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©ted washington 2010

“It’s here!

Preview night should now be called the first salvo. Traditionally the preview night has been for industry pro’s and the media but I think many more people are in the business or… What an awesome time.”

Here are some before it opened and after it opened pics

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“I didn’t realize that I have been a member of West Coast Drawing(previously San Diego Drawing Group) for seven years. We do a group exhibition once a year on average and this one is awesome. On exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art it is our first museum show! The reception is Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 2pm.”

INTIMATE VIEWS: West Coast Drawing
OMA Parker Gallery, June 12 – August 13, 2010

Drawing, in all its diversity, is an end, not just a means. In this exhibition some of San Diego’s best artists working in drawing media will display varied “intimate” subject matter in styles ranging from photorealism, to total abstraction, and expressionism. Meet the Founder and the President of West Coast Drawing Saturday, July 17 at 2:00 p.m. Founder Karen Rhiner and President Mick Phelan will speak about the history of the organization and the theme of the exhibition, followed by a presentation of drawings by some of the member artists and culminating with the presentation of the Platinum Pencil award to a well known member of the community supportive of drawing as a fine art. The talk is free with museum admission and complimentary for OMA members. Intimate Views will be on view June 12 through August 13, 2010 in the OMA Parker Gallery.

West Coast Drawing is a collective of artists that work to provide inspiration, artistic support, and career advancement for outstanding artists working in drawing media in the San Diego area. They promote respect for drawing as an art form by providing information and mounting exhibitions of members’ work. The group was founded in 2003. Each member of West Coast Drawing conducts a productive professional art career apart from the activities in this organization. For this exhibition each member of West Coast Drawing has given careful study to the concept of “Intimate Views” and has used drawing to create a work of art reflecting this interpretation.

©2005 Oceanside Museum of Art

Directions

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“I am showing art at a 923 Lounge, Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Show starts at 8p.m.. DJ Sachamo will supply the beats and there will also be live painting by Mark Richmond.

What makes this special for me is that ‘The Dissonance of Man & the Voice of Creation’ will be displayed for the first time!

This diptych was the first step in my move away from the figure. They were completed in 2004 but were wrapped and put away. Since I have done ‘In Search of Harmony’ series, ‘Cherry Tree’, and the newly completed ‘Race Track’, so it is time to show what was first.”

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August 12- Carrie Minikel, Brian Dick and Michael Klam take over the Museum on this night. Carrie has designed several interactive drawing projects in the past and Brian will once again bring out the Nationwide Museum Mascot Project. Spoken word artist and author Michael Klam will also be present to shares his latest pieces in a traveling minstrel fashion. Michael is currently Poet in Residence at the Museum of the Living Artist (www.sandiego-art.org and www.punapress.com) and (www.carrieminikel.com) and (www.brothergeek.com)

For Immediate Release
June 29, 2010

Contact: Michael Klam
(619) 957-3264 cell
(619) 236-0011 office
mkklam@gmail.com
www.sandiego-art.org
www.punapress.com
www.poetix.net/san_diego.htm

San Diego, CA – Wednesday, July 28 at 7:00 p.m. is the next Poetry & Art Three for $300 Slam in the Museum of the Living Artist featuring San Diego poet, host and promoter Eber Lambert – American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert’s dad! Eber Lambert will read before and between bouts of the slam.

Eber Lambert — Eber has been writing poetry and short fiction in San Diego for 25 years. His work appears in the San Diego Writers Ink Anthologies and online. He currently hosts New Poetic Brew open mic and helps produce DimeStories online and live each month.

3 for $300 Slam (http://sandiego-art.org/), a poetry/prose/visual art combination slam for writers, artists and performers, is a poetry/prose competition with a slight twist:
Performers who bring and show visual art connected in some way to their poetry/prose will earn extra points. Performers may also (and are encouraged to) use artwork hanging in the museum’s current exhibit. Simply pick a painting, and it will be displayed front and center for the audience while you read. Each written piece performed or read must be under three minutes and ten seconds. Winners take home $150 (1st Place), $100 (2nd Place) and $50 (3rd Place).
What is Poetry Slam? Here is the official word from Poetry Slam, Inc.: “A poetry slam is a competitive event in which poets perform their work and are judged by members of the audience. Typically, the host or another organizer selects the judges, who are instructed to give numerical scores (on a zero to 10 or one to 10 scale) based on the poets’ content and performance.”
The Poetry & Art Series (established in the summer of 2001) in the Museum of the Living Artist is itself both a unique show and a unique venue. Poets and audiences gather amongst the paintings to witness a live collaboration between writers and visual artists.

Poetry & Art, the San Diego Art Institute’s quarterly museum series, gives regional artists an opportunity to express themselves in a variety of forms and styles. Audiences hear poetry and prose in dialogue with painting, photography, sculpture, music and dance. Any featured guests serve not only as entertainment but also as inspiration for developing artists. The free speech event reveals the diversity and importance of the region’s artists.

Our resident Poetry & Art DJ, Gill S.O.T.U., will provide R&B, funk, soul, and there is a new art exhibit on display at every show.

So bring poems and paintings on Wednesday, July 28, and step up to the mic. Or simply come to enjoy the performances. The show starts at 7:00 p.m. For more information, contact Michael Klam at (619) 957-3264 or call the museum directly, Kerstin Robers at (619) 236-0011. E-mail: mkklam@gmail.com. Visit: www.punapress.com and sandiego-art.org/.

Poetry & Art Series since 2001 — Poetry & Art takes place in the 10,000-square-foot San Diego Art Institute at Balboa Park and includes music and snacks. The event is open to the public and audience members can participate or simply enjoy the show. Cost is $5. Open mic signups start at 6:30 p.m., and the event runs 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.

For press photos, to set up interviews or more information, contact Michael Klam, (619) 957-3264 cell, (619) 236-0011 office or mkklam@gmail.com.

WHAT: Poetry & Art 3 for $300 Slam
DATE: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
TIME: 7:00-9:30 p.m.; slam signups at 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: The Museum of the Living Artist
1439 El Prado, Balboa Park
COST: $5, members free, wine and snacks

General Information
The San Diego Art Institute’s Museum of the Living Artist features a new exhibition of works by talented Southern California regional artists every four to six weeks in this specially designed 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art gallery space. The San Diego Art Institute is dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts through outreach, education and exhibition. The institute’s mission is to maintain a center for emerging artists and the visual arts in San Diego.

I halt
stand staring at the tree outside of my apartment
say sincerely
I wish this was an orange tree
you know, I could come out into this front yard
pick the fruit
like when I was young and we
with our small grasping hands picked
the lemons and the oranges
off the branches of the trees in our own backyards
instead of some alien commercial farm
producing what my land can not
and then the irony of my dependency
sold back to me
by the Vons grocer

funny, how these creation myths are
always about trees
call me Eve
and these words my offering to Adam

the fruit I live on
the fruit of living
I am wishing
and rethinking the fruits
of my labor
of my living
of my looking
and not looking

a half astep behind you
by the green, innocent tree
half noticing in the dim light of evening
how so suddenly-
your face became fresh-as if for the first time in my life-
finding the lines of your angular cheekbones
your virgin face
proud in its beauty
soft, and young, and so temporal
standing out against the accustomed-to-costume
of a hoodie

with fresh eyes
I hold you dear
closely
scrutinize our eternal love
against such a shifting/developing/progre

“This was the first time I completed a piece of art but was unable to see the final results first. Even my framer who constructed the back supports didn’t have a wall with a ceiling high enough to assemble the art. ‘Race Track’ is 9 feet tall!

Intimate Views is installed and open to the public at the Oceanside Art Museum. The exhibit features the drawing group West Coast Drawing. The show is strong! We were limited to 12 inches wide up to 12 feet high so the pieces all reflect the limits in shape.”

http://www.westcoastdrawing.com/

Race Track at Oceanside Art Museum

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Often they congregate close enough to cough
Yuck germy humans
Heavy cell phone conversations
Islands of egoism
All walks of life
Acting like
It’s totally normal
To follow the rules
To be all ears on
your attention please
Final boarding call
Recorded, not a human voice
They wait in line
Watch monitors
Buy starbucks
Are getting old
Stroll stride trip pass by
I, crosslegged,
criticize the human choice
To follow rules
Like anyone good
and bored

Your attention please

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“Daniel Gonzalez contacted me in the spring of 2009 about a movie project he was working on. He is a talented and driven artist that get things done. I was impressed and told him to please include my words since he was inquiring about using my poems in the movie. ‘Ten Days’ premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla Tuesday, May 18th.

One of my poems is in the movie! My name rolled across the big screen!

Thank you Daniel.”

Here are a movie trailer and an article on Daniel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB4XHCEO4E0

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/may/21/gonzalez-took-own-route-to-directing/

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“West Coast Drawing is a drawing group that I have been a member of at its inception in 2003, then named San Diego Drawing Group. We are having a group exhibition at the Oceanside Museum of Art. The exhibition is titled ‘Intimate  Views’ and runs June 12th - August 13th 2010 with the reception for the artists July 17th at 2p.m.

There were size restrictions on what we could present due to the number of members and the size of the space. I went to check it out and found that though the room was small it was very tall, twelve feet high ceiling. We each have 12 inches of width to display in. My piece is 12 inches wide by 9 feet tall. Just wanted to get the most bang for my buck. Here are some pics of the art titled ‘Race Track’ in various stages. This was inspired by Japanese scroll paintings and the area in Death Valley called The Race Track, where boulders seem to move about.”

http://www.westcoastdrawing.com/index.htm

http://www.oma-online.org/exhibits.html

Race Track

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“I entered ‘Theda’ in the competition at the last moment before heading off to San Francisco for the WonderCon with hopes of getting in the show. Well I did better than that. I was awarded The Hoffman Trust Award!

This award is a purchase award but two hurdles had to be crossed; ‘Theda’ was a commission and therefore not for sale and the $500. award was not enough to purchase my art. When the call came and I explained this to Kerstin, the institute director, Ruth Hoffman got on the phone. She said we had met about 10 years or so ago when I was on my way to NYC for an exhibit and she was impressed with my work then and had been keeping an eye out for me. She said she always wanted to include my art in her collection.

Ruth Hoffman is putting together a massive collection of southern California artists. She has some of the best of our generation in the collection and it will be placed in a trust. There is talk of her collection going on tour. My friend Suzanne King, an art dealer in La Jolla, says I want to be in that collection.

We worked out an agreement. I would supply her with a different piece when the show closed and she would pay the difference from the trust. Whoohoo!

Forgot to mention that at the opening reception someone asked did I like my portrait. I thought they were talking about my art but it turns out that there was a portrait of me by Kathy McChesney.”

The Southern CA Regional 2010 @ The Museum of The Living Artist, San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park

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“When people ask what am I doing with my free time, I say making videos with my friends. Here is a video by Ben Johnson of The Long And The Short Of It.”

Vast Systems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD1HrmTGjqE

“The third and final day of WonderCon. Puna Press had a great Con and will be back in the bay area.”

Happy Easter

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“Saturday night is the masquerade party and costume contest so the day is always good too. Steam punks rule!”

WonderCon day two

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