Capital Offense Opened at Beacon Arts Building! PhotoJournal by Ginger Van Hook 2012

Renée Fox and Jennifer Gradecki
have curated "Capital Offense"
which opened at Beacon Arts Building in Inglewood, CA.
Standing in front of an artwork titled
"Your money or your life" Renée Fox posed for photographs
for the opening reception.
Photo by Ginger Van Hook©2012

In an era that is increasingly hostile towards Capitalism (since folks have lost homes, lost faith in the banking system and lost faith in governments), Beacon Arts Building reveals the undercurrents of dis-satisfaction that a greedy money laundering lifestyle can promote. Artwork that dispels the mythology behind the wizardry of financial doom in a marketplace rickety from the weight of lies and trails of missing mortgage paper, Curators Renée Fox and Jennifer Gradecki dare to explore the shady aspects of the current global economic crisis and the shrinking canvas of our financial earth. 

"Capital Offense" The END(S) OF CAPITALISM

 Exhibition runs through March 11, 2012. 

Beacon Arts Building 808 North La Brea, Inglewood, CA 90302 

Photojournal by Ginger Van Hook ©2012

Beacon Arts presents Capital Offense: The End(s) of Capitalism, curated by Jennifer Gradecki and Renée Fox, which presents a selection of artwork and writing chosen for its clarity in questioning, exposing and reflecting upon various aspects of the current global economic crisis and neoliberal global capitalism.

TWCDC, (Together We Can Defeat Capitalism), a group that has been fighting capitalism

 since 1997 is honored to be included. Exhibiting two video pieces, 

“Pignapped – An Anti-Capitalist Adventure" from 2010 

and "Will Work" from 2002. 

Artwork by Flora Kao. Photo by Ginger Van Hook©2012

One of my favorite art pieces in the show "Capital Offense"

 is the exhibit of the crickets eating up the dollar bills 

with the megaphone to enhance the sound of their chewing up the money. 

This scene was perhaps the most powerful metaphor 

of how our good dollars are getting eaten away

 by inflation, mis-management or...you name it. 

The LOOP Show captured attention for revealing some of the most uniquely beautiful applications of recycled materials in art! Photo Journal by Ginger Van Hook

In a simply amazing display of creativity using recycled materials, artists from the LOOP SHOW curated by China Adams gained notoriety for having adapted sheer volumes of plastic, paper, cassette tape, staples, coffee filters, clothespins, dolls, color pallet papers, metal, wood,  automobile body parts, glitter and God knows what other throw away items into a cohesive vibrant exhibition of Fine Art at the Beacon Arts Building. Yes, putting together all these items would overwhelm even the truest artist among us, yet China Adams found just the right balance of artists to reveal the obsessive qualities that are possible and inherent in the art-making process. Masterfully constructed works also included work from the recently dearly departed, Inglewood Artist, Dustin Shuler, with his rendition of a Mercedez Benz, flattened like a pancake. Speaking of which, pancakes were served at the closing reception and artist talk & walk-thru January 15, 2012. When people say the Devil is in the Details, they will remember the LOOP SHOW, for sure! --Ginger Van Hook©2012

Renée Fox, BAB Director and Loop Show Curator China Adams
at the Beacon Arts Building Opening Reception for the LOOP SHOW!
Photo by Ginger Van Hook©2012

Renée Fox / Director Beacon Arts Building 

808 N. La Brea Ave. Inglewood CA 90302  phone 310.621.5416

www.beaconartsbuilding.com

Doug Harvey, artist, writer and curator contributed works on paper for the LOOP Show at the
Beacon Arts Building in Inglewood, CA. Photo by Ginger Van Hook©2012

Art Work by Doug Harvey,
also the Co-curator of "THE CHAIN LETTER" Show
with Christian Cummings in the summer of  2011
(A show that created quite a stir off the 10 freeway exit to Cloverfield,  in Santa Monica
 causing street congestion due to over 1600 artists coming to drop off work at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
in the Bergamot Station.)
 Photo by Ginger Van Hook ©2012

Anne Hieronymus, looks over her artwork created out of recycled materials at the Beacon Arts Building.
Photo by Ginger Van Hook©2012

Fashion created by China Adams.
Photo by Ginger Van Hook©2012

Fashion created by China Adams.Photo by Ginger Van Hook©2012

Fashion created by China Adams.
Photo by Ginger Van Hook©2012

Fashion created by China Adams.
Photo by Ginger Van Hook©2012

Artwork created by the dearly departed Inglewood Artist Dustin Shuler.
Photo by Ginger Van Hook ©2012