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Coming Next Week and thru August.

George Herms Jazz Opera Workshop

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Window exhibits by artists Marua Bendett, Andy Moses, and Roland Reiss

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"High and Dry, Smoke and Fog"

curated by Price Latimer

About Price Latimer

Phantom Galleries LA is proud to present, in the honor of the Rodeo Drive Concours D'Elegance, celebrating the art of California car culture…

"High and Dry, Smoke and Fog"

High and Dry, Smoke and Fog is inspired by cars … the joy, the freedom, the mechanics, the dependence, the status symbol, the technology, the social responsibility, the sex appeal, the pollution, the speed, the danger, the commute, the traffic, the exhilarating road trip, the urban sprawl and the transportation conundrum. The artwork in this exhibition addresses the paradox of these topics; some works evoke it directly, some abstrusely. The work also illustrates the general human desire for movement and exploration, and how mankind's pioneering, adventurous spirit has come to manifest itself today in our motor transportation. Particularly in Los Angeles – the American metropolis supreme – whose complicated relationship with cars, traffic and transportation is both fascinating and poignant. L.A. is the only major city that was entirely shaped by the automobile. In 1964, Marshall McLuhan said, "The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete." Currently, Los Angeles County is in the top ten dirtiest counties in the U.S. for air pollution.

Joel Morrison, Ed Ruscha (paintings), Robert Rauschenberg, courtesy of the Paul Rusconi Collection, Los Angeles

Ed Ruscha Photography courtesy of Patrick Painter

Salvatore Scarpitta courtesy of the Lola Scarpitta Collection, Los Angeles

Jennifer Cielo courtesy of Bandini Art, Culver City, CA

Deborah Fisher courtesy of Dangerous Curve, Arts District, CA

Cheryl Kelley courtesy of Art murmur Gallery, Downtown LA, CA

Blue McRight courtesy of Patrica Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

High and Dry, Smoke and Fog is open by appointment, as well as the following Saturdays – June 16, June 23 and June 30 – from 11 am to 6 pm, and Sunday, June 17, 2007 in conjunction with the Rodeo Drive Concours D'Elegance, celebrating the art of California car culture.

Press Release

Phantom Galleries offers a special thank you to the City of Beverly Hills Economic development Office for their continued support and assistance in launching the Beverly Hills Phantom Galleries LA program. “In Beverly Hills we believe that a vital economy needs an active art and cultural core.” – Alison Maxwell, Director of Economic evelopment and Marketing for the City. For more about the City’s Public Art Program log onto www.beverlyhills.org.