We hope you can join us Thursday, October 13 from 6-10 pm for Intersection: Artist Roundtable Discussion and Reception for SoftMachine:UT!
DATE: Thursday October 13, 6-10PM
Location: Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, 1431 Ocean Ave, Santa Monica CA 90401
Phone: (323) 545-6018
Website:www.bgartdealings.com
Hours: Sunday-Wednesday 12-6pm, Thursday-Saturday 12-10pm
Curator: Mike Saijo, mike.saijo@gmail.com (562) 396-7670
Gallery: Om Bleicher, om@caporalegallery.com (310) 237-6423
Bleicher Gallery La Brea presents a discussion and reception for “SoftMachine:UT”, curated by Mike Saijo. Artists will have a brief talk about their work in the exhibit and their take on how it relates to our current socio-political climate.
Saijo’s ambitious project is a series of painted hexagon shapes formed to look like DNA compounds. These shapes will be painted on by diverse members of the community, making a constantly evolving exhibition. Taking cue from the William Burroughs’ innovative cut-up/fold-in novel, the canvases create a gallery-wide DNA structure and together, tell a new kind of mythology about our social dynamics.
The exhibit is the first of a three-part series of exhibits curated and created by Mike Saijo. Inspired by William Burroughs’ 1964 sci-fi novel Soft Machine, this exhibit explores the novel’s concept of undifferentiated tissue (UT), a tissue which causes the protagonist to metamorphose and change identities throughout the course of its story. Much like the UT, today’s scientific practices continue to change our own DNA and, in turn, constantly restructure the DNA of our society as a whole.
Artists: Oscar Magallones, Gay Summer Rick, Bob and Marjorie Moskowitz, Stephen Jerome, Gerta Lind, Vyalone, Wenceslao Quiroz, Robyn Killian, Arturo Jimenez Haro, Bill Hicks, Lynn Coleman, Marcus Durkheim, Simone Gad, Tracey Harnish, Jose Lopes, Barry Markowitz, Robert Oblon, Shannon Rowland, Kelly Thompson, Garrett Wentzell, Airom, Essi Zimm, Sal Loren, Kevin Yang, Sergio Coronado, Vincent Tomczyk, Angela Penaredondo, Sal Loren, Lizzy Waronker, Bea Lamar, Sam Saghetalian, Julia Schwartz, Reuben Gonzales and special guests.