For the 3rd year in a row The Do LaB along with Sonic Muze and participating artists have been raising thousands of dollars that go directly towards purchasing art and music supplies for under-funded schools.
Here’s how it works: Scattered throughout Lucent L’amour will be 20 live painters creating with 100% used and recycled paint. During the event we will hold a silent auction where you can bid on your favorite art piece, and hopefully take it home with you.
Proceeds from this project will go to support Sonic Muze, a non-profit organization that helps supply musical instruments and art supplies to local schools in need. By bidding on your favorite art you will be helping us support the next generation of artists!!
Curated by Carmen Zella
MearOne
MEAR’s works are meant to bring the unseen mysteries locked with in our minds to the foreground as if to take part in a grand expose`. The question of how did we become, and why. To see through the illusion of our decrepit social condition and speak out with art as a weapon of mass liberation.
Francesca Quintano
My work addresses childhood memories and ambiguous fantasy, but revisited through maniac adult eyes. The randomness of this perspective drives me to hold onto images and photographically captured moments, in the hope of imposing stability and fixedness to experiences and realities long past, often reconstructed over times and through longing. This obsession with the past and with memories is a bifurcated experience, which I then attempt to suture together through the practice of my art work.
http://www.artla.com/artists/francesca-quintano
Kenneth Harris and Judy Nimtz
The arresting power of Harris’ work is that his very painting technique itself becomes a metaphor for the poetic timbre of his subjects. His brushwork is by turns fierce and solid, elusive and aggressive, patient and rambunctious, managing to resolve into a near photographic representation of place when seen at any distance – and dissolving into frothy, impasto pigment up close. But that pigment has the earthy feeling of a body, a perceptible mass and rhythmic compositional dynamic that keeps the eye and mind in motion independent of the visual narrative happening on the picture plane.
http://www.littlejohngallery.com/
http://www.judynimtz.com/
Asylm
His work depicts a harmonious coexistence of nature and the urban landscape. He combines Mesoamerican iconography with that of his urban graffiti palette (since 1989), so to think he is merely painting pictures, would be a mistake. He is creating spiritual trances.
YUKI MIYAZAKI
Born in Kumamoto, Japan, Yuki came to Los Angeles as a girl deeply interested in continuing her families tradition of creating art. Yuki’s paintings have been described as “Eastern pop culture meets classic Western children’s book illustrations.” Recently selected to appear in the Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage 2008 Calendar and Cultural guide, she continues to explore her childhood influences with western culture and expresses them through her paintings.
http://www.myspace.com/yukimiyazaki
Max Neutra
With a wild and frenetic painting style, he quickly creates images that are bold, honest, and at times shocking. Using mostly portraits, he often paints the beauty in nature and the grotesque in mankind, but he is fueled by his fascination with the physiological psychology of the creative act. He believes that artistic processes while informed by science, ultimately come from the unconscious limbic system of the brain and are mysterious. “The subject is just an excuse to paint the line. It’s the line itself that speaks, and it always speaks the truth.”
http://maxneutra.blogspot.com/
Eyeone
I was exported to Los Angeles from Mexico City at the age of 6. Informed by graffiti, punk, typography and printmaking, I aim to present a vision of the city that is subjective and paradoxically documentary in nature. Graffiti has given me a unique perspective on my environment, exposing me to things not often noticed that make the city breathe and come alive. My work both indoors and outdoors navigates concepts of property, public space, decay and the paradoxes inherent in finding life, beauty, and nature surrounded by concrete.
Norm Maxwell
Even a glance at Norm “Nomzee” Maxwell’s work draws you in. The Philadelphia native’s, vibrant paintings present a compelling view of a world filled with color and chaos, power and confusion, pleasure and pain. His vibrant depictions of urban life examines the struggle and aspirations of an individual determined to overcome the shadows of an inner city youth and redefine himself as one of the greatest artist America has ever produced.
Jessica Perlstein
Jessica Perlstein grew up in Petaluma, CA and is now based in San Francisco. In the search to combine her passion for art and music, she began painting live at events in late 2008. Since then, she has been actively painting at as many clubs, underground parties and festivals as she can. With her love for bright colors, organic shapes and patterns, she explores the realms of creative spirit through symmetry and reflections of nature’s beauty. In the live environment, she freely allows the essence of the moment and the energy of the event guide her through the painting, creating an image that is both abstract, yet familiar.
http://jessicaperlstein.viewbook.com
Carlos Vera
A native of Los Angeles, California, Carlos Vera spent the first few years of his life with his family in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. At the age of four, six months after the family broke up, he and his older brother returned to L. A. He was to remain in Southern CA for the next 14 years with his father, Rosendo Vera, a Los Angeles based fine artist and commercial illustrator where he would receive most of his inspiration and encouragement in pursuing his art. Carlos’s talent found him work in the film industry, designing sets, props, costumes, etc., as a conceptual artist, and with exhibitions of his fine art. Carlos opened up an Art Gallery (Our Story), which he used as a personal showing space and a starting point for a youth arts organization in 2001, California Artists for Humanity.
Andres Salcedo
Andres’ vision and paintings come from the center of all emotions, the heart. The very first cell ever created as we come into this plane of existence. With this approach he realized that when we create from the heart there is no dichotomy of separation, all that can be seen or perceived is union and all of us have an equal opportunity to relate to an element chosen by the artist. Therefore creating an opportunity to connect with the energy that lives within each one of us. In his work, Andres experiments with many ancient techniques of mediation mainly sound meditation in order to fill the empty canvas and transport the multidimensional art of sound into a permanent state of recognition by the viewer.
Kelly Matten
Kelly is a designer and animator in the LA area. She’s brought her zippy, quirky appeal to the video game, illustration, and animation industries since graduating CalArts in 2006. The intersection of color, movement, story, and radical self-expression fuel her art. She also likes to dance and dj and ride bikes.
Dave Zaboski
Dave Zaboski has always been drawing. From the start, he has pulled images from his imagination and also observed the motion and emotion from life, filled a thousand sketchbooks, and can always be found with a drawing pen in his pocket and blank pages nearby. He has been a professional at this for twenty years and has shown his art in shows nationally and internationally. As a former Disney Animator Dave contributed his talents to such modern classics as “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “Pocahontas,” “The Lion King,” “Hercules,” “Fantasia 2000,” and many others as part of the second Golden Era of Animation.
Amy Shawley
Amy Shawley creates her visual language through painting, illustration, and photography. Inspired by color, song lyrics, memory, life’s little surprises and the cycles of growth and decay found in nature, she presents her viewers with images of women interacting with environments that represent emotional stories of love, loss, and personal growth. Amy lives and works in her studio in Downtown LA and teaches acrylic painting workshops all over Southern California.
www.flickr.com/photos/twonudesinparis
Krystleyez
Evolving her style since childhood, Krystle’s artwork varies from energetic abstractions to dramatic and delicate portraits. Through a symbolic language of colors and shapes, she strives to portray the underlying unity amongst creation. Awake in a world that has spiraled out of balance, shaken by wars, political unrest, religious confusion and environmental crisis, she passionately believes in the capacity of art to transform the world that we live in. She feels a unique purpose to remind people of the true, infinite nature of their being through the creation of transformative artworks.
In an attempt to bring conscious art into the public, Krystle also accompanies musicians as a live performance painter. Krystle feels that live painting facilitates a unique environment to create work saturated with both sound and the essence of the moment while simultaneously allowing the audience to participate in the process
Amanda Sage
Starting in 1996, her travels and projects bounced her between Bali,, Indonesia and Vienna, Austria. She studied traditional painting and etching for one and a half years with Michael Fuchs, and has been a student and painting assistant to Ernst Fuchs since 1999. Amanda has been blessed with a beautiful studio in the WUK since 2000, a self-governed culture house in Vienna, as well as being involved in creating new systems of group-interaction and presentation.
In 2008 she began spending more time in the US and when she’s not traveling for projects & exhibitions she spends most of her time in Los Angeles, laying ‘eggs’, in her new blessed studio located in downtown above the HIVE Gallery & Studio’s and the new Temple of Visions Gallery.
Andrew Freimann
Andre Freimann started tinkering and creating at an early age. Growing up in Germany and later moving west across the United States, he began sculpting with metal and creating abstract images on canvas. With a career that spans 20 years, he continues to find new expressive outlets in which to share and collaborate on the evolving consciousness that is art.
