Cathy Bartels

2012-01-18T11:37:00.000-08:00

Laguna Art Museum Art Auction 2012

2012-01-11T10:36:00.000-08:00

‎"In Washington DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After about four minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musi...cian playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to meet his schedule. About four minutes later, the violinist received his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk. At six minutes, a young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again. At ten minutes, a three-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent - without exception - forced their children to move on quickly. At forty-five minutes: The musician played continuously. Only six people stopped and listened for a short while. About twenty gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32. After one hour: He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed and no one applauded. There was no recognition at all. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music. This is a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities. This experiment raised several questions: In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? If so, do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context? One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made… How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?" Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myq8upzJDJc Click "like" at : http://www.facebook.com/WeddingLiveBandTheRawNote Thanks ^^

2011-12-10T13:55:00.001-08:00

The Contemporary Collectors Council of the Laguna Art Museum visited my studio today. It was a treat for me:

2011-11-21T07:32:00.001-08:00

See my leopard cube table in Interior Design Magazine:http://www.interiordesign.net/newproducts/Furniture/index-4.php

Joseph Arthur - We Stand As One (#occupywallstreet)

2011-11-09T10:37:00.000-08:00

25 Ways to Wear a Scarf in 4.5 Minutes!

2011-10-28T09:10:00.000-07:00

C STUDIO leopard cube table

2011-08-18T12:27:00.000-07:00

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occca ENERGY show

2011-07-29T16:03:00.000-07:00

ENERGY show curated by Howard Fox, former curator for LACMA, at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art--- opening reception August 6th 6-10 pm. I'm happy to be in it!
http://www.occca.org/

CIMG0007

2011-07-08T21:25:00.000-07:00

Rhomboids playing at a store opening on Valencia St, Mission District, SF.

2011-06-26T09:48:00.000-07:00

Here's a track to start your day:
tobealive by Rhomboids

L1020241.MOV

2011-06-24T13:17:00.000-07:00

2011-04-16T17:05:00.000-07:00

head gallery
165 e. broadway
new york,
NY 34887
+212 477 5006
http://www.headgallery.org/spinal_spinal.html

Head Gallery invites you to My Spinal Cord Traversed by the Axis of the Planet, an exhibition that "exists" as a stream of indeterminate white-code, punctuated by a series of contingent meaning-units (postulated artworks), that moves through the directionless plenum and time-bends against which orbital space shores up. It accelerates in an abyssal "vertical" plunge, masked as an effort to trace the abstract lineaments of a post-solar gravitational vacuum. It's total illusory narrativizing or phantasmic integument-production as refusal to accept the coming meltdown, absolute material dissolution. The end of the mesh, networkscapes, Spirit, objects, Real. An ultimate context of no-context. The white-code speeds through deep space in a mock mission of alien contact as parody of the futile galactic transversality wish-work of uploaded and deep-stored consciousness. Like the white-code, emancipated from the gravitational slavery of the terrestrial, uploaded and catapulted consciousness as survival mechanism is left to spin in the vortex of its own unimaginative existence as solution to anything. A mixture of self-generated binary couplets, DNA string sequencing, ancient Latin, Koranic braille, cthulhic runes, pre-dessiac hieroglyph, and Zoroastrian symbols, the white-code and the meaning-units it pulls along are mathematics breaking down in the dissipative zoom of matter, "measured" by a better instrument than the metric regimes of biomass prejudice. The Axis of the Planet Traversed by the Inviolable Linearity of the Dissipative Drive of Matter and Energy.

Bartels live at A Night of Voices 8.8.8

2011-03-11T10:27:00.000-08:00

True-D on Radio Voices

2011-02-09T09:12:00.000-08:00

Rhomboids...yeah

Mixed Media Series by Me relating to my script "Let the Music Start (Soundscape in Blue)"

2011-01-27T06:27:00.001-08:00

Mixed Media Series by Me relating to my script "Let the Music Start (Soundscape in Blue)"

Grandaddy - Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland

2010-12-21T14:21:00.000-08:00

Searching/ Straining by Rhomboids

2010-10-27T21:42:00.000-07:00

Pete Yorn - "Velcro Shoes" on Jimmy Fallon

2010-10-16T10:20:00.000-07:00

2010-09-12T21:59:00.000-07:00

Artist Marlo Bartels sits with his wife Cathy by his displayed work during the Festival of Arts Pageant : Entertainment Photo

2010-09-05T23:10:00.000-07:00

Artist Marlo Bartels sits with his wife Cathy by his displayed work during the Festival of Arts Pageant :
Entertainment Photo: ANA P. GUTIERREZ, FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Rhomboids - Don't Get Comfy

2010-08-30T10:53:00.000-07:00

"Crashing Surf"

2010-08-29T19:41:00.000-07:00

"Always"

2010-07-27T15:54:00.000-07:00

More Recent Art

2010-07-09T16:11:00.000-07:00

Sparkoc.com - VISUAL ARTS & MUSEUMS | Cathy Bartels: New Work | Five Feet | Five Feet

2010-06-18T21:29:00.000-07:00

Sparkoc.com - VISUAL ARTS & MUSEUMS | Cathy Bartels: New Work | Five Feet | Five Feet

2010-05-17T09:12:00.000-07:00

_______________________
NEW WORK
new mixed media by
CATHY BARTELS

June 27 - August 28, 2010

Michael Kang / Five Feet Restaurant
328 Glenneyre Street
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
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RECENT ART

2010-04-13T14:07:00.001-07:00

SCREENPLAY SERIES

2010-04-13T14:06:00.001-07:00

ART 2000-2009

2010-04-13T14:05:00.001-07:00

COLLAGES

2010-04-13T14:04:00.001-07:00

C STUDIO / POPCYCLE STICKS

2010-04-13T14:03:00.001-07:00

The Book of Love

2010-04-13T14:02:00.001-07:00

2009-11-22T15:55:00.001-08:00

2009-10-29T08:19:00.000-07:00

OC Weekly/ Coker writes:
The struggle to save a crazy-colorful fountain sculpture created by the internationally recognized Marlo Bartels has been resolved, according to the Laguna Beach artist's wife.

The whimsical-but-functional fountain was unveiled in the Irvine Regional Hospital lobby upon the facility's 1990 opening to great fanfare. After all, Bartels' sculptures grace parks, museums and the inside of rich people's homes around Southern California and the world. "Marlo is clearly one of the most important contemporary public sculpture artists to be working on the West Coast," Laguna Art Museum director Bolton Colburn stated in a letter urging the saving of the fountain.

The hospital's previous owner abandoned the sprawling complex along Sand Canyon Avenue near the 405 freeway in December 2008. Shortly after leasing the space in February, Newport Beach-based Hoag Hospital decided the large art piece didn't fit with a redesign aimed at upgrading the medical facility to today's standards.

(took out the "reason" why the fountain feature wasn't on at the hospital. The true reason was that they didn't want to perform the maintenance required and the water didn't splash out.)

At the least, Bartels wanted his piece relocated within the hospital. He, his wife and Colburn appealed to Irvine Mayor Sukhee Kang, Orange County's art community and the Hoag board of directors.

"Marlo has a legacy here and this piece must be preserved," explained his wife, Cathy Bartels.

"Removing it would destroy it," Bartels said of the fountain at the time.

As the artist and the museum director sought intervention, Hoag management offered to hold off demolishing the fountain while the artist could make arrangements to relocate it--so long as it was relocated to somewhere other than the Irvine hospital.

That finally happened, reports Cathy Bartels.

"The good news is now that Marlo's sculpture will be placed in Laguna Beach with the help of Community Arts Project (C.A.P.) in Laguna Beach," she writes in a message to the Weekly. "They funded the removal of the sculpture and will now find the perfect location and possibly revive the fountain aspect of the piece. I'm very happy!"

The sculpture now resides in a storage space until a public location in Laguna Beach is found by the C.A.P.

"That takes a little more time but they are looking and working on that. We're both very happy about this," said Cathy Bartels, who added the couple would like to publicly thank the C.A.P. for taking up the cause.

Besides re-doing the lobby, Hoag plans to open a new emergency room and acute care facility in Irvine in 2010.

Cathy writes:
I would also like to publicly thank EVERYONE who helped with letters, phone calls and just general support. Thank You!It was really wonderful - the outpourly of support about this.

Huge THANK YOUS:
to Sian Poeschl, Arts Commission laision for the City of Laguna Beach for her phone calls to Hoag Hospital as well as to C.A.P. which directly led to their support for the future placement of the sculpture in Laguna Beach

to Dickran Tashjian of Berkeley, formerly Professor of Interdisipline Studies at U.C.I. and a world Dada and Surrealist Expert and author, for your letters to the mayor of the City of Irvine and to Hoag Hospital Board of Directors.

to Bolton Colburn, Director of Laguna Art Museum, for your perfect letter that was sent to Hoag Hospital Board of Directors, the mayor of the City of Irvine and to the press.

to the Mayor of Irvine, Sukee Kang, for your letters of support for the artwork to Hoag Hospital in Irvine.

And thank you all who wrote letters to this blog showing your support. A happy ending we got!

UPDATE: Several organizations were vying for the sculpture. St. Mary's Church on Park Avenue in Laguna Beach, CA. will be receiving it. It is to be installed and incorporated into the landscape in the front with the fountain feature functioning with thanks to C.A.P. (Community Arts Organiztion).

New Home Found for Marlo Bartels' Disputed Fountain Sculpture

2009-10-22T09:54:00.000-07:00

"Argyle"

2009-10-05T19:29:00.001-07:00

MySpace Music Playlist

2009-07-20T21:12:00.001-07:00

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2009-07-17T12:46:00.000-07:00

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2009-07-16T17:23:00.000-07:00

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Pay the Artists - The Atlantic (July/August 2009)

2009-07-02T09:03:00.001-07:00

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2009-06-27T14:15:00.000-07:00

These bags are prototypes so there's one of each!

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Collectors Choice

2009-05-22T14:36:00.000-07:00

This fundraiser I've donated to. It's a fun event and all of the artists will be wearing red...in some form...

"The View of the Workings" is the piece (see the eye in background):

The Orange Curtain

2009-05-21T20:43:00.000-07:00

"Art" Stands in the Way of Demolition at Irvine Hospital
OC Weekly - Santa Ana,CA,USA
"Marlo has a legacy here and this piece must be preserved," says his wife, Cathy Bartels. "Removing it would destroy his work." Colburn drafted a letter ...

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/art-stands-in-the-way-of-demol/