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The Venice Beach Biennial

Armand Hammer Museum of Art, University of California, Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, 07/13/2012 - 07/15/2012

10899 Wilshire Boulevard

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The Venice Beach Biennial (VBB), a weekend event that makes tongue-in-cheek reference to the “real” Venice Biennale in Italy, will treat the famed Venice Beach boardwalk, Ocean Front Walk, as an outdoor exhibition venue. Over the course of the weekend over 50 fine artists will set up vending stands alongside veteran boardwalk artists, exhibiting new bodies of work, collaborating with the veterans on new projects, displaying site-specific sculptures or installations, and presenting live performances. Directed by Hammer curator Ali Subotnick.


The famed Ocean Front Walk is a promenade along Venice Beach with a rich history and undeniably funky atmosphere—and it’s also an ideal, if unconventional, location for a large-scale interdisciplinary outdoor exhibition. The boardwalk is officially recognized as a “Free Speech and Expression Zone” and there is a regulated system, which aims to allow performers, entertainers, and free expressionists to exhibit and sell their own original and constitutionally protected merchandise, in over 200 spaces marked along the beach side of the boardwalk. A recent city ordinance has fine-tuned the definition of “art” and nominal works that are permitted in the vending spaces, which has brought back many artists that had previously been driven out by commercial vendors.


VBB takes artists accustomed to showing in galleries and museums out of their comfort zone, and encourages them to consider their work in a new context. The veteran boardwalk artists will play an active role in this weekend event, and all artists will be working under the same conditions and regulations. Artists may also collaborate with shop owners and restaurateurs to present site-specific projects, interventions, murals, and wall projects. This exhibition will instigate new connections and dialogue between disparate artistic communities and audiences that could potentially sustain itself and deepen over time. Projects will be presented on the boardwalk proper as well as in the Recreation and Parks area near Windward Plaza (adjacent to Muscle Beach and the Graffiti Wall).


Lisa Anne Auerbach & Robby Herbst

Loretta Ayeroff

Alex Becerra

Chelsea Beck & Kurt Mueller with José Claustro

Larry Bell

Edgar Bryan

Ben Brunnemer

Jedediah Caesar

Timothy Caldwell

Matt Chambers

Claude Collins-Stracensky

Liz Craft

Rip Cronk

Albert Culbertson & Indira Burgos

Nathan Danilowicz

Dave Deany

Doh

Cara Faye Earl

Ernesto

Mark X Farina

Marc Fichou

Finishing School with Devon Tsuno

Flewnt

Eve Fowler

Abel Galindo

John Geary

Scott Grieger

Katie Grinnan

Mark Grotjahn

Mark Hagen & Scott Benzel

Heartbeat of Venice feat. the Venice Beach Drum Orchestra

Drew Heitzler & Sam Sharit

Nick Herman

Roger Herman

Matthias Merkel Hess

Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle

Evan Holloway with Julian Valdivieso

Ikoh

Charles Irvin

Alex Israel

Adam Janes

Louis Jean-Paul

Barbara Kruger

Joel Kyack & Michael Decker

La.Marche

Nery Gabriel Lemus

Chris Lipomi

Burton Machen

Lauren Marsolier

Anna Mayer

Jason Meadows

Brenna Michele

Jean Joseph Monfort

Pentti Monkkonen

Arthure Moore

Mr. TV

Carter Mull

Derek Mulliner

Brian Mylius

Arist Niciforos

Renée Petropoulos

RA Superstar

Sheila Richburg

Jennifer Rochlin

Ry Rocklen

Mark Self

Salty Shakespeare

Alexis Smith

Gary Soszynski

SKY (Stacey Kai Young)

Vlada Stanisavlevic a.k.a. Danny Z

James Scotty Todd

Monique Van Genderen & Kate Brown

Venice Beach Pothead

Erika Vogt

Giles Williams

Winston the Portraitist

Brenna Youngblood & Eamon Ore-Giron

 

 

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