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Gallery Domingo presents
more than 100 graffiti drawings in a juried invitational entitled
Betting On Our Muses. The two-day event will run on December 10th
(6-10pm) and December 11th (12-4pm). Works will be on display in the
historic former dance studio located at 5828 Wilshire Boulevard, 3rd
Floor, Los Angeles CA 90027.
Betting On Our Muses is
an exhibition demonstrating the artistic mastery to be found within
the style known as graffiti. The show will feature more than 100
artists – a number which is both strategic and critical to impress
upon those attending the show of the continued strength and vitality
and innovation of the graffiti movement and form. The high-caliber
of these renderings, the depth of skill and color and execution, and
the strength of subject, will awaken even the most cynical viewer to
the level of pure talent found within the graffiti community. After
the exhibition, drawings will continue to be available for purchase
online at
www.gallerydomingo.com.
Betting On Our Muses
brings together artists far and near, and includes respected members
of the graffiti community such as Natoe, Man, Make, Retna, and many
more. The critic, Shana Nys Dambrot, was selected as the juror for
her impartial, outsider status relative to the artists and their
movement. She has been instructed to assess the drawings as she
would any work of art.
The exhibition is
sponsored in part by All City League, All Nation Magazine, Crewest
Gallery, Elevated Magazine, Hollywood Arts Council, Myspace.com, The
Seventh Letter and Strathmore Paper.
Kim Leerdam
is the director and curator of the gallery. The combination of
business training and the experience of managing artists in addition
to selling art, lends to a unique perspective of art, artists and
the marketplace. She also pursues her own artist interests which
can range anywhere from drawing and painting, to taking digital
photographs of Hollywood for Discover Hollywood Magazine. Leerdam
has also penned two graffiti-related articles recently published in
Geared Out Magazine (Sacramento). She graduated in May 2003 with a
degree in Business Administration from the University of LaVerne
near Los Angeles, CA. In 2004, she accepted an invitation to join
the board of trustees for the Hollywood Arts Council.
Shana Nys Dambrot
is an art critic, independent curator and author based in Los
Angeles. She has worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the
Leo Castelli/Larry Gagosian Gallery at 65 Thompson
Street; was the Art Editor of Hot LAVA Magazine and the visual art
curator of the Lollapalooza Festival and has produced dozens of art
events, performances and exhibitions. Her fine art & design reviews,
essays and features have appeared in several exhibition catalogs and
more than twenty publications including
Modern Painters, ARTnews, tema celeste, Artweek, Angeleno, Art Asia
Pacific, One World, Set Decor Magazine, Juxtapoz, Untold Magazine
UK, Venice Magazine, d’Art International, and Coagula Art Journal.
She is currently the Managing Editor at Flavorpill.net (Los Angeles)
and a Contributing Editor at
Artkrush.com and Artweek.
Gallery Domingo
is an event-based gallery and resource for visual art (paintings,
drawings, sculpture, aerosol murals). For more information about
this event or the gallery, please contact Kim Leerdam, Director of
Gallery Domingo (323.363.1012, info@gallerydomingo.com) or visit the
website at www.gallerydomingo.com/graffitidrawinginvitational. |
