edward cella art & architecture NEW gallery space
6018 wilshire blvd, LA
Transforming Photography
JUST EXTENDED into AUGUST! make sure to go and check it out!
The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Transforming Photography, presents an inclusive selection of works that redefine the material nature of photography. At a time when the boundaries between artistic medias and traditionally held expectations of the nature of photography are in flux; Transforming Photography suggests alternatives to the commonplace manipulations offered through digital processes. The exhibition will feature visceral and process based photographic works by Isidro Blasco, Ben Dean, Mary Heebner, Gerald Incandela, George Legardy, Joni Sternbach, Joan Tanner, Ethan Turpin and Thomas Zika.
The exhibition also features the Los Angeles debut of Spanish Born; New York - based Isidro Blasco who combines architecture, photography and sculptural installations to explore vision and perception. In a similar manner, Joan Tanner mounts collaged celluloid transparencies on hand made light boxes fabricated from found objects re-approariated by the artist combining both photographic and sculptural processes.
Using the physical gestures of drawing, Gerald Incandela uses the chemistry of photography to refine photographic images beyond the camera. His works are held by the Getty Museum, and this exhibition will represent his debut in Los Angeles as well. In contrast, George Legrady and Ben Dean utilize distinct digital computational strategies to create viable photograph like images which are synthetic, constructed works. Their work map new, advanced approaches to digital photography within the context of the exhibition.
Other artists reinvent historic photographic processes and archive materials. Joni Sternbach, a Brooklyn based artist who is currently the subject of a solo exhibition organized by Phillip Prodger at the Peabody Essex Museum of Art, uses the pre-civil-war period photographic process of tintype (or wet plate process) to document though portraiture contemporary surf communities on both the East and West coasts. Ethan Turpin mines the historic images of vintage stereocards to create new digital composites that challenge cultural and economic presuppositions. His work employees the hand-held antique viewing devices to create the dimensional photographic effects characteristic that made stereocards a salon sensation in the early portion of the 20th century. Lastly, the German photographer, Thomas Zika suggests the creative opportunities presented by “found” photography in his lush and sensual Bathers project. (press release)
7.29.2009
A + D Museum's Urban Hike
calling all outdoorsy design buffs.....
Urban Hike: Forgotten LA
The Architecture and Design Museum launches a trio of urban hikes canvassing little-known LA with the City of Angels' laureate, Mike the PoeT. On July 26, the trail kicks off in southeast Downtown, in the National Historic Monument district of Little Tokyo. Come August 9, the course veers southwest to Leimert Park, a '20s neighborhood designed by sons of Central Park landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmstead. Design-loving urban trekkers head northwest on August 30, winding down the museum's summer Urban Hike series with a sojourn into LA's Westlake neighborhood and its staple, MacArthur Park.
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$15 / $30 three-tour package
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suNdAY juLy 26 11am
suNday auG 9 11am
suNdAy AUg 30 11am
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while the A+D website is under construction, check out any details on the museum's facebook page....
GEO-Planters
artist kelly lamb has brought us some really great designs.....now, with these wonderfully playful, sophisticated pots even our plants have a new look.
www.kellylamb.net
7.28.2009
tokyo boy
a couple favorites from furniture designer shigeki fujishiro, whom i really admire. his blending of rustic materials and new modern design make his pieces stand apart from the norm.
be sure to check out his other stuff www.shigekifugishiro.com
7.21.2009
7.19.2009
dumpster + talented design = dumpster diving
photo: y paskoval.a. heat has gone to my brain....and lately, i find myself wishing i had never left the beach for downtown l.a.
nah, i love it here in the land of opportunity.
BUT, it seems as though some folks across the country are feeling the city heat, as well. due to a cool group of cats, dumpsters around nyc have become transformed into amazingly clean swimming pools.
yup, real life, actual dumpster diving is refreshing now-a-days.
7.17.2009
7.16.2009
julius shulman 1910-2009
Case Study House No. 22
Julius Shulman’s 1960 photograph of Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House No. 22, shown hovering above the Los Angeles grid, is among the most famous architectural pictures ever taken in the U.S. It was, an architecture critic wrote, “one of those singular images that sum up an entire city at a moment in time.”
© J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute
Famous for his modernist architectural photography, Julius Shulman will always be remembered. he passed away last night at 98 years old.
7.10.2009
cash-for-grass
L.A. Department of Water & Power is offering LA homeowners $1.00 per square foot rebate...IF, they turn in their grassy lawns for a more responsible, drought resistant landscape.
does this appeal to you? for more info check out the LADWP website
do your part and give it some thought!
7.06.2009
henrybuilt had a baby
VIOLA PARK, it's fresh take on the modern kitchen is heavenly. henrybuilt will always be my favorite, next to custom, but now they have a new venture that is more affordable. with interchangeable components and a huge range of colors and forms, the kitchen is reinvented.
viola park is designed by henrybuilt and manufactured in seattle. check out the website for a look into the future of modular kitchens. www.violapark.com
it's back
the infamous mid-century cord chair is back in production. originally designed in 1953 by jacques guillon, the maple core and veneer base is strung with nylon cord for the seat and backrest. avenue road, based in toronto, has decided to start production again on this minimalist's dream chair and make it available for purchasing this august....for $795.
7.02.2009
underway on kensington
laura weekes(pictured), painter extraordinaire, has begun the transformation room by room.....here she is prepping for room 3....many more to go, but it's a wonderful start. this is a great project i started working on for my neighbor and rolfing wonder, lynn cohen, check out her website, rolfworks.net
i will keep updating with photos as the project progresses. very exciting to be involved in reviving an old LA victorian!
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