I would like to invite you to a silkscreen party at my studio this Friday, May 8th. My good friend David Stoupakis and I have made a few new screens from drawings we did and will be printing them on your stuff, if you bring some. Its only 5 bucks a print as always and to boot, we will be having a raffle for 5 bucks which gives you 5 chances to win art stuffs! Stoupakis is donating a limited edition print of one of his paintings, I will have a one of a kind work on paper to win, and we will also be adding the original drawings for the screens to the raffle booty prize package! whew. If that were not enough, we will also have some stuff for sale. I made 7 different lightboxes for the party and they are at a special price of $300 and an edition of prints on paper for just $60.

These prices are just for these parties and for those who come to them so please do try to come and get em. We will also have some ready made shirts to buy for only $20..some one of kind, hand made type..why so cheap? well to give the locals a chance to get some goods and to be honest, I need some cash. I attached some photos of the prints and boxes and screens we will be printing. I really hope you get a chance to stop by, its been a while since we had a screen party here. Below is the skinny.xx

ScreenParty Friday May 8th, 2009  7pm -2am
93 second Ave Buzzer 1 Between 5th and 6th streets East Village NYC
Bring your own stuff to be printed on..5 bucks per print
be nice                                                                                                                    and please avoid my cat..he is handsome but try not to touch him or make eye contact

So we had been having problems getting images in to our posts but with a bit of tweaking and upgrading we are now back in business.

Hello! Its been a while since the GMSH have been in LA all together to do a show. This Feb.. we will converge again for a 2 week residency at the Nomad project space in Frog Town. The show is titled “From the inside, the forest in invisible”.  I am attaching here a copy of our press release which has all the info on the show and the space. As always, we encourage people to please come to visit us during the residency, the process is really the meat of the show. Also we will have a silkscreen party halfway through the residency, as it has become a tradition to do so…ok, here is the skinny.

My new and first catalog is now available! It is a collection of work for my new show”The Mysterious Action Of Memory” at Strychnin Gallery in Berlin. If you want to get a copy, just go HERE.

Or go to the Strychnin Gallery site.

super.

Here are a few links to reviews of the Art 21 Fair last week…If you do not speak German, put it through the translator and see the very funny interpretation of the text…weeeee

http://www.sounds-like-me.com/mobile_channel/2008/10/04/kunst-in-koln-artfair-21/

Nachwuchskunst bei der Art.fair 21 (koeln.de)

report-k.de - Kölns Internetzeitung - Art Fair 21 zählt 30.000 Besucher

Berlinista - Strychnin Gallery - Art Fair 21 Cologne

Bonn - Die ART.FAIR 21 ist Programm

On October the 3rd, 4th, and 5th, the Art 21 Festival opens in Cologne. I am in Berlin right now preparing the installation of 1000 black birds. I found a few links to some German sites and I wanna post them up here. Anyone speak German?

Birdies

Solo in Berlin

This fall has many exciting things going on. I myself will be going to Germany to do a couple of exhibitons I would like to tell you about. The first is the Art 21 art fair in Cologne Germany. This year I have been invited to do an installation at the entrance to the fair. There is only 1 artist per year who is asked so I am honored and excited to do this. I will be putting up 1011 black birds(the most yet!) as well as have my brand new piece titled “The Big Ship:Homage to Brian Eno”.

This is all through the grace of Strychnin Gallery and their fantastic team, Yasha, Cookie, Graham, And Iris. And McCaig Welles Rosenthal gallery will be a part of the fair this year as well! I am super excited about this because not only will the lovely Melissa MacCaig Welles be there and the ever so charming Michael Rosenthal, but Mr. Colin Burns will be there! Compound this with all the fellow Strychnin artist attending and you have a sure to be fun time(oooh my future hangover).

A week after this, I will be presenting my new batch of work in a solo show titled “Mysterious Action Of Memory” at Strychnin Berlin. The Opening is October 10th at 7-10pm. here is a couple of sneak peeks…

We are converging once again to help open the new McCaig Welles Rosenthal Gallery in the Mission area of San Fran. The show is titled Russian Reduction in honor of a Russian man we met at our first Brooklyn residency in 2005 who was very skeptical of the longevity of our collaborative group. we now refer to the Russian Reduction as the cut one member takes for not pulling their weight. This cut has never been put into effect really, its just a joke…or is it bwwaahhhahahahah! no seriously,

We go into residency August 31st, live and work at the gallery, have a silkscreen party(TBA) sometime in the middle of our stay and have our opening reception on Saturday,September the 13th. Fun fun fun. The doors will be open to visitors and curious onlookers to witness the mayhem and bliss that is the GMSH. This will be our first run in San Fran and we are looking forward to it very, very much…Here is the skinny on the gallery.

McCaig Welles Rosenthal Gallery San Fransisco

365 Valencia Street, San Franciso, 415-552-1010
gallery@mcwellesrosenthal.com

Dougles Landau is someone who has known me since `i was about 10 yrs old. He is an old friend of my Pops and has been doin some collages for the past few years and never showed them before….and now he is! He is hanging his work over at HIFI where `i have been working for the past 5 yrs or so. I curate the art there and he is next. PS, if anyone is interested in hanging some art in the hood and do not mind putting their work in a bar for a couple of months, please do let me know..

Anyhoo, if you are in the area and can make it to his reception Tuesday the 15, please do..otherwise do pop in and take a gander of his works.ill post a few pics to see if its your cup o tea

The reception is 7till 10 or so..at 169 Ave A between 10th and 11th streets in Alphabet City NYC..and here is a bio of Doug..hope you can come! and thanks for looking.

Douglas Landau was born in Manhattan on March 14, 1957, and is based in New York City. His extensive travels, including sojourns in San Francisco, Firenze, Italia, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires have fortified his art.

Landau’s work utilizes tiny stimuli to form one whole. The deconstructed images from magazine cut outs form intricate kaleidoscopic-like landscapes inviting viewers to investigate.

His compositions engage content, color and movement in a uniquely conceptual manner.

In the mid 1980’s, during the heyday of the East Village art scene, Landau opened and operated the now legendary ‘King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut’. There he produced shows by internationally recognized artists including Blue Man Group, Steve Buscemi, DANCENOISE, Paul Zaloon (Beakmans World), John Zorn, Ethyl Eichelberger and others.

Douglas Landau is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, video, sound, and performance. His solo work has been presented at ‘La Mama’ and he has toured with the group ‘Dream Theater’ throughout Italy and Germany.

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It’s time for another Silkscreen Party

At the Cha Cha Lounge in Los Angeles
2375 Glendale Blvd
Monday June 30th at 9pm
Bring your own clothes, pillow cases whatever
And we screen them–$5 per

Artists:
Eduardo Benedetto
Colin Burns
Travis Lindquist
Jake Manny

And there are drinks to be had