O'SULLIVAN ARTS IN THE PRESS
Art Emerging in the Antelope Valley – Summer JULY 13, 2015 ~ ERIC M MARTIN
With all the art events happening this summer in the Antelope Valley, a bunch of opportunities crop up – to participate and show art, to see art, to support the artists in our community… and also to ask what the art being made right now in the Antelope Valley is all about.
Of course, there is no single theme or idea that orients every artist making art in Lancaster, Palmdale, Quartz Hill, Rosamond and the Valley towns. There is no single style either. Despite the fact that many artists end up making “western art” or desert art in one way or another, the approaches brought to these scenes are almost always different. And a majority of artists don’t make western or desert art at all. They make something else entirely.
That doesn’t mean the question is meaningless if we ask what comment may underlay the art here. It’s possible to find a partial answer and it’s possible that the partial answer might be exciting – illuminating even – or at least interesting.
Art is, to some extent, always a conversation. Right? So, what are people saying?
That’s what I am going to have in my head when I take in the art at the many art events happening around town in the next weeks and months. Maybe some of the resulting thoughts will end up here at the AV Arts Blog.
In any case, there is plenty of opportunity to mull over what the artists of the Antelope Valley are putting out there this summer.
Antelope Valley artists are out in full force lately in Lancaster, Palmdale and Quartz Hill. While a recent push to establish an Art Walk on the BLVD did not completely come together, other more modest projects are happening.
The Regarding Us Chain Letter Project spearheaded a summer of art events on July 11th, put together in cooperation with the folks at the Outpost, an LA County initiative partnering with Otis College.
The Regarding Us Chain Letter Project is a self-curated group exhibition celebrating creativity in the Antelope Valley. The process began with a small group of artists who were initially invited to show their work by community engagement artist Rebecca Niederlander. This group then each invited 5 artists to also participate. Those 5 invited 5 more artists, thus leading to your invitation. The process will continue on with more invitations until the installation date. The result is an exponentially massive, community-curated project filled with work by an extraordinary array of Antelope Valley creatives. The Regarding Us Chain Letter Project is a part of Antelope Valley Art Outpost, a creative placemaking project that supports regional vitality in the Antelope Valley. For more information about this and other Outpost programs, visitwww.lacountyarts.org/outpost.
This gallery show is set to remain up for a brief period of time (through August 23rd), so be sure to get over to the BLVD and check it out while you can.
Following on the heels of the Regarding US Chain Letter Project, Sagebrush Café is set to host several art events before the month is out. On July 19th, a group of artists is putting together an inspirational and educational show on the topic of WATER. “In the near future water will be worth more than Gold. In California, a state that has always had a complicated relationship with wealth, class, and water, we would like to invite you to envision a world where we wear small vials of water instead of diamonds, where we dress ourselves in fishbowls, and our designer handbags our replace with bottle waters. Join us for this interactive art party on Sunday July 19th at Sagebrush Café from 10 to Noon.”
Drop offs for an open invitation community art show are taking place on the same day, Sunday, July 19th.
Open Invitation Art Show: Sagebrush Cafe is putting out a call to Antelope Valley artists to participate in an open invitation art show this month. 25 spaces are available. First come, first serve. Enter a two-dimensional work of art in any medium on any family friendly subject.
Check out the details at our website: sagebrush-cafe.com/arts
Drop off days are July 19-20. Opening reception on Saturday, July 25 at 5 p.m.
Butlers Coffee Shop in Palmdale hosts regular themed art shows on a roughly four-month cycle.
Do not forget the theme of Butler’s Coffee’s next art exhibit in September….”Music and Dance”. The current exhibit at the cafe is “Mythology and Fairy Tales”.
Art lovers and artists of the Antelope Valley are probably aware of some of these events. There are many chances to get your work out there, artists, and many chances to engage with local art and artists, art lovers. The Antelope Valley may not wear its art-haven identity on its sleeve, exactly, but more and more its this identity seems to be asserting itself here in the high desert.
With all the art events happening this summer in the Antelope Valley, a bunch of opportunities crop up – to participate and show art, to see art, to support the artists in our community… and also to ask what the art being made right now in the Antelope Valley is all about.
Of course, there is no single theme or idea that orients every artist making art in Lancaster, Palmdale, Quartz Hill, Rosamond and the Valley towns. There is no single style either. Despite the fact that many artists end up making “western art” or desert art in one way or another, the approaches brought to these scenes are almost always different. And a majority of artists don’t make western or desert art at all. They make something else entirely.
That doesn’t mean the question is meaningless if we ask what comment may underlay the art here. It’s possible to find a partial answer and it’s possible that the partial answer might be exciting – illuminating even – or at least interesting.
Art is, to some extent, always a conversation. Right? So, what are people saying?
That’s what I am going to have in my head when I take in the art at the many art events happening around town in the next weeks and months. Maybe some of the resulting thoughts will end up here at the AV Arts Blog.
In any case, there is plenty of opportunity to mull over what the artists of the Antelope Valley are putting out there this summer.
Antelope Valley artists are out in full force lately in Lancaster, Palmdale and Quartz Hill. While a recent push to establish an Art Walk on the BLVD did not completely come together, other more modest projects are happening.
The Regarding Us Chain Letter Project spearheaded a summer of art events on July 11th, put together in cooperation with the folks at the Outpost, an LA County initiative partnering with Otis College.
The Regarding Us Chain Letter Project is a self-curated group exhibition celebrating creativity in the Antelope Valley. The process began with a small group of artists who were initially invited to show their work by community engagement artist Rebecca Niederlander. This group then each invited 5 artists to also participate. Those 5 invited 5 more artists, thus leading to your invitation. The process will continue on with more invitations until the installation date. The result is an exponentially massive, community-curated project filled with work by an extraordinary array of Antelope Valley creatives. The Regarding Us Chain Letter Project is a part of Antelope Valley Art Outpost, a creative placemaking project that supports regional vitality in the Antelope Valley. For more information about this and other Outpost programs, visitwww.lacountyarts.org/outpost.
This gallery show is set to remain up for a brief period of time (through August 23rd), so be sure to get over to the BLVD and check it out while you can.
Following on the heels of the Regarding US Chain Letter Project, Sagebrush Café is set to host several art events before the month is out. On July 19th, a group of artists is putting together an inspirational and educational show on the topic of WATER. “In the near future water will be worth more than Gold. In California, a state that has always had a complicated relationship with wealth, class, and water, we would like to invite you to envision a world where we wear small vials of water instead of diamonds, where we dress ourselves in fishbowls, and our designer handbags our replace with bottle waters. Join us for this interactive art party on Sunday July 19th at Sagebrush Café from 10 to Noon.”
Drop offs for an open invitation community art show are taking place on the same day, Sunday, July 19th.
Open Invitation Art Show: Sagebrush Cafe is putting out a call to Antelope Valley artists to participate in an open invitation art show this month. 25 spaces are available. First come, first serve. Enter a two-dimensional work of art in any medium on any family friendly subject.
Check out the details at our website: sagebrush-cafe.com/arts
Drop off days are July 19-20. Opening reception on Saturday, July 25 at 5 p.m.
Butlers Coffee Shop in Palmdale hosts regular themed art shows on a roughly four-month cycle.
Do not forget the theme of Butler’s Coffee’s next art exhibit in September….”Music and Dance”. The current exhibit at the cafe is “Mythology and Fairy Tales”.
Art lovers and artists of the Antelope Valley are probably aware of some of these events. There are many chances to get your work out there, artists, and many chances to engage with local art and artists, art lovers. The Antelope Valley may not wear its art-haven identity on its sleeve, exactly, but more and more its this identity seems to be asserting itself here in the high desert.
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MOAH: CEDAR community group We Are Cedar's show A SOFT OPENING.
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We Are Cedar ~ A Soft Opening. Community Art Show, which includes 2 of my individual pieces and one collaborative piece.
O'Sullivan's at the MOAH Dessert to the Sea opening November 22, 2014 with artist Carol Sears. Photo by Eric Mihn Swenson.
Written in the Stars~Antelope Valley College Art Gallery
Written in the Stars: The First in a Series of Exhibitions on Arbitrary Systems
Sarah Beadle * Jenn Berger * Nicole Capps * Josh Cho * Antoinette De Paiva * Alexandra Pacheco Garcia *
Shaun Garren * Dave Ghilarducci * Amanda Kanter * Bruce McAllister * Laurence McNamara * Jessica Minckley *
Larissa Nickel * Julie O'Sullivan * Brian Palagallo * Matthew Plaks * Deana Romo * Benjy Russell * Edwin Vasquez *
Exhibition dates: October 20– November 14, 2014
What would an exhibition look like completely divorced from curatorial subjectivity? What kind of discourse can rise from a group of artworks that is brought together, not by one person's interests and preferences, but by chance, play, and perhaps a little divine intervention? As a way of thinking outside of a traditional relationship of dependency – artist on curator, curator's discourse upon artwork – guest curator Kellie Lanham introduces a series of exhibitions brought together through an application of arbitrary systems. I propose a series of exhibitions that are brought together through an application of completely arbitrary systems. From this experiment, my hope is to ignite a different way of exhibiting, viewing, writing and thinking about contemporary art.
Written in the Stars, the first in this series of exhibitions, is configured based on the astrological charts of each artist who responds to this call. The collection of birthdates was given to an astrologer who selected the participants based on each birth chart's alignment with the opening date of the exhibition (October 20, 2014). From this experiment, Kellie Lanham hopes "to ignite a different way of exhibiting, viewing, writing and thinking about contemporary art." Taking place at Antelope Valley College Art Gallery, the show will be in the epicenter of a desert landscape in which metaphysical energies and practices are said to flourish.
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Julie O'Sullivan and fellow Wild Bunch artist Marthe Aponte.
Fellow artists, Samuel Fierro Echeverría and Michelle Marie Navarrete, critiquing my work at the Antelope Valley College Art Gallery WRITTEN IN THE STARS Show.
Oh Julie...Marthe Aponthe is hanging back pretending not to know who the crazy lady is. — with Samuel Fierro Echeverría, Marthe Aponte and Julie O'Sullivan. What is an art show without a little fun!
Samuel Fierro Echeverría and Marthe Aponte discussing my work.
Antelope Valley Arts: An Antelope Valley Art Snapshot March 24, 2014
Please visit Antelope Valley Arts on the web at the link below and check out the artwork from: Nuri Amanatullah, Joanne McCubrey, Alan Radecki, Cervates, Donal O’Sullivan, Julie O’Sullivan, and Eric Martin. We are also listed on the right under Art & Artists.
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Edwin Vasquez Photo-ism 01-25-2014 - Sagebrush Cafe
Sagebrush Cafe coffee and art house sponsored the PHOTO-ISM exhibit with artist, photographer, poet Edwin Vasquez. Photo-ism: Photography in the spirit of photojournalism.
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Sagebrush Cafe coffee and art house sponsored the PHOTO-ISM exhibit with artist, photographer, poet Edwin Vasquez. Photo-ism: Photography in the spirit of photojournalism.
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Juried Art Show - MOAH 01-23-2014
Each year, MOAH hosts the annual juried art show. This year was probably the most successful in terms of attendance and increased exposure to a wider audience for the artists. Friends, family, city staff, and art lovers came and showed their support for the many regional artists who participated. The evening started with a brief message from Andi Campognone, MOAH Curator, City Manager Mark Bozigian, and then Ronda Perez, Director Parks & Recreation.
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Each year, MOAH hosts the annual juried art show. This year was probably the most successful in terms of attendance and increased exposure to a wider audience for the artists. Friends, family, city staff, and art lovers came and showed their support for the many regional artists who participated. The evening started with a brief message from Andi Campognone, MOAH Curator, City Manager Mark Bozigian, and then Ronda Perez, Director Parks & Recreation.
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Colorimetry opening reception at MOAH 01-19-2014
MOAH started 2014 with an explosion of colors with their Colorimetry opening featuring artists Ruth Pastine, Gisela Colon, John Eden, Johannes Girardoni, Phillip K. Smith III, Karl Benjamin, Dion Johnson.
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MOAH started 2014 with an explosion of colors with their Colorimetry opening featuring artists Ruth Pastine, Gisela Colon, John Eden, Johannes Girardoni, Phillip K. Smith III, Karl Benjamin, Dion Johnson.
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Butler's Earth Elements: Fire Opening Reception
AV Media October 8, 2013. Julie O' Sullivan stands in front of her meteor paintings. Lucinda Coker's anime painting is in the background.
Photo: Casey Driver — with Julie O'Sullivan at Butler's Coffee. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.563724743696577.1073742087.347734191962301&type=1
Photo: Casey Driver — with Julie O'Sullivan at Butler's Coffee. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.563724743696577.1073742087.347734191962301&type=1
