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Side Street Projects
understands that you’re tired and busy, so we
kindly requests that you refrain from attending our…
-[ Tickets Are $175 Each | Edition Size Is 100 ]-
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:
-[ Tickets Are $175 Each | Edition Size Is 100 ]-
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.
Written on Mar 30
