Exhibition Dates: June 6th – June 28th, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7th, 6-9pm
Sound Performance: Thursday, June 12th, 7pm

610 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90014 (map)

Winstead Adams Projects is pleased to present The Stage, a World, a group exhibition of Los Angeles area artists that demonstrates the dynamism and quality that makes Los Angeles and Southern California a major center of artistic activity.

The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Phantom Galleries LA in an inactive construction site in the Pacific Electric Lofts at the corner of Main and 6th Streets in Downtown Los Angeles. The vastness of the architecture of the raw construction site, and the work of the artists within site, poses a theatrical confrontation between viewer and artwork. Participating in the show are:

• Nicole Bianchet – installation
• Ephraim Puusemp – sculpture
• Kyle Riedel – photography
• Julia Sherman – video
• Desiree DeVirgilio – video
• Helga Fassonaki – sculpture/sound

Sound Performance: Thursday, June 12th, Downtown Art Walk

• Helga Fassonaki
• Nicole Bianchet
• Noah Thomas

Curator: James Adams

Gallery Hours:

• Friday-Saturday, June 6-7, 12-9pm and Sunday, June 8, 12-8pm as part of the Downtown Open House 2008
• Thursday, June 12, 12-9pm for the Downtown Art Walk
• or by appointment.

View the press release.

Exhibition Dates: June 6th – June 28th, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7th, 6-9pm

436 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (map)

Winstead Adams Projects presents FIRST | LAST, a group show of Los Angeles area artists working in a variety of media, including installation, sculpture, video, drawing and painting. This exhibition presents work that demonstrates the dynamism and quality makes Los Angeles and Southern California a major center of artistic activity.

• Matthew Bryant – Drawing and Painting
• Jessica Curtaz – Drawing
• Brian W. Evans – Electronics/Installation
• McLean Fahnestock – Sculpture
• C. Finley – Installation/Drawing and Painting
• Jeff Foye – Video
• Jocelyn Foye – Sculpture/Performance
• Adam Mars – Painting
• Kyle Riedel – Photography
• Noah Thomas – Sculpture/Sound
• John Weston – Painting

Curator: James Adams

This is the first and last exhibition that Winstead Adams Projects will present at 436 S. Main. Following the close of the exhibit, the space will be converted into Raw Materials, an art and architectural supplies store in the heart of Gallery Row in downtown Los Angeles.

Gallery Hours:

• Friday-Saturday, June 6-7, 12-9pm and Sunday, June 8, 12-8pm as part of the Downtown Open House 2008
• Thursday, June 12, 12-9pm for the Downtown Art Walk
• or by appointment.

View the press release.

Exhibition Date: June 6th – June 28th, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7th, 6-9 pm

601 S. Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA 90014 (map)

A Deeper Shade, by Los Angeles-based artist James Adams, moves to Gallery Row in downtown Los Angeles. The exhibition, which was most recently at 301 Pine in downtown Long Beach, will be housed in a retail storefront in the Pacific Electric Lofts at the intersection of Los Angeles Street and 6th Street.

In A Deeper Shade, Adams explores altered states of consciousness and perception, both as sensual phenomena and as the philosophical longing for meaning and expression. Adams uses elements from the languages of photography, film and special effects to create work ranging from visually overwhelming, wall-size digital prints to intimate, meditative video installations.

James Adams lives and works in downtown Los Angeles. He received his MFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2008. He also holds a degree in biochemistry from the University of Iowa with postgraduate studies in molecular biology at UCLA. Adams’s work spans across media and disciplines from video and sound to sculpture, printmaking, painting and installation. His work has been exhibited throughout Southern California and New York, and his single channel videos have screened at the Experimental Edit International Experimental Video Festival in Auckland, New Zealand. His interests include the phenomenology of visual and sensual experience and the social, political, aesthetic and personal ramifications of altered states of consciousness and perception. He is the former editor of StudioTalk, the CSULB Art Department’s online magazine. He was a co-curator of the Greater LA MFA (GLAMFA) exhibition in 2007 and is the curator for Winstead Adams Projects.

Detail from untitled #8

untitled #2, installed as part of A Deeper Shade in Long Beach.

View the press release.