Posted November 11th, 2008 by RJ
Hello Friends,
You are cordially invited to the opening reception for “Surfacing”,
the new art exhibit at Hibbleton Gallery. The reception is this
Friday, November 14, from 7-11 pm. This event is free and
open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
The concept for the “Surfacing” art show is to showcase
underground visual artists from the flickr.com community. This
massive online community has given a new generation of artists a
wider audience to share their work. Hibbleton’s desire is to show
what some of these “surfacing” artists are up to.
The styles and media of these artists are as varied as their
countries of origin: from Spain to Canada to Brazil to the
Netherlands to Australia to the UK to the USA.
Featured artists include: Jan Avendano, Andrew Bargeron, Alberto
Cerriteno, Alex Chui, Andrew Council, Mar Hernandez, Talita
Hoffmann, Jason Jones, Robbie Keast, Rey Ortega, Sarah Mc Neil,
Alejandro Mesa, Guiseppe Calogero Modica, Sean Morris, Dan Rule,
Karan Singh, Alexei Vella, and Ziebo
The show runs through December 21st.
Hope to see you there!
Hibbleton gallery is located at 112 W. Wilshire Ave.
(West of Harbor Blvd) in Fullerton, CA 92832.
Visit www.hibbleton.com for hours and directions.
Love,
Hibbleton
Posted November 11th, 2008 by RJ
Short speech from the orator, lawyer, teacher, and all around smarty pants, Robert Green Ingersoll.
Superstitions of a Public Man
Posted November 5th, 2008 by RJ
Posted October 17th, 2008 by RJ
Posted September 19th, 2008 by RJ
Posted September 19th, 2008 by RJ
Hibbleton Presents: Neon Frontier, featuring the work of Andrew Holder
Hibbleton gallery is pleased to present its latest art opening “Neon Frontier” featuring the work of Andrew Holder. The opening reception will be Friday, October 3 from 7-11pm.
Holder has shown his work at Giant Robot gallery in San Francisco, Giant Robot 2 in Los Angeles, Abacot Gallery, Junc Gallery, and Subtext. His work was also exhibited in the ‘The Happening’ in Sydney, Tokyo, Cornwall, Paris, New York City and San Francisco. He has been featured in American Illustration.
Holder, who works largely with screenprinting, creates art that explores the boundaries between urban life and the natural world. His pieces have a colorful, simple, sometimes humorous, ‘folk’ quality, yet they also delve into more complex, serious, contemporary themes, like artificiality vs. nature.
Holder also works as a graphic designer, and is very interested in the composition of his pieces. ‘I like having a problem to be solved. The idea of a composition being a puzzle,’ Holder says.
Holder’s influences and inspirations include, ‘The Stenberg brothers, family, friends, colleagues, strangers, music that fits a mood perfectly, David Weidman, seeing something out of the corner of my eye, satisfaction, wanting, things I see in popcorn ciellings, the time between asleep and awake.’
The show runs through October 26. Hibbleton is located at 112 W. Wilshire Ave. (West of Harbor Blvd) in downtown Fullerton. Visit www.hibbleton.com
Posted September 17th, 2008 by Jesse
One of the greatest contemporary American writers, certainly my favorite contemporary writer, is gone. David Foster Wallace, award-winning author of Infinite Jest and Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, took his own life on September 12.
Wallace was a writer of my generation, a postmodernist whose novels and stories offer an intimidating mess of footnotes, endnotes, technical jargon, and contemporary slang. And yet, for all their self-conscious irony and weird structure, they are intensely human and emotional, even spiritual.
In an interview, I once heard him say that his ‘goal’ was to use the postmodern aesthetic (self-consciosness, irony, fragmentation, humor) to explore very traditional themes like community, relationships, and spirituality. This, I think, was his genius. To be at once contemporary and timeless. When you sift through the dizzying strangeness, you find at the center of Wallace’s work a human heart.
There are a handful of writers whose work has profoundly impacted my life. Actually, just four: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, J.D. Salinger, a Caribbean writer named Earl Lovelace, and David Foster Wallace. Each of these writers creates what Wallace called ‘a conversation about loneliness.’ I think it was C.S. Lewis (or at least Anthony Hopkins playing C.S. Lewis) who said, ‘We read to know we’re not alone.’ I read Infinite Jest at a time when I was especially lonely and depressed. And I think reading Wallace, like reading Dostoyevsky or Salinger, invited me into this conversation about loneliness and perhaps what it takes to connect to other people. And it made me feel less alone.
In a culture saturated with mindless entertainment and easy pleasures (and therefore profound and terrifying emptiness), I am thankful for David Foster Wallace, a writer who makes us think, who reminds us how smart and creative and insightful we can be, who compels us to turn off the television and labor through a thousand page novel (100 of which are end notes) because the riches we find there are far more valuable than any ‘entertainment.’ Because it is difficult things, not easy things, that make us grow and expand our minds.
I don’t know what compelled David Foster Wallace to take his own life. But I do know that America has lost one of its most brilliant writers.
–Jesse La Tour
Posted September 6th, 2008 by RJ
We wanted thank everyone for coming out last night. Derrick Brown was amazing, the art rocked and so did the after party. If anyone has any pictures or comments about the show, please feel free to post below. We’ll have a link to pics that we took up in the next day or two.
-Hibbleton Crew
