Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, April 7, 2018

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Mountain Views-News Saturday, April 7, 2018 

SPARC Gallery Exhibition 
by Artist Carolie Parker

Doggy Day, with Cats Too

Huntington Selects 
Vincent Price Art Museum 
for Art Collaboration

 The South Pasadena 
Recreation Division is 
hosting their 10th annual 
Doggy Day with Cats 
Too event at the beautiful 
Garfield Park! Dog and 
cat owners are invited to 
this FREE event to meet 
and learn about the various 
animal resources available in 
and around our community. 
The event will feature a 
variety of vendors and 
adoption agencies, as well 
as food and fun events for 
our furry friends and their 
families.

April 21 from 10:00 a.m. to 
1:00 p.m.

Garfield Park

625 1/2 Stratford Avenue

For more information, 
please contact the Recreation 
Office - 626-403-7380

 
The South Pasadena Arts 
Council (SPARC) is pleased to 
present the exhibition Frame 
Story—Carolie Parker at 
SPARC Gallery, located at the 
South Pasadena Chamber of 
Commerce on Mission Street. 
MICRONAUT, an independent 
curatorial design firm in South 
Pasadena, has organized the 
exhibition.

 Frame Story is named for a 
traditional literary device in 
which a group of related stories 
are told within the context 
of a larger story. This format 
of a “story within a story, 
first popularized in the late 
Middle Ages, can be seen in 
such collections as Boccaccio’s 
Decameron, Chaucer’s 
Canterbury Tales and the 
ancient folktales compiled in 
The 1001 Nights.

 The formal elements in 
Carolie Parker’s works draw a 
on similar regulating principle: 
the repetition of geometric 
shapes within a layered format 
where motifs reoccur in slight 
variations through the series. 
An exploration of translucent 
color reflects the artist’s interest 
in the Muslim tile designs 
of Andalucia, which in turn 
bear many similarities to the 
reoccurring motifs in works 
like The 1001 Nights. “To make 
the paintings,” Parker notes, “I 
work in layers, starting with 
collaged or recycled paper 
squeegeed with color. The 
second layer is a watercolor 
shape, which is poured onto the 
surface. Each piece is finished 
with a patterned overlay, 
printed either in silkscreen or 
with a template.”

 The actual shapes of color 
in Frame Story are suggested 
by the commercial and 
domestic architecture of 
Los Angeles, which comes 
in often predictable box-
like forms overlaid with a 
range of decorative touches; 
Mexican, Tuscan, Norman 
or Tudor. Parker transform 
this vernacular into images of 
great formal elegance in the 
same way that stories like The 
1001 Nights draw on inherited 
folk traditions, weaving them 
into luminous tales of magical 
change and adventure.

 Carolie Parker is a visual artist 
and writer with a background 
in foreign languages and 
world literature. She was 
recently a MacDowell Fellow 
(visual art and poetry) and a 
Visiting Artist at the American 
Academy in Rome. Her poetry 
has appeared in Trickhouse, 
The Denver Quarterly, NOW 
culture, River Styx Magazine 
and Poor Claudia. She has 
exhibited visual work at PØST, 
The Armory Center for the 
Arts, BLAM and Edward Cella 
Art and Architecture (all Los 
Angeles). Mirage Industry, a 
book-length collection of her 
poetry, is just out from What 
Books Press in Los Angeles. She 
teaches Humanities and Art 
History at LA Trade Tech (LA 
Community College District).

 The SPARC Gallery is located 
at 1121 Mission Street, SPARC 
Gallery Hours are Tuesday 
– Friday 10am - 5 pm or by 
appointment. Please call the 
Chamber office before arriving. 
626-441-2339.

 Artist Reception –
Saturday: April 21, 6:00-
8:00 pm


Local Bands SoPas Jam

Left: Carolina Caycedo Right: Mario Ybarra Jr. at The Huntington 
Library. Photo: Kate Lain.

 The Youth Commission is excited to showcase local bands 
to perform at the 2nd annual teen concert. The Minorities, 
Bad Posture, and Chilli Pepper Bandicoots will perform at 
Garfield Park on Friday, April 27, 2018 from 5:00 p.m. to 
7:00 p.m. Refreshments will be available for purchase and 
admission is free.

April 27, 2018

Garfield Park

625 1/2 Stratford Avenue

For more information, please contact the Recreation Office 
- 626-403-7380

 

 The Huntington Library, Art 
Collections, and Botanical 
Gardens announced ast 
week that it will partner with 
East Los Angeles College’s 
Vincent Price Art Museum 
(VPAM) for the third year 
of The Huntington’s /five 
initiative, inviting noted 
Los Angeles artists Carolina 
Caycedo and Mario Ybarra 
Jr. to create new work 
inspired by The Huntington’s 
collections around the theme 
of Identity. The project will 
culminate in an exhibition 
at The Huntington on view 
Nov. 10, 2018–Feb. 25.

 “We are incredibly 
honored to partner with the 
Vincent Price Art Museum, 
a vibrant force in the Los 
Angeles arts landscape,” 
said Chad Alligood, The 
Huntington’s Virginia 
Steele Scott Chief Curator 
of American Art. “The 
Huntington’s renowned 
collections on the history 
of California and the West 
already make it a center for 
research in the humanities. 
This collaboration will 
further activate our objects 
for a wider audience through 
the lens of two artists who 
address some of the most 
pressing issues of today 
through their work. Further, 
VPAM’s affiliation with 
East Los Angeles College 
enables us to connect the 
student population with our 
collections. Collaboration is 
the future of arts institutions, 
and we are embracing that 
notion wholeheartedly.”

 Founded in 1957 with a 
gift of 90 art objects from 
the actor Vincent Price, 
VPAM now houses seven 
galleries, art storage, and a 
multimedia lecture hall as 
part of the 160,000-square-
foot Performing and Fine 
Arts Center at ELAC.

 “The Vincent Price Art 
Museum is committed to 
presenting groundbreaking 
exhibitions and connecting 
with the community in 
creative ways to make a 
maximum impact,” said Pilar 
Tompkins Rivas, VPAM 
director. “This partnership 
does just that, expanding 
our fall programming in 
terms of concept, theme, 
and reach. I couldn’t be 
more excited, and look 
forward to fleshing out 
the Huntington exhibition 
concept with Chad Alligood 
and the formidable Carolina 
Caycedo and Mario Ybarra 
Jr. I expect great things.”

 For the exhibition, Caycedo 
and Ybarra plan to focus on 
the ways in which labor and 
capital in the late 19th and 
early 20th centuries indelibly 
shaped Los Angeles. The 
artists will conduct research 
in The Huntington’s vast 
collections to investigate 
the formation of Angeleno 
identity since the era of the 
city’s founders (pobladores). 
The concurrent, multi-
artist VPAM exhibition, 
Regeneración: Three 
Generations of 
Revolutionary Ideology 
(Sept. 29, 2018–Feb. 16, 
2019) will examine the 
transnational exchange of 
revolutionary and activist 
ideas across generations 
and between the U.S. and 
Mexico. It also will build, 
in part, on research in early 
20th-century labor issues in 
Los Angeles.

About /five

 The Huntington’s /
five initiative pairs the 
institution with five different 
cultural organizations 
over five years, inviting 
contemporary artists to 
respond to a theme drawn 
from The Huntington’s 
deep and diverse library, art, 
and botanical collections. 
The results are intended to 
create engaging, thoughtful, 
provocative, and inspiring 
experiences for Huntington 
audiences.

 In its first year (2016), the 
institution collaborated with 
NASA/JPL to present an 
installation of the outdoor 
sound sculpture “Orbit 
Pavilion” (on view through 
Sept. 3, 2018), giving a 
nod to The Huntington’s 
collections in the history 
of aerospace, astronomy, 
and earth sciences. In the 
second year of the initiative, 
The Huntington teamed up 
with the Women’s Center 
for Creative Work in Los 
Angeles to explore the 
theme of collecting and 
collections, culminating in 
the exhibition, Collection/s: 
WCCW/five at The 
Huntington (Nov. 18, 2017–
Feb. 12, 2018). This year’s 
initiative is focused on the 
theme of “identity.”

Movies in the Park

 The South Pasadena Community Services Department is 
screening two movies at Garfield Park this summer:

June 22 - Despicable Me 3

August 10 - Coco

Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets and low seat 
lawn chairs.

 Movies begin 8:15pm (dusk)

Garfield Park

625 1/2 Stratford Avenue

For more information, please contact the Recreation Office 
- 626-403-7380

Student Art Exhibit

 Be part of our 
#BeKindToAnimals Student 
Art Exhibit! Kids 14 and 
under can submit art for 
the exhibit on May 7. Go 
southpasadenaca.gov for a 
flyer with instructions. 

 All artwork must be 
delivered to Children 
Services, South Pasadena 
Public Library 1100 Oxley 
Street, South Pasadena. 
Artwork must arrive at the 
library by today.

 Co-sponsored by the 
Animal Commission of the 
City of South Pasadena – 
Local Government.


Schedule a 
Bulky Item 
Pick-up

 A free bulky item pick-up day 
in San Marino is scheduled 
for Saturday, July 14. Please 
call the City’s trash hauler, 
Athens Services, to make an 
appointment if you have bulky 
items you would like removed. 
Athens customer service 
number is (888) 336-6100.

 “Bulky” items are those that 
are oversized or overweight, 
such as stoves, refrigerators 
(Freon free), water heaters, 
washing machines, furniture, 
sofas, mattresses, box springs 
and large rugs.

 For more information visit: 
ci.san-marino.ca.us. 

Athens 
Recycling 
Facility Tour

 The City of San Marino, 
in cooperation with Athens 
Services, Inc., is offering an 
opportunity for residents 
to visit the recycling 
facility that manages all 
trash collected in the City. 
The trip will take place on 
Saturday, April 21st from 10 
a.m. to noon. Registration 
and transportation will 
be provided through the 
Recreation Department. The 
bus will depart promptly 
at 9:30 a.m. from the Lacy 
Park Scout House located 
on the west side of the park. 
Arrive by 9:15 am to ensure 
you you don’t miss the bus 
departure. Please call (626) 
403-2200 for additional 
details/reservations.

 Space is limited. If you 
have additional questions 
regarding the tour or other 
related trash/recycling 
items you can call Ron 
Serven, Environmental 
Services Manager at (626) 
300-0789 or rserven@
cityofsanmarino.org.

Submit Your Nomination 
for Veteran of the Year

 Our military men and women have always been a great 
source of our country’s strength, our backbone, and our 
honor. This summer, at a special recognition ceremony 
being held in Sacramento, Assemblymember Chris Holden 
will be joining other legislators in honoring our veterans.

 Please send me your nominations for who you believe 
would be the best candidate to be our District’s 2018 Veteran 
of the Year.

 This is a call to recognize a veteran whose community 
service and work is making a positive impact. A qualified 
veteran must reside or perform community service within 
the 41st Assembly District, which includes: Altadena, 
Claremont, La Verne, Monrovia, Pasadena, San Dimas, 
Sierra Madre, South Pasadena, Upland, and portions of Mt. 
Baldy and Rancho Cucamonga.

 Complete and submit the nomination form at a41.asmdc.
org. The nomination deadline is Tuesday.

 For more information, contact Matthew Lyons at Matthew.
Lyons@asm.ca.gov or call (909) 624-7876.


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