Swerve at Kabab Way, Saturday, Feb. 11 from 3-7pm

Swerve: February 11, 2012

Thank you!

We had a great time at Alias Books East with Michael Blasi.  Thank you to everyone who came out that day and a special thanks to our supporters who've visited us and expressed encouragement and excitement for our project.  We could not have done this without gifted artists and businesses who generously offered their spaces to us this year.  It's been a special 4 months and we look forward to seeing you in 2012 for the second half of our inaugural season. 

 



Look for us in February for our first group show entitled Swerve, curated by our very own Sophia Allison.  

Michael Blasi: Soundsystem

ShoeboxLA Presents

Michael Blasi: Soundsystem

Saturday, December 10, 2011 from 4-7pm

Alias Books East– Atwater

3163 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90039

ShoeboxLA is pleased to present Los Angeles artist Michael Blasi. Blasi's Soundsystem playfully explores the relationship between audio and visual, the concrete and abstract, where hard wiring and electric pulses meet soft metaphor and symbolic form. Blasi employs a variety of music including Somali funk, Egyptian jazz, and Jamaican dub over a recycled computer speaker contraption within the gallery, thus making it an acoustic chamber. His mountain-like forms and colorful spheres act as reservoirs of potential musical energy, physical manifestations of the signals that travel to speakers through wires and circuitry, across an array of forms that resemble a circuit board.
 

Originally from Los Angeles, Michael Blasi received his BFA from Purchase College, New York; he returned here in the late ‘90s, where he has been teaching and making art.

ShoeboxLA gives Los Angeles artists an opportunity to do one-day, site-specific exhibitions outside the traditional gallery setting. Founders Sophia Allison and Paul W. Evans provide an intimate space that challenges artists' and viewers' expectations of size and scale. Locations change for each show but the space remains the same.

(Alias Books East is a curated, general used bookstore located in the heart of Atwater Village. They carry a wide selection of used and out of print titles with an emphasis on literature, film and the arts. www.aliasbookseast.com )

Michael Blasi - Saturday, December 10, 2011

Anita Bunn, Thank You & Next

What a great night we had with Anita Bunn.  Thanks to all who came (and you were many) and to Paradis for hosting. 

Anita's work is available here for immediate purchase.  Feel free to email us with any questions.  We always love hearing from you.

Next up is Michael Blasi at Alias Books in Atwater Village on December 10 from 4-7pm.  See you there!

A Question for Anita