NELA ART SECOND SATURDAY GALLERY NIGHT
WHERE: 5526 NORTH FIGUEROA STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90042
WHEN: SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016; 7:00 – 10:00PM
The May art exhibit features work by Elaine Parks, and Michael Falzone:
A native of Los Angeles, Elaine received her MFA from California State University, Los Angeles in 1999. Feeling the need to have a very different life experience, she relocated to extreme rural Nevada, where the sparse landscape’s elusive beauty shaped her ideas about the human relationship to the environment. During a decade in Nevada, she exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Oats Park Gallery, Fallon, Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, and the DIY art exhibition Nada Dada Motel. Elaine taught for seven years at Great Basin College and twice received the prestigious Fellowship Award from the Nevada Arts Council.
Michael Falzone is an artist whose career spans four decades and has crossed many boundaries. He began his professional activity after graduating from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, Newark NJ in 1963. In 1972 he completed his formal studies receiving an MFA degree from Claremont Graduate University. His art has been referred to, by LA Times art critic, Colin Gardner, as a “hybrid sensual expressionism” with roots and influences in Fauvism and Cubism. Falzone confronts the formal issues of color, scale and composition through implied interaction between figure and environment, the serious and the playful in anticipation of the poetic.
Also on display: Works by Miriam Jackson and Jessica Ayala Schneider. Katherine Arion will set up her easel to draw pastel portraits at your request.
Band tee shirts with vintage punk club graphics are available, as well as hand-painted tops from designer Marilynn Pardee’s Capo Capes.
The exhibit is curated by Rafael Matias.
AND GREAT LIVE MUSIC by acclaimed Americana/Blues guitarist CARLOS GUITARLOS
THE CARLOS GUITARLOS BAND FEATURES: RICH Mc CULLEY, guitar, mandolin,vocals RICHARD MUNOZ, bass, vocals ADAM STEINBERG, drums CARLOS GUITARLOS, guitar, vocals