Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield

Artist Salon: Lauren Bon
In Conversation with Janet Owen Plus, "Corn in European Painting," special guest presentation by Felicity Powell and Ansel Krut

FRIDAY AUGUST 19 @ 7:30pm



Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not A Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' has remained derelict for more than a decade. Serving as both a potent metaphor and as a means of cleansing the soil, the planting of the corn reclaims this lost fertile area and aims to give a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center.

Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield brings people together in order to share, engage, energize, and enhance the organic nexus that is this project.

Lauren Bon's recent urban, public and land art projects have included actions in Northern Ireland, Hong Kong, Belgrade and Los Angeles. Her sculptures, installations and other works have been exhibited at venues around the world, including the UCLA Hammer Art Museum, the Santa Monica Museum of Art; and the Museum of Modern Art, Belfast. Bon holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton.

Janet Owen is the founding director of the AIM international festival of time-based media and currently co-director of Raid Projects. She has organized exhibitions and related events with, among others, MOCA (LA); the Hong Kong Art Center; the Santa Monica Museum of Art; and Kiasma, Finland. Her texts have appeared in various exhibition catalogs; magazines including 'RiM' and 'Le Rouge'; and the essay anthology 'Kolibri' (Revolver, 2003).

Felicity Powell is a London-based artist whose work can be seen in the collections of the V&A museum and the British Museum. Her research in collaboration with the V&A was funded by the AHRB. Her recent video work shown at Domo Baal is touring to Thailand with the British Council. She lectures at University College Falmouth, City and Guilds and the National Gallery London. She has BA in Fine Art from Falmouth, an MA in sculpture from the Royal Academy and won the Gulbenkian Rome Scolarship in Sculpture to the British School in Rome.

Ansel Krut is a painter who is the current fellow in Drawing at Wimbeldon College of Art. He lectures at The Royal College of Art and the National Gallery. His work is in the Arts council and British council collections and has been shown internationally. He is represented by Domo Baal Gallery, London. He has a B.A. from University of the Witwatersrand.Johannesburg and an MA from the Royal College of Art London. He was awarded the Abby Major scholarship to the British school in Rome.

Not A Cornfield
1201 North Spring Street
Phone: 323.226.1158
Always Free to the Public, Handicapped Accessible
Free Parking at South and North Gates

DIRECTIONS (NORTH GATE): From the intersection of North Spring and College (Gold Line - Chinatown stop) take
North Spring north 3 blocks to the northern end of the project site. The entrance is on the left, co-located at 1799 Baker Street.

For more information, live Webcam, and a map, please visit the Not A Cornfield website
www.notacornfield.info

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