Will.i.am presents Worlds on Fire: Grammy-Nominated Artist Exhibition
in association with Gen Art
With special DJ and host: will.i.am
Monday, February 2, 2009
Pacific Electric Lofts
610 S. Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014
www.pelofts.com
Grassroots Productions invited Gen Art members to an exhibition of curated artist portraits of Grammy-nominated artists (curated by Shooting Gallery and artist Kris Lewis, with support from artist Will.i.am), featuring 20-25 artists working in the Pop Surrealism genre including: Lori Earley, Ron English, Gary Baseman and many more. (See full list below.) The exhibition included 24 original works available for sale via silent auction.
A portion of the proceeds of the auction were donated to the Pea Pod Foundation (see info below). Prices ranged from $5k-100k for these original pieces. Fifty limited edition giclee prints are available for sale for the duration of the exhibition (prices will range from $250-400) of which all proceeds will be donated to Pea Pod Foundation. The Gallery Exhibition runs daily from 1pm-7pm through February 7th and is open to the public.
for more information about purchasing works featured in this exhibition, please contact Carrie Schupper, Director of Special Programming at cschupper@genart.org
List of artists (and musicians they are doing portraits of):
SAS CHRISTIAN – Riverview, FL (Rihanna)
LORI EARLEY – Red Bank, NJ (Madonna)
COLIN CHRISTIAN – Riverview, FL (M.I.A)
JEREMY LIPKING – Woodland Hills, CA (Snoop Dogg)
IAN JOHNSON – San Francisco, CA (Al Green)
DAVID STOUPAKIS – New York, NY (Will.i.am)
PAUL CHATEM – Los Angeles, CA (Rick Rubin)
RON ENGLISH – Jersey City, NJ (Metallica)
GREG GOSSEL – Minneapolis, MN (Jay-Z)
HENRY LEWIS – San Francisco, CA (Nas)
SHAWN BARBER – San Francisco, CA (Shawn Barber)
TRAVIS LOUIE – Red Hook, NY (Nine Inch Nails)
MATT BONE – Los Angeles, CA (Beyonce)
JOSHUA PETKER – Los Angeles, CA (Radiohead)
VAN ARNO – Los Angeles, CA (BB King)
HEIDI TAILLEFER – Montreal, CAN (Coldplay)
KRIS LEWIS - Los Angeles, CA (Beck)
MIKE MAXWELL – San Deigo, CA (Bruce Springsteen)
GARY BASEMAN & NABIL ELDERKIN - Los Angeles, CA (Kanye West)
CHRIS PUGLIESE – Hoboken, NJ (The Eagles)
HELEN GARBER – Los Angeles, CA (Will.i.am)
SAUL ARMAS – Los Angeles, CA (Lil’ Wayne)
TRAE KING – Los Angeles, CA (Duffy)
NATALIA FABIA – Los Angeles, CA (Pink)
About the Pea Pod Foundation:
Founded by will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas and Polo Molina of Grassroots Productions, The Peapod benefit concerts date back to the earliest incarnation of The Black Eyed Peas and began as charity toy drives for Los Angeles based children and local orphanages.
In 2005, The Peapod Foundation was proud to become a donor-advised fund of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), the philanthropic leader of the entertainment industry. The Peapod Foundation is run in association with Thirty-Three Productions and is based in Los Angeles, CA.
