Sour Harvest

Arthouse Films present ‘Herb and Dorothy’, a new award winning documentary that will debut in Los Angeles, on Friday, July 10 at the Landmark Nuart on Santa Monica Boulevard. For those of you out in the OC, there’s a special screening tomorrow night at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA).

The film tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. They lived off of Dorothy’s salary and used Herb’s to collect art. They only had two requirements when purchasing art: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. Over the decades they collected over 2,000 pieces of art, (keeping all of it in their tiny apartment) and became patrons of artists like Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert and Sylvia Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner.

You can also find out more about the film at the film’s site: http://www.herbanddorothy.com/

More details on the July 10th premiere will be posted here soon.

‘Scribble08′ Film Premier and Art Exhibition

Thursday, July 23rd 6:30PM – 11:30 PM

Featuring 25 artists curated by Mark Murphy (of Murphy Design) and the premiere of a 48 minute art documentary film featuring the Clayton Brothers, Martha Rich, Jeff Soto, Joe Sorren, Tim Biskup, Camile Rose Garcia, and Kevin Christy.

Wonderhaus @ 1600 National Avenue in San Diego : CA : 92113

RSVP to murphy@murphydesign.com

More details on the event location here:

http://www.wonderbreadhaus.com/

Be sure to RSVP for this great event held at a Andy Warhol styled warehouse space minutes away from the San Diego Comic-Con convention hall.

Featured Artists: Jesse M Balmer + Tim Biskup + Cathie Bleck + Matthew Bone + Marc Burckhardt + Sas Christian + Kevin Christy + Christian and Rob Clayton + Robert Connett (work featured above) + Tony Fitzpatrick + AJ Fosik + Femke Hiemstra + Hiru Kurata + James Jean + Chris Mars + Jeff Soto + Gary Taxali + Thesis + Mark Todd + Damon Soule + Esther Pearl Watson + Kent Williams + Martin Wittfooth

Sponsored by http://www.planetillogica.com/ : create : participate : contribute

For all the latest on both events, keep an eye out here on Murphy’s excellent blog.

Anthony Clarkson “Star Light, Star Fright” – Acrylic on panel

Our very own Anthony Clarkson will be making the trip north this weekend for a group show at Gallery 1988SF.

‘Battle Royal’ also features the talents of Joshua Clay (his new works are awesome), Gene Guynn, Walt hall, Martin Hsu, Aaron Jasinski, Marcus Schafer, Jeremy Tinder, Julian Callos and Patrick Gannon

“Gift From The Heart” – acrylic on panel

Keep tabs on Clarkson via his MySpace here.

Catherine Brooks is hard at work in her studio out in Virginia on her debut Los Angeles solo show… and things are looking amazing so far. Can’t wait!!!

Catherine Brooks – The Seeded Wind and Silent Motion; an Oeuvre of Beetled Beauty – coming up next month in our project room

Look for an interview with Catherine to be posted her soon. In the meantime, check out a great gathering of past works here from a recent artist feature that Creep Machine did on her.

Catherine will be in town for the opening reception and it will serve as a homecoming of sorts, so please be sure to mark your calendars now and plan to come out next month to support.

thinkspace
4210 Santa Monica Blvd in Los Angeles / 323.913.3375
http://www.thinkspacegallery.com/

“RIP, V8″ – acrylic & collage on board – 12×28″

Reuben Rude was born in San Francisco, as the sun was setting on the Free Love era. His bohemian parents then moved “back to the land” to the woods of Northern California, where he spent the better part of his childhood without a television. This lack of technology forced him to spend almost every waking hour drawing and painting. When he moved back to the city to attend art school, he got into all the usual trouble with graffiti writers, skateboarders and art students. He now lives in San Francisco with his wife and eight-year-old daughter, and yes, a television. However, he still spends most of his waking hours drawing and painting. Sometimes he even gets paid for it.

“Basic Communication Theory”

acrylic and collage on canvas -28 x 72″

“Do Something True”

acrylic and collage on paper8.75 x 10.75″

Join Reuben tomorrow night to help him celebrate the opening of his debut LA solo show. The sneak peeks offered above only hint at the goodness to come tomorrow.

Tue, June 23rd 7-10PM
Gallery 1988 Los Angeles
7020 Melrose Ave in Los Angeles / 323.937.7088
“Americana” featuring new works from Reuben Rude
(On view through July 11th)
www.nineteeneightyeight.com