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It is our next step on the way of enriching the experience of our viewers,” said Larisa Pilinisky, who wants it not only a feast for their eyes and ears, but also a source of healing. LarkGallery Online has brought together a new international competition entitled, ”Colors of Life” with the marriage of Art and Music. “Visual artists show their works and musicians give voice and sound to them,” added Pilinisky. In addition, the competition brings together both the artists and viewers in a dual united expression of art forms.

Every artist and musician sees and feels colors in a different way. Therefore, musicians choose a work of art and dedicate their composition to that visual art. If chosen, their score will be embedded with the artwork. 

We are attracting the leading critics in the art and music industry to be our jurors, said Pilinisky. Senior curator, Peter Frank of the Riverside (California) Art Museum and Editor of Fabrik magazine evaluates the visual art, while Laurence Vittes, a writer for Gramophone, HuffPost and the Hollywood Reporter, judges the musical part.

Those inducted into the exhibition will have their art and music showcased on LarkGallery Online and linked to their own websites for a year. Winners will receive an individually designed web page and a year’s hosting valued at 0. The competition consists of First, Second, Third, and seven Honorable Mentions, and all have the opportunity to participate in LarkGallery and its sponsored brick and mortar exhibitions and music events. In addition, three from the competition’s classical music section, will be chosen by Artistic Director Yana Reznik to perform at “Live at the Lounge” and in its concert series.

Deadline for submission of the visual art is Wednesday, September 15 and for the music, Friday, October 1. For more information, visit: www.larkgalleryonline.com

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What is “Good” Art?

LUNCHEON SERIES - Part 2

Join a provocative discussion of CONTEMPORARY ART with a prominent panel of experts:
Charlotte Eyerman - former ass't. curator/Getty Museum & Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art/St.
Louis Museum - Independent curator/ scholar
Peter Frank  - internationally prominent art critic/independent curator
Blake Koh - Managing Director and Western Regional Head, Sotheby's.

When: Wed., September 22, 12:00 - 1:30 pm

Where: Century Plaza Towers

2029 Century Park East
Conference Room, Concourse Level
Los Angeles, CA 90067

Chamber Members:
Non-Members/At-the-door:
Lunch Included , Discounted Valet Parking

RSVP Online:
www.centurycitycc.com
or call: 310-553-2222

Congatulations!

We Cover the Earth By Cynthya Rodgers
has just been accepted into the prestigious LA  show "Tarfest",
juried by Edward Robinson, Associate Curator of LACMA.

·      SHOW DATES: September 24 – October 8, 2010
·      RECEPTION: Friday, September 24, 2010 5-9pm

Tarfest Exhibition is held at the Korean Cultural Center,
5505 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036-3892

Smoking Nun and La Boca Tango by Felice Willat
were  accepted in the California Open Exhibition at TAG Gallery - Bergamot Station.
Juror - Karen Moss of the Orange Country Museum of Art

Awards ceremony and reception for the artists :
August 21st at Bergamot Station, 5-8 p.m.

Jodi Bonassi's art was accepted in 2010 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition
in LA Municipal Art Gallery
Reception is on August 15, 2-5 pm

She also will participate in the conversations with the Artists on Friday, August 20, 7 P.M.

Annemarie Rawlinson will participate in "A Common Thread" exhibit
curated by Michael Stearns and sponsored by The Community Redevelopment Agency
of the City of Los Angeles and the San Pedro ACE District and Angels Gate Cultural Center

Receptions at Loft Galleries and Studios
401 S. Mesa, San Pedro, CA 90731
"First Thursday", August 5, 2010 - 6:00 - 9:00 pm
"First Thursday", September 2, 2010 - 6:00 - 9:00 pm
A printed catalogue will be available in September.

There Still Ripples on Water by Lark
got in the Juried show in Palos Verdes Art Ceneter
among 52 artworks chosen from 1300 entries -
Juror is Dan Callos - professor from Biola University.

Reception and awards: August 13th 5-8 pm, Palos Verdes Art Center,
5504 West Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275, 310 541 2479

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 6:30-9:30

Artists come across the ordinary realizing that they can make it extraordinary.  The concept was instigated with les objects trouvees in the last century.  Each of our exhibitions will examine some of these techniques in our time. You will fine many of them to be particularly if not totally “green”.  The mosaics of siblings Anita Rosenberg and Susan Wechsler are classic examples of using broken china, glass, photographs and artifacts to create one of their 3D creations.  David Gardner shows us through his camera lens the “daily objects” transformed into striking photographs.  Using various elements of nature to saws Sonya Palencia takes us on a mysterious surreal journey.  Larger than life sculpture by Peter Shire. Lark lures us in with her paintings of Turner-like skies and memorabilia that she composes into powerful montages.  Steven Irwin is the transformer of clocks, table tops, hand made papers and wooden panels into art that seems musical with a great sense of space and composition. Ray Klausen takes vintage steel and transforms it into ethereal spiral and sphere sculptures. Brian Nieman transforms Polaroids into unique paintings.
 
All the artists’ materials have a history all their own.  The secret is to transform that reality in something entirely, whether it be disparate parts that unite in a novel work of art, a painting that explores underlying elements of that which we perceive as reality or a photograph.  It is now common for the artist to “enter” the photo and manipulate it in spectacular ways. The sculptor sees the new in the old and in the bending, smelting, abrazing and a host of other techniques gives us these dimensions. We can walk through a veritable garden of forms that open, close, move and communicate.  The time that it takes us to do so is the fourth dimension of the artist. We are transformed and transfixed. Thus, the ordinary has become the extraordinary in both the art and ourselves.
 
Affinity Galleries, 7065 Lexington Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90038
323-962-8506 Telephone 323-962-7270 Fax
www.affinitygalleries.com, info@affinitygalleries.com

About "Reaching Inside" Competition Results

Lark: What is different in this competitions and what impressed you in it? 

Peter Frank:  What impressed me in this competition is that we have very complex thinkers: Kaloust, Savva-Kornyshev, Gwen Samuels, Jasmin Etemadi. They are willing to break away from generic practice in order to respond to the contemporary world using different media and techniques.

In Savva Kornyshev’s case it’s the complexity and rhythm of his imagery, influenced by his Eastern European sensibility.

In Kaloust’s case it is his graphic power and the intensity of his imagery, the way he mixes his media, using photo, painting and sculpture techniques.

In Gwen Samuels’ case it is her graphic rhythm and interesting technique mixing photography, computer techniques and textile. This is something she did not invent, but she has made it her own. It’s strong as image and as composition, and it is clever.

Anne Marie Rousseau uses in her drawings a very simple technique, but realizes very complex imagery, density and movement. Also, I like her sensous textures and the uggestion of the organic not being organic.

Jasmin Etemady’s strength is in her strong combination of painting and collage. She is a complex thinker with a powerful but at the same time subtle political edge. Beauty is not enough, but it is very important, and Etemady’s images are also strangely beautiful.

Joshua Elias’ abstract painting is at once gestural and controlled, driven as much by a rich color sense as by a sense of formal dynamics. His formula is hardly unique, but his realization of this by-now traditional approach is particularly distinctive. It simply doesn’t look quite like anyone else’s.

There’s another Joshua in this mix, Joshua Y’Barbo, but his work could hardly be more different than Elias’. Y’Barbo works with technical, technological, evidently computer-generated imagery, speaking of the way we try to quantify and even commodify our lives. But he doesn’t argue against its lack of humanity as he tries to humanitize it, to bring it down – or up – to our scale.

I was quite taken with Jolanta Badyna-Budny’s grainy, mysterious images, perhaps because they take a surrealistic view of the urban landscape,.but I think even more because they deliberately confuse dream and reality, above-ground and underground, even photography and hand-rendered technique. In her Kafkaesque world, nothing is as it seems.

Natasha Kostan’s abstractions are colorful and rhythmic, like Joshua Elias’, but she orders her non-objective world along much more architectonic lines than he does, and her use of collage enlivens both her surfaces and her compositions.

Monika Steiner practices a less aggressive kind of abstraction, one rooted in nature and preferring organic tones to rainbow hues. There is a touch of surrealism here, but it is as much in the atmosphere of gentle mystery as it is in the sense of metamorphosis.

Kaleeka Bond’s handsomely described naturalism places real people in real contexts. In fact, they seem a little bit more real than they did last year, a little more contemplative and a little less active. Maybe she is moving away from theater and more towards philosophy.

"A Month of Music"

"A Month of Music" at Liz's Loft started with a reception on Feb. 27 for the new show which will run during the 4 weeks during which there will be six concerts of all different kinds of music, one each week. A Month of Music, "is a fusion of musically inspired art and live musical performances from a range of genres each Wednesday throughout the month of March.

The show was great. The art was brilliant and complex. Juan Rosenfeldt created a ravishing construction I particularly liked, which featured rhinestones reflecting lights onto the seductive body of a naked violin. Lark contributed four stunning assemblages inspired by the Pasadena Symphony in its glory days.

The crowd was very young and glittering, whatever there ages happened to be. Chemistry between strangers was happening all over the place, Liz definitely is a gold standard for finding artists who each has an individual personality which coexists with and fuels their integrity about process, materials and message. There was a series of sun-baked landscapes by Antonio Guerrero featuring giant guitars stuck in the sand that not only had the kind of reassuring iconic power that beginning collectors feel comfortable with but a peculiar sense of architectural space and telemetry that speaks eloquently to the human need for solitude.

March 3rd – An Evening of Moroccan Bliss  

March 10th – An Evening of Chamber Music & Opera  

March 17th – Brazilian Jazz Night 

March 24th – A Night of Country and Western 

March 31st – An All-Star Rhythm & Blues Revue

The doors will open at 7:00 pm and the cover for all of the events will be , or only if you bring a beverage or dish to share. This is a limited capacity event, so RSVPs are suggested. Call 323.939.4403 

453 S. La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036

By Laurence Vittes

Closing Reception:
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 6 - 9 p.m.

Contemporary Art that Sparkles with Originality
Live Music by SangomaBeat
You will see artwork of our most acclaimed represented artists and hear them discuss their artistic process.

Phantom Galleries, 344-346 E. 3rd Street,
Long Beach, CA 90802

At Bleicher/Golightly Gallery

one of our Larkgallery Online artists - Cristina Natsuko Paulos was chosen by one of our jurors - Om Navon - to represent her art in the Bleicher/Golightly Gallery in Santa Monica. Congratulations Crisitina! That's what she wrote to us:

Second Reception at Phanthom Galleries, Long Beach

Dear Artists,

We have the second Hidden Treasures reception at Phanthom Galleries
104 E.3rd Street Long Beach, CA 90802 on November 12th from 8-10 pm
and will be happy to see you all!

With so much happening in LA, we thought a good way to entice you to visit us, would be to have live music and dancing.
And if you feel like bringing   something to add to the potluck we would all be thrilled.

Please visit our new Events page to see the photos from the first reception.

Look forward to seeing you.

Lark Gallery Online Team

LarkGallery Online announce the new online competition Reaching Inside and the winners of Hidden Treasures competition

"Reaching Inside"
A new LarkGalleryOnline international competition

We are all experiencing the increasing number and often immediate impact of daily events in our lives. How do creative people deal with it. From where do they derive their inspiration?

We think that artists always reach within themselves to tap their creative process even as they are depicting landscape or outside events.
The inner filter through which artist look at the world make each piece of art unique and therefore irreplaceable.

We invite artists to respond to our new theme Reaching Inside by sending us new submissions.
The winners of this competition will have an opportunity to showcase their art online and in brick and mortar exhibition
sponsored by Phantom Galleries.

The winners of "Hidden Treasures" competition

* Monika Steiner, first place

* Kaleeka Bond, second place

* Vered Galor, third place 

Each of the three winners will be featured on www.LarkGalleryOnline.com and receive an individually-designed web with one year's free web hosting from Tron Center. Five percent of the funds raised have been donated to The Dreaming Zebra Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that provides young low-income artists with tools and resources to explore and develop their creativity.

The top 10 artists from the "Hidden Treasures" online competition and LarkGallery Online Represented Artists
were invited to present their winning entries at our first brick and mortar exhibition
"Hidden Treasures" by Phantom Gallery at 104 E. 3rd Street, Long Beach, CA 90802.

We are proud to have received entries from so many talented and highly skilled international artists in different media. It made judging the competition both rewarding and difficult for our jurors:

* Peter Frank, Chief Editor of THE magazine

* Liza Simone, Phantom Galleries

* Airom Bleicher, Bleicher/Golightly Gallery

* Liz Gordon, The Loft at Liz Gallery

* Anna Meliksetian, Anais Gallery at Bergamot Station

* Dawne Camera, "Dreaming Zebra Foundation"

The following artists received honorable mention: Peter Bill, Lesley Krane, Tim Gratkowski, Alexander Saibedinov, Alexander Osipov, Thomasin Dewhurst, Helen Youngblood, Cynthia Rogers, Vladimir Avdeev, Djibril Ndoye, Nicole Duet, Helen Berger, Christina Paulos , J Natasha Kostan.

Please click here to visit our website for announcements.

Phantom Galleries LA Miracle Mile and twelve other galleries and museums on Wilshire Blvd. will be opened for a self-guided tour

July 18, 5 - 8 PM - Miracle Mile Art Walk Enjoy artist talks, exhibit lectures, music and more. Take advantage of free general admission to LACMA and the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Free event. No RSVP required.

PRESENTED BY MID CITY WEST COMMUNITY COUNCIL http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.midcitywest.org

NOTE: Phantom Galleries LA Miracle Mile will be open from 5 - 8 PM

Location: Phantom Galleries LA Miracle Mile 5412 Wilshire Blvd. LA 90036

July 26, 6 - 9 PM - Inner Change, Outer Effect

An inspirational talk by filmmaker and Yogi Activist, Arthur Klein.

For 8 days during the Iran uprising, Arthur fasted, drinking water only, in solidarity for light, love, peace and freedom in Iran. Arthur talks about his extraordinary journey and invites people to fast once a week, to protest oppression in the same way as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. did when faced with a way to protest in peace.

Musical Performance by The Miraz Ensemble http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.mirazmusik.com

"Cinematic ambient world music" led by Argentinean composer Gary "Miraz"and Iranian vocalist Sara "Universe" Esmaili, the arrangements consist of ethereal chants, world rhythms and mystifying, evolving sonic images.

Free Event. RSVP required: info@sociarts.com

Location: Phantom Galleries LA Miracle Mile 5412 Wilshire Blvd. LA 90036