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Days of Our Lives

DAYS OF OUR LIVES: Sophia Allison, Paul W. Evans, Kim Tucker

November 2 – 25, 2012

Opening reception: Friday, November 2, 7-10pm

WEEKEND is pleased to present Days of Our Lives, a collaborative installation of individual works by Sophia Allison, Paul W. Evans and Kim Tucker.

Memory as a tool for peculiar identity / Identity as a device for eccentric inclusion

Using memory as a tool to celebrate home, community and place within the confines of tradition and convention, Days of Our Lives seeks to situate each viewer within the cosmos that emerges through the combination of these three artists’ distinct narratives.  With each artist rationalizing, rectifying and remembering home as a present and tangible monster, the installation propels viewers into a collective vision that is confrontational yet caring; as meditative as it is frightening.

Each artist addresses our conflicted need to fit into a community or structure that is too saturated, routine and tedious or whose paradigm has simply run its course.  By joining together to manifest their own sanctuary at Weekend, a new collective existence is gained through obsessive acts, irony, humor and unique reflection:

Sophia Allison collects, cuts and reconstructs materials to form abstracted physical and emotional landscapes. Her sculpture has been exhibited in Los Angeles at d.e.n. contemporary art, the Craft and Folk Art Museum, the Los Angeles International Airport and most recently in North Carolina at Brevard College.

Paul W. Evans investigates landscape and the subconscious through repetitive appropriation.  His paintings have been seen in Los Angeles at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, the Center for the Arts/Eagle Rock and he has exhibited widely in New York. He has curated numerous exhibitions in the Los Angeles area and received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY. 

Kim Tucker creates communal identity through individual psychological storytelling.  Recent shows of her sculpture and drawing include exhibitions at L2Kontemporary, ShoeboxLA and AC Projects.  She has attended artist residencies in Europe and the United States and received her MFA from the Ohio State University.

 

Weekend

4634 Hollywood Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90027

HOURS: SAT & SUN, 11am-6pm (and by appt.)

www.weekendspace.org

Jay Erker at ShoeboxLA

I love Jay Erker. 

Cut Both Ways

Saturday, September 15, 2012 from 4-7pm

Los Feliz Triangle Park

Hollywood Blvd. & Prospect Ave. at Vermont Ave. 
Los Angeles, CA 90027 

www.shoeboxla.blogspot.com

ShoeboxLA Kickstarter Campaign

This past June ShoeboxLA completed its first exhibition season.  As we are a pop-up, mobile space, and our openings/exhibitions are only 3 hours long, we'd like to create a catalogue to highlight all the great work that artists have created for our small gallery this past year.  We need your help--we are asking for funds to be used for the creation and printing of a modest-sized catalogue.  The catalogue will be printed locally (in Los Angeles), and we hope to create 500 copies. It will serve as an important piece of documentation for ShoeboxLA; we'll allocate 2-3 pages for each artist to include images of their exhibitions with us during the past year. Please check out our great incentives for donating and thanks in advance for your support!

TO DONATE:  KICKSTARTER/SHOEBOXLA 

ShoeboxLA presents Karen Frimkess Wolff

ShoeboxLA, my and Sophia Allison's labor of love gallery, is presenting its final show for our first ever season.  It's been one of the most rewarding and enjoyable projects I've done and I'm always amazed and impressed with what artists do for us.  The support for ShoeboxLA has been so great and working with my cohort Sophia has been nothing short of perfect.  Thank you to everyone for your encouragement and for supporting artist-run spaces in Los Angeles.

Join us on June 16 for Karen Frimkess Wolff:

ShoeboxLA Presents

Karen Frimkess Wolff: Dancing on Eggshells

Saturday, June 16, 2012 from 4-7pm

Little Tokyo Galleria – Second Floor

333 S. Alameda St (at 3^rd), Los Angeles, CA 90013

ShoeboxLA concludes its inaugural season with Los Angeles artist Karen Frimkess Wolff.  Wolff’s presentation, Dancing on Eggshells, traverses gracefully and joyfully through precarious times and fragile circumstances, while stepping triumphantly onto beds of roses and ultimately into safety.  Wolff, a Los Angeles native, has been exhibiting her sculpture, drawings and installations for over 40 years.  She received her BA in Painting and Drawing from UCLA and her MA in Art History from Cal State Northridge. 

ShoeboxLA is pleased to be returning to the Little Tokyo Galleria, the location for our first show in September of 2011. 

ShoeboxLA gives Los Angeles artists an opportunity to do one-day, site-specific exhibitions outside the traditional gallery setting. 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.

Website: www.shoeboxla.blogspot.com – private appointments are welcome.

(Little Tokyo Galleria is easily accessible via the Metro Gold and Red lines, with plenty of street and free, one hour, on-site parking.)

Windows at Co-op 28 Handmade on Vermont Ave.

Check out my window installation at Co-op 28 on Vermont in Los Feliz.  Up through April, along with fellow artist Sophia Allison (who did the other window).  We had a blast, hope you get to see it. 1728 N. Vermont, Los Angeles - www.coop28.blogspot.com

Photo: Samuel M. Chu

Tim Nolan at ShoeboxLA: April 14

ShoeboxLA Presents

Timothy Nolan: Drift

Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 4-7pm

The Studio for Southern California History – Chinatown

818 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

ShoeboxLA is pleased to present Timothy Nolan’s Drift. For nearly two decades Nolan has explored illusions of three-dimensional space through the use of pattern, line and shape in two dimensional wall work and floor installations. While Minimalism and Cubism have influenced Nolan’s work, he also draws inspiration from lesser-known movements such as Pattern and Decoration and Op Art, addressing shifting perception of two and three dimensions; plastic space vs. real dimensionality. For his ShoeboxLA project, he will further this investigation in a work that falls somewhere between object, installation and drawing.

Timothy Nolan received his M.F.A. from CUNY’s Queens College, Flushing, NY and has exhibited widely in Los Angeles and across the United States and Europe.  He was awarded CCI and Durfee Foundation ARC Grants in 2012 and 2010, the COLA Fellowship Grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs in 2008, and a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2001. A concurrent show entitled Restack, at CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles, will run from April 1- 29^th. 

ShoeboxLA gives Los Angeles artists an opportunity to do one-day, site-specific exhibitions outside the traditional gallery setting. 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.

(The Studio for Southern California History seeks to critically chronicle Southern California history from a social and cultural perspective. www.socalstudio.org )

Swerve: A group show curated by Sophia Allison

ShoeboxLA is back in 2012 with a group show! 

 

Swerve:  A group show curated by Sophia Allison

Saturday, February 11, 2012 from 3-7pm

Kabab Way – Glendale

919 S. Glendale Ave. Glendale, CA 91205

Swerve:  Professional wrestling terminology that describes an unexpected action or event that takes the audience by surprise.

ShoeboxLA is pleased to present its first group show, Swerve, curated by gallery co-founder Sophia Allison.  Artists Amparo Jelsma, Melissa Manfull, Julio Panisello, Carl Smith, and Jaime Ursic primarily work in the two-dimensional realm (painting, drawing, printmaking); for this exhibition, however, each artist was asked to create a work of sculpture. Beyond size restrictions, no other instructions or requirements were provided. While it is not unusual for artists to work in both painting and sculpture simultaneously, it can be a challenge to move fluidly between these mediums. The resulting work may or may not be a translation of the artists’ primary practice but it will be exciting to view the results.  Join us for this special event.

ShoeboxLA gives Los Angeles artists an opportunity to do one-day, site-specific exhibitions outside the traditional gallery setting. 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. 

Website: www.shoeboxla.blogspot.com – private appointments are welcome.

(Kabab Way is an eclectic mix of flavors from Middle Eastern, Armenian & Mediterranean cuisines with American standards of service. When you want food that is tasty and healthy, fresh and fast, excellent and affordable, Kabab Way is the only way to go: www.kababway.com )

LA: Shit Porn Dumpster

ShoeboxLA in the EastsiderLA

Sculpture by Kim Tucker

Art show rolls into Eagle Rock bowling alley

Friday, October 14, 2011

By Becky Koppenhaver

Pop-up art gallery Shoebox L.A. will present the sculpture of  Kim Tucker this Saturday, Oct. 15 for a three-hour long exhibit at All Star Lanes bowling alley in Eagle Rock. Not used to going to a bowling alley to view art?  Shoebox L.A. seeks to challenge the traditional expectations of what a gallery is. Founders Paul W. Evans and Sophia Allison say they are drawn to spaces that “are not spaces one would initially connect with art.” and have room for their portable gallery, a box with moveable walls that is barely big enough (24”x18”x8”) to hold a few pairs of bowling shoes.

“Both Shoebox and Kim love All Star Lanes,” said Evans, referring to the Eagle Rock bowling center that has hosted numerous bands. “We also try to focus on places that people may not know of or have maybe gotten off the radar.  And then we hope business owners will allow us three hours of viewing time.”

What will be tucked into the Shoebox gallery on Saturday? Here are the details about the Kim Tucker: Unquiet Slumber show:

Tucker’s Unquiet Slumber is a sculptural expedition into the wild and woolly world of the unconscious. Hidden desires, complications, filtered memories and primal impulses mix together in the bold world of the inner mind. Within the exhibition, a central female figure represents the human experience as all and nothing. She is the imperfect Eden where impulses prevail and thoughts run freely. The surrounding figures are manifestations of her unfettered mind, primal creatures, pitiful ghosts and human dummies. Unquiet Slumber is a challenge to the rules and boundaries of the conscious world; it is simply a place where the mind can freely experience impulse and wild abandon.

Shoebox L.A. last show was at the Little Tokyo Galleria. “It was great fun and the artist did work that was inspired by mall architecture,” Evans said.

A New Gallery in Los Angeles...

Hoping to see you all at ShoeboxLA, a new gallery project I started with fellow artist Sophia Allison.  We launch on Sept. 17 with Amy Maloof at the Little Tokyo Galleria, my favorite mall in Los Angeles.  We'll be on the second floor from 4-7pm.  There's free parking with validation, a karaoke place, video arcade, sushi, a Hello Kitty store and the best darn Japanese supermarket ever!

ShoeboxLA presents Amy Maloof's Grave Architecture
Saturday, Sept. 17 from 4-7pm
Little Tokyo Galleria
333 S. Alameda St. (at 3rd)
Los Angeles, CA 90013

We'll be doing lots of monthly, one day events that feature really great artists doing site-specific stuff especially for us.  Nice.  It's our labor of love and we really hope to see you there.  Visit us on Facebook, check out our custom made videos on the YouTube or simply visit our blog at http://www.shoeboxla.blogspot.com/ to keep yourself up to date as to our whereabouts. 

Good Things Still Come in the Mail...

This came in the mail from artist Laura Sharp Wilson.  German Siamese twins...

My New Friend

Me with my new Kim Tucker!

Tagging for the Lord: Hollywood & Mariposa

Best Mural Ever at Hollywood & Normandie!

Update (June 21):  The jerks painted over my favorite mural...It's gone...What's the point in living now?

A few years back the LA Weekly ran a contest and this mural was voted among the worst in LA...I'm not seeing it, but what do I know?  What I do know is this mural (and new wave architectural gem) is located up my street in beautiful Little Armenia/Thai Town/East Hollywood/Los Feliz adjacent/Shitsville.  I bought toilet paper there once. 

New Jersey is for Lovers: Robert McCormack

Anyone know where Teaneck, NJ is? I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure it's sandwiched between Cheesequake and Nutley. Robert McCormack is somewhere in New Jersey but he should be in Hollywood, Southern California. He'd hate it here, but I'd have someone to have lunch with and make fun of the lame-ass, idiot actorers who inhabit this shittin' town. We'd go thrift shopping and read porn mags at Circus of Books. He'd take Scientology I.Q. tests while I look for has-been stars shopping for fashions at Ross Dress-For-Less.

Robert McCormack makes art that reminds me of the men my father used to drink with.  They lived on our block and were always drunk.  Their sons were mean dirt-bags and their daughters were lovely Breck girls who sat around putting mascara and rouge on while listening to the Eagles.  I remember one summer our neighbor's house burned down and one of the daughters cried 'cause all her makeup was destroyed in the fire.  I don't drink now but I can't help but feel tipsy when I look at Robert's stuff.  He makes a lot of work and it's all different and all good.  I like artists who don't care about every single thing looking all the same but who know what they're doing and are not afraid to reach out and bad touch you.

Robert has a art show at Blast Gallery in Teaneck.  Figure out how to get there.  I'm guessing you'd have to get on the New Jersey Transit and look for all the dirty birds getting off at Teaneck to attend his opening on June 4.  Buy something, dear, and send it to your grandma:

Nothing's Natural

June 4–July 5, 2011

Opening reception June 4, 6-9 pm

http://www.blastgallery.com/

All About Small: Kim Tucker

I love Kim Tucker's work. She's prolific and a nice person and loves Dolly Parton and probably should be art-world famous by now and her studio is just up the street from me. I always imagine I'm going to visit her with cash in my pocket and I'll come home with a wicked little Kim Tucker. She always let's me over and I never have cash and I'm always knocked out by her heartbreaking sculptures. I love heartbreaking art so when I see it I get all funny. Kinda funny bad and funny good. Kim's work is totally funny good/funny bad. Funny good because they're fucking funny and funny bad because her outcast numskulls call out for hugs they're never gonna get.

When I was at her studio a couple of months back I spotted a little gem that almost made me cry. I've been thinking about it ever since. It's small and there's yellow . I don't even know the title.

Kim's having a show at L2Kontemporary in Chinatown May 28-June 25 called Loudmouth Ghosts and Reckless Sweethearts. There's a reception on Saturday May 28 from 7-10pm. Meet me there, ok? www.L2kontemporary.com

Super Friend Blog #1: Craftivore

I love Craftivore. Not because it's my friend Misa Erder's blog...But...Wait...I do love it because it's Misa Erder's blog! I also love it because for about a week, 3 years ago, I thought I could knit. I bought needles, some yarn and called a friend to teach me. She graciously sat down for about an hour and did her best Annie Sullivan to my Helen Keller. Me and knitting lasted about...One hour. My brain could not grasp whatever it was I thought would be the easiest thing in the world.



Misa and I shared a studio in the Meatpacking District of New York Fuckin' City a few years back when that area stunk of many things, differently than what it stinks of now. We sure had fun and Misa made some crazy sculptures she would cut, sew, hang and scatter around her little cubicle space.



Craftivore is the perfect blog for the closet knitter. I'll never knit and I'm ok with that. When I want to see what Misa is doing, I visit her blog and it makes me happy to know she's making great creations and seriously loving it. She sure is talented. I also love how she hangs her creations on bushes to take pictures. I wish I lived in a place that required fingerless winter gloves or Joseph Albers scarves.

www.craftivore.blogspot.com

Cries & Whispers at Sam Lee Gallery - April 23

Sam Lee and I curated this show which opens Saturday, April 23. It's been a great pleasure to work with Sam and to bring artists I've been thinking about to his space, in a true collaborative venture. It is also a great honor to have such talented artists be part of the show:

Cries & Whispers
April 23 – June 4, 2011
Reception for the Artists: Saturday, April 23, 6 – 9 pm
990 N. Hill St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(323) 227-0275

www.samleegallery.com


Los Angeles, CA - Sam Lee Gallery and co-curator Paul W. Evans are pleased to present Cries & Whispers, a group exhibition of 15 diverse artists whose practice centers on abstraction. Included in the exhibition are Jakob Christmas, William Conger, Jeff Gambill, Glenn Goldberg, Joanne Greenbaum, Hadley Holliday, Andy Kolar, Andrew Masullo, Douglas Melini, Robin Mitchell, John Pearson, Carl Smith, Andrew Spence, Misato Suzuki, and Laura Sharp Wilson. The gallery will host a reception for the artists on Saturday, April 23, from 6 to 9 pm.

What makes painting a cry and what makes painting a whisper? Or could a painting be both? Cries and Whispers—not a survey show by any means—probes these questions and looks at abstraction from a multi-faceted perspective, exploring the different ways in which visual devices are employed. The utilization of line, color, content and form is paramount. Each artist brings his or her own signature method to this genre through various strategies and ideas. Such notions intersect throughout the show, creating an engaging dialogue among the pieces. These works honor the solitary journey of art-making and the longing for communication.

Jakob Christmas distills imagery to its essence by making straightforward paintings that strip away the superfluous to focus on the mystery of meaning.

William Conger has devoted himself to the exploration of form and matter with the subconscious, utilizing the techniques of pure abstraction to convey psychological metaphors.

Jeff Gambill’s Zen-like paintings stem from the intangible and the peripheral, gently conveying the transience of such moments as a fading memory or a reflection in a pond.

Glenn Goldberg’s pointillist, floral shapes dance in a Morse-like code of brightly-colored voltage on the picture plane.

Joanne Greenbaum’s wild, witty and wicked paintings celebrate the self at its idiosyncratic best, unabashedly pushing the limits of painting with her signature style of frenetic lines and psychedelic colors.

Hadley Holliday uses graceful gestures and sophisticated palette to create light washes on canvas that are at once quiet and grand.

Andy Kolar’s intimate, painted cardboard floor sculptures elevate banal materials and lure the viewer with sensual colors and biomorphic, Play-Doh-like shapes.

Andrew Masullo’s humorous works wink at the viewer but are unapologetically steeped in painting’s rich history, wildly combining brash color with the artist’s library of iconic forms.

Douglas Melini’s hard edge paintings are graphic, deliberate and alluring where colors and shapes are used for psychologically dizzying effect.

Robin Mitchell’s intricate gouache paintings on paper emanate great energy and light; they explode with radiant forms that are abstract yet referential, metaphorically portraying the artist as the illuminated self.

John Pearson’s seductive, painted sculptures/sculptural paintings convey a serene beauty while touching on the fragility of existence through his careful employment of color and line.

Carl Smith combines intricate lines with soft colors to create spiraling diagrams that make the unknown immanent and map the quest for spirtual spaces.

Andrew Spence’s sly, hard edge paintings question traditional perceptions of perspective by challenging 2 dimensional surfaces with 3 dimensional illusions.

Misato Suzuki’s acrylic paintings depict a world that oscillates between the representational and the abstract, in which repetition of lines and shapes exude an appearance of complexity and expansion.

Laura Sharp Wilson crafts complex, apocalyptic visions by interweaving cartoon, calligraphy and cartography into an explosive mixture of personal landscapes and dark narratives.

www.samleegallery.com