They would like to welcome Al Saeghi, D.D.S., his associates and his competent staff to our former office, to take over their dental care practice. "Our primary consideration was skill level, patient compatibility and someone who shares our philosophy. At long last, our search had been successful. It is with great confidence and pleasure that we introduce you to our colleague, Dr. Ali Saeghi."

Dr. Saeghi is a 1996 graduate of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The University is a pioneer and leader in implant surgery and world famous for its research in periodontal care. For the last eight years Dr. Saeghi has been treating patients in Southern California in his West Hills office. He is an active member of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists, and the American and California Dental Associations.

Dr. Saeghi is a caring and accomplished professional who shares our values and commitment to fine dentistry. He is understanding, ethical and compassionate. His staff is extremely talented and capable. We are pleased to bring in the truly best dental team to serve you. They are looking forward to meeting you soon. Please join us in welcoming this gifted group to our family.

At Dr. Saeghi’s request, Roland Giedraitis, D.D.S. and Danute Giedraitis, D.M.D. will be consulting with his staff on a regular basis to best support patients for a smooth transition. They thank all of their patientsfor the many years of loyalty. "We will be remaining as patients with the practice and hope to see you in the halls of the office!"

Please visit Dr. Saeghi at:
American Smile Family Dentistry
3151 Glendale Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90039
323-660-1205
323-660-1214 Fax

www.americansmileonline.com

With little more than graphite and resin, Salzwedel creates sublime images of nature and industrial development co-existing. Creating an eerie, ethereal tension between the two, while challenging notions of beauty and destruction. Salzwedel's process and materials themselves lend additional depth to his content. The toxic process of the layered resin is initially overshadowed by the beauty of the trees and plant life it contains.

Brooks Shane Salzwedel earned his BFA with distinction from Art Center College of Design in 2004. In addition to his flourishing art practice, he is the designer and producer of an award-winning line of belt buckles, included in Los Angeles Magazine's 2006 "Best Of" issue. Salzwedel's art and accessories have also garnered press in Los Angeles Times Magazine West, GQ, LA Confidential, NY Arts Magazine, Lucky, Juxtapoz, and Timeout.

"Modern Soil" will include an exclusive preview of "Landscape Quartet," four new short films from artist and filmmaker John Palmer. The films are works-in-progress, depicting landscapes in crisis, victims to shifts in permanence and scale. Palmer received his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and is a recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation Film Honorarium and the James Broughton Film Award. His work has been exhibited around the world, including group shows at Pacific Film Archive and Millennium Film Workshop.

Black Maria Gallery
3137 Glendale Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90039
323.660.9393

Black Maria pleased to announce the opening of Moon Over Drifters, a solo exhibition of Oksana Badrak’s most recent work. The artist’s luscious and excessive paintings of imagined realities combine the familiar with the fanciful. In her latest body of work, Badrak’s aim was to create a world in which traditional and modern, eastern and western, mundane and fantastical merge, producing attunement and friction alike.

According to Badrak, “My passion for graphic design and traditional oil painting results in the way I make my work – digitally created elements are made into archival giclee prints, then the print is varnished to allow for elements painted in oil to exist on paper surface.” The collection of paintings includes narratives and portraits, like one of Belka and Strelka, two dogs in the Soviet space program of the 50’s, who orbited the earth and returned home safely.

Born in Russia, Badrak moved to the US as a young girl. Since graduating from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, she has earned acclaim from American Illustration and exhibited throughout the US and abroad.

www.badrak.com

ARTWATER Music and Arts festival is happening with three stages with band and dance performances, over 40 Artisan vendors selling their merchandise including John Marshall High, free instructional drum jam from 2:30pm-4:45pm, free face painting, creative areas for festival attendees to create their art to take home with them and a raffle with many prizes!!!

ARTWATER will benefit Sonic Muze, raising funds for musical instruments and art supplies for Atwater Village, Los Feliz, Glassell Park and Silver Lake area schools.

They have already provided art supplies and musical instruments this year to:
ATWATER AVE. ELEMENTARY
GLENFELIZ ELEMENTARY
WASHINGTON IRVING MIDDLE

Jaime Zollars, Kathleen Lolley, Alex Noriega, Matt Burlingame, P. Williams, Leanne Biank, Juri Ueda, Aaron Hitchcock and CJ Metzger.

Opening reception: Saturday, 26 April, 7-10:30 pm

This exhibition explores the dark and innocent cognitions of childhood. The work in this exhibition gives these perceived memories a home. Demons, fairies, putti, mythical beasts and the like will converge on the walls to conjure memories and dreams.

According to Black Maria Gallery director Zara Zeitountsian, "It's not about our actual experiences, but our memories. Vivid yet nonsensical treasures created in our imaginations, metamorphosis into lasting imagery. These images are shaped by our environment and give us an uncanny sense of nostalgia."

Black Maria Gallery
3137 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90039
323.660.9393

Opening Reception: Sat 29th March, 7:00 – 10:30pm

Hollywood Writer Event with Skylight Books: Sat 5th April, 5:00 – 8:00pm (book sale and author reading)

Black Maria Gallery: 3137 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90039

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12pm until 6pm (or by appointment)

Participating Artists: Darryl Blood, Sam
Branton, Molly
Crabapple, Scott Ferry,
Ken Garduno, Joe
Girandola, Kio Griffith,
Patrick Haemmerlein,
Tom Haubrick, Jason
Hernandez, Chris Hill, Aaron
Hitchcock, Julie Lee, Kris
Lewis, Myne, Dany
Paragouteva, Steve
Romio, Sam Saghatelian,
Mona Superhero, Alex
Wiesenfeld, Miss Withers and Jeni
Yang.

Hollywood Apocalypse! is a competitive art exhibit open only to artists specially invited by Black Maria. Curated by writer and 3D artist Ray Zone, who originated the concept for the exhibit, Hollywood Apocalypse! gives life to a painting described in the classic Hollywood novel "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West, first published in 1939.

In support of those affected by the writers’ strike, 10% of all proceeds from the exhibition will go to the Writers
Guild Foundation's Industry Support Fund.

Three judges will decide on the top entries:
Patricia Arquette, actress ("Medium" "Lost Highway" "True Romance")

Thomas Jane, actor ("The Mist" "The Punisher" "*61") and comic book publisher (Raw Studios)

Billy Shire, curator/owner/publisher (La Luz de Jesus, Wacko and Billy Shire Fine Art)

Tod Hackett, the hero of, “The
Day of the Locust”, works at the studio in the daytime and at night works on a painting he calls, “The Burning of Los Angeles.” The invited artists have created their own interpretation of the painting described in the novel.

...."he was able to think clearly about his picture 'The Burning of Los Angeles' ... he could see all the rough charcoal strokes with which he had blocked it out on the big canvas. Across the top, parallel with the frame, he had drawn the burning city, a great bonfire of architectural styles, ranging from Egyptian to Cape Cod colonial. Through the center, winding from left to right, was a long hill street and down it, spilling into the middle foreground, came the mob carrying baseball bats and torches. For the faces of its members, he was using the innumerable sketches he had made of the people who come to California to die: the cultists of all sorts, economic as well as religious, the wave, airplane, funeral and preview watchers--all those poor devils who can only be stirred by the promise of miracles and then only to violence. A super "Know-All Pierce-All" had made the necessary promise and they were marching behind his banner in a great united front of screwballs and screwboxes to purify the land. No longer bored, they sang and danced joyously in the red light of the flames."

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Contact: Zara Zeitoutnsian. Black Maria Gallery: 3137 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90039

Tel: 323.660.9393 | web: http://blackmariagallery.com

February 23 -March 22, 2008

Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb. 23 7:00pm-10:30pm


Black Maria Gallery
3137 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90039
323.660.9393

www.blackmariagallery.com

Founded in 2004, Igloo Tornado is an art fraternity represented by four artists with different styles and backgrounds but a shared absurdist sensibility: Tom Neely, Gin Stevens, Scot Nobles and Levon Jihanian. In 2006 Black Maria Gallery hosted their successful inaugural show, catapulting the careers of these four artists to new levels. This is their second show together.

Tom Neely is a painter and cartoonist living in Los Angeles. Trained as a painter, but with his heart in comics, he uses narrative elements to tell stories through his growing body of paintings and comic books. In 2007 he published his award-winning debut graphic novel, The Blot, and had an acclaimed solo show at Black Maria Gallery. Working in various modes of drawing, painting, sculpture and sequential art, Neely represents the next step in the fusion of high art and comics. His new work involves a series of painted comic strip poems and grotesque figurative paintings.

Gin Stevens' art career began the day he was abandoned on the steps of a Baptist Church. His work explores the deep Southern culture that surrounded him from an early age, often depicting natural disasters, portraiture and spiritual imagery. At 17, he took a Greyhound to Chicago with dreams of studying at The Art Institute of Chicago. He soon opted for the punk rock theory of doing it yourself. Gin now resides in Los Angeles, where he has been creating work for private commission, album covers, and rock posters. He has had many shows at galleries in and around Los Angeles over the past several years. His new work is about Elvis.

Scot Nobles creates collages with contrasting textures and images using a unique acrylic paint technique. Words, ideas, colors, designs and motifs all overlap to create a seemingly random, yet structured, pattern. Each of Scot's pieces of art is a snapshot, a moment from his daily life that offers a glimpse into the subconscious inner workings of his mind. He has been exhibiting at galleries throughout Los Angeles since 2004.

Levon Jihanian lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and cat. His paintings often feature monsters, cyclopses, and vampires. Levon has exhibited in galleries in Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denton, and Ontario. He has written, drawn and self-published several comic books including Bitter Disappointment, Enjoy the Hotdog and Fork Frenzy. His new work is a series of monster portraits that reflect loathing, amusement, and a fascination with humanity's inherent weaknesses.

Black Maria Gallery
3137 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90039
323.660.9393

The Garden Tarts offer you a fabulous opportunity to get that fountain, statue, pot, or dining set you've had your eye on. It is their way of saying thank you for making their 3rd year so successful.

Pot-ted
3158 Los Feliz Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90039
323.665.3801

www.pot-ted.com
open everyday 10am to 6pm except sunday 10am to 5pm

two sizes
six colors
infinite possibilities

You've got to stop in and see it now...

Pot-ted
3158 Los Feliz Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90039
323.665.3801
www.pot-ted.com
open everyday 10 am to 6 pm
except sunday 10 am to 5 pm

20 October – 10 November 2007

Black Maria Gallery: 3137 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90039
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12pm until 6pm (or by appointment)

Participating Artists: Bask, John Casey, Ken Garduno, Douglas Alvarez, Martina Secondo Russo, Nicoz
Balboa, Andre Firmiano, Hagop Belian, Pogo, Nina Nichols, Angela Penaredondo, Claudio Parentela,
Sam Saghatelian, Glynnis Reed and Jasko.

According to Black Maria Gallery director Zara Zeitountsian, the exhibition, whose title was inspired by a
song by the punk group Gogol Bordello, is homage to a particular facet of the immigrant experience.
“While immigration may be as American as apple pie, there are those individuals or groups who shape an
extraordinary reality as they reinvent themselves in a new environment,” Zeitountsian said. “It is this
constructive, hugely life-affirming aspect of immigration that our upcoming show celebrates.
“A veritable maelstrom of challenges awaits an immigrant in a new country: the language barrier,
unfamiliar rules and ways of doing things, different traditions and cultural approaches, the very imperative
of carving one’s own path out of an alien place,” Zeitountsian continued. “What’s significant is that certain
immigrants will plunge into that maelstrom with gusto, and will not only tackle all the challenges but color
the whole experience in terms of their own cultural roots and identity. I think there’s something of the
spirit of punk music and art to all this.”

“Immigrant Punk” will feature new and recent works by a number of local and international artists. A Black
Maria Gallery representative said that though not all participating artists are immigrants, most could
perfectly identify with the immigrant experience through the style and inspiration of their work or because
of their families’ deep immigrant roots.

Zeitountsian further commented on the parallels between punk and immigration. “Punk music and art do
not pertain strictly to a specific cultural movement that exploded in the 1970s and continued to evolve on
the fringe,” she explained. “Rather, punk is a certain attitude and way of seeing that doesn’t necessarily
come with props and a mohawk. It’s about the exuberance and joy of rejecting limitations and doing one’s
own thing, of following the call of an inner rhythm and bringing one’s own style to the mosh pit.”
“Immigrant Punk” will remain open until Saturday, November 10.

Black Maria Gallery:
3137 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90039
Tel: 323.660.9393
web: http://blackmariagallery.com
Email: info@blackmariagallery.com

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2007
2pm – 10pm

On Saturday, April 21, Atwater Village will host the first annual “Artwater Arts and Music Festival,” a day of art, music, food and fun benefiting the kids of Atwater Village by raising funds for two after-school creative arts programs. The festival, which will take place from 2:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., will include a Street Art Chalk Festival, an Art Gallery Crawl and a wide variety of live music. Proceeds from the festival will go to “Inside Out” and “Sonic Muze” which helps youth to learn more about the arts through participation. The theme for this year’s Artwater Festival will be the Los Angeles River.

Artwater Street Painting Chalk Festival
Professional chalk artists will introduce the contemporary art form of chalk painting to Atwater Village by transforming the pavements along Glendale Blvd. into colorful murals depicting the Los Angeles River. In addition, Red Car Park will become a vibrant canvas where amateur artists, including teenagers and children, can create their own creamy pastel colored rivers flowing through their neighborhood street. Through participation, children will have the opportunity to appreciate art forms such as street chalk painting while gaining a better understanding of beauty and value of the Los Angeles River.

Art Gallery Crawl
As visitors marvel at the river of dusted colors splashed across the pavements surrounding them, they can participate in a self-guided art studio tour on Glendale Blvd. where they can meet gallery owners and artists.

One of several gallery participants, Black Maria Gallery, 3137 Glendale Blvd, (www.blackmariagallery.com) will exhibit Bound and Gagged a display artwork done by people during incarceration. The painstakingly detailed works of art often made of ‘non-art’ materials such as towel, paper, salt, chewing gum wrappers, billiards balls and bread. They are amazing to look at and contextualize. These works are made out of a need to be free, in any and every sense of the word.

Live Music and Performances

Bands performing in the Kaldi bump-out (during the daytime) are:
Lee Ferris - eclectic pop/rock (www.myspace.com/leeferrismusic)
• Fast Otto - rockabilly/blues/rock (www.myspace.com/fastotto)
• Sean Wiggins - singer/songwriter (www.seanwiggins.com)
• Telematique - ambient/classical/experimental (www.myspace.com/telematiquemusic)
• Triple Chicken Foot - traditional fiddle music (www.myspace.com/triplechickenfoot)
• Karl Marsh - jazz saxophonist

The following bands will perform as the sun begins to set to kick of the evening activities:
• Joan Jones – singer/songwriter performing with full band (www.clubjoan.com)
• Brian Joseph – singer/songwriter performing solo (www.brianjosephmusic.com)
• Circe Link – cowboy jazz (www.circelink.com)
• Omar Torrez - latin/funk/rock (www.omartorrez.com)

Other activities include:

• Henna tattoos, face painters, caricaturist
• Food Art craft table, "Citrus Sunshine Faces" by Kidding Around the Kitchen
• Collage Art craft table by Flynn Art Studios
• A bake sale by Segray's Mommy and Me classes
• Dance demonstrations and dance alongs by Heart Beat House
• A raffle with great prizes donated by local merchants
• A produce give-away by Atwater Village Farmer's Market
• Girls on Stilts" which lead kids in hula hoop lessons, limbo, juggling, jump roping and more.

This event is sponsored by the Atwater Village neighborhood council and the City Council District 13 in conjunction with the Atwater Village Neighborhood Watch and Importante Gifts. All donations and profits will benefit non-profit organizations: "INSIDE OUT" and "SONIC MUZE.

Join us for the Groundbreaking with the Committee to Save Silver Lake's Reservoirs (CSSLR) and Council Members Eric Garcetti and Tom LaBonge and their staffs, as well as community activists who have worked hard to bring about this happy result.

For more information, please visit the CSSLR website

Gallery show with an online ebay auction collaboration for 10 days. Proceeds go towards Ava's medical bills.

A Charity Benefit for Ava Cipriani
Artists will be contributing pieces ranging from custom art toys, paintings, limited edition prints, handmade plush, sketches, signed celebrity memorabilia, etc.

Johnette Napolitano, Kathie Olivas, Dalek, Ryan Crippen, LIV3R, Joe Ledbetter, Squidboy, Ed Zepln, Mark Ryden, Robert Williams, Bilbetsovic, Dave Wakeling, Lummage, Motorbot, Brent Nolasco, Phuek, Soopaj, Doktor A, J2XA, Voidx, Joules, Drillone, Greg "Craola" Simkins, Andrea Pina, Lou Pimentel, Robbie Busch, Henry Brazil, Luke Chueh, Shag, TML Stars, Atomika, Mimic, Blinky, Jim Koch, Monster Decay, Catherine Ledner, Amy Sol, Matt Eaton, David Wagner, Huck Gee, Daniel Danger, Randy Kono, Joe Orrantia, Robot One, Zdenek [sense], Slouchy, Julie, Louis Hansell, Desecration, Bwana Spoons, Berto H, Walt Hall, Justin Bishop, Scott Cummins, Aaron Marshall, Alan Forbes, Sket-One, Aaron Martin, Carol Powell, Carl Lozada, Jeremy Szuder, John Michael Gill, Hillary Darling, Claudia Drake, Frank Furlong, DJ Shiro, Nataka, and many more...

Monkeyhouse Toys
1618 1/2 Silver Lake Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026
info@monkeyhousetoys.com

(323) 662-3437
(323) 610-2090

Saturday December 9th
10am - 3pm

$5 (five and under free)

Amazing LIVE MUSIC, crafts, games, food and bouncy houses!

SIJCC 1110 Bates Ave.
(entrance on Effie)
LA, CA 90029

Please help us promote the Festival by offering to display flyers and/or posters that will be dropped off in the next week or so.

* class card must be purchased at time of toy donation
* offer not valid with any other discount
* limit one discounted package per person
* toys must be new, unwrapped & in original packaging

**first time students and local residents only for the intro offer

Gift Certificates available

Toys are being donated to seriously injured children at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital. Toys such as board games, puzzles, dolls and stuffed animals are preferred as many of these children have very limited mobility.

3223 Glendale Blvd,
Atwater Village, LA, CA 90039
323 668 2500
www.bikramyogasilverlake.com