Culver City Gallery Walk

This weekend is Los Angeles Art Weekend and a great event they have organized is a Culver City Gallery Walk, tomorrow evening from 6-8PM. Partipcating galleries include: Los Angeles Art Weekend. Participants include Blum & Poe, David Kordansky, Honor Fraser, Kim Light, LAXART, Susanne Vielmetter, Taylor De Cordoba and Western Project

6:30pm: Exhibition walkthrough with Dave Muller at Blum & Poe
7:30pm: Exhibition walkthrough with Walead Beshty at LAXART

Food trucks include Green Truck, Kogi BBQ and Tacos Bevida

Clare VIVIER at Taylor De Cordoba for P.S. Arts

The gallery is delighted to be hosting a fashion week event for Echo-Park based designer Clare Vivier. Ms. Vivier will be presenting her Spring/Summer '09 collection of handbags for her line VIVIER. A percentage of the proceeds from all handbag sales and art sales will be donated to P.S. Arts, a local non-profit dedicated to restoring the arts in public schools in and around Los Angeles. To get YOUR invitation for tonight's event click HERE.

Melissa Manfull in Dwell

Laure Joliet wrote an article about Melissa Manfull's current exhibition, Tesseracts, in Dwell Magazine. Read the full text by clicking HERE.

GalleryEquality LA Artwalk & Silent Auction

Taylor De Cordoba is proud to participate in GalleryEquality LA, an art walk and silent auction benefitting Marriage Equality USA, Family Equality Council and Create Equality. Artists in the silent auction include Timothy Hull and Melissa Manfull.

Sunday, February 15th

6:00pm - 9:00pm

2651 S. La Cienega

Los Angeles, CA 90034

$10 suggested donation

Art walk on La Cienega - Participating galleries include: Walter Maciel, Blum & Poe, Taylor de Cordoba, George Billis Gallery, Sardoni.Rey, Maloney Fine Art and more...

Silent auction at Smogshoppe (complimentary valet by Smogshoppe for first 200 people).

"Transformational Project" by Jen Rosenstein on exhibit.

After party with DJ Outre.

Suggested donation: $10

For more details, go to: http://createequality.wordpress.com/events/

To check out some of the auction art work, go to: http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/41928-gallery-equality

Kimberly Brooks in artHAUS

Kimberly Brooks has paintings in a group show in Venice, CA. The exhibited, entitled artHAUS, was curated by Thomas Schirmboeck and will run through February 24.

Barrett Johnson Performs at Ryan Callis Opening

Opening January 10, Ryan Callis, Are You Ready To Testify

Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present

Ryan Callis
Are You Ready To Testify
January 10 – February 14, 2009

Opening Reception: Saturday January 10, 2009 6pm-8pm



Are You Ready To Testify, 2008
Oil, Acrylic and Paper on Canvas, 24" x 20"

Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present Are You Ready to Testify, a new series of paintings by Southern California-based artist Ryan Callis. The exhibition will run from January 10 through February 14, 2009. The gallery will host an opening reception for the artist on Saturday January 10 from 6pm-8pm.

The exhibition consists of paintings that operate conversationally, as phrases and sentences in a larger dialogue. To create the paintings' architectural structures, Callis uses a system that codes phrases and words into geometric forms without visually making use of text. While the completed paintings do not directly reflect the original texts, every gesture, shape and concept organically flows from this unique coded system. A palette of vibrant (nearly acidic) blues, greens, yellows and pinks creates elegant passages of paint flows and color gradations.

The conception for this series of work was influenced largely by Nam June Paik’s Fluxus film, Zen For Film (1962-1964), the 1996 Dischord Records release of the self proclaimed “gospel yeah, yeah” sound of the Make-Up's debut album, Destination: Love, Live at Cold Rice, and David Hockney’s book That’s the Way I See Things.

This is the artist's second solo show at Taylor De Cordoba. His work has been featured in Artweek and the OC Weekly. Ryan Callis was recently included in Christopher Knight’s article for the Los Angeles Times, “45 Under 45.” He received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2007.

Taylor De Cordoba is located at 2660 S La Cienega Blvd in Los Angeles, CA and is open Tuesday thru Saturday, 11am-6pm. For additional information, contact Heather Taylor at heather@taylordecordoba.com or (310) 559-9156.