LA Exhibit Features Artists Yards and Visionary Outdoor Spaces

NewTown
Presents

My
Own Slice of The State: Outsider Garden Tour
Whose/Who’s California?, Part
1
 
Date: Saturday, July 23,
2005

Time: Maps Distributed from 10: 00 AM to 5:00 PM  (allow a
minimum of 2 hours to complete the tour)

Where to Start: Armory
Center for the Arts, Northwest, 965 N. Fair Oaks in Pasadena (take Fair Oaks
offramp from 210 and go North.  Parking in rear and on the street).  Maps will
be for sale at the building.

Tickets Prices: $3.00 for maps -
NewTown, Armory, Pasadena Art Alliance Members free

Contact:
Richard Amromin at (626)398-9278 or email at newtownart@charter.net

Transformative Yardscapes of Pasadena and Altadena
by
Annabelle Aylmer
Sue Dadd & James
Griffith
Andreas Hessing & Karen Bonfigli
Carol Ann Klimek & David
Michaels
Ben McGinty (Underground Arts Society)
Shrine (a.k.a. Brent
Spears)

My Own Slice of the State inaugurates
NewTown’s summer season with an artistically exciting, informative self-guided
tour of six wildly diverse examples of how artists transform their yards, and
outdoor living spaces and one business into highly personal works of art, from
purely whimsical to elegantly functional.  Each demonstrates a profoundly
individual take on landscape and hardscape as personal extensions of unique
aesthetic and lifestyle visions.  Unlike traditional landscaping, every aspect
of these magically transformative yardscapes is designed, constructed, planted
and nurtured by the hands of the artists … no contractors, no consultants.  The
environments span from one of the most idyllic working amphitheatres in Southern
California to quixotic towers of glass, ceramics, car tires and scrap metal to
sculpted earth, a concrete mini-village, a working micro-stream and,
weather-willing even a little tomato madness.    

Artist/owners, with
knowledge and expertise ranging from advanced horticulture to architecture and
engineering, will be on hand, sporadically throughout the day, to answer
questions, making this is a rare opportunity to glean ideas on how, with a
little imagination and a lot of creative labor, anyone can transform their
outdoor space into a vibrant reflection of their own lives.
 
As a special
bonus, the tour starts at The Armory Northwest, coinciding with the closing day
of the always provocative CalArts MFA Art Show.