THIS WEEKEND: Jumbo Fruit, Distorted Lens, Momentum, Dime Bags, and The Big Parade
Openings all over Los Angeles, a walking tour that turns into a Big Parade, and a dime bag to take home from New York.
- The Clayton Brothers come home to Santa Monica’s Patrick Painter Gallery with Jumbo Fruit, their latest series featuring their trademark surreal twist this time focussing on the standard issue still-life model of fruit.
Patrick Painter Gallery 2525 Michigan Ave. Unit A8, Santa Monica, CA 90404 Show runs from July 18 through August 29, 2009
- A big two for one opening for Culver City’s LeBasse Projects summer season with Distorted Lens, featuring “Superflat” styled pop artists David Flores and Lisa Alisa.
- Make a move to the group show Momentum, featuring Tiffany Bozic, Chigi (also known as Neri), Ina Kyung Lim, Tessar Lo, Veronique Meignaud, and Brooks Salzwedel at Alhambra’s Nucleus Gallery.
- Giant Robot New York goes tiny for their massive group show Dime Bag 3. Among the over 200 New York painters, illustrators, graphic designers, filmmakers, photographers, and product designers, are Cynthia Connolly, Evah Fan, Maya Hayuk, Rich Jacobs, Andy Kehoe, Matt Leines, Jeff Soto, and Tobin Yelland.
- You can also spend your weekend with a Walker, Alissa that is, as she helps lead a group of Angelinos through a walking tour of Downtown LA to the Hollywood sign and the 100+ historic stairways in between with the Big Parade. Sign up on the Facebook page here and find more info from the Big Paraders here:
“The Big Parade is a two-day walk through Los Angeles that will start in downtown, at the famous Angel’s Flight Stairway, and finish with six stairways leading up from Beachwood Canyon to the Hollywood Sign. The walk will cover approximately 40 miles and 100+ stairways, and will include a camp-out at the mid-point, the famous Music Box Stairs-site of the Oscar-winning Laurel & Hardy film of the same name-in Silverlake.”
Saturday, July 18, Meet up at Chango Coffee Shop 1559 Echo Park Ave. (at Delta) at 11:00am Sunday, July 19, Meet up at La Mill Coffee 1633 Silverlake Blvd. (at Effie) at 8:3am
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