A Studio Tour, Digital Presentation and Discussion with
ERIKA ROTHENBERG Visual Artist
Saturday, July 19, 2008
1:30 to 3:30 PM
(Please arrive by 1:15 PM to check in so we can start on time.)
The Helms Building
8727 Washington Blvd.
Studio #8727
Culver City, CA 90232
Advance registration by July 16, 2008 is required. The fee is $10 for 2008 SCWCA paid members and $20 for others. Registration at the door is $5 extra.
TO REGISTER: Make your check payable to SCWCA and mail it with your telephone number and email address to Ann Isolde, 1127 16th Street, Apt. F, Santa Monica, CA 90403. Call (310) 315-0840 or email annisolde@scwca.org for more information.
“One of L.A.’s best and most prickly artists.”
— Clayton Campbell, Flash Art
ERIKA ROTHENBERG makes art that takes a variety of forms—painting, sculpture, photography, multiform installations and large-scale public works. She frequently uses words as well as images and often re-imagines iconic items in U.S. culture. Critic Nancy Princenthal wrote in Art in America: “Rothenberg increasingly confronts not just the agencies of institutionalized greed but also the yearning for self-definition that even conscientious individuals bring to their relations with the commercial media.” Her work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany. It is also represented in many private and public collections. This studio tour will include a digital presentation that traces the development of her work, a viewing of original pieces and a discussion of her process.
ERIKA ROTHENBERG was born in New York, educated at the University of Chicago and lives in Los Angeles. She has taught at Cal Arts, UCLA and Otis College of Art. Her awards include Art Matters, the Peter Norton Family Foundation and a Getty Fellowship. She is represented by Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago.
Directions: There is metered street parking on Washington Blvd. and on Helms Avenue as well as some additional parking areas off to the side of Helms Avenue between Washington Blvd. and Venice Blvd.. Park and then walk about halfway down Washington between National and Helms until you come to an olive green marquee with glass doors specifying 8723-8739 on them. To the right of the doors is a directory. Ring Rothenberg’s code and she will buzz you in. Then walk down the hall, through the doors at the end and all the way down the following hallway to the last door on the right, which says #8727.
From downtown or east: Take the Santa Monica Freeway (10) west to the Fairfax/Washington exit. Exit and turn left onto Washington Blvd. Continue on Washington Blvd. past La Cienega and about 7 more blocks or so. The Helms Building is on the right after you pass Helms Avenue. If you reach National, you have gone too far.
From the west: Take the Santa Monica Freeway (10) east to Robertson Blvd. Exit and go south on Robertson Blvd. Then turn left onto Washington Blvd. The Helms Building will be on your left, between National and Helms.
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