August 25, 2009
Create:Fixate Presents
“SnapFlash”
Saturday, September 26, 2009
LOS ANGELES, CA – Arts organization Create:Fixate will host its sixth annual all photography show, SnapFlash, on Saturday, September 26, 2009 from 7:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. Over forty top local artists, DJs, and musicians will fill the Premiere Events Center (PEC) in downtown LA with vibrant artwork and music. The array of images presented at SnapFlash will adhere to the premise that life can reside in a single moment in time – and in that millesecond a whole story can be told. The venue is located at 613 Imperial Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021. Admission is $15.00 before 10:00 p.m. and $20.00 for the remainder of the night. All ages are welcome. For more information please call 310-590-7199 or visit www.createfixate.com .
The evening begins with a preview of the exhibit from 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. There is a $5 suggested donation during this period and kids twelve-years old and younger are allowed free entry before seven o’clock. Parents are encouraged to bring the whole family during the preview hours and take advantage of the Kids Kreativity Zone (4 – 7 p.m. only). Overflowing with art supplies, the Zone provides a supervised space where youth can dive into their own expression while parents explore the evening’s exhibit.
Samy’s Camera, a major sponsor of Create:Fixate’s 2009 all photography show will take over the upstairs loft space at SnapFlash. The Samy’s Camera Loft will feature the work of rock and roll’s legendary photographer Jim Marshall (John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash… www.marshallphoto.com. For over 30 years, Samy’s Camera has been the leader in sales and rentals of the highest quality imaging products and the ultimate resource for the professional and amateur photographer. Samy’s Camera’s main location is on Fairfax Boulevard in Los Angeles with four floors brimming with the latest and most exciting selection of photographic equipment available. Proceeds from the sale of Loft prints will go directly to Create:Fixate’s nonprofit outreach programs helping at-risk youth and other youth-related community projects. www.samys.com
As an addendum to the SnapFlash event, Create:Fixate and Samy’s Camera will host a Canon “Explorers of Light” photography workshop on Monday, September 28, 2009 entitled “Adapting and Thriving in the Current Market” with renowned photographer Nick Vedros. From 7:30 – 9:30 p.m., for an admission fee of $20, soak up invaluable knowledge from this award-winning photographer whose studio was named “Studio of the Year” by American Photography Magazine. Primarily a commercial photographer, Vedros has been producing mind-blowing work for such clients as Apple, Coca-Cola, IBM, and Kodak, from his Kansas City studio since 1977. In this workshop, Vedros will present a program on advertising, commercial, and personal photography by examining dozens of projects while sharing methods, tips, and money saving tricks with the audience. See choice Nick Vedros photographs on display at the main event on Saturday in the upstairs Samy’s Camera Loft area. Come learn from the best thanks to Samy’s Camera and Canon Explorer of Light Workshops.
With this, Create:Fixate’s 38th event, it introduces the debut of the Create:Fixate Podcast! The organization is taking its mission of elevating the importance and accessibility of art and music to a global audience. Each podcast will include original music and interviews, and will serve as a constant line of communication from the C:F family to its patrons. The first podcast is expected to be released mid-September and will be available on the Create:Fixate website.
SnapFlash will also feature the work of approximately 30 local photographers. Brion Topolski’s detailed and colorful panoramas transport the viewer to the ethereal, nearly otherworldly landscapes he has visited. His work spans both coasts as well as London, Central America, and South East Asia. Led by influences of taste and color, personal intrigue or interest, and the unusual in the everyday, Jens Lucking composes the various figments of his photographs in irreverent, sometimes unbelievable scenes that transform the mundane into something intriguing. Javiera Estrada is a fine art photographer who believes, “Every image is a self-portrait, a physical expression of that inner world that is nameless; a part of us that goes beyond our thought and our self-created paradigms.” Motivated and influenced by the fluidity of time, light and space, Estrada brings you to a place “between reality and the ethereal” that is an absolute treat to visit.
In the center of it all attendees will find “Color Wars,” a contest hosted by Live Action Art (LAA) who has a continuing partnership with Create:Fixate. LAA is an art collective that encourages competition amongst artists while enabling audiences to witness closely the process of artistic creation. LAA events are unique, positing artists head to head within different thematic competitions including painting, graffiti, ice sculpture, tattoo and, of course, photography. For more information on LAA please visit http://liveactionart.com.
Besides the live Color Wars contest, Polite in Public, the folks redefining event photography, will encourage the audience to step in front of camera. Polite in Public has hosted event photography for the likes of as Samuel L. Jackson, Paris Hilton, and the Barack Obama Campaign. Founded by Joe Rubinstein and Joe Miller, Polite in Public will invite the audience to leave a digital postcard for Create:Fixate with memorable snapshots finessed in front of sometimes elegant, sometimes playful, and always exciting backgrounds. For more information on Polite in Public please visit http://politeinpublic.com
Not to be outdone, the Audio Lab portion of the evening promises to impress with a collection of Los Angeles’ best up and coming musical talent. Some of the aural highlights for September 26th include The Collab Project, a live electronic trio from LA and San Francisco, who infuse live instruments with self produced electronic beats. They have performed at Disco Biscuits gigs and opened for Vibesquad, Mimosa, and Blvd., among others. Adam Matta, a beatboxer and vocal performance artist, will join the musical line-up all the way from New York City. He has appeared with Bobby McFerrin at Carnegie Hall, been featured on PBS, Showtime, and NPR, and headlined the 2009 UK Human Beatbox Convention. Kid Infinity, one of the hottest electro-pop acts blowing out circuit breakers in the bowels of LA’s downtown music scene, will bring his “audio ecstasy,” according to Urb.com, with “a beat that should be a fire hazard around dance floors.”
Create:Fixate is a successful arts organization in Los Angeles in its 8th year running art/music events that bring together emerging artists and musicians, along with 1500+ art lovers and party goers in a 15,000-square foot downtown warehouse location on a quarterly basis. Founder Michelle Berc curates, produces and hosts these stunning group art shows that present creative people from around the globe with an emphasis on the local talent of Los Angeles. The production team also includes music coordinator Andrea Giardina, and a core team of volunteers and dedicated advisory board members. Awe-inspiring painters, photographers, sculptors, and multi-media artists exhibit alongside an equally impressive array of Los Angeles’ finest DJs and musicians. Each event’s aural artists are poised to create a soundtrack for the night that transforms this from a simple ‘art show’ into the city’s most anticipated Art Event.
~ Optical Lounge ~
Blake Gardner
Blake Gardner grew up in Tucson, AZ, watching his father, a professional portrait, wedding and Vietnam photographer, create captivating photojournalistic imagery. Since then Blake has made a career out of photographing celebrities, actors and musicians in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto.
Today he is a devout environmentalist and has geared his personal, professional and creative life around being as low-impact as possible. His photographs are printed on highly renewable Hahnemuhle Bamboo Paper and framed with reclaimed materials that otherwise would have found their way to a landfill. Also, all the adhesives, lacquers and gels used are non-toxic. For this exhibit Gardner chose to feature some of his nature photography in order to juxtapose the way we sometimes waste the beauty the earth has given us.
Bobbi Fabian
Bobbi Fabian grew up in Melbourne, a first generation Australian, to Hungarian parents. The primary motivations behind her work are photographing the American landscape and the people who inhabit it. In the urban and rural landscape, she makes images that convey a sense of remoteness. She seeks out the unusual and often missed moments, finding beauty in both the quirks of nature and the man-made anomalies. Her work has been collected internationally and exhibited in the United States and Australia.
Brion Topolski
“Epic…” The term most commonly used to describe Brion’s photography is not just an exclamation, but also a description. He has been pushing the limits of his creativity – photographically and otherwise – for over 8 Years. The results are images that bleed emotion, texture and passion. His work span U.S. coasts, London, Central America, and South East Asia.
Cerraeh Laykin AKA “The Dutchess”
Born in Los Angeles and raised in both the US and Sweden within an artistic family, Cerraeh Laykin considers her exposure to both urban and country life the key to her lifestyle and overall philosophy. Aside from coming from a family of artists and jewelers, one of her constant fascinations was food. She loved everything about it from its raw element to the finished masterpiece. It is no surprise that food was her first inspiration as a photographer when over a decade ago Cerraeh picked up an old Nikon F2. Since, she has never put it down. While living in Paris, Cerraeh enrolled at Parsons to study Fine Art photography and French, during which she acquired her moniker “The Dutchess,” by which she is now known. Two years later, she returned to the States with her new passion and persona, to train her eye in many different industries as a commercial photographer.
“There is beauty in everything; you just have to know when and where to look. I see things in food that others usually don’t see. I want to make people stop, think and react. And they do. That’s what art should do – it should act as a mirror of your own pleasures and fears”. - The Dutchess
Every limited edition image is signed with both names and dated.
Ching Wah Lam
Ching Wah Lam was born and raised in Hong Kong, but moved far away from home to Hawaii to earn his BFA while exploring another strange, new landscape. The unfamiliar proved to be intriguing and inspirational. Ching Wah has a great interest in culture and human behavior. Using the urban landscape as a backdrop, he looks for the traces of mankind. Today he lives in Los Angeles and continues to keep a record of his findings with his camera. His role as a part-time radio show host for a program about paranormal phenomena may contribute in no small part to an acute skepticism and quirky curiosity of his surroundings.
David Hauver
David Hauver photographically documents the relationship between man and nature. He is especially interested in highlighting nature’s resistance to human expansion, and his photographs capture images of man’s decay within a natural context. His other photographic interests include fashion photography and landscapes, but he often returns to images that illustrate the juxtaposition between manmade artifacts and natural surroundings.
Dayvid Iannaci
A Los Angeles native, Dayvid Iannaci has spent the last fifteen years as a local creative in the advertising industry with an emphasis on interactive innovation and photography. For years he has maintained a large online following in the digital imagery and fine art community, which he has recently begun bringing to life in the form of offline installations and exhibits.
His influence often tends towards the otherworldly with a bit of the organic and a touch of the mechanical, together with liberal amounts of light, color, reflection and electricity.
Dayvid currently owns a small interactive ad agency and lives with his fiancé in Sherman Oaks, California. He absolutely loves his life as an artist and is kind to animals.
You would like him.
Garret Suhrie
Phantasmagoria
n.
1. A dreamlike state where real and imagined elements are blurred together.
2. A series of events involving rapid changes in light, intensity and color.
3. A shifting series of phantasms or deceptive appearances; an optical illusion.
4. Fantastic imagery as represented in art.
5. The art of creating supernatural illusions.
This series developed Suhrie’s love of exploring the natural world. To many, it seems this is well-trodden territory lacking in original artistic opportunity. These images are an effort to debunk that fallacy; while the natural world has been well documented throughout generations of infinite talent, he believes there are still amazing sights hidden everywhere. The key to finding them is having the patience to look in a different light. Eyes must be open to see the possibility of splendor, even when one can’t see anything at all, for beauty doesn’t fade with the sun. What remnants of its light the sun leaves behind shine anew on a way to see the world, and in this new light we venture out of the ‘well-trodden territory’, and into Phantasmagoria…
For Suhrie, the most intriguing natural scenes are cloaked in night. Instead of a blank canvas, he starts with a black canvas. Instead of a paintbrush, a flashlight. It’s in the act of illumination that art takes place. Photographs are merely the remnants and traces; empirical evidence that such beauty did and does exist. Light transforms his camera’s subjects, and they become so strangely engaging that they seem surreal, a distorted aesthetic often bizarre and unbelievable; lonely locations containing an eerie stillness and silence, despite their dynamic creation. His photographs force us to contemplate a sense of time and eternity, and often they depict an entire evening captured into a single still frame. They capture more than subject matter or a sense of space, they encapsulate time in a frozen landscape.
Guillermo De La Barreda
Originally from Tenerife (Canary Is., Spain) Guillermo De La Barreda is a music producer who has been living and working in LA for the past 10 years. De La Barreda discovered his passion for photography a few years ago, and since then he’s been using it as another medium to explore and express his creativity outside of the studio. Mostly self-taught, Guillermo always tries to keep some sort of camera around to shoot whatever catches his eye. He sees photography as a form of meditation that helps him detach himself from ‘real’ life and observe, appreciate and explore his world, whether real or imaginary.
Guru Thapar
Guru Thapar is a Santa Monica based photographer that has been snapping the local Venice and Santa Monica scene for the last five years. He grew up in New Delhi, India where the intense urban culture, vibrant colors and diverse people influenced his visual aesthetic profoundly. Now he draws upon those formative imprints to meld with the gritty southern California beach scene to capture all of the color, diversity, and originality that this ocean front bohemia has to offer. He is also the co-owner of the 212 Pier Cafe where his photography and other local artists’ work are displayed.
Jacob Rushing
Jacob Rushing is a Los Angeles based photographer and California native. Rushing earned his BA from the Brooks Institute of Photography in 2005 after which he traveled to northern India to further hone his craft. Rushing draws inspiration from a number of sources including history, music, film and art found in nature. With one foot planted firmly in fantasy, he is currently concentrating on character based conceptual portraiture, with the occasional nod to the supernatural.
Jason Elias
Jason Elias is a photographer and documentary filmmaker living in Venice. He enjoys traveling to places that rarely have accurate guidebooks.
Javiera Estrada
“We see things not as they are, but as we are.” Javiera Estrada is a fine art photographer who believes every image is a self-portrait, a physical expression of that inner world that is nameless; a part of our selves that goes beyond our thought and our self-created paradigms. The external factors of time, light and space are inescapable influences. The sound of the camera’s click is the confluence of these two worlds, a place between reality and the ethereal. The latter is quite prevalent in her new mixed media work “Crowns and Veils”, a study of the ego’s layered, masked illusion.
JC Jaress
The desire to challenge the way in which a thing is known is the underlying framework behind Los Angeles-based artist JC Jaress. His paintings and photographs abstract and re-combine imagery so that the symbols to which the images point become less reliable. Jaress states, “Perception is a mechanical process; a filtering and editing. It’s all about desire and fear and prejudice and the whole process takes place instantaneously. Continuously. And this is the process that creates our reality? You have to laugh – this [image] means that! Really? I guess I’m just interested in other, more revealing, narratives that might also exist.”
Jaress studied painting for ten years under Art Silva, Marciano Martinez, and Deborah Davidson. Jaress’ work has appeared in multiple print and online publications, as CD and book cover art and as a wine label for Longoria Winery’s Blues Cuvee. An active member of the arts community, Jaress served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Art Association for three years and as President and Chairman of the organization from 2001- 02. Jaress currently lives and works in Altadena, just north of Los Angeles, CA.
Jens Lucking
Born in 1972, Jens developed a passion for photography at an early age, borrowing his father’s Mamiya or his uncle’s Rollei when they weren’t watching. When his uncle surprised him with a $5 Agfamatic camera on his tenth birthday, Lucking knew what he would be doing for the rest of his life. Ever since, he has invested every extra cent into equipment, printing, and traveling around the globe in search of the perfect picture. After training in his native Germany and 13 years of working and exhibiting in London, Jens finally moved to California in 2009. His efforts have resulted in a string of awards including: AOP Assistants’ Awards in 1998, 1999, and 2000, the Velvia Bursary Award in 2001; John Kobal Photographic Prize in 2000; Kodak Class of 2000 Award; AOP Awards in 2001, 2002, and 2005; AOP Open Award in 2009; and the 2004 Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize.
Joseph Rubinstein
Joseph Rubinstein is a photographer who calls on a long history of film making, painting, and various other arts when creating his work.
In 2001 Rubinstein earned a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design. The degree encompassed a double major of Painting and Film, along with a double minor in Sound Design and Art History. Here he specialized in cinematography, learning both the techniques for capturing moments in film and how they are utilized.
From 2002 till 2007 Joseph worked on low budget films, music videos, and commercials as a Director of Photography. During this time Joseph received many awards for his cinematography from film festivals including New York’s Tribeca Festival, LA Femme Film Festival, HP Lovecraft Film Festival, Full Moon Horror Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro International Film Fest, Fright Night Film Fest, and many others.
Joseph now applies those ideas to still photography. Having a wide range of knowledge of those art forms aids Joseph in his abilities to capture and create meaningful and beautiful moments. Most of his works are created completely by him and the model.
Linka Odom
Linka Odom’s interest in photography stems from a childhood filled with creek walking and exploration. Odom’s images examine our world, with a focus on extreme cultures and the surreal. Odom graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in photography in 1997. Among a wide range of publications and exhibitions, Smithsonian Magazine, Women In Photography International, APALA, and the Santa Fe Photo Workshop’s have recognized her work. Odom currently lives and works in the wonderful metropolis of LA.
Michael Rababy
Documentary/Street photographer and filmmaker Michael Rababy likes taking pictures of people. He studied art history at the University of San Diego before spending time in Paris. Influenced by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Henri Cartier-Bresson, his ethnographic documentary book, ‘American Bachelor’ details the highs and lows of the single male life. His credits include The VICE Magazine Photo Book, Mercedes-Benz, LA Ink, E! Network, LA Weekly, the Village Voice, and Citizen LA.
His short film ‘still lives’, which tells a story through black and white still photographs set to piano music, screened at the Palm Springs International Short film Festival, the Miami Short Film Festival and the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival.
Michael lives in Southern California with his record collection and is currently at work on his latest masterpiece “The Happiness Project” which will be presented to the public for the first time at the Create:Fixate photo show.
Niki Mustain
Niki Mustain has been shooting motor sports for the past 5 years. To make her work stand out she has taken an artistic approach to covering the sport. It’s not uncommon to see her around the racetrack sporting her Holga camera as well as the more common SLR. Mustain has studied and worked in the Film and Photographic Industries for the past 13 years.
Rebecca Johnson
Rebecca Johnson is a Los Angeles-based artist and designer. Her medium is chosen by what is most appropriate for the subject and mood, ranging from painting to mixed media to photography. Her subject matter often has a dark comedic sensibility. In her photo-illustrative series “Ominous,” she examines the concept of truth in photography and the unseen that surrounds us in everyday life.
Her political illustrations have appeared in the publications “The Design of Dissent,” “Yo! What Happened to Peace,” “Reproduce and Revolt,” exist in the permanent collection of the Center for Study of Political Graphics and have been exhibited in Europe and Japan as part of a traveling exhibition. As a designer, her work been featured in the Los Angeles Times.
Robert C. Kozek
An amazing photographer, explorer, and storyteller hailing from the Isle of Enchantment, Robert Kozek takes us on a new adventure every time he shows us the world through his eyes. Whether capturing the essence of a personality or portraying the raw truth behind a social or environmental issue, Kozek captivates us with his stories, reminding us just how much life and beauty this world holds. On a two year adventure across the United States in a four-person aircraft, Kozek captured what he saw as the terrain changed beneath him, everything from modern cities to pristine landscapes. What caught his eye the most were the areas in the middle, where both man and nature struggled to claim the earth. That is how the project “The Middle Ground” was born.
Ryan Jesena
Photography is pretty simple. Just press a button, and the shutter opens up to capture electrons on film or a sensor. The art and complexity lies in the eye of the photographer, it is the perfect canvas where he is able to capture moments that stream into his visual plane. Ryan Jesena believes in that decisive moment, that moment of truth where electrons are transformed into art form. “Multiplicity,” a project Jesena has been working on for the past 3 years, is comprised of multiple exposed photographs on slide film, which is then cross-processed in development. These seemingly random photographs piled on top of each other like a car crash create an abstract visible representation of reality.
Ryanne Bee
Ryanne Bee was born into photography. With a father who was one of the influential skateboard photographers with the Z-Boys of the 70’s, she had no choice but to be a photographer herself. As a recent graduate of Brooks Institute with a degree in photography, she has been freelancing around Southern California and traveling in her free time. This body of work, shot in Patagonia in Southern Chile during winter, is one of her prized accomplishments and a result of her deep passion of landscape and travel photography. It has forever changed her perception as a photographer, and more importantly, as an artist.
Sean P Costello
Costello arrived in Los Angeles 12 years ago after receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Ohio University. Portraiture, advertising and music photography make up his commercial work. This exhibition consists of photographs depicting the many ways in which light and shadow interact with architecture and landscapes. Sean is attracted to the patterns and shapes created naturally and unnaturally in the world around him. Precision, uniformity and “linear perfection” are the aesthetic elements in his photographs.
Sebastian Artz
Born in Romania, raised in Germany and having lived all around the world, Sebastian Artz’ love for diversity strongly influences the varied, whimsical yet powerful nature of his images. After a college exchange with UCLA’s film school brought him to Los Angeles, Artz’ long time passion for photography re-surfaced and the immediate recognition he received for his work solidified his decision to create still images. Working for a diverse roster of clients, including Rolling Stone, Black Book, Spin, Billboard Magazine and Cosmopolitan, Artz has shot musicians ranging from The Beastie Boys to Green Day, as well as numerous fashion and advertising campaigns in the U.S. and overseas. His personal projects, often involving the underwater world, regularly land him in exhibition galleries. Playful, curious and sensual, Artz always strives to go beyond the obvious; to find a new, original angle on his often well-known subjects. Never compromising, his work is filled with passion and is the result of a hard-working ethic. Artz currently lives in Venice, CA and when not working, he can be seen working on his surfing skills or taking motorcycle rides through the canyons.
Vincent Versace
Vincent Versace is a recipient of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award in Media Arts & Entertainment, the Shellenberg Fine Art award, a four time nominee to the Photoshop Hall of Fame and is the author of the best selling book “Welcome to Oz: A cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshopz” which was chosen as Shutterbug Magazine’s best how to book of the year. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History. Vincent is the photographer of Immediate Assistants Medical Rescue Go Team. He is a member of the Epson Stylus Pros, a Nikon Legend Behind the Lens, an Xrite Colorotti, Lexar Elite Photographer, an American Photo Magazine Mentor Trek and Master Class instructor and a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Instructor Dream Team teaching regularly at Photoshop World and the Maine Photographic and Palm Beach Photographic Workshops. Vincent was the original host of the Epson Print Academy. Articles about his work in conjunction with digital workflows have appeared in American Photo, Popular Photography, Shutterbug, Outdoor Photographer, Pro Digital Imaging, PDN, What Digital camera, Petersen’s Photographic, PC Camera, Studio Design and Photography Professional Photographer and Digital Imaging magazines.
~ Video Projections ~
Andrew Hoeveler
Andrew McIntosh Hoeveler is a freelance motion graphics designer and animator based in Los Angeles. After graduating Northwestern University film school and winning a Student Emmy Award in Animation, Hoeveler moved to Los Angeles in 1997. Clients include a variety of design firms and ad agencies, such as Mattel, DirecTV, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, DDB Needham, and Chiat Day. Hoeveler draws inspiration from the memories of his childhood, playing amongst the trees and streams of New Hampshire, and is heavily influenced by the dynamic forces at work in nature, and the aesthetics of the human desire to control entropy and the chaos of natural law. Hoeveler enjoys playing with the merger between technology and art, and is currently studying the programming language “Processing” in order to artistically collaborate with his computer.”
~ Fashion / Jewelry ~
Adina Mills
Born and raised on the sunny streets of Los Angeles, Adina Mills has been an artist and a jewelry designer for most of her life. As a young girl Mills was always drawn towards the arts and quickly developed a reputation as a creative and passionate artist. In the last ten years she has developed a truly inspiring style of ‘wearable’ art that is constantly evolving with her unique use of spray paint, collage materials, luminous precious stones, found objects, sculpture, and her imaginative spirit. Adina’s design and combination of materials brings forth innovative and statement pieces including rings, necklaces, bracelets, and earrings that ultimately transgress the limits of art while encouraging their wearers to redefine beauty and freedom for themselves.
Brooke Benson Designs
Brooke Benson is an emerging designer working and living in Venice, CA. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in Theater, her creativity began to extend to other art forms. Her jewelry designs are inspired by her extensive travels throughout Southeast Asia, Nepal and the Middle East. There is a distinct style that is captured in the designs, revealing a uniquely raw yet refined style. Using spiritual symbols, gold, wood and semi-precious stones, her pieces are created to ignite the divine creative energy within each of us and enhance our awareness to the beauty that lies within. Each one of these energetic adornments carries a special essence that is felt by all who wear it. Recently written up in Daily Candy, her creations “blend the earthy with the ethereal.”
Dandy/Andrea Lithgow
Imagining herself as an artist since her childhood, Andrea Lithgow has learned to trust her hands, going further on the path of creativity through her work. It’s an ongoing process, and what she calls the “crafty” gene: a genuine need to create, construct, design, and build.
From her experience sewing, along with seamstress and decorating jobs, Lithgow has developed an appreciation for the colors and texture of fabrics and materials. Combined with mixed-media art and painting classes, Andrea has enhanced her artistic awareness, adding dimension and perspective within her projects and designs.
Working with ceramics and glazes gives Andrea a new canvas to develop and display her artistic creativity, involving every element that has been a part of her since childhood. With Dandy jewelry, Andrea has discovered a true palette for her handcrafted art.
Delevo Designs/Deborah Vogt
After graduating from Columbia College, Deborah Vogt became a founding member of The Conjugate Projekt, Transamoeba Studios and The Chicago Art Department, participating in the creation of many collectives, multitudes of events and performance art installations throughout Chicago. She began creating her line of jewelry, Delevo Designs, in the year 2000, traveling to Bali to teach her innovative designs to the master artisans there. Upon landing in Los Angeles she has worked with several high-end designers while continuing to produce and coordinate art galleries and events. Her jewelry is handcrafted, elegant and simple, using fine woods, sterling silver and gold, precious and semi-precious stones, and recycled materials to create universal and distinctive designs.
Janaration
Janaration is a Yoga Inspired Jewelry Company that researches the healing properties of gemstones in an effort to design jewelry that looks beautiful and radiates a positive, healing message that inspires and promotes spiritual growth. The Designer, Jana Camp, is a Yoga Teacher & Actress from Atlanta, Georgia currently living in Los Angeles. Her mission is to combine the spiritual elements of Yoga into a beautiful piece of jewelry that has a strong, positive energy for the wearer.
Marla Johnson
Marla’s jewelry reflects the spirituality and elegance of ancient cultures. Each piece is handmade using recycled metals, antique glass, and embellished with semi-precious gemstones. Johnson’s work is inspired by art, literature, and travel – each piece has a secular, worn look and feel.
Mind Over Fabric
Mind Over Fabric is an earth-conscious message apparel line made with premium organic cotton. The line features transformational positive messages and captivating art inspired by uplifting teachings from around the world.
~ Live Photography ~
Blake Gardner
See bio above… also an exhibitor.
Polite in Public
Polite in Public sets a new standard for photobooth and party photography! The company was founded by Joe Rubinstein and Joe Miller in early 2007. Rubinstein and Miller both graduated from SCAD, and their experienced backgrounds in lighting, cinematography and photography come to fruition in these creative event snapshots. Rubinstein double majored in painting and film while Miller studied graphic design and computer art. Since their inception, the company has appeared at over 700 events and estimates taking over 1 million photos. Notable companies and celebrities to have used the booths include Universal Studios, Samuel L. Jackson, Mercedes-Benz, Samsung, Paris Hilton, Svedka Vodka, the Barack Obama Campaign. Polite in Public offers service in ten cities, including Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, Chicago, Boston, San Diego, Phoenix, and Dallas. Polite in Public also can travel anywhere in the world with their travel kits. Come see Polite in Public’s photos at www.politeinpublic.com.
LAA
Live Action Art is an art collective that encourages competition amongst artists while enabling audiences to witness closely the process of artistic creation. LAA, whose events are unique, posits artist’s head to head within different thematic competitions and involves the audience each competition. As part of a continuing partnership between Create:Fixate and LAA, this show will include a “Color Wars,” photography contest. The 3-hour event will take center stage amidst DJs, live musicians, an enormous dance floor, and a vast 3-room art gallery space. The audience helps decide on the winners, prizes are awarded, and a cool and unique set of artwork is created unique to the environment of this Create:Fixate show.
~ Audio Lounge ~
Adam Matta (NYC Beatbox Collective)
Adam Matta is a beatboxer and vocal performance artist from New York City. He has appeared with Bobby McFerrin at Carnegie Hall and headlined the 2009 UK Human Beatbox Convention, Joe’s Pub, New Museum for Contemporary Art, and Here Arts Center. He has also been featured on PBS, Showtime, CUNY-TV, WNYE and NPR. His music appears on “The L Word, Season II: Sessions (Tommy Boy),” and in the documentary, “Planet B-Boy.” He has also been an Artist in Residence at Cornell University, Here Arts Center, Digital Performance Institute and League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots.
AudioMoe
Whether it’s producing original music and remixes or killing it live behind the decks, AudioMoe (AKA Moses Truzman) combines his passion for music and expression to create something truly unique. Born in New York, he was influenced by many styles of music ranging from rock to Latin and hip hop. According to him, “Music has no labels. It’s all just soul music to me.” And with that mindset, he creates music that crosses genres and styles but still hits you in the same place. As for his DJ sets, be prepared to get taken on a journey that touches on funk, hip hop, house and everything else in-between.
BBRAVE (Akwaaba Music, LA)
Akwaaba Music’s founder caught the African bug in 2007 on his first trip to Ghana. Since then, he’s spent months all over Senegal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, Togo and Angola, bridging the gap between locally established artists and music fans worldwide. Akwaaba releases the music, while BBRAVE shares it on the dance floor. BBRAVE’s sounds range from Ghanaian hiplife, Ivorian coupé décalé, Angolan kuduro mixed in with classic highlife, soukous and other worldly strains of funk; there’s a lot to work with, and BBRAVE brings the works.
The Collab Project
The Collab Project, a live electronic trio from LA and San Francisco, infuses live instruments with self-produced electronic beats. This up and coming trio has performed all over, from California to Philadelphia, including several Disco Biscuits late nights opening for such acts as Vibesquad, Mimosa, Blvd., and many more.
Developer (Modularz / Planetary Series)
Developer is one of the busiest Techno House Mixmasters in Los Angeles. He has been DJing in LA and abroad for well over 15 years and has recently re-surfaced in the last year larger than ever rocking every major Techno house event in LA. Developer Adrian Sandoval has also been producing shows under the Modularz Organization, such as Gradient and Planetary Series with partner Robtronik. His current set up is a control surface, Dual machines, sequencer, sampler and dual effect processors.
DJ Loomer
Spinning deeply and often in LA’s under and above ground dance music, and art worlds, The Loomer’s sound weaves all genres, from rare groove to tribal house, minimal space funk to dirty electric breaks, and beyond. Resident at Bass Ritual and AfterBurn with partner-in-vibe DJ Saadhu, DJ Loomer is in it to bring the music to the people and bring the people together.
DJ JoJo
Born in Beirut Lebanon, JoJo Baghdasarian has traveled through Aleppo Syria To Los Angeles to follow the same dreams as his ancestors through the music culture. He helps run Backside Records in the heart of downtown Burbank. Free in-house concert shows open to everyone.
DJ Lucas
After his first tastes of the Los Angeles underground scene thirteen years ago, DJ Lucas took his love for music and promoted a number of renowned one off parties and weekly music events with his crew, Distant Beat. His deep love and respect for electronic music, and his keen sense for quality sound logically evolved into his own foray into the art of the DJ. From this history, he carries to the turntables a refined, eclectic sound ranging from middle tempo breaks to soulful, jazzy house. DJ Lucas strives to convey a feeling of freedom and celebration through the beats he has appreciated for over a decade and loves nothing more than sharing that spirit with party people everywhere.
FatFinger (Project Alma, Plump)
FatFinger has been rocking dance floors for 15 years with his energetic DJ sets of banging electro, funky house, mash-ups, chunky breaks and groovy techno. Native to Philadelphia, he has performed at high profile events around the globe, from Argentina to Ibiza. In the studio, FatFinger (aka FatSlinger) produces fat dance floor electro house, bass-oozing glitchy dub, and jazz house in collaboration with live musicians. As a world-class promoter, FatFinger has produced countless club nights, warehouse parties, and festival stages over the past ten years, at events like San Francisco Love Parade, Burning Man and LA Decompression. His productions with his company Project Alma have brought him to Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires.
Kid Infinity
Kid Infinity, is one of the Hottest Electro-Pop acts blowing out circuit breakers in the bowels of LA’s downtown music scene. Its explosive music takes influence from Electro, French-Touch, Hip-Hop, Rock, and Underground Dance styles. Their current self-produced EP ““Kid Infinity’s Got a Big Head”” is being passed out from car trunks and basement parties to back yards and club parking lots all over Los Angeles, bumping large bass the whole way. Urb.com describes KI as “audio ecstasy“ with “a beat that should be a fire hazard around dance floors… where the strobe lights transfix you as much as the sweaty, flailing body parts of your favorite fling.” It’s serious fun for a world that screams for a serious party.
Matt Xavier – (Compression / Railyard Recordings)
Matt Xavier’s relationship with electronic music began in New York City back in early 1993. In 1995 he organized the first European Goa-trance parties on the North American East Coast and later founded New York City’s first psy-trance event company “Tsunami Productions”. Eventually his soul re-acquired a taste for house music, inspiring him to adopt the tech-house production moniker known as “Gruvhaus.” In 2005 he and childhood friend Sean Palm founded the label known as “Railyard Recordings” who have hosted such world-renowned producers as Joel Mull, Cari Lekebusch and Alexi Delano. After residing in Berlin’s wild Kreuzberg district for the 2007 season, he returned to the States to begin his role as music director and resident DJ for North America’s most premiere techno nightclub “Compression Los Angeles”.
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