live with animals

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:45:00 +0000

Live With Animals physical location closed in October 2011. Until we resurrect an actual space, you can check back here for updates on events we curate, shows we do, and other news. Please feel free to contact with inquiries, or if you would like to work together!

livewithanimals@gmail.com

Check out our art here:
http://cameronmichel.blogspot.com/
And some of the shows we curated here:
http://livewithanimalsgallery.blogspot.com/
And our music here:
http://www.thek-holes.blogspot.com/

5 May 2012

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:39:00 +0000

K-HOLES RECORD RELEASE PARTY THis SaTurDAY!
Hard Nips, CALL Of tHe WILD and K-hOLes are performing and Kid CONGO Powers and Micki Pellerano fingers will be spinning ReCOrds. -------also in celebration of planet eartH's superfullMOOn, Cinco De Mayo, 2012 Kentucky Derby and a NY!!!!!!

It's @ Secret Project Robot
389 Melrose btw Knickerbocker and Irving
L train to Morgan or Jefferson
DOORS Open @ 8:00pm -------also in celebration of planet eartH's superfullMOOn, Cinco De Mayo, 2012 Kentucky Derby and a NY!!!!!!

rsvp here

If you can't make it you can buy the new album at your local record store or at hardlyart.com

24 September 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:18:00 +0000

10 September 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:27:00 +0000

September 10th 2011 2PM TO 10PM
BLOCK PARTY!!!!

POSTER Design BY WOLFY-THANK YOU!!
http://www.facebook.com/event
RAIN OR SHINE!

Thank you so much for your years of support! We are sad and excited all at the same time for our new beginnings! This has been an amazing time for all of us at Monster Island, and we at Live With Animals are very thankful for our time here and all of the wonderful people we have been so lucky to work with. Please take this ending as a reminder of how important it is to support the art scene and never take anything for granted. We took our name from an excerpt of Walt Whitman poem and saw it fitting to name our final show after Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay...which really sums up our existence in this wonderful and quickly fading building. So alas...

Monster Island Arts and Music Festival Last Ever annual Block Party!

Monster Island, Williamsburg's landmark center for the arts home to, Live With Animals Gallery, Secret Project Robot Art Space, Kayrock Screenprinting, Todd P. Practice Spaces, Mollusk Surf Shop, Oneida and a multitude of studios and rehearsal spaces would like to say goodbye in style.

Over the last 7 years we have always thrown an annual Block Party where we invite the entire neighborhood in to listen to live bands on the street, tour the building and host 2 giant art installations; as that this is our last block party ever (the building is slated for demolition in October), we'd like your help to celebrate!

CULT OF YOUTH
ERIC COPELAND
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
MAN FOREVER
CALL OF THE WILD
K-HOLES
REEGAL DEEGAL
DUBKNOWDUB
VAZ
HAIR JAIL
DIVINE ORDER OF THE BLOOD WITCH
BRUTE FORCE
THESE DAYS
and more!

Two Art Installations!

In Live With Animals

"NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY"
Group art show and installation

Golden Art Installation with work by founders and friends of Live With Animals Cameron Michel, Tania Ryalls, Vashti Windish, Raul de Nieves, Kory Hellebust, Tom Delaney, Eli Lerhoff, Sto, Eli Lerhoff, Sara Gates, Matthew Craven, Martha Hipley, Carlos Ruiz, Rachel Nelson, Zach Lerhoff, Micki Pellerano, Nathan Whipple, Jessie Steat, Emma and more!

In Secret Project Robot

"OUTER SPACE THE FINAL FRONTIER"
A GROUP INSTALLATION AND THE FINAL
ART SHOW AT THIS SECRET PROJECT ROBOT LOCATION
Barry London, Sto, Kyle Hepp, John-eric Lawson, Chris uphues and Jenn, Christine Francis, Eli Lehrhoff, Brian Chase StoveTop, Martha, Kory Hellburst
Robot Death Cult, Maya Hayuk and Friends, Kayrock, Zach Lehrhoff, Allison Awesome and Call of the Wild, Cameron Michel...

Live With Animals will continue to do curatorial projects in other spaces, and are happy to announce their new studio and home will be in the new Secret Project Robot location. We will be focusing on our projects and music there! Keep up with us at http://cameronmichel.blogspot.com/ , http://www.thek-holes.blogspot.com/ and of course http://livewithanimals.org.

13 August 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:42:00 +0000

Lemonaids
A collaboration between Jason Fritz/Matthew Momchilov
Opening Reception August 13th 7-10

For queers, and many others, the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic created a fear of ones own body as the promise of a future was thrown into jeopardy. As AA Bronson has pointed out, this historical moment was “the continuous interweaving of care-taking, funerals, memorials, anniversaries, and more deaths.“
Using the vast media culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which conflated queerness with illness, artists Jason Fritz Michael and Matt Momchilov consider a variety of media tactics from this time and provide a counter-reading of these images from our current moment. The work questions the limitations and failures of self-help, fashion, art, and other media as a stand in for real advocacy, activism and transformation. If we can change our bodies and futures into something not tethered to the chains of death- is this how we do it?

On View August 13th through August 28th

www.jasonfritzmichael.com
www.mattmomchilov.com

8 July 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:31:00 +0000

Pseudoarchaeology
Paintings by Lionel Lamy

I come across my subjects through extensive research of imagery which I use as a launching point to explore the divides that exist between past and present, pre-modern and post-modern and to explore what, if anything, has been lost in terms of the spiritual, symbolic and magical experiences of mankind.

The current work deals specifically with the interplay between archetypal fragments, pseudo-histories, and general vagueries and misinterpretations in the building of new and more personal mythologies.

July 8th through July 31st
Opening Reception July 8th 7-10pm
with DJ Micki Pellerano

10 June 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:51:00 +0000

Violet Times presents: Foggy Notion
June 10th – June 26th, 2011
Opening Reception 7-10

Featuring visual art & musical performances throughout the month from John D Morton (electric eels, X__X, Johnny & The Dicks) / Peggy Snow (Cherry Blossoms) / Timmy Vulgar (Clone Defects, Human Eye, Timmy's Organism, etc.) / Hamish Kilgour (The Clean, Great Unwashed, Mad Scene, etc.) / Ju Suk Reet Meate & Oblivia (both Smegma, The Tenses, etc.) and Neil Michael Hagerty (Royal Trux, Howling Hex, Pussy Galore)

Friday June 10th, 2011 - Opening nite party
Garbage River (featuring Timmy Vulgar & Jimbo Easter)
+ special guest: Sightings
DJ Acapulco Rodriguez

Saturday June 11th, 2011 – auxiliary party at Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St, NY
Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex
+ special guest: comedian Ben Kronberg

Friday June 17th, 2011
John Morton & The Dunking Swine Of Chelsea
The Tenses (Ju Suk Reet Meate & Oblivia)
DJ Chris Freeman (Fusetron)

Thursday June 23rd, 2011 – Closing nite party
The Cherry Blossoms (Peggy Snow)
The Mad Scene (Hamish Kilgour)

Violet Times wants to turn you on.

Over the years of listening to my records I began to take an even greater appreciation of some of my favorite bands’ record covers. These outrageous sounds were often housed in sleeves adorned w/ equally compelling artwork, almost always done by a band member who had also made the music I was hearing.

One day whilst cruising thru a mini ‘landmark’ tour of sorts in my former South Brooklyn hood w/ one of the prime movers in Cle-punk history, a little black egg dropped out of the earhole of my skull and the idea for this visual spectacle was subsequently hatched.

Each of the Foggy Notion artists have been creating music and art for quite some time- a few have been recording & performing since as far back as the very early 70's. In some ways they are all fairly well known in the under-the-counter culture world of music & out sounds but they've all been simultaneously creating visual art throughout the years in far more obscurity. Violet Times thinks it would be great to shine a light on another aspect of what these individuals do that is most likely less known to the mass ear and eye.

This is not at all to imply that I want to have this be some kind of record cover art showcase- I’ve never wanted that at all and that’s not what one should expect when attending the exhibit. The Foggy Notion art exhibition is about their other visually artastic activities. The music as released and sleeved is only the gateway into these other endeavors. Mine, and now yours…

14 May 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:07:00 +0000

Ocean by Cook and Gates is the first collaborative installation by Brooklyn duo, Ethan Cook and Sara Gates. Last year, both artists brought their studio practices together to form their experimental fashion label, Cook and Gates. Specializing in a variety of hand dyeing techniques they create canvas bags that are each their own work of art. Here they expand on their process and create a whole environment incorporating dyed canvas, organic found material, sound, and limited edition bags for sale.

22 April 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:55:00 +0000

HEADSSS

APRIL 22- MAY 8
Nicholas Gazin, Eli Lehrhoff, Ryan Hill, John Henry Kelly, and Thomas Delaney

Opening Reception April 22nd 7-10
Live performance by Fuck School and Hair Jail

8 April 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:02:00 +0000

Live with Animals is proud to present "Pilgramsferd til Nidaros", an exhibition by Eric Leiser.

Opening Reception April 8, 2011 7pm-11pm
Puppet Performance April 8, 9, 10 at 9pm

"Pilgramsferd til Nidaros" is an exhibition of several parts one being paintings celebrating the arrival of spring loosely based upon the study of 19th century Norwegian Folk Art, specifically focusing on the art form of Rosemaling (Norwegian for rose painting) a form of decorative folk art that originated in the rural valleys of Norway. The second part will be a Norwegian Stabbur house focusing on Nidaros which was Northern Europe's most important Christian pilgrimage site during the Middle Ages, the goal of pilgrims being the Nidaros Cathedral. The third part will cover Viking Art pre and post Christianity in paintings and animation. Finally a puppet play based on a 18th century Norwegian Fairytale "The Boy who went after the North Wind" will be
performed each night with life size puppets in Bunraku style with accompanying animation and live score by Jeffrey Leiser.

Eric Leiser is an artist, animator, director, puppeteer, holographer and curator who currently lives and works in New York City. He creates animated feature film and shorts as well as works that integrate animation, puppetry, holography, sound and live performance/installation. Leiser is interested in spiritual surrealism and how animation transforms perception when it is combined with live action space creating a fantastical/spiritually surrealistic quality.

His works have been shown at MASS MoCA, ISTANBUL MODERN, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Ruben H. Fleet Space Museum, British Film Institute and Anthology Film Archives.

9 April 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:59:00 +0000

The Front
4100 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117
Saturday & Sunday 12 to 5 pm

Articles of the Lysithean Order
New Works by Cameron Michel and Vashti Windish
April 9th - May 8th
Opening Reception April 9th 7pm-11pm

Cameron Michel and Vashti Windish bring you a collection of images and traditional costumes of the Lysithean Order, a tribe that lives deep in our solar system on one of the many moons of Jupiter. The masks and costumes are worn during the ceremonial gathering called Ipcheata which is when a young Lysithean transmutates into its telepathic body. During Ipcheata, they develop from a humanoid body into orbs of light, which can communicate in visual vibrations. These glowing exchanges can be seen by the human mind’s eye when in dream states.

Cameron and Vashti operate Live With Animals, an art space in Brooklyn, NY. Their gallery houses exhibits by emerging artists, avant garde performances and many musicians. Also sharing the love of music, they are presently members of the bands K-holes and Golden Triangle.

Cameron Michel and Vashti Windish live and work together in New York City.

www.cameronmichel.blogspot.com
www.nolafront.org

4 March 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:25:00 +0000

Andy Curtin

Opening Reception March 4th 7pm-10pm
Exhibition March 4th - April 1st
Check back for special events throughout March.

5 February 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:09:00 +0000

Tobin Hines is an artist who works in various two and three dimensional mediums.

His work deals loosly with the physical, emotional and intellectual distance between the individual (viewer or artist) and the artwork itself and the exchange that occurs as a result of looking.

The work in this show has something to do with the anxiety that results from anticipation as well as notions of absence, contemplation and sincerity.

He is interested in and influenced by popular music, advertising, design, the internet, his friends, The United States of America, television, some books, some movies, standing in line, sports,

games, food, amateurism and comedy.

He lives with his wife and their two sons in South Carolina.

7 January 2011

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:39:00 +0000

Micki Pellerano is a New York based artist and esotericist. Acclaimed by the New York Times a gifted young Post-Neo Symbolist; his draftsmanship, ritual performance and experimental film explore the role of emblems in the human psyche and the perversions of a society confounded by mystery.

His study of ancient and modern mystery traditions combine with a pedigree of the experimental theater to implement a unique command over gesture and symbol in extracting obscure meaning enshrined in classical myth, art and architecture. Pellerano's drawings and short films have been exhibited widely throughout Europe and North America. His artwork and scholarly accomplishments in occult theory and philosophy have been featured in various American books and periodicals.

Opening Reception January 7th 7pm-10pm

Exhibition January 8th - January 30th

Check back for special events throughout January in conjunction with "Here Lies Truth."

19 November 2010

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:58:00 +0000

Clinton's experimentation with faces of iconic figures spawned from the constant routine of printing iconic heads on the hoods of sweatshirts, which is the basic premise of his concept clothing line "HeadHoods." After printing what seemed like countless (Hepburns, Presleys, Jacksons, Monroes, Obamas, Legomen, etc,) he began to introduce more obscure faces ( G. Jones, Sock Monkeys, Luchadors, crying babies, etc). To keep his daily regiment of printing interesting while suppressing his constant fear of copyright infringing, he put his vast array of screens to work and couldn't help but begin to over lay, over print and collage all these different faces. Clint prides himself in creating works wether it be a printed face on a hood, a typographic treatment found on a tshirt or lightpost, or a giant wheatpaste of a three mouthed Marilyn on the street corner which in turn causes his double taking audience to walk away chuckling and thinking positively or better yet, sparking conversation between two strangers. Clinton's first solo show will feature a little bit of everything he makes, including a live music performance at his opening reception.

8 October 2010

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:57:00 +0000

October 8 - October 24

Opening Reception October 8, 6-9pm

In April 2010, on the way to observe the 60th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, the president of Poland was killed in a plane crash over the sight of the memorial. The same month, Sebastian Mlynarski traveled back to his hometown of Tarnobrzeg in Poland to visit his terminally sick father. The show consists of a video and photographs made during this visit, as well as research material on the National Rebirth of Poland Party, the political party involved in the dissemination of conspiracy theory about the possible Russian involvement in the catastrophe.

The title of the show, "Everything for Sale," is also the title of Andrzej Wajda's film about an absent protagonist based on Zbigniew Cybulski, the Polish James Dean, who died during the inception of Wajda's film. Wajda, who had an intense creative relationship with the actor, turned instead to Cybulski's lovers and friends to create a narrative of missed encounters and unfulfilled promises around an absent hero.

"There are things that cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization. "

— Bruno Schulz (Sanatorium Under the Hourglass)

4 September 2010

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:16:00 +0000

Dear Joy,

Thank you very much for the letter you sent me. It was very nice to hear from you.

2wenty 5ive smiles pass, and I sit n smile for you:

JOY SHOES

JOY BABIES

JOY LIGHTS

JOY CELEBRATION!!!

Try Cry Try with Nathan Whipple and Ed T Sanderson play knowing

that maybe one day you might just show up to one of our shows, punch

me in the face-n-fake my place. Jessie Stead made has made a video

for your n-joyment.

I await for your up coming letter, maybe this time the best friend flavor wont

be sold out.

BE LOVE

Raul

Raul de Nieves functions and dis-functions with a unique hand-made material language, building narrative through decadent multimedia performances and playfully obsessive mixed-media installations. Raul de Nieves is a unique rarity of color and delirious art. Born

September 29, 1983 in Morelia Michuacan, Mexico. His works have been shown in Berlin, Mexico, Miami Basel, San Francisco, and New York.

7 August 2010

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:22:00 +0000

"Mirror Moves for Private Eyes" is an exhibit of video, collage and installation, featuring a new video piece by the same name. This work explores the idea of The Mirror as a psychic receptor; a magical portal to visionary and ecstatic states, through self-reflection and visualization. The ritual use of beauty tools such as make-up, hair brushes, perfume, and other transformative implements, infuses these objects with a symbolic charge. Spaces such as movie theaters with lit-up marquees, and boudoirs with mysterious dressing tables, act as portals as well - power sites where time is fluid, and past and future co-exist. Auras of glamour, artifice and fantasy are used in a hypnotic, meditative way, creating pathways towards transcendence and personal gnosis. The collages in the show are composed of elements which were also used in the video, creating a reflexive cast of characters and symbols, which mirror back and forth, referencing each other.

Alice Cohen lives and works in Brooklyn NY. A long-time musician, she has released records since the 1980s as a solo musician, composer, and as a member of various bands. A long-time collagist as well, she started animating her collage materials during the last few years, and has created music videos for bands such as Ducktails, Coasting, and Talbot Tagora, amongst others.

http://vimeo.com/user1658854

http://www.myspace.com/alicecohen

29 July 2010

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:12:00 +0000

Circus Gold Presents: Neighborhood Watch

3-day Event Featuring: Art/Movies/Puppet Dj dance party/Music/Raffle/Games/Kung Fu/Costume party/and more

Suggested donation at door.

For daily event schedule and to RVSP go to the circus gold page on face book.

Artist Showing:

Briar Bonifacio/ Austin, Texas

JLaw/Austin, Texas

Zach McDonald/ Austin, Texas

Patrick Griffen/ New York

David Perez/ San Antonio, Texas

Stephen Fitzgerald/Brooklyn, Texas

Kim Swift/Brooklyn, Texas

Cherie Weaver/ Austin, Texas

Hayden Dunham/ New York

Arden Fanning/ New York

Trinh Huynh/ New York

Elizabeth Huey/ New York

Joesph Phillips/ Austin, Texas

Carly Rabalias/ Brooklyn, Texas

LaBrona/ Canada

and many more.......

Event includes

Film screenings: Break in/Beat Street/Street Wise/Rumble Fish/Cool Hand Luke/Eat Flies/Big Bad Love/

Daily games for prizes with raffle drawing sponsored by: Ghetto Olympics which include musical chairs/pull up contest/bing bag toss

Dj Dojo drawing room/kung fu class

Puppet Dj dance costume party

Sponsors include: Patron/Cafe Bastelo/Zico/

Food:Bruce Lee Smoothies/Popcorn/and more

Clothing/Accesories by: darkeyes clothing/Circus Gold

www.circusgold.com

email:circusgold@gmail.com

6 July 2010

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:57:00 +0000

26 June 2010

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:57:00 +0000

Brooklyn, NY: Polyglot Discotheque at Secret Project Robot, 10pm – 5am:New York Night Train’s latest party – the POLYGLOT DISCOTHEQUE (international discotheque psychedelique!) returns! Mssrs JONATHAN TOUBIN (soul clap etc http://www.newyorknighttrain.com/soulclap/jtbio.html) and his favorite DJJOSH STYLES (smashed! blocked! etc http://www.facebook.com/pages/Manhattan-NY/SMASHEDBLOCKED/93214791622) join forces behind the dj booth to bring you exquisite foreign fuzzy sixties dance jams in a variety of tongues (primarily French) from the original rare 45s while you get down in the wall to wall tripped-out visuals provided by the MIGHTY ROBOT A.V. SQUAD(http://www.secretprojectrobot.org/) ’til dawn…

as always, the first half of the party includes performances by the underground’s latest and greatest live acts:

- 12am: K-HOLES: Brooklyn’s own spooky swamp garage super-group returns to the discotheque by popular demand to conjure their wild jungle haze! (http://www.myspace.com/kholesk)

- 11pm: HARD NIPS: jump up and down to the super-core rock candy hits of these Williamsburg-by-way-of-Japan art vixens! (http://www.myspace.com/hardhardnips)

- 10pm: THE N.E.C. (Natural Extension Concept) – intense Atlanta psych-rockers are driving all the way to NYC for the express purpose of blowing yr brains through the window! get there early girly (http://www.myspace.com/thenec)
only $5 for a night of sensory stimulation, cheap drinks, and weird rock and roll dancing in an uncommon environment!

25 June 2010

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:04:00 +0000

This show has been cancelled due to Technical Difficulties! We do apologize.

0th is a collective of four female artists, Jacqueline Gordon, Caryl Keintz, Canner Mefe, and Amanda Warner. Founded in 2006, the artists live in the United States and collaborate across the globe. 0th utilize homemade electronic/analog musical instruments, sculpture, robotics, live statue, teleconference, performance and art experiments.

The 0th iteration is the forerunner of all other iterations. The 0th item is the initial item of a 0-based sequence, that which is numbered beginning from 0 rather than 1, such as the non-negative integers, the natural numbers.0 may be called null or nil when a number and void and nihil for nothing or 0 things. 0th is the 0th null and the 0th nil and the 0th nihil and the 0th void.

0th presents BLOW UP UNIVERSE, a new performance piece exploring what may have come before the Big Bang. It may well have been total nothingness, the inside of a black hole, the 0 before the 1. Or it could have been an elaborate scenario with dancing giants stamping sonic boom bolides, lama heads blowing up balloon universes, and many, many floating pigtails using matter to paint brush in dark stars, ring nebulas, and large hadron colliders. 0th uses music, technology, string art, dance, percussion, and robots to formulate a way back into the void of nonexistence.

Performance will take place promptly at 11:00pm in conjuction with a skype run performance at Southern Exposure on the West Coast. Doors at 10pm.

Visit 0th's h ttp://0th.cc for more information 0th.

10 June 2010

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:08:00 +0000

7 May 2010

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:56:00 +0000

Accidents Waiting to Happen
TWAIN / Santiago Taccetti & Natalia Ibáñez Lario

MAY 7TH - MAY 30TH
OPENING RECEPTION MAY 7TH 8-11PM

LIVE WITH ANIMALS
210 KENT AVENUE
BROOKLYN, NY 11211

During the three weeks before their first solo show in NY, TWAIN, Barcelona based collective formed by Santiago Taccetti and Natalia Ibáñez Lario, will scan Brooklyn's urban facade for common waste and other kinds of disposed of objects. Employing the idea of dérive or drifts through the city they used by the International Situationist they will collect materials and bring them back to the studio. With the found objects they will create unfinished sculptural accidents that will be on display in the gallery on the opening night. The attending public will be asked to finish the work themselves with materials like candles or chains that will be laid out for them to use at their own will. By the end of the night parts of the sculptures will be free for the public to take home or to dispose of as waste, thus completing the cycle in the relation between the art process and the object.

Santiago Taccetti (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1974) lives and works in Barcelona. He has exhibited his work in contemporary art centers and galleries such as the Centre d'Art Santa Monica, CCCB, KBB in Barcelona, La Panaderia in Mexico City, Instituto Italo Latinoamenricano (IILA) in Rome and San Martin Cultural Center Buenos Aires. He has curated the exhibition-event Gala de Estrellas in Madrid, during Mexico's participation as the guest of honor at the ARCO art fair in Madrid. He is also a founding partner of Volumen Art Publication, with the collaboration of several international artists. He has been granted the CIA, Center for Aristic Investigation scholarship, 2010 Buenos Aires and is now residing at the Pinotxo art program in Barcelona.

Natalia Ibáñez Lario (Zaragoza, Spain, 1980) Lives and works in Barcelona. Graduated in Architecture by the International University of Catalonia and the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London. She studied art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, as well as at Slade School of Fine Art, London UK. She has published her piece, Once upon a time there was a wolf, in the Save me from what I want issue of the Sexy Machinery magazine, published by the AA and The Royal College of Art. Among her recent exhibitions the following stands out Just Painting at Ego Gallery in Barcelona.

www.livewithanimals.org

www.twainteam.com

9 April 2010

noreply@blogger.com (lwa) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:55:00 +0000

Feast Of Snakes

April 9th through April 18th

Opening Reception April 9th from 8:30 - 10:30

TOMMY TURNER

Lives and works in New York City. A native of NYC, Tommy Turner began documenting the city in the late 1970's. He contributed to magazines such as " The Valium Addict" by Richard Kern. Soon he produced a magazine of his own, "Redrum". As his relationship with Kern grew, he went on to star in Kern's films " Submit to me Now" ,"Goodbye 42nd Street" and " Manhattan love Suicides". Tommy soon after began to make his own 16mm films, " Rat Trap" and "Simonland". Turner is best known for his collaboration with David Wajnarowicz, the film "Where Evil Dwells". Based on the experiences of suburban teenagers on a rush to murderous oblivion, the film focuses on the Northport, Long Island "Satan Teen", Ricky Kasso. Turner has subsequently been strongly associated with "cinema of transgression".

Other works include taxidermy, mainly rats which he created into fashionable ratbags and cat works for artist Lydia Lunch. Sculpture and writing are also part of his work.

Tommy has exhibited his work at the Whitney Museum, Moma, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco,
Anthology Film Archives in NY and the British Film Institute.

www.tommyturner.carbonmade.com

VERONICA IBARRA

Lives and works in New York City. She was born and raised in Los Angeles in a first generation Mexican-American backdrop. Her creativity owes as much to her heritage as it flows from her own personal surreal vision. After a tenure at Otis School of Art and Design she developed a reputation and career as a highly skilled make-up artist which led her to relocate to NYC. The fruit of her move can be seen in a rich body of work that includes the series "60 Avenue B"(2005) and "Los Cuentos de Hadas"(2007). In these works Veronica creates neo-baroque portraiture, often juxtaposing disposable urban spaces with fantastic personalities. She co-curated "Frock N Roll" at Local Project Gallery and has recently self published a book of photography, "Clandestine Theatre".

Veronica's subjects have included: Joanne Burke of Chromium Dumbelle, Carmen Hawk designer of Jovovich-Hawk, Emiliano Maggi, Marrietta Davis, Jon Spencer, Eva Aridjis, Tommy Turner, Lady Starlight, Ladyfag, Breedlove, and Anna Copa Cobanna.