MAN-ONE For the street artist, single name branding is a code for cred, A short name, sometimes with numbers, allows easier recall and an economical hand and spray can composition form of letters as the moniker is recreated on exterior walls. Here's one-name tags for this month list guiding you into Downtown Arts Walk week, plus some events for today.
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CINCO Man-One has a long list of those one-named artists at the Crewest 5th anniversary party dubbed CINCO on . . .Cinco De Mayo.
One namers like Surge, Cope2, Neila, Sear, Sherm, King157 and Rukus are exhibited with artists with full names like full namers, Estevan Oriol, Antonio Pelayo and Ash Hudson. Opening reception being held 6pm to 10pm on evening of May 5.
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WALK17 Santa Fe Art Colony will be holding their 17th Annual Art Walk on May 5 and 6 from Noon to 6. From the website "Named for its' location on Santa Fe Avenue, the colony houses
57 studio residences. Once a year, over 40 residents of the
colony open their private studios to the public. Also participating
are some non-resident artists and sponsors providing art-related
products." The link has maps to guide you in.
MAP510 And to help you prep for Thursday, here's the Downtown Art Walk map for May 10.
3POP Regent Theater will hold a Persee - Orchestrated Perception on Art Walk night. A live mixed media concert produced by Drew Schnurr in collaboration with C.E.B Reas and Micheal Chu. 7pm reception. 8pm performance.
PIC8 Pharmaka has curators York Chang and Karyl Newman bring a collective of eight "cutting edge" painters who created a body of work, partly in response to 2004 Village Voice' article by critic Jerry Saltz. His anti-photo manifesto states that photography "has become a crutch for too many painters who engage in the meticulous rote
copying of photographs that consequently negate the basic allure and
power of painting." According to the release, the eight artists "use photography in their work to
argue that photo-based painting is still a vital and important practice."
Dear Mr. Saltz
May 10 — June 30, 2007
Art Walk and Artist’s reception
Thursday, May 10, 2007 » 6pm to 9pm
Pharmaka
GONE Bert Green Fine Art stays with Carl Ramsey's Vanishing Downtown.
DOT Red Dot: has Degrees of Weirdness (at the bar, and in the gallery.) Artists will be speaking May 31.
KILLAJC Niche Video Art's link takes you to an alternative space. Must be good show if it's "now available by appointment, and only after a screening process."
DoN Kristie Engle Gallery's Margaret Adachi: Double or Nothing runs until May 26.
SEX Art Murmur's Sexy Beasts looks at automobiles and motorcycles of past and present while examining "the paradox that is sleek icy beauty versus red-blooded untamed brawn."
MOCA MOCA saw Poetics of the Handmade and it inspires as artists will find a way to create, no matter what. The website says:
It features a group of artists based in Latin America whose works of art are made by the artists, own hands. While many of the artists, contemporaries tend toward a “post-studio” approach—with assistants producing their work—this group explores the close relationship that exists between a person and his or her craft
KID Los Angles Public Library: "Fred Marcellino was a celebrated artist and designer who changed the look and
feel of book covers for contemporary fiction before becoming an illustrator
of award-winning children's books. "
April 7 - July 29, 2007
Central Library
Getty Gallery
Free and open during library hours 
One from Chinatown:
PEACE: TELIC Arts Exchange (975 Chung King Road) has Ki Chul Kim's Sound Looking - Rain has been extended to May 19. Go during the weeek day if you can, the sound installation that "explores
perception and representation in relation to the Buddhist concept of
emptiness" is best when you can walk out into a quiet street and reflect. It' does that to you.
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