SWELL Art 1950-2010

NY TIMES REVIEW/PRESS, PICTURES, VIDEO
http://www.swellshow.com

ABOUT

Curated by Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro. This survey of art inspired by surf and beach culture will open to the public on July 1st at the three locations in Chelsea and will include work by most members of the group of Venice Beach artists known as Light and Space and Finish Fetish.

The show historically contextualizes beach culture and its poetic and freeing nature on the Beat Generation, Assemblage, Light and Space, Finish Fetish, and early Pop Art. From this group of California artists, there are works by the old school Wallace Berman, George Herms, Bruce Conner, Llyn Foulkes, Ed Kienholz, Billy Al Bengston, Tony Berlant, Ed Ruscha, Laddie John Dill, Dewain Valentine, Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, and Craig Kauffman. The new school is represented by Sandow Birk, Andy Moses, Raymond Pettibon, Steve Olson, Daniel Fuller, and Timothy Williams.

One of the main axes of the show is the obvious yet sensual relationship between Shapers and the Finish Fetish movement of the 60′s. As the show focuses on two cities, L.A. and New York, it attempts to place the Ocean and its proximity to both cities as an antidote to a cacophony of quantities, speed and competing images. It also addresses how later generations of artists have looked back at assemblage, ephemera and graffiti as a way to either incorporate or reject the piercing presence of branding, advertisement, and information technology.

SWELL is a state of mind, but it is also our way of understanding distant forces, the beyond.

SWELL UPDATE: Timothy Williams "Dark Ocean, Dark Sea"

Video on Cow Skull, 2009

Artwork sold 5 min into VIP Opening!

DARKWAVE: Five Artists Explore Surfing and the Violence of Los Angeles

DARKWAVE
Five Artists Explore Surfing and the Violence of Los Angeles

Featuring Work by Sandow Birk, Andy Moses, Steve Olson,
Timothy Williams and Norton Wisdom

Opening November 7, 2009, at Black Cat Gallery in Culver City

(Los Angeles – October 2009) Five Los Angeles artists who share a passion for surfing will exhibit works of various media, November 7th at Black Cat Gallery, in DARKWAVE—a group exhibition exploring the spiritual aspect of surfing and stark violence in Los Angeles. Participating artists include: Sandow Birk, Andy Moses, Steve Olson, Timothy Williams and Norton Wisdom.

For most people – especially those outside of California who view Los Angeles as an idyllic oasis of movie stars, bikini-clad beach divas, and a laid-back, sunny lifestyle – a connection between surfing and violence isn’t immediately obvious. So DARKWAVE has been carefully curated to challenge viewers to mine the artists’ work for such connections. Williams, however, can shed some light on the inspiration for the exhibition. “One evening I was painting in my studio in Venice Beach. I took a break, stepped outside the door and was held up at gunpoint by five men,” explains Williams, also curator for the show. “That’s when this wave of realization hit me: I could very well pay the ultimate price for creating art and surfing in L.A.—in an instant I had an immediate connection to all the unsuspecting people I read about across the city who have suffered from random acts of violence.”

From that harrowing experience, Williams learned to use a firearm: “between my own experience and stories about serial killers like BTK or L.A.’s own Richard Ramirez, I realized that a line needed to be drawn—there would be more than a cell phone in the studio to protect my wife.” The protective device also features heavily in Williams’ bullet-riddled, surfboard paintings for DARKWAVE.

In fact, process plays heavily into the work of all the participating artists. Birk’s most recent work is marked by an exhaustive immersion and research into his subject matter; Moses shuffles, tilts and coerces paint into striking movements across his convex canvases; Olson airbrushes directly onto defused bombs; and Wisdom has mastered painting to live music performances.

The opening reception will feature a fashion show with work by Torn by Teeth, Terrell Moore and Grace Havlak, a wine tasting courtesy of Shipwrecks, and a tequila and mescal tasting courtesy of Métl.


WHAT
DARKWAVE – 5 Artists Explore Surfing and the Violence of Los Angeles
Featuring works by Sandow Birk, Andy Moses, Steve Olson, Timothy Williams and Norton Wisdom

WHERE
Black Cat Gallery
11523 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90066

WHEN
Opening Reception: November 7, 7 to 11pm
Exhibition Dates : November 7-December 7
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Visit www.blackcatart.com or call 310-313-4931

PRESS CONTACT
Brent Turner
the Campbells public relations
323-300-6132
brent@thecampbellspr.com

Timothy Williams
“Self Portrait with a Bullet Riddle”
21 x 85 x10”
Mixed Media on Surfboard w Bullet Holes, Photograph Inside Porthole Box w/Metal Bolts, Plexiglass
2009

Sandow Birk
“Night Surfing”
46 x 30”
Oil on Canvas
1997

Andy Moses
“Lunar Tunes”
20 x 16””
Acrylic onCanvas
2005

Black Cat Festival Sat. June 20 Art! Bellydancing! Fashion Show! Film! Music! 4 Buildings Long!

You are invited to a cauldron of creativity with LA's sizzling Fine Art, Tribal Bellydancing, Fashion, Films w/Live Music, Trip Hop Opera, Tech/Dance Live Music, Goth/Shoe Gaze DJ, Architecture, Absinthe, Wine and....
http://www.blackcatart.com http://www.myspace.com/theblackcatgallery

Black Cat Festival IV + Photos from POWER TRIP

We are planning on having an 800-1,5000 person multi media art, fashion, film, film with live music, theatrix event here at Black Cat Gallery and adjacent buildings on
SATURDAY JUNE 20
The last festival we threw here drew 800+. The LA Weekly gave it a full page review- (See http://www.blackcatart.com/press.htm)

MORE INFO COMING SOON

We'd like to thank everyone who came to POWER TRIP and helped make it a tremendous success. Belowe are some photos. Video coming soon.

"POWER TRIP"

FIERCE CREATIVITY FROM LOS ANGELES

A Fine Art Group Exhibit with Fashion, Film, Music, Theatrical Performance
Black Cat Gallery May 2 – June 3 Hours: Friday & Saturday 11-6pm & By Appointment

Opening & Artists’ Reception: Sat. May 2, 2009 7pm-Midnight






Art:
ANDY MOSES http://www.andymoses.com/
JAMES MATHERS http://www.jamesmathers.net/
NORTON WISDOM www.myspace.com/nowisdom
TERRELL MOORE http://www.terrellmoore.net/
TIMOTHY WILLIAMS www.myspace.com/timothywilliamsart
GEZA X www.myspace.com/gezaxart
DAVID J http://www.davidjonline.com/
CHRIS ROHLOFF www.Myspace.com/rohloffinc
CHRISTOPHER MOONLIGHT http://www.christophermoonlight.blogspot.com/
CINDY JUAREZ PERKINS
STEVE O BALDINO http://www.flikr.com/ (enter Steve Baldino)
JOSE WANTLAND
JESSICA ALLEY http://www.jalleyart.com/

Live Music (10:30pm): SOCCERMOM www.myspace.com/soccermom

Live Painting: NORTON WISDOM www.myspace.com/nowisdom

Live Gothic Fashion Models: FATACT IMPACT www.myspace.com/fatalimpact

Indie Films:“The Three Sisters” and “Portals” by JUN TIANGCO III http://www.j2t3.com/

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE ARTS !

Wive & Food Tasting & The Black Cat Gallery

$399. & Under! Black Cat Art Sale Sat Dec 6 w Music+Fashion+DJ+Film

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Photo by: Jennifer Hart Biagiotti

The BLACK CAT GALLERY
11523 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City CA 90066 310 313 4931

blackcatart.com www.myspace.com/theblackcatgallery

For Immediate Release: November 17, 2008

For Press Contact: 310 313 4931 gubkitty@yahoo.com

“$399. & UNDER!”

Buy ART for Holiday Gifts That Will Never Be Thrown Away!
A fine Art Reduced Priced Sale, Fashion, Film, Music, Performance, Design Riot
Make Warhol’s Ghost Proud: Eccentric-Stylish-costume Hair & Dress Encouraged!
Black Cat Gallery December 6-January 20 Hours: Friday & Saturday 11-6pm & By Appointment
Opening & Artists’ Reception Sat. December 6, 2008 7pm-Midnight

Live music (12 Midnight): FANGS ON FUR myspace.com/fangsonfur.com

Live Painting: J MARTIN Jmartindesigns.com MARK DERAUD markderaudartist.com

Dj’s DARREN REVELL indie103.1.com www.myspace.com/bigsonicheaven RAIN myspace.com/rainbow_arcoiris

Live Gothic Fashion Divas : fatal impact fatalimpact.com www.myspace.com/fatalimpact

Indie Films (7-12 Midnight): “The Three Sisters” and “Portals” by JUN TIANGCO III j2t3.com

The Black Cat Gallery in Culver City, presents “$399 and UNDER!” a multi-creative outburst with extremely reduced prices on artworks by LA’s best artists.
Opening night for “$399 and UNDER!” is Saturday, December 6, 2008 from 7pm-12 Midnight and will feature the Artists’ Reception, Live Fashion models, Live Music and DJ mixing, Live Action Painting, Indie Film, and Architecture, all of the violently original. There will be $399. And Under priced Artworks by JAMES MATHERS, NORTON WISDOM, TERRELL MOORE, TIMOTHY WILLIMAS, ORION, ANGIE MASON, ABRIL ANDRADE, GEZA X, TIM MOHAWK, CHRISTOPHER MOONLIGHT, TIM TIMMERMAN, STEVE BALDINO, HERWIG MARURER, JEREMY CORBELL, DAWN LAUREEN, ERIC FOBAIR, TIM TIMMERMAN, KEVIN ROLLY, JOSE WANTLAND, RALPH BONILLA, MICHAEL CASEY, JUSTIN KALMEN, KATRINA BEA, EDWIN BETHEA, MICHAEL SPITALETTO, and many more artists TBA.

FANGS ON FUR will be assaulting the eyes and ears of all with their ferocious and well-crafted music delivered with a style all their own @ midnight. Fangs on Fur combine their Gothic/New Wave melodies and tight slamming Punk attack with a Diva Art Fright stage show. If you want to hear something ORIGINAL and you like the Goth/Punk guitar sound of TSOL, wild stage antics of Iggy Pop, and the haunted singing style and visuals of Siouxie Sou, Fangs on Fur are for you. With a lineup featuring ex members of Christian Death, 45 Grave, Faith and the Muse, and The Leaving Trains comes a talented sound and fury by musical artists who know what the hell they are doing. They even design and create their own clothes! Look for their Fangs on Fur EP on Pachinkore Records. To eject from your life the corporate filth of Blink 182 and Greenday that’s been shoved down your throat see Fangs on Fur live at Black Cat and visit www.myspace.com/fangsonfur & fangsonfur.com You’ll get immediate results.

DARREN REVELL, the visionary DJ, creator and host of Big Sonic Heaven on Indie 103.1 will be administering his favorite musical meds all night within the gallery.
By combining Ethereal Dreampop, Shoe Gaze, Goth/Industrial, and Dark Romantic Rock for masterfully created sets Revell will be spinning his musical menagerie of sounds for 399. & Under! by mixing the timeless songs of yesterday-Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, Bauhaus- with the songs of the here and now:
Panda Riot, The Verve, Sigur Ros, Autolux, and Goldfrapp. Indie103.1.com www.myspace.com/bigsonicheaven

JMARTIN, artist/custom clothing designer for J-Low, Gwen Stefani, Dave Navarro, LA Laker Smush Parker, P Diddy, Ayu Hamaski, etc. will be airbrushing fashion models throughout the evening. For the first time in NBA history, an NBA player, (Smush Parker), is wearing custom painted shoes by J. JMartin can paint on anything under the sun and make it electric. Jmartindesigns.com

JUN TIANGCO III will be projecting two of his silent films “The Three Sisters” and “Portals”. “The Three Sisters”, starring Rainbow Underhill, explores the inner disturbing spaces of a schizophrenic woman who isn’t aware of her three separate sides. “Portals is a color visual story about the creative flow in artists and following the connection to the source where it comes from. j2t3.com

FATAL IMPACT the online Gothic, Punk, and Dark Counter Culture clothing and accessorie store will be featuring Drop Dead Gothic Fashion Divas all night.
Fatal Impact is owned and operated by the highly-creative and soon to be married duo Goth Model, Fashion Designer and Musician Kitty Corey and Post Punk/Goth DJ Jamey Wheeler. Look for Fatal Impact discount coupons for clothes and accessories that shock, scare and inspire during the opening reception.
http://www.fatalimpact.com/ www.Myspace.com/fatalimpact

Complimentary AGWA BUZZ cocktails, (a new LEGAL liqueur distilled from coca leaves from Bolivia), ALIZE’ fruit cognac cocktails, and organic BLISS tea will be served on the outdoor smoking patio by the Saints and Sinners bar blessing godz.
http://www.agwabuzz.com/ http://www.absente.com/ http://www.alize.com/ http://www.blisstea.com/

Door: $10
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE ARTS !

$399 and Under Show @ The Black Cat Gallery

Press Release: "Night Gallery" Sat Nov 15 T.Williams, J.Mathers, Geza X

The BLACK CAT GALLERY blackcatart.com myspace.com/theblackcatgallery
11523 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City CA 90066 310 313 4931

PRESENTS
"NIGHT GALLERY: STUDIO ART PARTY"

Saturday, November 15, 2008 7pm-12 Midnight
Main Room Fine Art Exhibit featuring:
TIMOTHY WILLIAMS myspace.com/timothywilliamsart timothywilliamsart.blogspot.com
JAMES MATHERS
GEZA X myspace.com/gezaxart

Sub-Gallery Fine Art Exhibit featuring:
CHRISTOPHER MOOONLIGHT myspace.com/moonlightandmermaids
christophermoonlight.blogspot.com

Live Gothic/Acoustic Music by:
MICHAEL BERG (10:30 pm) myspace.com/minus12
PETER SEAN MALONEY (10:00 pm) myspace.com/peterseanmaloney

DJ’s
RAIN myspace.com/rainbow_arcoiris
JUN TIANGCO III j2t3.com

Make Warhol’s Ghost Proud: Eccentric Dress Encouraged!

Triad birthday bash for Timothy Williams, James Mathers, Eric Dhyrsen

FREE ADMISSION

Like Willem DeKooning, Artist/Musician TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, supported his art making by house painting. Finding discarded vintage doors and windows from the houses he painted and off the street, distressing them further and placing his oceanic-stained glass paintings behind the glass Timothy’s work gained notoriety and started selling in famed Venice artist Terrell Moore’s Westminster Garage Gallery in the 90’s and is now included with the likes of Picasso and Matisse in Hammer Museum owners Michael Hammer Collection, Weinstein Gallery Director Michael Miller, Bauhaus/Love & Rockets Bass Man David J, and film producer Alan Mindel. "Timothy has hit upon an original style. I haven’t seen anything that looks quite like his work. I appreciate the way his art looks old and mysterious yet new and never seen before." -Michael Hammer. Timothy and actress wife, Rainbow Underhill, opened the seminal Culver City Black Cat Gallery known for it’s melting cauldron of creativity. Since 2000 Black Cat’s shows have included fine art, music, dj’s, architecture & fashion shows. Los Angeles Times listed Black Cat as one of LA’s best galleries.
myspace.com/timothywilliamsart timothywilliamsart.blogspot.com myspace.com/musicbyblackcat

Since Andy Warhol gave JAMES MATHERS his first one man show at New York’s famed Paige Powell Gallery, where Jean-Michel Basquiat also made his start, the World of Art has undeniably recognized the fierce talent and genius of this LA based Soul Attacking, Mind-Bending Master Painter. Mather’s collectors include the famous
Corsini Family of Florence, Actors Nicholas Cage, Eric Idle (Monty Python) and Beverly D’Angelo, Crowded House singer Tim Finn, and Dublin’s famed Guinness Draught Co. Owner Marina Guinness. The Art of Mr. Mathers will arrest your vision, flex your convictions, slap and somehow soothe your soul. James has shown at Edgemar Center for the Arts, Turskin Whitney, Phoenix, Sponto, Attack, Zero One, Charley Cowles, Gracy Mansion, and Nature Mort Galleries in the states and has also shown internationally in Zurich, Rome, Berlin, Dublin, and Amsterdam. Adding to his prolific art career James has also directed 3 independent feature films, "Crushproof", "Bungalow 19", "Karmageddon" and had a major role in "Malibu Song"- a documentary film about the state closure and destruction of the homes of the Topanga Arts Community.

Legendary platinum music producer GEZA X helped invent Punk Rock producing seminal acts Black Flag, The Germs, Dead Kennedy’s, etc. and performing/recording his own art damaged music since punk’s beginning in the late 70’s. His productions of "Holiday in Cambodia" for the Dead Kennedys and "Lexicon Devil" for The Germs separated California's punk sound from others at the time with its eccentricity, humor and spunk, making Los Angeles very different than the scene in New York or London. In the 90’s Geza produced Meredith Brooks’s song "Bitch" which went platinum ranking #2 on the charts and the musical bible Billboard Magazine voted Geza "Best Producer of the Year" in 1997. Since the 80’s Geza began taking pictures of the early punk scene. Geza now takes those pictures, such as a 1979 photo he shot of Red Hot Chili Pepper singer Anthony Keidis, dramatically alters it via computer, prints the altered photo on canvas, adds paint to the canvas and frames the completed works with copper tubing. He describes his artworks as "Biomorphic Shutterings." The neo-Warhol, pop-iconic, and vibrantly colorful style work comes across as contemporary to the core with harrowing whispers of yesterday. Geza has shown in several group shows including Track 16 and Black Cat Galleries. Geza’s art collectors include Tool manager Victoria Blake, Philanthropist Cameron Melville, and famed artist manager and collector Peter Hursch.
myspace.com/gezaxart myspace.com/geza_x

MICHAEL BERG will be performing his musically superb and highly original dark folk/nighttime cafÈ ballads at 10PM.
David J of Bauhaus/Love and Rockets has recently produced Michael’s new album "Lights Down", which gives shades of Nick Drake and Jacques Brel sung with Michael’s own unique storytelling style. Against the backdrop of his fingerpicked guitar or piano you will find this is real music by a real artist! If you are ailing from the C-grade "singer/songwriter" musical impostors who shove insipid music into our lives via big media, Michael Berg is your new medicine man! Give "Save Me" a listen for immediate relief, musical inspiration and hope from the evening shadows.
myspace.com/minus12

Event: Night Gallery "Studio Art Party" @ Black Cat Gallery

Event: NIGHT GALLERY: "STUDIO ART PARTY" at Black Cat Gallery

Saturday November 15, 2008 7pm-12 Midnight Free Admission

Artworks by:TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, JAMES MATHERS, GEZA X,

and in the Sub-Gallery: CHRISTOPHER MOONLIGHT

Triad B-Day Bash for Timothy Williams, James Mathers, Eric Dhyrsen

Gothic/Acoustic Music by MICHAEL BERG myspace.com/musicminustwelve & PETER SEAN MALONEY myspace.com/peterseanmaloney

DJ: RAIN & JUN TIANGCO III

Eccentric Dress Encouraged!

Timothy WilliamsARTIST 310 * 488 * 9166 http://www.myspace.com/timothywilliamsart BLACK CAT GALLERY DIRECTOR 310 * 313 * 4931 gubkitty@yahoo.com http://www.blackcatart.com http://www.myspace.com/theblackcatgallery11523 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City CA 90066

Flier by Christopher Moonlight & Moonlight Art Magazine

Photography #1

Letters Of Recommendation

Here are two letters of recommendation, about Timothy from respected people in the art world.

Event: Nov. 15th Art Party at The Black Cat Gallery

Saturday, November 15th @ The Black Cat Gallery

Birthday Bash for artist Timothy Williams,

with new artworks by Timothy, music and drinks.

in the back room: Art by Christopher Moonlight

More info coming soon...

Timothy Williams New Art