Mastodon Maze is a show I'm in at the Pacific Design Center here in LA. Here's the link: http://www.mastodonmesa.com/

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January 17 – February 21, 2010

Art Since the Summer of ‘69

195 Chrystie Street, Suite 303, 3rd floor

10002 New York, NY

www.artsince69.com


Art Since the Summer of ’69 is proud to present Wuv is the Waw, Charles Irvin’s premier solo show in New York.

Los Angeles-based Irvin works with a wide range of media, including video, performance, drawing and painting. For Wuv is the Waw, Irvin has produced two series of new drawings, depicting conflations of opposing concepts: birth and death, masculine and feminine, inner and outer space, organic and inorganic, the spiritual and the obscene. The drawings depict mystical states where all is one, visualizing the alchemical concept of the union of the opposites. Carl Jung compared this to the psychological process of individuation, where the personal and collective subconscious join with consciousness. Since Irvin’s imagery is intuitive, the work depicts the process that creates it, the subconscious and conscious working together.

The drawings in the series Wuv is the Waw were inspired by a quote from Aleister Crowley; “Love is the law, love under will”. The drawings seek to represent the fun, light-hearted, and perhaps even cute and cuddly side of the complex, multifaceted Crowley. In tribute to Crowley's meditations on the multivalence of symbols, the drawings contain an image that evokes light and dark sides of our contemporary visual culture. Crowley loved riddles, so Irvin refuses to reveal what these sides are.

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August 29 - September 20
Opening Reception Sat. Sept. 12, 7-10 p.m, with performances by Santonio Flower and Dude Dogg starting at 10pm.
WPA will also be open 6-9pm on 9/09/09.

Gallery hours are 12-6pm, Thursday - Saturday or for appointment leave a message here or at charles@wpala.com

WPA
510 Bernard Street
Los Angeles CA 90012
WPA site

If you missed "Nine Lives" at the Hammer Museum here in Los Angeles, you can still see the video part of my installation. Here's a link to "Membrane Lane". Just scroll down once you're there, the artists are listed alphabetically.
GuideDVD.com

If you're in Los Angeles check out this show I'm in, you have until May 31st 2009 to see it.
Here's a link Nine Lives

I haven't uploaded any new Paintings and Drawings in months. Look for those in October. In the mean time check out my new video! Cheyenne Mountain Blues

This Thursday, July 24, I be screening some hi-lights from my new DVD: Charles Irvin: Videos 1995-2002
It happens at the...

AUTOMAT
936 Chung King Rd.
Chinatown, Los Angeles
90012


The Automat faces China Art Objects Gallery. The screening starts at 8pm and lasts until about 9:30.
I'll provide some commentary, and maybe show some new stuff for an encore.

I finally put Babyscapes online. here's the link: http://revver.com/u/charlesirv

If you are in Chicago the next month, I have some painitngs in a show there that runs from May 10 to June 7. Here's the info:

ALOGON
1049 NORTH PAULINA
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60622
website

Under performances I posted a few photos from the last Dude Dogg show here in LA at Pehrspace. check back in a few weeks for info regarding our upcoming gig on the west side (of LA)!!!!

2/10/2008
I have a project up at this website. http://www.artists-at-war.com Bookmark it, I'll be blogging there too.

Check out the new, improved video for an old version of "Dogg Fancy" by my band Dude Dogg here: http://revver.com/u/charlesirv

I'm in this, here's a link: http://www.track16.com/home.ht

One of my videos will be screened this Thursday in Chinatown, LA. The program starts 7pm at:

FOCA
970 N. Broadway, suite 208
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(in Mandarin Plaza-Chinatown)

more info can be found here....... www.focala.org/exhibitions.php

Check out the link to captain banana hammock's new myspace page. I've been following his music for a couple years, and it's pretty weird. just click on "links" at the top of this page

I'm thrilled to announce the debut of my latest creation: T J Slix! You'll have two chances to experience a truly unique blend of performance and installation art:

1.Saturday, November 3rd on the 2600 block of S La Cienega Blvd in Culver City, from 6-9pm

2.Saturday, November 17th, at 933 N. Broadway in Chinatown, 6-9pm. (Look in the west side of the lot, facing Sun Mun Way).

Just look for "T J Slix"