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The opening reception of INSTANT GRATIFICATION: los angeles is scheduled for 7:00 PM on Saturday January 9th, 2010 at Copro Gallery, Bergamot Station, Southern California’s largest art gallery complex and cultural center, located on eight acres in the heart of Santa Monica, California.

Approximately 2,000 original, one-of-a-kind Polaroid’s will be displayed together in a uniform manner
from floor to ceiling, side by side, in protective plastic sleeves.

The special event will be accompanied by live musical performances with The Fling, Sam Outlaw and The Romany Rye.

I will be exhibited in this show. Come on down and meet me here.

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Four of my photographs shot on Polaroid 600 film with a Polaroid SX-70 will be exhibited on January 09, 2010, 6PM – 9PM.

The special event will be accompanied by live musical performances with The Fling, Sam Outlaw and The Romany Rye.

Sponsored by Copro Gallery, The Impossible Project and For Your Art.
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Sunday, November 1ST
3PM to 9PM
FREE EVENT

Mi Alma Courtyard
4016 Santa Monica Blvd.
@ Sunset Junction in Silver Lake

Special Day of the Dead Ceremony with
Templo Santa Muerte

Performing Live:
LA FOG
WE BREAK CAMERAS

Traditional Mexican Music Stylings of Claudia Vázquez

Arts & Crafts by:
Diane Grajeda
Raul Pizarro
Vincent Moreszes
Ronald Whipple
Rosa Limon
Rafael Nava
Jay Lopez
Kieran Sala

Art Exhibits Courtesy of:
Junc Gallery
Synchronicity Space
DRKRM Gallery
New Puppy
The Apiary Gallery
Azteca Gallery

Live Painting with:
Prince Parise
Yuki Miyazaki
Michael Pukac
Courtesy of Cannibal Flower

Live Print Making with:
PUMA Project
Grinding Gears

BRING YOUR OWN SHIRT FOR $5
Day of the Dead screen prints!!!

Food by:
Coolhaus Ice Cream
Dosa Truck
and more!

Brought to you with the support of:
Mi Alma Collective
Silver Lake Gallery Alliance
Jay Lopez.net
Templo Santa Muerte
Brooklyn & Boyle
A Little Birdy Told Me
Silver Lake Neighborhood Council
East Hollywood Neighborhood Council

Reserve a space for the community altar or to join the altar competition, exhibit, vendor info, or more email: SLDOTD@gmail.com

The 4th Annual Alternative Car Expo and Conference is coming and will have more than 150 exhibits that will offer an extensive presentation of the latest examples and information on vehicle and transportation technologies including electric, natural gas, biodiesel, hydrogen, ethanol, propane and hybrid and alternative techologies!

I’m hoping we get a glimpse of Toyota’s brillance:

And Aptera’s brillance:

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This historic exhibition – the first ever public presentation of never-before-seen photographs by the internationally renowned painter, printmaker, muralist and performance artist, Gronk.

Currently on view at Drkrm. gallery until October 18, 2009. There will be a closing reception for the artist on Saturday, October 17 from 7-10pm.

Click here for photos of Mondo Gronk opening reception 09/12 by Angel Villanueva

Spanning the late 1970’s through much of the 1980’s, these black and white images present a visual record of Gronk’s photographic work that includes the East L.A. avant-garde art collective, Asco (Spanish for nausea) and it’s conceptual counter-cinema movement, NO MOVIE (making movies without the use of celluloid). This alternative cinema was forged from the refusal of Chicanos to accept their lack of access to Hollywood. They constructed single-frame idealized images of daily life, like a still from a film, that would tell a whole story. Along with Harry Gamboa, Jr., Willie Herron and Patssi Valdez, and in collaborations with Cyclona, Mundo Meza, Jerry Dreva, and Tomata DuPlenty, Gronk’s cinematic sensibilities challenged the limits of sexuality, gender norms, and taste.

On display concurrently in the Project Room::

GRONKPATSSIPARTY : Photographs by Louis Jacinto

On Tuesday, October 31, 1978 Asco artists Gronk and Patssi Valdez had an exhibition and party at L.A.C.E. Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. The party included the second and final performance of punk band The Snappers. But that night Snapper members Gerardo Velasquez and Michael Ochoa met Edward Stapleton and decided to form Nervous Gender. No photographs of Gronk were taken. No photographs of Patssi Valdez were taken. Just a voyeuristic view of their guests and the demise of The Snappers and the spawning of Nervous Gender.

Louis Jacinto began photographing in 1973. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Advocate, Frontiers Magazine and Drop Dead Magazine. In addition, two photographs from his book, PUNKROCK LOSANGELES, have been added to the permanent collection of the Claremont Museum of Art. As a member of the Los Angeles art collective LAART, Louis has exhibited throughout Los Angeles.

Click here for more information, Drkrm. Gallery