Habitat House Show, Saturday March 9th

My dear friend Shoko Hachiya and I are pairing up with fellow artists Hugh Fernando Fierro and Keith Milgaten to show some of our latest work in a group show.
Shoko is so awesome that instead of making boring old posters to advertise this show she just made some rad stop animation videos. Check 'em out here.

Habitat House Show 3/9/13 (stop motion flyer #2) from Shoko Hachiya on Vimeo.

Habitat House Show 3/9/13 (stop motion flyer) from Shoko Hachiya on Vimeo.

HABITAT HOUSE
1008 21st ST.
SAN DIEGO, CA 92102
SATURDAY, MARCH 9TH
8 PM


FEATURING
PERFORMANCES BY Keith Sweaty, Mystery Cave, & Balloons
ARTWORK BY Shoko Hachiya, Danica Molenaar, Hugo Fernando Fierro,
& Keith Milgaten




HABITAT HOUSE
SHOKO'S WORDPRESS
danicamolenaar@gmail.com

Artist Spotlight: MARK FLOOD

[groin/face with girl], 1986

By all appearances it seems Mark Flood strongly dislikes most things; consumer culture, celebrities, "real" art, the "art world", mass culture, appearing at his own art openings (he has hired stand-ins to appear at all his openings for the past 20 years). Flood started making anti-consumer culture art in the 80's as well as playing in an experimental punk band aptly named Culturcide.

Just Say Drugs, 1993

International Postcard, 2009

UPDATE YOUR RESUME / BURGER KING, 2009

Over time his work has evolved from bawdy collages of disfigured celebrities and smut imagery, to crudely painted signs, billboards and public property, to his most recent "lace paintings". These delicate renderings of lace shrouds are by far his most restrained work yet, and what Flood describes as his transition from "hateful paintings" to "beautiful paintings". Nevertheless, Mark Flood will be the first to tell you that even though at 54 he is finally able to support himself solely from his artwork, there is still a little "hate".

ENJOY BLOOD, c. 2002

Cottonwoods, 2010

Earthly Delights, 2009

Photos courtesy of Peres Projects and Zach Feuer Gallery.

Artist Spotlight: PAUL REMUND aka LIGHT VISION

Paul Remund is a superbly introspective guy with a unique sensibility about his art practice. I suppose he might be what's know as a "multi-media artist", being that his work spans music, sound, sculpture, painting, woodworking, and performance. He's been an acquaintance for many years and I'm so bummed we are only just getting to know each other because he is about to move away to New York! :) :`(

February 12th is the night of his opening at the Tin Can and days later he will be in his new home New York, so come out and bid farewell and check out the performance piece and sounds brought to you by Light Vision.



Magic Brotherhood: I'm so excited to be collaborating with you on this show! Tell us about what Light Vision will be doing that night.
Paul Remund: In the last couple mouths I have gone through a lot of life change. Between all of these changes including a relationship end, an artistic collaboration end, quitting my job, a birthday, and planning a move to New York, I began to realize that my independence as a person was nonexistent. This performance will express this very thing through performance and sound.



MB: You were involved in a project called Cathedral X. What inspired that project?
PR: Cathedral X was a project that began with Amanda Schoepflin and Jessica Jeffrey. I joined after its birth and brought an element of sound art and instrumentalism. The project inspirations and concepts were formed to express the human self in its purest most intimate state.

MB: What inspires you?
PR: Inspirations are most always found after exhausting an idea or sound concept... I find that my inspirations come from present situations and relationships and expressing introspective feelings.




Listen to Light Vision on SoundCloud.
Check out Paul Remund's tumblr and also at Cargo Collective.
Like Light Vision on facebook.

Oh yeah, and come to the Tin Can Tuesday February 12th for the opening night of TRANSAGES and give Mr. Remund a proper good bye hug.



 

Photos from "Notes: Jenna Bogorad"

Panoramic of the whole show. 

Jenna and I putting together the show.

 Jenna and her mama.

Thomas Giglio performing his beautiful original music. 

Friends and family.

DJ Asha, so cute!

The show was so much fun, thank you to everyone who came out and saw this amazing body of work!

If you're interested about any of these pieces, feel free to email inquiries to jennabogorad@gmail.com.

All the artwork seen here and many many more are available for iPhone case covers as well!

Also would like to thank Thomas Giglio for his beautiful performance, DJs Patrick Heaney and Asha Fantasy for making the night tons o' fun, Doods Foods for making the dankest burgers in San Diego, and of course the Tin Can!!

See you next month, February 12th.

xoxo, Danica

Artist Spotlight: JENNA BOGORAD

I sat down with the lovely and prolific Jenna Bogorad the other night for some wine and bread and pickles (!), and we chatted about her work and upcoming show at the Tin Can Ale House Tuesday, January 8th.

MAGIC BROTHERHOOD: Jenna, your show at the Tin Can features a collection of 60 drawings on Post-it notes. This is only half the entire collection!! How did you get into drawing on a small scale?
JENNA: Well, I went to art school in Boston and after school I got a little burnt out and focused on other things... It got to a point that I was focusing on so many other things that I just didn't have time for art and fell out of the loop completely. I moved back to San Diego and wanted to do something I loved, so I started doing something artistic everyday... the only way to get into [making art] again and do something for myself was doodling on Post-its, since I work a big girl desk job.

MB: So this is a work pasttime?
J: Yes, and it is the perfect outlet for doing art everyday. In fact, the one to two hours a day I spend doodling at work is how I justify getting paid to do art!

MB: That's great. So in a way, this rekindled your love for art again?
J: Yeah, definitely. I wanted to make 100 of them, and didn't want to do it for anyone but myself. It was a means to get back in the swing of things. But you know, pouring out any weird emotions I had onto paper and sharing it [via facebook and tumblr] I got a really good reaction from people. There was one drawing I did early on that was a rainbow and it said "fucker" underneath. I posted it and everyone who saw it thought it was funny and I thought, I'm not the only crazy person that finds really stupid shit funny! Even though I feel kind of isolated in the way I feel about things I feel like we all generally feel the same way.

There you have it, folks. Come check out 60 of these incredible little drawings Tuesday January 8th at the Tin Can Ale House, 9 pm.
Follow Jenna on instagram @jbogo or tumblr @nevergetcold

Photos from "Head Space"

Shoko Hachiya beside her work.

Glen and Shoko installing the show.

DJ Jordan = stoked.

Shoko's paintings.

Freakout Jam:

Shoko's art show was so much fun! Thank you to the Tin Can for putting on another wonderful Tuesday night art opening, thank you to our DJ Jordan Hammond, Glen for his awesome projection work, Tommy for his dank Doods Foods, Justin Rodriguez for believing in this night, all the folks who came out and played at the first Trippy Tuesday Freakout Jam, Ake for the flyer, all the folks that helped out with supplying equipment for the jam, and everyone who came out and showed love! See you next Trippy Tuesday, folks, January 8th.

Love,

Magic Brotherhood

Artist Spotlight: SHOKO HACHIYA

A very talented friend, Shoko Hachiya will be exhibiting her work next Tuesday, December 11th at the Tin Can Ale House. She will have her incredible paintings hanging on the wall and will be premiering a new film at 9:30 pm. Hope to see you there! Here's a little interview I had with Shoko recently, check it out!

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  ---Shoko, you work in a wide variety of mediums, what was the first form of media you experimented with?

  I bought several colors of india ink and a few acrylic paints when I started painting a few years ago.

  
  

  ---You have a show coming up December 11th at the Tin Can. Tell us about the body of work that will be on display there.

  In this show "Head Space," I will be showing a few different series of works that render "head space." These works are visualization of different ways to perceive and process the reality and certain feelings. I read a lot and I love how writers use words literally, metaphorically, realistically, surrealistically and abstractedly etc to construct their stories. In one of his books, Soseki Natsume used the color “red” a lot to describe the main character’s feeling in the end of the book. Kobo Abe repeatedly used “transparent” in the end of The Ark Sakura. Like how writers use visual descriptions to tell stories, I wanted to tell some sort of stories in the “head space” with visual art.
  I will also show an experimental short film at the opening.

  

  ---You are also affiliated with something called Eagle's Nest Productions. Can you tell us a little about that?

   Eagles Nest Productions is a video production company that Glen Romett and I started. I got a hold of a camera and we sort of spontaneously started documenting local events, making short films and music videos and stuff like that. What’s happening in San Diego’s creative community is very exciting and good quality, so one of the Eagles Nest’s aim is to document them well. We just finished a video for this local band JOY, their whole live set at Casbah, and we are very happy with it. The short film I will show at the opening is also Eagles Nest side of me. All the music in the film is by local San Diego musicians.

  
  

  ---What inspires you?

   Books and distinct worldviews and Dali (my cat).

  
  

  ---Who are some of your favorite artists?

   Francis Bacon, Jeremy Geddes.

  
  

  ---What can we look forward to seeing from you in the near future?

  Multimedia attack.