Los Angeles Center for Digital Art 107 West Fifth Street Los Angeles, CA 90013 http:/www.lacda.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reply to this address) Dear Friends and Artists, Here is the latest news from L.A. Center for Digital Art! LACDA has been asked to be a featured gallery for the L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA) "Muse Art Walk" on April 22nd. (http://www.lacma.org). LACDA has built a large mobile center wall unit (designed to be able to install work utilizing electronic equipment as well as display flat art) and two walls creating window display space as well as interior wall space. The total created 34 linear feet of new walls with new and upgraded lighting allowing us to exhibit more art by more artists (you!). It all looks really great and actually makes the gallery appear larger, we are quite pleased with the result. Juried Competition winner Dominic Rouse's show was shipped directly from LACDA to be exhibited at Benham Gallery in Seattle (http://www.benhamgallery.com/). Things are taking off in Gallery Row. Bert Green Fine Art (the gallery directly across the street from LACDA) had an incredible show featuring paintings by Clive Barker (writer and movie maker). He sold nearly $40,000 in the opening day (http://bgfa.us/). INMO Gallery newly opened in the very large space next to Bert Green. CreWest Gallery is having their grand opening March 11 (http://www.crewest.com/). Gallery Row galleries are now having monthly marketing meetings designed to increase traffic and attract collectors and other buyers. (http://galleryrow.org/) LACDA gallery director Rex Bruce appeared in a panel "Synapse" at Otis College of Art and Design and engaged in a lively discussion about establishing a healthy connection between artists using technology and the traditional art establishment. Gallery curators from Niche L.A. and Lounge 441 (specializing in digital and media art) have contacted LACDA and will be looking through our portfolio of artists and meeting with me to collaborate on curating upcoming shows. (http://www.niche.la/) Niche L.A. is operated by Nic Cha Kim who also serves as President/Co-Founder of Gallery Row Organization (GRO) and Resident Producer of Lodestone Theatre Ensemble. Lounge 441 is operated by Jason Waters who is Executive Director/Founder of ArtistSalon; Arts & Culture Board Director of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC); and Co-Chair of the Arts, Aesthetics, Culture & Education (AACE) Committee. See LACDA on ABC7 "Eye on L.A." in a feature on galleries in the downtown art scene at the following link. (http://lacda.com/press/eyeonla.html). High speed recommended. Entries for our upcoming ""TOP 40" Juried Show are coming in steadily, there are copious amounts of outstanding work. The deadline is February 26 for those interested. Read about the accomplishments of last year's inaugural "TOP 40" exhibit below. Full prospectus: http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html Direct link for registration: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=103863 News from Last Year's "TOP 40" Winners: Benjamin Pezzillo's "Granada Theatre," the piece selected for the inaugural 2005 Top 40 show, received a Jury Recommended Award in the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival and will be shown at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography February 24 through March 3, 2006. (www.benjaminpezzillo.com) 2005 Top 40 exhibitor Alicia Ross just finished curating a show of artwork by graduate students from the Rochester Institute of Technology entitled "trans_fix." and will be an exhibitor in "conVERGE," a media arts exhibition Opening at Rochester Institute of Technology's SPAS Gallery. David Sullivan's (2005 Top 40 winner) piece, the "ego" http://www.swampmonster.org/new/egoMachine.htm), recently was featured in FILE 2005 in Sao Paulo Brazil. After being displaced by hurricane Katrina two works, "ReSpore NOLA" (http:/www.swampmonster.org/artmove/index.htm) and "Floating", were in the shows "Watermark" in Baton Rouge, LA and "Katrina you Bitch" where he resides in New Orleans. Matthew Barlow's image appearing in 2005 Top 40 is part of his series "Uncanny Likeness." Four shots from this series were included in the 'Simulacrum' exhibition at The Society for Contemporary Photography in Kansas City, Missouri. 2005 Top 40 winner Meggan Gould's recent accomplishments include exhibiting in Siggraph 2005, LA 5th Annual Digital Art Competition, Beecher Center for Art and Technology Tech Art II, South Shore Art Center (Best in Show) Digital Visions, University of British Columbia Art, Word/Word:Art, Fine Arts Gallery, Ohio State University Marion. Last year's Top 40 winner Andy Lomas featured work in the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and SIGGRAPH 2005 in L.A. He has a solo show Arizona State University in their Computing Commons Art Gallery. For the 5th Beecher Center Annual Digital Art & Animation Competition two pieces were selected for the exhibition in Youngstown, Ohio. Nathan Selikoff's Suspension #3, one of his strange attractor prints, was accepted to the San Diego Art Institute 2006 Digital International Exhibition, sponsored by SONY. The exhibition dates are April 30 to June 4, 2006. Video Art by 2005 Top 40 Artist John Vega is selected to be shown at the premiere of the 404 International Festival of Electronic Art II in Rosario, Argentina. He has been nominated for the 2006 New Media Fellowship, an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Media Arts Fellowships have supported gifted film, video and multimedia artists with Fellowships of $35,000 since 1988. Top 40 artist Ansen Seale was an "Artists Looking at Art" presenter for December 2005 at the McNay Art Museum. In August 2005 exhibited in the SIGGRAPH gallery. He has a solo show, "insectinsight" in January 2006 at Blue Star Artspace in San Antonio (http://ansenseale.com/insectinsightfull.html) He also has a solo show, December 2005 - March 2006 at Photography 414 Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas. 2005 Top 40 artist August Highland had two University exhibits, in Kansas City and Bakersfield and show at the Riverside Art Museum. A show at Dennis Morgan Gallery received reviews in ArtScene and Artweek. He has as three solo exhibits scheduled for this year in New York at "Poets House" in SoHo that runs May 12-June 24, at the Brewery Annex in downtown Los Angeles in November during LA Artwalk, and at Rockhurst University, a Jesuit College in Kansas City, MO. He is being honored by ASCI.ORG who have selected him for "Featured Artist of the Month" February 16-March 2006. August Highland (the above artist) wrote us this very kind note: "I would like to mention that LACDA's recognition and support of my work has been an invaluable source of inspiration to me, that the personal relationship that I have developed with Rex Bruce is very important to me and that I consider myself fortunate to be able to consider him as a friend as well as a curator who has validated me in many ways both as a person and an artist. In the bizarre and wonderful power-industry of the art world, it's always a gift when an artist finds a curator like Rex who takes a genuine interest in and plays a supportive role in the career and personal life of one of the hundreds of artists that are lucky enough to be able to list LACDA on their resume. I thank you for this." Thanks to everyone for your brilliance and continuing support! Yours, Rex Bruce Director Los Angeles Center for Digital Art 107 West Fifth Street Los Angeles, CA 90013 http:/www.lacda.com =============================================== Please do not reply to this email. Send inquiries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! =============================================== ========================================================================== ** If you *do not* wish to receive these emails, please forward or send a message to ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED], and we'll remove you from the previte list. ** ==========================================================================
