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SUMMARY:MASER Exhibition - Mirror Door
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Runs to 24th August \nGallery Open Wednesday – Sunday 1-6pm \nCurated by Matthew Nevin. \n“MASER is one of Ireland’s leading Contemporary Artists and we are delighted to showcase a new site specific installation of his work\, that has been instrumental in promoting positive change and inclusivity over the past few years. While always pushing modern boundaries\, he captures brilliantly the new creative age that Ireland is experiencing right now.”  ~ Matthew Nevin\, Executive Director at CIACLA and MART Gallery & Studios. \nFor this large scale exhibition at CIACLA\, Irish muralist and visual artist MASER transforms the main exhibition space into a fully immersive hand-crafted installation. Taking inspiration from one of the great natural beauties of Ireland – Glendalough Valley in County Wicklow – the installation reinvents the valley’s expansive landscape for visitors to the gallery.  \nOn a daily basis in Ireland\, hundreds of locals and tourists travel to Glendalough to marvel at its rugged landscape and to trek its journey. It is a place of rural beauty and a place that deeply resonates with the artist. Through Maser’s signature use of vibrant colours\, flowing patterns and playful shapes\, the installation at CIACLA pays homage to the valley’s breathtaking views\, and plays on the idea of differing perspectives and organised view-points. The artist has created a site specific\, immersive installation that is bursting with colour and encourages visitors to become fully captivated by the valley’s abstracted landscape. \nHaving lived in Arkansas for many years\, Maser has a close relationship with the United States – while also holding his Irish roots close to his heart. He travelled extensively around the globe\, yet the Irish landscape is a place that distinctly evokes a sense of home for the artist and is strongly rooted in his identity. With the installation at CIACLA\, Maser strives to create an inclusive and authentic experience for visitors to engage with his representation of contemporary Ireland.  \nAbout the Artist \nMaser truly embodies the centric spirit of contemporary visual art in Ireland today. Having created artwork since 1995\, over the last 24 years\, Maser has earned much respect professionally and has generated a large and dedicated following in Ireland and abroad – through his seamlessly imaginative and unique graphic style. Maser is ambitious and is unafraid to experiment with any artistic format.  \nSince the outset\, Maser has continuously progressed his artistic style and practice\, which is now firmly rooted in the gallery space\, and moreover\, in the realm of contemporary Irish Art.  Having credited his origins in street art for the initial evolution of his personal style\, his artistic practice today comprises of his unique typographic style combined with photorealistic elements\, which usually convey an uplifting and socially conscious message to the viewer. The content of his work is inspirational and offers the viewer an opportunity to become fully immersed in an almost hypnotic state\, through his use of contrasting colours and the use of repetitive patterns.  With the underlying ideals that ‘We are all in this together’ woven throughout his work\, Maser’s art unifies him with the viewer by conveying the love he has for his environment and the people that live in there.    \nBoasting an impressive list of exhibitions at high-end art galleries\, Maser has created original artwork for many prestigious arts organisations including\, Lazarides (UK)\, the National Gallery of Ireland (IRL)\, the National Library of Ireland (IRL)\, Tandem Press (USA) and more. He has collaborated on projects with the Irish band U2\, TED prize winner JR\, globally recognised muralists Fintan Magee and Connor Harrington\, and he has even collaborated with the president of Ireland\, Michael D Higgins on a limited edition print series. \nTo date\, Maser has created work extensively throughout Ireland for a variety of well-received exhibitions and art events\, as well as creating commissioned artworks throughout London\, Paris\, New York\, Chicago\, Florida\, California\, Australia\, Uganda\, Liberia\, Austria\, Germany\, Denmark\, Holland\, Belgium\, Prague\, Slovenia\, Spain and Sweden. In 2018\, Maser established Atelier Maser an art studio and gallery space located in the heart of Dublin that is dedicated to emerging visual artists. The Gallery boasts an exciting programme of artist residencies and exhibitions developed to nurture talent and provide guidance for young artists to showcase their skills.  \n www.maserart.com \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/maser-exhibition-2019-08-02/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190801T130000
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2-2019-08-01/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:MASER Exhibition - Mirror Door
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Runs to 24th August \nGallery Open Wednesday – Sunday 1-6pm \nCurated by Matthew Nevin. \n“MASER is one of Ireland’s leading Contemporary Artists and we are delighted to showcase a new site specific installation of his work\, that has been instrumental in promoting positive change and inclusivity over the past few years. While always pushing modern boundaries\, he captures brilliantly the new creative age that Ireland is experiencing right now.”  ~ Matthew Nevin\, Executive Director at CIACLA and MART Gallery & Studios. \nFor this large scale exhibition at CIACLA\, Irish muralist and visual artist MASER transforms the main exhibition space into a fully immersive hand-crafted installation. Taking inspiration from one of the great natural beauties of Ireland – Glendalough Valley in County Wicklow – the installation reinvents the valley’s expansive landscape for visitors to the gallery.  \nOn a daily basis in Ireland\, hundreds of locals and tourists travel to Glendalough to marvel at its rugged landscape and to trek its journey. It is a place of rural beauty and a place that deeply resonates with the artist. Through Maser’s signature use of vibrant colours\, flowing patterns and playful shapes\, the installation at CIACLA pays homage to the valley’s breathtaking views\, and plays on the idea of differing perspectives and organised view-points. The artist has created a site specific\, immersive installation that is bursting with colour and encourages visitors to become fully captivated by the valley’s abstracted landscape. \nHaving lived in Arkansas for many years\, Maser has a close relationship with the United States – while also holding his Irish roots close to his heart. He travelled extensively around the globe\, yet the Irish landscape is a place that distinctly evokes a sense of home for the artist and is strongly rooted in his identity. With the installation at CIACLA\, Maser strives to create an inclusive and authentic experience for visitors to engage with his representation of contemporary Ireland.  \nAbout the Artist \nMaser truly embodies the centric spirit of contemporary visual art in Ireland today. Having created artwork since 1995\, over the last 24 years\, Maser has earned much respect professionally and has generated a large and dedicated following in Ireland and abroad – through his seamlessly imaginative and unique graphic style. Maser is ambitious and is unafraid to experiment with any artistic format.  \nSince the outset\, Maser has continuously progressed his artistic style and practice\, which is now firmly rooted in the gallery space\, and moreover\, in the realm of contemporary Irish Art.  Having credited his origins in street art for the initial evolution of his personal style\, his artistic practice today comprises of his unique typographic style combined with photorealistic elements\, which usually convey an uplifting and socially conscious message to the viewer. The content of his work is inspirational and offers the viewer an opportunity to become fully immersed in an almost hypnotic state\, through his use of contrasting colours and the use of repetitive patterns.  With the underlying ideals that ‘We are all in this together’ woven throughout his work\, Maser’s art unifies him with the viewer by conveying the love he has for his environment and the people that live in there.    \nBoasting an impressive list of exhibitions at high-end art galleries\, Maser has created original artwork for many prestigious arts organisations including\, Lazarides (UK)\, the National Gallery of Ireland (IRL)\, the National Library of Ireland (IRL)\, Tandem Press (USA) and more. He has collaborated on projects with the Irish band U2\, TED prize winner JR\, globally recognised muralists Fintan Magee and Connor Harrington\, and he has even collaborated with the president of Ireland\, Michael D Higgins on a limited edition print series. \nTo date\, Maser has created work extensively throughout Ireland for a variety of well-received exhibitions and art events\, as well as creating commissioned artworks throughout London\, Paris\, New York\, Chicago\, Florida\, California\, Australia\, Uganda\, Liberia\, Austria\, Germany\, Denmark\, Holland\, Belgium\, Prague\, Slovenia\, Spain and Sweden. In 2018\, Maser established Atelier Maser an art studio and gallery space located in the heart of Dublin that is dedicated to emerging visual artists. The Gallery boasts an exciting programme of artist residencies and exhibitions developed to nurture talent and provide guidance for young artists to showcase their skills.  \n www.maserart.com \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/maser-exhibition-2019-08-01/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190731T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190731T180000
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2-2019-07-31/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:MASER Exhibition - Mirror Door
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Runs to 24th August \nGallery Open Wednesday – Sunday 1-6pm \nCurated by Matthew Nevin. \n“MASER is one of Ireland’s leading Contemporary Artists and we are delighted to showcase a new site specific installation of his work\, that has been instrumental in promoting positive change and inclusivity over the past few years. While always pushing modern boundaries\, he captures brilliantly the new creative age that Ireland is experiencing right now.”  ~ Matthew Nevin\, Executive Director at CIACLA and MART Gallery & Studios. \nFor this large scale exhibition at CIACLA\, Irish muralist and visual artist MASER transforms the main exhibition space into a fully immersive hand-crafted installation. Taking inspiration from one of the great natural beauties of Ireland – Glendalough Valley in County Wicklow – the installation reinvents the valley’s expansive landscape for visitors to the gallery.  \nOn a daily basis in Ireland\, hundreds of locals and tourists travel to Glendalough to marvel at its rugged landscape and to trek its journey. It is a place of rural beauty and a place that deeply resonates with the artist. Through Maser’s signature use of vibrant colours\, flowing patterns and playful shapes\, the installation at CIACLA pays homage to the valley’s breathtaking views\, and plays on the idea of differing perspectives and organised view-points. The artist has created a site specific\, immersive installation that is bursting with colour and encourages visitors to become fully captivated by the valley’s abstracted landscape. \nHaving lived in Arkansas for many years\, Maser has a close relationship with the United States – while also holding his Irish roots close to his heart. He travelled extensively around the globe\, yet the Irish landscape is a place that distinctly evokes a sense of home for the artist and is strongly rooted in his identity. With the installation at CIACLA\, Maser strives to create an inclusive and authentic experience for visitors to engage with his representation of contemporary Ireland.  \nAbout the Artist \nMaser truly embodies the centric spirit of contemporary visual art in Ireland today. Having created artwork since 1995\, over the last 24 years\, Maser has earned much respect professionally and has generated a large and dedicated following in Ireland and abroad – through his seamlessly imaginative and unique graphic style. Maser is ambitious and is unafraid to experiment with any artistic format.  \nSince the outset\, Maser has continuously progressed his artistic style and practice\, which is now firmly rooted in the gallery space\, and moreover\, in the realm of contemporary Irish Art.  Having credited his origins in street art for the initial evolution of his personal style\, his artistic practice today comprises of his unique typographic style combined with photorealistic elements\, which usually convey an uplifting and socially conscious message to the viewer. The content of his work is inspirational and offers the viewer an opportunity to become fully immersed in an almost hypnotic state\, through his use of contrasting colours and the use of repetitive patterns.  With the underlying ideals that ‘We are all in this together’ woven throughout his work\, Maser’s art unifies him with the viewer by conveying the love he has for his environment and the people that live in there.    \nBoasting an impressive list of exhibitions at high-end art galleries\, Maser has created original artwork for many prestigious arts organisations including\, Lazarides (UK)\, the National Gallery of Ireland (IRL)\, the National Library of Ireland (IRL)\, Tandem Press (USA) and more. He has collaborated on projects with the Irish band U2\, TED prize winner JR\, globally recognised muralists Fintan Magee and Connor Harrington\, and he has even collaborated with the president of Ireland\, Michael D Higgins on a limited edition print series. \nTo date\, Maser has created work extensively throughout Ireland for a variety of well-received exhibitions and art events\, as well as creating commissioned artworks throughout London\, Paris\, New York\, Chicago\, Florida\, California\, Australia\, Uganda\, Liberia\, Austria\, Germany\, Denmark\, Holland\, Belgium\, Prague\, Slovenia\, Spain and Sweden. In 2018\, Maser established Atelier Maser an art studio and gallery space located in the heart of Dublin that is dedicated to emerging visual artists. The Gallery boasts an exciting programme of artist residencies and exhibitions developed to nurture talent and provide guidance for young artists to showcase their skills.  \n www.maserart.com \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/maser-exhibition-2019-07-31/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190729T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190729T130000
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SUMMARY:Figurative Drawing Workshop - July
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly uninstructed figurative workshop with live models – to engage with your pencil\, mind and creativity! Our free life drawing workshops provide an opportunity to enhance your drawing skills and a great way to meet the local creative community and visiting artists; to eat\, drink and draw at our wonderful new space! All skill levels welcome – from first timers to professionals.  \nOrganizer: Susan Broussard  \nDates: July 29th \, August 26th {last Monday of every Month} \nTime: 10am – 1pm \nCost: Free of Charge {Donations to CIACLA are appreciated} RSVP your place below. \nMaterials: Chairs\, tables and drawing boards provided; but no drawing horses or easels. Bring your own art supplies and paper. {Drawing only; no paints\, please.}  \nParking: Free \nQuestions: Email info@ciacla.com to contact our workshop organizer Susan Broussard with any questions.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/figurative-drawing-workshop-july/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190728T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190728T150000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
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SUMMARY:CIACLA Sessions {ii}
DESCRIPTION:A monthly series of informal social gatherings that offers a platform for performance in all styles and mediums!  \n* Free Admission or Donation Welcome – See Tickets Below.  \nCIACLA Sessions are a monthly series of informal social gatherings that offers a platform for performance (in all styles and mediums)\, from storytelling and music\, to dance\, theatre and literature. CIACLA are inclusive events to bring  people together to socialize and celebrate a unique part of Irish culture. An event to showcase local talent and engage with people from all nationalities\, everyone is invited to participate and/or observe. All genres and styles are welcome. Everyone has something to contribute. CIACLA Sessions are organized by Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne; CIACLA’s Community Engagement Officer.   \nInterested in taking part? Email sinead@ciacla.com  \nAbout Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne \nSinéad Finnerty-Pyne is currently the Project Strategist at Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects [LOHA]\, where she leads the firm’s public relations outreach which includes outreach\, exhibitions\, and publications. In addition\, Sinead has over fifteen years of experience in curatorial practice\, exhibition production\, and studio management at small and midsized institutions throughout the region. She has worked closely with artists and curators to produce a number of public and institutionally housed projects with artists such as Daniel Buren\, Richard Jackson\, Yoko Ono\, Bruce Nauman\, Analia Saban\, and Barbara T. Smith. Sinéad is the former Gallery Manager/ Assistant Curator at Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena\, CA. She completed studies at University College Dublin\, Ireland and received her B.A. in Art History from Loyola Marymount University\, Los Angeles. Sinead earned an M.A. in Museum and Curatorial Studies at California State University\, Long Beach\, where she received the Collage of Art Outstanding Thesis Award for her paper “Outward and Boundless: Painting in the Age of Expansion.” \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/seisiun-ii/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Film,Literature,Music,Performance,Theatre,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190728T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190728T130000
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SUMMARY:KIDS ART WORKSHOP
DESCRIPTION:KIDS ART WORKSHOPS \n30th June | 28th July | 18th August \nTime: 11am – 1pm \nFree Workshops – all welcome! \nOrganizer: Katriona Woods \nJoin us for our monthly Kids Art Workshop\, fun for all the family. Create\, paint and engage with contemporary art. Each workshop will cover a new artistic medium and use the current exhibition as inspiration for your little ones to create new masterpieces. All ages and abilities are welcome. A great way to get creative and have fun with the community and your family. \nParental supervision is required. \nFree of Charge {Donations are appreciated} – Book Free Tickets Below  \n{Just book tickets for the kids}
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/kids-art-workshop-2/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190727T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190727T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
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SUMMARY:MASER Exhibition Opening of 'Mirror Door'
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the Exhibition Opening of Mirror Door on July 27th @ 6pm \nExhibition Runs to 24th August \nGallery Open Wednesday – Sunday 1-6pm \n* Free Admission or Donation Welcome – See Tickets below. \nCurated by Matthew Nevin. \nFor this large scale exhibition ‘Mirror Door’ at CIACLA\, Maser will transform the main exhibition space into a fully immersive hand-crafted installation. Taking inspiration from one of the great natural beauties of Ireland – Glendalough Valley in County Wicklow – the installation will reinvent the valley’s expansive landscape for visitors to the gallery. \nOn a daily basis in Ireland\, hundreds of locals and tourists travel to Glendalough to marvel at its rugged landscape and to trek its journey. It is a place of rural beauty and a place that deeply resonates with the artist. \nThrough Maser’s signature use of vibrant colours\, flowing patterns and playful shapes\, the installation at CIACLA will pay homage to the valley’s breathtaking views\, and will play on the idea of differing perspectives and organised view-points. The artist will create a site specific\, immersive installation that is bursting with colour and encourages visitors to become fully captivated by the valley’s abstracted landscape.  \nHaving lived in Arkansas for many years\, Maser has a close relationship with the United States – while also holding his Irish roots close to his heart. He travelled extensively around the globe\, yet the Irish landscape is a place that distinctly evokes a sense of home for the artist and is strongly rooted in his identity. With the installation at CIACLA\, Maser strives to create an inclusive and authentic experience for visitors to engage with his representation of contemporary Ireland.  \nGallery 2: The Irish Short Reel Film Series \nOn July 27 at 6pm\, CIACLA will present the premiere of the first of a four week short film reel series\, with a new one hour reel of short films presented each week! The Irish Short Reels Series is presented in association with Irish Screen America and will highlight a selection of contemporary short films with a revolving program. \nA full list and schedule of films can be found here. Irish Short Reels is made possible is made possible with thanks to the support of Screen Ireland and Irish Screen America. \nAbout the Artist: \nMaser truly embodies the centric spirit of contemporary visual art in Ireland today. Having created artwork since 1995\, over the last 24 years\, Maser has earned much respect professionally and has generated a large and dedicated following in Ireland and abroad – through his seamlessly imaginative and unique graphic style. \n Maser is ambitious and is unafraid to experiment with any artistic format.  \nSince the outset\, Maser has continuously progressed his artistic style and practice\, which is now firmly rooted in the gallery space\, and moreover\, in the realm of contemporary Irish Art.  Having credited his origins in street art for the initial evolution of his personal style\, his artistic practice today comprises of his unique typographic style combined with photorealistic elements\, which usually convey an uplifting and socially conscious message to the viewer.  The content of his work is inspirational and offers the viewer an opportunity to become fully immersed in an almost hypnotic state\, through his use of contrasting colours and the use of repetitive patterns. With the underlying ideals that ‘We are all in this together’ woven throughout his work\, Maser’s art unifies him with the viewer by conveying the love he has for his environment and the people that live in there.   \nBoasting an impressive list of exhibitions at high-end art galleries\, Maser has created original artwork for many prestigious arts organisations including\, Lazarides (UK)\, the National Gallery of Ireland (IRL)\, the National Library of Ireland (IRL)\, Tandem Press (USA) and more.     \nHe has collaborated on projects with the Irish band U2\, TED prize winner JR\, globally recognised muralists Fintan Magee and Connor Harrington\, and he has even collaborated with the president of Ireland\, Michael D Higgins on a limited edition print series. \nTo date\, Maser has created work extensively throughout Ireland for a variety of well-received exhibitions and art events\, as well as creating commissioned artworks throughout London\, Paris\, New York\, Chicago\, Florida\, California\, Australia\, Uganda\, Liberia\, Austria\, Germany\, Denmark\, Holland\, Belgium\, Prague\, Slovenia\, Spain and Sweden.  \nIn 2018\, Maser established Atelier Maser an art studio and gallery space located in the heart of Dublin that is dedicated to emerging visual artists. The Gallery boasts an exciting programme of artist residencies and exhibitions developed to nurture talent and provide guidance for young artists to showcase their skills.  \nhttp://maserart.com/ \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/maser-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-07-05/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-07-05/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-07-05/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-07-04/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-07-04/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-07-04/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-07-03/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-07-03/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-07-03/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190630T180000
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-30/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190630T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190630T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
CREATED:20190429T172653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190622T225710Z
UID:2449-1561899600-1561917600@ciacla.com
SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-06-30/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190630T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190630T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
CREATED:20190324T152449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190625T032827Z
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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-06-30/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190630T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190630T130000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
CREATED:20190506T012547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190506T015218Z
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SUMMARY:KIDS ART WORKSHOP
DESCRIPTION:KIDS ART WORKSHOPS \n30th June | 28th July | 18th August \nTime: 11am – 1pm \nFree Workshops – all welcome! \nOrganizer: Katriona Woods \nJoin us for our monthly Kids Art Workshop\, fun for all the family. Create\, paint and engage with contemporary art. Each workshop will cover a new artistic medium and use the current exhibition as inspiration for your little ones to create new masterpieces. All ages and abilities are welcome. A great way to get creative and have fun with the community and your family. \nParental supervision is required. \nFree of Charge {Donations are appreciated} – Book Free Tickets Below  \n{Just book tickets for the kids}
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/kids-art-workshop/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190629T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190629T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
CREATED:20190324T160602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190625T093651Z
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SUMMARY:CIACLA Sessions
DESCRIPTION:A monthly series of informal social gatherings that offers a platform for performance in all styles and mediums! \nFeaturing: Comhaltas Los Angeles\, Ken Malone\, Marc Ivan O’Gorman\, Dylan Townsend\, Jenn McGuirk\, Emer Kinsella\, James Nolan\, Chris Lilian  \n* Free Admission or Donation Welcome – See Tickets Below.  \nCIACLA Sessions are a monthly series of informal social gatherings that offers a platform for performance (in all styles and mediums)\, from storytelling and music\, to dance\, theatre and literature. CIACLA Sessions are inclusive events to bring  people together to socialize and celebrate a unique part of Irish culture. An event to showcase local talent and engage with people from all nationalities\, everyone is invited to participate and/or observe. All genres and styles are welcome. Everyone has something to contribute. CIACLA Sessions are organized by Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne; CIACLA’s Community Engagement Officer.   \nInterested in taking part? Email sinead@ciacla.com  \nAbout Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne \nSinéad Finnerty-Pyne is currently the Project Strategist at Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects [LOHA]\, where she leads the firm’s public relations outreach which includes outreach\, exhibitions\, and publications. In addition\, Sinead has over fifteen years of experience in curatorial practice\, exhibition production\, and studio management at small and midsized institutions throughout the region. She has worked closely with artists and curators to produce a number of public and institutionally housed projects with artists such as Daniel Buren\, Richard Jackson\, Yoko Ono\, Bruce Nauman\, Analia Saban\, and Barbara T. Smith. Sinéad is the former Gallery Manager/ Assistant Curator at Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena\, CA. She completed studies at University College Dublin\, Ireland and received her B.A. in Art History from Loyola Marymount University\, Los Angeles. Sinead earned an M.A. in Museum and Curatorial Studies at California State University\, Long Beach\, where she received the Collage of Art Outstanding Thesis Award for her paper “Outward and Boundless: Painting in the Age of Expansion.” \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/june-session/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Film,Literature,Music,Performance,Theatre,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190629T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190629T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
CREATED:20190429T175100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T175100Z
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-29/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ciacla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Paula-Stokes-web.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190629T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190629T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
CREATED:20190429T172653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190622T225710Z
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SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-06-29/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ciacla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/03_iamyourshame.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190629T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190629T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
CREATED:20190324T152449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190625T032827Z
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SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-06-29/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190628T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190628T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
CREATED:20190429T175100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T175100Z
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SUMMARY:Design & Literature Showcase
DESCRIPTION:As part of CIACLA’s showcase program a selection of local artists\, creatives and makers will present the finest of contemporary art\, craft and design\, alongside a collection of contemporary Irish Literature. \nFeatured Artists: \nPaula Stokes \nPaula Stokes attended NCAD Dublin\, International Glass Center in Brierly Hill\, England and University of Washington where she was awarded the Milnora Roberts Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Paula is a cofounder of METHOD Gallery\, and manages Dale Chihuly’s glassblowing studio in Seattle. Her work is in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Most recently her work as been included in the Irish Embassy Collections in Beijing & Brussels \nwww.paulastokes.com \nPROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nThe Design & Crafts Council of Ireland is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers\, stimulating innovation\, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. Our vision is that Ireland is recognized and valued for its culture of design and craft. www.dccoi.ie \n  \n \nLiterature Ireland brings the finest of Irish literature in the best possible literary translations to readers around the world. It does this by awarding translation grants to publishers\, by hosting literary translators in Ireland\, and by representing Irish writers at international events\, book fairs and festivals. www.literatureireland.com \nIMG: Paula Stoke
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/design-literature-showcase-2019-06-28/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Design & Craft,Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ciacla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Paula-Stokes-web.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190628T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190628T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
CREATED:20190429T172653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190622T225710Z
UID:2447-1561726800-1561744800@ciacla.com
SUMMARY:Thinh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:As part of our local showcase program\, Gallery 2 will present work by local artist Thinh Nguyen \nJune 15th – July 5th | Wed – Sunday |  1-6pm |  @ CIACLA \nAbout Thinh Nguyen \n“My work emerges from the realisation that western art history is not my history\, my assigned gender is not my identity\, and my identity is not the product of my cultural values. Through these revelations i enact my own personal and cultural revolution dismantling the overlapping inequity of cultural values based on gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, religion\, and the body politics – all explored as malleable and hybrid constructs of identity. The works are the result of my constant need to negotiate and weave together the contested space between cultures to find the threads that connect us all.” \nwww.thinhstudio.com     \nImage courtesy of Thinh Nguyen
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/thinh-nguyen-2019-06-28/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ciacla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/03_iamyourshame.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190628T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20190628T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T163813
CREATED:20190324T152449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190625T032827Z
UID:1324-1561726800-1561744800@ciacla.com
SUMMARY:Amanda Coogan - The Ladder is Always There - Gallery 1
DESCRIPTION:The Ladder is Always There – Visual Arts Exhibition \nRuns to July 5th \nOpen Wed – Sun\, 1-6pm \nOn Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June\, artist Amanda Coogan will present an engagement with between local artists and the work from 1-3pm.  \nCurated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan. \nIn The Ladder Is Always There\, internationally renowned Irish performance artist\, Amanda Coogan\, has created an immersive site specific installation\, alongside a series of live performances.  \nContinuing her explorations of embodiment and liveness\, Coogan’s installation hangs over the gallery of CIACLA. Audience walk into and stand underneath its groaning presence. First commissioned by MOCA Jacksonville in response to a hand painted dress by Mark Chagall for Stravinsky’s Firebird suite. Made of fabric the colour of the artist’s skin\, the sculpture hangs entangled in peaks and troughs calling to mind a landscape\, a seascape or an extension of the body. A ladder\, suspended from the ceiling at an unattainable height\, is always there; a metonym for the potential of movement and change. Through a series of live performances the installation will shapeshift. Performers will move the membrane of the sculpture\, lowering and raising its peaks; shifting perspectives. \nAs with much of Coogan’s work the installation is visually stunning and carries with it poetic resonances. The activities of the silent bodies of the performers rearranging the installation suggest multi resonant layers of meaning. Their gestures\, based on Irish Sign Language alongside the pulsating soundtrack – relating to the Adrienne Rich poem\, Diving into the Wreck\, pour further rich sources to the work.  The Ladder is Always There speaks to a metaphorical journey in which Coogan and by extension\, the other performers\, dive into or work to overcome an obstacle. \nThe first iteration of The Ladder is Always was commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in 2018/2019. We show it here at CIACLA with special thanks to Caitlin Doherty. \nThe installation features new Music by Emer Kinsella. \nAbout the Artist: Amanda Coogan \nAmanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art\, performance\, sculpture and installation. The Irish Times have said\, ‘Coogan\, whose work usually entails ritual\, endurance and cultural iconography\, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her extraordinary work is challenging\, provocative and always visually stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that are multi-faceted\, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art. \nThe body\, as a site of resistance\, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She encompass a multitude of media; Objects\, Text\, moving and still image\, all circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice\, building controlled instability into the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. \nCoogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art Prize and has extensively presented and performed her work\, including at The Venice Biennale\, Liverpool Biennial\, PS1; New York\, The Whitworth Gallery; Manchester\, The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston\, Van Gogh Museum; Amsterdam and the Manchester International Festival; The MAC\, Belfast; The Niemeyer\, Aviles. From 2010-2013 Coogan worked with theatre director Robert Wilson on his production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic where two of her works are quoted; Yellow and Medea. In 2016 the British Council commissioned her to produce Run to the Rock\, a mediation on Shakespeare’s text from the Robbin Island bible for their Shakespeare Lives programme. She has just closed a major live exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town\, which Artforum described as ‘performance art at its best’. \nwww.amandacoogan.com \n  \n\nKindly Supported by Culture Ireland and the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme.
URL:https://ciacla.com/event/amanda-coogan-2019-06-28/
LOCATION:CIACLA\, Suite B1\, Bergamot Station\,\, 2525 Michigan Avenue\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CIACLA":MAILTO:info@ciacla.com
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