If you are in the Los Angeles area, I highly recommend taking an afternoon to see the latest body of work by Los Angeles artist and curator Steven Hull. Steven’s current installation is a dizzying riot of colors, carnivalesque figures, and rhythmic geometric patterns, guaranteed to put a smile on the face of even the most jaded gallery visitor.
Steven’s own artistic practice extends beyond the studio, as he has authored several incredible projects over the years that span disciplines and media, literally involving hundreds of artists, writers, musicians, and the like. Two of his projects in particular, Song Poems and I‘m Still In Love With You, playfully explore the relationship between visual arts practices and music.
We’re especially excited to see such phenomenal work from Steven as he is participating in an exhibition we are curating for Lawrimore Project in Seattle. Scores, which opens May 7, will feature work by Steven (as well as work by 13 other artists including Nayland Blake, Julie Davidow, Fallen Fruit, Tomo Isoyama, Monique Jenkinson, Nina Katchadourian, Keep Adding, Simon Leung, Lucky Dragons, Eamon Ore-Giron, Steve Roden, David Schafer, and Laetitia Sonami).
Details about Scores will be announced here in the coming weeks.
Tickets now available at www.welcometolace.org
92982
Keep an eye out for 92982, the latest release from William Basinski. Word has it that the first copies will be available exclusively at the Resonant Forms Festival at LACE in Los Angeles, April 3-5 (Billy will be performing on the 5th, with a special live collaboration with Richard Chartier).
Here is a description of the release from Basinski’s website:
Something from a long time ago…in Brooklyn, 351 jay street…A fruitful evening in the studio… Home at last after a day of work at the answering service…answering phones for calvin klein, bianca jagger, steve rubell, and all the other somebody people…in our space station: home in my studio experimenting live. James is in the adjacent studio painting masterpieces. Roger is in the front, gluing old shoes on canvas and painting them orange… I’m clicking the old norelcos back and forth between channels…all the windows are open. The sound is spreading all over downtown brooklyn mixing with the helicopters, sirens, pot smoke and fireworks…
It’s crunchy, it’s distorted…it’s basinski archive circa 1982. The third track some of you may recognize: a shorter version was included as variation #8 on Variations: A movement in chrome primitive. So, this night in the studio spawned a direction I would follow for some time. As I love this document of that night, I thought you might like to put what came later into context, so I’m releasing this archival recording. The last track is a newly recorded reprise of the first track that I recorded with the original loop in February 2009 in Los Angeles. — William Basinski, March, 2009
Ed and I are pleased to present this redesign of our website, with a new news/blog front page. In addition to promoting our own projects here, we will also be promoting the work of the artists and curators that are engaged in the same dialogue around music, sound, visual arts, and digital media.
We hope that you will visit our site regulary and feel free to participate in the conversation.
-Robert
If you are in the Los Angeles area, I highly recommend taking an afternoon to see the latest body of work by Los Angeles artist and curator Steven Hull. Steven’s current installation is a dizzying riot of colors, carnivalesque figures, and rhythmic geometric patterns, guaranteed to put a smile on the face of even the most jaded gallery visitor.
