manner. That which would stand as a border is the device manifesting the borderless.
The current work is a true hybrid of painting as effected by Salerno's own recipe of digital processing.
-Mat Gleason
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art is dedicated to the propagation of all forms of digital art, supporting local, international, emerging and established artists in our gallery. We have an ongoing schedule of exhibits and competitions, and produce editions of wide format archival prints.
L.A. Center for Digital Art
http://www.lacda.com
SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATION - February 6, 2009
San Francisco Women's Film Festival
'Showcasing the Best in
Women's Cinema'
February 2009
Dear Friends of SFWFF,
We're excited to ring in our 5th year of presenting the most innovative independent films from around the world. Film submissions for the annual San Francisco International Women's Film Festival (SFWFF), presented by the Women's Film Institute, closed on December 15 and we'll be announcing this year's line-up this month.
This year's film festival will be held at various locations around the Bay area April 1-5. In the meantime, there are a variety of ways to get involved in helping strengthen our efforts and bringing another premier event to the community.
What's up with SFWFF
.
# 80's Dance Party Fundraiser
# Handmade Jewelry to Benefit SFWFF
# Donate an Item or Service to SFWFF's Auction
# 80's Dance Party Event Details
Handmade jewelry to benefit SFWFF.
Purchase a one-of-a-kind necklace handmade by Scarlett, SFWFF's executive director. Proceeds from your purchase will go directly to supporting the festival and its educational programs.
"I handcrafted these pieces with polymer clay and each piece is unique - no two are alike. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them. The best part is that the proceeds from your purchase will go toward SFWFF 2009."
-Scarlett Shepard
Each necklace is $15 or any two for $25. To view pieces and to purchase go to:
www.sfwff.com/jewelry
Donate an Item or Service to the SFWFF Auction.
SFWFF will host their online auction in March/April. All proceeds will go directly to fulfilling the festival's mission of offering free to low-cost screenings, events and educational programs to the community year-round.
To donate an item by 2/8 email us at:
events@sfwff.com
80's Dance Party
SFWFF invites you to join us for our 80's Dance Party Fundraiser!
Like Totally! We Love the 80's! 80's attire a must or whatever you'd would like to rock! 111 Minna Gallery is donating their space to help raise funds to go toward the 5th Annual San Francisco Women's Film Festival.
Dance and mingle to totally tubular beats for a great cause!
For more information visit SFWFF's Calendar of events:
www.sfwff.com
When:
Friday, February 6, 2009
Where:
111 Minna Gallery (Zappas Room) 111minagallery.com
Time:
9:00 - Midnight or til' like whenever
Admission:
$7 before 10:30 PM
$10 after 10:30 PM
(21 + with Valid ID,
Cash Bar)
To RSVP: events@sfwff.com
P.S.
Submit your favorite 80's song and we'll do our best to make sure you hear them.
'Showcasing the Best in
Women's Cinema'
February 2009
Dear Friends of SFWFF,
We're excited to ring in our 5th year of presenting the most innovative independent films from around the world. Film submissions for the annual San Francisco International Women's Film Festival (SFWFF), presented by the Women's Film Institute, closed on December 15 and we'll be announcing this year's line-up this month.
This year's film festival will be held at various locations around the Bay area April 1-5. In the meantime, there are a variety of ways to get involved in helping strengthen our efforts and bringing another premier event to the community.
What's up with SFWFF
.
# 80's Dance Party Fundraiser
# Handmade Jewelry to Benefit SFWFF
# Donate an Item or Service to SFWFF's Auction
# 80's Dance Party Event Details
Handmade jewelry to benefit SFWFF.
Purchase a one-of-a-kind necklace handmade by Scarlett, SFWFF's executive director. Proceeds from your purchase will go directly to supporting the festival and its educational programs.
"I handcrafted these pieces with polymer clay and each piece is unique - no two are alike. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them. The best part is that the proceeds from your purchase will go toward SFWFF 2009."
-Scarlett Shepard
Each necklace is $15 or any two for $25. To view pieces and to purchase go to:
www.sfwff.com/jewelry
Donate an Item or Service to the SFWFF Auction.
SFWFF will host their online auction in March/April. All proceeds will go directly to fulfilling the festival's mission of offering free to low-cost screenings, events and educational programs to the community year-round.
To donate an item by 2/8 email us at:
events@sfwff.com
80's Dance Party
SFWFF invites you to join us for our 80's Dance Party Fundraiser!
Like Totally! We Love the 80's! 80's attire a must or whatever you'd would like to rock! 111 Minna Gallery is donating their space to help raise funds to go toward the 5th Annual San Francisco Women's Film Festival.
Dance and mingle to totally tubular beats for a great cause!
For more information visit SFWFF's Calendar of events:
www.sfwff.com
When:
Friday, February 6, 2009
Where:
111 Minna Gallery (Zappas Room) 111minagallery.com
Time:
9:00 - Midnight or til' like whenever
Admission:
$7 before 10:30 PM
$10 after 10:30 PM
(21 + with Valid ID,
Cash Bar)
To RSVP: events@sfwff.com
P.S.
Submit your favorite 80's song and we'll do our best to make sure you hear them.
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