Each year, fans of Kate Bush from all corners of the world get together around the time of her birthday, July 30th, and celebrate her life and achievements. Synchronicity Space is pleased to present, “The Sensual World”, a tribute to the artist and her work. Kate Bush seamlessly blends many forms of art into her work, be they musical, visual or dance. Her music videos are innovations to the genre, predating MTV, and capture not just the spirit of a song but the very essence of an artist. Unafraid to branch out experimentally, her music is as grotesque as it is graceful, showing that beauty is multi-faceted and mysterious. Kate Bush continues to be an inspiration and to this group of nine artists, a direct one. The selection of work in this exhibition recreates this eclectic feel, further exploring the vivid setting created in Kate Bush's music, and brings the viewer into the Sensual World.
Artists include
Greg Carideo
Eric T. Carlson
Ryan S. Carr
Allegra M. Denton
Katelyn Reece Farstad
Isa Newby Gagarin
Joseph Lunders
Nathan Meagher
Raychel Steinbach
Curated by Joseph Gillette
"The Sensual World" Exhibition will run from July 12th - July 25th. On July 12th we will kick-off the celebration with a reception for the artists featuring a live musical tribute by Warm Climate and Queen Victoria. Special events throughout the month including rare video and musical performances will take place. Please email info@syncspacela.com for more information.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Synchronicity Space is on youtube
Check out our youtube page! We've added videos of past performances and the video introduction for Within Heaven's Earshot, featuring Chris interviewing Gail Wenos and her dummy Ezra. We will be adding new videos regularly so keep checking back.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
The Enigmatic Shadow
Our Next Show opens Saturday, May 30th featuring works by these great artists
Geoffrey Todd Smith
Mark Hesterlee
Joe Buzzell
Ryan Travis Christian
Colin Chillag
Zachary Rossman
But for now, "Sports!" is up, GO SEE IT and experience a full range of emotion.
Geoffrey Todd Smith
Mark Hesterlee
Joe Buzzell
Ryan Travis Christian
Colin Chillag
Zachary Rossman
But for now, "Sports!" is up, GO SEE IT and experience a full range of emotion.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Weekend Events! May 1st and 2nd!
FRIDAY!
We are thrilled to have Zero Point back at the space for another awesome night of curated music and video art.
live music from baltimore's ABIKU / oakland's BLIPVERT / locals : BOORBAAR / BAVAB BAVAB / FRANZ KELLER
www.myspace.com/abiku
www.myspace.com/blipvert1
www.myspace.com/boorbaar
www.myspace.com/bavabbavab
www.myspace.com/franzk
www.lotusalley.org
SATURDAY!
http://www.myspace.com/songsofqueenvictoria
http://www.myspace.com/realnextofkin
http://www.myspace.com/totheboyelis
Saturday, April 25, 2009
SPORTS! Exhibition Opening Tonight, April 25
OPENING TONIGHT!
Synchronicity Space is pleased to present "Sports!", a group exhibition curated by Ryan Travis Christian. In his third curatorial effort, Christian brings together a group of artists who display exemplary ability by way of new art forms. The roster finds a diverse array of ideas executed throughout the media spectrum from upcoming and mid-career artists who live and exhibit outside the Los Angeles area. The work that embodies "Sports!" considers abstraction, portraiture, sex, landscapes, drugs, tools, camping, music, metaphysical concerns, Wheaties, kidnap, paranoia, sports and then some, both literally, metaphorically or otherwise.
Synchronicity Space is pleased to present "Sports!", a group exhibition curated by Ryan Travis Christian. In his third curatorial effort, Christian brings together a group of artists who display exemplary ability by way of new art forms. The roster finds a diverse array of ideas executed throughout the media spectrum from upcoming and mid-career artists who live and exhibit outside the Los Angeles area. The work that embodies "Sports!" considers abstraction, portraiture, sex, landscapes, drugs, tools, camping, music, metaphysical concerns, Wheaties, kidnap, paranoia, sports and then some, both literally, metaphorically or otherwise.
Artists include:
Michael Krueger
Eric Lebofsky
Tom Long
B.C. Maceachran
Frank Magnotta
Ashley Nason
Hilary Pecis
Scott Reeder
Adam Scott
Deb Sokolow
Ben Stone
Tobacco
Nicholas Veneglia
Justin B. Williams
Come join the inner circle Saturday, April 25th, 2009. 7pm - 12am
Sunday, April 19, 2009
APRIL 17TH!
NINJASONIK
JAPANTHER
Thank you everyone for coming!! If you have photos or video please send to info@syncspacela.com and we will give you full photo/video credit. Thanks to the bands, thanks Sean for putting it all together!! What a great night!!
Here is a video of Japanther performing The Cure's "Boys Don't Cry"
And a great video sent to us of NinjaSonik with Japanther by Cathy de la Cruz:
Here is a video of Japanther performing The Cure's "Boys Don't Cry"
And a great video sent to us of NinjaSonik with Japanther by Cathy de la Cruz:
Friday, April 17, 2009
SHOWCAVE/SYNCHRONICITY
Show Cave Night Gallery's residency at Sync..first one and hopefully more to come!!
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
HUNTERS AND GATHERERS ZINE LAUNCH
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We are so excited about this!
Helga and Andrew of METAL ROUGE are putting out the first issue of their zine, "hunters and gatherers" - on their label seymour records. The Zine will have unusual stories, music reviews, cave-like drawings, raw blurbs, poetry, and artifacts of primitive substance. Each issue will include a 3" CDr of a live band performance. The band featured in the first issue will be VIBES who was the first band to break in our space at the opening of "Ancient Bloody Knuckles".
Also, the records from "Within Heaven's Earshot" will still be on display so anyone not able to make it to the closing will get a chance to see the exhibition before we tediously take down the 300+ albums.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Live Music at Synchronicity Saturday, March 21!
Please join us this Saturday for an evening of live music at Synchronicity!
Doors at 8:30.
We will be hosting out-of-towners down from the bay area
Bird By Snow
Spencer Owen
http://www.gnomeliferecords.com/bird_by_snow.html
http://www.myspace.com/birdbysnow
http://www.gnomeliferecords.com/spencer_owen.html
and our very own LA Based guest
Lateral Hyetography
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Dream Sequence WEEKEND!
Friday
AT 7pm we will be screening the film "Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"
in honor of our artists
THEN starting at 9pm
BANDS...
Non Plus
Devon Williams
Audacity
Thee Makeout Party
plus maybe some DJ's
this whole event in honor of dancing
so excited!
SATURDAY
FIRST ANNUAL EAST HOLLYWOOD ART CYCLE
and the closing reception of "DREAM SEQUENCE"
We will be hosting live events all day
Warm Climate + Sleepwalkers Local will be making awesome sounds for our space
Lucky Dragons performing at 6:30pm
They are closing down the north end of Heliotrope(by Scoops and Pure Luck) for artist tables, music, dancing and tons more fun throughout the day, more specifically 2pm-10pm
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
LA Times + Within Heaven's Earshot
OUR NEXT SHOW OPENING MARCH 13TH
Wearing their religion on their record sleeves
image Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times
Don Bolles, drummer for the rock band the Germs, collects religious albums. He holds a copy of Pentecostal preacher A.A. Allen’s “I Am Lucifer," whose cover describes it as "an actual recording of a demon spirit that possesses a woman and speaks from within her, using her voice."
An L.A. exhibit of religious album covers from the 1950s, '60s and '70s reflects the post-World War II era of hula hoops and Cold War anxiety, when men still wore starched white shirts to church.
By Louis Sahagun
February 23, 2009
In the 1960s, a stiff-jointed, knee-high doll with brown hair and rosy cheeks named Little Marcy was promoted as a model toddler who sang simple Christian songs on dozens of record albums that sold for $1.98 each.
The albums, which today can be found only in thrift store bins, featured on their covers photographs of Little Marcy and her world.
"Marcy Goes to Nashville" shows her staring at a horse. In "Marcy Sings to Children," she is standing stock-still in front of a microphone and watched by children (real ones) beaming with joy. "Little Marcy with Smokey the Bear" comes with a cartoonish image of her picnicking with forest creatures, including 10 happy skunks.
Depending on one's point of view, the images can be corny or kitschy, well-intentioned or sweet. But no matter the interpretation, they're sure to prompt a reaction, which is why they have earned a place in an exhibit of religious album covers. Titled "Within Heaven's Earshot," the exhibit opens March 13 at Synchronicity Space gallery in Los Angeles.
Exhibit curator Kieran Sala said the 200 album covers -- most produced in the 1950s, '60s and '70s -- were culled from private collections, thrift stores and estate sales.
They are strikingly graphic relics of the post-World War II era of hula hoops and Cold War anxiety, when men still wore starched white shirts and ties to church and religious records were produced on the cheap with the most rudimentary marketing and packaging strategies.
"They're also funny, without intending to be," said Sala, an actor who works as a substitute elementary school teacher in Los Angeles. "These people tried so hard to be hip and cool that they came off seeming incredibly square. We're not trying to embarrass Christians or anyone else, but judging from these album covers, their quest to save souls was often stronger than their proficiency in visual arts."
Examples include charismatic Pentecostal preacher A. A. Allen's "I Am Lucifer," which features a devil with catlike blood-red eyes under this caveat: "An actual recording of a demon spirit that possesses a woman and speaks from within her, using her voice, declaring, 'I am Lucifer.' "
Under the title "Aboard Heaven's Choo-Choo" -- and a drawing of a speeding train moving left to right over their heads -- the five members of the Crawford family, clad in their Sunday best, smile collectively at something off camera in an astonishingly mundane group portrait.
The album "Capt. Hook and his Christian Pirate Puppets" has its subjects in garish costumes (think eye patches and tri-corner hats) and seated on barrels. The liner notes include a "Take it from me!" endorsement by Col. Harland Sanders of KFC fame.
Many of the album covers were borrowed from the religious record collection of Don Bolles, drummer for the rock band the Germs.
For entertainment, Bolles and his guests sometimes gather on the white rug in his one-room Huntington Park apartment to spin selections from albums, such as the eerie "An Esoteric Qabalistic Service," performed by Dr. Ann Davies, and the cartoonish "Adventures of Uncle Moishy and the Mitzvah Men."
Then there is "Diary of an Unborn Child," an anti-abortion tract performed by Mark Fox in the child's voice of his persona, Lil Markie. It opens one day in April with the newly conceived Lil Markie announcing, "I will be a boy with blond hair and blues eyes." It closes on "Dec. 28" with him declaring, "Today, my mother killed me."
Then Lil Markie sings, "Why did you kill me, Mommy, when God made me special for you?"
"That one's intense," Bolles said on a recent weekday.
Later he put on his turntable "Little Marcy Visits Smokey the Bear," which Bolles described as "one of the most twisted collaborations between fundamentalist Christians and a federal government fire prevention program I've ever seen."
All of the records in his collection -- be they Christian, Jewish, Bahai or metaphysical -- have one thing in common.
"It's hard to find a well-worn copy of any of this stuff," he said. "Unlike old James Brown records, which are always worn out, these albums seem to have been played once."
The exhibit's emphasis, however, is the cover art, not the music.
Some of the albums were vanity projects. Most were produced by a handful of companies based in Los Angeles, Waco, Texas, and Grand Rapids, Mich., home of Zondervan, a 75-year-old international Christian communications company that once cranked out as many as five Little Marcy records a year.
But Little Marcy's creator, Marcy Tigner, was only one of many Christian ventriloquists making records at the time.
Another was Gail Wenos, who still runs a Temecula ministry featuring the inspirational humor of her dummy, Ezra. Wenos, whose records will be on display at Synchronicity Space, acknowledged that the images look anything but modern.
"But you have to realize," she said in an interview, "we're talking about record albums made in the dark ages, when women wore aprons and the most popular show on television was 'Father Knows Best.' "
Even Wenos chuckles at the sight of her first album, "Gail and Ezra: Joy, Joy, Joy," released in 1972.
"There I am on the cover," she said, "against a Christmas green-and-red background and wearing a Swiss dress with hearts on it. I look like a teenage Disney character, except I was 25.
"It was a hoot and a half to make that record, which sold for $3.49," she said. "I just hope people understand that it wasn't just a different time. It was a different world."
In a wistful tone, she added: "Things were simple. Innocent. Wholesome."
louis.sahagun@latimes.com
Wearing their religion on their record sleeves
image Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times
Don Bolles, drummer for the rock band the Germs, collects religious albums. He holds a copy of Pentecostal preacher A.A. Allen’s “I Am Lucifer," whose cover describes it as "an actual recording of a demon spirit that possesses a woman and speaks from within her, using her voice."
An L.A. exhibit of religious album covers from the 1950s, '60s and '70s reflects the post-World War II era of hula hoops and Cold War anxiety, when men still wore starched white shirts to church.
By Louis Sahagun
February 23, 2009
In the 1960s, a stiff-jointed, knee-high doll with brown hair and rosy cheeks named Little Marcy was promoted as a model toddler who sang simple Christian songs on dozens of record albums that sold for $1.98 each.
The albums, which today can be found only in thrift store bins, featured on their covers photographs of Little Marcy and her world.
"Marcy Goes to Nashville" shows her staring at a horse. In "Marcy Sings to Children," she is standing stock-still in front of a microphone and watched by children (real ones) beaming with joy. "Little Marcy with Smokey the Bear" comes with a cartoonish image of her picnicking with forest creatures, including 10 happy skunks.
Depending on one's point of view, the images can be corny or kitschy, well-intentioned or sweet. But no matter the interpretation, they're sure to prompt a reaction, which is why they have earned a place in an exhibit of religious album covers. Titled "Within Heaven's Earshot," the exhibit opens March 13 at Synchronicity Space gallery in Los Angeles.
Exhibit curator Kieran Sala said the 200 album covers -- most produced in the 1950s, '60s and '70s -- were culled from private collections, thrift stores and estate sales.
They are strikingly graphic relics of the post-World War II era of hula hoops and Cold War anxiety, when men still wore starched white shirts and ties to church and religious records were produced on the cheap with the most rudimentary marketing and packaging strategies.
"They're also funny, without intending to be," said Sala, an actor who works as a substitute elementary school teacher in Los Angeles. "These people tried so hard to be hip and cool that they came off seeming incredibly square. We're not trying to embarrass Christians or anyone else, but judging from these album covers, their quest to save souls was often stronger than their proficiency in visual arts."
Examples include charismatic Pentecostal preacher A. A. Allen's "I Am Lucifer," which features a devil with catlike blood-red eyes under this caveat: "An actual recording of a demon spirit that possesses a woman and speaks from within her, using her voice, declaring, 'I am Lucifer.' "
Under the title "Aboard Heaven's Choo-Choo" -- and a drawing of a speeding train moving left to right over their heads -- the five members of the Crawford family, clad in their Sunday best, smile collectively at something off camera in an astonishingly mundane group portrait.
The album "Capt. Hook and his Christian Pirate Puppets" has its subjects in garish costumes (think eye patches and tri-corner hats) and seated on barrels. The liner notes include a "Take it from me!" endorsement by Col. Harland Sanders of KFC fame.
Many of the album covers were borrowed from the religious record collection of Don Bolles, drummer for the rock band the Germs.
For entertainment, Bolles and his guests sometimes gather on the white rug in his one-room Huntington Park apartment to spin selections from albums, such as the eerie "An Esoteric Qabalistic Service," performed by Dr. Ann Davies, and the cartoonish "Adventures of Uncle Moishy and the Mitzvah Men."
Then there is "Diary of an Unborn Child," an anti-abortion tract performed by Mark Fox in the child's voice of his persona, Lil Markie. It opens one day in April with the newly conceived Lil Markie announcing, "I will be a boy with blond hair and blues eyes." It closes on "Dec. 28" with him declaring, "Today, my mother killed me."
Then Lil Markie sings, "Why did you kill me, Mommy, when God made me special for you?"
"That one's intense," Bolles said on a recent weekday.
Later he put on his turntable "Little Marcy Visits Smokey the Bear," which Bolles described as "one of the most twisted collaborations between fundamentalist Christians and a federal government fire prevention program I've ever seen."
All of the records in his collection -- be they Christian, Jewish, Bahai or metaphysical -- have one thing in common.
"It's hard to find a well-worn copy of any of this stuff," he said. "Unlike old James Brown records, which are always worn out, these albums seem to have been played once."
The exhibit's emphasis, however, is the cover art, not the music.
Some of the albums were vanity projects. Most were produced by a handful of companies based in Los Angeles, Waco, Texas, and Grand Rapids, Mich., home of Zondervan, a 75-year-old international Christian communications company that once cranked out as many as five Little Marcy records a year.
But Little Marcy's creator, Marcy Tigner, was only one of many Christian ventriloquists making records at the time.
Another was Gail Wenos, who still runs a Temecula ministry featuring the inspirational humor of her dummy, Ezra. Wenos, whose records will be on display at Synchronicity Space, acknowledged that the images look anything but modern.
"But you have to realize," she said in an interview, "we're talking about record albums made in the dark ages, when women wore aprons and the most popular show on television was 'Father Knows Best.' "
Even Wenos chuckles at the sight of her first album, "Gail and Ezra: Joy, Joy, Joy," released in 1972.
"There I am on the cover," she said, "against a Christmas green-and-red background and wearing a Swiss dress with hearts on it. I look like a teenage Disney character, except I was 25.
"It was a hoot and a half to make that record, which sold for $3.49," she said. "I just hope people understand that it wasn't just a different time. It was a different world."
In a wistful tone, she added: "Things were simple. Innocent. Wholesome."
louis.sahagun@latimes.com
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The First Annual East Hollywood Art Cycle
Next Saturday 2/28 we will be having a closing reception for our current "Dream Sequence" and also be participating in the East Hollywood ArtCycle. The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council will be closing the north end of Heliotrope(near Scoops and Pure Luck) and there will be live music, food, artist tables and even one of those jumpy things! We are so proud to be participating in this event and really believe in its purpose. East Hollywood is a great place to be! So come and bike, walk, metro to our neighborhood on Saturday. At Synchronicity we will be hosting events all day long starting at 2pm. Live music from Warm Climate and Sleepwalkers Local(not in that order, maybe separate, maybe playing together) and either art or music from Sumi Ink Club / Lucky Dragons. And most importantly you can see our show before it comes off our walls.
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