On legacy php5 environment...
imc indymedia

Los Angeles Indymedia : Activist News

white themeblack themered themetheme help
About Us Contact Us Calendar Publish RSS
Features
• latest news
• best of news
• syndication
• commentary


KILLRADIO

VozMob

ABCF LA

A-Infos Radio

Indymedia On Air

Dope-X-Resistance-LA List

LAAMN List

make media
archives


links
donate
sf-active
imc network

IMC Network:

Original Cities

www.indymedia.org africa: ambazonia canarias estrecho / madiaq kenya nigeria south africa canada: hamilton london, ontario maritimes montreal ontario ottawa quebec thunder bay vancouver victoria windsor winnipeg east asia: burma jakarta japan korea manila qc europe: abruzzo alacant andorra antwerpen armenia athens austria barcelona belarus belgium belgrade bristol brussels bulgaria calabria croatia cyprus emilia-romagna estrecho / madiaq euskal herria galiza germany grenoble hungary ireland istanbul italy la plana liege liguria lille linksunten lombardia london madrid malta marseille nantes napoli netherlands nice northern england norway oost-vlaanderen paris/Île-de-france patras piemonte poland portugal roma romania russia saint-petersburg scotland sverige switzerland thessaloniki torun toscana toulouse ukraine united kingdom valencia latin america: argentina bolivia chiapas chile chile sur cmi brasil colombia ecuador mexico peru puerto rico qollasuyu rosario santiago tijuana uruguay valparaiso venezuela venezuela oceania: adelaide aotearoa brisbane burma darwin jakarta manila melbourne perth qc sydney south asia: india mumbai united states: arizona arkansas asheville atlanta austin baltimore big muddy binghamton boston buffalo charlottesville chicago cleveland colorado columbus dc hawaii houston hudson mohawk kansas city la madison maine miami michigan milwaukee minneapolis/st. paul new hampshire new jersey new mexico new orleans north carolina north texas nyc oklahoma philadelphia pittsburgh portland richmond rochester rogue valley saint louis san diego san francisco san francisco bay area santa barbara santa cruz, ca sarasota seattle tampa bay tennessee urbana-champaign vermont western mass worcester west asia: armenia beirut israel palestine process: fbi/legal updates mailing lists process & imc docs tech volunteer projects: print radio satellite tv video regions: oceania united states topics: biotech

Surviving Cities

www.indymedia.org africa: canada: quebec east asia: japan europe: athens barcelona belgium bristol brussels cyprus germany grenoble ireland istanbul lille linksunten nantes netherlands norway portugal united kingdom latin america: argentina cmi brasil rosario oceania: aotearoa united states: austin big muddy binghamton boston chicago columbus la michigan nyc portland rochester saint louis san diego san francisco bay area santa cruz, ca tennessee urbana-champaign worcester west asia: palestine process: fbi/legal updates process & imc docs projects: radio satellite tv

Return to Calendar    
   
Title: Venice Family Dog: Photographs by Susan Rennie
START DATE: 8/25/2012
START TIME: 5:00 PM
Duration: 3 Hours
Location: west los angeles, beaches
Location Details:
Venice Arts Gallery is located at 1702 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
Event Topic: art
Event Type: art event
Contact Name: Elysa
Contact Email:
Contact Phone: 310.392.0846
DESCRIPTION:
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 25, 5–8pm

Exhibition Dates: August 25–September 21, 2012



Location & Hours

Venice Arts Gallery

1702 Lincoln Blvd., Venice CA 90291

310.392.0846

Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm and by appointment

Gallery & Public Programs are free and open to the public.



Venice Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Venice Family Dog,” an exhibition of over 50 new portraits by thirty-six-year Venice resident and long-time Venice Arts supporter Susan Rennie. Venice families, as well as members of the public (and their dogs) are invited to celebrate with us during the opening reception on August 25th. The exhibition will be on view through September 22nd. This will be Rennie’s third exhibition at the Venice Arts Gallery.

Taking the Venice community as her subject matter, Rennie captures the uniqueness and variety of this area through the specificity of the family portait. Through her photographs, Rennie strives to represent all the critical elements of Venice’s demography, although she admits that the the selection of families, limited to a few dozen households from among twenty-seven thousand has, by necessity, been subjective. The dogs here also represent just a fraction of dogdom’s kaleidoscope—thirty breeds, from teacup Chihuahua to Newfoundland, as well as a host of marvelous dogs of assorted parentage.

For Rennie, the abounding vareity of dogs in Venice become reflective of the various familial structures that make up our community. As Rennie says, “Venice has not been nicknamed Dogtown for nothing. That moniker may have originated with early skateboarders, but it is also a valid descriptor of the variegated dogs that populate Venice, and who, I have noticed over the years, reflect the rich mosaic of its human inhabitants. For Venice is surely one of the most diverse, heterogeneous communities in a nation that prizes its pluralism: people who are rich and poor; artsy, funky, glitzy; brown, white, black; bourgeois and homeless; young and old; the famous living among the ordinary; artists and visionaries alongside mow and blow gardeners and political activists.”

The project grew out of Rennie’s walks through the neighborhood with her own dog: “As I have walked my dog around Venice, encountering other dogs and their companions, and as I have socialized with Venetian friends and neighbors and their dogs, I flashed on a particular dimension of Venice’s uniqueness: family structure—representing almost every flavor on the spectrum of domestic arrangement. Since dogs are integral family members, devoted to their people as their people are devoted to them, I undertook to portray the dimensions of family variety with the dog as the lynchpin.”

© 2000-2018 Los Angeles Independent Media Center. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Los Angeles Independent Media Center. Running sf-active v0.9.4 Disclaimer | Privacy