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