Vanagallery

Announcing a New monthly small show of rolling, raucous music:
RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT

New music (xprmntl, noise, drone, doom, abstract acoustic, 21st century classical, minimalism, etc)
REVOLVING VENUES (warehouses, speakeasies, VANAGALLERY, etc)
1st concert held @ the Adventist Speakeasy

(Look for Vanagallery parked outside; otherwise, you may not find the secret entrance)

TUE JAN 12
DOOR OPENS 6:45PM
STARTS AT 7PM SHARP (DOOR LATCHED FIRMLY)
Round-robin; each musician plays heavy 5 – 10 minutes
FINISHES BY 8PM
NO $ / Beverages OK

“Running With the Night” is a new program of new music meeting at various places with various people performing solo in many different styles, currently based in the Inland Southern California area (plans include shows in LA and other areas starting summer 2010). Concerts are small intimate and quick affairs. Arrive by 7pm to hear the show. Round-robin style: There is no pre-arranged lineup. Get there by 7pm or risk being left out in the cold. Each month we’ll have new music and new musicians. Get in contact for more info or to play a future show.”

In random order:
WEAK STREAM Joe Hill (ex-Spiderworks, ex-Alien Ant Farm)/stole_life (ex-Spiderworks) – LAPTOP/GUITAR
SERGIO CAMARENA (Mothers of Gut) – UNKNOWN???
FAKE SUNSHINE (fuck sunshine) – NOISE/GLITCH
AARON ROCHE – 21ST CENTURY ACOUSTIC
STEVEN LED – ELECTRONIC MINIMALISM

Quick note: Artist Jeff Ribaudo is now the Curator of “J and J Test Only Center,” a smog/repair shop here in Riverside, Southern California. Maybe house exhibits will become yesterday’s news and gas station galleries will become all the rage? Ribaudo has previously participated in Vanagallery’s Painting and Pizza Delivery nights and had a solo show that I curated at RAM last year. More info and photos here. I’m looking forward to seeing what future exhibits will be there. Definitely envision a collabo Vanagallery x J and J Smog Shop event down the line…

Are you down with Kickstarter.com? It’s my new favorite website. It lets artists, writers, performers, filmakers, and other creative people post their project online. The public can view these pages, learn about the project, and decide to pledge money to support it. If the total amount of money needed is not reached by the deadline, the pledges are rescinded and the project doesn’t happen. But if enough people feel it-really dig it-then the project is funded. Pledges allow you to help fund the project and get a cool gift in return.

My project is JANKY. JANKY is a mega-publication. It’s a package of cool stuff like glossy magazine, rough photocopied zines, handprinted photos, a SoundZine of experimental music tracks recorded over the telephone and more. A lot more. Check out my page on kickstarter, watch the video, and hopefully you’ll choose to support the project financially with a pledge. And help me spread the word. I need to get $2500 in pledges by February 13th, 2010 to make this a reality. Once funded, JANKY will be released publicly at pop-up Zine Fest/Release Parties in my Vanagallery on the West Coast and in funky art spaces on the East Coast too, and maybe other places too!

On a freezing cold night in the desert, an intimate group gathered to talk ART WORK. Seriously, this was really powerful. We had a deep group discussion about sustaining ourselves, finding and creating alternative spaces, generating income through collective action with inCUBATE-type practices, a history of “free box”-type projects in Riverside, straight talk about the problems in valuing one’s artwork/experience/time when bartering, and how to enact a cultural shift toward supporting artists. We even had a great debate about Randall Szott’s critique of artists as cultural WORKERS. And I can’t forget to mention our enlightening conversation about the homemade money art of JSG Boggs, the power of George Macunis in buying up property in soho, and a fine discussion of artists that don’t make “art.” Thanks to everyone who came out. And I’m looking forward toward more discussion in the future.

More photos can be found here.

Vanagallery (parked at 3rd St. Studios in Riverside, CA) will serve as a 1-night host of Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Politics, produced by Temporary Services, an independent, Chicago-based collective comprised of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer. Art Work is a newspaper and website consisting of writings from artists, activists and academics on the topic of working amidst depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property. The newspaper will be distributed throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.

This will serve as a 1-night exhibition and discussion of how artists of all types in Riverside and the Inland Empire are fairing in this economy. What possiblities for collaboration, creation of new spaces, opportunities for occupation, producing artwork, and creating our own economy are available? You are encouraged to bring things to share, friends to include in the discussion, and more.

As with most Vanagallery events: FREE FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS.

Address of the Vangallery for the event can be found on the Facebook event page here.

On November 4th, Vanagallery’s Painting and Pizza Delivery delivered 15 or so pizza/painting combos. A huge thank you to all patrons/customers, artists, and phone operator/navigator Lonny. Ingredients included anchovy, many spices, rosemary, onion, garlic, red, yellow and green peppers, butternut squash, mushrooms, sliced olives, and choice of white or whole wheat thin crust.

Artists included Prints by Cosme Cordova and Jesus Cruz, Painting by Dan Nguyen, Illustration by Mamiko Inoue, Drawing by David Leapman, Prints by Jeff Ribaudo, and sewn pizza box cozies by Lee Tusman.

Photo by Sue Mitchell
Print on pizza box by Jesus Cruz, Jr.

Vanagallery in operation
Photo by Sue Mitchell

Pizza Prep
Photo by Dan Duy Nguyen

Pizzas being assembled
Photo by Dan Duy Nguyen

And some more pizza boxes:

Print and Photo by Jeff Ribaudo

A pizza box by Dan Nguyen

Okay, now i’m making myself hungry!
Print and Photo by Jeff Ribaudo

The next Painting and Pizza Delivery is Wednesday November 4th, 6:30 – 8:30PM in Riverside, CA (a city in Southern California).

Painting and Pizza Delivery is an occasional event. Patrons/Customers call and order a painting and pizza. By painting, i mean artwork. It could be a print, a photo, a collage, a painting, or drawing. You won’t know til it arrives. The work is incorporated into the pizza box.

How to place an order.
1. Go to the facebook page to become our friend and sign up for this event. It will enable you to see our contact info.
2. When you contact us, you will be asked to specify toppings. Past toppings have included anchovies, spinach, eggplant, yellow pepper, squash, tomato, goat cheese, olives, etc. Prior to delivery, you will be told to preheat your oven to 450 degrees for 20 minutes.
3. Pizza will arrive in pizza box with original artwork. pop pizza in oven for 6-8 minutes. eat and enjoy. keep the artwork and enjoy.

Artists for “Painting and Pizza Delivery” Wednesday evening Nov. 4th: Photography by Brianna Bakke; Drawing/Painting by Dan Duy Nguyen, Mamiko Inoue; Painting by David Leapman; Collage by Jeff Ribaudo; Prints by Cosme Cordova. Pizzas by Lee Tusman.

We usually request a $10 donation for these services.

Thanks everyone who came to Recession Special: Cheap As Free. We gave away everything: keyboards, tape machines, stereo, 50+ pez dispensers, books, photographs, paint, clothing, fabric, lamp shades, etc. Some attendees brought their own things to give away as well. Plus, we gave away the “Recession Special” zine with info on the Bolinas Free Box, 60s Amsterdam anarchist group Provo’s White Bicycle Program, and Public Domain culture. Zine to be posted shortly. We had excellent iced tea from Back to the Grind, Pomegranant Juice, fresh farmer’s market strawberries and pita chips. Yum. DJ MXTER and Producer Snafu kicked it hard with dubstep, CRUNKSTEP and hard d’n'b. Thanks y’all.

Cheap As Free

I’m a packrat. And it’s gotten bad enough that I can’t move around my studio for want of floors, counters, tables covered in stuff. I keep intending on using it sometime, but that time hasn’t come. yet.

So help me out. And help yourself out. Come to this free flea market and bring no money. For the low price of $Free you can get old tape machines, circuit bent keyboards, wires and wire cutters, fabric, perfectly good cans of paint, CDs, vinyl, zines, knick knacks and gewgaws. I’ll have sugar-free drinks, turntables, stereo and Producer Snafu hosting the decks.

Bring vinyl, cd’s, mp3 players, etc if you want to DJ. Bring stuff if you want to trade or give it away.

Postponing cell phone philm phest due to my broken elbow and shoulder pain. I apologize for the last minute change. Stay tuned for rescheduled date.

in the meantime, check out the photos from Too Many Burritos on the Vanagallery facebook page