September Art Things to Do

Closet Cases artists Donald Krieger and Nuttaphol Ma can be seen this month in the following exhibitions. Hope you can make it to these shows and support art making in Los Angeles:

Donald Krieger: Relatively Recent Paintings and a Suite of Watercolors, Seemingly About Natural and Unnatural Phenomena

September 19 - October 17, 2009

State Farm Insurance, 132 N. Larchmont Blvd. Larchmont Village, Los Angeles

Reception: Saturday September 19, 3:00pm-5:00pm




Save the Date: Donald will take over Happy's closet on Friday, November 6 for a site specific installation honoring the poet Walt Whitman. Artist Chelsea Dean will feature artwork in our main space.


Nuttaphol Ma - This Land Is Your Land

September 24 – November 20, 2009

Reception, Thurday September 24 from 5:00pm-8:00pm

In the third installment of Pitzer’s Emerging Artist Series, Thai-born, Los Angeles based artist Nuttaphol Ma combines references to Manzanar—an abandoned Japanese relocation camp at the base of California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range—with Woody Guthrie’s missing lyrics from This Land Is Your Land. Ma’s site-specific installation explores issues of displacement, migration and survival and asks whether This Land Is Your Land is still relevant to today’s new immigrants.

This Land is Your Land is co-organized with the 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica.

Pitzer Art Galleries/Pitzer College
Atherton Hall
1050 North Mills Ave. Claremont, CA 91711

Hours: Tue – Fri noon-5:00pm

(909) 607-3143

http://www.pitzer.edu/artgalleries/

Meet the Artist: May Jong

Artwork (or artist) that changed your life and why?

Andy Warhol influenced my life in many ways. Through his work, as a young artist I saw that I could make work about anything - celebrities, current affairs, fashion, the everyday and it didn't have to look "realistic."



When did you first know you wanted to be an artist?

This is a tricky question because my definition of what an artist is changes. When I was very young I knew I wanted to be a painter. Later, I realized that art encompassed my interest in philosophy, anthropology, sociology, science and literature.

What do you like about making art in Los Angeles?

I like certain aspects of art in LA which revolves around the artists themselves, people and places that are open to challenges and ideas.

Replacement Cypress (detail)ink on paper

What do you dislike about making art in Los Angeles?

What I dislike about making art in LA is the careerism and professionalization of art. I am more interested in ideas, making and doing than who is showing where or the art scene.

Favorite book, film and food?

I can't narrow it down to much right now, but I am enjoying writer Alain de Botton, classic Hollywood films and growing my own food.

Favorite website?

Probably www.nytimes.com

Best art advice?

Get real world experience in the arts away from academia and see if you like it.

Come see May's work at Happy, on view until October 31. We promise you will like it!