Dear friends,

We just wanted to remind you that our opening reception will be this weekend. Hope that you are available to share this moment with us.

Thank you & best wishes,

Cindy & Abel
p.s. Here are links to a Google Map and our revised map

Silverstreet Gallery
1833 North San Fernando Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065 MAP

ANALYSIS:
a limited engagement in recreational dysfunction

by Abel Alejandre and Cindy Suriyani

Opening Reception:  August 15, 2009,  7 -10 p.m.

Exhibit duration:  August 8, 2009 – September 12, 2009.

Hours:  By appointment.  Call 323-610-1526.

At once biting and humorous, ANALYSIS dares us to enter a mental landscape we are all too familiar with, gratingly close to brain and bone, the world of our own gleeful, maddening, jump off the cliff dysfunction.  Norman Lear had written the all too often quoted observation “life is made of small pleasures.”   According to Suriyani and Alejandre, If that is the case, then it is surely also made of small unsure moments of intense psychosis.  In this exhibit, filled with fields of bright monochrome and black and white, and fragments of perpetual self psychoanalysis, we are confronted with the dark beauties of our own imperfection.

The exhibit opens up with six (6)  five (5) feet by five (5) feet images, in  oil paint and charcoal, of distendedly large faces, heads in colors of cotton candy and stark black and white.  The expressions of the heads vary, ranging from vacuous and cheerful, to dazed and filled with misunderstood wrath.  In the center of the room is an installation comprising of a circle of chairs, a just used table filled with various detritus as if an artifact of a lost civilization, and a plethora of voices in deep discussion with each other and with their own unheard sentience or lack of. In the end, we may want to laugh, scream, enunciate, and breathe deeply at the vagaries of our own existence.

Contact Information
Silverstreet Gallery
1833 North San Fernando Road
Los Angeles, CA  90065
(Go around the back of the building, turning on
Macon St, and a left turn on Cypress.  Gallery has parking.)

phone: 323.869.8881
http://silverstreetgallery.wordpress.com
http://twitter.com/silverstgallery

Preview Viewing from our 4th Semi-Annual Tardeada and Silent Art Auction
“No.44″ Coffee & ink on paper by Alejandre

Preview Party of the art for our 4th Semi-Annual Tardeada and Art Auction Fundraiser will be on display at the Avenue 50 Studio during the NELA Second Saturday Art Night.
Download map:  http://www.nelaart.com

Lalo Alcaraz, Abel Alejandre, Michael Amescua, Esau Andrade, Linda Arreola, Sam Baray, David Botello, Joseph Botello, Joe Bravo, Armando Brito, Yrneh Brown, Barbara Carrasco, Camilo Cruz, Mita Cuaron, Beau Daignault, Raoul De la Sota, Victoria Delgadillo, Roberto Delgado, Ruth DeNicola, Val Echavarria, Kikki Eder, Ofelia Esparza, Donald Ferguson, Kathi Flood, Emilia Garcia, Margaret Garcia, Germs, Pat Gomez, Yolanda Gonzalez, Mark Steven Greenfield, Tina Gulotta, Roberto Gutierrez, Gerardo Hacer, Cidne Hart, Kevin Hass, Brandy Healy, Wayne Healy, Peter Hess, Carlye Hild, Heather Hoggan, Amy Inouye, Luis Ituarte, Patricia Lazalde, Leo Limon, Ronald J. Llanos, Pola Lopez, Jose Lozano, Heriberto Luna, Maja, Poli Marichal, Daniel Martinez, Isabel Martinez, Stephanie Mercado, Andres E. Montoya, Toti O’Brien, Angela Penaredondo, Beth Peterson, Stuart Rapeport, Tina Rodas, Nancy Romero, Sonia Romero, Peri Shefik, Kevin Spitze, Cindy Suriyani, Howard Swerdloff, John Urquiza, John Valadez, Richard Valdes, Sergio Vasquez, Alberto Varela, J. Michael Walker, Nan Wollman

Doors open at 7:00 on Saturday, August 8, 2009

When: Saturday, August 8, 2009 from 7-10 pm
Where: Avenue 50 Studio, Inc., 131 North Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA  90042
Contact: Kathy Gallegos (323) 258-1435

Avenue 50 Studio, Inc.
a 501(c)(3) non-profit art gallery
131 North Avenue 50
Highland Park, CA  90042
323-258-1435

http://www.avenue50studio.com