"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!

MV & EE with Warm Climate

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Synchronicity Space is thrilled to be hosting MV & EE, who will be performing their unique brand of freaked out, Appalachian psychedelia. Also performing is City Terrace troubadour, Warm Climate. This show is not to be missed! 9PM!

MV & EE will also be performing at the wonderful Echo Curio with M. Geddes Gengras on the 29th and 30th.

Weekend Events!

FRIDAY



Prince Rama of Ayodhya

Lord Jeff

Pocahaunted

9pm


SATURDAY



From Here to There presents a screening of Antonioni's 1975 classic, The Passenger, starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.

8pm


SUNDAY



Synchronicity welcomes all the way from New Zealand, The Blueness and all the way from Echo Park, Azalia Snail. There will be dreampop.

8pm

OPENING SEPTEMBER 12TH

From Here to There Presents From Here to There

A Group Exhibition

From Here to There Presents From Here to There is a group exhibition which runs from September 12 – October 10, 2009 at Synchronicity Space. The show is centered around the theme of transitory spaces which the collective defines as spaces that represent pauses between a range of states or being. Their interpretations include physical locations as well as psychological perceptions or emotional states, including spaces that change people, physically changing locations, or places that people pass through. They are interested in the idea of transitory spaces as symbolic spaces, referencing cultural, social, or personal transitions in time.

The exhibition brings together a variety of interpretations on this theme through mediums such as photography, drawing, and collage. The exhibition includes special programming such as an Antonioni film screening (Saturday, Sept. 19), a performance by Miwa Matreyek of Cloud Eye Control (Friday, Sept. 25), and various musical performances. Synchronicity Space is located at 4306 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90029. For an extensive list of events or for more information, please visit syncspacela.com.

Artists participating include: Ava Alamshah, Gilda Davidian, Ignacio Genzon, Suzy Goldish, Stefani Greenwood, Rena Kosnett, Alex Lewin, Sidonie Loiseleux, Jeff McLane, Marie Mingoia, Tiffany Roohani, and Katie Shapiro.

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From Here to There is a collective of artists currently living and working in Los Angeles. Their practices range from photography to collage and include video, sound, and installation. What brings them together is their desire to combine their personal perspectives and various interests to create a greater dialogue through the art that they make. They meet on a bi-weekly basis to discuss ideas both old and new, to hone their practices, and fuel each other through discussions, critiques, and conversations.

For more information on From Here to There, please visit www.hereototherela.com

MUSIC WEEKEND!

SATURDAY

Pumice:

Stefan Neville has been making music as PUMICE since he was 16 back in 1991. One man band compositions and improvisations for small silver guitar, drums, endless cassette, intercom and voice. Its always been a struggle. The instruments are wearing out, the guitar gets harder and harder to tune, the tape loops get sicker and the batteries get flatter, but Pumice perseveres.

Adam Willetts:

Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Adam Willetts uses homemade analogue synthesizers to perform abstract, psychedelic, pop music. He creates richly immersive work with a propulsive sense of momentum, deftly balancing the joyfully lyrical with the ferociously dense.

An important figure in the New Zealand experimental music and sound art community, Adam also plays in the band Grunge Genesis and has collaborated with many of New Zealand's greatest musicians including Bruce Russell (The Dead C), The Renderers, Greg Malcolm, Birchville Cat Motel/Our Love Will Destroy The World, and Phil Dadson.

Metal Rouge:

Métal Rouge was formed in 2006 by Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott in Auckland, New Zealand with no aim but to open themselves to the spontaneous psych tonalism running through the underbelly of popular music like a vein of pure lightning. Birthed from the rich history of New Zealand underground music they began to mold a sound comprised equally of the forward motion of ecstatic jazz and the drugged stasis of NYC loft minimalism circa ’66. Using electric guitar, vocals and amplified santur as their primary instruments, they forged a new vocabulary of unrefined free spiritual music. Relocating to Los Angeles late 2006, they toured the states, adding lap steel and pedal steel to their arsenal. Related projects include Yek Koo (Helga solo), Nest (Andrew & Nigel Wright), Golden Krone (Andrew & Rohan Evans) and Huzun (Andrew & Tim Coster). Métal Rouge have releases on Root Strata, Not Not Fun, Stunned, and Digitalis.

Albert Ortega:

Albert Ortega (Dirty Branchez) is a sound wizard who is connected to the most amazing angles of expansive music output in Los Angeles. He is always armed with a smile and inspiring ideas. – Dublab

Albert Ortega collects various resonant objects to prepare both conventional instruments as well as hand-crafted electronics to produce a music that allows listeners to focus on minute undulations or to immerse themselves within a larger sound field. His practice initially began at home then later shared among friends, eventually spreading sporadically around several areas of potential growth.

info; http://www.resontropic.net/brokenspectre/

SUNDAY

MONSTERS OF ACCORDION!
An international mob of squeezebox wielding maniacs is launching an all out attack on Eugene. Geoff Berner, of Vancouver, is a self described "Klezmer mongrel" playing his original take on traditional Jewish folk music fueled by his wry, biting humor and more than a few shots whiskey. Former Gogol Bordello member, Stevhen Iancu of Tokyo sings fiery rhythm-driven songs marrying his Gypsy roots with traditional Japanese styles. Eric Stern, the devilishly virtuosic leader of Portland's Vagabond Opera, displays his acclaimed operatic tenor to the accompaniment of French musette, Balkan, and Arabic accordion stylings. These three are joined by infamous accordion howler, Jason Webley, of Seattle. Webley, who organizes the annual tour, is known for his passionate voice, his caterwauling squeezebox and his ability to get a room of strangers to throw their arms around each other and sing with abandon.

The monsters will be joined by special local guest TBA!
More information at:

http://www.monstersofaccordion.com

Purchase tickets here

just sayin

We have had really amazing music shows lately.

And more to come!

Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite TONIGHT!

Deep-space excursions that reveal the dark matter of pop culture, absurdist mythologies that transcend into tear jerking dramas… all can be found in Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite. This forthcoming show at Synchronicity Space opens on July 31st with a video screening including 19 unique artists. 2-D and 3-D artifacts from the videos will accompany the screening and be on display throughout August. Those looking to travel through a black hole and keep your boots on: look no further.

Artists include

Ben Bigelow

Paper Rad

Lilli Carre

Santiago Vernetti

Steve Bishop

Suzie Silver and Hillary Harp

Hooliganship and Cassandra Jones

Gregory Witt

Michael Mallis

Matthew Thurber and Rebecca Bird

Souther Salazar and Karla Carnewal

Chris Cornwell

Eileen Maxson

Hazel Hill

Alexis Gideon

e*rock

Mike Pisano

Jesse Hulcher

Juliacks and Amy Johnson

Ola Vasiljeva

Curated by Ben Bigelow

"Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" will run from July 31 - August 29

Opening reception starts at 7pm, July 31st including screenings at 9pm and 11pm.

Heard of Elephants 1 Year Anniversary this Wednesday, July 29!

Synchronicity Space is excited to host the art collective, Heard of Elephants, this Wednesday at 8pm. Art, music, raffles, come!

The first of two shows celebrating the 1 Year Anniversary of Heard of Elephants. "Not From Concentrate" will feature the artistic work of:

Alicia Papanek, Alyssa Ilves, Amy Lee, Anna Ayeroff, Brenda So, Celeste Flores, Eamon Conklin, Evan Cummiskey, Franco Castilla, Lily Skolnick Simonson, Normandie Wilson, Peter Van Dyke, and Steve Baldino

DJ Sets by Mark Nieto of KXLU and more Special Guests to be announced soon.

$2 Suggested Donation @ the Door.

Art Raffles all night long

Beverages and more!

this weekend this weekend this weekend

We have great great shows lined up for this weekend!! Please check google calendar to the right for details. Or, if more information is needed please call the gallery at 323-284-8960.

EXCITED FACE