Attention all "Chain Letter" Participants

Below are the de-installation dates, as they correspond to the gallery your piece is located in:
 
PLEASE NOTE: If your piece is not picked up by 2 pm the day of your de-install, your work will be discarded. No exceptions!
 
F1 Gallery
Wednesday, August 24^th
9 am – 10 am > hallway entrance
10 am – 12 pm > middle gallery
12 pm – 2 pm > back gallery
 
D2 Gallery
Thursday, August 25^th
9 am – 12 pm > front gallery
12 pm – 2 pm > back gallery
 
B1 Gallery (main gallery)
Friday, August 26^th
9 am – 12 pm > front gallery, near entrance and hallway
12 pm – 2 pm > back of gallery and small gallery
 
If your piece requires any “clean-up,” please bring appropiate supplies.
If you are unable to deinstall on your designated day/time, you must send someone to pick your piece up for you.
If your work was sent via mail and return shipping arrangements were not included, your piece will not be returned.

PLEASE PASS ALONG THE ABOVE INFORMATION TO YOUR 10 INVITEES.
 
Thank you all for participating in the 2011 Chain Letter exhibition at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery.

Nationwide Museum Mascot Project supporting the ongoing “Chain Letter” exhibition. Thanks for your support!

"Chain Letter" Review via Huffington Post

CHAIN LETTER DE-INSTALL

Due to the unforeseen amount of artwork in the show, we have changed the original de-install time to the following schedule.

Please read below carefully and pick up your work accordingly.

DE-INSTALL:

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F1 Building artists- Wed. AUG 24

9am- 10am: hallway entrance

10am-12pm: middle gallery

12pm-2pm: back gallery

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D2 Building artists- Thurs. AUG 25                                    

9am-12pm: front gallery

12pm-2pm: back gallery

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Shoshana Wayne Gallery B1- Fri. AUG 26                              

9am-12pm: front of gallery, near entrance + hallway

12pm-2pm: back of gallery + small gallery

**ALL artwork left in any galleries AFTER designated de-install times will be DISCARDED without exception.

"Chain Letter" Opening Reception

Please join us for a night of art, music, food & fun at the opening reception of Chain Letter!

Saturday, July 23rd / 6-8 pm

With Musical Guests: The Keith Walsh Experience, Corey Fogel, Bridget Martin and Jimmy Chertkow + Doug Harvey

Food Trucks: Komodo “Dangerously Good Food” and Dogtown Dogs “ Irreverently Good Dogs”

Parking: PLEASE CARPOOL! There will be limited parking at Bergamot Station - overflow parking can be found on adjacent streets.

"Chain Letter" Announcement

Attention all participating artists:

Please keep install requirements for your piece to a MINIMUM.
We will be accommodating an EXTREMELY large number of artists/artwork in a short amount of time and would like the installation process to run as smoothly as possible. This will be a “low-maintenance” install - i.e. NO outlets or extension chords, pedestals or easels, ladders, suspension from the ceiling, etc. Please keep it simple!

Thanks! -SWG

Good News!

Tony Orrico’s Penwald Drawings will now run until Saturday, July 16th. Come stop by and see the show if you haven’t already!

Important "Chain Letter" Announcement

ATTN Participants:

Due to the closure of the 405 freeway, the installation and opening for “Chain Letter” in Los Angeles have shifted one week later. The new install day is Friday, July 22 and the opening is Saturday, July 23.

Please notify your ten artists if you have not done so already.

Thank you! - Christian Cummings, Doug Harvery and Shoshana Wayne Gallery

CHAIN LETTER
July 23 - August 25, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 23, 6 - 8 pm
 
Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present a summer group show curated by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey.
 
Chain Letter is a group exhibition based on admiration.  Initially conceived by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey in 2006, inclusion in the exhibition is based on invitation by someone who admires your work.  Each artist invited then invites ten other artists whom they admire, and so on.  This email invite will circulate for thirty days, at the end of which each artist will install their own work on the floor at Shoshana Wayne Gallery. 
 
This exhibition is rooted in the ideals of inclusion, and highlights the social nature of the art world.  It is the hope of the curators that the response will be vast and that the artists represented will be an exponential representation of all artists that are currently working and admired by their peers.
 
Chain Letter mimics communication today; and the way in which information is passed.  The outcome will be a testament to the power of connectivity within society at present.
 
Other cities worldwide will be participating in the Chain Letter exhibition including New York City, London, Paris, Johannesburg, Philadelphia, Boston, Seoul.  For more information, please visit the gallery website at: www.shoshanawayne.com, or email marichris@shoshanawayne.com.
 
Born in Los Angeles (1979),  Christian Cummings is known for his collaborations with ghosts (Spectral Psychographs 2004-2009), which have shown extensively in Los Angeles and abroad. Since receiving his MFA (2009) from USC, he describes his work as “self portraits of my channel-surfing consciousness”, a self he views as a spontaneous other with whom he shares a body. He’s also a self described “living room minstrel”, a home-recording artist and founding member of the bands Flugeldar, Carnivorous Birds, Baker and Able, and curator for WFMU’s Free Music Archive project. Preparing for a solo exhibition at Steve Turner Contemporary in October of this year, Cummings currently resides in Los Angeles.
 
Since graduating with an MFA in painting from UCLA in 1994, Doug Harvey has written extensively about the Los Angeles and International art scenes and other aspects of popular culture, primarily as the main art critic for LA WEEKLY for 13 years. His writing has also appeared in Art issues, Art in America, The New York Times, The Nation, Modern Painter, ArtReview, and numerous other publications. He has written museum and gallery catalogue essays for Jim Shaw, Jeffrey Vallance, Tim Hawkinson, Marnie Weber, Lari Pittman, Georganne Deen, Gary Panter, Margaret Keane, Thomas Kinkade, and many others. His curatorial projects have ranged from many traditional gallery exhibitions (including the short-lived Annual LA Weekly Biennials, 2008’s Aspects of Mel’s Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace and Arataland! A Mid career Survey of Artworks by Michael Arata at Beacon Arts Building in Spring of 2011) to CD compilations of sound art, programs of found and experimental films, performance events, experimental radio, artist’s comic books and zines, and an LA solo gallery exhibit determined by raffle. Mr. Harvey also continues to maintain an active art career, exhibiting his visual art (painting-based multimedia) locally and internationally. AiA critic Constance Mallinson said of his October 2010 solo painting show at Jancar Gallery “Harvey’s work reeks of rot and decay.” He lives and works in Los Angeles and maintains a blog at www.dougharvey.blogspot.com and a website at www.dougharvey.la

Tony Orrico “Penwald Drawings” May 28 Opening

Tony Orrico performs “Penwald: 2: 8 circles: 8 gestures” at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery on Thursday, May 26, 2011.

Beyonce's new music video "Run the World (Girls)" references PIETER HUGO

“The debt Beyonce owes visual artists: The video for Run the World (Girls) recalls the work of South African photographer Pieter Hugo” -guardian.co.uk

Installation Day 2: Tony Orrico works on his second installment of his “penwald drawings.” Another 4 hours of hard work! Go, Tony, go!

Installation Day 1: Tony Orrico begins a 4-hour “penwald drawing” in the main gallery - we can’t wait to see the end result!