Who wouldn’t want to enjoy the works of stellar contemporary artists, have a fun and festive evening, and help support one of the most cutting-edge and globally-linked art collectives in LA? Certainly not you, right?
Partita II at Durden & Ray in DTLA’s Bendix Building this Saturday night offers you the opportunity to bid on, enter a raffle for, and simply enjoy the art of:
Lillian Abel, Kim Abeles, Mark Acetelli, Daniel Adkins, Robin Adsit, Kim Alexander, Dawn Arrowsmith, Nurit Avesar, Carlos Beltran Arechiga, Christine Morla Armstrong, Dawn Arrowsmith, Kristine Augustyn, Nadege Monchera Baer, Malado Baldwi, Marsha Effron Barron, Quinton Bemiller, Arezoo Bharthania, Jodi Bonassi, Jorin Bossen, Gary Brewer, Janine Brown, Stefan Bucher, Suzanne Budd, Gavin Bunner, Julian Bustill, Gul Cagi, Jane Callister, Debbie Carlson, Jennifer Celio, Chenhung Chen, Sijia Chen, Mika
Cho, Trine Churchill, Norman Clark, Daniel Barron Corrales, Natalie Cruz, Joe Davidson, Ismael de Anda III, Ilknur Demirkoparan, Mark Dimalanta, Glenda Dixon, Dani Dodge, Tom Dunn, Lana Duong, Martin Durazo, Cliff Eberly, Michael Emmanuel, Mitra Fabian, Marielle Farnan, Roni Feldman, Cia Foreman, Christian Franzen, Sarajo Frieden, Josh Friedman, Steven Fujimoto, Sean Michael Gallagher, Martin Gantman, Gabe Garcia, Michael
Garcia, Yvette Gellis, Lawrence Gipe, Audra Graziano, Phyllis Green, Kio
Griffith, Jenny Hager, Steve Hampton, Stephanie Han, Aska Irie, Ben Jackel,
Claire Jackel, Dion Johnson, Brian Thomas Jones, Flora Kao, Yasmin
Kazam, Kate Kelton, Shane King, Nadim Kurani, Jay Kvapil, Connie DK
Lane, David Leapman, Tidawhitney Lek, Stephen Levy, Echo Lew, Nikki
Lewis, Kevin Linehan, Susan Lizotte, Amelia Lockwood, Mela M ( Mela Marsh), Maya Mackrandilal, Alanna Marcelletti, Aline Mare, Jane Margarette, Kim Marra, Anne Martens, Javier Martinez, Lynne McDaniel, Annelie McKenzie, Amanda Mears, Kathleen Melian, Yevgeniya Mikhailik, Hagop Najarian, Hung Viet Nguyen, Khang B. Nguyen, Sean Noyce, Labkhand Olfatmanesh, Elizabeth Orleans, Miguel Osuna, Billy Pacak, Paul Paiement, Kristopher Paos, Chris Pate, Olga Ponomarenko, Elizabeth Preger, Max Presneill, Michael Provart, Katie Queen, Mei Xian Qui, Kristopher Raos, Samuelle Richardson, Frederika Roeder, Ann Marie Rousseau, David S. Rubin, Frank Ryan, Liza Ryan, John Sollom, Annie Seaton, Sonja Schenk, Kristine Schomaker, Nike Schroeder, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, Steve Seleska, Rafael Serrano, Shilla Shakoori, Maccabee Shelley, Stephanie Sherwood, Dimitra Skandali, Jeffrey Sklan, Charles Snowden, Robert Soffian, David Spanbock, Curtis Stage, Kayla Sweet-Newhouse, Eric Minh Swenson, Jill Sykes,Vincent Tomczyk, Katya Usvitsky, Emily Van Horn, Melissa Walter, Ann Weber, Joan Weinzettle, Dana Weiser, Stacy Wendt, Tracy Weiss, Valerie Wilcox, Sammy Jean Wilson, Surge Witron, Steven Wolkoff, Alison Woods, and Jacob Yanes.
The one-night-only small works exhibition and fundraiser is designed to help Durden and Ray to continue its international artist exchanges which this year took viewers on a one-of-a-kind art exploration here in LA with compelling contemporary artwork from Rome, Luxemborg, Greece, Berlin, and Iceland. The result for viewers is an exploratory adventure.
For this show, Los Angeles-area artists were invited to make small-sized art that represents, according to Durden and Ray member Dani Dodge, “the unification across distances through image and discourse. They are the physical remnants of experience.” The works are available for $50 each, with 100% of the proceeds benefitting Durden and Ray.
In short, the night is a holiday gift for attendees and might just help you wipe out your entire gift list besides.
The raffle will include larger artworks and experiences such as portrait sessions and studio visits. Raffle tickets are $5 each and will be available at the event. The raffle will be held at 8:30 p.m. the night of the event.
Event curators are Arezoo Bharthania, Joe Davidson, Ben Jackel, Alanna Marcelletti, David Spanbock, Curtis Stage, and Valerie Wilcox.
The evening runs from 6-9 p.m. at Durden and Ray, 1206 Maple Ave. #832 in the Bendix Building. Santa says go, and so do we.
- Genie Davis; photos provided by Durden and Ray and Genie Davis