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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The Bay Gates at The District

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ActivistArtistA Bay Gates

A project of artist Rolando Chang Barrero

"ActivistArtistA at The District"

422 West Industrial Ave.

"Boynton Beach Art District"

Boynton Beach, Florida 33426

786-521-1199

Individual or Group Tours Available

Contact: Rolando Chang Barrero 786-521-1199

Tour The District and see the ActivistArtistA Bay Gates Project

Bring the Family the kids are gonna love it

The initiation of the ActivistArtistA Bay Gates intallations have brought folks at all hours to see the murals commissioned by various arts patrons at The District.

Roly Chang Barrero, the founder of ActivstArtistA Gallery and Studio located at The District is watching a his dream taking shape faster then he expected. The Boynton Beach Art District on West Industrial Ave., (just west of I95 off the Boynton Beach exit) has come back to life in just a few months. Art Walks, tours, and orther community events like the Art Garage Sale, ART WALK 2012, The Stroke of Genius Exhibition, the introduction of Food Trucks at all events, and of course KeroWACKED, are bringing the community and it's artists together.

Please click on Artist Name to see to see more!

"The Big Bang Theory" was the first of the installations at The District.

Art by: Grab, Rekal, and Tubz. Still in progress.

This large mural, is a triptych designed by Brazilian artist Marcus Borges.

"AnAtomic Bombz" By Fuse was begun during The Districts ART Garage Sale.

Still in Progress. Commissioned by ActivistArtistA Gallery

Another artist, Eddie Fuse, happened to hear about the ActivistArtistA Bay Gates Project and just showed up. Seeing over 20 artists, studios, and gallery's bustling with energy during the ART Garage Sale he set out to meet Roly. After some talk about wanting to be a part of The District he was told to bring his sketches on Monday. The result was "AnAtomic Bombz!" The third mural already on site.

"La Madrina" by Chan Shepherd was commisioned by Roly Chang Barreo for his studio.

"San Lazaro" by Chan Shepherd Commisioned by ActivistArtistA Gallery

Photographer Michael Herb, who will be presenting his photographic journal in March at the ActivistArtistA's Exhibition, "Photography: Journalist or Voyeur", used the Bay Gates as part of a year long project.

Artist Venom begins work on his piece for private business in The District.

See next image to see it progressing.

This is a work in progress between "Venom" and Chan Shepherd.

The Bay Gates have been a favorite place for all visitors to get their pictures taken.

Recently acclaimed videographer Andrew Colton shot a promotional video using 4 of the images as backdrops to create the mood and texture of his rapid fire edits he is known for.

We will be presenting more artists and their creations as the Bay Gates Project continues. Stay Tuned!

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

New Times Review: 20 years ago!

Recently bumping into an old friend, we began to chat about the "old days," we had a good laugh and recalled good-times. Then we talked about the future. A future that included the possibility of creating something special for this generation. The basic formula is there, people's desires don't change to much, we still like art, we still like to dress up, we still want to be part of, not apart from.

I trust that in time ActivistArtistA will remain dynamic enough to embrace this generation, and the next, while borrowing from the last few decades-all that was good, leaving the rest behind,

Yesterday the News Times reviewed ActivistArtistA's Art Walk 2012. Mickie Centrone wrote a very complimentary article, as always, we are grateful for the press. I have never discounted the power of the press to engage, challenge, and provoke thought-in this we share common goals.

Below is reprint of an article published almost exactly 20 years ago.

New Times was there, as it is now.

Swelter

This is a reprint

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1992-02-05/news/swelter/

A A ACommentsWednesday, Feb 5 1992

Performance art. It's brilliant, irritating, verging on the psychotic, irony-clogged stuff that neatly dissects the angst of the modern metropolis. Or maybe it's just television: Short, brutish, nasty, lots of jump cuts, kind of like real life but with better production values. It's Laurie, it's Mary, it's celebrity parties as guerrilla theater, performance pieces whose sole artistic function is to provoke envy and nausea. Clubs that open and close in milliseconds, nights that go awry, a devotion to personality as art form that would have shamed Oscar Wilde.

It's places where worlds collide. Miami Mensual's Richard "Mr. Wonderful" Perez-Feria, this week's winner of the glamarati-bearing-celebrities awards, on the La Dolce Vida beat with Gloria Estefan, Joan Collins, and of all people, Edward Villella, whooping it up at Victor's Cafe. Better yet, yacht cruises and late-night Burger King take-out with Hollywood mogul David Geffen andKevin Sessums of Vanity Fair. Other celeb worlds, like serious actors James Spader, Robert DeNiro, and Johnny Depp happily stomping around the Beach. Lee Radziwill, in the shadows of mega-glamour, having dinner at The Strand. Designer Gianni Versace, back again for moreWarsaw high jinks. Ivana Trump at the Doral Saturnia, surgically superior, pleasant enough even when surrounded by the less rich.

Former downtown cult figure Laurie Anderson moving way uptown, being feted amid the mega-Eighties splendors of the International Place sky lobby, the world spread out prettily below. Her Miami Light Project performance earlier at Gusman an interesting counterpoint to General H. Norman Schwarzkopf wowing the Temple Emanu-El troops at TOPA, with lots of insights about the Gulf War ("It was a cut-rate video production that was almost as dangerous to win as it would have been to lose") and everything else. The culturati nation trekking out for the summit gathering - people like new music impresario Steve Nestor, Mitch Kaplan of Books & Books, publicist Charlie Cinnamon - also getting a heavy dollop of Anderson's easily digestible songs and videos, as well as fey-beyond-belief patter: "The laugh track, the Greek chorus of American life.... Is it `artistic attitudes presented in an unappetizing manner?' With Bush, it's like nothing is important and everything you ever worried about is happening on Mars...a Fellini party that's gone horribly, tragically wrong."

Fortunately , nothing went horribly wrong at Acting Out: Seven Unspeakable Acts - the debut of the Island Club's new Wednesday-only performance art series "Lower East Side of the Beach" - and there were just enough jokes and psychoses. Master of ceremonies Matthew Owens, simulating a clown corpse, working the death-humor angle: "There's nothing more attractive than a disaster." Producer Joanne Butcher, wrapped in paper, beating on drums, engaged in Silence/Speech/Writing. An unappetizing artistic attitude screaming, "I want to murder what's already dead." Erotic dancer Rick Cockerell.
Roly Chang-Barrero doing a heartfelt reading from the work of Reinaldo Arenas. The Goods, rock band/performance artists, presenting Five Steps to Getting Signed: An Operatic Parable About Patience. Club regular Yoda looking confused. My number-one fan on a downtown frolic, posing the impossible existential question: "What are you doing here?" Overseeing it all, the very likable Island Club co-owner, Tom Bellucci: "South Beach just never stops. There's no real season here like the Hamptons. The party goes on all year long. I'll tell you, it really tests the mettle of people."

Fave rave and performance art pro Mary Luft, of Tigertail Productions, presenting a selection from "Passarela," part of her Stories from Miami and South America. Readings from real immigration forms, tales of life in our fair hemisphere: "Of all the things I've lost in my life, it's my mind I miss the most.... In Brazil the people are poor and beautiful, and art is everywhere. Living in Miami has taught me that art is meaningless and people won't come if it's in the wrong neighborhood."

And more art/nonart mettle-testers happening all the time, in all the right and wrong neighborhoods. A dinner at Northern Trust Bank to kick off the 30th annual Miracle Ball for theSt. Jude's Children's Research Hospital - Anthony Abraham, singer Julie Budd, et al. - coming to a ballroom near you February 15. Another new Miami City Ballet production. The unveiling of Mariana's, "Miami Beach's Most Intimate New Restaurant," last week. The grand opening of the aptly named Gallery of the Unknown Artists last Friday night. A kickoff party at Barocco Beach restaurant on the same night for the Miami Chapter of the City of Hope National AIDS Research Center, which will be taking part in the upcoming nationwide exercise party, the Workout for Hope '92 benefit. Aerobics against AIDS: push, push, stretch those thighs. The right people stretching: local chairperson Cheryl Patella, committee member Sherri Krassner, national chairperson Kirk Prais. Weird kind of modern symmetry to the whole thing.

In the fashionable world, the first semi-symmetrical Avenue A party of the season at Les Violins. Miami Rocks Vol. 4. The Thursday-only party "4AD" at the Patio on Eighth Street. Something called "Metro" club in Fort Lauderdale - "live kickboxing, four ladies nites," and God knows what else. "A Kick Off Jam for Jamaikin Me Krazy Night" at the Roxy, also in Fort Lauderdale. Ah, Broward County. "Bohemian Artist Night" at Sencle's on Mondays, dinner for five dollars and exhibitions by artists like Fernando Sucre and JP Pelletier-Troupet, and upcoming, Carlos Alves. "Cocktails and conversation with Interview magazine's Patrick McMullan," at the World Gallery, tomorrow night. The Ninth Miami Film Festival, opening February 7 with the Mambo Kings. And a juicy tidbit just out on the lesbo hot line - a female club-owner getting involved with her partner's ex-wife and being forced out.

Openings and closings, like the rapid semi-rise and ugly fall of 32 Grand in Coconut Grove. Ex-bartender Mark J. Vander Sande, among others, not happy about being owed back pay, writing an open letter/press release to partners Jimmy Asher of the Asher Insurance Group, Barney Kaufmanof Premier Films, Steve Kraus of International Cinema, Richard Abel of the Tropics Hotel, Peter Polo, and attorney Mark Singer. Real personal and real irate: "We do not take the fall if your business suffers.... Jimmy Asher told me, `I don't care.... This is a pimple on my ass, people take chances....' You are in violation of federal law." The other side not real happy either, according to Mark Singer: "Some money was missing and some staff was let go. These things happen in the bar and restaurant business." It's real life, not performance art, messy and not shapely at all. The kind of situation that calls for tough culture, like The Goods, with just the right dose of post-Sid Viciousness: "You Make Me Sick - Fuck you!

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

KeroWACKED: Sneak Preview # 10

Brushed metal art is still very young in art history and even fewer have seen such a magical light show.

The following photo are attempts to capture the brilliant rendition of organic life on sterile metal.

ActivistArtistA Gallery

presents the work of

Paul Slater

during

"KeroWACKED: Homage to Jack"

February 26th, 2012

422 West Industrial Ave.

Boynton Beach, FL 33426

As promised ActivistArtistA will spotlight a different artist each day until the event.

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This is Sneak Preview # 10

"Share the Love”

Paul Slater, aka “PAULO” parallels his passion for clean, green living with a true love for modern art and architecture. He aspires to cross-promote the beauty of sustainable transportation and volunteering via modern art culture. A majority of his life was spent working alongside artisans, craftsman, pioneers, and traditionalists. As a volunteer he inspires and uplifts both urbanand rural communities.
“These collaborative volunteer projects will provide opportunities for generations to come…they simply have to.” - Paul Slater
Finding time to cut loose the creative strings, “PAULO-brushed metal illustrations” employ a painting style which represents urban life in the natural world. A brushed metal holographic polish and burn melds the dichotomy of industrial alloy with delicate impressions of nature. PAULO prepares for us a tangible mouthwatering lifestyle in which we may choose to live and enjoy.