Stuff to do

Bob Poe

Illumination
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, October 10, 2009 - Saturday, October 10, 2009
Opening Reception: October 10, 2009, 5-7pm
Bob Poe Gallery
Bergamot Station, G8A, Santa Monica CA
(310) 582-2278

Illumination

Photographer Bob Poe will be holding an opening for his latest work Saturday, October 10, from 5:00-7:00p.m. at Bob Poe Gallery at Bergamot Station. Titled "Illumination," Poe presents the photography he creates exclusively through his iPhone, and demonstrates the effect of light and movement on his subjects. The exhibit is curated by Los Angeles artist Lisa Adams.

“Lillian Bassman: Women” and "The Face of Fashion" Running Simultaneously

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, October 10, 2009 - Sunday, March 7, 2010
Peter Fetterman Gallery
Bergamot Station, A7, Santa Monica CA
(310) 453-6463 www.peterfetterman.com

“Lillian Bassman: Women” and "The Face of Fashion" Running Simultaneously

"Lillian Bassman: Women" will include more than 50 images (many of them not seen since publication) by the 93-year-old doyenne of 20th Century fashion photography. Ms. Bassman (born 1917 in Brooklyn, New York) was appointed Art Director at Junior Bazaar in 1945, assigning projects to Richard Avedon, Robert Frank and Paul Himmel (her late husband). Two years later, she became the Art Director at Harper's Bazaar. Known for manipulating the image in the darkroom, she created photographs that are both elegant and avant-garde. She took her most significant images between the late `40's and early 60's and most were published in Harper's Bazaar. Abrams has just published a book of her work, "Lillian Bassman: Women." It will be her second published monograph - the first long out of print and a cherished item for photography and fashion aficionados alike.

"The Face of Fashion" will feature a who's-who of fashion photography including Irving Penn, Horst, Hoyningen-Huene, William Klein, Louis Faurer, Douglas Kirkland, Barry Lategan, Eve Arnold, Georges Dambier, and Jean Phillipe Charbonnier, among others. Each artist in the show developed his or her unique style and, in doing so, influenced the course of fashion photography. "The Face of Fashion" will feature rare as well as iconic images.

Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum
Artists’ Survival Strategies Seminar

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, October 10, 2009 - Saturday, October 10, 2009

Reception: October 10, 2009, 1-2:30pm

This informative seminar helps artists with issues regarding their career

Magnus Stark

Exhibition Dates: Sunday, October 11, 2009 - Saturday, November 7, 2009
Opening Reception: October 11, 2009, 4-7pm
Haus
517 S. Sierra Madre Boulevard, Pasadena CA
(626) 356-2408 www.hausgallery.com

Magnus Stark

On Sunday, October 11th, a solo exhibition by MAGNUS STARK will begin the 7th year of exhibitions at HAUS with a preview reception for the artist from 4 to 7 p.m.

In this exhibition Stark explores the fringes of photography by creating images without a camera, light, lenses or enlargers. Each of Stark's one-of-a-kind images begins as an unexposed sheet of Polaroid film, which he treats as a blank slate, a tabula rasa. The emulsion of this cellulose "canvas" is then chemically manipulated to summon his compositions from the primordial "id." According to Stark, the process is essentially one of distillation that plays out for hours, days, and sometimes weeks as he "exposes" the images. At a certain point the image is fixed with his scanner and then processed with Photoshop.

This highly personal, symbiotic, digital/alchemical combination produces unpredictable, enigmatic and provocative images that conjure microscopic life-forms, topographic details and far-flung planetary constellations.

Video Work by Gao Shiqiang and Chen Qiulin

Exhibition Dates: Sunday, October 11, 2009 - Sunday, January 10, 2010
Orange County Museum
850 San Clemente Drive, Newport Beach CA
(949) 759-1122 www.ocma.net

Video Work by Gao Shiqiang and Chen Qiulin

-Video Work by Gao Shiqiang and Chen Qiulin (on view from October 11, 2009- Jan 10, 2010). The exhibition takes place at OCMA and pairs video work by two contemporary Chinese artists whose artistic visions capture the collision of tradition and modernity in China in distinct ways. Shiqiang's epic video Butterfly Lovers (2007) is a tragic love story from ancient folklore reverberating among three couples across time..serving as an allegory for the new millennium. Qiulin's Colour Line ( 2006) is a sublime meditation on rapid urbanization and development in contemporary China---fusing documentary format with dream-scape performance.

ArtNight Pasadena

@ Art Center College of Design

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