{open} is pleased to partner with DDR Projects to present “Housing Complex,” sketches and assemblages from artist Hilary Norcliffe, curated by John Geldbach.
About Housing Complex
This work explores the relationship between House and Home. A house is a shelter that we crave first for protection, and then for status. Notions of home may overlap with [...]
sat, june 19 // 8pm // free
Black Candy book release party
music from Alyssandra Nighswonger
poetry from Kyle Moreno and Raul Ruiz
theatre sketch featuring Jasper Oliver + members of the Alive Theatre Co.
plus an art-and-craft storybook workshop!
FREE!
Reading from and going-away party for MATTY BYLOOS
also featuring:
- readings from Michael Roberts + Maggie Wells
- visual accompaniment by Josh Atlas
- acoustic performance by The Soft Hands
sat, apr 17 // 8pm // FREE
In Science Fiction, technology and scientific data become aesthetic tools for re-imagining the possible. Digital media readily interacts with traditional media, bringing the sleek language of technological production into close contact with the more visceral language of mark-making and sculpting. Wormholes, asteroids, and planets—entities that are at once familiar and foreign—recur as motifs, shooting through [...]
Join us for the February edition of Second Tuesdays, featuring Alive Theatre!
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“Reaper Oil Incorporated” by Rick Frausto
“Calm” by Mike Foss
“Fernwoods [...]
Join us for the first Last Saturday of the year, featuring the opening reception for “So Long,” new work from LA artist Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs.
Saturday, January 31, 6-9pm
Free
music, refreshments
Part of Last Saturdays on 4th, a monthly night of art and music in the shops along 4th Street.
Starting February 1, the first Sunday of the month at {open} is DIY Sundays, featuring:
- a monthly DIY project ($5)
- {open} turntables, where you can take a spin on our turntables, your records or ours (half-hour sets when folks are waiting)
plus trunk shows from local crafters, project demonstrations and more!
{open} presents
3rdThurs featuring I.S.O.P
three sub-sets and one all-in finale set.
January 18, 8-10pm
$3
I.S.O.P: Intense Situations of Peril is an improvising ensemble of electronic/laptop musicians who perform new, hybridized soundtracks to the cities in which they perform. Source material is sampled from the audio track of a mainstream motion picture filmed in a particular city, then collaged with [...]
Please join us Saturday, September 27 for Last Saturday and our opening reception for Transitions, paintings by Robert Pokorny.
Saturday’s opening reception features:
• Transitions, a series of 13 original paintings (cel-vinyl acrylic on wood panel)
• prints from Robert’s series The Red Zone: In The Zone, The Sipper, Daddy Long Legs and Mind Body & Soul
• a [...]
Two events are happening this Saturday night at {open} … so come spend Earth Night with us!
Saturday, April 22 starting at 6pm!
First up is a closing reception for artist Mike Foss’ abstract show “textures” … from 6 to 8pm in the front rooms.
And a unique event in the kitchen starting at 7pm …
Renaissance producer Farshad [...]
Don’t Smell the Floss»
Independent publisher Write Bloody presents Matty Byloos’ collection of fourteen stories that defy logic in only the most perverse and elegant of ways.
Greater California || All the Colors»
A sunset nation where each day was full of endless possibilities; we had no plans and no expectations, but every single moment was somehow magical.
Annalemma»
Annalemma’s print issues are a lavish celebration of colorful artwork and photography that accompany short stories and essays from writers of all ages, nationalities, disciplines and echelons of the publishing world.
In Mongolia: a student photo exhibit»
In June 2007, Kim Bogardus moved to the rural Mongolian town of Erdenet, where she taught a photography class for a small group of children who had never taken an art class before.
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