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Review of Dark Side of Paradise
Artillery magazine has posted a review of my show at Bermudez Projects. Read it here.
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Dark Side of Paradise Catalogs Available
Dark Side of Paradise: Paintings From 2020-2022 is now available at Bermudez Projects in Cypress Park or through the gallery’s website. Featuring an essay by art critic Mat Gleason, the catalog comes in hardcover ($50) or softcover ($40), and includes reproductions of all 27 of the large paintings included in the exhibit. It was designed by artist Lilli Muller with editorial assistance from Seemayer’s wife, Pamela Wilson.
Stephen Seemayer Exhibit at Bermudez Projects
Stephen Seemayer’s recent paintings, Dark Side of Paradise, opened Satuday (April 13, 2024) to great success. The show will run through May 11, and a catalogue is available from the gallery. Order here.
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Stephen Seemayer Featured on Corridor Cast
On a recent episode of Corridor Cast, Stephen Seemayer discusses his career as an artist and landlord in downtown L.A., as well as his feature documentaries — “Young Turks” and “Tales of the American” — about the genesis of the Los Angeles Arts District.
Seemayer moved downtown from the San Fernando Valley in 1976, turning an abandoned brothel on the second floor of a building at 9th & Central into a 16-room artist compound, complete with darkroom and a screening room.
As a performance artist, filmmaker, painter and photographer, his often controversial work has been exhibited all over the United States.
His late mother, Lynne Westmore Bloom, was the notorious creator of the Pink Lady of Malibu — a monumental feat of guerrilla art in 1966 — and on Corridor Cast, he recounts growing up with the eccentric and rule-breaking artist.
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.
‘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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