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A Taste for Art, Food, Drink and Film

May 14-July 30 2014

At Hal's Bar & Grill
1349 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Venice 90291

Opening Reception Wednesday May 14, 6-8 PM

Featuring the Los Angeles premiere of "My Dinner with the Klines" (6-8PM)

Debby and Larry Kline are certainly the leading conceptual, performance and visual artists who work with, among other things, restaurant-found materials.

From Andy Warhol’s iconic Campbell soup cans, through Stanley Kubrick’s lens, to cutting-edge artists emerging today, the exhibition explores a universal theme from the perspective of painting, printmaking, sculpture, art objects and film.

All works are lent by artists, galleries and collectors within the V-SCAPE community.

Artists
Charles Arnoldi
Anne Belov
Corinne Chaix
Ron Cooper
Mark X Farina
Andrew Foster
David Gilhooly
Scott Grieger
Raul Guererro
D J Hall
David Hockney
Nancy Kay
Debby and Larry Kline
Gayle Lewis
Mark Licari
Roy Lichtenstein
Jean Lowe
Claudia Parducci
Raymond Pettibon
Ken Price
Ed Ruscha
Alexis Smith
Todd Squires
Wayne Thiebaud
James David Thomas
Andy Warhol

Anne Belov courtesy A. R. Taylor, Venice; Jean Lowe courtesy Quint Gallery, La Jolla, Raymond Pettibon courtesy Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica; Ed Ruscha, courtesy Hamilton Press Gallery, Venice,
all other loans courtesy of the artist or V-SCAPE.

VIDEOS: Dinner With The Klines - John Landis, Animal House - Stanley Kubrick, Tom Jones - Andy Warhol Eats a Hamburger - Rob Reiner, When Harry met Sally.

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PAST EXHIBITIONS

J.Scott Smith / Lucas Reiner

May 21 - October 2013

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Ed Moses - Sandy Lajer
April 9 - May 21 2013

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Ned Evans / Andy Moses
Feb 5 - April 8 2013

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Alexis Smith - Scott Greiger

So make it one for my baby

And one more for the road
Dec 4- Feb 4 2013

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Edith Baumann - Peter Alexander

ABSTRACTION/FROM TWO PERSPECTIVES

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Raymond Pettibon - Stas Orlovski

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curated by Tibby Rothman

June - July 2012

Artists X Architects

Larry Bell X Lorcan O’Herlihy

Billy Al Bengston X Neil M. Denari

Casper Brindle X Andreas Froech

Huguette Caland X Mark Mack
Laddie John Dill X Kulapat Yantrasast

Ned Evans X David Hertz

Alexis Smith X Lawrence Scarpa

Barbara T. Smith X John Frane/Hadrian Predock

Laurie Steelink X Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir

/Tyggvi Thorsteinsson

De Wain Valentine X Patrick Tighe

Jennifer Wolf X Dwayne Oyler/Jenny Wu

Artists X Architects I
match 11 artists with 11 architects

have them select one piece from each others work

The affinity between the disciplines of art and architecture dates back through millennia. In Artists X Architects, writer Tibby Rothman pairs eleven artists and architects, both emerging and established , as a way to create a unique visual dialogue between the two.

During an exchange of studio visits, artists and architects each selected a single work from one another to be exhibited side-by-side.

Rather than “finished pieces,” a completed painting and a photograph of a finished structure, Rothman asked for glimpses of an individual’s process: a sketch, a study, a small piece, a rendering, a material study or a similar piece. Stripped of art and architecture’s divergent vocabulary, the connections or complements between the pair are revealed.

Rothman saw the eleven matches as making interesting combinations visually, conceptually, and, in some matches, in their personalities. The show is two shows: the pieces exhibited and the studio visits that led to them but that will not be seen.

Architects and artists hijacked studio visits into lunches, dinners or meetings held over a series of weeks. In some cases, ideas for future collaborations began and will be explored in Artists X Architects II.

Tibby Rothman has traversed the worlds of art and architecture since founding the now defunct Venice-Paper in 2001. A writer, journalist and creative strategist, she is particularly respected for her interviews with prominent Los Angeles artists and architects. This show continues her work revealing inter-disciplinary connections.Rothman is a contributing writer for the LA Weekly and The Architect’s Newspaper.

The exhibition is sponsored by The Architect’s Newspaper, Joe’s and V-SCAPE.

Contact:
Corinne Chaix,310.822.2218,corinnechaix@ca.rr.com(avail till June 5) or Tibby Rothman,310.773.4525 tibbyrothman@verizon.net