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    Alexandra Grant Love Necklace to support Watts House Project

    Alexandra Grant Love NecklaceAlexandra Grant Love Necklace

    Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Grant has created a special edition for LA><ART to support Watts House Project (WHP), an ongoing collaborative artwork led by Edgar Arceneaux. WHP is an artist-driven neighborhood redevelopment that is aimed at improving the homes and lives of residents who live across the street from the historic Watts Towers.

    Grant has designed the Love Necklace to help raise funds to benefit Watts House Project (WHP). Grant’s work uses language as the basis for images in painting, drawing and sculpture. For WHP, Grant has proposed a sculpture of the word “love” be placed on the roof of a house on 107th Street, literally putting “love on the house.” The singular font and shape of the sculpture is copied in the elegant sterling silver Love Necklace, which embodies both the “hand-made” and the universal aspects of love.

    As a benefit for Watts House Project, the Love Necklace is produced by Honor Fraser Gallery, LA><ART, and ForYourArt.

    About Watts House Project

    Watts House Project (WHP) is an artist-driven urban revitalization project centered around the historic Watts Towers in Watts, California. Directed by Los Angeles artist Edgar Arceneaux, WHP is a large-scale artwork-as-neighborhood-redevelopment engaging art and architecture as a catalyst for expanding and enhancing community.

    Generating a physical and social infrastructure for creativity, WHP catalyzes artistic production and community pride of place, establishing partnerships that can lead to real solutions, hope, and change.

    For more information visit: www.wattshouseproject.org

    Watts House Project is made possible in part by its generous sponsors and partners including Creative Capital, ForYourArt, the Hammer Museum, Master of Public Art Studies Program, University of Southern California, and LA><ART.

    To purchase Alexandra Grant’s Love Necklace and support this vital public project by Edgar Arceneaux call 310.559.0166, email editions@laxart.org, or simply click the button below that says BUY NOW.





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    FEATURING WORK BY Chris Burden / Daniel Joseph Martinez / Sterling Ruby / Rodney McMillian / Gabriel Kuri / Edgar Bryan / William Leavitt / Walead Beshty / Kori Newkirk / Mary Weatherford / Karl Haendel / Amanda Ross-Ho / WIlliam Cordova / Miguel Angel Rios / Shana Lutker / Jedediah Caesar / Mark Hagen / Kara Tanaka / Kim Fisher / Erika Vogt / Mari Eastman / Julio Cesar Morales / Alexandra Grant / Rebecca Morris / Cameron Martin / Max Jansons / Emilie Halpern / Uri Nir / Laurie Simmons / Cindy Sherman / Scoli Acosta / Maya Schindler amongst others…

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    Sterling Ruby
    Sterling Ruby
    Pelican Bay, Orange 1
    2008
    Paint and collage on paper
    8.5 x 11 inches
    Courtesy of the artist and Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
    Value: $7,000.00
    Starting bid: $3,500.00

    Chris Burden
    Chris Burden
    Taller Narrower Erector Skyscraper
    2008
    Pencil and pen on Paper
    11 x 8.5 inches
    Courtesy of the artist
    Value: $25,000.00
    Starting bid: $10,000

    Kim Fisher
    Kim Fisher
    Study for SEASHELL (phthalo blue)
    2008
    Collage on paper
    18 x 16 inches
    Courtesy of the artist and China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
    Value: $3,000.00
    Starting bid: $1,300.00

    Gabriel Kuri     Gabriel Kuri
    Gabriel Kuri
    Sin titulo / Untitled (Ruso II) [left]
    2006
    Adhesive labels on newspaper
    22.05 x 13.78 inches
    Courtesy the artist and Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
    Value: $5,500.00
    Starting bid: $2,000.00

    Gabriel Kuri
    Sin titulo / Untitled (A46) [right]
    2007
    Turn stubs on vintage magazine page
    13.62 x 10.43 inches
    Courtesy of the artist and Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
    Value: $5,500.00
    Starting bid: $2,000.00

    Daniel Joseph Martinez
    Daniel Joseph Martinez
    A meditation on the possibility of romantic love or where are you going with that gun in your hand, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton discuss the relationships between expressionism and social reality present in Hitler’s paintings.
    2005
    White Carrara marble
    12 x 5 x 1 and 10 x 4 x 1 inches
    Edition 33 of 50, 2 AP
    Courtesy of the artist and The Project, New York
    Value: $1,500.00
    Starting bid: $1,000.00

    Mary Weatherford
    Mary Weatherford
    cave at Pismo
    2007
    Monoprint
    Courtesy of the artist and Sister Gallery, Los Angeles
    Printed at 10 Grand Press, Santa Fe
    Value: $900.00
    Starting bid: $350.00

    Cameron Martin
    Cameron Martin
    Untitled
    2006
    Acrylic on paper
    12 x 12 3/4 inches
    Value: $5,500.00
    Starting bid: $1800.00

    Karl Haendel
    Karl Haendel
    The Vegetarian Future Group A: New Yorker Cartoon Drawing #34
    2008
    Pencil on paper
    30 x 22 inches
    Value (for the group of three drawings): $10,000.00
    Starting bid: $5,000.00

    Karl Haendel
    Karl Haendel
    The Vegetarian Future Group A: Karl, The Pencil Monkey #2
    2008
    Pencil on paper
    22 x 15 inches
    Value (for the group of three drawings): $10,000.00
    Starting bid: $5,000.00

    Karl Haendel
    Karl Haendel
    The Vegetarian Future Group A: III #2
    2008
    Pencil and charcoal on paper
    11 x 15 inches
    Value (for the group of three drawings): $10,000.00
    Starting bid: $5,000.00

    Brenna Youngblood
    Brenna Youngblood
    Mountain of Change
    2008
    Paper, paint and coins on panel
    20 x 16 inches
    Courtesy of the artist and Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
    Value: $6,500.00
    Starting bid: $2,000.00

    Jedediah Caesar

    Jedediah Caesar
    Jedediah Caesar
    Untitled
    2008
    2 parts, each 11 x 17
    Courtesy of the artist
    Value: $1,600.00
    Starting bid: $700.00

    Jedediah Caesar
    Jedediah Caesar
    Untitled
    2008
    11 x 17 inches
    Courtesy of the artist
    Value: $1,000.00
    Starting bid $600.00

    Jedediah Caesar
    Jedediah Caesar
    Untitled
    2008
    11 x 17 inches
    Courtesy of the artist
    Value: $1,000.00
    Starting bid $600.00

    Julio Cesar Morales
    Julio Cesar Morales
    Undocumented Intervention #4, Artist’s Proof
    2007
    LightJet print on watercolor paper
    30 x 40 inches
    Courtesy of the artist and Deborah Page Gallery, Santa Monica
    Value: $5,000.00
    Starting bid: $1,200.00

    Maya Schindler
    Maya Schindler
    Who Wants To Be A MIllionaire (white)
    2008
    Paint on mylar
    Value: $2,500.00
    Starting bid: $800.00

    Amanda Ross-Ho
    Amanda Ross-Ho
    Untitled Still Life (Anything Goes)
    2008
    Hand-drilled sheet rock, latex paint, found image, Tombo marker, linen tape
    21 x 15 inches
    Courtesy of the the artist and Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles.
    Photo by Robert Wedemeyer
    Value: $3,000.00
    Starting bid: $1,000.00

    Rebecca Morris
    Rebecca Morris
    Untitled (110-08)
    2008
    Water-based media on paper
    12 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of the artist
    Value: $1,650.00
    Starting bid: $500.00

    William Cordova
    William Cordova
    echo me, echo me (after Sonia Sanchez)
    2008
    photo collage, graphite on reclaimed paper
    8 x 10 inches
    Courtesy of the artist and Arndt and Partner, Berlin
    Value: $2,500.00
    Starting bid: $750.00

    Shana Lutker
    Shana Lutker
    Curtain Rehearsal
    2008
    Light-jet print on paper
    22 1/4 x 30 inches
    Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles
    Value: $2,100.00
    Starting bid: $900.00

    Kara Tanaka
    Kara Tanaka
    Chimerical Love
    2008
    22 x 18 inches
    Acrylic ink on paper
    Courtesy of the artist and Simon Preston Gallery, New York
    Value: $1,800.00
    Starting bid: $800.00

    Miguel Angel Rios
    Miguel Angel Rios
    From the Series “Crudo, White Suit” series # 0211
    2008
    14 x 11 inches
    Pencil, cut-out and collage on paper
    Courtesy of the artist
    Value: $1,600.00
    Starting bid: $500.00

    Miguel Angel Rios
    Miguel Angel Rios
    From the Series “Crudo, White Suit” series # 0217
    2008
    14 x 11 inches
    Pencil and collage on paper
    Courtesy of the artist
    Value: $1,600.00
    Starting bid: $500.00

    Max Jansons
    Max Jansons
    With Curves
    2008
    Oil on linen
    13 x 10 inches
    Courtesy of the artist and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
    Value: $3,500.00
    Starting Bid:$1,000.00

    Scoli Acosta
    Scoli Acosta
    Cranial Congratulations
    2006
    Graphite, paint marker and color pencil on paper
    8.5 x 11 inches
    Courtesy of the artist
    Value: $1,300.00
    Starting bid: $500.00

    Mari Eastman
    Mari Eastman
    Untitled
    Flashe and glitter on canvas
    2008
    16 x 20 inches
    Courtesy of the artist and Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
    Value: $6,000.00
    Starting bid: $2,500.00

    Alexandra Grant
    Alexandra Grant
    Nimbo
    2008
    Etching, Pat Merrill Fine Art Prints
    30 x 30 inches
    Courtesy of the artist
    Value: $1,250.00
    Starting bid: $500.00

    William Leavitt
    William Leavitt
    Vistas
    1992
    Aquatint etching
    14 x 30 inches
    Courtesy of the artist
    Value: $700.00
    Starting bid: $350.00

    Mark Hagen
    Mark Hagen
    A hundred guys flew this firm into a mountain
    2008
    Volcanic glass on burlap on panel
    17 x 22 inches
    Courtesy of the artist
    Value: $800.00
    Starting bid: $350.00

    Laurie Simmons

    Laurie Simmons
    Lying Objects
    Suite of 4 offset photographs
    15 x 20 inches
    Edition of 50
    Value: $5,000.00
    Starting bid: $2,000.00

    Erika Vogt
    Erika Vogt
    Number Portrait 4
    2004
    Lightjet C-print
    16 x 20 inches
    Courtesy of the artist and Messler&Hug, Los Angeles
    Value: $1,100.00
    Starting bid: $400.00

    Emilie Halpern
    Emilie Halpern
    Everything (Detail)
    2007
    C-print
    24 x 36 inches
    Edition 1 of 3
    Courtesy of the Artist
    Value: $4,000.00
    Starting bid: $1,700.00

    Edgar Bryan
    Edgar Bryan
    The Surrealist
    2008
    Color spit bite aquatint with aquatint and soft ground etching on paper
    23 x 22 1/2 inches
    Edition of 25
    Courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles
    Value: $1,500.00
    Starting bid: $600.00

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