18th Street Arts Center presents Amir H. Fallah’s Perfect Strangers Art & Performance Festival at Bergamot Station
05 March 2015 - 7:02AM
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18th Street Arts Center proudly presents Artist Lab Resident
Amir H. Fallah’s Perfect Strangers Art & Performance Festival
at Bergamot Station on Saturday, March 21, 2015 from 1-4pm.
This will be an afternoon-long series of art and music
interventions. It features artists and musicians from throughout
Los Angeles. Fallah often works with a diverse mix of local
communities and groups. He collects materials from their private
and public lives, transforming them into artworks. At Bergamot
Station he has invited a cohort of LA-based artists including
Carmen Argote, Abdul Mazid, Christopher Pate, Emily Silver, and
Tanya Batura, with a musical lineup featuring Earth Like Planets,
After the After, iKing!, and Caspar Sonnet.
Amir H. Fallah’s Perfect Strangers Art & Performance
Festival is the second of a series of artist interventions aimed at
calling attention to the community of cultural organizations and
commercial galleries at Bergamot Station. With the impending
arrival of the EXPO light rail line in Santa Monica and the
construction of the Bergamot Station train platform, the City of
Santa Monica and Bergamot Station Gallery & Cultural
Association (BSGCA) find creative ways to make the public aware
that the Arts Center is still open for business and as vibrant as
ever. Perfect Strangers Art & Performance Festival and other
forthcoming projects are made possible by an Our Town grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts awarded to City of Santa
Monica. To implement the grant, the City works in partnership with
Bergamot Ltd., 18th Street Arts Center, the Santa Monica Museum of
Art, and BSGCA.
Amir H. Fallah was born in Tehran, Iran in 1979. He received his
MFA from UCLA in 2005. The solo exhibition, Amir H. Fallah: Perfect
Strangers is on view in 18th Street Arts Center’s gallery through
March 27, 2015. Fallah’s solo exhibition of new work, From the
Primitive to the Present, at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles
is on view from February 28 through April 11, 2015.
www.18thstreet.org@18thStreetArts
18th Street Arts CenterNicole Rademacher, Director of
Communications & Outreach310-453-3711
x104nrademacher@18thstreet.org