fundergroundart launch!

fundergroundart launch!

tonight will be the first “art hangout” established by jonathan st. amant. we’re holding it at PÄS Gallery come 7 pm this evening. it seems now that it will act as an introductory meeting, but i have no idea what to expect, except that it will be a great meeting of the minds. the minds of local fullerton artists. so far we have jon st. amant (nowhereland creator/and this groups instigator), charlie visnic (b-roll genius), rene cardona (the mysterious painter from the art colony’s past/showing up in the art scene again), valerie lewis (art colony resident and phenomenal painter), ricardo gonsalves (old skool self help graphics/conceptual artist), john m. sollom (oil painter/assemblage extraordinaire), and myself (the gallery director/commerical art sellout)… unfortunately christie yuri noh and brian lucett have moved to san francisco this week and cannot be here.

jon has asked everyone to bring something they are currently working on to receive feedback in a school-like critique environment. i think that is a good ice breaker, but i think the real energy is going to come from ideas of collaboration. and just from an art community coming together… a couple of preconceived thoughts that come to mind are 1) a new-age dada movement. or intentional movement, more like, with dada like diversity. and 2) i want to propose this original quote that was on the wall in PÄS Gallery before i moved in and made it a gallery. it reads, “Dillon Kerekes — May 17, 1996. I have decided from this day on to never give up, in any way shape or form, my right to continuously and willfully create artwork in order to survive in the sometimes chaotic environment that i exist.” then afterwards mike magoski, our art colony’s visionary, continued it upon our arrival into the new space. image attached at the end of this post.

so, aside from what’s going to happen, i created this blog (fundergrounart.com) a few months ago with a different purpose. i made it to document street art around fullerton, showing the messages our street artists are saying to our city through stencils, wheatpaste, and spray paint. it’s been a few months and i have failed miserably on any attempts to get out and document the beforementioned. so, that brings me here. to tonight. why not see where this leads. thanks jon for provoking such a meeting.

perhaps in 50 years from now, we can look back upon these notes and say, “oh, that’s how it started.” what “it” will be? i have no idea. but i’m definitely looking forward to this!

here’s the facebook event (for the record) : https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=153162531425236