by The Editors on August 4, 2008
If you were walking around the Carlsbadistan Village on Saturday August 2, 2008 then you may have tripped over a couple of these paint splattered cones that someone had distributed.
The are apparently a “street art” promo for next weekend’s art opening by Carlsbadcrawl.com editor Bryan Snyder. Check back tomorrow and we’ll have all the details on Bryan’s upcoming show.
[Editors’ Update: This is actually a project called “Artists At Work” click it for all the details.]
[Link: Synderart2008.com]
by The Editors on August 2, 2008
The Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce is “promoting a sense of community” and bringing visitors to the area by painting fire hydrants and utility boxes with an “animal theme” in a program called Art in The Heart of the Village, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
People can “adopt” a hydrant or utility box for $300 to $750 and can paint it personally or commission one of the program’s volunteer artists. Larger utility boxes and highly visible hydrants on Carlsbad Village Drive and Carlsbad Boulevard are more expensive to adopt, Korogi said. . . . Most of the proceeds from the adoption fee, which includes paint supplies, will be donated to the Military Outreach Ministry Camp Pendleton, a nonprofit organization that provides food, furniture and household items to military families.
The art looks great, but why isn’t the money staying local? We’re pretty sure the Carlsbad Boys and Girls Clubs could use some money.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on July 25, 2008
Salon 580 in the Carlsbadistan Village is hosting an art show and reception for Courtney Barnett tomorrow night July 26, 2008 from 6-10 PM. The show runs through August 17.
[Link: Carlsbadcrawl.com]
by The Editors on July 3, 2008
San Diego Union-Tribune art critic Robert Pincus has written an overview of Carlsbad resident Kennth Capps‘ solo sculpture show Metered which is currently running at the William D. Cannon Art Gallery.
On the gallery floor are sculptures like “Emit” (1984) and “Convert B” (1984) that evoke missile heads or bombs. Capps’ four “Equator” works (1996-2007), are inspired by celestial bodies; each resembles a fragment of a planet with a broad ring like Saturn’s and there is one of them in each corner of the room. Some floor works, like “Axis 4” (1984) – a ribbed semi-spherical contour – are solid forms, while others such as “Purge A” (1988) are hollow and you can peer within. Capps mostly uses muted color but he isn’t beyond using a brilliant color, as with the red in “Equator 337°” which works so well that you wish for a couple more flourishes in the exhibition.
Metered runs through August 17 and admittance is free at the Cannon Gallery at 1775 Dove Lane.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on May 8, 2008
Carlsbad’s Louis Cantabrana, 73, and Thomas Royal, 81, (best friends and long-time business partners) enjoy collecting, according to nicely written profile by Joe Tash in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
In the early 1970s, Royal and Cantabrana opened a “rare junk” store called the Flying Unicorn on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. During that time, Cantabrana, a former IRS agent and IBM manager, ran the business, while Royal wrote scripts for television documentaries.
“He was a perfect partner,” Royal said of Cantabrana, because of his trustworthiness, business sense and ability to charm customers.
Since closing the shop “in the late 1990s” the two have continued to collect and trade on e-Bay from their Carlsbad home (which is packed with “thousands of items”). Royal and Cantabrana are Carlsbad originals, for certain.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on April 17, 2008
The Carlsbad Education Foundation is holding its 1st Annual poster art content and they are looking for artists of all ages to create poster art depicting Carlsbadistan’s The Flower Fields®. The deadline for entry is April 21, 2008 which means there are only four days left. Better get that art rolling.
Here are all the rules:
- The original art for 2008 will depict The Flower Fields®.
- Entries will be received by April 21, 2008.
- Entries will be brought to the Carlsbad Unified School District Office, 6225 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA, 92009.
- All entries will be submitted as a 12” x 18”print with a completed official entry attached to the back.
- No entry fee is required, there is no limit on entries, and the contest is open to all ages.
- Art work that is not selected will be returned to the artist.
- Art work will be judged by a qualified panel based on originality and visual appeal.
- Winning art and all rights (including copyright) will become the property of the Carlsbad Education Foundation. All other submissions will be returned to the artist with our thanks.
- The selected art work will be produced into a poster that is ready for framing and will be sold for one year by the Carlsbad Education Foundation to raise funds solely for the Carlsbad Unified School District.
- The artist will be requested to autograph the posters at key events on May 2nd& 3rd.
For more information, contact the Carlsbad Education Foundation at (760) 929-1555.
by The Editors on April 9, 2008
Carlsbad artist Cathy Breslaw is currently showing her abstract, plastic mesh forms in Kettering, Ohio at the Rosewood Gallery.
“The work combines a poetic sensibility with a handcrafted aesthetic, using cutting, sewing, and reassembling techniques to bring out the latent beauty of the manufactured materials. There is an intimate look at feminism – at the contradiction of the physical strength and durability of the mesh while simultaneously experiencing its delicate and somewhat fragile appearance”.
Obviously, we won’t be checking her work out in person, but it’s good to know what local artists are up to. The Rosewood Gallery exhibition runs through April 25, 2008.
[Link: Kettering-Oakwood Times]
by The Editors on April 4, 2008
Carlsbad resident Bill Lignante, 82, spent 26 years doing courtroom sketches for ABC TV, yesterday he was profiled in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
If you watched ABC network news coverage of high-profile trials such as those of Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, Rodney King and Patty Hearst, you saw Lignante’s work. . . . Lignante, who graduated from the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1949, illustrated popular comics, including “The Phantom” and “Ozark Ike,” and worked on well-known television cartoons such as “Scooby-Doo” and “Johnny Quest” for Hanna-Barbera. He drew the famous portraits of celebrities that hang on the wall of The Palm restaurant in Los Angeles.
He says the O.J. Simpson trial ended the careers of many courtroom artists. We kind of miss those drawings. It’s good to know we have someone in Carlsbad who can still whip them out.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on April 2, 2008
As North County Times staff writer Pam Kragen says, “Describing “Frozen,” a play about a pedophile serial killer, as “beautiful” may sound like an oxymoron, but not to Stephen Elton, who directs a reading of Bryony Lavery’s drama in Carlsbad on April 7.’
Frozen” won London’s Barclay Award for Best New Play in 1998. It’s the story of an American research psychologist named Agnetha, who travels to London to interview Ralph —- a British pedophile imprisoned for the rape and murder of seven young girls, including 10-year-old Rhona, over a 25-year period. Agnetha is working on a thesis that serial killers are ill, not evil, and she meets with Ralph to test her theories.
The reading stars “multi-award-winning actor” Ron Choularton as Ralph. If you’re in the mood to spend Monday evening with a pedophilic serial killer, then bring your $5 to the New Village Arts theater at 2787B State St., Carlsbad. Frozen begins at 7:30 PM.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on March 27, 2008
Carlsbad’s Gemological Institute of America is currently hosting a showing of what they are calling a “Native American jewelry collection.”
The items in the exhibit are on loan from one of GIA’s students, Jamie Steelman, who is currently enrolled in the Graduate Gemologist (G.G.) program. . . .Steelman loaned a Navajo squash blossom necklace made of large chunks of Lone Mountain turquoise, a Zuni thunderbird inlaid ring, and other items from the Navajo and Zuni tribes. . . . “Traditional Native American jewelry is a truly American art form,” Steelman said. “Its beauty lies in its rusticity.”
If you like turquoise, this may be worth checking out. The jewelry will be on display until July 1 2008. Click here for more information.
[Link: Diamonds.net]
If you were walking around the Carlsbadistan Village on Saturday August 2, 2008 then you may have tripped over a couple of these paint splattered cones that someone had distributed.
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