From info at montevistaprojects.com Thu Jan 1 21:25:31 2009 From: info at montevistaprojects.com (Monte Vista) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 18:25:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: This Sunday 2-6 pm: Blotto B.I.N.G.O. Brunch with Waffles fundraiser Message-ID: <58302.69.230.180.230.1230863131.squirrel@webmail8.pair.com> Hi everyone, One last reminder (then no more emails like this until next winter, we promise) about our fresh, tasty waffles this Sunday from 2-6 pm and the white elephant B.I.N.G.O. fun that will accompany them. Bring a re-wrapped holiday present that you really didn't want for a discount on your B.I.N.G.O. card! Thanks again for all your support and we hope you have a good new year. http://montevistaprojects.com/exhibitions/2008fundraiser.html -- Monte Vista 5442 Monte Vista St Los Angeles, CA 90042 www.montevistaprojects.com open Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 pm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: whiteelephant2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 160495 bytes Desc: not available Url : From info at montevistaprojects.com Tue Jan 6 00:33:34 2009 From: info at montevistaprojects.com (Monte Vista) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:33:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: This Saturday, 7-10 pm - Philip Maysles opening "The Comfort of Enlightenment" Message-ID: <53776.69.230.180.230.1231220014.squirrel@webmail9.pair.com> Hi everyone, we're proud to announce the first exhibition of the new year here at Monte Vista, opening this Saturday from 7-10 pm. Please stop by and check it out. January 10 ? February 7, 2009 Opening Reception January 10, 7?10 pm "The Comfort of Enlightenment" Phillip Maysles Monte Vista presents new works on paper by Philip Maysles. "The Comfort of Enlightenment" completes his engagement with Norman Rockwell's iconic painting about desegregation, "The Problem We All Live With" (1964). Using the photographs Rockwell made of studio models for this painting as source material for new work, Maysles addresses the failure of white artists to undermine America's racial hierarchy through a conventional studio practice. Maysles interprets and re-imagines the history of White artists' relations to Black life and culture in order to articulate the way in which White masculinity is both affirmed and challenged through contradictory feelings towards its perceived Black other. Inspired by W.E.B. Dubois' remark that, ?White artists . . . cry for freedom in dealing with Negroes because they have so little freedom in dealing with whites,? Maysles takes creative liberties with the master narrative of American art history to reveal the inability of Euro-American liberals to recognize how they are both complicit with and subject to violence perpetrated in maintaining White supremacy. By filtering this history through an artistic lens shaped by lived experience, personal feeling and an understanding of critical race theory, Maysles makes the racial dynamic of his own subject position visible. Philip Maysles was born in and currently lives and works in New York City. He received his BA with honors from Brown University (2002) and MFA in Art from The California Institute of Arts (2005). Maysles has exhibited painting, drawing and installation at P.S. 1 Museum of Contemporary Art (Long Island City), Artists Space (New York), Project Row Houses (Houston), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and The Amistad Center for Art and Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT). His writing on art and music has appeared in Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Thought (Indiana University Press, 2001) and The CORE Journal (MFA Houston, 2006). He has been a lecturer in Art at Rice University and the University of Houston (2005-2007). He currently teaches documentary filmmaking and runs a non-profit cinema in Harlem, New York. This is his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. -- Monte Vista 5442 Monte Vista St Los Angeles, CA 90042 www.montevistaprojects.com open Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 pm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: maysles_promo.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 66962 bytes Desc: not available Url :