Posts Tagged ‘Phantom Galleries’

A good lot of us cannot wait to say good-bye to 2009 and the ’00s as a whole.  Sayonara, the aughts.  And hellooo, teens!

But there are a couple of us having a hard time letting go of the holiday spirit.  And if you happen to be one of them, keep your iTunes radio on the Christmas carol channel and bake those cookies just a couple more days.

If ice-skating is your thing, swing by Pershing Square for some outdoors ice with your sweetest.  Hot cocoa is not included, but the fee and skate rentals are  only $8. [Info]  Need a few drinks to ease the pain when the ice breaks your fall one too many times?  The W Los Angeles in Westwood offers a skating rink of its own for those who need a little liquid courage…erm, holiday cheer to accompany them. [Info]

Do you need lots of bright lights to stay warm and cheery?  The DWP’s Holiday Light Festival is going strong…until tomorrow night.  You don’t even need to leave the safety of your own car while driving down a mile-long stretch of ligh decorations gracing Griffith Park. [Info]  If you tend to trot the unbeaten path, head down to the LBC to see Phantom Galleries’ version of a holiday light show.  Aptly titled Let There Be Light!, twenty-eight exhibitions in 25 storefronts will be shining with various light-based works ranging from the subtle, abstract shapes to the bold and fluorescent. [Info]

You don’t have to say good-bye just yet to the holiday season, but since CVS has its Christmas display right next to Valentine treats, the countdown is on.

Image: Fiat Lux IV – Susan Chorpenning; photo by Dan Scott

Phantom Galleries LA is teaming up with vacant storefront windows everywhere to bring you a beautiful intersection of high caliber art and commerce (or the lack of commerce for those stores it inhabits). It creates makeshift galleries for a limited time all around Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Long Beach in empty stores. Phantom Galleries rounds up leading cultural organizations, galleries, curators, and artists from all across this Angeleno land to give a public arts equivalent to the pop up stores that retail outlets have been using for years.

Closing in one week, the true essence of Phantom Galleries lies in artists Katarzyna Balug and Christopher Reynolds’ show Market.  This exhibition plays off the shopping experience of this gallery/retail space with works that focus on consumer culture and the marketing/design of food and its packaging.  Complete with a shopping cart in the front, Market does not necessarily make you hungry for the electric colored box of BBQ boneless rib-shaped pork patties depicted (an at home version of a McRib?), but it indeed makes you yearn for more.

The show will be open until June 30th at 340 E. 3rd Street in Long Beach, CA 90802.  Click here to schedule an appointment as gallery hours are subject to change.