Our good friends at Beautiful/Decay posted about Aaron Noble’s upcoming mural unveiling and exhibition. Click the image for the whole article and more images!
Aaron Noble Brings World Class Mural to Hel-Mel
Opening reception for Aaron Noble mural “MOJADO” sponsored by Beautiful/Decay Magazine featuring a set by DJ BlackRainbow PLUS a three day exhibition of Noble’s gallery work, including a study for the mural.
Synchronicity Space Los Angeles
713 N. Heliotrope 90029
Thursday May 24th from 6-10pm featuring a set by DJ BlackRainbow
Exhibition hours (Three Days Only!): 1pm to 7pm Thurs-Sat, May 24-26
The hip little district around the intersection of Melrose and Heliotrope in East Hollywood (known locally as Hel-Mel) is home to a healthy sampling of street art along with its funky mix of shops and bicycle culture. A new wall painting, now in its final stages, is upping the ante for painterly ambition in the neighborhood, but you won’t see it unless you know where to look. The 30’ x 40’ work is being executed on the back wall of Eric Berg’s Early American Antiques at 4302 Melrose Ave in a parking lot accessed from Heliotrope. To find it walk through the alley between The Faculty sports bar and Synchronicity Gallery.
Titled “Mojado” (the Wet One), the piece is the first major outdoor wall to be painted in Los Angeles by Aaron Noble, a semi-legendary product of San Francisco’s Mission District mural scene. Noble moved to Los Angeles over a decade ago, but has produced mostly studio work and indoor wall paintings locally, while doing outdoor murals in locations as far-flung as China, London and Indonesia.
Noble was a founding director of the seminal Clarion Alley Mural Project (his memoir of the project is included in the book Street Art San Francisco, Mission Muralismo, published 2009 by Harry N. Abrams). His work, which combines influences from graffiti and traditional muralism, was introduced to Angelenos in 2002 with an acclaimed group of five wall paintings in the lobby of the UCLA Hammer Museum, followed by gallery shows at Blum & Poe and Track 16 among others. His work and resume can be seen online at www.aaronnoble.net.
As is normal for Noble’s work, the mural is a highly energized semi-abstraction welded together from familiar-seeming comic book parts. As Noble explains,
“The title, Mojado, has a double reference. First the work is literally painted ‘wet’, with color and texture created partly through long drips of color poured down the wall, and secondly the title alludes to the theme of border crossing (‘mojado’ is the more polite Spanish translation of the English slur ‘wetback’). Since the piece is on the back wall of Eric Berg’s Early California Antiques I thought it should have an aged patina, like the stuff he sells. I also wanted to pay tribute, in my science-fictional way, to REALLY early California, pre-Colombian California, so I’ve embedded a design based on the Nahuatl pictographs for ‘River’, ‘Motion’, and ‘Drum’. It looks like a pattern etched onto an alien spacecraft. One way to read the work is to imagine that it depicts an entity that is somehow crossing into our dimension from the past and the future simultaneously.”
More photos available.
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www.earlycaliforniaantiques.com
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Telephone Blue – April 20
“It’s gonna be like music”. Synchronicity is pleased to announce LA INTERNET, on the website, www.syncspacela.com. Ideas need space to reveal their mystery. Through space, a loose process that is somewhat familiar defines itself in the ongoing,an outsider comes in, and an insider interjects with the most unexpected and appreciated thread derailments. It’s improvisational creative communication, ever moving to a conclusion existing in a fold within a website. A DARK CORNER OF THE NET.
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This exhibition will exist as an extension, literally and figuratively speaking. Physical work existing in a digital world that happens to be an extension of our physical world. For their exhibition, Telephone Blue, taking place at Synchronicity 713 Heliotrope on April 20 – May 19, Aaron Anderson, Eric Carlson and Crystal Quinn (founding members of the artist collective Hardland/Heartland) continue their formal practice of intuitive collaboration to produce narratives of playful allegories and coded symbols that materialize as drawing, video, and sculpture. We have asked these artists to contribute work to a space within the Synchronicity website. For the exhibited work within our website space, we are thrilled to have join them the amazingly prolific LA-based artist, Spencer Longo.
Please join us again and again and again and again at www.syncspacela.com and we also request your presence at Synchronicity 713 Heliotrope, LA, CA 90029 on April 20th for the opening reception of Telephone Blue.
Follow http://www.syncspacela.com/ and http://hardlandheartland.com/ for evolving updates regarding this exhibition.
LYNDSEY LESH: The Art of the Rattling Wall – April 14
Please join PEN Center USA, Narrow Books, and The Rattling Wall for a fabulous, one night event:
LYNDSEY LESH: THE ART OF THE RATTLING WALL
featuring the art pieces from the journal’s second issue.
Synchronicity Space || 7-10 PM
New art by Lyndsey Lesh. Readings. Book signing. Strawberry Chardonnay Ice Cream from SCOOPS!
Musical Interpretation of Justin McInteer’s Chance Mural
The following tracks are audio interpretations of the Chance Mural from Justin McInteer and Brian Dinkin’s exhibition, The Outer Workings of Inter Space.
From Justin McInteer:
I mapped out all 720 color squares and then assigned a musical note to each color as follows:
Red=C, Red-Orange=C#/Db, Orange=D, Yellow-Orange=D#/Eb, Yellow=E, Yellow-Green=F, Green=F#/Gb, Blue-Green=G, Blue=G#/Ab, Blue-Violet=A, Violet=A#/Bb, Red-Violet=B
I then sequenced them into my computer using a midi controller.
Three sequences were made at 4/4 120bpm: 1 at eighth note, 1 at quarter note, 1 at whole note.
These were then assigned different instruments and constructed into songs.
The three tracks included are:
1. Pizzicato Viola playing two sequences at eighth notes and Pizzicato Cello playing one sequence at quarter notes. 6min
2. One complete sequence of whole notes played by basses with various instruments coming in playing complete sequences in either quarter or eighth notes. 24min
3. Three sets of mallets playing two complete sequences at eighth notes. 6min
Chance Color Wheel Transcoded Musically by synchronicityspace
Video of the Chance Mural color wheel in action after the jump
Sync Music Night – Garrincha, M. Geddes Gengras, Sneaky Snake and Sagan+Waxy Duo – April 7th
GARRINCHA
(Weird Forest)
” “I Don’t Believe You” kicks off the album with chiming bells and an upbeat church hymn slowed down and matched to a barrage of processed chanting voices. The song morphs into a hypnotic guitar loop layered with ringing synths, guitar washes and ghostly vocals, all building to a cacophonous climax replete with bleating saxes, a buzz metal riff and shredded guitar. “Tower of Babble” begins with sounds of rainfall and something sounding like slowed-down Gregorian chants as a chiming guitar melody softly repeats, eventually giving way to a buzzing organ drone, a tribal drum beat and belted German vocals before taking a final sinister turn with an insistent snare roll propelling the song towards its grand finale. The album concludes with the side-long, three-part “First Rites, Last Communion” suite. Heavily comprised of processed Asian church ceremony field recordings accompanied by occasional guitar and keyboard statements, the piece eventually erupts into a maelstrom of noise blasts, wild guitar and ringing bells before settling into a series of long, drawn out tones. ” – wf
M. GEDDES GENGRAS
(Green Machines/Peccant Tapes/Stunned)
“M. Geddes Gengras, hip cat and modular wizard from the City of Angels with a bunch of tapes out on various imprints like Stunned Records, Full Of Nothing and Sacred Phases is delivering two sidelong tracks like solar wind straight from the heart of the sun: bubbling and boiling hot psychedelica. Mindmelting! Can you stand the heat?” – sicsic
SNEAKY SNAKE
(Complicated Dance Steps)
“Sneaky Snake is an experimental sound project in synthesized tonal waves. Its explicit purpose is the creation of altered states and well-being within the viewer/listener. George Jensen and Ian James began Sneaky Snake by focusing strictly on long form ambience as a means to induce trance-like, semi-consciousness within the audience. Lost within the environment and their subjectivity, participants often experience worlds within themselves. Over time Sneaky Snake has invested itself in complicating the paradigm, introducing aspects of field recordings, sampling, and synthesized drum beats into its healing music.” – ss
SAGAN+WAXY DUO
(SAGAN GENESIS/WAXY TOMB)
(Weird Forest)
“When I first heard Sagan Genesis, I was struck by his melodic synth music — he actually played arpeggios instead of the arpeggiate button (musicianship, how quaint!). This tape rolls around a year+ later and maybe college life has beaten him down. The music’s darker and atmospheric. Even when melodies do creep in, they’re less sunny CA and more overcast Portland. Great moody stuff. Waxy Tomb is Julia Litmer-Cleper. Tape listeners will miss out on the spectacle of her live show, which incorporates some performance art, but in a recorded setting, her minimal, vaguely menacing neo-proto-industrial noise songs stand out all the more.” – wf
PLUS live visuals from MIKO REVEREZA
April 7 – 8p
$5
Click past the break for videos
Off Thee Wall with Lyndsey Lesh and The Rattling Wall
Synchronicity is thrilled to be working again with The Rattling Wall and the second issue’s featured artist, the wonderful Lyndsey Lesh! Lyndsey started an exciting collaboration with Michelle Meyering, founder and editor of The Rattling Wall, that will be documented on Off Thee Wall.
Read more about the concept behind Off Thee Wall:
The Outer Workings of Inter Space mural preview!
A mural created by chance. You spin the wheel, land on a color, paint color to corresponding square. Justin McInteer speaking about ideas in front of his work.
The Outer Workings of Inter Space: New work by Brian Dinkins and Justin McInteer – Opening March 16
“In-between perceived space there are other worlds where the ordinary becomes the fantastic; where animals have superpowers and whole complex systems lie undetected.” –Justin McInteer from a lecture with Brian Dinkins in Prague, 2007
GLEAMING – Opening Saturday, February 11
When we look at the world around us, the images we perceive are first presented to us in the form of rays of light. This light reflects from an object and enters our eyes, which then focuses the signal and delivers it to the brain to be interpreted as an image. Through this interpretation, an image is constructed, we partly imagine and create what we see. Is sight an abstraction of reality? What and how do we each perceive? In GLEAMING, each artist shares their own distinct abstractions of the familiar.
Kelie Bowman’s paintings on paper allow the figurative to dissolve into abstraction where layers of the external world meet the internal worlds of our mind and body. Inspired by her recent residence on a sailboat, these pieces reflect the endlessly new landscapes of pattern and repetition found in the restlessness of moving water.
STO’s papier mache sculptures focus on the deceivingly simple: tools that might be found in a shed and household items such as a broom and a bag of trash lay on the floor, as if waiting to be taken out. In zeroing in on objects that would normally be deemed as merely functional, his painterly takes on the mundane by breathing new life into what we usually ignore.
Jessie Vala’s sculptures and drawings explore the human form crumbling open to minerals and textures of the earth. Human figures morph with abstractions of the forest, sea and rocks, at once form is overtaken melting away to an elemental love affair.
Rob Doran uses the power of objects to reduce portraiture into still life, revealing the ghosts that haunt the vessel, the architecture, the linens. Seemingly a kind of neo folk art steeped in storytelling, memory and meditative communication, a shaker utopia where the landscape is a hat.
GLEAMING will be on view at Synchronicity Space from February 11 through March 10, 2012. An opening reception will be held Saturday, February 11 from 7 to 10pm, with a special music and video performance from Light Hits at 7pm.
LIVE PERFORMANCE 12/16 from Tom Greenwood (Jackie-O Motherfucker) and Strawberry Smog
Jackie O Motherfucker’s Tom Greenwood has a rich and diverse artistic output. Not confined to one band, or even media, Tom often collaborates with other artists to constantly push and explore himself.
Born in 1966, a child of the high Dakota plains, Tom Greenwood showed inter-media tendencies early on. While in high school he divided his time between visual arts (winning a scholarship from Kodak for his photographic work) and sonic arts (playing Purple Haze at biker rallies). He bounced around art schools of the frozen north before ending up on the streets of Minneapolis, where he took his degree in Media Arts.
After spending the end of the 80′s immersed in the aesthetic milieu of rural scum rock, creating the splendid Project A-Bomb record label in the process, Greenwood drifted into the open bowels of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Tom found work as an art director and participated in the Maynard Monroe-curated group show, URBAN ANALYSIS (with Nan Goldin, Rene Ricard, Lady Pink, etc).
Greenwood ended up in Portland, Oregon in the mid 90′s, where he head birthed the seriously disturbed musical project that continues to this day – Jackie O Motherfucker. An extraordinarily mutable feast, Jackie O’s music encompasses everything from industrial ho-hum to acid-volk ready-mades, and has included hundreds of participants over its lifespan. Under the influence of mysterious Northwest bohemians (often associated to some degree with The Holy Modal Rounders), Greenwood studied how to spin garbage into garlands. This technique proved invaluable when he drifted back to New York City, where he connected with Thurston Moore, who encouraged his conceptual moves.
In the 21st Century, Greenwood has created dual vistas of strangeness, all of them whistling like the rings around the o-mind. The musical projects – Jackie O, the U-SOUND series, various shows and galleries – have blended into the visual ones, and splattered in a million unexpected directions.
-Byron Coley, Deerfield, MA, March 2008
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