more stuff going on

some more upcoming events:


1.
“Herban: Mother-Lode” Photography Exhibition
Opening reception: Saturday, May 10, 2008, 5 to 8 p.m.
First Street Studios
2026 East First Street
East Los Angeles, CA 90033
Tel: (323) 268-0005
http://www.firststreetstudios.com/
http://www.myspace.com/firststreetstudios
Email: firststreetstudios@yahoo.com

OPENING RECEPTION FEATURES
- Live Painting by Unification Theory
- Live Music by Ollin
- DJ set by Carlos Nino
- Jim Marquez (Poet/Writer)
- Peace in IraQ (photo project)

ABOUT
The exhibition features photographs from local acclaimed artists/photographers. The main gallery will include imagery of urban landscapes, space, significance & conditioning. The corrido
exhibition will feature landscapes and space. Mother-Lode: plentiful or abundance. Urban: relating to or belonging to a city. Herban Mother-Lode: the aesthetic effects of planting, significance, meaning and/or creating space under limited/or restricted conditions, despite the abundance of space. The exhibition hopes to challenge each viewer to think about their urban landscape and what it means.

ORGANIZED AND PRODUCED BY LILIA RAMIREZ
Curated by Juan Ochoa

FLYER:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2319/2470915997_4a17d9613b_b.jpg



2.
Experimental video art projected on the exterior walls of the Getty Center
Saturday, May 10, 2008, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
http://www.getty.edu/visit/events/hotbed_video.html
Free event; parking $8

Installation curated by Anne Bray, Director of Freewaves.

Works included in the weekend installation:
East/West, Su-Chen Hung
Flying 1, Howie Cherman
Eye 1991, Ray Bravo
Fire Ants for Nothing, Harry Gamboa Jr.
Who Are You?: An Oakland Story, Portia Cobb
Earth Fell Flat, Erika Suderburg
Under Cover, S. E. Barnet
Comfort Me, Soo Jin Kim
As We Go On, Hillary Mushkin
Voices of the Morning, Meena Nanji
Mirror Mirror, Paula Levine
Ekleipsis (from the Blindness series), Tran Kim T. Trang
Blow Them Up, Laura Purdy & Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Anima, Frances Salome Espana
Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel, Steve Matheson
All Orientals Look The Same, Valerie Soe
Kappa, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto with Mike Kelley
Primate Cinema, Rachel Mayeri



3.
Vexing: Female Voices from East L.A. Punk
May 18-August 31, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday, May 17, 7 to 10 p.m.
Claremont Museum of Art
536 W. 1st St. Claremont 91711
909-621-3200
http://claremontmuseum.org

ABOUT
Vexing is an historical investigation of the women at the forefront of the punk rock scene in East L.A. in the 1970s and '80s. The exhibition features photo, video and audio archives of the era as well as studio work encompassing painting, installation, writings and performance.

Participants include musicians Alice Bag, Teresa Covarrubias, Angela Vogel, Monica Flores, musician and artist Exene Cervenka, artists Diane Gamboa and Patssi Valdez, photographers Dawn Wirth, Louis Jacinto, Linda Posnick and Frank Gargani, recording label founder of Fatima Records Yolanda Comparan Ferrer, printmakers Richard Duardo, Jessee Vidaurre and John Miner, and filmmaker Jimmy Mendiola. Representing a newer generation of artistic producers influenced by these women are musician/artist Lysa Flores, artists Shizu Saldamando and Sandra de la Loza, photographer Chris TV, performance group Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, and bands The Sirens and Go Betty Go. Vexing also includes special concert footage and interviews courtesy of Pete Galindo, Willie Herrón and Lysa Flores from the forthcoming documentary on The Vex, and an excerpt from the forthcoming documentary “Eastside Punks” by Jimmy Alvarado, Pat Perez and Jake Smith.