Installation art has been popping up at events and festivals for many years and there will be no shortage at Lucent L’amour. These installations range from smaller interactive pieces to larger than life sculptures and jaw dropping creations that challenge architectural norms.
Curated by Marsi Frey
The Do LaB
The Do LaB is a Los Angeles based company specializing in interactive environments, event production and creative lighting design. Together, these elements serve the Do LaB’s highest mission: creating experience as art form. Taking an organic approach to everything they design and create, the Do LaB team strives to bring their visions to life with natural materials, found objects and sustainable resources.
When producing an event or music festival or building an installation for touring around the world, the Do LaB is committed to the highest levels of art, production, and aesthetic to always challenge people’s preconceived notions of reality with endless possibilities.
Gerard Minakawa / Bamboo DNA
Gerard Minakawa, a New York City native and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, is an award-winning professional artist and designer based out of Los Angeles, California. He founded Bamboo DNA in 2007 after ten years in the product and furniture design industry and has since dedicated his career to creating large-scale bamboo structures and educating the public about the world’s most gigantic and versatile grass.
Karen Cusolito and Dan Das Mann
Dan’s degree in landsape architecture from Rutgers University is the basis for his fascination with large-scale work. Karen studied at Rhode Island School of Design and Massachusetts College of Art and has produced several public art installations in and around the Boston area. Together their focus is on the spiritual aspects of humanity and the environment. The work they produce together harmoniously combines each of their unique skill sets, along with the energy, friction and inspiration two creative minds produce when working together.
Shrine
Shrine is a self taught artist who has painted over sixty interactive murals around the world, and over fifty murals in Los Angeles.
He has painted numerous restaurants and retail store interiors and exteriors including La Luz De Jesus Gallery, The Soap Plant, the first five Houses of Blues and many others. Shrine also paints cars, furniture, and shoes, and does paintings on wood-framed glass windows.
He has created two large-scale temples made from trash at Burning Man. Shrine has had many art shows over the years, and he performs with Lucent Dossier.
Jeffrey Vincent Parise
“The wonderful wall of portraits.” From his series of over 100 life sized paintings called Naked & Famous comes a wall of portraits of members of our beloved community spanning the past 6 years. Jeffrey Vincent Parise is an actor, painter and a filmmaker living in Los Angeles. As always, whenever showing his work, Jeffrey would like to thank the brave and beautiful souls who have sat for him. He is forever grateful.
Sandman Creations
Sean’s explorations of the alien worlds of plant, insect and ocean life have been the predominant focus of his work to date. Through a combination of steel wire, imported fabrics and various types of illumination, he uses delicate curves, rich textures and warm colors to infuse his pieces with a gentle, dreamlike surreality, encouraging the viewer to rediscover these wonders of nature with a sense of childlike awe. In his most recent foray, The Convergence Series, Sean combines backlighting with shadowcasting in a collection of organic, iconic and geometrically inspired pieces. The sculptures, backlit themselves, cast fantastic light and shadow arrays, incorporating the entire wall or ceiling into the piece.
Debi Cable
Velvet Touch Painting has been a creative force in the Los Angeles and Orange County area for the past sixteen years. Originally founded in Las Vegas, Nevada, owner and artist, Debi Cable began working in such casinos as the Paris Hotel, and has since established an impressive list of clientele. We are in the process of assembling a list of these companies and people, but in the meantime would be happy to tell you about them.
Scott O’keefe
Scott okeefe created berkeley california based art collective emerald installations.
His intention is to use materials from the natural world and shape them into art that provides a creative bridge into sacred consciousness…a wholistic/symbiotic consciousness where human beings see themselves as parts of each other…to re-connect people with Mother Earth’s sacred seed of LOVE…the divine life force energy…that will unify the globe…and allow mankind to FLOWER.
Linka Odom
Linka Odom grew up in Texas and spent many days walking the creek behind her home. The constant discovery’s that were found instilled a sense of adventure which continue to influence her today. Linka has been practicing photography for over twenty years. Finding her focus when she began traveling to diverse cultures around the world, seeking out the extraordinary in nature and humanity. Her images combine a fascination with the surreal and classic elements of photography. Linka’s current work explores the nature of displaying photographic imagery, by expanding on the 2d aspects of the medium and bringing it into a 3 dimensional range. The idea is to take the viewer through an experience, one that encourages a journey on their own terms both inside and outside the installation itself.
Scott Bella
-Luminature-
Ignite thy imprinted Spirit of nature within.
Become the obServer and the observee; activate your DNA and divine galactic bluePrInt.
Rise up and ascend wIth Thee.
The Ant Farm and Ruckus Roots
This LA-based collective of artists and creative thinkers turns large-scale artistic dreams into reality. They are builders and painters, designers and engineers, working with materials ranging from water and wood to metal and found objects. Founded by Robin Banks in 2005, Art Customs specializes in sustainable built art installations, and art with an environmental message.
Andrew Hoeveler and Konie Conine and Ceci Castelblanco
Designed by Andrew Hoeveler, and painted by Konie and Ceci Castelblanco, “motionBlue.prnt” is a mix of traditional animation and optical print-making, in a quite simple yet magical kiosk. The installation is constructed around a transparent drawing surface which also holds cyanotype paper, and is washed by UV light. Participants take turns adding to the constantly evolving drawing, the stop-motion animation of which is playing in real-time on a digital display, and simultaneously creating blueprints that are hung, one-by-one, on cables extending away from the kiosk.
Michael Elliot
Michael Elliot is an artist and photographer who’s preferred tools of craft are floral wire for his sculptures and a beat up Lomo LC-A Kompakt Automat for his photography (a troublesome yet adventurous point-and-shoot film camera). A native Las Vegan who’s recently moved to Southern California seeking new inspiration and a more rewarding life, he originally found much of the inspiration for his photography in the neon and night-life he was immersed in while employed as the director of promotions for the ICE: Metaclub during its’ final years of operation in Las Vegas. Much of this can be seen in the intense coloring and light painting which cascades across the majority of his photographic body of work. His “Nomadic Petshop of Cryptozoological Oddities” is a portable instillation of wire sculptures featuring cages with a varying range of subjects within them. This particular project has inspired by a multitude of sources including Banksy’s ‘Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill’, Gregory Colbert’s Ashes and Snow, the film ‘The Science of Sleep’, the visual creations of Tim Burton, and more… The project currently features a collection of unrelated subjects, however throughout 2010 will evolve to include interpretations of the Chinese and Babylonian Zodiacs. Currently consisting of 24 cages, the project is expected to produce 100 cages by the end of 2010 which will be rotated for display.
Sean “Chango” Caffey
Sean emerged into the arts naturally with a painter for a mother and a jazz composer of a father. With a family full of artists ranging from photographers and graphic designers to fine mixed media artists, he was exposed to the raw knowledge used to create art. At a young age, Sean learned drawing, painting, carpentry, costume design and various forms of dance all before he entered high school. He first showcased his design skills with award winning Landscape Designs at fairs in LA and Orange County,eventually moving into floral design.
In college his focus moved from Plant Science/ horticulture into the entertainment industries, later moving into set construction/design , he moved into doing Event Space Décor. Having developed his own style of décor and still being a driven collaborator and willing to adapt to other designers design style quikly he has worked with many of the event decore companies in LA. Currently Sean is working on creating new environments with fabric, steel and projections.
Fishbon
Fishbon is a Santa Barbara based, non-profit organization who’s main function is to encourage collaboration between artists, technologists, writers, designers, performers and participants to create unique, real-time interactive experiences that speak to contemporary audiences. By providing context, physical infrastructure, tools, mentoring support and encouragement for creative collaboration, Fishbon is an experiential incubator for emerging cooperative working models.
Dr. Kazoo
Dr. Kazoo is the mad-light-scientist alter ego of composer and producer Joshua Penman. Dr. Kazoo believes in turning colors into liquid and stasis into motion. Using software of his own design, developed originally for the playa and making its West Coast debut at Lucent L’amour, Dr. Kazoo entrances with his ability to envelop revelers in a psychedelic sea of complex and rapidly evolving multidimensional sculptural light ambiences.
