Wednesday, April 7, 2010

My Public Art Installation at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles!

Event Title: "MY AD HERE: NAKEDSLAVE4ART.COM"

Type of Event: Art Installation

Cost: FREE and Open to everyone!!!

Date/Time: Show is currently up and runs until April 16!
Special Event on April 14: Conversations with the Artists from 7 to 9 PM

Where:
Gallery 825
825 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069

Phone:(310) 652-8272
Fax:(310) 652-9251
Email:gallery825@laaa.org

What: The multi-faceted artist Johnny Naked, creator of "The Ever-Changing Naked Picture Project," unveils his newest art provocation... a 13' x 16' Window Ad on La Cienega Blvd. promoting his ongoing multi-million dollar interactive art project NakedSlave4Art.com! Fun for all!!!

Artist Statement:

The Naked Slave 4 Art project is an ongoing multi-media art project involving a media blitz of print advertising (See the Fall Issue of "Art Journal" magazine, as well as the enclosed copies of Artillery Magazine), Internet promotion, film/video infomercials, and now -- with this installation -- a larger-than-life road-side "window ad" on one of the most trafficked streets in Los Angeles.

This installation -- MY AD HERE: NAKEDSLAVE4ART.COM -- is actually part of a larger art piece (part print/part performance/part life) and this display will become an essential part of the entire project.

The overall project can only be completed with the investment of a "buyer" and the subsequent year of servitude as outlined in the ads. Photo prints of the ad have already hung at the 12th Annual LA Art Show, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, and the Gallery at Barone Studio in Pennsylvania.

Although the Naked Slave 4 Art project has many influences, the concept as a whole has deep-seated origins in the culture and attitudes of Los Angeles and the entertainment industry centered within it. It is an exploration of how this culture has shaped the media and perceptions of the world as well as our own identities within a society defined by fame, wealth, exploitation, and fabricated "reality." Like this culture, it is in a constant state of self-reinvention, while at the same time remaining constant in its single-mindedness and self-centered ideology. And it keeps going, and going, and going, and...

I try to maintain a sense of humor about the whole thing, although there are some serious and complex issues hidden beneath the outrageousness. I want people to have fun with the whole thing, and to let themselves in on the fun by playing along, too. The current installation "MY AD HERE: NAKEDSLAVE4ART.COM" -- like the overall project -- is in large part about exploiting media and investigating the way people view such things as personal worth, art and its worth, social conventions, taboos, commerce, the current celebrity culture and how it's reflected in such things as reality TV and generalized media sensationalism and a whole bunch of other stuff -- some of which is clarified in the gallery's description of the work (www.laaa.org). And, as I stated earlier, one of the basic things I like about the whole thing is that it's an interactive project that will never be fully completed unless an individual or organization with the financial means and the creative vision to do so decides to step up and take the leap with me and make something that could be truly unconventional and amazing, depending on what ideas and inspirations they bring to the table themselves. One of my artistic slogans is "Become Art to Get Art" and it applies as much to this project as it did to The Ever-Changing Naked Picture Project (www.nakedpictureproject.com). And of course another fun slogan specific to the NakedSlave4Art project, whether it be a magazine ad in Artillery magazine or a 14 foot by 17 foot window ad facing La Cienega as this specific installation (MY AD HERE: NAKEDSLAVE4ART.COM) entails, is the simple concept of: "Why Buy Art... When You Can Buy the Artist?" Which is worth more? The objects created or the creator themselves?
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