﻿PROPOSAL TO LA LGBT CENTER for "Edge@LALGBT"
What is Edge of the City?
public image. Each Edge of the City mural will be different in their content, technique and installation style.
• Artist are commissioned first to produce their mural as a small work on paper - some editioned at PhlatPhile. These works will travel as a portfolio to other cities, and be sold to raise money to support The Edge of the City. Viewers can explore ongoing project blogs to view the progress of each Edge of the City mural. Your comments are welcome.
PhlatPhile proposes that a relevant selection of Edge artists complete a series of murals for the exterior of the "annex" building located across the street from The Village at Ed Gould Plaza. PhlatPhile will provide the ongoing support and planning for the artists and their mural projects, in consultation with artists and activists affiliated with the LA LGBT Center.
Locate relevant artist participants. Edge already has recruited three very relevant artists projects for the exterior of the annex. In addition, PhPh and the LGBT Center will collaborate to locate two additional artists to participate in Edge@LALGBT. Finally, PhPh will locate one artist to lead a collaborative mural with young people from the LA LGBT Center (see Operations of Society, below). At least one project will address AIDS/HIV.
﻿Plan a community kick-off and press event. Since Edge projects begin as works on paper, PhlatPhile will produce an opening event to inaugurate Edge@LALGBT. This will include an exhibition of works on paper, site sketches of the proposed projects, and works of art for sale.
Organize mural installation. PhPh will manage on behalf of LA LGBT Center the installation of the mural projects around the annex. There will be two projects facing Santa Monica Blvd, two projects facing McCadden, and two projects facing the parking lot. Projects will be installed via a variety of methods in collaboration with the LA LGBT's facilities director. PhPh will also manage all necessary city permits, and registration with the Los Angeles Mural Conservancy.
Coordinate a closing demolition party. The artists that participate in Edge@LALGBT understand that their projects are temporary, and will be demolished at the end of the project. PhPh will collaborate with the LGBT Center to throw a "closing demolition party," that will serve as a community event, fundraiser, and final farewell to Edge@LALGBT. Portions of the demolished artworks will be sold for fundraising or preserved and reinstalled in a new location, to be determined.
PhlatPhile is a community art space in Los Angeles that supports meaningful projects that further cultural awareness and dialogue. PhPh works with contemporary artist interested in projects emphasizing social justice, community participation, and intercultural exchange. Proprietor David John Attyah is a contemporary artist, born and raised in Los Angeles, California. His work has been exhibited internationally, most notably at the Worcester Art Museum (Boston, MA) and at Museo de Arte Contemporani (Barcelona). and widely published (Ms. Magazine, The Progressive, Art/Text) . In 2003, Attyah published his first book of public artworks entitled A Brief History of Outrage, then in 2014 he published his second book of artworks on paper, entitled The Jugular. Attyah's expertise is work on paper, from the miniature and handmade to the gigantic and digitally engineered. Attyah graduated Princeton University, HarvardUniversity, and Tufts University, and is currently Professor of Studio Art at Glendale Community College in Los Angeles.
David John Attyah is a contemporary artist and social critic who thinks about how life changes as economies decline. When Empire Falls is digital project made from wheat pasted xerox copies design that degrade in bad weather. The projects points to Obama's effort to revitalize central cities via Promise Zones.
Project leader Daniel Vincent Caballero is a native to Los Angeles and considers his social and cultural position in the midst of gentrification in the neighborhood he grew up in. The work maps and disects the discrepancies of nostalgia and memory as it pertains to the institution of home and family.
Kelley West is a contemporary artist and social critic. Her project examines how the city is a complex substrate for humans and is identified by the changing face of it's inhabitants. Nothing about the city stays the same, except for it's ever-present asphalt, traffic, in-flux and out-flux of migration, brick and concrete walls, and the discarded remnants of it's people. The city has no choice but to revel in it's own complicated beauty.
Project leader Jeanny Sandoval is a Los Angeles-based painter originally from Mexico. Her hyper-real landscapes in color and monochrome reexamine how we see the horizon in Los Angeles.
Team Leader Nina Castro wants young people to know that they can make change now, immediately, by exercising their voice. Working in the Beverlywood neighborhood adjacent to PhlatPhile, this mural uses the structure of roads as a visual starting point, The map will be affixed to an open access wall, allowing teens after school to publicly share their thoughts, concerns, or interests. Collapsing Facebook and Geotagging into a physical picture, Castro wants young people to reimagine their social network.
Artist collaborative THINK AGAIN will install a modified version of their traveling mural exhibition entitled Actions Speak. Actions Speak addresses political silence around HIV/AIDS and the international ramifications of not speaking out. The mural projects involves an exterior projection at night that asks community members to act and speak.