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The Gorgonzola Club
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A snapshot from a winter's trip to Berlin - this would have been January of '06 I reckon. The Gorgonzola Club is located on Dresdener Strasse in Kreuzberg (the more Turkish side of Kberg). Dresdener ALMOST radiates away from the round-a-bout at Kotbusser Tor from roughly the 10 o' clock position looking down at a map, except for the building that blocks it from actually connecting to the round-a-bout. One needs to skirt around what I wanna say is a tall apartment block to get to Dresdener and the restaurant which is right next to the Wuergeengel.

Jeff Jamieson at David Patton Los Angeles

Jeff Jamieson
November 18th - January 6th
Opening: Saturday, November 18th, 7-10pm

The opening will feature a book release event for The Orange, a new book of poetry and images by Rupert Deese and Todd Young. Readings will be held on the 1/2 hour (7:30, 8:30 and 9:30pm) during the opening. Feel free to download and print a reminder.

This solo show will be a long-playing album worth of work that builds off of the singles that were presented as part of July's "Summertime" show: reasonably sized wall hung sculptures, considered pigments, hollow, hand-made (save for one) and calm structures. Click here for some images and a bit more information.

Keith Holbrook at David Patton Los Angeles

David Patton Los Angeles
5006 1/2 York Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90042
Telephone (323) 478-1966 / Facimile (323) 478-1166
http://www.davidpattonlosangeles.com
info@davidpattonlosangeles.com
Hours: Thursday - Saturday 12-6, and by appointment


Keith Holbrook
October 14th – November 11th, 2006
Opening: Saturday, October 14th, 7-10pm

Friends,

Join us this Saturday, October 14th from 7-10pm, as David Patton Los Angeles presents our second show of the new season which will feature the work of Keith Holbrook from the great state of Utah.
We'll have some collages and a new edition to unveil and maybe some other items we don't know about and won't know about until that big silver bird lands on Friday afternoon.
Keith Holbrook graduated from the MFA program at the CalArts (California Institute of the Arts) in 1999 after which he returned to the Beehive State. We are very pleased to present his return to sunny Los Angeles.

While we don't typically send out postcard announcements, we understand that many of you appreciate them. Should you care to have a paper reminder of this event, click the link below which will take you to our site and a card.pdf. Print it out and you are set!
http://davidpattonlosangeles.com/images/KHolbrook_card_small.pdf

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE

Our friends at the Glendale College Art Gallery are hosting a group exhibition on Saturday as well, from 4-7pm. “ROCKTOBERSURPRISEFEST” will open on the 14th and run until November 18th, 2006. The artists in the show are: Suzanne Adelman, Dewey Ambrosino, Roger Dickes, Janet Jenkins, Karen Lofgren, Daniel Mendel-Black, Mitchell Syrop and Andreea Teodorescu. The Glendale College Art Gallery is a quick drive from David Patton Los Angeles:
http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=5006+York+Blvd,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90042&saddr=1500+N+Verdugo+Rd+Glendale,+CA+91208-2809&f=li&hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=34.137881,-118.221474&spn=0.035236,0.062399&om=1
(you may have to copy and paste that link)

For more information about this show go here.

Stop by GCC for "ROCKTOBERSURPRISEFEST" and then come on down and see us at David Patton Los Angeles afterwards.

Location and directions and such:

David Patton Los Angeles is located on York Blvd., a chip-shot east of Avenue 50 on the south side of the street.
Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=5006+york+Blvd,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90042&om=1
According to our friends at Google we are a scant 10 minutes jaunt from Chinatown.
A map from Chinatown to Highland Park can be found here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=5006+York+Blvd,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90042&saddr=chung+king+road,+los+angeles&f=li&hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=13&om=1

Depending on how your evening turns out, know that The Wild Hare pub, where we’ll be after 10pm, is two doors down from the gallery. They run a full bar and the kitchen, which serves good pub food, typically stays open late. Handy.

The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday, from 12-6pm as well as by appointment.

Kathleen Johnson - Mont Blanc and Other Mountains

Sept. 8th - Oct. 7th
Opened: Friday, September 8th, 7-10pm

David Patton Los Angeles, a home for vigorous contemporary art located in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, launches our third exhibition, ignites our first solo show, and submerges into what will be our premier art season with the presentation of "Mont Blanc and Other Mountains of Madness" by Los Angeles artist Kathleen Johnson.

Johnson's work investigates fantastic landscapes, both real and imagined, based on the miraculous yet overlooked spaces of everyday life. From artist's projects explore realms that easily straddle the plausible and the incredible. Her work is a hallucinatory vision of what might be present in the most ordinary of spaces.

Awakening us to the wondrous properties of these quotidian worlds, Johnson's ongoing Pools photographic series imagines a lost Atlantis architecture in which Lovecraftian ice mountains emerge from the floor of the common and unsuspecting Southern Californian back yard swimming pool. Replacing the pool steps and creating its own scale, perspective and geometry, the large-scale Mont Blanc at David Patton Los Angeles captures the new hybrid sculptural form at a distinct time signature in its formation, revealing subtle changes in light and surface pattern.
Paired with a fragile sister sculpture of elemental wonder, which was on display during the opening on Friday the 8th only, the show will be a fitting tribute to summer's end.

Johnson received a BFA from Otis Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Southern California. Recent projects include a solo exhibition at Lucas Schoormans Gallery, NY; The Minded Swarm at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; and a multi-year project with Taalman Koch Architecture for High Desert Test Sites. Upcoming projects include a photographic landscape survey based on her 2004 residency at the Mars Desert Research Station, a Mars analog site in Southern Utah.

In addition to the new exhibition, we have added a number of books to our in-house bookstore: Shirely Tse “Sculpture and Photography 1996-2000” which was produced for a show in South Korea (very far away), “Power Towers” another volume on Shirley’s work, this time in conjunction with the Project Series at the Pomona College Museum of Art (much closer), and “Indecision Time” a volume produced by LA artist (and resident of HP) Ed Johnson for a 2003 show of the same name at the beloved London Street Projects (fondly remembered). “Indecision Time” features essays by the artist, Domenick Ammirati (who writes regularly for Artforum and is a contributing editor of ArtUS magazine and whose work has appeared in numerous other publications including Contemporary and Index), Jon Wurster (yes, of Superchunk) and Jon Raymond (author of “Half-Life”, and the screenplay to “Old Joy” a film featuring Will Oldham).

David Patton Los Angeles - Opening this Saturday, July 22nd, 7-10pm

David Patton Los Angeles
5006 1/2 York Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA. 90042

Telephone (323) 478-1966 / Facimile (323) 478-1166
Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 12-6 and by appointment
website
http://www.davidpattonlosangeles.com:
electronic mail info@davidpattonlosangeles.com:


SUMMERTIME: Carl Bronson, Sean Dower, Jeff Jamieson, Shirley Tse

July 22nd - August 26th, 2006
Opening: Saturday, July 22nd, 7-10pm

Friends,

Join us this Saturday, July 22nd as David Patton Los Angeles hosts the opening of SUMMERTIME, a group show featuring the work of four artists; Carl Bronson of Los Angeles, Sean Dower of London (England, not Kentucky), Jeff Jamieson of San Luis Obispo and Shirley Tse of LA.

The last five weeks have seen us submerged in the grim and heat retaining darkness that was THE BLACK SHOW. But the sun rises on all things and so the walls of DPLA will be refreshed anew and the black work retreated, at least to the back room of the gallery, for the opening of SUMMERTIME. But fear not, for THE BLACK SHOW has a cousin, DARK MATTER, currently on view in, of all places, The White Cube! ( http://www.whitecube.com/flash.html: Beware! Flash interface, truly the grimmest element so far!)

Though the Cube's production values are perhaps more grand than those of THE BLACK SHOW, we here at David Patton Los Angeles feel a dark kinship in their thinking and hail their presentation of DARK MATTER. Should you happen to be heading to or in London, check out the show, they have an Ad Reinhardt!

The refreshment that is SUMMERTIME will be celebrated this Saturday the 22nd, starting at 7pm. We plan to enjoy the cooling salve of the evening until around 10ish, after which we'll breeze on over to The Wild Hare, two doors east of the gallery.

We'll see you then!

Ephemera:

Though supply is dwindling, we still have a number of publications available for sale at the gallery; three different issues of Spring Journal, a Los Angeles based art/lit mag (featuring work from a crowd of artists and writers such as Albert Oehlen, Jim Shaw, James Hayward, Andre Butzer, Lisa Anne Auerbach, John Miller, Larry Johnson, Martin Prinzhorn), one remaining copy of "The Chittendens", a 64 page catalog, which was published by Secession in Vienna in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name by Catherine Sullivan (contains 41 color and 18 b/w images, a cd of music by composer Sean Griffin, and is authored by Pierre-Yves Fonfon, Sean Griffin, Zoltàn Krapschutt, Wolf-Dieter Schlünz and Catherine Sullivan), and also copies of The Ephebic Hobbledehoy, a comic book produced and created by Scott Marvel Cassidy.

In addition, we have posters for THE BLACK SHOW, a hand-printed silkscreen by Jay Ryan of Chicago. Jay and his partners at the bird machine - http://www.thebirdmachine.com: - have produced work for bands and other events both great and small. The poster is an unsigned and unnumbered edition of 60. When they are gone, they're gone.

These items are available by credit card as well as cash. Phone orders will incur a shipping charge.

Prices:
Spring Journal - '98, '00 or '03 - $10 each
The Chittendens - $20 each
The Ephebic Hobbledehoy - $2.50 each
Black Show Poster - $10 each


David Patton Los Angeles is located on York Blvd., a chip-shot east of Avenue 50 on the south side of the street.
Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=5006+york+Blvd,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90042&om=1:
Depending on how your evening turns out, know that The Wild Hare is two doors down from the gallery. They run a full bar and the kitchen, which serves good pub food, typically stays open late. Handy.

THE BLACK SHOW - Saturday, June 3rd

Announcement

David Patton Los Angeles 5006 1/2 York Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90042
Telephone (323) 478-1966 / Facimile (323) 478-1166

website http://www.davidpattonlosangeles.com
electronic mail info@davidpattonlosangeles.com


THE BLACK SHOW: Darren Almond, Scott Marvel Cassidy, Christie Frields, Ed Johnson, Daniel Mendel-Black, Catherine Sullivan, Marnie Weber, Heimo Zobernig
Co-curated with Daniel Mendel-Black

June 3rd - July 2nd, 2006
Opening: Saturday, June 3rd, 6-10pm

Friends,

With the building of summertime warmth comes the premiere show at David Patton Los Angeles, a gallery featuring vigorous contemporary art in Highland Park. Most of you will remember the appearance of Patton Projects a month or so back, well know this, we've decided that, after trying it on and even having it tailored a touch, that the name just didn't quite fit us - and a name must fit - thus, the unveiling of David Patton Los Angeles and a new event, this time featuring actual art.

We are pleased to present THE BLACK SHOW, a group show co-curated with Daniel Mendel-Black, that includes artists based in Southern California as well as those from distant cooler climes.

THE BLACK SHOW has a purpose, and that is to honor the space that now houses the gallery, but to honor it the way we found it, in blackness. You see, when the lease was signed the space was slightly different. The storefront was painted flat black as was the old awning, as were the walls (all the walls) and the ceiling and the back hall and the washroom and the toilet. Since moving in, some of this has changed and what was once Johnny's Tacos now begins a new life as David Patton Los Angeles.

When sudden change occurs it is often important to recognize it and mark the occasion; people are born and pass away, marriages and birthdays happen, relationships develop or wind down. To mark occasions for events personal or public we use rituals as a way to clear and focus the mind on the change at hand. It is in this spirit that THE BLACK SHOW will honor the space as it was found by painting the walls of the gallery back to black for the length of the show. The work presented will also incorporate "black" in some form. In instances black will be simply a color in relationship with other colors, others black will be a result of a process, a representation of a nightsky or as a tone as in grimness or humor.

In addition to the show, we will have a number of publications available for sale at the gallery, including three different issues of Spring Journal, a Los Angeles based art/lit mag, featuring work from a crowd of artists and writers such as Albert Oehlen, Jim Shaw, James Hayward, Andre Butzer, Lisa Anne Auerbach, John Miller, Larry Johnson, Martin Prinzhorn as well as several artists participating in THE BLACK SHOW. We also hope to have a small number of "The Chittendens", a 64 page catalog, which was published by Secession in Vienna in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name by Catherine Sullivan. This book contains 41 color and 18 b/w images, a cd of music by composer Sean Griffin, and is authored by Pierre-Yves Fonfon, Sean Griffin, Zoltàn Krapschutt, Wolf-Dieter Schlünz, Catherine Sullivan.

And so, with THE BLACK SHOW, we hope to acknowledge the space for how it was in the recent past and thus prepare it for a new existence in the future by, for this show, dimming the walls once again. Join us.


David Patton Los Angeles is located on York Blvd., a chip-shot east of Avenue 50 on the south side of the street.
Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=5006+york+Blvd,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90042&om=1
Depending on how your evening turns out, know that The Wild Hare is two doors down from the gallery. They run a full bar and the kitchen, which serves good pub food, typically stays open late. Handy.

The Nation on the Olympics

he Winter Olympics have been to NBC what icebergs were to the Titanic. With the exception of the prime-time figure skating competition Tuesday, ratings have been subterranean, as the Torino Games have been routinely trounced by everything from American Idol to the Home Shopping Network. Thus far the network's $613 million investment looks like it would have been better spent on Betamax stock. A question worth asking is why? The answers speak to everything that's wrong with the arrogance of television networks and the hypocrisy and jingoism at the heart of the games. Let's go through it point by point.

Gladwell at ESPN

This week's exchange is with Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author of "Blink" and "Tipping Point" as well as the longtime cleanup hitter for the New Yorker. You would never think that the most successful nonfiction writer alive would double as a huge sports fan ... but he does. So I couldn't resist the chance to exchange e-mails with him intermittently over the "http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060302">past six weeks.

Naked Rambler

A man attempting to walk the length of Britain wearing nothing but a hat, boots and a rucksack completed his marathon trek and celebrated by putting his clothes back.