Assemblage Artist Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California I want to talk about where I come from, because I think you can better understand my work if you understand the neighborhood that I grew up in. I was born and raised in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica in the 1950s, back when it was
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Opening Reception: Saturday Afternoon, July 11, 2026. 3:00 – 5:30 P.M. Exhibition Dates: July 12 – November 15, 2026 ========================================================================= “Assemblage” is a three-dimensional artistic form that involves creating sculptures or installations by assembling, joining, or “collaging” found objects, everyday items, and non-traditional materials. Coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1953, this technique repurposes discarded materials
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Artist Lou D’Elia discusses his experience photographing the iconic and legendary artist Andy Warhol, and the technical challenges of rescuing his vintage negatives and their restoration. Featured in the videos are fine art painters Augustus ‘Gus’ Harper and Gino Perez, and master photography printer Noureddine El Warari. Originally produced as a single video, it was
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In 1979 the artist was in graduate school at UCLA. He also worked part-time as a freelance photographer, including taking portrait photographs of professors for publication in UCLA’s Graduate School of Education Network Magazine. D’Elia read in a small placement article in the Los Angeles Times that Andy Warhol was coming to town to help
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From the Santa Monica Observer July 22 – 28, 2019, page 2
Adelante, The LGBT Latino Magazine May 2019, Volume 22, Issue 12 “Featured Artist: Lou D’Elia”, pages 16 – 17 Read the Article
One of D’Elia’s photo/paint Andy Warhol collaborations with fine art painter Gino Perez was featured in COVETEUR. The magazine visited the Venice California home of Patty Perreira, founder of the luxury eyewear brand Barton-Perreira, to ask what she loves about her home and the objects therein. One of the D’Elia/Perez Andy Warhol photo/paint collaborations can
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