Travis Ott-Conn

Sub-Alterity is a touring exhibition of underground art, concept-driven and featuring eleven unique, visionary artists from Los Angeles, Long Beach, and abroad. The paintings, installations, and multi-media presentations collectively and independently express the contradictory, boundary-shattering urban[organic] consciousness.

Collectors, businesses, and bohemians are invited to view, discuss, and purchase the works presented at Sub-Alterity. Refreshments provided by local sponsors, real music from live musicians and DJs as well as installations and activities.

The urban environment is commonly depicted as opposing nature and visa versa, but in actuality, the organic world is continuously creeping into the vast networks of human planning and concrete. Similarly we, as artists, perpetually cross cultural borders and challenge our society’s guarantee of a static and one-sided reality.

Curated and presented by Rowynn Michelle Dumont, international experimental arts guru, and Michaël Veremans, LA underground connoisseur as part of the next generation of fine arts. Kyle Veremans is on booking, bringing with him the best underground bands and Djs in the scene. Viraag Desai and Clay Cooper are the resident digital designers, busting out fresh graphics and repping the concept.

We are creatively exploring, interpreting, and transmiting the seemingly contradictory webs of information, external events, and internal developments that make up the ever evolving consciousness of our age.

The Exhibition will be touring in Downtown Long Beach at 2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space and in Downtown Los Angeles at the Mezz.

Andrew Cortes, http://www.andrewcortes.com
Travis Ott Conn, http://www.tottconn.com/
Viraag Desai, http://viraag.com/
Katie Reinman, http://jaguarpress.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/katie-reinmans-inflexion-points/
Niko Sonnberger, http://www.nikosonnberger.com/Site/Home.html
Kelly Campanella
Valentine Malone
Carlos Oropeza
David Cortes http://damico.weebly.com/
Jessica Lah
Ya'el Pedroza http://www.ypedroza.com/

Long Beach May 8th – 16th
May 8th: Opening Gala, noon - 5
May 9th: Spoken Word Event (artists TBA), noon - 5
May 14th: Music Event, noon - ?
May 16th: Gallery Closing, noon – 5

Los Angeles June 10 – 12th
June 10th: Art Walk Opening with live music
June 12th: Closing Party

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photo by David Cortes 2010