Kim MacConnel is an influential artist in the Pattern and Decoration Movement of the 1970s. Taking cues from Picasso and the so-called “primitivists,” MacConnel has taken the primitive and made it relevant in different dialogues between cultures. MacConnel’s work has been exhibited internationally for over three decades, including recent shows at the Holly  Solomon Gallery (NYC), Rosamund Felsen Gallery, and Claremont Graduate University.  He is represented by the Rosamund Felsen Gallery.

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About The Host: Bari Ziperstein, who lives and works in Los Angeles, is a site-specific sculptor, photographer, collage, and ceramic artist who is interested in the politics of space through intervention and organization. Her artistic practice is engaged with the architectural history of Los Angeles and can be read as an investigation of how urban landscapes are defined by consumerism. Ziperstein holds her MFA from CalArts and double majored at Ohio University to receive a BFA in painting and a Women’s Studies Degree. Since 2007, she has been an active member of the Board of Directors at Side Street Projects. Visit her website at www.bariziperstein.com/home.

Much thanks to the Tremaine Foundation and The Pasadena Art Alliance for their support of this series. Special thanks to Jonathan Stoffenmacher.

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We just can’t wait any longer!  Olga Koumoundouros’ print for our 17th annual The Phantom Ball is here. It’s a two-color etching with hand-painting, approximately 11×17″.  Every plate is hand-inked, and each print appears unique.  Olga, we love you!

We still have prints available, at the ticket of $350.   Edition of 100. It’s beautiful.  Get one before they sell out!

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Katie Grinnan is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. She is represented by ACME. gallery in Los Angeles and has exhibited her work at the Whitney Museum in New York, MOCA in Los Angeles, the MAK Center in Los Angeles, and Modern Art Oxford in the UK.  She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received her M.F.A. from U.C.L.A.

Her sculptures and installations use hybrid techniques, borrowing from photography and approaching sculpture from an expanded field. Combining photography and sculpture allows social, psychological, imagined, physical, and visual space to exist simultaneously while spotlighting the incongruities between the structure and surface of an object.

For more information about Katie Grinnan’s work, visit ACME’s website.

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About The Host: Bari Ziperstein, who lives and works in Los Angeles, is a site-specific sculptor, photographer, collage, and ceramic artist who is interested in the politics of space through intervention and organization. Her artistic practice is engaged with the architectural history of Los Angeles and can be read as an investigation of how urban landscapes are defined by consumerism. Ziperstein holds her MFA from CalArts and double majored at Ohio University to receive a BFA in painting and a Women’s Studies Degree. Since 2007, she has been an active member of the Board of Directors at Side Street Projects. Visit her website at www.bariziperstein.com/home.

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Brian Bress is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. His collages, photographs, videos and paintings have been exhibited in various group shows and film festivals in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, including Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation, Black Maria Film Festival, New York Director’s Club Biennial and The LA Weekly Biennial. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Cherry and Martin, Zach Feuer Gallery, and Angstrom Gallery. Recent group exhibitions include those at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadephia PA), Human Resources (Los Angeles), and Diverse Works (Houston TX), among others. He received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1998 and his MFA from University of California, Los Angeles in 2006.

More information about Brian Bress is available on his website, www.brianbress.com, or at Cherry and Martin.

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About The Host: Bari Ziperstein, who lives and works in Los Angeles, is a site-specific sculptor, photographer, collage, and ceramic artist who is interested in the politics of space through intervention and organization. Her artistic practice is engaged with the architectural history of Los Angeles and can be read as an investigation of how urban landscapes are defined by consumerism. Ziperstein holds her MFA from CalArts and double majored at Ohio University to receive a BFA in painting and a Women’s Studies Degree. Since 2007, she has been an active member of the Board of Directors at Side Street Projects. Visit her website at www.bariziperstein.com/home.

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Much thanks to the Tremaine Foundation and The Pasadena Art Alliance for their support of this series. Special thanks to Jonathan Stoffenmacher.

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Isn’t she cute?  This is Side Street’s new mobile classroom, on her way home from the factory in Hurricane, Utah.

Stay tuned – we’ve got more images from our trip, but right now we’re busy re-arranging the lot, and preparing to begin the build-out.

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David Burns is a Los Angeles-based artist, curator, and educator. David is a member of the seminal Los Angeles activist art collective Fallen Fruit, along with Matias Viegener and Austin Young.  Fallen Fruit’s recent solo projects include the ongoing EATLACMA at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, United Fruit at L.A.C.E., the annual Public Fruit Jam at Machine Project, and many more. Burns’ recent projects have been shown at the Ars Electronica (Austria), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Netherlands Architecture Institute at Maastricht, and Artists Space in New York, among others. David Burns is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts (1993) and received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2005.

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About The Host: Bari Ziperstein, who lives and works in Los Angeles, is a site-specific sculptor, photographer, collage, and ceramic artist who is interested in the politics of space through intervention and organization. Her artistic practice is engaged with the architectural history of Los Angeles and can be read as an investigation of how urban landscapes are defined by consumerism. Ziperstein holds her MFA from CalArts and double majored at Ohio University to receive a BFA in painting and a Women’s Studies Degree. Since 2007, she has been an active member of the Board of Directors at Side Street Projects. Visit her website at www.bariziperstein.com/home.

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Much thanks to the Tremaine Foundation and The Pasadena Art Alliance for their support of this series. Special thanks to Jonathan Stoffenmacher.

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Southern California Public Radio comes to Side Street!

Corey Bridewell of KPCC’s About Town paid us a visit last week and got a full tour, courtesy of Emily Hopkins. There’s a really neat video now on the 89.3 KPCC website featuring an interview with Emily – check it out:

Side Street Projects from 89.3 KPCC on Vimeo.

To view the full article at the KPCC website, click here.

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Side Street Projects
understands that you’re tired and busy, so we
kindly requests that you refrain from attending our…

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Seriously, stay home. It’s ok. Instead of coming to the Phantom Ball, we invite you to pick something you want to do, but haven’t (because you can’t find the time) and do that, instead. How about this: just buy a “ticket” to Side Street Projects’ 17th Annual Phantom Ball, and we’ll send you a “party favor” made for this infamous non-event: a signed, limited-edition print by a well-known contemporary artist created exclusively for the Phantom Ball (edition of 100).

What does this year’s print look like? Well, that’s a big secret until June 1st. Buy your “ticket” right now, sight unseen, for only $175. Once we reveal the image on June 1st, the “ticket price” doubles to $350. On January 1st, 2011, any remaining prints will be sold for $700 each. See how it works?

As always, we’ll understand if you can’t attend, because nobody ever has. Nobody ever does. Not in 17 years. Get it?

And on that note, this year’s “souvenir print” is by LA’s very own:

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About the Artist
Olga Koumoundouros’ provocative practice actively engages ideas of labor, class, and human sustenance. Using common industrial materials [cement, tar, and salvaged building fragments] Olga’s work transforms the stuff of daily life into an evocative commentary on social reality. Through hands-on engagement with material processes, her sculptures and drawings reflect a raw subjectivity and explore the dynamics of power through blunt gestures and bold forms.

Olga’s work was included in 2005’s critically-acclaimed exhibition Thing: New Sculptures from Los Angeles at UCLA’s Hammer Museum. Olga’s art has been featured in solo exhibitions at REDCAT, Open Satellite (Bellevue, WA), and Adamski Gallery (Aachen, Germany), and in group exhibitions at the Cultuurcentrum Brugge (Belgium), LA><ART, Creative Time (New York), and the Studio Museum of Harlem.

Olga lives and works in Los Angeles and is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.

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In as little as 20 minutes you can create and donate a unique Fundred Dollar Bill artwork that will be picked up in by a special armored truck and carried to Washington D.C., where a request will be made to our legislators for real change.

The goal is to collect over 3 million of these unique artworks. This cumulative total of 300,000,000 Fundred Dollars supports the equivalent cost (in U.S. Dollars) required to make safe every lead contaminated property in New Orleans, so that every child is protected.

Your creative contribution, along with 3,000,000 other individuals, will send a powerful message to Congress that we care about the health of future generations. This is a cool project, a great learning opportunity for all ages, with profound implications for the health of our planet and children.

Side Street Projects will be serving as one of the collection centers for the Fundred Dollar Bills. The people involved in this project are world class artists who really pull stuff like this off on a regular basis.

The “Fundred” truck will be coming to Side Street Projects on Friday February 19th at 4:00 pm.

We will be making Fundreds and loading up the truck. Come join us. It will be fun!

Additionally, come and make your own hanging planter out of a recycled 2 liter bottle.

Last summer when Side Street Projects stopped in New Orleans on our cross country trip with the Armadillo we were astounded by how much work still needs to be done. Here is a video of children in the 7th ward who have never tasted fresh herbs because their soil is so contaminated that they can’t plant anything to eat in the ground.

Did you know that lead contaminated soil is a problem in many cities in the U.S. and is a condition that often significantly impacts the health of our children? Studies demonstrate that lead-poisoning can affect nearly every system in the body, compromising healthy brain development and leading to poor performance in the schools, attention deficit disorder and even juvenile delinquency. The good news is that there is a solution, and it is why I encourage you to participate in The Fundred Dollar Bill Project, a simple, fun and important project supporting a solution to lead-contaminated soil in New Orleans as a model for other cities across the United States with the same devastating problem.

To learn more about getting involved, visit the website: www.fundred.org

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Side Street Projects has been invited to participate in the 2010 Los Angeles Art Show at the LA Convention Center (January 21-24th). Your Side Street membership card gets you half-price admission tickets at the door (only $10…wow!).

Side Street will be offering free classes aboard the Woodworking Bus at the Art Show on Saturday the 23rd starting at 1pm. Email Emily at emily@sidestreet.org to reserve your child’s spot now, or sign up at the show.

The Los Angeles Art Show returns to the LA Convention Center in the revitalized downtown district. This year’s Show features over 100 national and international galleries, displaying a vibrant range of artwork, spanning artistic mediums across the centuries. Join an eclectic art-loving audience and be part of the creative magic at this internationally attended celebration of the arts. Visit their website at www.laartshow.com.

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