Experience "Art in Motion" 2002

Art Festival:
"Art in Motion" 2002, Eclectic Art Festival and Competition
*Artists compete for cash prizes in categories including Best Art Car,
Art That Really Moves, etc. Art works have wheels, cars or movement in
common.
*Festival includes a small scale car show featuring classic Woodie Cars,
the electric car from the Long Beach Bike Station as well as Artist
embellished art-cars. Attendees can help create an Art-Car themselves.
* Live entertainment includes solo acoustic blues/rock by Rocco Deluca
and percussive audience participatory performance art by
GLANKthePRODUCT.
*Watch Michael Gullberg paint a mural while enjoying the entertainment
or have your charicature drawn by Diana Dosh.
Date: Saturday, June 8th, 2002
Time: 2pm - 6pm (programs available at EVA Gallery,
433 E. 1st St.)
Location: Parking Lot at the corner of 1st and Elm
East Village Arts District
Downtown Long Beach
Cost: FREE

The East Village Arts District, Inc., with support from the Downtown
Long Beach Associates present
"Art in Motion" 2002.

Pasadena has the "Doo-Dah Parade"...Long Beach has "Art in Motion"!
This eclectic art event will prove to be unlike anything you have seen
before. An ordinary parking lot at the corner of 1st and Elm in
Downtown Long Beach's East Village Arts District is transformed into a
place where almost anything goes! You grab a hot-dog and check out some
classic Woodie Cars. Suddenly an ambulance pulls up, and out jumps
GLANKthePRODUCT, a crew of serious musicians, verbalists and
movementicians who penetrate the audience and engage them in the playing
of bizarre found object instruments. Meanwhile, Los Angeles artist
Michael Gullberg paints a mural before your very eyes using long
delicate brush strokes and beautiful vibrant color.

But wait, there's more! Tired of driving that gas guzzling car? Check
out the Long Beach Bike Station's electric car which will be on
display. Then stroll on over to see some Art-Cars created by local
artists who are competing for prizes. If looking is not enough, there
will be a car on hand for you yourself to add some artistic
embellishments to! If you get tired after all that fun, take a seat and
let artist Diana Dosh create a charicature of your face.
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The Fun Continues With the 2nd Saturday ArtWalk

2nd Saturday ArtWalk featuring:
Art Gallery Openings, Live Entertainment, Tribal Fire Dance and more!
Date: Saturday, June 8th, 2002
Time: 6pm - 10pm (programs/maps available at EVA
Gallery, 433 E. 1st St.)
Location: East Village Arts District
Downtown Long Beach
Cost: FREE

O.K., so you haven't had enough? Stay for the monthly 2nd Saturday
ArtWalk and discover some new art exhibits in the East Village Art
Galleries, Restaurants and Shops. Included will be sculpture,
paintings, photography, kinetic art and video. In particular, check out
the exhibit at the EVA Gallery which features art related to cars,
wheels or movement. Then feast your eyes on Liezel Ruben's Tribal Fire
Dance and discover more live entertainment throughout the East Village!

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About the Artists

-Rocco Deluca-

With raw energy and primitive roots, Rocco DeLuca creates a new
definition of music. Rocco was only half-grown when he learned to travel
and play with the best, including his father who was a touring guitarist
with Bo Diddly. Now living in Long Beach, Rocco plays local clubs as
well as opening for national acts, including performances on stage with
Johnny Cash and the late, great John Lee Hooker. With aggressive rhythms
and lyric sincere, an original sound is born, not confined to tradition,
rather on the edge of what will be.

-GLANKthePRODUCT-
industrial-percussive-alchemy
paul h. rudolph, composer, instrument builder
General Overview

GLANKthePRODUCT is a percussion performance art piece enhanced by
multi-media elements. Inspired by industrial sounds, found objects,
commercial absurdities and minimalist percussion, GLANK is conceived,
written and directed by composer/instrument builder Paul H. Rudolph.

25 Musicians, verbalists, and movementicians perform anony-mously in
clean-room suits highlighted by mathematical graphics.

GLANK has no main stage, but rather separate stations that surround the
audience. From these stations music, spoken word, pre-recorded sounds,
and video elements will emanate. Video elements include film, images,
projected lyrics and writings, and live video of the audience and
performers.

GLANK engages the audience physically; through the playing of
instruments, hands-on sound manipulation, movement, and wardrobe
alteration. The audience is seated at table-like drums scattered
throughout the space, so as to allow viewing/listening of the elements
from many angles.

The PRODUCT is built from beginning to end; instruments, stations and
wardrobe included, until all 25 performers and 80-100 audience members
are wearing some element of the clean-room attire.

GLANK brings performance art together with alchemistic percussion and
audience participation for a truly unique sonic and visual experience.

-Michael Gullberg-

Los Angeles artist Michael Gullberg invites us to wander in his rich,
organic terrain.
The landscape, one of art's most traditional subjects, has long been
dominated by "sublime and ominous icons of nature," according to
ARTnews. But a new generation of painters "inspired by nature,
spirituality, and human folly" is transforming standard mountain and
ocean scenes to create something totally new.
Without intending to, Michael Gullberg has joined this contingent of
artists who challenge traditional landscape formats. Using long,
delicate brush strokes and beautiful, vibrant color, Gullberg departs
from classic landscape painting and takes us into his own world. In his
"inner landscapes," leaf, leg, sky, and torso blend together in a
sensual rhythm reminiscent of Georgia O'Keefe. Oranges, blues, and
greens drench his canvases with lush intensity.

"I want people to find a new place to go every time they look at my
paintings," says Gullberg. "I want them to see something they didn't see
before - both in my work, and in themselves."

A self-taught painter, Gullberg originally wanted to be a writer. The
process of writing, rewriting, and rewriting again was unsatisfying,
however, and one day he picked up a paint brush. The pencil and paper
have long since languished; the paint brush continues to flourish.

The East Village Arts District, Inc. is a non-profit public benefit
corporation, dedicated to community development through arts programs
and education. Their mission is to address the concerns and visions of
the East Village
Arts District, implement actions to improve the quality of life for
community residents and businesses, while creating opportunities for
artists of all disciplines to flourish.