finearttrekkinVeniceBeach: August 2010

On August 19, 2010, the artists Laura Daroaca, Annetta Kapon,

JJ Stevens, Mark X Farina (MXF), Preston Webb and Andrew Clinco exhibited their

video works as the Launch night began a new era in the Fine Arts of Venice Beach!

The Venice ART Crawl Collaboration with OTIS Alumni has unleashed the creative

instincts in the deepest, darkest and oldest part of the beach scene:

VENICE BEACH, CALIFORNIA!

(Every Third Thursday in Venice Beach)

To participate, get involved, or attend contact:

www.veniceartcrawl.com

Winward Street is lit up with only the lights from the shop signs,

and the headlights from cars looking for a parking space as

Danny's Deli ART BAR hosts artwork by numerous video artists

during the www.veniceartcrawl.com event, a free monthly

exploration of Venice art and the Venice Beach artist community.

Video artist Annetta Kapon and Curator Ceres Madoo

discuss how best to serve the Otis College Alumni artist community in Venice Beach.

Photo by Ginger Van Hook

Annetta Kapon was one of my former professors at Otis College of Art and Design, while

I was working on my MFA. One of my favorite classes I took with Annetta Kapon

was the "Evil in Literature" class which explored all manner of dastardly deads done in

the name of literature.

We studied philosophers and artists that explored their inner demons

and came up with some pretty cool and scary artistic literature.

What I liked the most about Annetta Kapon was her

straightforward guidance about being an artist and her unwavering support of her students.

Her philosophy is that an artist has to come out of their shell to make a mark in the world.

One of my favorite video installations that Annetta Kapon did a while back was her video of

Rejection Letters that aired on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood on an enormous electronic billboard.

Talk about making a mark in your world. Annetta Kapon knows how to leave an impression!

I say we bring back those rejection letter videos she has and

make the installation bigger and show it off on billboards

on the 405 freeway where the passengers in the airplanes can see it!

Annetta Kapon

Annetta Kapon Video Installation at the

Venice Art Crawl Launch Night. August 19, 2010

Photo by Ginger Van Hook

Annetta Kapon is an artist who works in Sculpture, Installation and Video.

Kapon, born in Athens, Greece, now lives in Los Angeles and

has exhibited in the United States and abroad since 1982.

She is a professor in Graduate Studies at Otis College of Art and Design,

where she teaches both studio and theory seminars.

Her work has been featured at Side Street Projects,

Jewish Museum in Greece, the University of Chicago,

LACE, Exit Art, Wexner Center for the Arts and the Biennale of Sydney among others.

She has had solo exhibitions at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Armstrong/Schoenheit, French Institute and Zefxis in Greece, Carnegie Mellon University, U.C. Riverside, Southern Exposure in San Francisco and CAMAC.

Kapon holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and the University of London, respectively. She then received her BFA from Otis College of Art and Design and her MFA from UCLA. She is the recipient of numerous artist residency fellowships, as well as WESTAF, Art Matters, Pollock/Krasner and California Community Foundation grants.

Biographical information from Wikipaedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annetta_Kapon