I've just gotten off the phone with Sean Toro who is with the Community Services and Parks Department here in Glendale. I'll meet with him tomorrow, Tuesday, to supervise the temporary installation of lighting that will illuminate the neglected park side (back) and front side (well, front) of the Gas Station.
Many thanks to the City of Glendale for recognizing this need and coming to the rescue. The exhibit will close on August 26, 2012 with an informal no host gathering. Artists will be invited to pick up their work and meet and schmooze with other artists that afternoon.
I encourage all of the participating artists and others to come up with ideas to further the use of this space for installation artwork. Lobbying the City will be interesting now that there are staffing changes governing the Gas Station. Please discuss ideas with other artists and don't hesitate to leave comments here for future installations.
Michael Sheehan / Art Instigator
Jeannie Gayle Pool has a resume that would be the envy of anyone. She is a composer of concert music, author of books, biographer, musicologist and a water color artist who likes to paint in the desert sometimes. She has a whole bunch of other credits, too. Her love of the desert shows in her landscape with Coyote and YOU.
Jeannie's YOU is the final panel, Number Sixty in an installation of sixty artists. Her assistance and advice for this exhibit have been invaluable. How lucky we all are.
Michael Sheehan
Deborah Ashe is a musician and an artist among other talents. Her mysterious panel in the installation has IV on it that was added in green masking tape after it was hung. Use your imagination. It's there. "Ask not what your country can do FOR you. "
Jeanne Gallo is an artist and a dancer and a traveling woman. She supports the arts. She paints amazing water colors. Creates collage and assemblage within travel diaries or mail art while keeping her San Francisco home a living breathing work of art. I'm a fan. Her "DO" is perfect for this woman who is always doing something!
When the email blast went out to announce the Project, it was open to all comers. I was very happy to hear from Kelvin Erazo, a high school student in... I think... Hollywood. He is enthusiastic and full of energy. He took what seemed to be a very simple assignment and blew it out of the water. His rendition of CAN gets it done.
The July Fourth Project closes Sunday, August 26th. Artists will be notified as to the time to come and meet other artists and boosters and pick up their work.
Glendale Art Association painter / mover and shaker, Shree Hingnikar, is the lone architect in the Project. His enjoyment of pleine air landscape painting and figures / portraits all come together in his depiction of COUNTRY.
Shree's use of the cardboard panel adding to the texture and
challenge of making the piece are representative of his well known fine
work on more traditional materials. He and the GAA have been welcoming and supportive of the Project, for which we are grateful.
The connection to the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery yielded several fine artists for the Project. Matthew Ohm was on hand when I stopped by to connect with others there who had requested the opportunity to contribute a panel. His YOUR is simple and to the point. The use of cardboard and simple materials was to reflect the notion that interesting art can be created just about anywhere with any type of material.
