PRESTON DANIELS | Black and Blue
PATRICK STRAND | Bedroom Atoll

January 14 – February 25, 2011
Art Walk Reception: January 14, 6-9pm

Andi Campognone Projects
300 W. Second Street
Pomona, CA 91766

Preston Daniels and Patrick Strand produce works that seize the humanization of architectural, communal and spatial elements occupying our modern environs. The artists’ re-contextualization of transcendental communities is realized through architectural sculptures (Daniels) and drawing studies (Strand). Both Daniels and Strand’s works represent the physical changes reflected in our living spaces and how they embody our everyday lives. Organized by Jennifer Frias and Sixpack Projects.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Preston Daniels attended the Chatauqua Institute School of Fine Art in New York and received his BFA from West Virginia University in 2007. He received an MFA on a Hallsburg Scholarship from California State University Fullerton in 2010. He has exhibited works at The OsCene at the Laguna Art Museum (2010), Crussell Fine Arts in Orange CA, SCA Project Gallery in Pomona, Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana and others. He has collaborated with artist and film director Tim Burton on his sculpture “Robot Boy” for the exhibition Tim Burton that opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2009, and travelled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art in May 2011. His works are included in numerous private collections around the country such as the collection of Barbra and Victor Kline. He currently lives and works in Long Beach, California.

Patrick Strand holds BFA degrees in drawing and painting from the University of Southern California (1998) and in character animation from the California Institute of the Arts (2002). In 2010 he received his MFA in Painting from Cal State Fullerton. He has exhibited at numerous southern California venues such as Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, dA Center for the Arts in Pomona, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles and the Palm Springs Film Festival. With his background in animation, drawing and painting, he has taught at Maxis Studios/Electronic Arts in Redwood City and Walnut Creek, CA, ABC Family in Los Angeles, California State University at Fullerton and Watts Towers through the Community Arts Partnership in Watts, CA. He currently lives and works in San Pedro, California.

SIXPACK PROJECTS:
Sixpack Projects is a collaboration of six artist/curators organizing innovative contemporary art exhibitions and events throughout Southern California. We are: Alyssa Cordova, Jennifer Frias, Lilia Lamas, Jillian Nakornthap, Jeff Rau, and Heather Richards. Sixpack Projects features special curatorial projects by the members of our collective and is intended to be a forum for engaging the community in important and relevant cultural discussions through the exhibition of contemporary art. For more information please visit sixpackprojects.com

Opening Reception: January 14, 6pm – 9pm

Our very own Jennifer Frias has curated this fine exhibition at the UCR Sweeney Art Gallery. Be sure to check it out! Click here for more info.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
On the court of a tony club or ivy-covered institution, another Squash player makes an aggressive serve, or politely calls for a “let,” ending the rally lest he physically interfere with his opponent. In a Riverside neighborhood or Inland Empire community, another family gets a foreclosure notice, just one of an estimated half a million California families that will lose their homes in the national foreclosure crisis. Do we really declare all of these people losers at the game of life, or might we be able to offer them a “let”? What are the limits of personal responsibility, and achievement? Applying their usual performative appropriation of social customs and idioms, the collaborative duo of JEFF&GORDON take on the tension between cooperation and competition that runs through the public discourse in a nation of “temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

ARTWALK SPECIAL EVENT:
On November 3rd, the Sweeney Art Gallery will present a one-night social event that invites the public in a participatory role with artists JEFF&GORDON. Recognizing the desire on the part of the average gallery or museum visitor to gain insight into the exhibition, Play Against and into the artist’s process, JEFF&GORDON will employ their usual strategy of borrowing from a social custom or cultural idiom and meet with members of the public in a series of controlled convivial situations. Channeling the phenomenon of social gatherings and social networking, the public and JEFF&GORDON will be able to get acquainted to see how much they like each other, and to decide if they would like to see each other again. Participants will be provided with an entrée of suggested discussion topics and refreshments. Time limit strictly enforced. This event is made possible by the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
JEFF&GORDON are a collaborative team of artists who create videos and installations that explore social interactions. Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko create situations wherein an audience will reflect on their participatory role in the ever-changing cultural narrative; every one of us contributes to our collective culture, but at the same time we are all defined by culture. As such, their work frequently “takes on” the form of familiar social conducts and iconography, and also enters into a dialogue with the site or the context in which the work is exhibited. The artists also forward their personae, and frequently mediate their performative actions through video, as informed by the cinematic aesthetic. The artists received their MFA’s from CSU Long Beach, and UC Irvine, respectively, in 2007. They live in the Los Angeles area. This is their second solo show as a team. JEFF&GORDON: Play Against is organized by UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, and curated by Jennifer Frias, associate curator, Sweeney Art Gallery.

Support for this project is provided by UCR’s College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Fair Housing Council of Riverside and UCR’s Student Recreation Center. JEFF&GORDON: Play Against is an exhibition in dialog with a UCR initiated project that will be under development throughout the 2011-2012 academic year, Understanding the Human Impacts of Housing Foreclosure: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Economic, Social and Political Inequality. The steering committee includes UCR professors Gary Dymski (Economics), Vanessa Estrada (Sociology), Martin Johnson (Political Science) and Ellen Reese (Sociology/Labor Studies).

In fact, this show promises to be so good that we’ve created a whole website devoted to the exhibition! ACQUIRED TASTE opens October 29, 2011 at The Begovich Gallery on the campus of Cal State Fullerton.

For more details see below, and visit acquiredtaste.sixpackprojects.com.

In recent years, the culinary arts have seen a rise in popularity through cable television cooking shows; increased public awareness of food politics; and the explosion of impassioned food movements such slow food, pop-up restaurants and gourmet food trucks. In Acquired Taste, visual artists use a variety of mediums to address the underlying issues surrounding food and consumption: Greg Stewart’s living sculptures and “Moveable Gardens” envision sustainable agriculture as both utopic and democratic; Jennifer Rubell’s playful, participatory work uses food as a vehicle for social interaction; and Dustin Wayne Harris’s “Cake Mixx” photographs offer a humorous, narrative take on first encounters. Artwork in the exhibition ranges from site-specific installations to sculpture and oil paintings.

In addition, curators Alyssa Cordova and Heather Richards are collaborating with local food enthusiasts to offer exciting programming and events: cooking demonstrations by chef Jonathan Dye; KCRW Good Food contributor Delilah Snell’s “Jam Van” of preserves and other goodies; lectures by featured artist-in-residence Greg Stewart, and more!

Artists include: Sita Bhaumik, Shannon Faseler, Dustin Wayne Harris, Pamela Johnson, Jennifer Knox, MyersBerg Studios, Mary Parisi, Justin Perricone, Victoria Reynolds, Jennifer Rubell, Stephen Shanabrook, Greg Stewart and Tattfoo Tan.

Accompanying Acquired Taste: Food and the Art of Consumption is a full-color exhibition catalog of artwork and essays slated to be published October/November 2011. Essayists include freelance writer and blogger Nicole Caruth (Contemporary Confections); art historian and blogger Megan Fizell (Feasting on Art); and Pulitzer prize-winning writer Jonathan Gold (LA Weekly, KCRW’s Good Food).

ABOUT THE GALLERY:
The Begovich Gallery is located in the Visual Arts Complex on the campus of California State University, Fullerton, at 800 North State College Blvd. The gallery is open to the public Monday – Thursday, 12-4pm. and Saturday 12-2pm; closed on Sundays and Fridays. Admission to the gallery is FREE for all, but day permits are required to park on campus during the week (click here for more info about campus parking). Acquired Taste will be on view October 29 – December 8, 2011. For more information contact the Art Gallery Office at 657.278.7750 or visit the gallery website www.fullerton.edu/arts/art/visual_events.html.

SIXPACK PROJECTS:
Please visit www.sixpackprojects.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook to find out about other events.

www.acquiredtaste.sixpackprojects.com

1. You First at OCCCA – October 1, 2011

First up, Jeff Rau has work in the exhibition You First opening on October 1st at OCCCA in Santa Ana. He will be exhibiting video, photos, and other artifacts from a 30 day performance project called Climbing Trees. The exhibition is curated by an interesting group called the Universal Festival Of Relational Art (UFORA) and features work by a number of talented artists/groups including Finishing School, Marc Pally, and Max Presneill among many others. The exhibition opens concurrent with the Santa Ana Art Walk on October 1st, 2011, 5-10pm.

2. HAZE at CSUF West Gallery – October 29, 2011


Next up, Jeff Rau has a solo exhibition of his MFA work at Cal State Fullerton. This exhibition, entitled HAZE, opens at the West Gallery on the campus of CSUF on Saturday October 29, 5-8pm. HAZE is a conceptual project employing photographic strategies to represent the immaterial, ever-shifting cloud of smog/grit/marine-layer that cloaks the city of L.A. in an obfuscating fog. Jeff Rau presents his work from over 16 months of observing, documenting, and imaging this nebulous phenomenon in an exhibition of field journals and photographs. For more information about this exhibition, please email Jeff – jeff@sixpackprojects.com

Side Note: A second exhibition also opens at CSUF October 29th, curated by Sixpack’s Alyssa Cordova and Heather Richards. For more information on that exhibition, please visit our Acquired Taste website.

3. MyArtContest.com photography juror – October/November

Lastly, in November Jeff Rau is excited to be a guest juror for MyArtContest.com! He will be jurying their photography contest. Winners of the online contest will receive a cash award and be featured in My Art Contest’s online journal Artist Portfolio Magazine. Submissions for the photography contest are accepted through October 31st, click here to enter.

The final video piece will be exhibited at the UCR Sweeney Art Gallery in the upcoming JEFF&GORDON exhibition scheduled to open on October 29, 2011. Click here for more information on how to participate in this project.

June 16 – August 28, 2011

Curated by Jillian Nakornthap
Featuring: Larissa Bates, Joe Davidson, Thomas Doyle,
Misako Inoaka, Adia Millett, Coke Wisdom O’Neal and Slinkachu

Bakersfield Museum of Art
1930 R Street, Bakersfield, CA

Coke Wisdom O'Neal, Chris and Mike O'Neal,
2005, c-print, 36 x 29 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Mixed Greens, NYC

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
MINI SIZE ME: A Monumental Critique on Today’s Hand-held Society. There is a long standing tradition of creating miniature artwork from Persian miniatures to dioramas. The instinct to create obsessively detailed, miniature versions of the world we live in has captivated artsists and audiences for centuries. Even now, with the advent of Smartphones, PDAs and iPods, we thrive in the miniature, often preferring the four by two inch digital facsimile in our hand to the real world. “The bigger the better,” has become an outdated statement. Artists, whether consciously or not, have responded to the shift by critiquing society in various small mediums. Some of these artists take a voyeuristic approach when analyzing society while others question our values. The seven artists in Mini Size Me challenge society’s values while maintaining the longstanding tradition of diminutive artwork.

MUSEUM INFO:
The Bakersfield Museum of Art is located at 1930 R Street in Bakersfield, CA. The museum is open to the public Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday-Sunday 12-4pm; Closed on Mondays and holidays. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $2 for students (and free to members). Every third Friday of the month, all admission FREE! The Bakersfield Museum of Art provides a broad spectrum of visual arts experiences through the exhibition and preservation of fine art, educational programs, community outreach, and special events.

The current exhibitions will be on view June 16 – August 28, 2011. For more information contact Beth Pandol, 661-323-7219 or visit www.bmoa.org.

We have enjoyed the opportunity to organize exhibitions in this beautiful space, but unfortunately trickle down effects from California’s budget crisis has led to an end of the Phantom Galleries program here in Long Beach (with the general end to redevelopment spending statewide). We are very thankful to Phantom Galleries LA and the City of Long Beach for supporting our exhibition programming these past 8 months and delighted that we’ve had the chance to meet and work with so many wonderful artists and art-lovers in recent months.

While this marks the end of one chapter, it does not mean that we are slowing down. We have several projects happening all over Southern California in the coming months including exhibitions in Santa Ana, Fullerton, even Bakersfield! (More info on these exhibitions will be coming very soon.)

Thank you to all who have supported us in this time and we are very excited to see what the future will bring!

CARROTS AND APOLOGUES: James F. Lorigan
Organized by Alyssa Cordova and Sixpack Projects

Opening reception: Saturday, May 14, 6-9 PM
concurrent with Long Beach Downtown Art Walk
Exhibition dates: May 14 – 30, 2011

Sixpack Projects @ Phantom Galleries Long Beach
170 N Promenade, Long Beach, CA 90802 (map)

Sixpack Projects is proud to present CARROTS AND APOLOGUES, an exhibition curated by Alyssa Cordova featuring selected work by Southern California artist James F. Lorigan. Lorigan’s work are contemporary, allegorical narratives filled with rich illustrative imagery of nature, animals, and mesmerizing still-life compositions. Lorigan invites viewers into the stories he paints, inviting them into a dialog of imagination and self reflection.

JAMES F. LORIGAN came from the mid west to Southern California in 1966. He enrolled at Fullerton College in 1968 before joining the Navy. He returned to college in 1972 and began working professionally as an artist and art restorer of 16th and 17th Dutch art and antiques, later becoming an apprentice printer at Spectrum press in Orange California. He graduated from Cal State University Fullerton in 1994 with his MFA in painting and printmaking. He also completed his MA in printmaking in 1993. Lorigan has participated in over 90 exhibitions featuring his paintings and prints and is a Master Printmaker who until recently owned Watermark Printmaking Workshop in Santa Ana, California. He has produced fine art intaglio, relief prints, lithographs and digital prints in limited editions with artist of merit since 1974. A fulltime teacher since 1990, James is also the Chair of the Art Department at College Of The Canyons in Santa Clarita, California, where he teaches Drawing, Painting and Printmaking.

ABOUT THE GALLERY:
Sixpack Projects is a collective of six artist/curators organizing innovative contemporary art exhibitions and events throughout Southern California. We are: Alyssa Cordova, Jennifer Frias, Lilia Lamas, Jillian Nakornthap, Jeff Rau, and Heather Richards. The Sixpack Projects Gallery at Phantom Galleries Long Beach features special curatorial projects by the members of our collective and is intended to be a forum for engaging the community in important and relevant cultural discussions through the exhibition of contemporary art. For more information please visit www.SixpackProjects.com

Sixpack Projects at Phantom Galleries Long Beach is located at 170 N. Promenade, Long Beach, CA 90802. in downtown Long Beach at the corner of Broadway and Promenade. Gallery is open limited hours and by special appointment; there is 24/7 pedestrian viewing. To schedule a viewing contact Sixpack Projects at info@sixpackprojects.com, or for more information visit www.SixpackProjects.com and www.PhantomGalleriesLA.com, or visit us on Facebook at Facebook.com/sixpackprojects.

Opening reception: Saturday, March 26, 6-9 PM
LB Downtown Art Walk: Saturday, April 9, 6-9 PM
Exhibition dates: March 26 – April 16, 2011

Sixpack Projects @ Phantom Galleries Long Beach
170 N Promenade, Long Beach, CA 90802

Sixpack Projects is pleased to present two separate bodies of work by two emerging southern California artists. Preston Daniels and Patrick Strand produce works that seize the humanization of architectural, communal and spatial elements occupying our modern environs. The artists’ re-contextualization of transcendental communities is realized through architectural foundations in decline from their majestic poise (Daniels) or through fragmented drawings of multiple cities assembled together into one island (Strand). Both Daniels and Strand produce works that represent the physical changes reflected in our living spaces and how they embody our everyday lives.

PRESTON DANIELS attended the Chatauqua Institute School of Fine Art in New York and received his BFA from West Virginia University in 2007. He received an MFA on a Hallsburg Scholarship from California State University Fullerton in 2010. He has exhibited works throughout the US including The OsCene at the Laguna Art Museum (2010), Crussell Fine Arts in Orange CA, SCA Project Gallery in Pomona, Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana and others. He has collaborated with artist and film director Tim Burton on his sculpture “Robot Boy” for the exhibition Tim Burton that opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2009, and is scheduled to open at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in May 2011. His works are included in numerous private collections around the country such as the collection of Barbra and Victor Kline located in Southern California. He currently lives and works in Santa Ana California.

PATRICK STRAND holds two BFA degrees, the first in drawing and painting from the University of Southern California (1998) and the other in character animation from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia (2002). In 2010 he received his MFA in Painting from Cal State Fullerton. He has exhibited at numerous southern California venues such as Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, dA Center for the Arts in Pomona, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles and the Palm Springs Film Festival. With his background in animation, drawing and painting, he has taught at Maxis Studios/Electronic Arts in Redwood City and Walnut Creek, CA, ABC Family in Los Angeles, California State University at Fullerton and Watts Towers through the Community Arts Partnership in Watts, CA.

ABOUT THE GALLERY:
Sixpack Projects is a collective of six artist/curators organizing innovative contemporary art exhibitions and events throughout Southern California. We are: Alyssa Cordova, Jennifer Frias, Lilia Lamas, Jillian Nakornthap, Jeff Rau, and Heather Richards. The Sixpack Projects Gallery at Phantom Galleries Long Beach features special curatorial projects by the members of our collective and is intended to be a forum for engaging the community in important and relevant cultural discussions through the exhibition of contemporary art. For more information please visit www.SixpackProjects.com

Sixpack Projects at Phantom Galleries Long Beach is located at 170 N. Promenade, Long Beach, CA 90802. in downtown Long Beach at the corner of Broadway and Promenade. Gallery is open limited hours and by special appointment; there is 24/7 pedestrian viewing. To schedule a viewing contact Sixpack Projects at info@sixpackprojects.com, or for more information visit www.SixpackProjects.com and www.PhantomGalleriesLA.com, or visit us on Facebook at Facebook.com/sixpackprojects.