Auld Lang Sci-Fi: An Intergalactic New Years

TOAST TO THE FUTURE
Blast into the New Year with Synchronicity Space and Echo Curio!
Free!! DJs and Dancing from 9pm til ???
Dress like you're from the world to come
FUTURISM FOR 2010

Tuesday at Synchronicity!

Kyle Bobby Dunn
Infinite Body
Dreamcolour
Low Light Situations

December 29
8pm

OPENING TONIGHT!!

FIRST YEARS

We can use clichés, we can reminisce, we can chime again and again, in unison, “Synchronicity!” Perhaps it is overly-sentimental but we just finished up our first year and we’re pretty excited. Being a small operation, we could not have succeeded without the constant, generous outpour of help from artists, musicians, collaborators, colleagues, curators, family and friends. On December 19th, from 7pm until midnight, imagine “thank-you’s” set in a circular motion. Synchronicity Space celebrates its one year anniversary with a silent auction fundraiser. With bids starting at one dollar, we will be auctioning off original art, music, clothes, and other awesome miscellany generously donated to us by the people we love, the people we cannot thank enough.

Contributing friends include

Echo curio / Justin McInteer and Grant Capes
Warm Climate / Seth Kasselman
Shobo shobo
Matt Lock
Grace Danico
David Magdaleno
Paul Evans
Owleyes
PFFR
Matthew Thurber
Stephanie Davidson
Ben Bigelow
Lilli Carre
Molly Colleen O'Connell
Sumi Ink Club / Lucky Dragons / Luke Fischbeck and Sara Rara
Michelle Kim
Tom Hart
Joseph Buzzell
Oz
Ryan Christian
Marcie Oakes
Valerie Robuck
Joe Gillette
Brian Bamps
Raven Servillion
From Here to There / Gilda Davidian / Tiffany Roohani / Stefani Greenwood
Queen Victoria / Nicolas Crozier Malkin
Metal Rouge / Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott
Prince Rama of Ayodhya
Brandon Mayer
Carmel Ni
60 Watt Kid
Nadja / Aidan Baker
Pride of Kenya
MV & EE
Kira Lum
Sasha Kremenetsky
Seth Nemec
Peter Kolovos
Not Not Fun Records / Britt and Amanda Brown
Tracey Trance
Jason Webley
John Nixon
Amanda Church
Lyndsey Lesh

Also with special guests Beautiful Decay celebrating the release of their Book 2!

About Beautiful/Decay Book 2!

The artists of "Book 2: What a Mess!" all interpret the idea of "messiness" whether through disorganized methods of displaying work, or rough hewn aesthetics. Others take a conceptually "messy" approach, creating works that cause public outrage, or manipulate typically taboo imagery or themes.

In the spirit of the theme of the issue, Beautiful/Decay got a little messy ourselves, using a playfully "messy" approach to our page layouts, including crumpling photos and creating a custom typeface of childhood favorite construction materials: googly eyes, popsicle sticks and puff balls.

Released 3 times a year, Beautiful/Decay highlights the international contemporary art scene's best and brightest established talents and rising stars alike with a youthful flair. Beautiful/Decay acts as a first exposure sourcebook for untapped, independent creatives from both the art & design world. Blurring the boundaries between "high" and "low" cultures, Beautiful/Decay puts the underground comic artist on the same page as a gallery represented fine artist. Each book curates a unique theme which is integrated into the content, design and imagery of the book. A work of art in itself, each book is hand-numbered and includes one of a kind collaborative inserts with the featured artists, from original artworks, stickers, silkscreened prints and beyond.

-No Advertising!

-164 pages of full color spreads & interviews

-French gatefold

-Hand numbered

-Limited edition print run

-Once sold out will never be reprinted

Thursday and Friday, December 10 & 11!

THURSDAY




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COWABUNGA BABES AT SYNCHRONICITY SPACE!

W/ NEVEREVER (http://www.myspace.com/nevereverla)
PEARL HARBOUR (http://www.myspace.com/pearlescentharbour)
ANIMAL STYLE (http://www.myspace.com/animalstylela)

and Austin's very own, COWABUNGA BABES (http://www.myspace.com/cowabungababez)
JUST ADDED - DJ JIMI HEY!!!!

9PM, $5


FRIDAY


Bacteria Cult
Actuary
+DOG+
Marion Barry
Dog Shit Taco

8pm $5

Saturday, December 5

Lowlight Situations
Pedestrian Deposit
Italic Indian
Bigger Insides

8pm

THIS FRIDAY!

8pm - S(h)ara Stranovsky
915pm - Zack Smith the Blacksmith
1045pm - Under The Asbury
$5

MENTAL DYNAMICS November 14th

OPENING TONIGHT!

“Mental Dynamics”

Group Show curated by Stephanie Davidson

Nov 14th – Dec 12th

Opening Reception Saturday, Nov 14th 7pm-12am

Generously sponsored by Bear Flag Wine



Synchronicity Space is thrilled to be hosting “Mental Dynamics,” a group exhibition curated by Toronto-based artist, Stephanie Davidson. Davidson has shown her work with Synchronicity Space in the exhibition, “Dream Sequence,” and recently curated a .gif art exhibition at XSpace Gallery in Toronto including work from Synchronicity Space owners, Chris Gere and Katie Vonderheide. She has studied at the University of Western Ontario, earning a combination Media Studies and Visual Arts Degree as well as just finishing up a 3D course at Sheridan in Ontario. Her work spans from traditional paintings and drawings to new media art such as digital pieces and video. The group of artists Davidson has chosen for “Mental Dynamics” create the freshest, most exciting work exhibiting both in galleries and on the internet.



“Mental Dynamics” curated by Stephanie Davidson


Artists include

Bree Apperley

Michael Deforge

Nick DeMarco

Jacob Broms Engblom

Raphael Garnier

Y Val Gesto

Jesjit Gill

Eilis McDonald

MDCCLXIV

Jon Rafman

Blues Control this Wednesday, November 11!

Blues Control

Pocahaunted

60 Watt Kid

Peter Kolovos

8pm

Post-halloween Day of the Dead live music extravaganza!

Rubber 0 Cement
Lucky Dragons
Golden Hits
Leticia Castaneda
8pm
$5

BOO YEAH!

MENTAL DYNAMICS

Exhibition curated by Stephanie Davidson
http://www.stephd.biz/

Eilis McDonald http://www.eilismcdonald.com/
Nick DeMarco http://www.demarconia.com/
Y Val Gesto http://valgesto.tk/
Jesjit Gill http://jesjit.blogspot.com/
Michael Deforge http://www.kingtrash.com/
Jacob Broms Engblom http://www.likeneveralways.com/
Bree Apperley http://www.flickr.com/photos/96052393@N00/
Jon Rafman http://jonrafman.com/
Raphael Garnier http://www.raphaelgarnier.com/
MDCCLXIV http://www.mdcclxiv.com/

"chip off the old block" opening

Last Friday, October 23rd, was the opening of our latest art exhibition, "chip off the old block," featuring Halloween masks made by the children of artists. Thanks to everyone for making it a huge success! The masks were amazing, styles ranging from the googly-eyed to the paper-mached, naive to conceptual. A huuuge thank you to Tai from Scoops for donating delicious oreo mascarpone ice cream. We would like to also thank Brain Sucking Peanunanners (featuring 8-year-old multi-instrumentalist Bella) and children of all ages who took over Synchronicity for the night, drawing on the activity wall, making impromptu masks out of Play-doh and otherwise running rampant! We couldn't have asked for a better reception! Below are some of the pictures from the opening including many of the artists in front of their work.

Cleon Peterson and son, Aubrey Peterson in front of his work

Lili Todd in front of her mask entitled "Rainbow Bunny"

to the right of Lili, Aya-Mei Mourning Duncan's, "THE MASK OF SCARYNESS"

Megan Whitmarsh and Matt Salata with twin daughters Frances and Ray Salata in front of and wearing their robot masks

James Sobieski who created "Wise Man"

Oliver Sobieski "The Man Who Sees All" (notice his third eye) in between Olivia Smith's "Aqua Bird" and his brother James's mask

Coleman and Henry Clayton with "Seeing is Believing", "Hulks Mad" and "Tony"

Bella Dehm next to her piece, "Tree Mask"

To the right of Bella, Ezra Harkham's mask "Transformer" which she mentioned was her favorite next to her own

Ceres Madoo with her son Lucien in front of his Darth Vader inspired, "Mask"

to the right of them "Wood Man" by Finn Hall

Coco Peterson and Lux Dehm

Matt, Esther, Mark and Lili

Scoops!

Brain-Sucking Peanunanners!!
Thanks Bella! Thanks Mitchell!

To the in-town kids that couldn't make it, Ezra Harkham, Charles Weissman, Tigerlily Biskup.
And of course the out-of-town kids, Mia Wolniak, Olivia Smith, Ezra and Alyssa Nudd, Finn Hall, Ceal Grabner and Aya-Mei Mourning Duncan.
You were truly missed!!

Ellen de Brujne Projects: Ola Vasiljeva : 17 October - 21 November Alchimie Du Verbe - Ola Vasiljeva

Ola Vasiljeva has a show in Amsterdam.
She and her work are so lovely.
We were able to show some of her work at Beyond Eden recently. See install shots below. For more images please check our website under past shows "Dream Sequence".

For a long time I boasted that I was master of all possible landscapes and I thought the great figures of modern painting and poetry were laughable.

What I liked were: absurd paintings, pictures over doorways, stage sets, carnival backdrops, billboards, bright-colored prints; old-fashioned literature, church Latin, erotic books full of misspellings, the kind of novels our grandmothers read, fairy tales, little children's books, old operas, silly old songs, the nave rhythms of country rimes.

I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents: I used to believe in every kind of magic...

I got used to elementary hallucination: I could very precisely see a mosque instead of a factory, a drum corps of angels, horse carts on the highways of the sky, a drawing room at the bottom of a lake; monsters and mysteries; a vaudeville's title filled me with awe. *

Ola Vasiljeva (Latvia 1981) lives and works in Amsterdam. She is one of the founders of the Oceans Academy of Arts and the publisher of the OAOA magazine. Her work was recently on display at the Beyond Eden Art Fair in Los Angeles, Gallery Art Since the Summer of '69 in NYC and at the Portland Institute For Contemporary Art. Currently Vasiljeva is a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten.

www.olabrothers.com

*text quoted from Rimbaud's A Season in Hell: Alchemy of the word as translated by Paul Schmidt. Image by Jean Cocteau

TUESDAY

Beyond Eden at Barnsdall Park and From Here to There closing

BEYOND EDEN

Synchronicity Space is thrilled to be a part of this year's Beyond Eden art fair at Barnsdall Park (4800 Hollywood Blvd, 90027), which will be on display today and tomorrow. We are featuring works by artists

Joseph Buzzell
Ryan Travis Christian
Matt Lock
Michael T. Rea
Eric Shaw
Ben Stone
Sumi Ink Club
Ola Vasiljeva
Megan Whitmarsh

See below for a preview of the Synchronicity Space's exhibition


Mary Lou Ben Stone

Order of artists left to right
Joseph Buzzell, Megan Whitmarsh, Sumi Ink Club, Matt Lock

Ryan Travis Christian

Mike Rea

Ola Vasiljeva

Mike Rea

Eric Shaw

Matt Lock

Sumi Ink Club

The schedule for the event is as follows:

Saturday, October 10th

Noon-5PM
OPEN FAIR HOURS / ART VIEWING

7-8PM
OPENING NIGHT KICK-OFF EVENT
Sponsored by the MOCA Contemporaries / special membership drive (sign up and receive a special ‘gift bag’)

7:30PM
SYMPOSIUM:
A special address from Mark Steven Greenfield, the director of the LA Municipal Art Gallery

8PM
SPECIAL PRESENTATION:
Presentation of a lifetime achievement award to Billy Shire in recognition of all he’s done for the new contemporary art movement.

8PM-Midnight
OPENING NIGHT GALA
*Sponsored by the 1933 Group and tunes from DJ Mr. NumberOnederful (Bitter:Sweet)

Admission is free / open to the public

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Sun, October 11th
Noon-5PM
OPEN FAIR HOURS / ART VIEWING

2PM
SPECIAL EVENT:
Film Screening at The Barnsdall Theater
‘Scribble08’ - 48 minute art documentary film featuring Clayton Brothers, Martha Rich, Jeff Soto, Joe Sorren, Camille Rose Garcia, and Kevin Christy from Murphy Fine Art Films


FROM HERE TO THERE CLOSING TONIGHT!

After checking out Beyond Eden, be sure to come by Synchronicity Space for the closing event for From Here to There presents From Here to There. We've been so pleased to have From Here to There in our space, curating events throughout the month and we really want to close the show with a bang. Live music by Residual Echos and Michael Vidal from Abe Vigoda, along with DJ sets by members of No Age and Jacob Safari from Signals. Admission is free! If you haven't had a chance to check out the exhibition, tonight is the night to do it!

TONIGHT!

Careerers
City of Progress
Private Dancer
Gospel Gossip

Doors at 8
$5

And Friday

From Here to There and Synchronicity are pleased to announce "Myth and Infrastructure," an installation by Miwa Matreyek that will be showing at the gallery for a limited time in conjunction with the group exhibition "FROM HERE TO THERE Presents From Here to There."

Miwa Matreyek is an award-winning animator, designer and multimedia artist who creates animated short films and performance-based installations that manipulate time vs. real time and composed spaces vs. real spaces. Based in L.A., Matreyek is the founding member of Cloud Eye Control, a performance media group that tells stories of human adaptation to a technological society using animation, live camera imagery and theatrical expression. To view her portfolio, visit www.semihemisphere.com.

Special musical performances by:

ilo mar: acoustic guitar and vocals by Vanessa Micale

Golden Hits: drone collaboration with Dub lab labrats- Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel, Postal Service), Frosty (Adventure Time), and Katie Byron.

Black Church: Loop Pedal w/ Violin, Bass and Vocals by Kim Humphreys.

FREE ICE CREAM BEER FLOATS PROVIDED BY SCOOPS!