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MICHELLE JOAN PAPILLION
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- Oct 03, 11
So this will probably be my last post of the year, their might be one more about an art show in my space but thats it.
- We are on the dawning of a new era. I am on the dawning of a new mind. I am re-imagining everything I literally know. That term "the more you learn the less you know" is for real for real. So for me to learn new things is exciting but with this excitement comes GREAT responsibility for myself and (against my own will) ultimately others.
- All though I would love to be completely isolated on an island and left to ponder away on my own ideas, creations and experiments this is not my case. I live in a big city, with millions of people and I have friends who also live here; many of which love me and a lot of them care for me deeply. So isolation is not an option if you expect to be polite to the people who think of you dearly. This does not mean that there are not margins of error, their most certainly are and of all the people I know or who may know me there are some who may never be pleased with my behavior.
- These are my memory tattoos. I got them at least 5 years ago maybe even 6. They are on my hands and they are small. It is a pyramid and an omega. People always ask me why did I get them but I dont really like telling, my response is either "these are my memory tattoos" or "its a pyramid...ive always wanted to own one and now i do" my mom actually thinks that the omega (which people sometimes mistake for a horseshoe) is a "C" for courage...i sort of like that idea too. The truth is the tattoos really are for "remembering." The night that I got them in the west village I told myself that whenever I looked at them that they were to make me remember who I was. Omega is a greek letter and it means end. I don't really believe in a finite end. In fact I think the end is also the beginning at the same time. The pyramid (mrs) to me is like a vessel, a portal or a connector of sorts, its shape seems to be whimsical, mysterious and magical. I majored in classics in college my focus was Egpytology, my French professor would disagree with me if I argued that the great pyramids of Giza were not burial chambers but in fact life inducing or bringing compounds. But I digress my pyramid and omega are very special to me.
- In 2012 I will be introducing a new company actually 2 new companies. I am excited about these. They combine my love of art and science. I am naturally an alchemist experimenting and playing with natures very impressive elements for nearly 10 years. Currently I am taking a break from art and focusing back on science.
- I love my art gallery, it was a conceptual idea conceived in my mind and is manifesting into something I did not imagine. I believe it will be successful well beyond me because it was my creation. I followed my heart and it was an organic process with making the whole thing happen.
- I will never have all the answers but I will always be in search of all the answers
- Aug 22, 11
Don't think I ever blogged this but I interviewed Fab 5 Freddy for Juxtapoz's Art In The Streets issue which came out in April the same month the exhibit opened at MOCA. Read the full mag online HERE
- Jul 15, 11
to greatness
Here is one of the instrumentals used in this video...thank me later
- Jun 01, 11
- Apr 22, 11
The Love Stories series I helped produce has been going super amazing...we caught up with Erykah at Coachella for hers and i LOVE IT!
- Apr 14, 11
Can hardly believe a full year has gone by
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Victim of Fear series - Sean Bell
Barron Claiborne - Biggie and Guns
- Apr 12, 11
Finally Finally Finally.....The Teenager Show is really really almost ready!!! Look for it in about a week or so.
- Apr 08, 11
because this site makes me want to write poetry like pablo neruda, or pretend to be nikki giovanni...again
- Mar 12, 11
Tonight at my gallery, I sit down with artist Chenoa Maxwell as we discuss her photography and solo exhibit Introspection: India. Starts at 8 so don't be late!
Some pics from Thurs nights opening!
- Mar 06, 11
Papillion Institute of Art opens next week with Introspections: India photography by Chenoa Maxwell...hope to see you there!!!
ps RSVP at rsvp@papillionart.org
- Mar 04, 11
its 7:20am and I am just now leaving the gallery so too tired to get into it...but let's just say that my baby brainchild the teenager show has graduated!
if you read the orignal post on ARTE:ZINE than you vibed out to The Step Kids "La La" which i adore, but decided to pair the teenager with the pop star
- Feb 17, 11
last night i was in the gallery with the staff of edge magazine and nba baller serge ibaka...i had my hypem playlist in heavy rotation when someone brought up hip hop...i boldly admitted that i did not have any hip hop music stored in my computer's hard drive. i woke up early this morning with a phone call from a friend who works at the source and we started talking about the LA rap scene. Tyler started off the conversation but soon followed was Kendrick Lamar, School Boy Q, AB Soul (pretty much the entire TDE Fam) and Rob Roy.
Here are some jams I played this morning....ps they stay in constant rotation...
ROB ROY - AXELA ...it was a close call between this and Gold N Gucci...experience KING WARRIOR MAGICIAN LOVER for yourself
KENDRICK LAMAR - BARBED WIRE ...michael jordan is a favorite too...BUY THIS ALBUM
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT - BAATIN ...the entire YES/NO album is a favorite as well...pps there from NY but i love them just the same!
PURPLE CROWN - NO FUTURE ...i love him and would give him anything he asked for
- Jan 31, 11
- Jan 20, 11
Ok so only Animalchan will get the inside joke of Dream Auntie but I do feel very much like a Proud Auntie this week.
First off last year I worked on a really fun project called LOVE STORIES created by will.i.am, I got to produce most of them and even direct a few! Woo Hoo...its a series where we talk to interesting folk about their love affair with their passion.
Than on the same day as the release of my LOVE STORIES another labor of love debuted Milk + Honey! Peep this trailer which showcases a bit of P.I.A. (proud auntie moment) The ladies at Brown Paper Dolls and Idris Elba have done an excellent job!
- Jan 05, 11
Some stills from the set of MILK + HONEY shoot at Papillion Institute of Art
The lovely ladies at EDGE MAG made me into a postcard...awwwwwww
- Jan 05, 11
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- "hands on the wheel"
- @MacaroniTonyyy aww thanks!!! #missya
- @mustafaintheory one word to describe the album would be "evolving" i love everything i heard..for sure some chart toppers on the record!
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- Happy Love Day! http://t.co/3Be5r6a0
- @DJLadySha i'll be seeing you tonight! miss you! and ima need that throwback whitney playlist in heavy rotation!
- "if it is right it happens - the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away" John Steinbeck in a 1958... http://t.co/ey8NuJMz
- FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH YUMMY http://t.co/a7bWz1kH
- I Just finished Vipassana (bootcamp) and it was amazing!
- Beautiful Monday Morning! #HappyMLKday
- I AM JOY I AM BLISS #morningmantras
- "i do it like quicksand, dontcha wanna get stuck with me?" jdavey
- @jrbland James! 1. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! 2. when am i seeing you?
- i dont focus on things that dont matter, i focus on things that do matter
- S H A B B A T S H A L O M
- @KareemGrimes i think i can finally race you though in my new car…although i wouldn't sleep on the ghia! haa
- @KareemGrimes always good seeing you flossing in the streets too! lol
- good night world!
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Barron Claiborne - Black Madonna
For purchase and more info papillionart.org/barron-claiborne or email art@papillionart.org
Pencil on Paper #7: Brigitte Butscher, friend, illustrated by Robert Raimon Roy.
Artistic Endeavors in partnership with Papillion Institute of Art presents
Harmony’s Palette
The Premier Solo Art Odyssey of Keenan Chapman
Papillion Institute of Art
1835 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Thursday, February 16
7:00P - 11:00P
Please join us for a special exhibition showcasing the spirit and passion of artist Keenan Chapman.
Complimentary wine and hor d’oeuvres.
Live performance by The Downtown Train
For additional information:
endeavorartistically@gmail.com
http://papillionart.org/
www.thedowntowntrain.comOn Wednesday night this week, the topic of the next Science Cafe (hosted by CU’s Faculty of Science) holds a lot of interest for us at CUAG: “How to Guard an Art Gallery.”
Vida Dujmović, Adjunct Research Professor, School of Computer Science (and serious Science Babe), uses computational geometry to answer “What is the minimum number of guards or cameras that can monitor an entire art gallery?”
Stop by the Wild Oak Cafe (812 Bank St.) from 6:30-7:30pm on Wednesday, February 15th to find out!
For more info on Science Cafe and Prof. Dujmović’s talk, click here.
p.s. Did you know that many famous artists started their careers as guards? The list includes Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Ryman, who’s Series no. 13 (White). 2004 is pictured above.
Robert Ryman, Series no. 13 (White). 2004.
“It’s similar to the meaning of listening to a symphony. you don’t know the meaning, and you can’t explain it to anyone else who didn’t hear it. the painting has to be seen. but there is no meaning outside of what it is.” - Robert Ryman
Mark Bradford opens this month in a joint exhibition between SF MOMA and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Requested Posts for February 2012
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- Barron Claiborne - Black Madonna Photo: http://t.co/LKbk4GcU
- Video: http://t.co/ejLuqnK9
- Papillion Institute of Art - Dailies - ARTE: Robert Raimon Roy III http://t.co/lqfzq87C
- Photoset: These are amazing zanthi: http://t.co/63aFMrvZ
- Papillion Institute of Art - Dailies - ARTE: Amber Ibarreche http://t.co/te58HSc8
- Amber Ibarreche collage Photo: http://t.co/uSII31Jl
- Brand new, 1 part Gifted and Blessed 1 part A Race of Angels all parts Good. We've been hearing Garth Trinidad... http://t.co/ToG1zK7A
- LA based street artist Shepard Fairey to guest star on The Simpsons, along with Kenny Scharf, Ron English and... http://t.co/X783JFP6
- WE HEART DIGITAL ART <3
- MASTER OF SHAPES upon shapes upon shapes upon...etc. etc. http://t.co/kmenl7KQ
- OLEK http://t.co/1i7b1AnY
- multi disciplinary artist Robert Raimon Roy Photo: http://t.co/QBnS1vAR
- “@nuELLE: @PAPILLIONART the first one with the older woman is doooopppeee” yea that one is our favorite too!
- Awesome write up on our good friend LA based creator Mister Whitmore... http://t.co/Vyfy3On2
- California photographer Amanda Lopez http://t.co/XslnhuCd
- Join us tomorrow night as LA art production company Artistic Endeavors presents the art of Keenan Chapman http://t.co/r2jw0maN
- Tomorrow night Artistic Endeavors presents the work of Keenan Chapman in our gallery - Photo: http://t.co/LsqmMKlZ
- South African artist Nontsikelelo Veleko http://t.co/bSAyUZLx
- LeRone Wilson at RUSH Arts Gallery (Chelsea) & Corridor Gallery (Brooklyn) write up http://t.co/VYkMmec3
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- Nov 02, 11
LA photographer Noe Montes. We met him at #OCCUPYLA while he was taking portraits. The last two photographs are in a limited series of post cards that he made, he was kind enough to send us one of each and they are beautiful! If your lucky when you visit his site click on the blog he might have 1 or 2 left.
- Nov 02, 11
Emerging Voice & VisionIntrospective:Art For Joy, Love and Life
Amber Robles-Gordon received some blunt criticism during her graduate studies when she was told she couldn’t seem to separate herself from her artwork. Robles-Gordon became introspective, and identified why she’s so entrenched in her art.
Community Voice Project is a collaboration with the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences and the University Library. American University’s School of Communication and College of Arts and Sciences.
Amber Robles-Gordon
Amber Robles-Gordon is a mixed media artist. Her preferred medium is collage and assemblage. She also works with pastels, acrylic, watercolors, photography and oil paint sticks. She then merges these mediums into to her collages.
Her work is representational of her experiences and the paradoxes within the female experience. She focuses on fusing found objects to convey her own personal memories, inspired by nature, womanhood and her belief in recycling energy and materials.
Robles-Gordon has over fifteen years of exhibiting and art educational experience. She completed her Masters of Fine Arts from Howard University in December 2010, where she has received annual awards and accolades for her artwork. She has exhibited in California, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, New York, Ohio, Spain and throughout the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area.
Robles-Gordon has been commissioned by the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center of African American History and other organizations to teach workshops about creating paper mosaics and collages. She was commissioned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2010 to create a mural for the Windows in to DC project at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Most recently, she has been granted an apprenticeship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, D.C. Creates Public Arts Program.
Andre S. Belcher - Contributor
for full write-up & video go HERE
- Nov 01, 11
Global Arts: Visual Arts - Experimental Film/Video
Julia Raynham
Born 1966 (Cape Town, South Africa)Julia Raynham’s work melds choreography, theatre, poetry, video, sound, performance and improv, in a distinctly experimental vein. After studying architecture and music, she trained extensively as a sangoma (link beeen the ancestral and human worlds, specialist of herbal medicine, counsel in matters of psychological disturbance in Zulu, Swazi, Xhosa and Ndebele communities of Southern Africa). An ex-member of key collectives on the South Africa scene (Honeymoon Suites; The Mothertongue Project) and a writer (We Tell Our Old Songs: San Music of Southern Africa, with Marlene Winberg, 2004; ilikemagazine), she is the founder of Resonance Bazaar, a multidisciplinary platform for the development of artistic partnerships. Among her most renowned works are: Return to Traveller (The Edge, Cape Town, 2009); 21st Century Animal (7th edition of Rencontres Chorégraphiques de l’Afrique et de l’Océan Indien, 2008); and A New Body Will Be Assembled...More Brilliant Than Before (Below:Video)
Video: A collaboration between Julia Raynham and James Tayler
Andre S. Belcher - Contributorsource: papillionart.org/dailies
- Nov 01, 11
- Oct 13, 11
South African artist Mary Sibande has done something amazing in her series Long Live The Dead Queen. We really love her installation/sculptures but what we love the most is how she takes over buildings in some nice and not so nice places with putting the “Dead Queen” up for the entire city to see.
- Oct 09, 11
New York photographer Jamel Shabazz posted these recently on his facebook. We've been fans of Jamel's work since the release of his first book 10 years ago Back in the Days.
http://papillionart.org/dailies/2011/10/6/arte-jamel-shabazz.html - Oct 09, 11
Absolutely adore Fred Eversley sculptures and the concept that created them. He currently is on view at the Hammer Museum in the group exhbition NOW DIG THIS looking back at the LA Black art scene from the 1960's - 1980's. He also has a solo show at William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica, they take a look at his work over 40 years. Go see both!
- Oct 07, 11
YES OLEK…Occupy Wall Street has been continuing to stay in the headlines and put NYC back on the map. A very special artist using crocheting has been making her own #OccupyNY statements. Her crocheted bull perfectly compliments the protest. Her name is Agata Olek, she is from Poland and her art studio is in lower Manhattan. She has and will crochet anything from a car to a person and recently sent a photo to her facebook of a ping pong table in London…maybe the UK will be seeing interesting things popping up soon.
- Oct 07, 11
If you are in London be sure to catch the film on painter Gerhard Richcter titled "Gerhard Richter Painting" by director Corinna Belz.
It will be shown a few times over the next month at the Tate Modern
From the trailer alone it looks amazing, we would not miss a chance to see the full documentary. Was also really cool to see him working in his studio alone, without 20 assistants in there painting for him. #oldschool
The film is being screened in conjunction with his solo show Panoramawhich opened at Tate Modern October 6 and runs for a few months.
- Oct 07, 11
We went to the opening of NOW DIG THIS at the Hammer Museum last Saturday. It was a blast, we met artist Hank Willis Thomas and chatted with Garth Trinidad about his new art studio and what he thought about the opening of the exhibit.
NOW DIG THIS is curated by Kellie Jones and features the work of Black artists in LA from 1960 - 1980. Painter Charles White's piece Love Letter #1 is the cover of the catalog pictured below. Some highlights for me were Betye Saar and David Hammons but the artist that blew me away was sculptor Fred Eversley.
Fred Eversley - Oct 01, 11
Amazing LA artist! Megan Geckler currently has an installation up at Papillion Institute of Art. For more info visit http://papillionart.org
- Sep 20, 11
Nick Cave's latest series Ever After is on view in New York right now. To see other things from Cave click HERE
- Sep 20, 11
- Aug 27, 11
Ilana Kohn, Fashion Designer, Illustrator and Brooklyn advocate.
- Aug 15, 11
The talented painter whose subjects lean towards feminism and identity was mentored by Kerry James Marshall and is the director of the Blue Sky Project artist in residence program.
- Jun 01, 11
One of my favorite girlfriends and artist from NY was Essie Baroz. I met the Palestinian artist in 2002 when I was curating a 1 year anniversary show of the 9/11 attacks. It was a group exhibition of Muslim & Jewish American, Israeli and Palestinian artists, she was the only woman in the show. I loved visiting Essie in her Chelsea studio where she was so "matter of fact" about her creative process. When she painted she knew exactly what she meant, made no apologies about the statements in her art and dared any man to challenge what she was saying.
- May 19, 11
I saw LA painter Mark Bradford's "Alphabet" at the Studio Museum in Harlem last December and his Pinocchio is on Fire is still touring. The interactive (free digital downloads) website they created is splendid. Please check it out and get your free download on!
- May 18, 11
The amazing Kerry James Marshall. In 1997 he received the MacArthur Genius award. The last photo is of him wearing the tee-shirt he designed for Gap's artist series.
- Apr 28, 11
If you know who Tameka Norris is, TELL US! We love her performance art series as a Yale Art School student
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- my not at all shameless plug is my art gallery @PAPILLIONART has an opening on Thurs, go to that twitter if u wanna know more! <3
- @dengkane thanks for that link, i've used the detox foot bath before…its an interesting process…u see the toxins literally coming right out
- oh & i think im addicted 2 young coconut water, i'll only drink the 1's that come in glass (or straight out the coconut) the taste is freshr
- Having a peaceful & easy going day so far…woke up had fresh organic acai berry juice (great superfood) & now having a medley of fresh veggie
- something that the black walnut hulls doesn't always succeed in doing, while it can kill those critters it doesn't get the eggs.
- One of the awesome benefits I love about the women's cleanse is that it kills parasites and the eggs they lay in your body as they are dying
- Especially the women's detox/cleanse #amazing he also has one for men. Its a great start to the new year and a new body!
- Dr. Delbert Blair website http://t.co/xKgBWAPb or http://t.co/ESRnaynA browse the shop, the things he offers are the truth!
- i would definitely give them archives a check…and he is on air every Thurs, i believe 7:30pm est #delbertblair
- catching up on a month worth of shows i missed, Truth or Consequences http://t.co/MuA6ej1Y hosted by the wonderful master teacher Dr Blair
- "thoughts are things and you are what you eat, drink and think" Dr. Blair
- that learning process came like a feather floating in the sky…you see it, its almost akward but also kinda beautiful
- and than one day when i wasn't paying attention i realized that i was learning something
- in 2011 i could have been lost…when i don't understand something i can't move, so i was still for MONTHS many many months
- LOVE is the revolution and the evolution
- This book helped me greatly in 2012…if your into science & how the body works from a wholistic level u will enjoy to! http://t.co/bacqylJA
- i apologize 2any1 who is offended by my lack of not meetin there expectations but if u accept me as i am in this moment than we will be as 1
- i have a beautiful life & beautiful beings in and around it.
