Phantom Galleries LA
March 25 – 27, 2010

Phantom Galleries LA (PGLA) is a Los Angeles County based organization that transforms properties in transition into temporary public art galleries. PGLA partners with local property owners with a desire to activate non-utilized space with local artists, curators and arts organizations interested in exhibition space. Each exhibit becomes a unique collaboration between the interested parties and their surrounding community. PGLA’s focus and goal is to bolster efforts to create a more culturally stimulating Los Angeles where inspirational, educational, art experiences transpire throughout the urban landscape, 24/7, 365 days a year.

Four Curators who participate in PGLA programming have been given a project space to showcase an artist and or project. A visual history documentary of past PGLA exhibits will be screened and looped.

Heather Carson curated by Liza Simone. Alex Garcia curated by Christine Faraci. Daena E Title curated by Sophia Louisa.
Eros/thanatos Curated by Tricia Lawless Murray, Project coordinator Stephanie Allespach, Eros/thanatos Artists:
Marc Adelman, Stephanie Allespach, Nancy Buchanan, Carolyn Castaño, Victor Cobo, Anne Colvin, Catherine Daly, Adrienne Fernandez, Amber Fox, Phyllis Green, Jason Hanasik, Evah Hart, Micol Hebron, Elise Irving, Zsolt Kadar, Ellina Kevorkian, Ali Kyeradyar, Tricia Lawless Murray, Elizabeth Looke-Stewart, Leigh McCarthy, Lucas Michael, Museum of Viral Memory, Claudia Parducci, Christopher Picon, Nancy Popp, Joseph Roseberry, Jessica Rosen, Amy Sampson, Pascal Shirley, Jessica Skloven, David Sotelo, Felis Stella, Casey Stroud, Karen Stuke
www.PhantomGalleriesLA.com

Monte Vista
March 18 – 20, 2010

Monte Vista is an artist-run space in Highland Park. Since July 2007, they have hosted exhibitions, lectures, events, and performances. The space is self-determining, with the general aims of providing a platform for art and conversation, emphasizing experimentation and artworks that contribute to non-traditional dialogues.

From March 17–20, Monte Vista will be part of the 12 Gauge series. As part of this 3 day exhibition, the seven artists who currently run Monte Vista will show a sampling of their own work as well as a collaborative collage that playfully illustrates past members, events, and exhibitions that have been hosted at Monte Vista since 2007.

On Saturday the 20th from 11am–5pm, the Monte Vista artists have organized several events. Frank Chang will be offering up a “Psychic Juice Bar”, in which he has invited psychic artist, Asher Hartman, to give psychic aura readings. Chang and Hartman will interpret the aura reading into a personalized and unique juice mixture. Other events of the day include a musical performance by Tom Harris, Rafe Mandel, and Dan Hockinson (organized by Jay Lizo); a performance by Candice Lin; and a chance to make your own Monte Vista poster at the hands-on silk screening workshop, led by Chris Bassett and Christie Williams. Monte Vista artists Shizu Saldamando and Nikki Pressley will be assisting at these events as well. All events are free and open to the public.

Kristin duCharme
March 11 – 13, 2010

Kristin duCharme's exhibition consists of such diverse pieces as a large hand knotted wool carpet, a ten-foot tall oil painting/sculpture and two upholstered wall sculptures. Together the traditionally domestic references of the materials and the imagery of children add to the implications evoked by the viewer’s sense of subjects that are understood and familiar. By repositioning these references, the exhibition traverses the line of unspoken yet socially agreed upon rules. Through humor and Dada-ish overtones duCharme’s works are punctuated with a lump-in-the-throat seriousness when the viewer is struck by the quiet familiarity of subject mater as very personal.
Opening Reception March 13, 1 – 3pm

Sea and Space
March 4 – March 6, 2010

Founded in 2007 as a non-profit artist run gallery, Sea and Space is a highly collaborative venue dedicated to presenting challenging contemporary art practices largely unsupported by commercial spaces. The space hosts exhibitions, lectures, workshops, performances, and happenings. Sea and Space Explorations is a portal to a place where notions of good and bad, market constraints, and fixations with progress are understood to be peripheral, where artists take risks without fear. This space hosts artists whose practices resonate with the conceptual, theoretical, relational, and political. For more information and schedule of events, please visit www.seaandspace.org

Jaime Scholnick
June 25 - June 27, 2009

The TAM presents Los Angeles artist Jaime Scholnick in our final week of our 12 Gauge series for the 2009 season.

Mary Anna Pomonis
June 18 - June 20, 2009

Mary Ann Pomonis presents graphite and charcoal pieces on panel and a floor sculpture. Pomonis' dynamic work has been exhibited nationally for over 10 years from Los Angeles, to Chicago, to New York. To see more images and to read her statements on her various projects, visit www.maryannapomonis.com

Justin Bower
June 11 - June 13, 2009

A recent Claremont Graduate University grad, Justin Bower will be exhibiting his unique take on portraiture. With a dynamic handling of paint and pallette, Bower puts a contemporary re-visioning of one of art's oldest subject matters.

Claudia Parducci
June 4 - June 6, 2009

Claudia Parducci is a Los Angeles based painter and installation artist. To view more of her work visit her site www.claudiaparducci.com

Josh Peters
May 28 - May 30, 2009

Josh Peters is an LA based painter and has exhibited at, among other places, Raid Projects in LA, and Artist Space in NYC, and has been featured in many publications including New American Paintings. To view more of his work visit www.josh-peters.com

Quinton Bemiller
May 7 - May 9, 2009

The first installment of the 12 GAUGE exhibitions began with Chinatown based painter Quinton Bemiller. Bemiller's abstract, medium to large scale work, really sang on the white walls of gallery two.