Upcomming :

Personifimotion: place and identity through ephemeral processcurated by Leora Lutz
Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 31, 2011    4pm - 7pm  Exhibition ends June 3

Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery; Mt. San Antonio College 1100 N. Grand Ave. Walnut CA 91789, Building 1B/C Contact: Cindi Orr (909) 594-5611 X 4328

 

Current :

Under the name "Brodo Presents", I'm curating the art on display at Swill Automatic, a winebar/ restaurant in downtown LA's Artist District.

James Graham:Piñata Portraits, our inaugural show, is a documentary project that takes piñatas, a local hand craft industry, as its subject. Graham has long been fascinated with the downtown piñata district ("la esquina de piñatas"), centered along East Olympic between Alameda and Central... (just a few blocks from Swill!). The piñata stands serve as a street level gauge of popular culture, a sincere expression of a community's shared fascinations, aspirations and desires. The exhibition features a series of portraits of a variety of piñata figures which are made with varying levels of expertise, some characters being easy to recognize and others more obscure. Also featured in the exhibition are three panoramic photographs that take in the visual cacophony of piñatas on display in one dizzying sweep.

Please visit Brodo Presents on Facbook for more information about the show.
And please visit www.jamesgrahamartist.com for more images of this and other work by Graham.
And please visit Swill in the real and true physical world, and here: www.swillautomatic.com