sweet love

I know M already talked about Jeff Lemire on her blog - but I think he needs to be mentioned again. If you aren't reading Sweet Tooth go out and get the first two issues. {Issue #3 comes out next week on the 4th.} While you are at the comic store get Essex County. You will not be sorry. He's a little bit of magic.

Krank Press at Theodore Payne

Finally an excuse to post about my friend Elinor's amazing letterpress work. Krank Press will be at Theodore Payne's Fall Festival this Saturday October 17.

You can pick up some awesome treats like her produce calendar:

or her odd birds prints:

if you can't make the sale you can always get her wares on etsy.

This Thursday... Barn Salon #2

If you weren't on the distribution list for the last one, here's your chance to get in on the good times...

This Thursday in Silverlake, Barn Salon is hosting their second event. The upcoming installment promises an evening of short films curated by Cole Akers, plentiful amounts of beer and better people watching than a Wes Anderson Fan Club meeting.

This coming Thursday, October 15th at 7:30pm

The Barn
748 Maltman Ave
LA, CA 90026

event today - Sejima@UCLA

Kazuyo Sejima, co-principal of Tokyo-based SANAA, designer of the Glass Pavilion at the Toldeo Museum of Art, the New Museum in New York, and this year's Serpentine Pavilion, will be lecturing at UCLA tonight. She rarely lectures and this is a great opportunity to see their work. Live.

image via http://www.bustler.net/

Art/Space: Diana Fayt's Studio

Sunday, October 4th at 3pm.
Diana Fayt's Studio
San Francisco, California

a BIG disclaimer

Already on blog post #3 we start to wonder if a blog was a bad idea?

We want to take this time to say a few things before this blog really gets going.

The people who write this or contribute to it are not "professionals".

They are a bunch of artists that M. suckered. A small group of people:

who think to much

speak to fast

drink to much coffee

on occasion drink to much at Happy Hour

make doodles,prints, paintings

think short films are the way of the future

are heavily influenced by:

music,books, films,people, art,pianos,

accordions,tap dancing,bad jokes

puppets

gadgets,computers

designs, bikes, trains, walking

laughing,food, friends,family

life and are

way to opinionated.

Forgive us.

There will be times when the writings on this blog will be a chaotic mess

with bad grammar and spelling. Other times it will be like Salinger and Dylan formed a love child and that child is writing you a love poem. Most times though it will be a few lines and links of things we like and thing you will too.

xox

We Want You!

The 12th annual SilverLake Art Crawl will take place Nov 7-8th.

LBgallery will once again be participating.

We are looking for people who would like to participate in our

Sunday Reading Event. So if you have a new book,short story,funny jokes,

whatever,let us know. Email us with your thoughts,proposal or ideas.

info@littlebirdgallery.com

Hello October

We’re back! In case you hadn’t noticed we’ve been on an extended summer break. Tough economic times had us making hard decisions about the longevity of the gallery and our place in the LA art scene. After some restructuring and re-focusing we found our way back to the original goal for starting LBgallery. To promote emerging and under recognized artists. We had always wanted to have more of a creative collaboration with our artists rather then just the run of the mill exhibition every month. It became more clear to us in these tough times that this is where we needed to focus our attention. Hence the start of LittleBird Limiteds. A series of art related projects. We’ve been hard at work gathering talented artists to take part in these projects and we thank all of them for their willingness to support us and our ideas.Now we ask that you support them! Have a look at our LB Limiteds page to read all about the exciting new projects going on and coming up.

Don’t worry, we haven’t abondoned our exhibitions all together. Instead of having one a month,we’ve decided to cut our show schedule to five a year and curate these shows offsite. This allows us greater opportunities to work closer with artists. As well as team up with other galleries and foundations to produce shows that are more thought provoking and relevant to the future of art. Our first show of Fall will be Los Angeles Photographer, Dan Monick.This is Dan’s second solo show with us.We look forward to exhibiting and working with one him.

We’ve revamped our website to reflect the new direction we are growing. A new inventory page where you can inquire about available works and prints.The LB Limiteds page will give you all the details about our new projects. Each month we will be featuring a new artist in our Print Lab and our new Quarterly Art Subscription will soon be available to purchase.This is a limited subscription and sales out fast. Our Bird Books will also be premiering this year. So check back and make sure you have joined our mailing list for updates! Also we’ve finally caved and joined FB, started a blog and are on twitter. So as you can see LBgallery is going strong and we thank all of you for support and we can not wait to see you all again in November for our opening with photographer Dan Monick.