Trading Maps for Stars

Performers: David Shaddock, Douglas Brayfield and Eve Wood

As part of art exhibit: Julia Schwartz: Trading Maps for Stars

When: Sunday, October 14th.

Reading 3-4pm, Mixer 4-5pm

Location: Bleicher Gallery La Brea
355 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles CA 90036

Website: labrea.BGartDealings.com

Phone: (323) 545-6018

E-mail: info@bgartdealings.com

Cost: Free

As part of the current exhibition Julia Schwartz: Trading Maps for Stars, Bleicher Gallery is pleased to present an afternoon of poetry. Performances will include poetry by psychotherapist/poets David Shaddock and Douglas Brayfield and poet/art critic Eve Wood.

David Shaddock’s poems have won numerous awards, including the International Peace Poem Prize and the Power of Poetry Prize for a collection of spiritual poems. His books include Dreams Are Another Set of Muscles, with an introduction by Denise Levertov, and In this Place Where Something’s Missing Lives. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Blake Studies, Mother Jones and Tikkun. His play, “In a Company of Seekers” was performed at the 2012 Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. A psychotherapist as well as a poet, he has published two books on relationships and couples therapy, and lectures internationally on those subjects. He has a book forthcoming from Routledge entitled “With a Poet’s Eye: Poetry, Poetics and Psychoanalysis.” He lives with his family in Berkeley and maintains a private practice in Oakland.

Based in Los Angeles, Douglas Brayfield is an Emmy Award winning lyricist who, over a 25 year career, co-wrote songs in major motion pictures, television series, movies of the week, miniseries and two musical theater productions, EFX! at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, starring Michael Crawford, and Galaxy Express 999 at the Mitsubishi Theater in Tokyo. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and has published poems in literary quarterlies and taught creative writing at the University of Redlands. Recently, he completed a book of haiku evoking his experience in psychoanalysis. It will be published in a letter-press limited edition in 2013. He also holds an MA in clinical psychology from Antioch University and maintains a full-time psychotherapy practice in Culver City. He lives in Santa Monica with his wife, the novelist and three time Emmy Award nominee, April Smith.

Eve Wood is the author of five books of poems and numerous reviews and articles on contemporary art. Her writing has appeared in many magazines and journals including Poetry, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, The Antioch Review, The Best American Poetry, 1997 Flash Art, Tema Celeste, Artillery and many more.

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JANUARY STORM

Hail on the deck, the Monterey pines
in a wind-driven frenzy.
An hour later, bright sunshine,
glowing cumulus, mist rising
like smoke from the redwood deckboards.
The rhythm of these January storms
shows up often in my college notebooks:
Storm after storm from the northwest,
sunlight and torrential rain.
My p-coat soaked, light prismed
by the rain on my glasses.
Reached the fire trail as the acid was coming on,
sunset beneath dark clouds, a big storm approaching.
Not much older than my son is now,
with his makeup and made up Facebook homepage.
The storms will drop over Tamalpais, darkening the Bay
when he’s in his twenties, gone mad for women,
in his thirties, when he’s laid off
and blames me for everything.
They’ll slam my grave, than his as well,
the Pacific High drifting Northward,
warm air from South Asia hitting
an anticyclone front from Alaska,
waterspouts near Hawaii, fifty foot swells
homing in, the southern sky darkening,
the windows of the hillside houses
beginning to rattle.

(David Shaddock)

AFTER THE DEATH OF A FRIEND

From the plank bridge above the waterfall
I didn’t wish to see
couples wading knee-
deep in shallows or trading giggly small
talk as they clamored up the bank,
or, closer to me,
such fearful symmetry
in reddish-brown deer flank
disturbing the brush beside the trail.
I’d hoped to watch privately
swirls of memory
spilling over rock below the handrail
before purling down the spring-fed brook
into the Ohio, the Mississippi
and, eventually, the sea …
instead, at the end of the path we once took,
here again only
water eddies and drops,
not you floating with me
where memory stops.

(Douglas Brayfield)

ROTHKO’S FINAL HOUR

Consider the dispensation of light breaking
through an early sky
as though dawn were the guillotine
upon which the entire day must be judged.
A sluice of maroon dries in its corner
and I cannot account for anything beyond my two feet
growing roots into the floorboards
until I will not rise again from this chair.
I take audience with myself,
qualify clementine with a deepening red,
and the blues want to know how it is
I am still so calm
moments before I lay down my life.
This is not so much an erasure as a flattening out,
the rusted armature of the past breaking with the present,
an even-handed delirium –
the colors have voices egging me on:

Do it you fool. We’re tired of you staring at us.

(Eve Wood)

Jocelyn Wright. Spoken word performance night

Performers: Jocelyn Wright and Special Guest

When: Friday October 12th 8PM-10PM
Location: Bleicher Gallery La Brea
355 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles CA 90036

Website: labrea.BGartDealings.com
Phone: (323)545-6018
E-mail: info@bgartdealings.com
Cost: Free

Bleicher Gallery is pleased to present a new spoken word performance by Jocelyn Wright. Jocelyn’s performances are an engaging mix of poetry, prose, and theater. Having just completed seven years on The Closer as the executive drama supervisor, Jocelyn is thrilled to be done with murder and onto poetry and whatever else life has to offer. Her poetry and short stories have been published in several anthologies, featured on radio, and in a documentary. Showtime’s Women Stories Of Passion series produced her screenplay, The Feather. Her work speaks to the journey of a lover of sex, men, spiritual exaltation, and great ethnic food, who struggles to fuse it all together amidst the urban experiment in social Darwinism that is Los Angeles.

Reminder: Don’t miss our Miracle Mile Artwalk Reception this Saturday 10/6/12 • 5 – 8 pm

Sublime Perversions: Works on Paper by 20th Century Masters

Artists: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Rufino Tamayo, Roberto Matta, George Condo, Jose Luis Cuevas, and Patrick Graham.

Opening Reception: Saturday October 6th, 5-8 pm (during the Miracle Mile Art Walk)
Show Duration: September 19th – October 18th, 2012

Location: Bleicher Gallery La Brea
355 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles CA 90036

Curator: Sung-Hee Son

Press Contact: Om Bleicher
Phone: (310)237-6423
E-mail: om@bgartdealings.com

Bleicher Gallery is pleased to present “Sublime Perversions: Works on Paper by 20th Century Masters”, a survey of works on paper by European, American, and Latin American artists. These artists were part of or heavily influenced by the Surrealist and Expressionist movements,  which developed and engaged in automatism and abstract expressionism as ideologies and methods for making art. Both movements were concerned with delving into the subconscious to inform their imagery and mark making which resulted in sometimes bizarre, dreamlike, dark, or disturbing pieces.

Find it on Miracle Mile Artwalk Magazine!

Our lease is up and we will be closing the La Brea location late October.

All artists and art will be available from our Santa Monica gallery santamonica.bgartdealings.com from that point forward.

We are currently exploring partner/space options and second location may open next year.

As a result the dates for our Anniversary reception have changed (see below). We also have great discounts on backroom inventory from until gallery closing.

contact om@bgshowroom.com for an appointment to go through the racks.

Reception: Saturday Oct 20, 8-10:30pm
Exhibit Duration: October 20 -October 24, 2012

Press Contact: Om Bleicher
Phone: 310.237.6423
E-Mail: om@bgartdealings.com

Bleicher Gallery is pleased to announce its two-year anniversary. The exhibit will feature work from all of the artists that have exhibited at the gallery over the last two years. You are cordially invited to join us in celebrating this special occasion.

Anniversary reception: Saturday Oct 20, 8-10:30pm
Exhibit Duration: October 20 -October 24, 2012

Press Contact: Om Bleicher
Phone: 310.237.6423
E-Mail: om@bgartdealings.com

Bleicher Gallery is pleased to announce its two-year anniversary. The exhibit will feature work from all of the artists that have exhibited at the gallery over the last two years. You are cordially invited to join us in celebrating this special occasion.

Sublime Perversions: Works on Paper by 20th Century Masters

Artists: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Rufino Tamayo, Roberto Matta, George Condo, Jose Luis Cuevas, and Patrick Graham.

Opening Reception: Saturday October 6th, 5-8 pm (during the Miracle Mile Art Walk)
Show Duration: September 19th – October 18th, 2012

Curator: Sung-Hee Son

Bleicher Gallery is pleased to present “Sublime Perversions: Works on Paper by 20th Century Masters”, a survey of works on paper by European, American, and Latin American artists. These artists were part of or heavily influenced by the Surrealist and Expressionist movements,  which developed and engaged in automatism and abstract expressionism as ideologies and methods for making art. Both movements were concerned with delving into the subconscious to inform their imagery and mark making which resulted in sometimes bizarre, dreamlike, dark, or disturbing pieces.

Aniversary reception:  Saturday Oct 27, 8-10:30pm
Exhibit Duration: October 25 -October 30, 2012

Location: Bleicher Gallery, La Brea
355 N. La Brea Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: 323.545.6018
E-Mail: info@bgartdealings.com

Press Contact: Om Bleicher
Phone: 310.237.6423
E-Mail: om@bgartdealings.com

Bleicher Gallery is pleased to announce its two-year anniversary. The exhibit will  feature work from all of the artists that have exhibited at the gallery over the last two years. You are cordially invited to join us in celebrating this special occasion.

Performers:

Jocelyn Wright: Spoken word

PollenLand: Performing Art Collective

As part of art exhibit: Text: Message

When: Sunday, September 9th 7:30-10pm

Location: Bleicher Gallery La Brea

355 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles CA 90036

Public Viewing Hours: 1-6pm Wed-Sunday (often extended later and earlier but phone first)

Website: labrea.BGartDealings.com

Phone: (323)545-6018

E-mail: info@bgartdealings.com

Cost: Free

Please be advised that the performances may contain nudity.

As part of the current Text: Message Exhibit, Bleicher Gallery is pleased to present an evening of spoken word performance-art and music. Performances will include poetry and spoken word by Jocelyn Wright and projection music and multimedia performance by PollenLand.

PollenLand is a collective that includes artists exhibited in Text: Message. It is a fusion of music, performance art and spoken word. As the music unfolds, so does the performance; sensorial immersion brings shifting emotions to the viewer’s mind. Interweaving of sound, sight, and emotion results in an experience that is both confusing and compelling.

Having just completed seven years on The Closer as the executive drama supervisor, Jocelyn Wright is thrilled to be done with murder and onto poetry, sex, and the whatever else the Twenty First Century has to offer. Her poetry and short stories have been published in several anthologies, featured on radio, and documentary. Showtime’s Women Stories Of Passion series produced her screenplay, The Feather.

Join us for a reception night for collectors for this great survey of contemporary artists known for incorporating text in their work.

Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 8:00-10:00pm

Location: Bleicher Gallery, 355 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles CA 90036

Phone: (323)545-6018
E-mail: info@bgartdealings.com

Curator Contact: Joella March, joella@bgartdealings.com
Website: www.bgartdealings.com

Featuring artists: ALEXANDRA GRANT, WAYNE WHITE, JIM JENKINS, STEPHEN ANDERSON, NICOLA ANTHONY, TM GRATKOWSKI, KIM KOGA, JOELLA MARCH, MARY COREY MARCH, DARREN SARAVIS, JOY SHANNON, LACEY TERRELL, and SUZANNE WALSH

Curatorial walk-through: 9pm

“Text : Message” (The Alchemy of text-based Art) is a group exhibition of artists working in a variety of mediums and genres who incorporate, infuse, or solely utilize text in their art practice. Through their employment of language and letter as a form of concept and design, these artists cultivate an inherently transformative partnership of imagery and text, which poses the question- “does art enhance the power of text or does the presence of text enhance the power of art?” The exhibit will display a compelling array of contemporary text based works, encompassing a wide variety of themes and concepts. The works on view traverse diverse styles and sensibilities, and are delivered with skill, intelligence, wit, and innovation through a myriad of themes ranging from public to personal media including: illustration-pyrography (drawing with fire/heat), kinetic sculpture, collage, interactive installation, neon, L.E.D., video, sculpture, assemblage, painting, and photography.