B.O.L.T show @ Dakota Lounge!

ARE YOU FREE ON SATURDAY?

The BOLT will be rockin it in Santa Monica on SATURDAY NIGHT - First BOLT show of 2010 with Luminaries, Amae and Elijah @ The Dakota Lounge. Come thru and dance and sing!

Our good friend Tommy Tung is a fantastic writer. Check out his article.

VOX HUMANA is heard at the 2010 Los Angeles Art Show.


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Street artists Mear One, El Mac, Retna, and Kofie perform live at the 2010 Los Angeles Art Show. New fans are enlisted. New critics are born. Provocation succeeds.

Some sit and some stand, but all are in quiet reverence of Kofie who paints an abstract playground for the eyes. Seldom does he acknowledge these attendees of the Los Angeles Art Show. Inches away from the 12 x 12 foot canvas, he lives and works, spiritually tethered to a geometric pool of tides and axes.

When he does get distance, he does it to get supplies from a cart.

Kofie is one of four artists creating VOX HUMANA, a live exhibition of street art at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Next to him is Mear One with a canvas identical in size, while El Mac and Retna collaborate on a 12 x 24 foot canvas. Their performance runs the course of the Los Angeles Art Show (January 20 – 24, 2010), presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA).

Every day, they demonstrate their craft.

Every year, the fair has never showcased street art -- until now.

“This is a groundbreaking show to have this here,” says Bryson Strauss, curator of VOX HUMANA. “The Fine Art Dealers Association, if you’re not familiar, was founded by 19th and 20th century art dealers. It’s evolved from 100 percent historic traditional painting to 25 percent of that and 75 percent contemporary.”

According to Strauss who also directs L.A. Art Machine, VOX HUMANA is a progressive move by the largest art fair on the West coast, since Mear One, Retna, El Mac, and Kofie are not certified celebrities: “Shepard Fairey and Banksy show at art fairs like Art Basel, but they’ve already been validated and vindicated and selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s easy to hang [their work] on your wall and say, ‘Now, I’m cool and I’m hip.’”

Producer of the Los Angeles Art Show, Kim Martindale describes the fair as “encyclopedic,” and believes that VOX HUMANA balances the spectrum and absolves street art of infamy.

“Graffiti art is part of that latest movement,” says Martindale. “It’s kind of gone through a transition from where people had pushed it aside and said, ‘Let’s not even look at it. That’s an evil thing for our society.’”

The sensitivity of the issue reflects in Strauss’ nomenclature: “I use ‘street art’ over ‘graffiti,’ because ‘graffiti’ has connotations, whereas these guys -- if you look at any of this -- you wouldn’t say, ‘graffiti.’ You would just say, ‘fine art.’”

Marta Avellaneda, 56, represents Galeria del Paseo in Montevideo, Uruguay, and opines that VOX HUMANA is neither graffiti nor fine art: “The way I see it, more than graffiti, is that it’s mural work. They’re muralists, but muralists on canvas. To me, maybe because I grew up in the 60s and 70s, the fact that someone is a street performer and becomes part of an art collection -- it loses its feeling.”

Check out the full article at http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/vox-humana-is-heard-at-the-2010-los-angeles-art-show


About the writer
Tommy Tung lives in Los Angeles and holds a B.A. in English from UC Berkeley and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from USC. He writes fiction mostly and rock music. When he isn’t investigating contemporary art, he is seeking literary representation for his novel, Taurus Ikkanda. Say it ain’t so: tungtalk@hotmail.com

ARTISTSPALOOZA JAM THIS FRIDAY NIGHT! JAN. 29TH

This Friday night head on over to the Fais Do Do Ballroom. We will also be introducing short indie films at 7Pm to 8Pm. Films by Allison Geddie, Jeff Lenganza,and Tyler Ross. 8pm the music starts.

RIP Larry

Our good friend Larry from Fais Dodo crossed to the other side this weekend. He was a beautiful, bluesy, hip cat. A protector. We will all be the better with him watching over us. Love. Love. Live.

Artistspalooza and Calvary Chapel in Florida are teaming up to help the people in Haiti.

ArtistsPalooza and Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale will be teaming with Samaritan's Purse to help support those who have been affected by the earthquake. We are accepting contributions that will be used to help those in need.

At this weekends service's, ArtistsPalooza will host a concert to help the needs of the people in Haiti. We will also addressing the needs of those who have friends and family in the devastated region.


2401 W. Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309

If you want to be a Volunteer with Calvary Chapel in Haiti please contact them @ www.calvaryftl.org.

Thank ou all the talented artists.

Thank you all the talented artists who made it out to the open mic jam at Fais Do Do, and all the peeps who supported them. There will not be a jam this Friday but we will be rocking and a rolling on the 29th.

HEAVEN IS WHERE
In the meantime be sure to catch Mr. Matt Lande and his band for the first HEAVEN IS WHERE show of the new year this Friday at Madame Royale!
This will be a 3 piece acoustic set featuring new HEAVEN IS WHERE members Bryan Karijanian and Nick Mason!

Print out this flyer for a $8 admission or go to www.myspace.com/heaveniswhere.
It's going to be a fun night at a super cool, classy, intimate venue.


Madame Royale
6423 Yucca St.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

GET THE POPCORN READY
we will soon be starting ArtistsPalooza Independent Film night. Please submit a DVD film to 1027 Lincoln Blvd #a Santa Monica CA. 90403 or send link to david@artistspalooza.org