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LOT 44 GALLERY PRESENTS The Lot 44 Gallery invites you to view LA Virgin, an art exhibition by Johnny Nicoloro. The exhibition shows from August 24th through November 3rd, 2009. An artist reception will be held on Thursday, September 10th from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. during the Downtown LA Artwalk. Lot 44 Gallery is located at 257 S. Spring St, Los Angeles, 90012. LA Virgin features photographic artworks by Johnny Nicoloro. Johnny creates in-camera multi-exposed images of the Virgin Mary found throughout Los Angeles with neighborhood imagery from East L.A. to West Hollywood to Venice Beach. His creative mix of the spiritual icon with commercial, political, and community imagery gives rise to the passion and compassion the Virgin Mary evokes as an iconic image. With a recent installment in the National Geographic Magazine's July 2009 issue, Johnny brings an ethnographic eye to the devotedly embraced icon found within the Latino communities of Los Angeles. Born and bred in the Los Angeles area, Johnny originated his series on a drive through Korea Town where he saw an image of the Virgin Mary next to a Coca-Cola sign. Developing his personal artistic technique and style at that time, Johnny passionately created an image that captured his own conflicting spiritual and temporal struggles. Since then, Johnny has expanded his Virgin vision to create a retinue of photographic Virgins that elevate if not question the power of sacred and secular events and associations in Los Angeles. Johnny's imagery of double and triple exposures, blurred textures, and off-kilter compositions vibrate the spirit of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe and other incarnations of the Virgin Mary amongst the frantic streets and alleys of Los Angeles. His Virgins explore and expose our own spiritual, political, and economical struggles and perhaps counters such struggles with a glimpse of passion, spirituality, or faith that many Latinos recognize but may also speak to non-Latinos, parishioners, and atheists. The Lot 44 Gallery welcomes you to view the power of Los Angeles' mix of sacred and secular vistas through the devoted prisms of Johnny Nicoloro's LA Virgin. The LA Virgin exhibition is presented during the City of Los Angeles Latino Heritage Month celebration. Exhibition dates: Lot 44 Coffee Gallery is located at 257 S. Spring St, Los Angeles, 90012 (click here for a map). PREVIOUS LOT 44 COFFEE GALLERY SHOWS ARTE Y CHOCOLATE: Lot 44 Coffee & Gallery and Zocaloc present an evening of art, music, and chocolate in celebration of Latino Heritage Month. The evening features music by DJ Hugo Loc and Lisa J., and the Pretentious Pidgins. Artwork by Hector Calderon, Peter Carrillo, Gabe 88, Zender One, Manuel Legaspe, Heaven, Vox, Joe Bravo and others. Come and celebrate with good friends, art, music, and Mexican hot chocolate. Organic Mexican coffee too. HORSE SHOW: An exhibition by Walker, Horse Show presents artwork that re-presents amateur photography. Utilizing aged pictures, snapshots, photographic mementos that have been found in thrift shops, antique stores, and swap meets, Walker elevates the hidden artistic action that unknown photographers have captured in their personal, familial, and now compassioned nostalgic moments. AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY KYMM SWANK: With a bountiful use of vibrant color, Kymm Swank creates abstract works that pulsate vividly across the canvas. Often inspired by jazz music, Swank layers geometric compositions as improvised notes that combine and coalesce into rhythmic swatches only to break apart and riff juxtapositions anew. Swank methodically reverberates color across the canvas in swirling directions and depths of field creating her own visual jazz for the viewer's eye. NAMES OF GOD: An exhibition of artist Danny Hughes's spiritual and creative exploration of consciousness and well-being. Stemming from the spiritual tenets of Kabbalah, Hughes has created a series of mixed media artworks that paint an honest, simple, and thought-provoking depiction of energy, insight, and compassion. SHADOW OF CHERNOBYL: A photography exhibition by Graham Gilmore of the devastation and decay created by the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant explosion. PALO VERDE: An an exhibition of new photographic artworks by artist Adam Lewis Smith. With Palo Verde, Smith’s fascination with the patterned detail found in nature is exemplified as he uses multiple images of his subject: the palo verde. Click here to view and/or download a PDF of the press release for this event. The retail common area atrium is used for art workshops, music, and events that benefit the community. For more information, please contact us at art@lot44coffee.com. |
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