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"The Eyes and Ears Foundation, (A non profit, 501(c)(3), public benefit corporation), has sponsored billboard art shows since 1977 in high traffic, Los Angeles, (New York), and San Francisco locales. Through them, a random urban audience is exposed to conventional 'high art' sited in unconventional locations and scaled unconventionally large." Studio International - The International Journal of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture: Sculpture on the grand scale, 1982, Volume 195, Number 995
Current...
D. J. Hall's "Midge and Madge"," completed with assistance from Andrew Wilf, January,'77 for the February 1 - 28th, 1977, The "Eyes and Ears" Los Angeles Artboard Festival. Placed above the former, Great American Food & Beverage Company's billboard at 11th and Santa Monica Blvd. in Santa Monica. Currently aired in the Ocean Park Section of Santa Monica, California. (For location call: 1.800.330.0486 Leave message).
Neon Park XIII, aka/Bruce Houston's "Tyrone of Tujunga" Artboard, recently installed at the above Santa Monica location. The story, as told by Neon. The canvas was a tribute to his dog, Tyrone. Somehow, Tyrone had been dognapped from his home area in Tujunga Canyon. For reasons, unexplained and unpersued, Tyrone was killed before all could be settled. The background is inspired by California's famous, "Challange Butter" Label. Tyrone, taking the featured raindeers place, including antlers with a flying bone, a ball, and candle. Neon adapted this art for the cover of Little Feat's 1981 record album, "Hoy! Hoy!
Recent...
At Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd.
Above - On the 30th Anniversary of the original artboard Festival, 1977, Rick Griffin's "Imperial Message", returned to Los Angeles for three weeks in August, 2007. The occasion, as noted on the banner, was, "Heart and Torch: Rick Griffins Transcendence," an exhibit at The Laguna Art Museum, June 24 to September 30, 2007. Rick's first major retrospective and solo museum exhibition. The exhibition, which included some 140 paintings, drawings, posters, album covers, and artifacts, surveys thirty years of Griffins work from the 1960s until his death in 1991. The accompanying 156-page catalogue, published in association with Gingko Press, was the first publication to address Griffins impact on the surf, psychedelic rock, and born-again Christian movements. Photos and space courtesy of Clear Channel Outdoor. To view a larger Artboard from LAM's Griffin Exhibit, guest curator, bon(d) vivant, Greg Escalante's FrankenGriffin.
Laguna Art Museum's Official, "Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin's Transcendence,"
poster and catalog cover, designed by Jeff Girard. Available from LAM's Museum Shop
Past...
Ed Ruscha's "Back of Hollywood"
William T. Wiley's "VOID"
Rick Griffin's, "Imperial Message" Before, "Repent" added by Rick.
Victor Moscoso,
Sunset Magazine, Nov. 1977, Pg. 23: "Imagine a billboard that has at its base a crowd shading their eyes against the sun, pressing closer for a different perspective, discussing the artist's message - and perhaps returning late in the day to see the effect of changing light."
Horizon Magazine, Jan., 1978: "Acknowledging California's drive-in ethos, the Eyes and Ears Foundation intregated art with environment by turning the cities into drive-through galleries. Last year as many people saw the billboards as glimpsed the country's biggest museum draw, Treasures of Tutankhamun __without standing on line or, in most cases without leaving their cars."
Artweek Magazine, November 26, 1977 / Vol 8 No. 40 "This aspect of the unexpected is a definite advantage; discovering art, whatever its form, where it is not thought to exist can be a rewarding experience." - Judith L. Dunham
Newspapers: Artweek, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, L A Free Press,
Pictures, Articles: Sunset, Horizon, Artweek Magazines, and featured:
New West Magazine,
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Eyes and Ears Foundation is a Festival Sponsor for the San Francisco International Arts Festival, that, every year, since 2004, has featured artists from many countries in the disciplines of dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and film. Events are held in venues throughout the City of San Francisco. SFIAF's Executive director, Andrew Wood said of this year’s seventh annual event, “We are tremendously excited by the 2010 program. It has been over two and a half years in the making and we are very pleased with the results. I would like to thank the artists, our presenting partners and the numerous foundations, sponsors and governments who have worked with us over this protracted period to raise the money to bring the 2010 festival to fruition.”
SFIAF 2010 will feature artists from the Bay Area, New York City, New Jersey and the countries of China, France, Germany, the Republic of Ireland, Japan, Russia, Switzerland and Syria. For details on SFIAFestival, May, 19 - May, 30, 2010. - San Francisco International Arts Festival - http://sfiaf.org/
Also, for the past several years, The Eyes and Ears Foundation has participated in wall mural projects in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sponsoring artists, Logek, Chase, and Sano, in a combined effort, mural, acrylics w/aerosol, completed in August, 2003. Located on the north wall of co-sponsor, Yoga Works' corporate center, Main and Pacific Streets in Santa Monica, California. Larger version, "ON PATH," August, 2003."
Rigo 02's, "TRUTH," a 55 X 140 foot mural, dedicated in April, 2002, adorns the exterior of San Francisco's landmark, Oddfellows Building, 7th and Market Street, across from the United Nations Plaza. "TRUTH" is visible from the steps of San Francisco City Hall. For the large version see "TRUTH;" and another of Rigo's murals with Eyes and Ears, 1996's "EXTINCT" (?)
Future...
New! ARTboard Festival
Festival Theme "A Mad Idea," What, Me Hurry?"
2002 Grant Award Winner, Artist, Melissa Powell's Festival Card
The concept... Help prevent aggressive driving with another perspective... examples
and Melissa Powell's, " Doesn't Cut It!"
Artist, Gabe Leonard's, "Slow Down"
Artist, D. J. Hall's, ""Another Sunny Day"
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