Sat. May 9, 2009
A fully-operational art installation and store in Downtown LA.
May 9 - June 27, 2009
Opening reception Saturday May 9, 2009
5-8PM
located at Raw Materials
436 South Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
phone (213) 627-7223
fax (213) 596-3895
info@rawmaterialsLA.com
“STATION MUST GO” is an art installation by Los Angeles based art collective STATION. “STATION MUST GO” is an operational art store located inside Raw Materials, an existing art and architecture supplies store in downtown LA. The multidisciplinary installation includes quizzical products, both functional and non-functional, which seek to blur and question the boundaries separating art and decoration, commerce and kunst, art tools and art objects. Harkening back to Claus Oldenburg’s 1960’s ground breaking storefront installation, this revised and updated exhibition, addresses questions of advertising conventions, branding, and product display as they pertain to the art world and larger pressing economic issues permeating today’s news. This is an unabashedly generous interactive installation where “EVERYTHING MUST GO!”
STATION is an artist led organization that supports diversity within practice and adapts to the needs of the artist within a continuously changing environment. The artists who form STATION collectively and individually initiate innovative projects, exhibitions, workshops and forums. STATION workshops and forums stimulate critical thinking while exposing the community to a variety of art making practices.
www.myspace.com/stationla
STATION:
Michelle Andrade is an artist currently living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Michelle's drawings and paintings are a journalistic exploration into the everyday sprawl of the mundane. Juxtaposing dark and humorous anecdotes and extistential ponderings, her work is inspired by surrounding conversations, exchanges and thoughts.
mca99@earthlink.net
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia
www.lorenzoehurtado.blogspot.com
Adam Mars’ creative endeavors shift from meticulously crafted paintings to deep fried sculptures and several incarnations in between. He lives and works in Los Angeles as an artist/screenwriter, and not the other way around.
adammarsart@gmail.com
www.adammars.net
Tucker Neel is an artist, freelance writer, and independent curator living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Embracing a polymorphous practice, Neel utilizes drawing, painting, sculpture, video, installation, and online communication to create works that investigate personal, public, and political attempts to solidify memory in a material form.
mail@tuckerneel.com
www.tuckerneel.com
John Weston is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. John creates ecstatic visions that vibrate with candy colored energy. These visions often take the form of paintings, drawings, books and installations, and they usually deal with an unconventional Americana.
jwestonart@yahoo.com
www.johnwestonart.com