Can't Get No Satisfaction

From Art to Life

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Toshiro and Mas Koizumi enjoying a mattress bunny

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Mattress Bunnies

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Bunny Headress and Mattress Bunnies

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*View of Participants Guns

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*Several pieces are not included in this shot as they are in the windows.

Partial Installation View

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Leonel Cruz
paint
Arrived from Boyle Heights, California on October 25, 2005

Vulture Logo T-shirt

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Available in various colors and various sized salvaged shirts.
$10 at Walled City
$15 ppd

Gun No. 1 T-shirt

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Available in various colors and various sized salvaged shirts.
$10 at Walled City
$15 ppd

Gun No. 2 T-shirt

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Available in various colors and various sized salvaged shirts
$10 at Walled City
$15 ppd

Reception: October 22 at Walled City

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Can't Get No Satisfaction

An installation examining capitalism's inability to scratch the itch comprised of re-constructed post-consumer cast-offs found on the streets of Los Angeles

by Edith Abeyta
with contributions by: Robert Abeyta Jr., Eric Anthony, Marshall Astor, Javier Barboza, John M. Bennett, Jeremy Carnahan, Leonel Cruz, Carina DiMarcellis, Mia Farrell, Bean Gilsdorf, Dan Gilsdorf, Michele Hubacek, Andy Jenkins, Nicholas Klemek, Tony Larson, Betsy Lohrer Hall, Alexis Mackenzie, Issac McKay-Randozzi, Nan, Regina O'Brien, Ert O'Hara, Merry-Beth Noble, Claire Reay, Lisa Romero, Michael Row, Valerie Scott, Allyson Shaw, Sighn, Robert Tower, Rebecca Trawick, Porous Walker, and Hague Williams

October 22 - November 20, 2005
Reception - Saturday, October 22, 7-10 PM
Walled City
309 West 7th Street
San Pedro, CA 90731
310-985-9714

Walled City is proud to present Can’t Get No Satisfaction, a project by Los Angeles artist Edith Abeyta. Abeyta works with materials that have been abandoned, thrown away, shunned and otherwise have become trash. Considered meaningless, these materials linger on the streets where she finds them and brings purpose to their post-use existence.

Can’t Get No Satisfaction contains two complementary ideas. First, is a critique of the street art phenomenon that espouses rebellion, but whose intentions contain the raw mimicry of the advertising campaigns that multinational corporations engage in to promote their “brands.” The pressure to have a successful street art “campaign” distinctly apes the competitive and corporate atmosphere found in any marketing department. Secondly, it serves as a reminder of the inability and failure of capitalism to satisfy, despite the environment of excess and abundance that it creates.

Abeyta has termed this her “sellout show.” A horde of friends and artists have been invited to make art from handgun shaped pieces of wood that she has cut from discarded furniture, mocking the way street artists are brought together to paint donated Nike shoes, record covers and other paraphernalia of big business. Rather than sell Pabst Blue Ribbon to trucker hat hipsters, Abeyta will be hawking commemorative shot glasses, custom printed with the exhibition’s title, and soaking the crowd with whiskey. T-shirts bearing her vulture logo will be sold prominently and aggressively, aping the business model of Street Art, which itself apes the business model of big business.

Special thanks to Bob, Rob, Nan, Marshall, Michele, Javier, Karen, Pamela, and Brendan for offerring their assistance at various stages of the project and to all the artists who contributed their work to the show.

Tears for a Clown

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Rob Abeyta Jr.
paint
Arrived from Lomita, California on October 22, 2005

Banging

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Sighn
mixed media
Arrived from Chicago, Illinois on October 22, 2005

Shoot Your Mouth Off

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Regina O'Brien
speakers, wood, fabric, wire
Arrived from Los Feliz, California on October 22, 2005

Avian Flu Awareness Project Alpha (Death is on the Wing)

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Marshall Astor
mixed media
Arrived from San Pedro, California on October 21, 2005

How to Carve a Pistol Out of a Bar of Soap

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Michele Hubacek
soap
Arrived from San Pedro, California on October 21, 2005

Unloaded

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Merry-Beth Noble
mixed media
Arrived from Chicago, Illinois on October 20, 2005

Untitled

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Tony Larson
mixed media
Arrived from Long Beach, California on October 20, 2005

Spoiled, Stale, too old...

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Carina DiMarcellis
mixed media
Arrived from Napa, California on October 20, 2005

What Comes Around Goes Around

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Hague Williams
screenprint, pencil, ink on paper
Arrived from Chicago, Illinois on October 20, 2005

Untitled

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Jeremy Carnahan
paint
Arrived from Long Beach, California on October 20, 2005

Beautiful Cherry Wood Stain

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Robert Tower
stain
Arrived from Echo Park, California on October 20, 2005

I'll take a shot in the dark and say that most handgun related crime is carried out by men and cops.

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Eric Anthony
paint
Arrived from Long Beach, California on October 20, 2005

Bleeding Guns

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Alexis Mckenzie
mixed media
In transit from San Francisco, California

Solea

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Nan
mixed media
Arrived from Lincoln Heights, California on October 18, 2005

Anda y que te den un tiro,
Que no se jase con nade
Lo que tu has hecho conmigo

I hope you get shot,
So you don't do with no one
What you done to me

Untitled

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Nicholas
graphite
Arrived from San Pedro on October 16, 2005

Shoot a Bird: Win a Prize

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Allyson Shaw
mixed media
Arrived from London, England on October 15, 2005

Life's a Dirty Rat

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Mike Row and Allyson Shaw
mixed media
Arrived from London, England on October 15, 2005

Toast on 16th

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Issac McKay-Randozzi
mixed media
Arrived from San Francisco, California on October 13, 2005

Untitled

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Lisa Romero
mixed media
Arrived from San Francisco, California on October 13, 2005

Emulation

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Claire Reay
mixed media
Arrived from London, England on October 12, 2005

The wrong way, don't take this, #8...."A cats butt is no place to hide a pistol" (no animals were hurt making this art, except me.)

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Porous Walker
mixed media
Arrived from Napa, California on October 18, 2005

In Process

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Wood Source October 6, 2005

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Avenue 60 and Echo, Los Angeles, California

Untitled

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Betsy Lohrer Hall
mixed media
Arrived from Long Beach, California on October 6, 2005

Binky

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Ert O'Hara
mixed media
Arrived from San Francisco on October 5, 2005

Untitled

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Javier Barboza
mixed media
Arrivd from Boyle Heights, California on October 5, 2005

Wood Source October 3, 2005

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Avenue 39 and Carlota, Los Angeles, California

Wood Source October 3, 2005

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Pasadena and Avenue 31, Los Angeles, California

Wood Source October 3, 2005

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Barranca and Humboldt, Los Angeles, California

Cozy-Happiness is a Warm Gun

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Valerie Scott
mixed media
Arrived from Pomona, California on October 1, 2005

Wood Source October 1, 2005

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Figueroa and Avenue 37, Los Angeles, California

Untitled

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Bean Gilsdorf
mixed media
Arrived from Portland, Oregon on October 1, 2005

Untitled

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Daniel Gilsdorf
mixed media
Arrived from Portland, Oregon on October 1, 2005

Fabric Source September 8, 2005

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1500 block of Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles, California

Wood Source September 8, 2005

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Echo Park Avenue and Morton Avenue, Los Angeles, California

Dispersion To:

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Robert Abeyta Jr., Alexis, Eric Anthony, Javier Barboza, John M. Bennett, Jeremy Carnahan, Leonel Cruz, Carrina DiMarcellis, Mia Farrell, Bean Gilsdorf, Dan Gilsdorf, Andy Jenkins, Tony Larson, Betsy Lohrer Hall, Nan, Merry-Beth Noble, Lisa Romero, Valerie Scott, Robert Tower, Rebecca Trawick, Porous Walker

Random Placement in Public Places:
Long Beach, MOCA, and Chinatown

Multiple Guns Mailed to:
Chicago, Illinois c/o You Are Beautiful; Eureka, California c/o First Street Gallery; London, England c/o Allyson Shaw and Mike Row; Munich, Germany c/o Nicky Cacavas; Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia c/o Liz at Space 1026; Portland, Oregon c/o Reading Frenzy; and San Pedro, California c/o Marshall Astor

Untitled, 2005

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Rebecca Trawick
mixed media
Arrived from Fontana, California on September 7, 2005

Top Meat Mud Gun

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John M. Bennett
plywood and ink
Arrived from Columbus, Ohio on August 15, 2005

The Weeping Women

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Mia Farrell
plywood, acrylic, watercolor, and paper
Arrived from San Pedro, California on August 20, 2005

Wood Source September 2, 2005

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Avenue 20 and Barranca, Los Angeles, CA

Fabric Source September 1, 2005

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108th and Compton, Los Angeles, California

Wood Source August 15, 2005

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Santa Ana and Wilmington, Los Angeles, California

Wood Source and Fabric Source August 12, 2005

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99th Street and Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

40th Anniversary of the Watts Riots

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August 11, 1965 the Watts riots began at 116th and Avalon. Commemorate the occassion and take to the streets.

Get Your Gun Now

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I am cutting out guns from wooden furniture that I find on the streets of Los Angeles and would like to send one to you to intepret to be included in my installation, "Can't Get No Satisfaction," that opens October 22, 2005 at Walled City Gallery. If your piece sells you get 60 per cent.

Style No. 1

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Wood Source August 1, 2005

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Desk and other pieces found at 1885 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Cutting Guns

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