LOCAL 909er

My most favorite show in 19 years of doing Art Shows.

My most favorite solo show that I have done, ever is open at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento.

 

I love the paintings and the film and the way that they are working together.

 

It's my first show since leaving the commerical gallery world completely, and I truly enjoyed creating it.  I hope you can make it to the talk and reception.

 

Enid Baxter Blader Lecture*
March 12/ 3 pm

Opening Reception
March 12 / 6 - 9 pm

 

 

Signs February 22 - March 20   Enid Baxter Blader’s “Signs” at CCAS 9 02 2011 Mystery Something (2011) Canola Oil Paint on Linen. 7 x 6.5 feet The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento will present the work of Aptos, California-based artist Enid Baxter Blader in the exhibition Signs from February 22 through March 20, 2011.  The exhibition will include her paintings and her short film, THE ORD, which documents the de-commissioned Fort Ord Army Base. A pile of bloody birds lying on the ground, a crooked rainbow formed over a burnt landscape and cows making their way through a flood are other subjects found in Blader’s paintings.  There is no rationale for optimism and no proof that things will get better.  Yet, there is a hopeful surging forward, a “cutting against the grain” in the face of uncertainty.  Sense of place is central in much of Enid’s work, as is an emphasis on the connection of opposites. A filmmaker, musician and painter, Enid’s work has been exhibited internationally including at the Smithsonian, Sundance, and as part of the Getty Museum’sretrospective of California Video, 1960-present. Enid is the chair of Teledramatic Arts at CSU Monterey Bay. Reception:  March 12, 6-9 pm Lecture*:  March 12, 3 pm *Admission is free to current CCAS members and student; general admission is $5.00.  Seating is limited, and will be on a first-come first-served basis. The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, founded in 1989, is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization/museum that is dedicated to the advancement and appreciation of new and experimental art by international, national, and regional artists. 1519 19th Street Sacramento, CA 95811

Monterey Bay Film Society Presents: Peter Sillen at the Osio

One of my hobbies is co-Directing the Monterey Bay Film Society.

 

Our next event is:

I am Secretly an Important Man
March 5th, Osio Cinemas 7pm

Director Peter Sillen will introduce the screening and take questions. Seating is limited. Film Programmer Mike Plante (Associate Programmer, Sundance and Creative Director, MBFS) will also be present at the event. Plante selected the film to screen because it fits with great literary tradition of the Monterey Bay area, while furthering the MBFS mission to continue championing films that might otherwise go unseen while supporting filmmakers who tell stories in a distinct and stylish way.

Admission is 9.00 Regular Admission (Evenings)
$6.25 Matinee / Senior / Child
$6.75 Students / Military with valid form of I.D.

 

THE ORD screening at DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn

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INFORMATION ECONOMY Exhibition Dates: January 22 - March 6, 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 22, 6-9PM

Gary Cannone and Charles Irvin, Ultimate Foreigner Setlist Prototype

Featuring work by: Josh Blackwell Enid Baxter Blader Todd Bourret Gary Cannone Barbara Choit Charles Irvin Mary Jeys & Jesse Suchmann / Brooklyn Torch Jenelle Covino Lisa Hanawalt Chuck Jones Juie Lequin Jill Newman Brian O'Connell Bill Roundy Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas Jen Schwarting Annie Shaw Jacob Weinstein Information Economy is an exhibition of the variety of ways that artists manage information in their lives. Managing, encoding, and decoding the staggering amount of stimuli, tasks and demands in our lives takes immense time and resources. How do we economize these efforts? How is energy channeled and communication achieved in the most efficient means? The artists in Information Economy present different ways of approaching these questions in their artwork. Some attempt to develop strategies for simply dealing with the sheer volume of information in our lives, such as Gary Cannone' and Charles Irvin's carefully considered ultimate set-list for the band Foreigner; Barb Choit's broadcasting of extremely localized time and temperature; Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas tower of all the archival media of the artwork, and Chuck Jones' hypnotic, frenzied video of all of the images he has downloaded over the past decade. Others look at how to be efficient with their time and attention, including Jill Newman's dual purpose curtain that is also a painting; Todd Bourret and Brian O'Connell's list of materials needed for their upcoming show at DAC; and Julie Lequin's video True Stories, in which she re-enacts the advice she has been given on how to manage her life. Bill Roundy and Annie Shaw use their art almost as journalism: Shaw through re-purposing work-for-hire street flyers, Roundy in his comic-strip column "Bar Scrawl," in which he patronizes and then reviews Brooklyn-area watering-holes. Similarly, Jen Schwarting's cubicle-divider referencing sculpture looks into the boundaries of opportunity between politics and gender. Enid Baxter Blader also has an investigative bent, as she explores the residual energies left over from an abandoned Army base in her video "The Ord." An alternative to our existing economic system is proposed by Mary Jeys through her project to create a local currency, the Brooklyn Torch. Josh Blackwell is likewise looking to alter our experiences with everyday items, though rather than cash, he is re-purposing the common plastic bag. Blackwell will use the DAC gallery as a collection center for the bags, which will then be transformed into his artwork. Information Economy is the inaugural exhibition in DAC's new home at 111 Front Street, suite 212. Throughout 2011 the theme of Economy will be explored at DAC in exhibitions, performances, workshops and talks. DAC will participate in the February 3, 2011 First Thursday gallery walk event.

Performances and Events: January 22 at 6PM Ecstatic Energy Consultants, Inc. will commemorate Dumbo Arts Center's new location (111 Front St.) and new director Karl Erickson by performing a House Blessing. EEC Inc.'s field agents Tom McKenzie and Steven L. Anderson will lead a participatory ceremony to sweep out old ghosts and usher in a positive, productive, new energy. The new era of Dumbo Arts Center begins now! February 3 at 6:30PM Mary Jeys & Jesse Suchmann, creators of the Brooklyn Torch, a local currency initiative, will be holding a swap: gallery visitors are invited to bring an item or service for exchange either immediately, or later on through available vouchers. DAC will exhibit the ledger documenting these exchanges as part of Information Economy. Feburary 13 from 6-9PM Original Cockette and archivist Rumi Missabu will present A Cocktail of Glamour and Anarchy. February 16 from 7-9PM A conversation and film screening with Rumi Missabu, moderated by NYU Professor Joe E. Jeffreys, creator of Drag Show Verite. Films will include: -PAG-THE LADY IS DEAD: director: Roy Raz 2010 - INTERIORS: director: David Riley 2010 - CHILDREN OF THE COCKETTES: director: Ben Wa (in progress) - THE GLITTER EMERGENCY: director: Paul Festa 2010 - RUMI & FRANCOIS @ CLICK + DRAG: director: Joe E. Jeffreys 2010 March 6, time TBA A new rock opera by Rachel Mason.

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Carmel Short Cinema

 

Upcoming Event

 

LOCAL 909er at Other Cinema

I love Craig Baldwin 4eva - Enid

PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHY
SAT. 9/27: GREEN/LOZANO + DEUTSCH + MCINNIS + RIVERS +
Ever committed to artist-projects around "sense of place" we're featuring Sam Green and Carrie Lozano, who present The Biggest Shopping Mall in the World, an incredible journey to an eerily empty Chinese architectural White Elephant. ALSO: Katherin McInnis' Disaster Drills, a scale-shifting short on the Bay Area Floodwater Model, Salise Hughes' (in person) reworking of the New Orleans' Katrina residue, Enid Blader's personal commentary on the early Imperial Valley flood, and Roger Deutsch's own fluid montage of personal road movies. PLUS Laida Lertxundi's (in person) 16mm Footnotes to a House of Love, Andrew Wilson's Transcendent Power and the Mirrored Rhombus Prism, and the West Coast premiere of Ben Rivers' Ah, Liberty!, a sublime cine-poem on living close to nature. 
    Welcome to our ongoing series of experimental cinema in San Francisco. We show films every Saturday at ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st). Showtime 8:30pm, admission* $6

LOCAL 909er Screenings, scheduled for Fall '08

LOCAL 909er at Orange County Museum of Art

Signals: A Video Showcase
Orange County Museum of Art
Orange Lounge, South Coast Plaza

July 26–September 14: In California Scenarios, five artists offer thoughtful, poetic meditations on significant sites in California—San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House; the animated desert landscapes of Warner Brothers cartoons, produced in their Burbank studios; the rapidly growing Inland Empire; the commuter lanes of Los Angeles; and the entropic wasteland of the Salton Sea. Jeremy Blake’s Winchester Redux (2004), Mungo Thomson’s The American Desert (for Chuck Jones) (2002), Enid Baxter Blader’s Local 909er (2008), Bia Gayotto’s Xing LA: From Altadena to Long Beach (2008), and Nicole Antebi’s Tilapia Jetty (2007) are featured.

In addition to the video programming, specially selected audio works will also be playing on the Lounge’s two listening stations.

Join featured artists and exhibition curator Carol Cheh on August 10 from 3-6 pm for an Artist Reception at the Orange Lounge!

Museum Hours & Information
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, California 92660
Phone     949-759-1122

Fax     949-759-5623

info@ocma.net

Museum Hours
Mon-Tues     CLOSED

Wed- Sun     11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Thurs     11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

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smockshop

June 27th until September 21st 2008 - At 936 Mei Ling Way in LA's Chinatown

Sunday, August 31, 2008

SCREENERS I

smockshop presents screeners I
video work for screening and for sale
September 6 - 21, 2008
summer smockshop, 936 Mei Ling Way, Chinatown, Los Angeles

reception/mass screening
September 6, 7 - 11
with live performance by
VOS - Yes, We Can Do It�

contributing artists invited by Glenn Phillips
Enid Baxter Blader, Local 909er







Sam Green, The Rainbow Man









Dale Hoyt, Works from 1981-2006









Jennifer Sullivan, One Week Walden







Invited by Kate Hillseth
Grant Falardeau, The Parrot Gang
Carson Mell, Cold Operator and Field Notes from Dimension X: Episode B-11 - Oasis

Invited by Michelle Brunnick
Animal Charm, new work�

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Riverside Public Library

Library/Author Events

All events are held in the Main Library Auditorium (2nd floor), 3581 Mission Inn Avenue unless otherwise noted. The public is invited free of charge.

Saturday, November, 22, 1 pm

Enid Baxter Blader, Local 909er

Enid Baxter Blader makes paintings, experimental films, and plays music. Her work has been presented at the Smithsonian, Sundance, and the Director's Guild of America among others. “Local 909er” is a film, a website and photographs about the Inland Empire. The project was funded by the California Council for the Humanities California Story Fund.

Signals: A Video Showcase
Orange County Museum of Art
Orange Lounge, South Coast Plaza

July 26–September 14: In California Scenarios, five artists offer thoughtful, poetic meditations on significant sites in California—San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House; the animated desert landscapes of Warner Brothers cartoons, produced in their Burbank studios; the rapidly growing Inland Empire; the commuter lanes of Los Angeles; and the entropic wasteland of the Salton Sea. Jeremy Blake’s Winchester Redux (2004), Mungo Thomson’s The American Desert (for Chuck Jones) (2002), Enid Baxter Blader’s Local 909er (2008), Bia Gayotto’s Xing LA: From Altadena to Long Beach (2008), and Nicole Antebi’s Tilapia Jetty (2007) are featured.

In addition to the video programming, specially selected audio works will also be playing on the Lounge’s two listening stations.

Join featured artists and exhibition curator Carol Cheh on August 10 from 3-6 pm for an Artist Reception at the Orange Lounge!

Museum Hours & Information
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, California 92660
Phone     949-759-1122

Fax     949-759-5623

info@ocma.net

Museum Hours
Mon-Tues     CLOSED

Wed- Sun     11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Thurs     11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

LOCAL 909er at Orange County Museum of Art

Signals: A Video Showcase
Orange County Museum of Art
Orange Lounge, South Coast Plaza

July 26–September 14: In California Scenarios, five artists offer thoughtful, poetic meditations on significant sites in California—San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House; the animated desert landscapes of Warner Brothers cartoons, produced in their Burbank studios; the rapidly growing Inland Empire; the commuter lanes of Los Angeles; and the entropic wasteland of the Salton Sea. Jeremy Blake’s Winchester Redux (2004), Mungo Thomson’s The American Desert (for Chuck Jones) (2002), Enid Baxter Blader’s Local 909er (2008), Bia Gayotto’s Xing LA: From Altadena to Long Beach (2008), and Nicole Antebi’s Tilapia Jetty (2007) are featured.

In addition to the video programming, specially selected audio works will also be playing on the Lounge’s two listening stations.

Join featured artists and exhibition curator Carol Cheh on August 10 from 3-6 pm for an Artist Reception at the Orange Lounge!

Museum Hours & Information
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, California 92660
Phone     949-759-1122

Fax     949-759-5623

info@ocma.net

Museum Hours
Mon-Tues     CLOSED

Wed- Sun     11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Thurs     11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Screening

We hope to see you at the Monterey Bay Area Premiere of TAT Professor Enid Baxter Blader's award-winning work. Enid's films were recently honored at an artist screening at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Reception at 7:00 pm., screening begins at 7:20. 

Local 909er (30 minutes) is an intimate documentary  about the transformation of a rural landscape into a suburban mall.

The Secret Apocalyptic Love Diaries  (12 minutes) is an experimental short exploring personal interpretations of apocalypse in the 21st century

Screenings

THIS THURSDAY! 
Where do tech worker health & welfare, community safety, and environmental concerns intersect? 
Take part in the Social Justice Colloquium Film to find out!

FREE: University Center 6-9pm
Short Film, Keynote, Panel, Audience Q/A, and Reception
More info at: http://sbs.csumb.edu/site/x17852.xml
The Division of Social, Behavioral and Global Studies Presents the 12th Annual
SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLOQUIUM
EARTH JUSTICE
IS SOCIAL JUSTICE       

INCLUDES
film screening:

Enid Blader's
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with

Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Victoria Rue
Enid Blader
Diana Garcia
Angie Tran

FREE

[ http://csumb.edu/socialjustice ]csumb.edu/
socialjustice       
thursday
april 3rd
6pm
CSUMB
University
Center
For more information or disability services, contact marisa_mercado@csumb.edu or call (831) 582-4189.