New updates from Andrew @ Sour Harvest
is proud to present:
Main Gallery:
'Joy Today Jeopardy Tomorrow'
New paintings, drawings and an installation from Ekundayo
Project Room:
'The Waiting Room'
New paintings from Brett Amory
'Joy Today Jeopardy Tomorrow'
New paintings, drawings and an installation from Ekundayo
Project Room:
'The Waiting Room'
New paintings from Brett Amory
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Opening Reception:
Fri, June 11th 7-10PM with both artists in attendance
The Crepe'n Around Truck will be out during the opening reception - be sure to bring your appetite!
Both exhibitions on view: June 11th - July 2nd
(Los Angeles) Thinkspace is excited to welcome back Los Angeles based artist Ekundayo for his second solo show with our gallery. Also taking place at the same time in our project room will be the debut Los Angeles solo show from San Francisco based Brett Amory.
'Joy Today Jeopardy Tomorrow' is an exhibition about the beautiful struggle we all face of reaching for our dreams, in hopes of guiding our own destiny. Whether we succeed or fail is not important, as long as it's on our own terms. Ekundayo's work illustrates the sacrifices we make in the pursuit of
fulfillment, while simultaneously questioning the actions taken to attain this 'fulfillment' we all seek. A great deal of inspiration for this new body of work has come from the life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., an African nationalist who during the 1920's had a vision to bring his people from all over the world to a higher level of conciseness in regards to where they come from and how they provided for themselves. Although Garvey failed in his ultimate goal of having a fleet of steamships fairing people from all over the world to Africa in-order to connect them to their origins, he left a legacy behind that continues to inspire countless others.
When looking at the work you get a sense of an inner struggle with the central figures being anchored by a large burden, while at the same time appearing weightless, as if suspended in moments of relief. A sort of "misshapen beauty" which speaks to the imperfections and vices found within all of us. Ekundayo's pieces are handled with a deliberate sensitivity, framed by moments of very loose, almost sporadic applications of paint, which help to give the finished works a sense of inadvertence, that in turn serve as a testament to the artist's intent.
In our project room we welcome Brett Amory. His painting series entitled "Waiting" depicts the urban individual's yearning for presence and the seeming impossibility of attaining it. The paintings portray commuters in transit immersed in either a quiet, even hopeful state or, alternately, a state of anguish due to unfulfilled anticipation.
At first, the series, begun in 2001, depicted travelers waiting underground. But as the paintings evolved, the people ceased to be exclusively travelers, and began to emphasize figures selected from anonymous snaphots of city streets taken by the artist during his travels. Although the experience of waiting remains, the perception of it has changed from one of mundane task to one leavened with transcendence.
The series has also charted the evolution of an artist-the reductive elements of the compositions provide an outward echo of the inner states of the figures. By reducing the elements of the painting as far as possible, a frozen moment is extended.
Lastly, Amory has developed favored motifs in the series, a kind of visual music, such as repetition of a human image, to show not only the passage of time but of the human being through it.
'Joy Today Jeopardy Tomorrow' is an exhibition about the beautiful struggle we all face of reaching for our dreams, in hopes of guiding our own destiny. Whether we succeed or fail is not important, as long as it's on our own terms. Ekundayo's work illustrates the sacrifices we make in the pursuit of
fulfillment, while simultaneously questioning the actions taken to attain this 'fulfillment' we all seek. A great deal of inspiration for this new body of work has come from the life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., an African nationalist who during the 1920's had a vision to bring his people from all over the world to a higher level of conciseness in regards to where they come from and how they provided for themselves. Although Garvey failed in his ultimate goal of having a fleet of steamships fairing people from all over the world to Africa in-order to connect them to their origins, he left a legacy behind that continues to inspire countless others.
When looking at the work you get a sense of an inner struggle with the central figures being anchored by a large burden, while at the same time appearing weightless, as if suspended in moments of relief. A sort of "misshapen beauty" which speaks to the imperfections and vices found within all of us. Ekundayo's pieces are handled with a deliberate sensitivity, framed by moments of very loose, almost sporadic applications of paint, which help to give the finished works a sense of inadvertence, that in turn serve as a testament to the artist's intent.
In our project room we welcome Brett Amory. His painting series entitled "Waiting" depicts the urban individual's yearning for presence and the seeming impossibility of attaining it. The paintings portray commuters in transit immersed in either a quiet, even hopeful state or, alternately, a state of anguish due to unfulfilled anticipation.
At first, the series, begun in 2001, depicted travelers waiting underground. But as the paintings evolved, the people ceased to be exclusively travelers, and began to emphasize figures selected from anonymous snaphots of city streets taken by the artist during his travels. Although the experience of waiting remains, the perception of it has changed from one of mundane task to one leavened with transcendence.
The series has also charted the evolution of an artist-the reductive elements of the compositions provide an outward echo of the inner states of the figures. By reducing the elements of the painting as far as possible, a frozen moment is extended.
Lastly, Amory has developed favored motifs in the series, a kind of visual music, such as repetition of a human image, to show not only the passage of time but of the human being through it.
In our main gallery space::
Ekundayo
'Joy Today Jeopardy Tomorrow'
Ekundayo
'Joy Today Jeopardy Tomorrow'
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Ekundayo (Dayo) was born in Honolulu, Hi, in 1983 where he lived with his mother and father until the age of five when his mother and father could no longer get along. Ekundayo's father snuck him out of the state without his mother's knowledge, and for seven years Ekundayo and his father moved fromplace to place living a life on the run. Meanwhile in her desperate need to find her son, Ekundayo's mother helped start Hawaii's first clearing house for missing children. The life on the run ended in 1994 when his father moved to California with Ekundayo's sister because his father was dying from cancer. In early 1995, Ekundayo's father passed away from lung cancer; Ekundayo was eleven.
Ekundayo lived with his sister, brother in-law, four nieces and his sister's mother in a small three-bedroom and one-bath house in Pacoima, Ca. It was in this house at the age of 13 that Ekundayo discovered his love for art. After being involved in school fights, stealing and hanging with the wrong people, he was suspended from school. One day while in the garage, he found one of his uncle's black books. This uncle wrote for a graff crew in L.A. called C.H.B. This book completely changed Ekundayo's life. He became obsessed with drawing and copied every single page in that little book. Meanwhile, the Dept of Justice had located Ekundayo at his sister's home and returned him to the custody of his mother. Ekundayo went back to Hawaii to live with his mother. His drive to create didn't stop, and the encouragement from his family only fueled that ambition. Shortly after graduating high-school, Ekundayo moved back with his sister and brother in-law in much more spacious
accommodations. He attended Pierce College in Winetka, Ca, where he practiced his craft and worked on his portfolio until 2003 when he was accepted into Art Center College of Art and Design on a scholarship.
Although the teachers he studied under and the friends he met while going to Art Center were priceless to his development, Ekundayo dropped out after completing his foundation courses in order to create his own path in the fine art world. He combines both subversive graffiti aesthetics in
combination with art-historical erudition using acrylic, gouache, watercolor, ink and various carving techniques. Ekundayo's work expresses the struggle of life and how those struggles and burdens can either inspire us to change in a constructive way or weigh us down by our own inability to change.
accommodations. He attended Pierce College in Winetka, Ca, where he practiced his craft and worked on his portfolio until 2003 when he was accepted into Art Center College of Art and Design on a scholarship.
Although the teachers he studied under and the friends he met while going to Art Center were priceless to his development, Ekundayo dropped out after completing his foundation courses in order to create his own path in the fine art world. He combines both subversive graffiti aesthetics in
combination with art-historical erudition using acrylic, gouache, watercolor, ink and various carving techniques. Ekundayo's work expresses the struggle of life and how those struggles and burdens can either inspire us to change in a constructive way or weigh us down by our own inability to change.
Take a 'Sneak Peek' at the works for 'Joy Today Jeopardy Tomorrow' coming together:
Artist website: www.ekundayo.com
In our project room:
Brett Amory
'The Waiting Room'
Brett Amory
'The Waiting Room'
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Brett Amory was born June 25th, 1975 in Portsmouth, Virginia. His father, Harry Amory, was a mechanic at a shipyard and his mother, Sally Roebuck, a nurse. When he was 21 Amory moved to San Francisco to study motion pictures at the Academy of Arts. Soon after enrolling in school, Amory took his first drawing class and was introduced to his passion for the arts. Around the time Amory celebrated his 24th birthday he tried his hand in painting. In 2002 Brett switched his major to fine art and started his current body of work called "Waiting". This series of paintings explores the anticipation of the next moment.
Amory graduated from the Academy of Arts in 2005 and has shown his work all over the country. In 2006 Amory along with five other artists (Mars-1, David Choong Lee, Damon Soule, Nome Edona, Oliver Vernon) published a book called "Convergence" and had book signings in New York, Los Angeles and at the SFMOMA in San Francisco.
Amory graduated from the Academy of Arts in 2005 and has shown his work all over the country. In 2006 Amory along with five other artists (Mars-1, David Choong Lee, Damon Soule, Nome Edona, Oliver Vernon) published a book called "Convergence" and had book signings in New York, Los Angeles and at the SFMOMA in San Francisco.
Amory currently works as a graphic designer at an environmental company in San Francisco and continues to show his work in galleries across the country.
Take a 'Sneak Peek' at the works for 'The Waiting Room' coming together:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157623844101930/
Check out a great video documenting the process behind the piece 'Waiting
#54': http://vimeo.com/11705089
Artist website: http://www.brettamory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157623844101930/
Check out a great video documenting the process behind the piece 'Waiting
#54': http://vimeo.com/11705089
Artist website: http://www.brettamory.com/
Also opening on June 11th in London, England:
'The Next Generation: A New Chapter in Contemporary Art' - 45 international artists curated by Thinkspace and presented by London Miles Gallery (www.londonmiles.com)
Coming up in July at Thinkspace:
July 9th - July 30th
'Negative Never Again' featuring new paintings and sculptures from Yosuke Ueno
+ 'Waking in the Dark' featuring new work from Dan-ah Kim (project room)
*Please note our new address and phone number*
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Culver City, CA 90232
#310.558.3375
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Hours:
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1 p.m. - 6 p.m. (or by appointment)
::Past Shows::
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Damon Soule "Modus Alone" (main gallery)
‘Fresh’ group show (project room)
Exhibition run dates: February 12th – March 5th, 2010
Opening Reception: Fri, February 12th 7-11PM
(Los Angeles, CA) Thinkspace is honored to welcome New York City based artist Damon Soule to our gallery this coming February for his first ever solo show in Los Angeles. In ‘Modus Alone’ Soule presents an impressive collection of new work that is sure to challenge and excite all who view it.
“Materializing space into a simple geometry, Damon Soule works in the fissure between pop surrealism, neo cubism and fractalism. Using geometrical elements he creates the illusion of the third dimension, and his shapes are allowed to slide, flip, and rotate, all meeting at the same corners. He uses proportions, patterns, and geometry, proving proficiency in spatial understanding and advanced mathematics.
A number of painterly elements are scattered over his paintings, creating this illusion of spontaneous space, cosmic debris, the borderlands of astral travels. His version of the universe is diagrammed by hard outlines of form, everything spiraling in from the borderlands, and with maximum intensity.
He paints with a great verve in expressive power of his planar components, precise honeycombs of color, constructing this universe with mutually stimulating colors, highly saturated, and wonderfully vivid. Even Soule's discordant, high-keyed oranges and teals and pinks and neons and yellows are chromatically magnificent in his nervous (yet meticulous, obsessively compulsive) contour and color and shape.” – ArtSlant.com
Damon Soule artist bio
(main gallery)
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As a child, Damon Soule (b. 1974) became so engrossed in his drawing that it became a distraction; at age 16 he dropped out of school opting for the immediacy of GED. At 19, with $300, a packed bag of clothes, and small box of art supplies, Damon moved to San Francisco, CA and enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Program at the San Francisco Art Institute.
In 1996 Soule became the Art Director and Co-founder of FIT skateboards and Civilian Clothing. After art directing the brands for a number of years, he sold his portion of the business to pursue art full-time.
Soule’s paintings and drawings have been featured in group and solo exhibitions in such established galleries as Joshua Liner Gallery (NY), 111 Minna Gallery (SF), White Walls (SF), Dorothy Circus Gallery (Rome), Robert Berman Gallery (Santa Monica), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), and BLVD. Gallery (Seattle).
Recent shows include ‘New Works’ alongside Oliver Vernon at BLVD Gallery, Seattle (2007); ‘Green Art’ group exhibition at Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica (2007); ‘Stories From the Wonderland’ group show at Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome, Italy (2008); ‘Amused Loon’ solo show at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York City (2008); and ‘Same Loud No’ solo show at Fecal Face Dot Gallery, San Francisco (2009).
Artist website: www.damonsoule.com
Take a ‘Sneak Peek’ at the works for ‘Modus Alone’ coming together in Soule’s studio:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157622878350524/
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ALSO OPENING on Fri, February 12th in our project room:
‘Fresh’ group show
(project room)
‘Fresh’ is a showcase of emerging artists that we will be exhibiting in various group shows and special events in the year ahead. We’re excited about their work and wanted to give them a platform to help launch the year that lay ahead.
Craig 'Skibs' Barker - http://www.skibsart.com/
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Craig “Skibs” Barker grew up in Southern California during the early ‘80s in the midst of both the punk rock and surfing culture explosions. With a healthy dose of punk flyers, album covers, and surfing magazines buzzing through his head, Barker began making flyers and t-shirts for his friends and his own punk bands. Fast-forward to today; Barker’s most recent paintings infuse his long-standing love for painting and rendering the human female figure with his punk-fueled graphic design. Mixing different approaches, techniques, and mediums, he creates a sense of memory, personal history, and appreciation for the female form. Combining elements of pop culture, literary censorship, and a positive mental attitude, he creates layered scenes of voyeuristic mischief. Barker’s work explores the junctions between past and present, memory and imagination, fantasy and reality, while creating a dialog between image and viewer.
Dabs Myla – www.dabsmyla.com
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Dabs is a prolific illustrator and graffiti artist who spent his teenage years growing up in Melbourne in the Early ‘90s. The graffiti scene influenced him greatly in his style and technique. These days Dabs’ characters come to life in more contextualized environments than ever before, whether they are painted on walls in the streets, or on canvases for a gallery setting. Myla was also raised in Melbourne where she was obsessed with detailed painting and drawing from an early age. Throughout her life Myla has continued to develop her artistic ways, and now concentrates on detailed cities and landscapes. Three years ago, along with Dabs, they combined forces to solely collaborate on their works together.
Dabs Myla currently live in Hollywood, Los Angeles, spending everyday working on artworks, painting walls and being influenced by the wonders of their new city.
Jacub Gagnon - http://www.jacubgagnon.com/
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Gagnon is one of Toronto’s most promising young artists in the new contemporary movement. He graduated in 2009 with a BFA in Drawing & Painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in Toronto, Canada. His most recent body of work titled ‘String Theory’ is one that brings viewers into a whimsical, bizarre, and curious world that is loosely based on the leading scientific theory that everything is connected. Gagnon creates his first series beyond the educational sphere cleverly connecting animals with random objects.
John Park
John Park is an artist and teacher living in Los Angeles. He received his training at the Rhode Island School of Design where he studied classical drawing, painting, sculpture and anatomy. His current series is an attempt at reconciling these classical influences with the more urban aesthetic of the Pop Surrealist movement. The paintings themselves are executed in a live, public setting usually in one evening and then taken back to his studio for further reworking and detail work. He teaches drawing and painting at Concord High School in Santa Monica, has three cats and one Tree.
Josie Morway - http://www.josiemorway.com/
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Josie Morway is a painter and designer living and working in Providence, Rhode Island. Her work has shown widely, from the DeCordova Museum in Massachusetts to the streets of Juarez, Mexico. In her free time she enjoys triathlons, scraping superfluous apostrophes off signs, eating nuts, keeping her ear to the ground, and overdoing it.
Linnea Strid - http://www.linneastrid.se/
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Linnea Strid was born in 1983 in a small Swedish village where she lived until she was 16, when her family decided to move to Fuengirola in Southern Spain. She lived there during her teens and it was here that she started up her artistic career with several exhibitions. In 2004 she moved back to Sweden and attended art schools for four years. Strid now lives in Uppsala, Sweden, and is working as an artist full-time. She knew when she was a small child that some day she would become an artist, since the need to express herself with paint and in other creative ways has always been fundamental to her. Strid likes to paint in a photo realistic style, but always with the strong desire to convey an odd feeling, a forgotten memory, or maybe just something that is typical of her own little world.
Wesley Burt - http://www.wesleyburt.com/
Wesley Burt was born and raised in Kansas City, KS and has been drawing and painting his whole life. He received a BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2004, majoring in Drawing with minors in Printmaking and Painting. He currently lives in San Francisco, CA, working with Massive Black, an art studio specializing in concept art and illustration. He continues to pursue his own work showing with various galleries throughout the United States, primarily working with graphite, oils, and other traditional mediums, focusing on a fascination to the human condition.
Take a ‘Sneak Peek’ at the works in ‘Fresh’ coming together here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157622753999003/
'A Cry For Help'
A benefit show for the endangered species of the world presented by
Born Free USA & the Animal Protection Institute
Opening Reception: Fri, Jan. 8th 7-11PM
January 8th - February 5th, 2010
20% of all proceeds will be donated to Born Free USA
This special exhibit will feature an installation from Bumblebee as well as a group show featuring the works of over 100 artists (full list is below).
(Los Angeles, CA) Thinkspace is proud to present "A Cry For Help," a benefit exhibition with the goal of raising awareness about the plight of animals in our modern world. Featuring more than 100 artists who represent every branch of the new contemporary scene, this show has been curated with an eye to representing the unique and innovative attributes of a select group of seasoned veterans and fresh-eyed newcomers from five continents. In keeping with the benefit's mission, each artist will explore different facets of our complicated relationship with the creatures with whom we share this planet.
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Though we live in the city, animals exist all around us - they sleep in our beds, creep past our windows at night and visit us in our dreams. Symbolizing all that is free, unspoiled and elemental in the world, they also comfort us with guileless affection, amuse us with their playful abandon, and represent us metaphorically in a million works of art and literature. In every niche of the new contemporary scene, artists have employed animals to envisage concepts ranging from the wonder of childhood to the death of nature, while exploiting an ever-widening array of aesthetics, from surreal naturalism to street fables, apocalyptic visions to modern mythology, uncanny allegories to sylvan dreamscapes.
In celebration of the magnificent creatures with whom we share the planet, Thinkspace will donate 20% of the sale price of each piece of art to Born Free USA and the Animal Protection Institute, which operate jointly as a non-profit organization that advocates worldwide for the ethical treatment and protection of animals, and also maintains a large sanctuary for rescued primates. Throughout (Elisabeth Timpone - The New Battle of Midway Atoll)
(Los Angeles, CA) Thinkspace is proud to present "A Cry For Help," a benefit exhibition with the goal of raising awareness about the plight of animals in our modern world. Featuring more than 100 artists who represent every branch of the new contemporary scene, this show has been curated with an eye to representing the unique and innovative attributes of a select group of seasoned veterans and fresh-eyed newcomers from five continents. In keeping with the benefit's mission, each artist will explore different facets of our complicated relationship with the creatures with whom we share this planet.
Though we live in the city, animals exist all around us - they sleep in our beds, creep past our windows at night and visit us in our dreams. Symbolizing all that is free, unspoiled and elemental in the world, they also comfort us with guileless affection, amuse us with their playful abandon, and represent us metaphorically in a million works of art and literature. In every niche of the new contemporary scene, artists have employed animals to envisage concepts ranging from the wonder of childhood to the death of nature, while exploiting an ever-widening array of aesthetics, from surreal naturalism to street fables, apocalyptic visions to modern mythology, uncanny allegories to sylvan dreamscapes.In celebration of the magnificent creatures with whom we share the planet, Thinkspace will donate 20% of the sale price of each piece of art to Born Free USA and the Animal Protection Institute, which operate jointly as a non-profit organization that advocates worldwide for the ethical treatment and protection of animals, and also maintains a large sanctuary for rescued primates. Throughout (Elisabeth Timpone - The New Battle of Midway Atoll)
the month, the gallery will host pet adoptions, slide shows, lectures and more. The world can indeed be changed through random individual acts of kindness, so please don't miss this opportunity to kick
off the New Year with a good deed, as well as a great piece of art.
off the New Year with a good deed, as well as a great piece of art.
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ARTISTS TAKING PART INCLUDE:
Acorn, Allison Sommers, Amy Sol, Andrea Offermann, Andrew Hem, Angry Woebots, Anthony Clarkson, Anthony Ausgang, Apak, Ashira Siegel, Ben Strawn, Bradley Delay, Buff Monster, Bumblebee, Catherine Brooks, Charlie Immer, Chet Zar, Chris Murray, Craig 'Skibs' Barker, Dabs Myla, Dan May, Dan Quintana, Dan-ah Kim, David MacDowell, Dennis Hayes IV, Derek Ihnat, Dolan Geiman, Edwin Ushiro, Ekundayo, ELBOW-TOE, Elisabeth Timpone, Eric Nyquist, Erik Siador, Faith 47, Gaia, Genevive Zacconi, Germs, Ghostpatrol, Guy McKinley, Heiko Mueller, Imminent Disaster, J. Shea (#9), Jacub Gagnon, Janet Grey, Jason Limon, Jason Thielke, Jen Lobo, Jennybird Alcantara, Jesse Hotchkiss, Jim Darling, Joao Ruas, Joseph McSween (aka 2H), John Park, Joshua Mays, Josie Morway, Katelyn Alain, Kathleen Lolley, Kelly McKernan, Kelly Vivanco, Kevin Earl Taylor, Kevin Titzer, KMNDZ, Kris Lewis, Leontine Greenberg, Lesley Reppeteaux, Liz Brizzi, Liz McGrath, Luke Kopycinski, Mari Inukai, Martin Wittfooth , Mear One, Michael Pukac, Mike Brown, Moki, Molly Crabapple, Nathan DeYoung, Nimit Malavia, Nouar, Paul Barnes, Peter Taylor, Raquel Aparicio, Rebecca Hahn, Renee French, Rob Sato, Rory Kurtz, Sarah Joncas, Scott Belcastro, Scott G. Brooks, Scott Radke, Tadaomi Shibuya, Tessar Lo, Timothy Karpinski, Tina Darling, Tran Nguyen, Travis Louie, Van Arno, Wesley Burt, Yoskay Yamamoto & Yosuke Ueno
Born Free USA is a national animal advocacy nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, contributions to which are tax-deductible.
Born Free's mission is to end the suffering of wild animals in captivity, rescue individual animals in need, protect wildlife - including highly endangered species - in their natural habitats, and encourage compassionate conservation globally.
Every year, millions of animals suffer in fur farms and circus cages. In our campaigns against such cruelties, we use powerful tools including legislation, public education, litigation, and grassroots networking. We also work actively with media to spread the word about challenges facing animals.
The Born Free <http://www.bornfreeusa.org/d7_born_free_history.php> Foundation was initiated in England in 1984 by Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, the stars of the legendary film Born Free, along with their son Will. Having been deeply influenced by their time spent in Kenya, Bill and
Virginia were inspired to act after the tragic and untimely death of Pole Pole, an elephant featured in the film An Elephant Called Slowly, who was sent to the London Zoo from the Government of Kenya after the making of the film.
In the subsequent two decades, Born Free has become an international force in wildlife conservation and animal protection, campaigning to save elephants, big cats, wolves, dolphins, bears, primates, and numerous other species. Born Free upholds a dynamic presence in international animal
rescues, saving animals from miserable conditions, rehabilitating them, and either providing for their lifetime care in a sanctuary or, whenever possible, rehoming them to the wild.
A companion organization was established in the United States in 2002, Born Free USA <http://www.bornfreeusa.org/index3.php> , to carry on the work of the organization, involving the American public in our compassionate conservation campaigns. Born Free USA launched with a national office in Washington, DC.
Born Free is committed to spreading its brand of compassionate conservation across America and, indeed, across the globe. Our shared institutional mission is to alleviate animal suffering, protect threatened and endangered species in the wild, and encourage everyone to treat wildlife everywhere
with respect and compassion.
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(Jason Limon - The Skies Will Miss You)
Animal Protection Institute
Co-founded in 1968 by Belton Mouras and Ken Guerrero, the Animal Protection Institute (API) was one of just a handful of national humane organizations in existence. The early years were lean for API and the organization made good use of free media such as radio PSAs to get the word out about its
mission to protect animals. These PSAs contributed greatly to name recognition, generated an enormous amount of requests for additional information, and aided in fundraising efforts.
By 1971, API was producing what became the annual Forum conference in cities across the country that featured keynote speakers instrumental to the growth of the animal welfare movement as well as promoting and publicizing the works of fellow animal organizations.
API was a forerunner in protesting the clubbing of the harp seals in Canada. Through constant petitions, API helped bring the Canadian government to an awareness of the tremendous international outcry against this barbarity. It was obvious that API was winning when in 1977 two staff members were briefly arrested for getting near enough to the seal hunt to photograph the skinning
of live seals, a practice previously disputed.
Other well-known campaigns included our work on a federal anti-trapping bill as well as our work with Velma B. ("Wild Horse Annie") Johnston. Velma had been championing the rights of wild horses for nearly twenty years when API named her as its Advisor for Mustangs and Burros. API gladly helped finance her fight, and the early Mainstreams (as Animal Issues was then called) are
filled with inspiring stories of her ongoing struggle. Velma passed away in 1977 (just when she had accepted nomination to API's Board of Directors). API continued to fight for the kind of cause she believed in, although its focus moved to other issues.
That front-line visibility diminished somewhat in the 1980s as the API moved more discreetly into the background, choosing to focus on educating people through campaigns and publications. API did not rest on its past victories. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, the price of animal freedom is eternal
vigilance. Some battles have to be fought over and over again, even after they've been won. And so API returned to the front lines, taking a leading role in the struggle for animal rights.
mission to protect animals. These PSAs contributed greatly to name recognition, generated an enormous amount of requests for additional information, and aided in fundraising efforts.
By 1971, API was producing what became the annual Forum conference in cities across the country that featured keynote speakers instrumental to the growth of the animal welfare movement as well as promoting and publicizing the works of fellow animal organizations.
API was a forerunner in protesting the clubbing of the harp seals in Canada. Through constant petitions, API helped bring the Canadian government to an awareness of the tremendous international outcry against this barbarity. It was obvious that API was winning when in 1977 two staff members were briefly arrested for getting near enough to the seal hunt to photograph the skinning
of live seals, a practice previously disputed.
Other well-known campaigns included our work on a federal anti-trapping bill as well as our work with Velma B. ("Wild Horse Annie") Johnston. Velma had been championing the rights of wild horses for nearly twenty years when API named her as its Advisor for Mustangs and Burros. API gladly helped finance her fight, and the early Mainstreams (as Animal Issues was then called) are
filled with inspiring stories of her ongoing struggle. Velma passed away in 1977 (just when she had accepted nomination to API's Board of Directors). API continued to fight for the kind of cause she believed in, although its focus moved to other issues.
That front-line visibility diminished somewhat in the 1980s as the API moved more discreetly into the background, choosing to focus on educating people through campaigns and publications. API did not rest on its past victories. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, the price of animal freedom is eternal
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Andy Kehoe "The World Unseen and Those In Between" (main gallery)
Jesse Hotchkiss "Learning To Fall" (project room)
Dabs Myla "Earthquake Weather" ('Fresh Faces' series)
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Exhibition run dates: Dec. 11th, 2009 - Jan. 2nd, 2010
Opening reception: Fri, Dec. 11th 7-11PM
Please note: all artists will be attending the opening reception
Opening reception: Fri, Dec. 11th 7-11PM
Please note: all artists will be attending the opening reception
(Los Angeles, CA) Thinkspace is proud to present 'The World Unseen and Those In Between', the second solo show at our gallery from Portland based artist Andy Kehoe. This will be the first solo exhibition with the artist in our main gallery space, following 'Into The Forest Of Broken Dreams, which took
place in our project room in the fall of 2007. 'The World Unseen and Those In Between' features a new series of oil and acrylic paintings on wood panel for what will be his biggest west coast exhibition to date.
place in our project room in the fall of 2007. 'The World Unseen and Those In Between' features a new series of oil and acrylic paintings on wood panel for what will be his biggest west coast exhibition to date.
Kehoe's allegorical compositions are painted in a low-key palette of rich autumn and earth tones beneath a fine layer of crisp black accents. Many of his characters of the part-man-part-beast variety are portrayed with a strong sense of alienation, finding peace and beauty in solitude to overcome
feeling alone. Elemental details like skylight and foliage (or lack thereof, on bare tree branches) represent the passing of time and seasons of change. Kehoe's isolated figures are often surrounded by the majestic grandeur of nature (a character in and of itself), which has a powerful influence on the
artist and is present throughout his work. The nature theme illustrates perspective on how small and insignificant our problems are in the larger scheme of things, although the artist says that he "completely sympathizes and relates to the heavy toll these problems have on the mind and heart."
The World Unseen and Those In Between features Kehoe's trademark style of imagery inspired by traditional folktales and mythological art with narratives of the fantastic and grotesque. Nostalgic for a time before society's age of science (or before an individual's developmental age of reason), Kehoe rekindles a childlike sense of wonder in his work, recalling an era when fables and legends were believed as truths to explain all the mysteries of the unknown. Even though Kehoe's world is a magical imaginary one, it is not a perfect fairytale-contrasting forces of nature and human
emotions surround primordial themes of life and death-and the fundamental plight of mankind still exists through greed, betrayal, deceit, violence, and self-destruction.
Of the show's titles, the artist goes on to explain: "The World Unseen is a place where the spirits of the dead, the never living and the yet to be all reside. This world lies unnoticed to the living yet each world shapes the other. The thinnest of curtains separate the worlds and they perpetually intertwine and overlap. Some live between both worlds and are neither living nor dead, but something more fantastic and in some cases all the more horrible."
Opening in conjunction with 'The World Unseen and Those In Between' is our second solo show with artist and professional skateboarder Jesse Hotchkiss. In Jesse's new series, he aims to portray moments of dreamlike intimacy, both visually foreign and familiar, yet somehow comforting and empowering to the characters within his work. In addition to the new works from Jesse Hotchkiss, we will also feature a small selection of new collaborative paintings from Melbourne, Australia based artist duo Dabs Myla as part of our 'Fresh Faces' series this December in our project room.
feeling alone. Elemental details like skylight and foliage (or lack thereof, on bare tree branches) represent the passing of time and seasons of change. Kehoe's isolated figures are often surrounded by the majestic grandeur of nature (a character in and of itself), which has a powerful influence on the
artist and is present throughout his work. The nature theme illustrates perspective on how small and insignificant our problems are in the larger scheme of things, although the artist says that he "completely sympathizes and relates to the heavy toll these problems have on the mind and heart."
The World Unseen and Those In Between features Kehoe's trademark style of imagery inspired by traditional folktales and mythological art with narratives of the fantastic and grotesque. Nostalgic for a time before society's age of science (or before an individual's developmental age of reason), Kehoe rekindles a childlike sense of wonder in his work, recalling an era when fables and legends were believed as truths to explain all the mysteries of the unknown. Even though Kehoe's world is a magical imaginary one, it is not a perfect fairytale-contrasting forces of nature and human
emotions surround primordial themes of life and death-and the fundamental plight of mankind still exists through greed, betrayal, deceit, violence, and self-destruction.
Of the show's titles, the artist goes on to explain: "The World Unseen is a place where the spirits of the dead, the never living and the yet to be all reside. This world lies unnoticed to the living yet each world shapes the other. The thinnest of curtains separate the worlds and they perpetually intertwine and overlap. Some live between both worlds and are neither living nor dead, but something more fantastic and in some cases all the more horrible."
Opening in conjunction with 'The World Unseen and Those In Between' is our second solo show with artist and professional skateboarder Jesse Hotchkiss. In Jesse's new series, he aims to portray moments of dreamlike intimacy, both visually foreign and familiar, yet somehow comforting and empowering to the characters within his work. In addition to the new works from Jesse Hotchkiss, we will also feature a small selection of new collaborative paintings from Melbourne, Australia based artist duo Dabs Myla as part of our 'Fresh Faces' series this December in our project room.
Andy Kehoe "The World Unseen and Those In Between"
(main gallery)
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Andy Kehoe was born and raised in the city of steel, Pittsburgh, PA. The artist spends his days painting away in his attic in Portland, OR. He was bred on comics from an early age, finding an escape of sorts in the over stylized violence found within. Now longing for the days of his youth, theartist remembers the endless hours he spent absorbing all the storybooks and cartoons he could get his hands on, all the while doodling away on any scrap of paper available. His paintings are rich with a childlike innocence that recall a time when magic and monsters existed and all the untold mysteries of the world still seemed possible.
Shortly after graduating from high school, Kehoe explored a number of different art schools before settling in to the illustration course at Parsons School of Design in NY. After dabbling in commercial illustration for a short time, Kehoe decided it was time to focus on his personal work, and he's never looked back since.
Kehoe's work has shown the world over including such prestigious galleries as Jonathan LeVine (New York City), Nucleus Gallery (Los Angeles), Black Maria Gallery (Los Angeles), and Copro Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), as well as taking part in the Gen Art Vanguard Contemporary Art Fair during Art
Basel 2008 in Miami, FL.
Artist website: www.andykehoe.net
Sneak Peek photo set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157622702198396/
Shortly after graduating from high school, Kehoe explored a number of different art schools before settling in to the illustration course at Parsons School of Design in NY. After dabbling in commercial illustration for a short time, Kehoe decided it was time to focus on his personal work, and he's never looked back since.
Kehoe's work has shown the world over including such prestigious galleries as Jonathan LeVine (New York City), Nucleus Gallery (Los Angeles), Black Maria Gallery (Los Angeles), and Copro Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), as well as taking part in the Gen Art Vanguard Contemporary Art Fair during Art
Basel 2008 in Miami, FL.
Artist website: www.andykehoe.net
Sneak Peek photo set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157622702198396/
ALSO OPENING on Fri, December 11th in our project room:
Jesse Hotchkiss "Learning To Fal
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