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Hidden Rooms Continues Tonight
Stephen Seemayer continues his performance/installation “Between Hell & Heaven” at the Hidden Rooms event tonight (June 2) at Art at the Rendon.
In Room 19 on the second floor of the old Rendon Hotel (2055 E. 7th St. in Downtown L.A.), Seemayer manipulates a meat-colored surrogate in the painting of classical images of Greek mythology. Visitors are voyeurs watching the creative process through a porthole in the locked door.
Artist Stephen Seemayer in Room 19 at the Rendon Hotel. / Photo by Mark Dektor
Seemayer, in his artist statement, says he is presenting “a classic struggle between the Apollonian and the Dionysian. The key to living ‘Between Hell & Heaven’ is to strike a balance of opposing forces: freedom and abandon, good and evil, black and white.
“While the artist retains control of his environment, he must allow his work to be chaotic and spontaneous in order to explore ideas without preconception or restraint.”
The three-day event opened last night (June 1), and continues tonight with an artists reception. Tomorrow (June 3) is the public’s chance to experience this unique exhibit.
“None of this artwork is for sale,” says organizer Cindy Schwarzstein of Cartwheel Art. “This is all just an installation. Each artist is doing a site-specific installation that’s here in the moment and then goes away right afterward.”
Schwarzstein told the L.A. Weekly, “For me, it’s not even so much about the individual artists as about that they’re all co-existing, creating and collaborating together.”
Artists Jaime Colindres and Greg Jezewski provided assistance with Seemayer’s project.
Between Hell & Heaven
Hidden Rooms – Art at the Rendon – June 1-3, 2018
My piece in Room 19 presents a classic struggle between the Apollonian and the Dionysian. The key to living “Between Hell and Heaven” is to strike a balance of opposing forces: freedom and abandon, good and evil, black and white. While the artist retains control of his environment, he must allow his work to be chaotic and spontaneous in order to explore ideas without preconception or restraint.
Art at the Rendon
2055 E. 7th St.
Downtown L.A.
Stephen Seemayer in Inaugural Art at the Rendon Event
Starting with an activation of the entire building, Art at the Rendon will begin with the multi-sensory event “Hidden Rooms” taking place on the first weekend of June 2018.
Utilizing all three levels of the building,”Hidden Rooms” will feature more than 50 artists, muralists, musicians and performers, transforming every corner of The Rendon Hotel (2055 E. 7th St., Downtown L.A.) into an interactive community-centric installation.
“Hidden Rooms” will be the first of what will be an ongoing presentation of cultural programs hosted at The Rendon.
New Work in Virtual Reality
Artist Stephen Seemayer has used his own image and the element of fire in his works since beginning his career as a teenager in the 1970s. This painting was created in January 2016 at a studio in Downtown Los Angeles in virtual reality, using oil paint and fire brushstrokes.
Art in the San Fernando Valley
“Guardian,” photostructure of film/performance by Stephen Seemayer, 1979
Before he moved to Downtown Los Angeles, artist and filmmaker Stephen Seemayer worked out of an abandoned ice skating rink on Ventura Boulevard. Seemayer, who was raised in the San Fernando Valley, is one of several artists featured in a new exhibit at Cal State Northridge’s Art & Design Center.
“Valley Vista: Art in the San Fernando Valley ca. 1970-1990” is curated by Damon Willick and opens Mon., Aug. 25, 2014, with a public reception on Sat., Sept. 6, from 4-7 p.m. Highlighted by seminal works in painting, sculpture, photography and performance art, “Valley Vista” examines the unique contribution of the Valley to L.A.’s cultural history, and features work by many artists whose careers and lives took root in the Valley, including Hans Burkhardt, Karen Carson, Scott Grieger, Channa Horwitz, Gary Lloyd, Mike Mandel, Barry Markowitz, Michael C. McMillen, Stuart Rapeport, Jeffrey Vallance and Robert Williams, among others.
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‘Signs of the Times’ Exhibit Extended Through June 9
Stephen Seemayer’s exciting exhibition of 62 new works inspired by Occupy L.A. — now showing at the District Gallery in downtown Los Angeles — has been extended through Sunday, June 9, 2013.
In addition to the collages, made up of reconstructed L.A. Times front pages, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs and spray paint, the exhibit features a 5-minute movie about the occupation of City Hall in the fall of 2011. The film includes photographs and video that he and his wife, filmmaker Pamela Wilson, took over the two months of the protest, and from the last night, when the peaceful demonstrators were forcefully evicted by the LAPD.
STEPHEN SEEMAYER
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
April 25 – June 9
District Gallery
740 E. 3rd St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213)814-7164
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“Signs of the Times”: The Pieces (59-62)
November 28, 2011
We are the change you want.
November 29, 2011
Screw us and we multiply.
Each piece in Stephen Seemayer’s new show of artworks at District Gallery in Downtown L.A. is built on a reconstructed front page of the Los Angeles Times from each day of Occupy L.A.
During October and November 2011, Seemayer and his wife, filmmaker Pamela Wilson, spent time nearly every day talking with and documenting the occupiers who were camped out in tents and makeshift shelters around L.A.’s City Hall.
November 30, 2011
Hungry?
Eat a banker.
December 1, 2011
Take the
power back!
The protestors were showing solidarity with Occupy Wall Street in New York, and pressing for fairness and compassion for working class Americans. They urged a shift in values and a closing of the rift between the wealthiest in our society and the “99%.”
Seemayer’s collages incorporate the slogans and signage that got the occupiers’ messages across, along with photographs and stencils of revolutionary symbolism.
Signs of the Times continues through May 26.
STEPHEN SEEMAYER
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
April 25 – May 26
District Gallery
740 E. 3rd St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213)814-7164
Map
“Signs of the Times”: The Pieces (55-58)
November 24, 2011
Human need, not Wall Street greed.
November 25, 2011
The love of people is the flower of all good.
Each piece in Stephen Seemayer’s new show of artworks at District Gallery in Downtown L.A. is built on a reconstructed front page of the Los Angeles Times from each day of Occupy L.A.
During October and November 2011, Seemayer and his wife, filmmaker Pamela Wilson, spent time nearly every day talking with and documenting the occupiers who were camped out in tents and makeshift shelters around L.A.’s City Hall.
November 26, 2011
Spank the banks, pepper spray the Fed.
November 27, 2011
Please don’t
beat me!
The protestors were showing solidarity with Occupy Wall Street in New York, and pressing for fairness and compassion for working class Americans. They urged a shift in values and a closing of the rift between the wealthiest in our society and the “99%.”
Seemayer’s collages incorporate the slogans and signage that got the occupiers’ messages across, along with photographs and stencils of revolutionary symbolism.
Signs of the Times continues through May 26.
STEPHEN SEEMAYER
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
April 25 – May 26
District Gallery
740 E. 3rd St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213)814-7164
Map
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