We are gearing up for a wild event that is coming up very fast!  Opening on "First Friday", April 6th, from 7pm-10pm is a new series of paintings by Dallas-based artist Michele Mikesell. 

"Hugo, Oklahoma" is a show based on the lives of passed circus performers, who are buried in the infamous cemetery "Showmen's Rest" in the city of Hugo, and portrayed in Mikesell's signature anthropomorphic style.

The evening opens with a collaborative audio/visual performance with Los Angeles musicians, Duo del Sol, to be held at the Electric Lodge at 7pm.

Immediately following the performance, Altered Space Gallery will hold the artist reception and will be giving away signed giclee prints by Michele Mikesell! (First come, first serve!)

Electric Lodge and Altered Space Gallery are walking distance from each other (a few short minutes), so visitors can park at the Electric Lodge parking lot, and simply walk down Abbot Kinney Blvd. to Altered Space Gallery.  It's the ultimate Venice Beach "First Friday" Experience!

If you are a fan of contemporary low brow/pop-surrealism, this is an event you do not want to miss!  Meet the artist and get a free signed giclee print!

WHO: Michele Mikesell "Hugo, Oklahoma"

WHAT: Artist Reception (and Giclee Print Giveaway) & Visual/Audio Collaborative Performance with Duo del Sol

WHEN: Friday April 6th, 7pm-10pm

WHERE: Electric Lodge: 1416 Electric Ave. & Altered Space Gallery: 1221 Abbot Kinney  Blvd. (Venice Beach, CA)

*Parking available at Electric Lodge*

Join Dúo del Sol for an incredible evening of music celebrating the release of their first EP; 'Mirá' at Bar Pico in Santa Monica. With very special guests Monk Monk - Kai Kurosawa and Keigo Takada, as well as singer songwriter John Zambricki

January 20th, 2012
Bar Pico 2819 Pico Boulevard  Santa Monica, CA 90404 
8pm to 12midnight | $10

Dúo del Sol is violinist Javier Orman and guitarist Tom Farrell (an Altered Space "graduate"), based out of Venice Beach!

Album cover by Michele Mikesell

Altered Space Gallery is pleased to announce our newest showcase of work by a talented young artist, Tyler Ferreira, a fine artist based out of Central California, who uses pull lithograph & etching processes to explore visual realms of unconcious territory.

"I work through my unconscious and try to stray away from recognizable imagery.  The figure still surfaces, but only in fragmented traces.  The shapes that I use are derived from the graffiti culture I was introduced to through my life experiences living in the San Joaquin valley.  The arrow is a traditional shape used in graffiti as a design element.  The shapes that I use in my work purposely do not resemble any known man-made or organic forms.  There is a strong narrative structure in my prints and drawings, but the story unfolds through fragmenting images rather than a linear syntax.  My stories are narratives about narratives.  Through my processes and subject matter I am more concerned with the unknown rather than the creation of a set story or plot. "

Altered Space Gallery has several of these archival hand-pulled lithographs, etchings, and original graphite drawings on display now, featuring work from Ferreira's ongoing series "Fragmented Narratives"

"All the lithographic prints cannot be printed again because I grained the images off the stone after the final color is printed.  The lithographs and etching are printed by my hands on lithography and etching presses.  I destroy my etching plates as well when the edition is finished.  The drawings are original and there is only one unlike the prints. 

Each lithograph or etching is hand pulled and sold as a limited edition."

CONTACT Altered Space Gallery for pricing, availability, and more information about Tyler Ferreira

We just received some advance images from a photo shoot of Camelia Skikos’s latest couture collection, styled with Sarah Graham Metalsmithing jewelry. The Mad Max themed story pairs Camelia’s perfectly tailored clothing with Sarah’s Radiolarian Pendant and Triple Talon Earrings for a fiercely sophisticated look.

Sarah Graham Metalsmithing Jewelry is available at Altered Space Gallery HERE, or by CONTACTING the gallery directly.

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