East Hollywood Merges Creativity and Cycling
in Celebration of Neighborhood’s Emerging Arts Scene
March 13, 2010 – Second Annual ArtCycle event features great art, bike rides, gallery shows, food and live music
LOS ANGELES (2/8/10) – The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council and the East Hollywood Arts and Culture Committee announce the Second Annual East Hollywood ArtCycle, an event designed to showcase the emerging art and bicycling cultures in East Hollywood. On Saturday, March 13th, 2010 from 2-10 p.m., artists will take over the street in celebration of the art and culture of East Hollywood. This year, the event will be held at Santa Monica Boulevard and Madison Avenue, across from the Cahuenga Branch Library in the heart of East Hollywood and on Historical Route 66.
Also, more than a dozen galleries, theatres, creative venues and artist live/work spaces will open for a celebration of everything East Hollywood.
Hop on a bike to take a tour of some of East Hollywood’s finest galleries, like Synchronicity, Thinkspace and Junc. Check out New Media Artists, see a show at Sacred Fools, check out or just browse among the dozens of artists and performers displaying their creations at the street scene on Santa Monica Boulevard.
There will be plenty of food and live entertainment, including the exotic salsa dancers of Salsarologo and the gypsy jazz phenomenon of KillSonic.
Bring the kids along for arts and crafts, face painting, and lots of hands-on fun. Be sure to bring an old T-shirt for a BYO silk screen.
Come join the celebration as the people of East Hollywood take back the street for a day of art, music, cycling and fun.
More information, photos and videos of last years ArtCycle, and how to how to participate is all available at www.EastHollywoodArtCycle.com or email info@easthollywoodartcycle.com.
Calendar Listing: Pedal over to East Hollywood on Saturday, March 13, from 2-10 p.m., for the Second Annual East Hollywood ArtCycle, an event to celebrate the burgeoning creative and cycling communities in that neighborhood. Take a bike tour of more than a dozen galleries and historical sites in East Hollywood, or just linger at the street fair at Santa Monica Boulevard and Madison Avenue, across from the Cahuenga Branch Library, for art, food, music and fun.
Allison Schulnik
The Power of Selection, part 1
Western Exhibitions is pleased to present The Power of Selection, the first in a series of three shows curated by Ryan Travis Christian at the gallery. The show begins on Saturday, January 2 and a public reception, free and open to the public, will follow on Saturday, January 30, from 6 to 9pm. Mr. Christian, who writes for Fecalface.com and selects an Artist of the Day, each and every day, on his Facebook page, organized these shows, the first in January, the second in the summer and the third in December, to increase the circulation of contemporary artwork seen in Chicago by showing works by out of town and/or up-and-coming artists. In this first installment, Christian selected work that takes figuration into strange and bewildering stylizations through the use of drawing, sculpture and video.
Alika Cooper lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and has had solo exhibitions at Mark Wolfe Contemporary (San Francisco), Kim Light/ Lightbox (LA), Hamish Morrison Galerie (Berlin), and Galleria Studio Legale (Rome).
Mike Rea lives and works in Chicago, IL and has shown works at The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, FFDG (San Francisco), Synchronicity (Los Angeles), Morgan Conservatory (Cleveland) and Hyde Park Art Center. In 2009, Rea was a 2009 West Prize recipient.
Allison Schulnik lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and has had solo exhibitions at 1/9 Unosunove (Rome), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica), Mike Weiss (New York), and Rokeby (London). She also makes stunning claymation video works for the band Grizzly Bear.
Marissa Textor lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and has exhibited works at Subliminal Projects (Los Angeles) The Studio (Los Angeles), and New Wight Gallery UCLA (Los Angeles).
Eric Yahnker lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and has exhibited at Ambach and Rice (Seattle), Jack the Pelican (Brooklyn), Polad-Hardoiun (Paris), Space (Portland), and Kim Light/ Lightbox (Los Angeles) and the Torrance Art Museum (CA).
Ryan Travis Christian is an artist, independent curator and the Chicago correspondent to the art and design website Fecalface.com. Recent curatorial projects include West, Wester, Westest at FFDG (San Francisco), SPORTS at Synchronicity (Los Angeles), and Control C, Control V at EbersMoore (Chicago). He lives and works in Chicago.
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!
