july 30 // 6-8pm // FREE
Last Saturday on 4th – details at www.4thstreetlongbeach.com

Opening reception for {open}’s new art show.

Details TBA.

Event begins at 7pm. Stay tuned for more details.
Join us in welcoming back our great friend and amazing artist, Mr. Blaine Fontana, for the book release event for…
AMALGAMATE

From ZERO+ Publishing:
AMALGAMATE surveys the richly detailed, highly imaginative world of Blaine Fontana. Imbuing his vision with the divine symbolism of religious myths, worldly folklore and current social [...]

Art Show starts at 4pm; Film starts at 8pm.
Introducing WATCH THIS BOOK, a new series of free film screenings celebrating family-friendly classics that are adaptations of beloved literary works! This series – presented by Lola’s Mexican Cuisine , {open}, Laughing Stock Development – will also feature artists and exhibitors, and will take place on the [...]

f you’ve been to the Patchwork Indie Arts & Crafts festival, you know about its awesomeness, with everything from clothes, home decor accessories and notepads from local handcrafters like the Long Beach Craft Mafia to homemade jams and preserves from folks like the Road Less Traveled Store owner and Patchwork founder Delilah Snell.
If you haven’t [...]

New works on wood by Ashes in Orange Peels (artist Suzanne Walsh). Show runs March 26 – May 22, 2011.

Bookish by Amy Thompson
Curated by DDR Projects
January 29 – March 31 2011
www.amyalice.com
Opening reception
Saturday, January 29, 7-10pm
FREE
About Bookish
These pieces are meant to be images from a librarian’s daydreams. Little glimpses of life, awaiting their escape from between dusty book jackets within the stacks. The librarian works quietly to herself, inputting, organizing, re-shelving, following Dewey decimal’s order [...]

Homo Insectus
new work from Andrew Tong
curated by DDR Projects

About Homo Insectus
I have always been interested in bugs; as a small child I remember rooting around my parents garden looking for anything with lots of legs that warranted further investigation. The little fellows always seemed to be working [...]

Join {open} for Parking Day LA as we create an {open} reading room on the street in front of the shop!
You’ll be able to browse mags and pubs, plus borrow any book in the shop to read in our cozy little parking spot!

{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

Saturday, March 27 // 6-9pm // 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!

Click on an title or picture in the auction box to view the details.
Selecting a piece from the below list will take you to the main page displaying the selected piece.
To bid, simply click “BID NOW” and enter your bid.
If you have ANY difficulties, please email us!

“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 [...]