Emily Shur made a limited edition (100) shirt with us and RVCA to commemorate the opening of Borders tonight. Get one at the show or in our newly updated
THIS online shop.
BORDERS THIS los angeles, 5906 N. Figueroa st. LA, CA 90042 Thurs. 7-10pm
Noah Kalina, Emily Shur, and Noe Montes all deal with the ideas of borders in the photography they’ll be showing this month at THIS.
Noah Kalina deals with the border between still and video, performance art and photography. He uses the traditional border of a still photo with the camera on a tripod and incorporates a story with movement inside that frame. Each video is 1 shot and no editing; a friend lying on a couch as another friends rides around her in circles; Noah doing pushups in his new studio; a young couple holding hands, knee deep in the ocean staring straight at the camera, still for 1 minute.
http://blog.noahkalina.com
Emily Shur is showing pieces from her “Nature Calls” series, which are photos of cellphone tower trees in their environment. These scenes blur the line between nature, business, the need for communication, and the need to feel as if we are surrounded by nature in the built environment.
www.emilyshur.com
Noe Montes photographed objects around his parents home in Yuma Arizona and scenes in El Paso Texas while visiting these areas which he grew up in and around. These objects represent the border between the hopes and dreams of a new object and the reality of it being discarded or sat on a shelf unnoticed for years. Seemingly mundane, an old boom box on a couch, a broken touchtone telephone, and a statue of a horse head on a shelf, these are the same things he returns to each time he visits, which bring back the memories of home and family for better or for worse before he moved away.
www.noemontes.com
The ACE Hotel approached us a couple months back about wanting to start some projects. Here’s the first… This Friday night we bring our “These Friends” style show to the Ace Hotel in NYC. Hope you can make it out. 20 West 29th St. 8-11PM.
We are going through photos from our first year and a half of doing this gallery thing for an upcoming book project and I stumbled upon this photo of our (Jeremy & Claire) son Eli helping build the place back in December 2009. It’s cool to look back at the history, as small as it is, and even cooler to see how our son has been a part of everything from day one, as small as he was at the time. Thanks to everyone who has ever supported us, we love doing THIS and it really is such a family affair. Good things coming up. -Jeremy
Keep A Breast announced their Non Toxic Revolution campaign a few months ago. Hopefully you have seen the video and explored the site to to inform and educate yourself about the dangers of toxic chemicals in our environment and food supply and the link to breast cancer. The program focuses on prevention as a means to maintain long-term health and well-being by providing alternatives so that young people everywhere can make educated decisions.
NTR embarked on a 8 city street art campaign to help inspire and educate young people about toxic chemicals infecting our food, products, and environment with help from Shepard Fairey and Studio Number One with limited edition poster sets for the different aspects of the campaign and your life including: Your House, Your Mouth, Your Body, Plastic Sucks, and Heart and Soul.
The tour has come to an end and we are celebrating in Los Angeles! The Non Toxic Revolution Campaign will be erecting 6 separate street art installations from Venice to Downtown as well as raising awareness and planting seeds with a 3 art week installations and street side urban renewal at THIS gallery including imagery from Studio Number One and photography from the NTR campaign by Patrick O’Dell.
The exhibition is FREE, all ages and open to the public! See you here!!