Saturday, June 12th Sezio will celebrate 2 Years of Sezio.org by throwing a block party on Kettner & Laurel. Subtext Gallery will play host to the first part of the evening, an art show including 20 artists previously featured on Sezio.org. We are thrilled to include artists from New York, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and a handful from San Diego. Each artist was mailed a 12x12 birch panel (pictured below), hand-crafted by Wes Bruce under the tutelage of Mike Maxwell. We've also arranged for Little Deadman to play a set in the Subtext courtyard, and for beverages to be provided by Evolve Wines, Honest Tea and Karl Strauss Brewing Company.
The art opening will run from 6pm - 10pm, with the evening transitioning over to The Casbah around 9:30. The musical lineup features Writer, Cuckoo Chaos, Trouble in the Wind and Knorphus in the Atari Lounge. Admission to Subtext is free and all ages, The Casbah will be a $10 cover and 21+. Pre-purchase your tickets here.
Posted By zack | 6/7/2010 | 3:57 PM | Add a Comment
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego announces the artists participating in the upcoming exhibition, Here Not There: San Diego Art Now, which focuses on the range of individual and collective contemporary art practices in the San Diego region. Opening June 6th, the exhibition will be on view through September 19, 2010 at MCASD La Jolla.
Here Not There will offer a stimulating and provocative view into the variety, strength, and vitality of work being produced by contemporary artists living in San Diego County. The exhibition will focus on emerging artists—serving as the first museum exhibition for many—as well as under-recognized mid-career artists, and will include artworks in a wide range of genres, from painting, drawing, and sculpture to installation, video, new media, conceptual and performance art.
San Diego’s visual arts have developed a critical mass of local talent, including Dave Adey, Kelsey Brookes, and Andy Ralph, remarkable for their commitment to creating practices—studio-based, public, or collaborative—that explore unorthodox, often solitary, forms of production while experimenting with innovative structures for the dissemination of art. Here Not There does not aim to reach definitive conclusions about the nature of artistic production in San Diego County, nor draw a single narrative illustrating notions of identity or regionalism. The main objective is to chart as straight a trajectory as possible: from the artist’s studio to the exhibition space. From this investigation, the exhibition emerges as a site of multiple overlapping thematic lines, encircling around disparate communities with their own gravitational centers, each defining a “here” that nearly touches another.
In the past 25 years, MCASD has organized six survey exhibitions of San Diego artists—notable among them are A San Diego Exhibition: Forty-Two Emerging Artists (1985), which surveyed visual arts, as well as theater, performance art, and fashion design; and Off Broadway: New Art from Downtown San Diego (2000). San Diego artists have participated in numerous group exhibitions organized by MCASD, including the international group exhibitions Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection (2008); Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling (2007); and From Baja to Vancouver (2004).
Come out Saturday, June 5th for the opening reception. Free to MCASD Members, and $10 for guests.
Posted By jordan | 6/1/2010 | 7:52 PM | Add a Comment
Josh, from The Silent Comedy, has been hyping this show to me for a good 6 to 8 months, and I'm stoked to see it finally come together. An all local, mega-lineup has assembled to take over The Birch North Park Theater on Friday, including Dirty Sweet, Transfer, The Silent Comedy and Apes Of Wrath. I'd venture to guess that all four of these bands have an assortment of tricks up their sleeves for this special one-time performance. There are a handful of tickets left, but they're going fast. Grab yours here, doors open at 7pm.
Posted By zack | 5/27/2010 | 2:08 PM | Add a Comment
If you missed our membership launch party a couple weeks back at Startlite, your wait and anticipation is finally over. No longer can your room mate dangle his Sezio Membership Card in front of your face, reaping all of the discounts at Casbah and Starlite in the meantime. The Sezio Membership Kit is now available online, and for you to purchase now!
If this is your first time hearing about our membership program, I'll provide a quick recap. Our membership program is far beyond a t-shirt, decal and $40 tax deduction, its an invitation into Sezio's family, a call for you to take part in your creative scene beyond just attending events. Your reward for this challenge is a freshly minted Sezio Membership Card, fit with discounts to an expanding list of your favorite spots in San Diego.
The Casbah - $1 off cover charge.
Starlite - 10% off your entire bill (Sunday through Thursday).
Riviera Supper Club - 10% off your entire bill.
The Linkery - 10% off your entire bill.
El Take It Easy - 50% off your first round of drinks.
Subtext Gallery - 10% off books and art prints.
Also included in the kit is our Membership Crest in the form of a car decal, and a t-shirt designed by Justin Skeesuck.
The shirts are all printed on American Apparel blanks, Sea Foam in their standard 2001 unisex tee and Coral in their ladies cut 2102.
Memberships cost $40, and are fully tax deductible. If you still have questions, feel free to email us at info@sezio.org.
Click here to purchase your Sezio Membership Kit.
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Posted By zack | 5/26/2010 | 7:15 AM | Add a Comment