Mark Mothersbaugh x Scion

SCION PRESENTS: RUGS DURING WARTIME AND PEACETIME

Opening Nov 17th @ Scion Installation Gallery, Culver City


Los Angeles - Oct. 2007 - Scion, in conjunction with Mark Mothersbaugh, one of the founding members of the band DEVO, presents RUGS DURING WARTIME AND PEACETIME at Scion’s 4,500 square foot Installation L.A. Gallery. This show is an exploration of the imagery we choose to bring into our homes and how we interact with it for the purposes of comfort and peace-of-mind rather than an esoteric sense of art for art’s sake.

Mothersbaugh's love of art started early in his childhood, just after it was discovered that he was extremely nearsighted and legally blind. After he received his first pair of correctional glasses Mothersbaugh had a new view of the world that inspired his obsession with imagery and illustrations. His first works, which he began creating in the late 60s and into the 70s, consisted of many different mediums, predominantly drawing and printmaking. He participated in local showings, and received recognition for his work in his home town of Akron, Ohio.

With DEVO, his most successful music project, Mothersbaugh was able to showcase his artistic abilities on a larger scale, and to millions of people. Through their films, videos, costumes, LP covers, stage shows, and printed materials, Mothersbaugh and DEVO forever altered commonly held preconceptions of how a rock band should function in popular culture.

During his downtime on early worldwide tours with DEVO, he began illustrating on postcards to send to his friends, which he still creates, and has been creating every day for over 30 years; a very obsessive habit which still yields anywhere from one to 25 new images per day. These cards were originally created as his personal diaries, and were never intended for public viewing. That all changed when Mothersbaugh decided to share his postcard works in his critically acclaimed solo shows during the 80s and 90s, and then with his gallery tour in 2003 titled HOMEFRONT INVASION! This marked the beginning of many solo shows to come. Mothersbaugh followed the 2003 tour with his BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS tour in 2004, which showcased his photographic symmetrical creations and 'corrected' imagery. The tour distributed many more of Mothersbaugh's works throughout the world, and attracted more first-time gallery visitors and art buyers to his shows.

Mothersbaugh's gallery tours since 2005 have featured new works from both his Postcard Diaries Prints and Beautiful Mutants photographs, giving each gallery a choice of either visual theme. His busy life includes spending time with his wife and children, scoring music for movie, TV, and computer games at Mutato Muzika Studios (www.mutato.com), performing with DEVO (www.clubdevo.com), and creating artwork for his Visual Art Gallery Tours (www.mutatovisual.com).


The opening reception takes place November 17, 7:00 P.M. – 10:00 P.M. at the Scion Installation LA Gallery, 3521 Helms Ave. (at National), Culver City, CA 90232.

Dedicated to fostering independent artistic expression, the Scion Installation L.A. Gallery is a space that allows artists to explore their creative visions. The new Scion Installation Gallery hosts art shows and art-related events for cutting-edge artists from across the globe. Due to success and growth, the Scion Installation L.A. Gallery recently moved from its Washington Boulevard location to Helms and National in the Hayden Tract area. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM and by appointment -310.815.8840. For more information, visit www.scion.com/space.

TO VIEW MORE PICS

Listen Up ---- New Works by Tyler Gibney

Listen Up ---- New Works by Tyler Gibney.

Opening Reception Thursday, Oct 18th 7 – 10 pm, at the Upstairs Gallery.
The Upstairs Gallery is located in the X-Large Store, 1768 Vermont Ave, LA. CA 90027.
323.666.3483

***Also a special edition Listen Up 7” featuring Ty G and Ced No “Funk Dub” and Black Spade “A Song About Her” will be available at the opening.

More info:
http://www.myspace.com/hvw8tyg
http://www.hvw8.com
http://www.xlarge.com/blogs/

Scion Presents: Amass - Oct 13

SCION PRESENTS: AMASS
Curated by Swindle Magazine [amass: to come together; collect]

Scion, in conjunction with Swindle Magazine and design collective We Are Supervision, presents the Amass show at Scion’s 4,500 square foot Installation L.A. Gallery. For this exhibition, the We Are Supervision design team (SV)—along with Sayre Gomez, Patrick Griffin and Joshua Grotto, three artists with whom SV has a history of collaboration—will display its art, photography and personal collections.

SV was founded on the spirit of collaboration and creative inspiration. All the pieces shown in AMASS reflect moments of artistic synergy. The photographs were taken in the heat of the moment, not staged, choreographed or lighted. The collections of posters, signage, flyers, clothing, record covers, found images, masks, kitsch, various everyday objects and things collected from the street reveal the personal sensibilities and aesthetic influences of the artists. Exhibited together, these pieces deconstruct SV’s creative process, and form a physical space that reflects the group’s collaborative spirit.

SV is a creative team that started in 2004 as two artists and friends, Jordan Nickel and Ben Bertucci, who became business partners. They combined their design skills to make a living traveling the country for commercial projects. All the while, they photographed and painted the two worlds they inhabited: the surface world of the American dream, and the underbelly of society that serves as a wake-up call from that dream. Last year a third man permanently joined the fray: KC. Their combined life experiences are cinematic to say the least. Nickel is a prolific graffiti writer/visual artist/stylistic trendsetter/all-around troublemaker well versed in the highs and lows of the art world. Bertucci is a graphic designer, DJ and photographer, and a technical perfectionist with an eye for innovation. KC is a Chicago graffiti legend who recently rediscovered his creative purpose.

Chicago native Gomez's work has been included in group exhibitions at Gavin Brown in New York, and is part of the permanent collection at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. Gomez has exhibited internationally in gallery and museum exhibitions throughout New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, London, Paris and a host of others. Grotto AKA ALLHEART, is a lifelong visual artist who works in a wide range of mediums including graphic design, illustration, drawing, painting and graffiti art. A printmaking major, Griffin spends a lot of his spare time shooting images both digitally and on film. A student of legendary documentary photographer Jim Goldberg (“Raised by Wolves”), Griffin uses photography as his daily journal and his images range from calm moments with his girlfriend to all-night debauchery. In 2005 Griffin created Frienemies, a zine based on his photographic documentation, collage and printmaking skills. Griffin also had a solo show for Hamburger Eyes’ Epicenter in San Francisco that premiered in the spring of 2007.

The opening reception takes place October 13, 7:00 P.M. – 10:00 P.M. at the Scion Installation LA Gallery, 3521 Helms Ave. (at National), Culver City, CA 90232.

Souther Salazar Art Show at GR2

Souther Salazar art show - Make It Real at GR2
October 13 - October 31
Reception: Saturday, October 13, 6:30 -10:00
GR2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
gr2.net
(310) 445-9276

Giant Robot is proud to present the art of Souther Salazar at GR2.

Souther Salazar lives and works in Los Angeles. His artwork reinterprets the world making it a mythical place of carnivals, lost cities, giant insects, dinosaurs, and a variety of other animals. Souther mixes media, adding layers upon layers of storytelling making his work something to explore for hours. Souther Salazar graduated with a BFA from Art Center inPasadena.

Make It Real was inspired by a long drive and wandering mind. Souther imagined stories, scenes, places, and things that made him feel positive and constructive. These thoughts are manifested in six large paintings: five 30" x 48" landscapes and one 48" x 48" square.

The show will end on October 31, allowing key works to appear at a GiantRobot-curated art show at the Japanese American National Museum. An opening reception for Salazar will take place from 6:30 - 10:00 on Saturday, October 13.