To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, which actually is today, art students from Culver City High School’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts will be exhibiting their artwork on Saturday evening at the Eco-LogicalART Gallery.
They will be taking their “green” art public in a big way with the debut of EartH (Eco Art Helps), beginning at 7 o’clock.
Eco-LogicalART is in mid-city Los Angeles, 4829 Pico Blvd., just east of La Brea.
The premiere includes an exhibit of art on recycled billboard. Working off a prompt of “The World I See/The World I Hope Could Be,” the exhibit is in collaboration with AVPA and other local high schools and inner-city arts organizations.
Mounted in a grid on the exterior of the Eco-LogicalART gallery, the 80-canvas installation will be revealed with its own curtain drop at 7:30.
Later in the evening, members of the Los Angeles-based youth Street Poets organization will present a spoken-word performance riffing off the “World I See/Hope Could Be” theme. Once unveiled, the eco-themed work will be seen 35,000 times daily, and a million times by month’s end.
In addition to EartH, ReVisions/10 will feature an original 14 x 48-foot art piece by artist Leeann Goya, installed on a billboard directly over Eco-LA. In addition to the billboard art, a free, open to the public interior gallery show includes over 100 cutting-edge works by two dozen renowned local artists working with recycled and up-cycled media. The event also features “green” accessories for sale in the Eco-LA “Recovery Room,” eco-art demos, music — and libations. Plus the ever-hip Kogi taco truck will be on-site from 6-9 o’clock serving up their street high cuisine.
AVPA art student Daniel Foster is enthused about his eco-art. “I have enjoyed expressing my personal view of the world around me through a visual medium that could appeal to a broad audience,” he said. “Painting on an eco-canvas was a unique experience, which inspired me to think more about the environment and the earth as a whole.”
Kristine Hatanaka, AVPA’s co-Executive Director and Creative Director of Visual Art, selected AVPA art students who would create strong and expressive paintings.
“I am always excited to see my students working with people in the community” she said. “This process has been especially gratifying because we’re doing something important for the awareness and conservation of our planet.”
With so many elements, ReVisions/10 and EartH are a good fit for Eco-LA founder Peter Schulberg, who is drawn to guerilla style hybrid performance/art happenings.
Since 2007, his billboard art exhibits have been seen over 40 million times across the skylines of Los Angeles and the Bay Area. To learn more about Eco-LA, see www.eco-logicalart.org or email eco-la@sbcglobal.net
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