NYC Gallery: Young Emerging Artists Exhibition

This is an open call for submissions for Lana Santorelli Gallery’s Young Emerging Artists Exhibition. Artists under 30 years of age are qualified to submit work for this show. Priority deadline for submissions is Thursday, March 13, 2008.

Submission Guidelines:

Please include your brief resume, artist statement, cover letter, and artwork detail list (including title, medium, dimensions, and artist’s compensation expected for of each piece submitted).

Please email images or mail CD of images (20 images maximum). No slides please.

We will not return submissions from artists who request their packages be mailed back unless artist has sent sufficient return postage. We prefer to keep artists’ work in our files to consider them for future shows.

Please send submissions to:
Lana Santorelli Gallery
110 W 26th Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10001
lanasantorelligallery@gmail.com

LACMA BCAM Free College Student Night FEBRUARY 28

An evening just for college students! Come, bring your friends, and check out the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) at LACMA. Designed by the internationally acclaimed Renzo Piano Building Workshop, this three-story building includes 60,000 square feet of exhibition space created specifically for the display of art from 1945 to the present. On view in the initial installation will be 200 works from the renowned collection of The Broad Art Foundation and LACMA’s contemporary collection. Explore Robert Irwin’s outdoor palm garden, share your ideas in a gallery discussion, or enjoy a free reception in your honor!
Free; no reservations required.

Professor Han Dai-Yu Exhibition @ Los Angeles Contemporary Gallery Opening Reception: March 1 6-9pm

Martin Parr Lecture at LACMA March 9th

Sunday, March 9 @ 7pm

LACMA’s curator of photography Charlotte Cotton moderates an informal discussion with the British photographers Chris Killip and Martin Parr about their work from the early 1980s. This conversation explores the visionary work of these highly influential documentary photographers whose images document the social terrain of their communities in the United Kingdom during times of economic and political turbulence.
Brown Auditorium | Free; tickets are required. Tickets are available at the LACMA box office one hour before the program begins.

Student Profile: Kirsten Harkonen

Kirsten Harkonen is a junior studio arts major originally from San Francisco concentrating in painting and photography.



FAVORITE ARTISTS: Kiki Smith, Joseph Cornell, David Hockney, Jeff Wall, Melanie Pullen, Weegee, Banksy, Goya, Andy Goldsworthy, Salvador Dali, Eva Hesse, Kelli Connell, Tarrah
Krajnak & Wilka Roig, Shomei Tomatsu, Ian Francis, Terry Winters, Helen
Frankenthaler, and Rothko


INFLUENCES: childhood memories, family, Melanie Pullen, Weegee, Lori Nix, Cindy Sherman, and renaissance paintings

FAVORITE PLACE IN LA: Downtown

FAVORITE BOOK: The Awakening by Kate Chopin



For more information, visit Kirsten's blog: http://art-chatter.blogspot.com

Photo Related Job Close to Campus

Attention Photography and Graphic Design Majors (or anyone with Adobe skills):

would you like the opportunity to work with a successful, local photography studio specializing in faces and people (Hollywood and headshot photography) that has been thriving for over 30 years?
Play del Rey-based studio wants to PAY a local student who has excellent working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Lightroom. Studio seeks assistance and training to better automate workflow via use of (Adobe commands) actions, batching, droplets, and other time-saving features. Studio is only five minutes from campus.
If interested, please contact Bill at bcstudios@hotmail.com or call 310.849.8281.

On View at the Laband: DISSENT! 1968 & Now

February 10- March 20, 2008

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the global student uprisings of 1968, Dissent! 1968 and Now examines the oppositional power of art. The exhibition features some of the most influential images of protest from 1968, including works by the French Atelier Populaire, Sister Corita and Rupert Garcia. Students from eight of Los Angeles’ prominent art schools (LMU, CalArts, Cal State Long Beach, Occidental, Otis, UC Irvine, UCLA and USC) have also been invited to confront mainstream media, political practices and other issues affecting the contemporary world. The works will be selected by well-known Los Angeles protest artist Robbie Conal along with co-curators Erik Benjamins, a senior at LMU, and Carolyn Peter, director of the Laband Art Gallery. (from Laband website)

Erik Benjamins, a senior studio arts major, explains "the idea for the show came out of my self epiphany in creating work that is political and socially responsible and the importance of students today creating work that addresses such issues instead of simply a celebration of aesthetic and technical skill. To coincide with the fortieth anniversary of global protest we featured a small portion of political art from around the planet as well as work from student artists from seven los angeles institutions. The studio visits were great in that it allowed us to meet with the submitting artists and talk with their work face to face. Students today should all be political entities regardless of educational focus. The arts hold a strong relevance because of the universal applicability towards the medium in affecting the masses. Such means to document and express can act as a powerful tool for cultural thought and progress."