The Smithy-Pioneer Art Gallery hosted a Joshua Ray Stephens curated show, Contrariety: A group show of disparate minds, from July 29—August 26, 2011. The show featured work by Arden de Brun, Ali Madad, et al
Lover One, aka Arden de Brun, was featured in the Cella Satellite Galleries show Scaling the Wall. Curated by Trina Calderón and Miah Jeffra, the exhibition features graffiti and graffiti-influenced works by a diverse group of writers and artists in California.
Scaling the Wall opened March 18, 2011 in North Hollywood, CA.
Spider web
A collaborative exercise into the creative process. Using chance intuitive and stochastic methodology to creative a response dialogue between form and material, yielding a lightweight structure created with styrene, string and nails with a kaleidoscopic projection of video on top.
Second Half was created for Outside In: An International Poster Exhibit, a traveling group exhibition featuring the works of 25 international designers addressing the impact of cultural difference on contemporary design practice. Its goals were twofold: to focus on the role of the outsider as a visual practitioner with heightened sensitivity, and to promote gallery-based graphic design as a legitimate element of professional practice.
Our proposal for Sondika, a town residing in the province of Bicay, northern Spain is to addresses a loss of identity, both visual and cultural. We propose a strategy that involves the creation of a fictional narrative, a historical and mythological re-imagining, that would manifest itself in the forms of artifacts to be placed in public spaces throughout the town; these arti- facts and the histories they embody, would instill mystery, delight and excitement in the townspeople and visitors alike. This fictional approach seeks to open a third space for townspeople to inhabit, an imaginary one, as a part of living history.
In the year 2010 SCTY issues forth broken bits together to aid in healing. The alchemical exsanguination, Choice Splints, explores the trappings and travails of the creative process for this consortium. A fecund mass of fiction and artifice evoking a greater truth. Unveiled wickedness dripping with delight. A chance happening in an art gallery—as imagined by the doom of forgotten lore. Here product and consumption becomes less vital than process and creation.
Choice Splints opened at 7444 Gallery, Thursday, June 3rd 2010.
