October 31, 2012

November 17 at Alias Books


We're thrilled to announce we'll be back at Alias Books for Carmine Iannaccone's IAmTheGravitySurfer.  Note our new time, from 6-9pm.  Stop by and see great work at the best little bookstore in Los Angeles!


ShoeboxLA Presents
Carmine Iannaccone: IamTheGravitySurfer

Saturday, November 17, 2012 from 6-9pm

Alias Books East, Atwater Village
3163 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90039

ShoeboxLA is pleased to present Carmine Iannaccone: IamTheGravitySurfer.  At some height above the city, a cyclist speeds down a curving mountain road. The rider leans into the bends, negotiating a startling rush of forces. Her motion causes the road’s static plane to heave and dip like a swelling ocean. She navigates those swells and dips, pockets and humps, cutting a line across the onrushing topograph.

MEANWHILE, HUNDREDS OF FEET BELOW THE RIDER: countless layers of alluvium compress under the weight of their own accumulation. Differentiations across their breadth activate, crumpling the mass into uplifts and domes, folds and depressions. A slab breaks the surface, its submerged cross-section becomes visible as layers, mineral chemistries irradiated by light now become color.

IAmTheGravitySurfer and the accompanying publication Accordion Fold simultaneously disassemble and reproduce these conditions in sculptural form. In so doing, Carmine Iannaccone looks at the nested plays of time and energy and how they combine to create patterns. In their dazzling variety and tantalizing offers of legibility, these patterns calibrate our perception of the world and speak to our anxieties about how we fit in.

Carmine Iannaccone has been making art in Los Angeles for over 20 years. He received his BA from Dartmouth College and his MFA from Otis College of Art and Design. He is currently a studio mentor and teaches graduate seminars in critical theory at Claremont Graduate University.

Now in its second year, ShoeboxLA gives Los Angeles artists an opportunity to do one-day, site-specific exhibitions outside the traditional gallery setting. Artists and founders Sophia Allison and Paul W. Evans provide an intimate space that challenges artists' and viewers' expectations of size and scale. Locations change for each show but the space remains the same.
 

(Alias Books East is a curated, general used bookstore located in the heart of Atwater Village. They carry a wide selection of used and out of print titles with an emphasis on literature, film and the arts. www.aliasbookseast.com)

October 24, 2012

John Souza...Angel Youth...Thank You.

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who came out for John Souza's show.  We loved seeing you all under the Angel Youth sign and even though those rare L.A. clouds hovered and rain seemed imminent, we each were captivated and amused by John's thought-provoking installation.  As it got dark we were able to use our fancy flashlights in the gallery, which added to the sculpture's ominous feel.  At 7:00pm John destroyed his piece as we all watched in shock and awe.  ShoeboxLA artist Michael Blasi took a video of this moment, which we'll upload at a future date.  Thanks, John for a great time!


SAVE THE DATE!  Sat., Nov. 17, Carmine Iannaccone: IAmTheGravitySurfer, location TBA.






October 10, 2012

Angel Youth

John Souza: The Future Homes of Thomas Solomon and Kimberly Mascola

Saturday, October 20, 2012 from 4-7pm

Under the Angel Youth sign on Kingswell Ave. in Los Feliz
Kingswell Ave at Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027 

October 08, 2012

Sophia & ShoeboxLA on GYST Radio

Check out our very own Sophia on GYST Radio.  Many thanks to those great guys at GYST, especially the warm and wonderful Monica.  Here's some info on what they do:

GYST Radio is a resource for all information on the business of art, hybrid careers and other DIY strategies for a successful career in the arts. We believe that artists should define their own careers on their own terms, and we provide the necessary tools and resources for doing so. We have great resources for artists (see below) but this radio broadcast concentrates on DIY artists, independent curators and arts organizations that support artists. Instead of waiting to be validated by a "gate keeper" come and find out strategies for doing it yourself here.

ShoeboxLA on GYST Radio:
CLICK HERE! 

October 05, 2012

John Souza: October 20, 4-7pm


John Souza: The Future Homes of Thomas Solomon and Kimberly Mascola

Saturday, October 20, 2012 from 4-7pm

Under the Angel Youth sign on Kingswell Ave. in Los Feliz
Kingswell Ave at Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027

ShoeboxLA is pleased to present John Souza: The Future Homes of Thomas Solomon and Kimberly Mascola.  Architecture is an excuse for form. It shares its objective with the conscious world by signifying cultural progress through distractions that publicly reflect unimportant mental states and unresolved personal conflicts. The inability to articulate ideas, comprehend visual language or understand ergonomics is evident in the message architecture relays.

Multinational companies that are involved in building projects evade social commitment by offering routine responses to real environmental challenges and class issues. Their buildings prove that they are most successful when practicing the principles of non-invention, non-production and non-presentation. Their greatest victory is in lasting disappearance—amputation from the actual world—when ideas coexist with an urgent desire to dematerialize and when the corporate organism has swallowed the architect and developer along with itself.  It is here architecture’s task is finally revealed, exposing the nature of its dual deception as functional craft and expressive art.

John Souza has exhibited his work extensively in California and beyond for over 30 years.  He received his BFA in painting from the California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland. A curator, educator and writer, Souza was honored with a career retrospective at the Luckman Fine Arts Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles in 2011.

Now in its second year, ShoeboxLA gives Los Angeles artists an opportunity to do one-day, site-specific exhibitions outside the traditional gallery setting. Artists and founders Sophia Allison and Paul W. Evans provide an intimate space that challenges artists' and viewers' expectations of size and scale. Locations change for each show but the space remains the same.

Email: shoeboxla@gmail.com for more info or press images.  

(Los Feliz is Metro Redline accessible at the Sunset & Vermont stop, walk one block north to shopping district. Bus: 180/181 to Prospect/Vermont.  Plenty of street and metered parking)