• LA Weekly Article

Brian Eno is one of the most prolific and diverse artistic innovators of our time. Creator of modern ambient music, producer for a wide range of artists—including David Bowie, Talking Heads, U2 and Coldplay—Brian Eno’s artistic influence continues to be a world-wide inspiration.

One of his latest innovations is 77 Million Paintings, a monitor-based exhibition that slowly evolves into endless combinations of colour and shape. It receives its exclusive Southern California installation at CSULB’s University Art Museum. See the exhibition then join us for a rare lecture by Brian himself.

Tickets

$100 Regular

$75 Students/Seniors/CSULB

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$75 for groups of 12 or more

A limited number of $25 tickets will be available for CSULB students with ID, only at the Arts Ticket Office starting 9/1.

Experience 77 Million Paintings

by Brian Eno,

Sept 12 – Dec 13,

at the University Art Museum, CSULB

• Facebook invitation (pasted below)
• William Carruthers’ MySpace blog
• William Carruthers’ Flickr with a preview of the prints
• Mickie’s Zoo Article

Facebook Invite:

Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 11:00pm
Location: Substrate Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Street: 709 North Ridgewood Place
City/Town: Los Angeles, CA

Artist Natty Brooker, who is most known for the enduring imagery related to the music of Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized is debuting his body of work in the United States in October 2009 at Substrate Contemporary Fine Art Gallery in Los Angeles.

Brooker’s body of work will be exhibited here first in a series of exhibitions to be shown nationally and internationally. Other cities include New York, London, Berlin and Amsterdam.

Prints of his body of work are available in a signed and numbered set of 14. They are also available individually, signed and numbered.

Due to the artists’ poor health Natty will be represented at the opening by his friend and former bandmate Will Carruthers.

DJ Set: THE MEEK.

Please join us for an evening of fine art. Complimentary beer and wine.

From Mickie’s Zoo:

Prints of all the works are available as a signed and numbered set of 14 for $1600. Individual signed and numbered prints are available starting at $200.

They also had this light fixture/floor mat combo, you’d walk by in this one region and you step on this mat, but the mat is connected to this light that’s a few feet away and it turns it on/off depending on if you are stepping on it or not. I was confused for a second. I liked that. The third floor at the Kunst (lol) is really the best. James Turrell’s “Twilight Arch” was cool too.

James Turrell makes art out of light. The craft of his art is in contextualizing the way in which people experience light in space. In Turrell’s piece Twilight Arch, the viewer first enters a dark room. As her eyes gradually adjust to the darkness, she perceives a faint blue square on the far wall. When she approaches this blue square, she realizes it’s not a blue painting hanging on a wall, but rather a square hole cut through the wall, opening onto another room bathed in blue light.

I also visited Schirn Kunsthalle for the E.W. Nay exhibit, with paintings from his last few years of life. I didn’t know much about him before visiting this exhibit, I would have probably liked it more if I knew what his art looked like throughout his life (which I later saw when I went home, via the internet). But I liked…

His three major large-scale works, each measuring 4 x 4 meters and unusually exhibited – hanging from the ceiling – at the Documenta III, Kassel in 1964 initiate a heated debate in the press.

They were hangin’ from the ceiling at the Schirn as well, as described.