Great art at GET:ART
Feb 17
Great art is currently available in the GET:ART sale only until 5:00 today!
Currently live artist Augustine Kofie is painting a piece that will be available for silent auction through next Saturday. Come to Bonhams & Butterfields today to place your bids or watch the GET:ART website. Warm thanks to all of our sponsors that have donated so that all art sales go directly to Project Angel Food.
SATURDAY EVENTS 02.17.2007
SCHEDULE
11:00am-12:00pm...................... Classical Guitaring- John Paul Gladwell
12:00pm-3:00pm......................... Live Art-Drafting-Augustine Kofie
3:00pm-4:00pm...................... Classical Guitaring- John Paul Gladwell
ALL DAY....................................... Video Installation- Sonik Mercury
4:00pm.......................................... Band- Circus Minor
DETAILS:
john paul gladwell
CLASSICAL GUITAR
11:00AM-12:00PM
johnpaulgladwell.com
Multi-instrumentalist performer and composer john paul gladwell will be performing a mix of traditional classical guitar arrangements and modern improvisations. Currently residing in Los Angeles, John will be interpreting selections by J.S. Bach, and drawing from the sounds of jazz ,world music, and the avant-garde to create music to accompany the surrounding visual art installations.
augustine kofie
LIVE ART-DRAFTING
12:00PM-3:00PM SATURDAY
www.keepdrafting.com
Kofie, a Los Angeles-based, internationally recognized mixed media artist, will be doing a live art drafting on Saturday afternoon, February 17, 2007 from 12pm to 3pm. His completed work, a water-based acrylic and watercolor abstract painting, will be sold at the end of the day on Saturday. The silent auction bidding for his artwork will begin Friday night at the opening. (Please keep your eyes open for the bid sheet!)
As a mixed media artist, Kofie wears many hats. He does murals, installations, paintings and collages in many different medium ranging from aerosol to acrylic to pen and ink. More specifically, Kofie’s abstract freestyle paintings focus on shape, structure, color and layering. Although architecturally inspired, Kofie leaves his works to the viewer’s interpretation.
From Tokyo to New York to Los Angles, Kofie’s CV boasts of participation in both solo and group exhibitions. A diverse artist, he has designed album covers and also works in the field painting on buildings. Thus, Kofie’s immense talent remains recognized as one that transcends many different domains.
For more information, please view Kofie’s website at www.keepdrafting.com.
sonik mercury
VIDEO INSTALLATION
INTERMITTENTLY THROUGHOUT DAY ON SATURDAY
www.tranzmutations.com
For GET: ART, Sonik Mercury, a Los Angeles based artist, has created a biomorphic video screen installation onto which he will project a curated loop of cutting-edge video art of his own combined with avant garde video installation and motion graphics artists worldwide. Some of the artists included in the installation are: Pliex, Parasyth, Tronic, Swagger, Alexander McQueen, Sonik Mercury, Tix, Tokion, and Kofie. Sonik’s installation will be up throughout the day on Saturday from 10am to 5pm.
Sonik produces futuristic and H.R. Geiger inspired paintings and installations. Specifically, he is interested in creating biomorphic freestanding fabric environments made mostly from lycra upon which silk screen patterns can be projected in order to produce environments that play with light and textures, thus creating an airy, ambient feel. Many of the lycra installations have LCD images projected onto them. These images range from hexagonic water and digital skin to images of, or inspired by nature.
Sonik has participated in several group shows as well as live mural paintings and solo exhibitions. In 2003, he participated in Skinn and Eclipse, an outdoor space exhibiting experimental architecture. For this show, he covered the entire front of the building with the lycra material, using fiberglass rods and bendable piping to create shapes. This highly original project was an exercise in three dimensional designs as well as a play of light and shadows.
circus minor
LIVE MUSIC SHOW
4:00pm
http://myspace.com/circusminor
 | Los Angeles is a city built on dreams and sunshine. But if you've lived here long enough you realize that the only dreamers left are the ones that sleep in late or those that can't sleep at all. LA is a city inspired by those who are extraordinary social casualties or by those who are lonely success stories. It's a city of fleeting decadence, haunted by the ghosts of forgotten dreams and one in which successful musicians are those presumed lucky until proven tormented. |
It's also the city Circus Minor calls home. The band uses its music to taunt and resurrect the ghosts of LA's forgotten lovers, rebels and that long forgotten belief that meaning can indeed be found in impermanence. This House is Haunted, the band's sophomore disc, is a collection of howling compositions and gypsy-lust, rock and roll lullabies-each song on the record flowing together like chapters in a novel about the tragic love affair between condensing and expanding musical space. Think Black Sabbath sipping Absinthe in a lush bar with Black Heart Procession. It's music that shares its secrets with promiscuous impunity and assumes listeners would rather be haunted than head banging...rather be chasing ghosts than chasing the next big thing.
