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News from the LAB 101

This info is taken directly from the LAB 101's newsletter.
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Dear LAB 101 Follows or LAB RATS as we like to call ourselves. We are about to embark on a NEW and exciting venture; the opening of a small laboratory style boutique store! Yes thats right our first full on STORE THE LAB 101 SHOP ! we have not moved far in-fact we just relocated directly across the street next to our friends at The Project Gallery. The LAB 101 SHOP will be an expansion of the shop we had inside our old space but only larger. We will still be bringing you cutting edge artists!!!! with raw untapped talent a long with a few of our previously shown favorites! focusing on smaller gift and collector scale works. Over the coming months the LAB 101 Shop with slowly fill up with all kinds of unique items as we search high and low in all corners of the states to find quirky one of a kind objects for your home and person. *********************************************************************** The LAB 101 SHOP OPENS NEXT SATURDAY: FEBRUARY 23, FROM 6 - 10PM @ its NEW Location: 8539 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 map link art work provided by; Keith Knittel (aka Keith Rocka) www.thelab101.com

Freshly Dipped - New Online Art Store

The good peoples over at Formulawerks clothing have launched a new venture - an online art store -- Freshly Dipped -- supporting their network of talented artists, currently numbering 30+. They sell artwork, prints, apparel and more. Lifted from the site, here's a little background:

Why does it exist?

I (Ryan / Escape76 from Formula Werks) had been shopping for new artwork with one of my friends. Even though I personally know all of the artists whose work I was shopping for, I found it almost impossible to know what works were sold, unsold, available, lost, or whatever by looking at people’s websites, MySpace pages, Flickr pages, etc. I spent a ridiculous amount time emailing, texting, messaging, and calling people to find out what was available for sale for both my friend and I to purchase.

After a couple of months, I was randomly thinking and thought it would be cool to open a site where artists can directly sell their canvases, prints, or whatever other goodies they have. I know a bevy of artists who have tons of complete works that are not necessarily being shown for sale anywhere, and I thought this was both a waste of space and a waste of possible income and exposure for the artist. Why hide all the goodies?

So this is why I came up with freshlydipped.com. I talked to several artist friends from both FWX and our immediate circle, and everyone seemed to think it was a good idea. We went ahead and started working on the site and talking to more people, and here we are.

Go browse, buy and support some independent artists!
www.freshlydipped.com

Q&A With Apart's Adrian Palengat

Q&A With Adrian Palengat of APART, Regarding Scion Presents: Love Will Bring Us Apart Again

1) What is the theme or meaning of the show?

it's simply to show how pop art is constantly being re-interpreted and reworked by artists working in different media around the world

2) How did you select and find the artists involved?

theyve been scooped up by apart over the last 9 years and i picked the ones for this show who were most likely to get there work in a container on time !

3) How did Scion find you and approach you to do a show?

i hosted freddi c and the scrawl collective's big american grafitti show 'streetwiseone' in my london gallery in 2001

4) What's been the biggest challenge you faced in putting together this show?

it's still to come - hanging it on the 15th !

5) Is there anything in particular you would like people to take away from this show - what would you like to inspire in those that view the artwork?

the same response that we always seem to get which is: inspiration, joy, laughter and fascination at how these artists think of the things they do and....how, a bit like the harlem globetrotters, they put on such a great spectacle as a team

6) What do you have lined up for the future? What's next after this show?

im curating a 3 week group show at steve shaw's beautiful new abbott kinney gallery on the 16th march for 3 weeks, then back to london to curate an enormous notting hill apart retrospective for all our artists to say hello to their old clients, then back to las vegas where im putting on another big group show in mid may downtown, then to zurich for a pakpoom silaphan solo show... and the rest of the year i'll work out as i go !!

www.scion.com/space
www.ap-art.co.uk

Love Will Bring Us Apart Again opens Feb 16th @ Scion Installation Gallery LA

Flyer for Love Will Bring Us Apart

Scion Presents: Love Will Bring Us Apart Again

SCION PRESENTS: LOVE WILL BRING US APART AGAIN
Curated by Apart
Opening Feb 16th @ Scion Installation Gallery, Culver City

Los Angeles - January 2008 - In association with Apart, Scion presents: Love Will Bring Us Apart Again, at its Installation L.A. Gallery. With its 27 pop artist shootout, this show is Apart's first stateside venture.

Curator and gallerist Adrian Palengat, will bring together over two dozen of Apart's artists, from 10 different countries, to show their very distinct flavor on U.S. shores.

"For our L.A. launch, I wanted to bring in a heavy payload of foreign artists to see how they'd tackle a U.S. audience, and as usual, they've come at the challenge from lots of different directions," said Palengat. "We've brought in painters, sculptors, photographers, illustrators and installation artists, given them no brief, other than 'we've got 4,500 square feet in L.A.' and let them get on with it."

"That's the joy of putting these sort of shows together for me - I put artists from literally all over the world in one room and watch them express themselves".

Participating in Love Will Bring Us Apart Again will be artists from Thailand, Spain, Argentina, Sweden, Japan, France, New Zealand, United States, England and Belgium, only a handful of whom have ever shown in the States before.

Amongst the eclectic lineup will be Sex Pistols photographer Peter Gravelle, Belgian caravan artist Mr Wim, Swedish latex scupltress Emelie Salford, Japanese designer and photographer Super Violence, French punk teddy bear creator Tony Pronier and English glitter king Robalot.

Other participating artists in Love Will Bring Us Apart Again include: Tim Blake (U.K.), Conrad Leach (U.K.), Luis Perez (Spain), Gustavo Gagliardo (Argentina), Sean Alexander (U.K.), Pakpoom Silaphan (Thailand), Craig Lynn (U.K.), James Holdsworth (U.K.), Cat James (U.K.), Ryan Hadley (U.K.), Nick McFarlane (New Zealand), Ben Allen (U.K.), Dominic Allan (U.K.), John Parkin (U.K.), Brian Jones (U.K.), Janna Stern (U.S.A.), David Hollier (U.K.), Sunil Pawar (U.K.), James Mathers (U.S.A.), John Counsell (U.K.), and Antoine Corbineau (France).

Apart was formed by Palengat in 1999 on London's bohemian Portobello Road, an area untouched by galleries. Acting on a tip from his artist girlfriend that the London art scene was boring, arrogant, conformist and in need of something different, Palengat opened his 2,500 sq. ft. space. Specializing in foreign artists working in different media, the showroom soon became a favorite of artists and collectors alike, for its simple and unpretentious approach. Collaborations with a wide range of corporations ensued ranging from LVMH, Commes des Garcons and Royal Elastics to KSwiss, Jones Soda, Duotone Snowboards and Vladivar Vodka.

In November 2006, the space on Portobello was sold and two mini Aparts were opened in Tokyo. In 2007, Adrian Palengat took the showroom on the road, curating shows in France, Tokyo, London and Milan. Shows in Tokyo, Zurich, Las Vegas, France and London are planned for 2008. For more information on Apart Productions, visit: www.ap-art.co.uk

The opening reception takes place February 16, 7:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M. at the Scion
Installation L.A. Gallery, 3521 Helms Ave. (at National), Culver City, Calif., 90232. The show
will run until March 1.

Dedicated to fostering independent artistic expression, the Scion Installation L.A. Gallery is a
space that allows artists to explore their creative visions. The 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.