Mr Musichead Gallery
Thursday April 03 , 7-10pm
Symphony for the Devil - An Official MOPLA Event
Mr Musichead Gallery, 7511 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90046
Admission: Free.
Official MOPLA Kick off Event - 04/03/14, 7-10pm Photographs by Baron Wolman Epigraphs by Charlie Newton Design Construction & Calligraphy by Robert Bucciarelli Once upon a time spin wasn’t both sides of the story. There was dialogue. Ideas whose sum wasn’t preordained. The possible had a chance. Because it had a voice.
Ten U.S. presidents ago, these citizen voices dared challenge the button down, breath mint, Disneyland status quo. Their ideas, and willingness to own them out loud, propelled us all into a blood-stained, soul-scorching confrontation with the American Dream, the inconvenient realities of race, sex, drugs, and money. It’s now 2013—history’s hard won lessons are routinely denied. Nine- hundred pound gorillas stand invisible on our street corners, in our banks, and on our battlefields. Flying blind, the most powerful nation on earth hurtles toward a seminal collision of utopian goals, puritan theology, and dwindling resources.
A long complacent population looks to our two political parties for the answer. Unfortunately, both have accepted the thirty pieces of silver so often we now comfortably call it “contributions.” Our shepherds refuse to confront the obvious and yet remain our shepherds, ruling on our futures, our sins, our ideas—the possible. Why? Camera-friendly faces make certain we understand. Those friendly faces have voices trained by professionals, then blessed by corporate access and Nielsen TVRs. The faces explain, we shuffle.
America’s answer might be in a different set of voices, ideas that weren’t encased in lacquered lip gloss and resold to fit existing, deflated boxes; citizen voices with rough edges and strong opinions, and God forbid, convictions. In their day they dared to speak, dared to ask—dared to imagine another way. They were threatened, charged, and gaged. Why? Because there was no question, they were the Devil.
The Loft at Liz's
Friday April 04 , 7-10pm
ONE SHOT: ONE WORLD - People, Places, Things - An Official MOPLA Event
453 S. La Brea Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036
Admission: Free.
Winning work from 2013 International Photography Awards' annual single-image, themed competition, One Shot.
Photographers include:
One Shot: One World - People, Places, Things, competition winners:
1st – Eric Schwabel & Amy Kaps, Striped World
2nd – Christian Sinibaldi, Lag BaOmer - N16 - London
3rd – Matt Henry, Elvis Jigsaw
In addition to the winners (above), the following artists participating in the competition will showcase their work in this exhibition:
Roger Alfonso, Emilio Barillaro, Susan A. Barnett, Tim Bird, Jordi Cohen, Aristide Economopoulos, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Leszek Gorski, Agnieszka Gotowala, Photographer Hal, Olivia Harris, Ryan Joseph, Babar Khan, Joyce P. Lopez, Yan Lu, Annalaura Masciavè, Douglas Menuez, Katarina Premfors, Giovanni Presutti, Guy Prives, Andreja Ravnak, Sebastian Reiser, Ryan Schude, Zoe Wetherall.
Red Pipe Gallery
Apr 05 2014
Silent Waves, Photography by Doug Busch - In Association with MOPLA
978 Chung King Road, Los Angeles,California,90012
Admission: Free.
Sometimes the perspective, from which one is looking at the world, can change. It happened to photographer Douglas I. Busch, currently living in Malibu, California, who photographed for 35 years with large format cameras (14” x 17”to 40” x 60”). His transition went from Super Large™ format to the new digital medium.
However, it is not the technique, which encourages us to dream. It is the amalgamation of color, form and subject, the fluid-misty coloration in Busch’s “Silent Waves”. His series of frail images is breaking the traditions and codices of contemporary stylish photography by moving the whole subject one step closer to a painterly attitude. Not that the artist was looking for that attitude. It came, as it sometimes happens, while he was standing on the beach watching the waves roll in. The images were exposing themselves, in a constantly changing and wispy light. They came by day and night. Images fixed in the memory of the camera. And their beauty! This always-changing beauty, kept in the surface of a paper, entices us to touch them the moment we see them.
Photography is able to break small pieces out of the visible reality and then combine them in a different way. That is probably this medium’s greatest strength. Douglas I. Busch shows us how effortless and simple recording the world around us can be.
Thomas Schirmboeck, curator Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, Germany
Artist reception and book signing 5pm to 10pm
Closing, Saturday April 19 noon to 5pm HUB LA
Robert Berman Gallery
Apr 05 2014
Sarah Danays, Golden Bough - A Featured MOPLA Event
2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite B7 Santa Monica, California 90404
Admission: Free.
Danays is a British sculptor and photographer. Her work aims to transcend time, scale, cultural and religious barriers. She meticulously photographs her sculptural work, which combine marble and alabaster handa-tooled pieces with sacred and secular antiquities to make a powerful merger of contemporary amulet and archived curiosity. In some cases the object exists in its entirety, in others it does not. In so doing she embraces the ideas of Baudrillardʼs Simulacra and Simulation, where physical objects and actual experience are exchanged for representation and voyeurism. With the real thing swapped for secondary visual stimulus or assumed experience, it is no longer of consequence whether the original exists, as our relationship is only with its copy. These ʻcopiesʼ are available as limited edition Type-C prints.
Included in the exhibition are works by Cierra Lopez and Melissa Avilez.
Exhibition Dates
March 29 - April 25
Opening reception, a featured exhibition of MOPLA: Saturday April 5 from 5-8pm
Aesthesia Studios
Apr 05 2014
ANALOGUE PORTRAIT PROJECT - An Official MOPLA Event
12130 Washington Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90066
Admission: Free
The Analogue Portrait Project was a submission-based competition juried by the following creatives, with one rule: all portraits submitted must have been made using film, not digital cameras.
Kwaku Alston - Professional Photographer + Educator
Deborah Burch - Executive Producer, Snog Productions,
Marc Baptiste - Celebrity Photographer, Director + Philanthropist
Cat Jimenez - Co-Founder, MOPLA, Executive Director, Lucie Foundation
Stephen Kamifuji - Creative Director and Photo Editor, Genlux
We are pleased to invite the following photographers to participate in the first-ever Analogue Portrait Project Exhibition.
Heather Williamson
Lori Pond
Josephine Leily
Star Montana
Pascal Shirley
Christina Villamor
Benjo Arwas
Jamie Johnson
Marisa Pike
Lindsey Best
Rollence Patugan
Val Patterson
Allan Barnes
Khari Shiver
Ka Yee Kiu
The top three winners will be announced at 8 p.m. at the exhibition and artist reception on Saturday, April 5 at Aesthesia Studios.
The top three winners will win the following prizes:
1st Place – One day shoot at Aesthesia Studio B with grip and strobe package*
Image published in the June issue of Genlux Magazine
Plustek OpticFilm Scanner – (Value $300)
2nd Place – One day shoot at Aesthesia's North Light studio with a grip package*
Image published in the June issue of Genlux Magazine
3rd Place – One day shoot on Aesthesia's Rooftop Cyc
Image published in the June issue of Genlux Magazine
Thank you to all those that have participated! We were thrilled to see film-based portraits in a digital world.
Building Bridges Art Foundation
Apr 05 2014
NOMADIC CAMERA a solo exhibition by Lekha Singh - A Featured MOPLA Exhibition
Building Bridges Art Foundation, Bergamot Station Arts Center, 2525 Michigan Ave. F2, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Admission: Free.
Nomadic Camera will be on view from April 5 to May 1 (6 pm - 9 pm) at Building Bridges in Bergamot Station with an opening and artist reception on Saturday, April 5 at 6 pm.
Nomadic Camera is an exhibition of two of Singh's photography series: Created Equal and Weeds. The intimate portraiture in Created Equal invites viewers to see themselves in another's image—juxtaposing monks in Bhutan and Cambodia with activist punks in Mexico, young children in India with old women in Afghanistan, these images transcend borders, class, and cultural boundaries. From the pastoral grains swaying gently in the breeze to dandelion stalks towering above the grass below, Weeds reveals the dynamic beauty hidden in plain sight. Weeds is printed on large 4x7 aluminum panels to synthesize the resilience of nature with the contemporary medium of photography.
“As an artform, photography’s magic lies in its unique choreography of documentation and interpretation,” says art critic Shana Nys Dambrot. “This paradox unfolds as the choices the artist makes are overlaid onto the outside world. This is the visual alchemy at the heart of Lekha Singh’s photography practice — at the intersection of art and document, activism and observation, artistry and social practice, the personal and global, poetry and edge. Singh calls her work ‘street photography,’ linking her process to diverse forebears from Eugene Atget to Dorothea Lange and National Geographic photographers — those who tell told stories bearing witness to the beauty and ordinary surrealism that already exists in the landscapes, cities, and peoples of the world.”
Singh’s photos have been acquired by several prominent collections, including the Rubin Museum permanent collection. Her major exhibitions Nomadic Camera, Created Equal, African Journeys and The Other Half: Women in Focus have been displayed in museums throughout the United States, including the National Arts Club in New York City and The Women’s Museum in Dallas. Her photos are featured in National Geographic’s The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope, Bhutan, The Making of an Activist and Call to Love: In the Rose Garden with Rumi, and they have been published in The New York Times, Ode and Yoga + Joyful Living. Her fifth book, Pop-Up Pianos, was published in fall of 2012.
Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles
Apr 05 2014
MATTHIAS KOENIGSWIESER, CHIAROSCURO - A Featured MOPLA Event
Prohibition Gallery, 6039A W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232
Admission: Free.
SAGE PROJECTS in association with Ace Hotel Downtown LA are pleased to present fine art photographer and filmmaker, Matthias Koenigswieser, in his first solo exhibition. “CHIAROSCURO”, a Renaissance-derived term describing an artist’s extreme use of light and dark, appropriately titles this body of work which challenges the viewer to slow down and view life through a different, albeit well-travelled, lens. Each emotionally charged image evokes narrative and mood, a story unfolding before the viewer’s eyes.
Koenigswieser’s extreme dedication to his craft emanates through his work. A master storyteller, he captures images on analog film with help of natural light, adding an ethereal, voyeuristic layer to each of his works. This photographic series captures and communicates those cursory memories that exist only in our minds. Often fleeting moments of beauty, nostalgic and full of sentiment, place the beholder both in role of observer and that of the one being watched. Thus audience and image create an emotional synergy essential to the exhibition.
Exhibition runs through April 27, 2014
Curated by Shanoa Garcia
Installation by Jay Mark Johnson
Sunday April 06
#inwheeltime, Installation by Jay Mark Johnson
5900 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Admission: Free.
In conjunction with the April 6th CicLAvia’s Iconic Wilshire Boulvard route and with support of the Miracle Mile Chamber, join us for a feature installation by the celebrated Los Angeles artist, Jay Mark Johnson, in front of 5900 Wilshire. The photographic installation will bring in conversation images of cycling cultures from Los Angeles and Siem Reap in celebration of global cultural interchange and MOPLA’s 2014 focus on Asia.
bG (Bleicher/Gorman) exhibit at Bergamot Station
Apr 12 2014
Photography of The Spectacular - A Featured MOPLA Event
Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Avenue Gallery 8A, Santa Monica, CA
Admission: Free.
For MOPLA, bG Gallery presents the second part of bG’s Art of the Spectacular Series, Photography of the Spectacular, an exhibit of visionary photographers capturing and creating spectacle in their work.
The spectacle is now a major part of mainstream film and video games but has its roots in fine art; particularly romantic and surrealist compositions. Art has influenced scenes of the spectacular in contemporary film and video games and these new medias have, in turn, influenced scenes of spectacle in contemporary visual art works.
The photographers in this exhibit represent the culmination of this cycle, calling upon past influence and internal psychology to create works of awe and inspiration through spectacle.
Exhibiting: Nick Veasey, Jonathon Kambouris, Ryan Schude, Dan Busta, Steve Diet Goedde, Garret Suhrie, Lizzy Waronker, Stephen Confer, and Austin Irving.
Reception: April 12, 6-10pm
Exhibit duration: April 9-18th
Hours: 11-7pm Mon-Sunday or by appointment.
Website: bGartGalleries.com
dnj
Apr 12 2014
Dan Shepherd Artist Talk - In Association with MOPLA
dnj Gallery, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite J1 Santa Monica, CA 90404
Admission: Free.
dnj Gallery presents an artist talk with LA-based photographer, Dan Shepherd. Join us as Dan shares his insights about the human connections to nature and discusses his solo exhibition Blinded by Science: Alaska & California Collections .
Contact Photo Lab
Wednesday April 16 , 7-10pm
Instagram Jam 2014 - An Official MOPLA Exhibition
Contact Photo Lab, 618 Moulton Avenue, Suite E Los Angeles, CA 90031
Admission: Free.
MOPLA's second, annual Instagram show will feature work from twenty-image makers using Instagram as a platform to share their work. Select prints will be available for purchase to help raise money for SNAPSHOP!, Lucie Foundation's photography workshop program for under-served youth.
MOPLA's second, annual Instagram show will feature work from sixteen-image makers using Instagram as a platform to share their work. Select prints will be available for purchase to help raise money for SNAPSHOP!, Lucie Foundation's photography workshop program for under-served youth.
Featuring the work of the following photographers:
- Simone Bramante aka @Brahmino
- Jeff Brown aka @JeffBrownJeffBrown
- Alejandro Chavetta aka @SilverMule
- James Chiang aka @BrakingHearts
- Shaughn Crawford aka @ShaughnCrawford
- Steven Hirsch aka @Stevenhirsch
- Elma Huskic aka @Snowsnowballs
- Amanda Jas aka @Hokaytokay
- Sian Kennedy aka @ThirstyNomad
- Octavio Hoyos aka @octavioh
- Matthew Wylie aka @m_mateos
- Benjo Arwas aka @benjoarwas
- Rodney Withers aka @rodneywithers
- Sam Harris aka @samharrisphoto
- Natalie Franco aka @natalianism
- Jen Rosenstein aka @jenrosenstein
Curated by Shaughn Crawford and Meredith Marlay
The Loft at Liz's
Apr 16 2014
ONE SHOT: ONE WORLD Artist Talk - A Featured MOPLA Event
Loft at Liz’s Gallery, 453 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Admission: Free.
Our favorite time of year is April, when it is Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA) and there are non-stop photo events everywhere. We are thrilled to be partnering again with The Loft at Liz’s Gallery in association with MOPLA to host an exciting evening of artist talks next Wednesday for OPEN SHOW LA #25. We will be featuring a select group of photographers exhibiting in the One Shot: One World show which will include the first place winners of the 2013 International Photography Awards (IPA).
Hope to see you all next week,
Dan & Jonas, Co-Producers, Open Show LA
EVENT: OPEN SHOW LA #25 | The Loft at Liz’s - In Association with MOPLA
DATE: April 16, 2014 (Wed) 7 -9 pm
VENUE: The Loft at Liz's, 453 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036 (Above Liz’s Antique Hardware – enter through alley in back off W. 6th.)
RSVP: Via our Facebook Event page
FEATURED PRESENTERS
Amy Kaps | www.amykaps.com
Eric Schwabel | www.schwabelstudio.com
Ben von Mahler | www.vonmahler.com
Mei Xian Qiu | www.meixianqiu.com
Phil Tarley | www.philtarley.com
Orange Coast College
Saturday April 19 , 1-5pm
Pieces of String - An Official MOPLA Exhibition
Frank M. Doyle Pavillion, Orange Coast College, 2701 Fairview Rd, Costa Mesa CA 92626
Admission: Free.
For four years Justin Kimball photographed in abandoned homes, hotels and buildings in the Northeastern United States. For much of this work he accompanied his brother Doug, an auctioneer, into the houses of the deceased or dispersed. While Doug cleared these spaces of items for potential resale, Justin sought within them the evidence of an individual’s life. Photographing “the smallest objects (a note, a box of hair pins, a stain on a pillow),” Kimball re-imagines their existence and relationship to the absent owners. “I use the camera’s descriptive power and the photographic illusion of truth to create the narrative and inspire feelings about its subject. The resulting photographs are my perception of what happened in those spaces: Who lived there? What was hidden and what was seen?” Justin’s 60 color photographs from this body of work are explorations of the minutiae of everyday life—a contemplation of our brief and humble legacies before they are cleaned up and cast to the wind. Included in this volume is a booklet of Doug Kimball’s evocative writing about his own experiences with the emotional storm that surrounds these objects, their owners and beneficiaries.
Presented by: The School of Photography
Dates: Thursday March 13th- Saturday, April 19th
Closing Reception: Saturday, April 19th: 1pm-5pm
Lecture: 1-3pm
Book Signing and Reception: 3-5pm
The Lab at Siren Studios
Saturday April 19 , 6-9pm
THE MANSION, Photographs by Jeff Minton - An Official MOPLA Exhibition
The Lab at Siren Studios, 6087 W Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028
Admission: Free.
In this intimate and telling series, photographer Jeff Minton captures humorous and often overlooked details of the Playboy Mansion. The resulting images deliver a portrait of Hugh Hefner's legendary Mansion like never seen before.
Curated by Audrey Landreth
AD Gallery
Apr 19 2014
AD Gallery featuring Helen K Garber and Wally Gilbert - In Association with MOPLA
AD Gallery, 8670 Wilshire Blvd Suite #114, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Admission: Free
Wednesday April 16 - Tuesday May 27, 2014
Saturday April 19th
4-7PM
The Icon
Thursday April 24 , 6-9pm
Drive-By Shootings, Contexts + Scenarios by Lever Ruhkin - An Official MOPLA Exhibition
The Icon, 5450 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Admission: Free.
Lever Ruhkin drives around L.A. and does drive-by shootings (with a camera), stages scenarios of adverse fantasy incidents, and composes narratives in contact sheets--what happens before and after each photograph? What’s the context? Born in St. Petersburg, Russia to artist parents, Lever attended UCLA before circling the globe on a motorcycle and falling in love with the frail struggle for human existence.
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia to artist parents, Lever attended UCLA before circling the globe on a motorcycle and falling in love with the frail struggle for human existence.
Raleigh Studios Hollywood
Apr 25 2014
Photo Independent Art Fair - In Association with MOPLA
Raleigh Studios Hollywood, 5300 Melrose Avenue Hollywood, CA 90038
Admission: Raleigh Studios Hollywood 5300 Melrose Avenue Hollywood, CA 90038
In its highly anticipated inaugural year, Photo Independent is an annual photography art fair held in Hollywood, California, making its debut at Raleigh Studios in 2014. As the first and only high-visibility platform for photographers, Photo Independent presents a forum for direct exchange of ideas and contacts between photographers, collectors and art professionals.
Scheduled to run concurrently with, and next door to, Paris Photo Los Angeles and Paramount Studios, Photo Independent provides you with the unique opportunity to invest in the most exciting established, emerging and undiscovered photographic talent today.
Additionally, a selection of public events including docent tours and panel discussions will take place over the course of the art fair.
Photo Independent also welcomes honorary guest, artist and musician, Andy Summers from the globally recognized band, The Police, presenting a special exhibition titled “Mysterious Barricades.” Summers has also been named the Guest of Honor at the Photo Independent Opening Night Preview benefitting the Los Angeles Art Association on April 25, from 7pm-10pm.
Tickets are available as follows:
One Day Pass: $15 ($20 at the door)
Weekend Pass: $25 ($30 at the door)
VIP Pass: Includes Opening Night Premiere Party and Preview, and access to the fair and The Collector’s Lounge all weekend: $100 ($110 at the door)
Photo Independent Hours:
Friday, April 25, 7-10pm, Opening Night Party
Saturday, April 26, 11am–7pm
Sunday, April 27, 11am–6pm
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photoindependent
Twitter: @photoindep/#photoindependent
Instagram: @photoindependent
Chungking Studio
Apr 26 2014
fact + friction - In Association with MOPLA
975 Chungking Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Admission: Free.
Off the Clock Curated Exhibition
Apr 26 2014
Off the Clock 2014 APA LA Curated Personal Photography Exhibition - A Featured MOPLA Event
Helms Bakery Building Washington Corridor 8723 Washington Blvd Culver City 90232
OFF THE CLOCK is APA LA’s third annual curated exhibit of inspired personal photography. Images will be chosen by one curator who will carefully select the top 100 images from the submissions. Give the curator your best shot! The curator for 2014 is Britt Salvesen, Curator and Head of Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA.
ONE RECEPTION, THREE ADVERTISING AGENCIES,UNPRECEDENTED EXPOSURE!
Many of the top creatives in our region will receive special invitations to the reception, so this is a superb opportunity to show them your finest personal work. After the opening reception, the 100 selected images will hang for two months at the legendary advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day. After that, the show will travel to Deutsch and Iginited for another two months each. This gives your personal work exposure to creatives (and art buyers) at three of the top advertising agencies in the country.
In addition, we will also display the complete exhibition on our website for a full year and we have been invited to display this exhibition at photo la 2015, so your finest personal work will be exposed to thousands more potential clients. You can enter as many images as you like. To be fair, we’ve limited the number of accepted pieces from any one photographer to their top six as decided by the curator.
YOUR FINEST PERSONAL WORK
Creatives love to see photographers’ personal work because it reveals their true photographic style without anyone else’s influence or input. OFF THE CLOCK is easy to enter. No confusing categories. No series of images. No creation date restrictions. No vastly different size prints or frames. Only strong, original, creative, truly personal work gets accepted. Entries may be black and white, duotone, or color, and should be self-commissioned and must represent what you consider to be your finest personal work. There is no limitation on when your images were created. Alternative print processes are acceptable.
Le Studio
Apr 26 2014
Renee Jacobs' Paris Los Angeles Book Launch - A Featured MOPLA Event
9500 Jefferson Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232
Admission: Free. 18+ Only
Come enjoy a night of photography, champagne, music and aerialist performances in celebration of PARIS.
18+ ONLY
Contact Photo Lab
Saturday April 26 , 7:30pm
R&B 1972-1982 By Bruce Talamon - An Official MOPLA Exhibition
Contact Photo Lab, 618 Moulton Avenue, Suite E Los Angeles, CA 90031
Admission: Free.
Taking a photograph of a singer on stage is the easy part. The hard part is gaining the trust. This body of work is about R&B and Soul music as seen through the lens of a young African-American photographer at the start of his career. From 1972-1982, Bruce Talamon was documenting the rehearsals and sound checks, the recording sessions and costume fittings, life on the tour bus, and of course, the wild photo sessions and memorable performances. But he was also there when they exhaled. Contact Photo Lab is proud to present the first, fully comprehensive exposition of this body of work featuring staggeringly beautiful black & white and color prints.
Artist Talk - 8:30
R&B Dance Party to follow
Kopeikin Gallery
Saturday April 26 , 6-8pm
FIROOZ ZAHEDI: Photographs & Collages - An Official MOPLA Exhibition
Kopeikin Gallery, 2766 La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034
Admission: Free.
I grew up in Iran in the 1950’s . Technicolor Hollywood movies gave me the chance to escape into a world of beautiful happy people who drove big cars, sang songs and fell in love and then went on to live happily ever after. I wanted to be a part of that world. I was good at drawing and painting. I thought I would grow up to be like Gene Kelly in An American In Paris ; painting , singing , dancing and falling in love.
One day I did land up in Hollywood and managed to establish myself as a portrait photographer without having to sing and dance. There was love and marriage and then a divorce but what kept me going was the passion to create images that made my heart tick . My heart is still ticking but it is telling me to do all that I am capable of as an artist without playing the same song over and over again. I believe the character of Willy Wonka expressed it best by saying something like “ So much to do and so little time.”
- Firooz Zahedi
Exhibition runs through June 7, 2014
Grammy Museum
Apr 27 2014
Ringo: Peace & Love - In Association with MOPLA
800 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Admission: Adults: $12.95 College Students: $11.95 Seniors: $11.95 (65 years and older) Youth: $10.95 (6-17 years)
The GRAMMY Museum, in cooperation with Ringo Starr, debuted a major new exhibition, Ringo: Peace & Love on June 12, 2013. This one-of-a-kind, limited-run exhibit offers visitors an unprecedented in-depth look at all aspects of Starr's musical and creative life - as a musician, artist, actor, and as the man the world knows and loves simply as 'Ringo.' It also aims to propel Starr's universal message of peace and love.
Ringo: Peace & Love is both the first major exhibit ever dedicated to a drummer and the first to explore the extraordinary career of the 7-time GRAMMY Award® winner. The scope of exhibit spans Ringo's early life growing up in Liverpool, from Raving Texans turned Rory Storm, from The Beatles, to becoming a solo artist and then to the All Starrs with whom he is on tour now - this unique collection brings together diverse artifacts, rare and never before seen photographs, documents, personal letters and footage.
Ringo: Peace & Love is located on the second floor and includes:
The drum kit Ringo played on Let It Be, Abbey Road, and The White Album
The drum kit he played on The Ed Sullivan Show
Ringo's Sgt Pepper Suit
The red jacket worn during the filming of The Beatles' rooftop concert
Personal letters, photographs and documents from the Starkey family and Ringo's days with The Beatles
It's also an interactive exhibit, where visitors can take a drum lesson with Ringo.
Ringo: Peace & Love is on display until April 27, 2014 in The GRAMMY Museum's Special Exhibits Gallery.
American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Chapter
Apr 27 2014
Los Angeles: A New Picture - In Association with MOPLA
American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Chapter, 3780 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90010
Admission: Free.
Downtown Los Angeles is undergoing an historic transformation as it continues to be rediscovered and repurposed. The photographic work of Nancy Harasz emerges at a momentous time for Los Angeles, reflecting a new image of a city that is being redefined on a global scale. Her esthetically captivating perspectives invite the viewer to experience a new picture of Los Angeles as both art and history.
On exhibit are limited edition prints from her Los Angeles, Hollywood and Santa Monica collections.
The gallery hours are Monday - Friday, 9:00 - 5:00 or by appointment on weekends.
April 1 - April 30.