"CREATING ORDER" 

    A group show by artists with Multiple Sclerosis

Thanks to all  those who came to the opening reception:     

                                                                                                

 

"Creating Order": a group show by artists with 

            Multiple Sclerosis

Saturday, September 28th - Saturday, December 7th

Listen to an interview on Real Talk MS podcast:  HERE

Breath-Taking: Group Show 18 Artists with Cystic Fibrosis 

                @ dnj Gallery in Santa Monica to June 22 

                    An interview with the Lead Artists of Breath-Taking:                                                             Dylan Mortimer and Dominic Quagliozzi      

by Stage Explorations-- a You-Tube Channel

 Through IV poles, cars and palm trees, a patient's art illustrates                                    life with cystic fibrosis

UCLA Health interviews Dylan Mortimer in a story about his life with cystic fibrosis, presenting his art work and its inclusion in the exhibit "Breath-Taking" at dnj Gallery.  

Cystic Fibrosis is the first exhibition in the 'Art and Med' program beginning at dnj Gallery. 

As mentioned in the press release for this exhibit, "In October 2023, Schoenberg discovered the exhibit “Art and Med” at the Torrance Art Museum, curated by Ted Meyer.  Meyer, artist-in-residence at the U.S.C. Keck School of Medicine, organizes exhibitions and discussions highlighting the health condition of a patient/artist side by side with a recognized medical professional. Meyer's efforts bridge the gap between art and medicine, providing a platform for patient voices often overlooked in traditional galleries."

"With a new desire to explore this deeper understanding and to teach through art, the mission of dnj Gallery from adjusted from solely a commercial to a space with a more charitable and educational purpose.  Believing that supplementary knowledge will help facilitate our community’s ability to aid in their own healing, the art and med program was born. Insight leads to motivation and the empowerment to rebuild and control one’s situation. She will also offer health coaching to the artists/patients during this exhibit.  In a collaboration, health goals are realized. This transformation reflects Schoenberg’s commitment to utilizing art as a tool to support individuals with chronic illnesses."

Come by to see "Breath-Taking":  a group exhibit featuring Dylan Mortimer and 17 other artists with cystic fibrosis.  The exhibit is open until June 22.

dnj Gallery:

3015 Ocean Park Boulevard 

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Hours:  Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays 12-4pm

Mei Xian Qui Art Talk via ZOOM

You are invited to my Art Talk via ZOOM

USC PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM

Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

"Mei Xian Qui draws from her personal history to reconstruct the unknown, fantastical notions of culture, self-invented and revelatory and iconic. This type of flexible self-view and easy piercings of notions of the impermeable interior self, are in keeping with the new contemporary landscape of commonplace transience and a growing global monoculture."

Make sure to register at least a day before via EventBrite link:

https://pacificasiamuseum.usc.edu/calendar/details/?event-id=33326868743529

(The Parade / All images are courtesy of dnj Gallery)

dnj Gallery -- artist Ellen Cantor

"Mothers and Daughters"

“Life doesn’t come with manual, it comes with a Mother” --Unknown

*Edition of 20. 

$250 for the 1st 10 books, which includes a 5"x7" print.
$150 for the 2nd 10 books.
 All books are signed by the artist Ellen Cantor. 

(All books are handmade
and include 10- 3X5 photographs from her 
2  series)

40% of all proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Food Forward.

 Ellen Cantor:

"After finding a poem that described the unique relationship between Mothers and daughters, I started this book as a labor of love to honor my extraordinary Mom and my exceptional daughters.

Another prompt for this handmade book is my series, “VISUAL DNA…the language of photographs” at dnj Gallery, Santa Monica. Using family vintage photographs, this series suggests the passing of time and the fading nature of memory. The images challenge us to “read” and interpret a photograph filling in the visual language and context as best we can.

The final impetus for this book was a class in bookmaking I took at The Los Angeles Center of Photography. Combining images from my series ‘VISUAL DNA…the language of photographs” and “Family” with techniques I learned in the class, I created a hand-made book that celebrates the unique relationship between the generations. Each photograph is from my family archives and expresses the memorable link between not only Mothers and Daughters, but also Grandmothers.

I designed and printed the book myself and it is hand-stitched. There are two different options for the cover.

Making this book has been a creative challenge during this period of Covid 19. It reminds us that although we may not be able to see each other in person, family bonds are still strong."

**Please mark your calendar and join Ellen Cantor on Zoom, 
Mother's Day, Sunday, May 10th at 12pm 
as we discuss her latest book and her two adjoining series, "VISUAL DNA...the Language of Photographs" and "Family". The discussion will be joined by dnj Gallery Director Pamela Schoenberg, and led by Shana Nys Dambrot of LA Weekly.  
LACP (The Los Angeles Center for Photography) will co-sponsor this program.

RSVP to office@dnjgallery.net and we will send you the Zoom link.

dnj Gallery Artist -- Dylan Vitone

MoonArk 

MoonArk will be a philosophical mini-museum, left on the moon for future explorers to discover.

"Earth is giving a gift to the moon that will land on the lunar surface next year.

The nine-ounce MoonArk -- a tiny time capsule-esque artifact of humanity -- will be attached to a small lunar rover. This is in the hopes that one day it may be picked up by lunar explorers -- hundreds or thousands of years in the future."

"There's a stunning visual of the FOXP2 genome structure, the gene that allows songbirds to make songs and humans to put words in order, said Dylan Vitone, professor of photography at CMU. The "out of Africa" concept explaining the spread of humanity is given a modern update, showing the light population and density over Egypt. It represents the growth of light and electrification to show the spread of humanity from the fertile crescent..." - Ashley Strickland, CNN

Read more here.