MAY 5 - SANTIAGO ART LOFTS
Our neighbors at Santiago Art Lofts will now host their Art Walks on First Saturdays !
Join them on May 5th for live art, arts & crafts, and over 20 open galleries !
(SANTA ANA BLVD. BETWEEN POINSETTIA & SANTIAGO - NEAR THE SANTA ANA TRAIN DEPOT)
MAY 5 - Q ART SALON ( 205 N. SYCAMORE - DTSA )
Q Art Salon will host its grand opening exhibit on Saturday, May 5th in collaboration with the Downtown Santa Ana Artwalk. Join us for a special evening in celebration of contemporary art featuring paintings by:
Sean Cheetham
Alex Kanevsky
Marc Trujillo
William Wray
Light appetizers and cocktails will be served.
Musical stylings by DJ Bobby Soul.
Please RSVP to rsvp@theaceagency.com by May 3
MAY 5 - R.E.D. GALLERY ( 207 N. BROADWAY, SUITE 6A2B )
Working class (or lower class, labouring class, sometimes proletariat) is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs (as measured by skill, education and lower incomes), often extending to… those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes. Working classes are mainly found in industrialized economies and in urban areas of non-industrialized economies.
As with many terms describing social class, working class is defined and used in many different ways. When used non-academically, it typically refers to a section of society dependent on physical labor, especially when compensated with an hourly wage. Its use in academic discourse is contentious, especially following the decline of manual labor in postindustrial societies. It is often used synonymously for proletariat, particularly amongst Marxist authors. Some academics question the usefulness of the concept of a working class.
The term is usually contrasted with the upper class and middle class, in general terms of access to economic resources, education, cultural interests, and other goods and services. The cut-off between working class and middle class is more specifically where a population spends money primarily as a lifestyle rather than for sustenance (for example, on fashion versus merely nutrition and shelter). Problematically, relying on this method of distinction would rule out many of the people who are often identified as working class.
Its usage can alternately be derogatory, or can express a sense of pride in those who self-identify as Working class.
Join us this Saturday May 5th for our “Working Class Hero” Art Show. Come and see artwork paying respect to the blue collar worker. Chuntana Art Society will proudly be dispalying artwork of all mediums at R.E.D. Gallery (sponsored by Real Estate Downtownand Erick Figueroa). The show runs from 7pm to 10pm. Get there early, as due to the Cinco De Mayo Celebrations parking will be scarce. Hope to see all of you here!!!
Featured Artists:
1. Claudia Rubio
2. Odilon Delgado
3. Loren Blackwood
4. Keturah Ley
5. Jose Morales
6. Mona Falcon
7. Randy Jim
8. Arni Tecson
9. Jade Sides
10. Stephanie Leanne Henderson
11. Chilo Te
12. Roman Ster
13. Jaime Rubio
And more to be added in the coming days!!!!!!
MAY 5 - SANTORA BUILDING OF THE ARTS ( 207 N BROADWAY - DTSA )
Santora Arts Building
207 N Broadwa…y
Santa Ana, CA 92701
http://www.Santoraarts.org/
Take your time and visit all of our Galleries/Studios.
Basement Galleries
ste B4 - Green Door Gallery - Kathie Warren’s Studio/Gallery
ste B6b - The Art Bar
ste B6a - Suzie Voung
ste B6a2 - Chuntana Art Society at R.E.D. Gallery
ste B7b - Avantgarden - The Art Gallery - Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at AVANTGARDEN!
Watch NOEL MADRID’S LIVE DRAWINGS during the First Saturday Art Walk, 7 - 10 PM.
ste B10 - Seven 1Four Underground Studio
ste B11 - Studio del Sontano
Street Level
GCS
Mezzanine
Atilano Salon and Gallery
2nd Floor
ste B - Bee Regal Gallery - Floral Art dedicated for Mothers
ste E - Raven Studios
ste E - Gallery 207 - Analog Photography Exhibition
ste G - Joseph Hawa
ste I - Tweena’s Tunes - Open Mic Night
ste K - Crescendoh
ste Q - SAC Art Gallery
MAY 5 - OCCCA ( 117 N SYCAMORE - DTSA )
Curator and Juror
William Moreno: curator, writer and
director of William Moreno Contemporary
May 5 through June 16th, 2012
Opening Reception: May 5th, 2012. 6pm to 10pm
Second Reception: June 2nd, 2012. 6pm to 10pm
Taco Maria Food Truck will be serving on both receptions
Exhibition Catalog Available for Purchase
Exhibition Statement
Time is a fundamental and certainly pragmatic tenant that regulates - to a greater or lesser extent - daily life; a marker for past, present and future. The “arrow of time,” coined by British astronomer Arthur Eddington, refers to the expansive visualization of time on a continuum. Yet the world’s cultures do not share concepts of time equally - and the importance of its symbols fluctuates with the potency of those traditions, beliefs and liturgical anchors.
From the moment we begin our journey into the cacophony of the world – a series of decisions, choices and twists of fate guide us – often lurching or blissful and occasionally tragic. What have we chosen for ourselves? When has our hand been forced? Where have random or serendipitous events changed our course? When have we triumphed? What have we lost? What have we remembered and forgotten? Exploring that inexorable passage via divergent points-of-view, media and imagery demands introspection and perspective.
This exhibition investigates our relationship to the concept of time, its fleeting nature and impact and the arbitrary, often uncontrollable events that shape our lives. The premise is deliberately imprecise; I was particularly interested in artists’ responses to the notion and how they might realize the idea.
The result is a diverse offering of works: painting, photography, video and instillation are all represented - each examining what binds or propels us, notions of conscious or unconscious experiences and the narratives we collect as we negotiate our lives.
William Moreno
Curator
About the Curator and Juror
William Moreno is a curator, writer and director of William Moreno Contemporary which mounts periodic exhibitions. He was most recently the Associate Director of ArtPadSF, a hotel-based art fair. William was the founding Executive Director of the Claremont Museum of Art and the director of The Mexican Museum, San Francisco.
He has been a featured panelist addressing topics ranging from the contemporary role of museums and the international art landscape at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, the American Institute of Architecture, Latino Art Now Conference, William Turner Gallery, ArtPadSF, Flagstop and others. He has appeared on KCET’s series California’s Gold as well as other media. William serves as board President of LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and on the Advisory Board for the California Association of Museums.
MAY 5 - GCAC ( 125 N. BROADWAY - DTSA )
Naida Osline
All the Queen’s Men
May 5 - June 17, 2012
www.naidaosline.com
Naida Osline: All the Queen’s Men presents two separate, but related, bodies of photo-based work from the artist’s residency at Grand Central Art Center from November 2011 through January 2012.
The two series consists of formal portraits of subjects who are photographed in the studio against a neutral backdrop, mostly members of the Santa Ana community. One series models are middle-aged men; the other of women and men dressed in drag. Each series bring up ideas about identity, power, representation, gender, fame, beauty, aging and fashion.
Images from the “Royalty” series include drag queen and drag kings. They are portraits of individuals who regularly perform, or occasionally dress in drag, and are presented in their own makeup and clothing. The straightforward and beautiful portraits challenge the rigid gender lines created and fostered in our current culture. The notion of a self-appointed king or queen explores concepts of privilege, hierarchy and self-empowerment.
Images from the “Men” series are a continuation of a body of work the artist began in 2010, making use of one prop on an unclothed middle-aged male model. These are not intended as portraits of individuals, but rather as iconic images. The props are not objects of value and tell the viewer nothing about the subject, location or time period. Rather, they suggest that the subject may hold a position of power or status such as a king, warrior, shaman or dictator. The images have a kinship sensibility with portrait paintings of the past that depict individuals of power and economic wealth. They develop connection to the fairy-tale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a story that has served as a cross-cultural metaphor for collective denial and hollow power for decades - resonating in an era of personality cults, entertainment icons, and political personalities.
Opening Reception: May 5th, 2012 from 7-10 p.m.
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Millard Sheets Studio
The Art of Home Savings and Loan
May 5 - June 17, 2012
adamarenson.com/homesavingsbankart
Millard Sheets Studio: The Art of Home Savings & LoanExibition and Panel Discussion
May 5th through June 17th, 2012
Curated by Concepcion Rodriguez and Wendy Sherman
Opening Reception: May 5th, 2012 from 7-10 p.m.
Millard Sheets: The Art of Home Savings & Loan creates a renewed awareness of the Home Savings & Loan mosaic murals located throughout Southern California, originally designed by the Millard Sheets Studio. Included in the exhibition are images of the mosaics, original works of art, sketches, supporting documentation and images of the restoration process of the Rolling Hills Estates mural. The exhibition focuses on five of the mosaic murals located in the communities of Temple City, Rolling Hills Estates, Anaheim, Pomona and Santa Ana.
Panel discussion:
Sunday, May 6th, 2012 at 2pm
Panel will primarily address the Millard Sheets Studio, which included Millard Sheets, Sue Hertel, Denis O’Connor, and others who contributed to the Home Savings & Loan project.
Confirmed participants include:
Dr. Adam Arenson - Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso. Is currently completing research for a book on the art and architecture of Home Savings & Loan.
Alan Hess - Architecture critic and historian, with a particular emphasis on mid century modernism.
Mike McGee - Gallery Director of the Begovich Gallery, Professor and Program Director of Exhibition Design and Museum Studies at California State University, Fullerton.
For further information on the Millard Sheets Studio, visit Dr. Adam Arenson’s website:
http://adamarenson.com/homesavingsbankart/
Press Contact: Concepcion Rodriguez: rodmeza@flash.net 626.221.5548
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Camilla Taylor
The Disagreement
May 5 - June 24, 2012
www.camilla-taylor.com
Artist Statement
My artwork is comprised of three-dimensional and two-dimensional prints. The three-dimensional prints I refer to as “volumes.” The printed imagery of the two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces is generated through relief printing. My artwork deals with the concepts of narrative, repetition, and what has been called “otherness.” Narration in the artwork refers to the capacity people have to project onto or empathize with any object that has similarities to humans. My work invites the viewer to empathize with the figures, often without ever reaching beyond the uncanny quality of being inanimate bodies. The figures engage with each other in their posture and position in a room, and sometimes engage the viewer. Their ambiguity and lack of personality invites the viewer to associate with the figures, to lose themselves, while at the same time implying anonymity in the viewer.
Camilla Taylor received an MFA with an emphasis in printmaking from California State University, Long Beach. Her BFA was received from the University of Utah. She likes to walk out onto the pier at night, when the sky and the ocean are both black and indistinguishable from each other, and feel like it is a structure jutting into nothingness.
www.camilla-taylor.com
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 5, 7:00-10:00p.m.
MAY 5 - GALLERY 207 ( 207 N BROADWAY, SUITE E - DTSA )
Gallery 207 Celebrates Film Photography – May 2012
Gallery 207 / Raven Studios celebrates film photography as it is roughly 173 years old from today. It’s All Analog introduces film photographers juried by Francis Mark Woods who is the President of Pasadena Society of the Artists and a former lecturer of American Film Institute (AFI). Congratulations to the selected artists in our It’s All Analog exhibition: Jose Avalos, Katey Barrett, Jim Fitzgerald, Sean Fitzsimmons, Kevin Hass, Jesus Jimenez, Robert Kutner, Jim Ouimet, and Steve Ouimet. Their analog, alternative process, film-based and hand-printed photographs are showcased at the historic Santora Arts Building second floor, 207 N. Broadway, St. Suite E, Santa Ana from
May 5 – May 26. Join us Saturday, May 5th Artwalk during our artists panels/discussions and a people’s choice awards between 6-10 PM.
Also featuring our Gallery Resident Artists:
Caesar Alzate Jr., Mix Medium Artist.Alzate-ism, Post-Color field painting.
Krystof Andres, Photographer & Cinematographer’sdocumentation of the earthquake in Haiti 2010
Jaydee Dizon, Fine Art Photographer. here and there, a “Kodak” moment from a tourist’s mind.
Kenneth Inlow, Artist. His artwork can best be described as Psychedelic-Surrealism.
Ingrid Reeve, Painter. Abstract Landscape series…”memory of a landscape.”
Mauro Rosa, Contemporary Visual Artist. Mediums of pastel and pig hide are utilized in Mauro’s artwork.
Ben Walker, a self taught Artist/Painter. Love, Sex, Death: A Story About a Nobody series.
Gallery 207 is dedicated in promoting traditional and contemporary artists from Southern and Northern California and plans to build relationships all over the US and internationally in the near future.
Gallery 207 / Raven Studios
207 N. Broadway Street, Suite E, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Closing Reception: Saturday May 26th, 12-5 PM
Gallery hours: First Saturdays 6-10 PM, Saturdays 12-5 PM
Visit us on the web at http://gallery207.org for more information!
Jaydee Dizon 310.962.4520
MAY 5 - SECOND STREET PROMENADE ( 2ND ST BETWEEN BROADWAY & SYCAMORE - DTSA )
APR 7 - A.I.R. SPACE @GCAC ( 125 N. BROADWAY - DTSA )
What is Democracy?
Your Stories and Opinions Desired
Santa Ana, Ca
We will be open every Tuesdaythrough Friday from 4-7pm.
We will be collecting your stories through to May 12th 2012.
APR 7 - MEMPHIS AT THE SANTORA ( 201 N BROADWAY - DTSA )
Location: The Backroom at Memphis at the Santora
7pm-10pm
The OCArtBlog is hosting a re-launch party for it’s website in the back room of Memphis at the Santora on Saturday April 7th from 7-10PM during the Santa Ana Art Walk. The OC Art Blog is dedicated to the Orange County art community and has re-launched with a new format, new features and new writers. Enjoy drinks, appetizers, art by Suzanne Walsh, Sarah Walsh, Joy Shannon and Natasha Shah all while learning more about the new OC Art Blog.
The OC Art Blog was started in 2004 to build community and promote the marginalized but dynamic Orange County art scene and features artist profiles, exhibits, events/openings and music reviews. The OC Art Blog is committed to increasing awareness of the at scene in Orange County by supporting artists, galleries, museums, curators, professors, and anyone contributing to the art scene.
Come socialize with other artists and discuss your ideas, interests and art with the OC Art Blog writers and help increase the influence and impact of the blog to better promote, support and serve the arts in Orange County
For more information contact Chris Hoff: narrativechris@gmail.com 714-767-5861 or visitwww.ocartblog.com
About me
Join us every First Saturday of the Month for the Downtown Santa Ana Art WalkArts, crafts and live entertainment centrally located at: Artists Village - Second Street Promenade (2nd & Broadway) & the Santiago Arts Colony (Santa Ana Blvd. & Poinsettia)
There is always something new to see !
Downtown Inc. encourages artists of all medias to participate in this event.
For more information or to list your event, contact:
claudia@downtown-inc.com
(714) 547 - 6100 ext. 205
WWW.DOWNTOWN-SANTAANA.COM
