See what our studio artists and designers are up to as well as info about upcoming and past events in the warehouse.
Keystone's director, Melanie Mandl, will have a video installation on view at Wallspace January 9- February 6 and Wallspace artist Melinda McLeod will have a solo exhibition at the Keystone Gallery January 11-19. Please join us for the opening receptions of both of these events.
Blindspot Initiative, a group show and series of talks and workshops organized by Keystone studios Plethora Project and Somewhere Something, has launched a Kickstarter to support the installation of the show and dissemination of the all the archives and data. Two other Keystone studios are part of the show: Zach Schoch and Nicholas Hanna, along with several other young L.A. designers. Show your support for local talent and get some cool rewards while your at it. A series of workshops are being offered, poster below.
Keystone and Create LA t-shirts are now available at the excellent price of $15 a piece. A few Keystone zipper hoodies are also available for $30. For more information, see Mark Harvey in studio A4 or shoot him an email.
The Open Studios on December 7 was a tremendous night. Big thanks to the hundreds of people who came through to celebrate art and design and to all our residents who opened their studio doors to the public. Keystone photographer and designer Mark Harvey has some great pictures on his Flickr stream, check them out here.
Artist Biija will be selling t-shirts based on her paintings out of her Keystone Art Space studio during the Open Studios, December 7, 12-9 p.m. For more information, contact Biija.
Sacha Baumann hosts a semi-regular salon at the Somewhere Something studio: Thursday Night Social. Save the dates or these upcoming evenings of creativity, collaboration, and making.
For details or questions, email sacha@sachabaumnn.com
Go vote, and daily (!) for Keystone's own Roy Kesrouani. Big congratulations to Roy on the nomination!
Featured Keystone artist Luc Bernard, shown left with one of his new paintings, will be part of the season opening exhibition at Heather James Fine Art in Palm Desert.
The show features Andy Warhol and Dali, along with Norman Zammitt, Dennis Hare, Clinton Hill, Kaoru Mansour and Luc.
The gallery invites all to join the opening night reception on Saturday, November 30 from 6-8 p.m., "have a cocktail with us and explore masterpieces that span from antiquity to contemporary."
Keystone Art Space is pleased to announce December 7, 2013 as the next Open Studios.
The event will coincide with a group show in the Keystone Gallery: GIFTED, featuring our studio artists and benefitting Create LA, a non-profit organization here at Keystone that offers free after school arts education to children.
Artist/Designer Melanie Mandl created this stop motion video documentation of the construction process during our big build at the Glassell Building in August. Check it out!
Keystone Fine Art Studios and Create LA invite you to the FIRST Group Art Show at our new facility in Glassell Park. Join us on August 24th for an evening of fun and fundraising!! Come out and enjoy refreshments, DJs, tours of our new facility, and, of course, the artwork!
Create LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to engaging the arts community via educational art classes for area youth. The organization aims to create an inclusive and stimulating environment for adults and children by also providing affordable workspace and career development opportunities for existing artists. Create LA currently shares a space in Glassell Park with Keystone Fine Art Studios.
Keystone is a Fine and Industrial Art studio space formerly located in Los Angeles's Historic Echo Park. It houses a group of artists creating sculpture, paintings, performance, public art and media installations. This August Keystone picked up and moved its studios over to Glassell Park to join Create LA in their new 50,000 square-foot home at 2558 N San Fernando Road.
We need your support!! Create LA and Keystone Studios are joining forces to tackle a HUGE project in Glassell Park. We need to raise money to build our classroom and gallery space and get FREE YOUTH ART CLASSES at Create LA up and running! Come take a look at what we are doing and see how you can help!
Krista Machovina
Liminal Spaces: New Paintings
June 15-24
Opening Reception June 15, 2013 6:00-8:00pm
About the Exhibit: Keystone Art Space is pleased to exhibit the work of artist Krista Machovina. Machovina’s oil on panel paintings capture the liminal spaces of no longer and not yet through the metaphor of the sea and sky. The almost abstract images that result evoke the tonalist and color field movement, with an emotive element that makes the viewer feel they stand before a portrait a of a well studied and familiar visage. These works are quiet, meditative spaces in which a moment of calm can be found at this gallery within the heart of bustling and industrial growing arts region of North East Los Angeles. A portion of proceeds from sales of this exhibit will benefit Create LA andThe Art of Elysium.
Create LA is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to engaging youth in quality arts education programming, providing the transfer of skills from this generation of artisans to the next, and to provide a community space for creativity to thrive. The Art of Elysium is a non-profit arts organization that encourages working actors, artists, fashion designers and musicians to dedicate their time and talent to children battling serious medical conditions.
About the Artist: Ms. Machovina earned an MA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work is in private and corporate collections nationwide. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
About the Venue: Keystone is a Fine and Industrial Art studio space located in Glassell Park, Los Angeles. It houses over 40 studios of artists of varying disciplines as well as a classroom, film shoot space, and gallery . Keystone is also the home of the community art education non-profit, CreateLA.
"Preservation Through Neglect"
James Gray Gallery
February - March 2013
Opening Reception:
February 16th from 6-9pm
Bergamot Station Art Center
2525 Michigan Ave,
Building D4
Santa Monica CA 90404
T: 310.315.9502
E: contact@jamesgraygallery.com
Tuesday-Saturday, 11am - 6pm
Sunday & Monday by Appointment
Dean Styers
was born in the same hospital as W.C. Fields outside of Philadelphia PA.
From an early age he was drawn to art and music - and it was all down hill from there.
After the purgatory of high school, he moved to Boston where he attended The School of The Museum of Fine Arts. Once the impracticality of art school was revealed, he set out to actually do art. During this time he sold his first paintings, executed murals, designed posters & record cover art for bands of varying noteworthiness.
Dean's work uses images of people or objects without clear context to elicit familiar emotions (a pretty girl, a well-dressed man, a child, an astronaut, an embracing couple) but undermines the emotions that attend these icons with text. While the subject is often attractive and comforting – eliciting feelings of nostalgia and innocence – the sentiment that overlays the image is typically bitter, or melancholic, or cynical, or even bleak- but always with the tiniest amount of hopefulness. This juxtaposition often creates a unique conflict for the viewer.
Dean's clean, precise style often misleads some to think the pieces are silk screens, but they are in fact just executed with just the ol' fashion paintbrush & acrylic paint on canvas. Early in his career Dean used bright neon colors combined with text to create an enticing candy-wrapper effect that did bode well with the pseudo-50's and 60's aesthetic that he employed. In 2001 he abandoned that technique and moved to a monochromatic grey palette that is more akin to faded photographs or stills from forgotten movies. In this way his more recent work more clearly accentuates the notions of memory and regret: memory of things lost, memory of missed opportunities & memory of things never had. Someone called his new work at that time "Bubblegum Noir" which was not without validity.
Dean's paintings have appeared in numerous galleries & museums (The Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Zimmer Museum, The Tucson Museum Of Art, etc.) sharing wall space with dozens of prominent artists, including Marc Ryden, Diane Arbus, Ed Ruscha, Barbara Kruger, John Baldessari, Robert Rauschenberg, Ralph Steadman and Andy Warhol.
In 2011 he sat on a 4 man lecture panel with Raymond Pettibon at the Tuscon Museum of art, which for him was seminal. As a youth, Pettibon (along with Warhol) was his first "art love" and also the first artist he knew that combined not only text & images but also visual art & music.
If you care about such things, he is in the collection of Steven Soderbergh, Brad Pitt, Gary Calamar, Lisa Kudrow, George Clooney, Douglas Nielsen, Harry Shearer, The Cartoon Network & many more.
He was also commissioned to execute 24 paintings for Los Angeles entertainment agency CAA (Creative Arts Agency) in 2005. He does not keep a list of galleries/museums/shows he has been in- but it is quite extensive.
Currently Dean lives & works in Los Angeles. He still has a great love for music and, with an old friend, runs a handmade, vinyl only record label with a very eclectic roster of artists. When he's not doing any of the above mentioned activities he enjoys collecting other people's art & watching scratchy black-and-white movies.
Saturday November 17th, 2012 6pm - 10pm
Keystone Fine Arts invites you to an opening reception and fundraising event for the arts non-profit CREATE LA
