Different art ‘things’ happening in different ‘venue types’ tonight on ‘this’ side of town-

1. Office Building

   LAWRENCE RENGERT: Rijksakademie Returns
   Eighteen-thirty [gallery]
   8pm
   

2. Coffee House
   100 Works of Art
   Paintings, Collages, Photos, Dioramas and one Mobile by Nicole S.
   Chango Coffee House & Gallery
3. Cathedral
   Curator & Artists Lynn Aldrich, John Frame, Ruth Weisberg and Patty Wickman
   “The State of Spirituality in Contemporary Art” Lecture
   Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Art Chapel
   555 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012-2707 [map]
   http://www.olacathedral.org
4. Large, Industrial Gallery
   Infusion Gallery
   Supposedly, something’s going on here at some point.
   [I wish that was the title to the show]

Thanks to the SLGA for breaking the news. The Sunset Junction band/entertainment line-up has been officially released. This years Street Fair will feature Autolux, Blonde Red Head, Breakestra, The Buzzcocks, Cuahtemoc, Eskimohunter, Morris Day and the Time, The O’Jays, Renee Dawnson, Sea Wolf, and more. Ben Harper will be headlining Saturday (August 19) on the Bates Stage at 9:20pm.

See the full line-up here

Next Saturday’s opening reception for Donna Angers’ debut exhibition will no longer feature music by Sam Sparro. Instead, Modus Vivendi labelmate Julian Brody will be spinning some real classy electro beats mixed with his Mexican style [mostly original material]. Julian’s performed with the Nortec Collective and numerous other international acts.

In addition, Sam Sparro will reschedule a set for August 18. Found is hosting this special evening during the Sunset Junction Street Festival called Conjunction Gumption, featuring the spaced-out, poppy red stylings of resident evil DJ Crza. In the meantime, Sparro has released a tight little mixtape on his myspace, but you can download it here, too.

Sam Sparro Mixtape

Everyone—it’s your last opportunity to look.touch.listen The Other Cheek this weekend.

Friday 1-4pm

Saturday 1-5pm

Sunday 1-5pm

I know we didn’t provide four weeks for these works to gestate in our loins, but that’s probably better to keep it somewhat terse.

Photos of the Work -|- Photos of the Reception -|- Video of the Reception -|- Participating Artists List & Links

As previously promised, participating painter Dan Goldman gives us his feedback from the Vs. opening/panel last-last weekend:

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LEAVE IT TO THE ARTISTS to make inherently whack things [especially analog or early digital] like ASCII, PowerPoint, disposable cameras, calligraphy, bookbinding, crochet, & model airplanes fun again [or for the first time]. This Friday, June 29, the Slideluckpotshow crew celebrates their 9th combination of the historically avoided family rituals of slideshows & potlucks in LA. I’m no good behind the wok, so I’ll have to buy something awesome & unoffensive to bring [or weird, regional, & quirky]. Here’s the full info from the organizers:

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Oeser recently turned me on to Mark Jenkins [who also seems to run around with those Graffiti Research Lab kids]. His packing tape creations range from the tiny & fragile to the oversized & difficult to destroy. The street/pastoral/tundra/indoor artist seems prolific without compromising quality.

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What do you remember doing as a 13-14 year old after school and on the weekend? Eating cherrios in front of the TV watching cartoons like me? This smart and art savvy group of teenagers in Venice took photography lessons from working artists and professionals in the field at Venice Arts. It’s a community non-profit serving youth of diverse economic and social status. The girls in this exhibition gave back to the community they are a part of in the form of social and self documentation. This candid and personal work will really wake you up in a sweet way.

GROUP SHOW

Black and White Photography, portraiture, self portraiture, and experimental works.

Ursula Barker, Esme Jackson, Elena Nardini, Alex Thomas, and Francesca Thomas

Advanced Studies: Photography Group Show

Reception Saturday, June 9, 5-7pm

Open June 2-30, 2007

Gallery & Workshop Annex @ Venice Arts

1809 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
Phone: 310 822 8533
Email: info@venice-arts.org

Found neighbors Bellini Cafe [a small outdoor patio joint by the middle school] is hosting this ridiculous [& ridiculously free] benefit this afternoon/early evening.  I would go for Percee P alone [an emcee who has been around for a while and is finally coming out with a solo later this year on Stones Throw & produced by Madlib].

Weird.

Joao Machado will be presenting an as-of-yet untitled solo exhibition in April 2008 at Found.

The filmmaker/collagist recently completed a show at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In addition, he currently has work hanging at the Centre George Pompidou and Artcurial in Paris.

We will be updating you soon with more information, but in the meantime, visit Joao’s site.