Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair Opens at Barker Hangar on January 27, 2011

Henry Taylor
Chicago Cous
2007
Acrylic on canvas
24" × 20"
Samsøn Projects, Boston
More info on Boston's Samsøn Projects

Tonight at Barker Hangar, the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair opens at 8pm. The fair runs from January 27, 2011 until January 30, 2011.


Gregg Chadwick
Ko-Omote (Winter Face)
oil on silk 2011

My studio at the Santa Monica Art Studios is located across the street from Barker Hangar and will be open tonight for the opening party and this weekend. Please stop by and say hello.

Santa Monica Art Studios
Studio #15
3026 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, California 90405

Also of interest, on Sunday at 4pm at the Ruskin Theater across the street from Barker Hangar, the Honor Fraser Gallery presents Rancourt/Yatsuk's Omega Club: 2011 Annual Gathering, a fictitious multi-level marketing company’s annual event. Conceived as a rising star of the trillion-dollar health and wellness industry, Omega Club will host its first annual gathering of 2011.


Details on Art Los Angeles Contemporary:

Location

The Barker Hangar
3021 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405


Hours

Friday, January 28, 11am–7pm
Saturday, January 29, 11am–7pm
Sunday, January 30, 11am–6pm

Opening Night

Thursday, January 27, 8–10pm

Tickets

Tickets will be available online for pre-sale nearer the date of the event, as well as at the box office during the fair.

Public Admission 1-day Pass : $18
Public Admission 3-day Pass : $28

Parking

Parking is available on-site at the fair for $10.

More info at:
Art Los Angeles Contemporary

The Eyes

The Eyes - Composer Stuart Balcomb Gets Lost in Gregg Chadwick's Painting photo by Joanne Warfield

Santa Monica Art Studios 5 Year Anniversary Event Tonight

Gregg Chadwick
Takekurabe (Growing Up)
80"x80" oil on linen 2009

Santa Monica Art Studios is celebrating its 5 year anniversary tonight at the Santa Monica Airport. And Speed of Life also celebrates its 5 year anniversary. Stop on by tonight from 6-9 pm to celebrate and preview my new work. I'm in Studio 15. Hope to see you there!

Santa Monica Art Studios
3026 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, California 90405

Saturday October 17th 6-9 pm
Sunday October 18th 1-5pm

Yossi Govrin's Monument to Donald Douglas and His Dog, Wunderbar, Unveiled at the Santa Monica Airport

Yossi Govrin and his Bronze Sculpture of Donald Douglas and Wunderbar

Yossi Govrin spoke yesterday at the unveiling of his bronze sculpture of Donald Douglas and dog Wunderbar ."I have always been afraid of flying, " he said. "As an Israeli, all citizens serve for a time in support of the country. And as I just said I was always afraid of flight. So what did they do? They put me in the airforce. And they made me jump out of airplanes!" Yossi was safely on the ground speaking in the shadow of the Douglas DC-3 Monument which seemed to soar above him.

This aircraft was built at the Santa Monica airport in 1942 and after a long journey from the US Army Air Corps, to the Navy, to a stint in commercial aviation with Nationwide Airlines, to service with the Richfield oil company, the plane now dubbed "The Spirit of Santa Monica" is home. Echoing Yossi's days jumping out of aircraft, this DC-3 was initially used as a 28-seat paratrooper and glider tug.


Palmer, Alfred T.- photographer.
Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
1942 Oct.


In the 1920's, Donald Douglas started building planes in a small workshop in the backroom of a barbershop on Pico Boulevard. By the end of World War II, Douglas Aircraft had produced more than 30,000 planes for the United States Armed Services. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, former commanding general of the United States forces in Europe fighting the Nazis, remarked "that the DC-3 was one of the four reasons the allies won the war."



Artist Yossi Govrin

My father-in-law, Ralph Heilemann, after serving with the Navy, worked at a secret weapons system in a hangar at the Santa Monica airport in the 1950's. Ralph later went on to work on the Lunar Rover for the Apollo, moon shot, program. Yesterday, watching the crowds beneath The Spirit of Santa Monica and milling around Yossi Govrin's sculpture, I thought of how the past continually mingles with the present. And that the creative spirit and heroism of those who have come before us continue to season our lives.


Gregg Chadwick
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (Ralph Heilemann)
16" x 8" oil on linen 2008