Robbie Conal Moves from The Simpsons to Live Talks LA
Robbie Conal has been extremely busy this month, having just appeared on The Simpsons episode "Exit Through The Kwik-e-Mart" on the same day (Mar 4) he wrapped up a stint at NY's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he had works featured in "Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine."
But he's not done yet!!
Robbie will sit down with Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey for a very special Live Talks LA at Track 16 Gallery (Bergamot Station Santa Monica)on March 29, 2012.
"An Evening with David Horsey in Conversation with Robbie Conal"
Where Cute Meets Evil: LA WEEKLY: Guerrilla Poster Artist Robbie Conal Talks Political Animals, New Book
LA WEEKLY Stops Through Book Soup in WeHo To Chat with Robbie Conal! 
PutItOn Picture Show Annual Online Film Festival Presented by PutItOn.com and the New York Film Academy Accepting Short and Feature Submissions Until December 31, 2009
PutItOn.com Offers Artists in Film, Fashion, Music and Art a Global Stage to Showcase Their Talents, Discover Other Artists and Engage in eCommerce
PutItOn.com, the first online portal enabling artists from four artistic disciplines to display their talents and gain worldwide exposure, is proud to announce its first annual film festival, PutItOn Picture Show Presented By PutItOn.com and the New York Film Academy. The PiO Picture Show is open now and accepting entries until December 31, 2009. The festival marries PutItOn.com’s unique web-based platform with the spirit of creativity fostered in a film competition. Filmmakers and artists worldwide are encouraged to compete.
“We are excited to launch The PutItOn Picture Show in partnership with the New York Film Academy,” said Max Fraser, British co-founder of PutItOn.com. “This festival is an important part of our vision for creating a grassroots path for emerging artists around the world to take their work from the ‘garage’ to the global marketplace. PutItOn.com’s web platform was designed by artists for artists and it is intended to help foster the next generation of creative leaders.”
PutItOn.com is accessible in 10 languages and offers users 1 free gb of virtual storage space, no transaction charges when purchasing or selling work, online chat and the ability to live stream audio and video. A cutting-edge mobile application will be available across five platforms in the later this fall.
About The PutItOn Picture Show
The PutItOn Picture Show is co-sponsored by the New York Film Academy and is open to artists around the globe.
All entries are welcome, except for those that are exclusively pornographic in content or unethical, such as films based on acts of hate. Each entrant is allowed to submit one film into the contest. Prizes will be awarded for Best Feature, Best Short and Best Achievement in Acting.
The first round of the competition for best feature film and best short film will be decided by a global Internet vote, which will narrow the entries to a list of the top 10 finalists per category. At the second and final stage of the competition, the finalists for these two categories will be judged by a panel made up of one member of The New York Film Academy, PiO's Max Fraser, and an industry professional yet to be named. The award for best achievement in acting will be decided separately by the panel of judges, with all submissions automatically entered for consideration.
The competition is open for new entries until December 31st. Public voting will continue until January 28, 2010 and winners will be announced on February 18, 2010.
Winners in each category will receive a two-tiered prize: a free scholarship to the New York Film Academy and a cash prize of $5,000 USD. If a winner has already attended the New York Film Academy, or another film school, they can opt-out of the scholarship and choose to only receive the cash prize and an alternative award. The second place winners in the best feature film and short film categories will each receive an HD 'Pro-sumer' digital video camera.
In addition to the film festival, PutItOn currently has plans to launch a U.S.-based online song competition this fall. The company will release additional details shortly.
For more information about PutItOn or the film festival, visit: www.PutItOn.com.
About PutItOn.com
PutItOn.com – “The Home to the World’s Undiscovered Artists” – offers a revolutionary, grassroots approach to helping unknown artists take their work from the “garage” to the global marketplace where fans can connect with them directly. Leveraging an online platform for showcasing and marketing art, music, fashion and film, PutItOn.com helps undiscovered artists from around the world become both artistically and financially successful. Through PutItOn.com artists have the freedom to break out into the marketplace at NO COST with complete intellectual and creative control. For more information about PutItOn or the film festival, visit: http://www.PutItOn.com
Body Image
Hanging in a vacant theater on Main Street, downtown los angeles. No idea who the artist is. Noone on the art walk or in the theater could tell me.
Robbie Conal Exhibit Closes Nov 22 + POUNDING NAILS IN THE FLOOR WITH MY FOREHEAD
Friday and Saturday...
POUNDING NAILS IN THE FLOOR WITH MY FOREHEAD
Written by Eric Bogosian
Directed by Martin Papazian
Performances Friday and Saturday November 21 and 22
8 PM, $10, purchase tickets at http://www.smartartpress.com
Doors open at 7:30.
In conjunction with Robbie Conal’s career retrospective, “No Spitting, No Kidding,” Track 16 Gallery presents a two-performance-only staging of Eric Bogosian’s “Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead” directed by Martin Papazian.
“. . . Eric Bogosian again aims scorching social commentary at the contemporary urban and suburban scene—from subway panhandlers to barbecue-crazed millionaires. Bogosain reveals the hidden humor, fear, hypocrisy and rage of Americans...With this seductive element of self-revelation, he heightens the disturbing connections between his characters and, by extension, between us and the people we try not to see-and not to be-every day.”
Martin Papazian has directed a number of plays at Track 16 Gallery in conjunction with certain pertinent exhibitions (Tall Tales: Play #6 in the Kentucky Cycle [with Coal Hollow: photographs by Ken Light], The Back Home Set [with Troubles at Home: paintings by Michelle Rogers, and The Exonerated [with Premeditated: Meditations on Capital Punishmnent by Malaquias Montoya]). Papazian also acts in film and in television.
Cast includes Zibby Allen, Christopher Amitrano, Ronnie Blevins, Peter Breitmayer, Jim Dowd, Shawn Duke, John Forest, Martin Papazian, Bonnie Piesse, and Kelleia Sheerin.
Robbie Conal’s exhibition “No Spitting, No Kidding” will be on view through November 22, 2008.
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Robbie Conal Exhibition Opening Oct 18 at TRACK 16
NO SPITTING NO KIDDING
Robbie Conal, one of today's most influential artists and political commentators, will be hosted by Track 16 Gallery with Opening Reception on October 18, 2008 from 6-9pm. NO SPITTING NO KIDDING features over 100 paintings, sketches, posters and other media, spanning Robbie's remarkable career.
View LA TIMES ARTICLE on Robbie.
ROBBIE CONAL: NO SPITTING NO KIDDING
OCTOBER 18 — NOVEMBER 22, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 6-9 PM
His [Conal] art is outrageous, unsparing, and constitutes a welcome
offering to the struggles of Americans against war and injustice . . .
his art is therefore to be celebrated by all who see the marriage of
art and politics as playing a vital role in the movement toward a just
society.
—Howard Zinn
My paintings are intended as satirical counterinfotainment. If they
tickle people into thinking along with me about social and political
issues, I’m a happy man.
—Robbie Conal
Santa Monica, CA––In celebration of Robbie Conal’s career as both artist and activist, Track16 Gallery is pleased to present, NO SPITTING NO KIDDING, a monumental retrospective of his work. The exhibition opens on Saturday, October 18, just prior to this year’s history-making Presidential election.
The opening reception is on October 18, from 6 to 9 P.M., and the show runs through Saturday, November 22. Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, from 11 to 6 P.M.
This extensive survey dating from the 1970s through the present traces Conal’s evolution as one of the most important artists and political commentators of our time. He has consistently confronted us with his political fervor, his unrelenting desire to express and dissent, and his biting humor.
The entire gallery space will be filled with Conal’s work. From his early turbulent, ghostly figure paintings based on a baseball pitcher’s throwing motion to the charcoal-on-canvas drawings and oil paintings made for his signature posters, the show brings his work into a gallery setting juxtaposing works found plastered on construction site walls, traffic light switching boxes, freeway underpasses and bus shelters with refined paintings that pack a visual and political punch. Featuring paintings—including his magnum opus: a series of seven large satirical history paintings chronicling the
ironic intersection of politics and popular culture over five decades— and drawings culled from museums, private collections from around the US and Robbie’s personal archive, this exhibition is the most comprehensive Conal survey ever presented to the public.
Conal received an MFA degree from Stanford University in 1978. He taught painting and drawing at the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Fine Arts for 12 years. He was a participant in the www.droppingknowledge.org “Table of Free Voices” event in East Berlin on Sept. 9th, 2006. His postering raids have been featured in major newspapers: the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and national periodicals: Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, People, Interview, BOMB., I.D., Print, Beautiful/Decay, as well as CBS’s This Morning, Charlie Rose, The Bill Maher Show, Life & Times on KCET and MTV News. He was the subject of the 1992 documentary, Post No Bills. He has also written two books, Art Attack: The Midnight Politics Of A Guerrilla Artist and ARTBURN, a collection of his work published in the alternative newspaper L.A.Weekly. Conal will be included in the portfolio Line Drive, published by Hamilton Press in October, 2008. This limited edition portfolio of 13 hand pulled lithographs celebrates the participating artists’ love of baseball; artists include R.B. Kitaj, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Michael C. McMillen, and Raymond Pettibon among others. Conal has been awarded grants by th National Endowment for the Arts, The City of Los Angeles (“COLA” grant), and the Getty Trust.
He lives and works in Mar Vista, CA.
Tonight: METAPHYSICS, MYSTICISM AND MUD: AMERICAN STORIES FROM THE DEEP SOUTH
It's hot. What better way to cool down than with a thick meaty slice of watermelon and good art.
Tonight The Lowe Gallery in Santa Monica Presents the Opening reception for METAPHYSICS, MYSTICISM AND MUD: AMERICAN STORIES FROM THE DEEP SOUTH: AN EXHIBITION FEATURING ARTISTS ANDREW SAFTEL & KE FRANCES.
(KE FRANCIS DEBRIS: HOUSE AND TRAILER (15/20), 1989 LINOCUT 18 x 15 inches)
In addition to the amazing artwork, the American-South themed reception will feature daisy-duke clad dancers, soulful hip-hop, and Southern cuisine as well as fresh watermelon and bushels from the latest crops…all served with a mess of southern hospitality.
(ANDREW SAFTEL:WATER OVER THE BRIDGE, 2007 ACRYLIC & MIXED MEDIA ON PANEL 36 x 72 inches)
The Opening Reception is tonight Friday, June 15th from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The exhibition continues through July 12, 2007 during regular gallery hours. LOWE GALLERY is located at 2034 Broadway St., Santa Monica, CA 90404. The gallery is open to the public on Tuesday-Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
(POLLY COOK:CITY ANGEL (DON'T PASS ME BY), 2007 CERAMIC TILE ON WOOD 46 x 23 inches)
Under the ownership and direction of Bill Lowe, The Lowe Gallery represents artists who share powerful and eloquent visions supported by a highly advanced mastery of their media. For additional information on the gallery, the public should visit www.lowegallery.com, or call 310-449-0184.