Opening Reception: Saturday, February 4th
6-8pm

Show runs February 4th thru March 25th

DDR Projects is proud to welcome Canadian artist Alexa Hatanaka to {open} on Saturday February 4^th, 2012 at 6:00PM for an exhibit of her recent screen printed and hand embellished works done during her recent tour of China.

Alexa Hatanaka is a Toronto native who paints large-scale murals and creates work that is based in material exploration, craft and playful representation. To create her work she employs different combinations of printmaking, weaving and dying, painting, and papermaking. In recent years, her colorful, tactile works have been shown at the Nanjing Arts Institute in China, La Place Forte in Paris, Articulate Baboon in Egypt, and the Manifesto Festival in Toronto. Very close to Alexa’s heart are the public murals she paints in Canada’s Arctic communities. The projects are created in collaboration with NUSchool Design agency, based in Iqaluit, NU, and involve mentorship work with local youth. A large part of her practice is devoted to collaborations with her partner Patrick Thompson, which included three-dimensional installations, outdoor murals, and mixed-media pieces on traditional and unconventional substrates. Alexa is currently completing her thesis in Printmaking at OCAD University, and previously studied for two years in Sheridan College’s BAA Illustration program.

If you would like more information about the artist, this exhibit or to schedule an interview, please call John Geldbach at 562.673.3134 or email John at john@ddrprojects.com

Show runs thru January 22.

Help us clear out our current used vinyl inventory to make room for a very exciting announcement that we’ll be making very soon.
Stay tuned.

All used vinyl on sale for 50 cents!
(except priced vinyl on the wall and 78 boxed sets)

Here are a few teaser photos, but you really need to see it in person.

Back Issue Blow Out!!!
We have a whole assortment of titles priced as low as $1
Get ‘em before they go.

Artist: Christopher Bettig
Title: Untitled Geometry I & II
Medium: Letterpress Print (Hand-Pulled) 100% Cotton Archival Paper
Colors: 2
Size: 6″ x 8″
Edition Size: 50 / Signed & Hand Numbered

$35 each

Artist: Troy Lovegates
Title: Guitar
Medium: Hand-Carved Linoleum Print on 100% Cotton Archival Paper
Colors: 3
Size: 8″ x 10″
Edition Size: 150

$50

Each hand-pulled print is unique. No two are the same. Some colors vary and some have been rendered by hand, by the artist.

Wild Pack of Canaries “The Coroner Can Wait” CD

Wild Pack makes the kind of music fit for the attentive ear, packing in layers of horns, chirping birds, mathy time signatures and oscillating reverb into surprising song progressions that work on a weird, cosmic level. De Anda’s vocals have a distinct honesty that makes you want to believe yes, these are real musicians making real music because they love it and they want to reward anyone else courteous enough to listen.

Label: Mountain Man Records
Format: Digipack CD

$8

Amalgamate: The Art, Design and Exploration of Blaine Fontana…

Straddling the physical and metaphysical, organic and architectural, painterly and graphic sensibilities, Fontana fuses multiple visual strategies to forge an aesthetic language entirely of his own making. The book contains an introduction by poet Derrick Brown, whose written and performance has won him the California Independent Book Critics’ Award in 2004 and six first-place slam finishes.

Ltd. Edition of 1,000

Hardcover, cloth with paper jacket
11 x 11″ (28 x 28cm)
108 pages
Zero+ Publishing

$45

Here’s a brief video flip through tour…VIMEO