A Studio Tour, Digital Slide Lecture and Discussion with
KIM ABELES Visual Artist
Saturday, February 16, 2008
1:30 to 3:30 PM
(Please arrive for check-in by 1:15 PM)
821 Traction Avenue #110
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Registration deadline is February 13, 2008. The fee is $10 for SCWCA 2008 paid members and $20 for others. Registration at the door is $5 extra.
TO REGISTER: Make your check payable to SCWCA and mail it to Ann Isolde, 1127 16th Street, Apt. F, Santa Monica, CA 90403 along with your telephone number and email address. If you have questions, email Ann Isolde at annisolde@scwca.org or call (310) 315-0840.
"I like to do things the hard way. My basic quest in life is to reinvent the wheel. Thinking of art as an experiment is the way I really always proceed within the studio."
KIM ABELES is an artist who crosses disciplines and media to explore and map the urban environment and chronicle broad social issues. She has produced individual sculptures, installations, photographs, books, and videos which address subjects as diverse as environmental issues, feminism, aging, HIV/AIDS, labor, community, and collective memory. Since the early 1980s, she has also made art work which involves viewers in her creative process. This studio tour will include a digital presentation that traces the development of her work, provide an opportunity to view some original pieces, and encourage discussion of her artistic process, themes, and techniques.
The Smog Collector series brought her work to national and international attention not only in the art world but also through mainstream sources such as Newsweek and Dan Rather. Abeles' mid-career survey, Encyclopedia Persona A-Z, toured the United States and South America and was awarded the Best Regional Museum Show category for 1993-94 by the International Association of Art Critics. In 2003, El Camino College in Los Angeles organized a solo exhibition titled Body of Work: A 20-Year Survey. Another survey curated by Josine Ianco-Starrels will open this February at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon.
Abeles represented the U.S. in both the Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam and the Cultural Centre of Berchem in Antwerp. Her work is in the collections of MOCA, the United States Information Agency, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and is archived in the library collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt Publication Design Collection of the Smithsonian.
Directions: Please click here to see a map and/or use MapQuest (www.mapquest.com). Parking is available on the street. The building is covered with ivy. Enter through the gate and walk to your right to access the studio. This is an industrial space, so dress warmly.
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