Really great line up of artists, some of which I have known for many years. Should be a great show with pieces that won't break the bank.
Paper Trails
works on paper.
Opening Reception June 29th, 5pm-8pm.
Show runs June 29th to August 11th.
Monkeyhouse Toys
2874 Rowena Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90039
http://www.monkeyhousetoys.com for more info
"Trees and Flowers" a film by John Michael Gill. Music by The Dum Dum Girls.
"I Feel You"
I look forward on working on ceramics soon. I am so happy to have so many ideas for new ceramics. Living in Washington, as well as leaving Los Angeles has been a good change and a lot of images come to mind. Im in a really good moment in time with both my Family and clarity of ideas. Have been doing mostly small stuff lately. Experimenting with all the materials available to us today has been fun. You have to acknowledge the good times. Keep on playing...
Ceramics at Thinkspace Gallery.
Uploaded a few videos in the video section.
The site will be a work in progress for a little while. Thanks for your patience. If you have any questions feel free to email me at johnmichaelgill@aol.com.
This is simply one of the best montages of Los Angeles I have ever seen. The clip is from “The Canyons” which was written by Bret Easton Ellis who I have been a fan of since I was a teenager.
The video captures L.A. in a perfect way. Behind the polished exterior lies a deep isolation, one I know very well. In Ellis’s books Less Than Zero and its sequel Imperial Bedrooms, there are characters and situations that are very unique to L.A. A lack of empathy and a darkness. I knew people like the characters in the books. Empty, always searching but getting nowhere. As the darkness started to surround me I knew I needed to get out before I let the city devour me. Videos like this make wonder if anything would be different if I went back. Will my ghosts still be there waiting? Maybe they never left me at all. Los Angeles is a city that holds a strange energy, one that contains beauty and death at the same time. The angels might watch out for you or turn your soul black. Everything was after all, my own experience. L.A. Is just as beautiful and isolating as the clip and I am proud I grew up there. Darkness and all.
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Thank you to all who have been so wonderfully supportive over the years. Hope everyone had a great 2012.
John
