Hotel Casa del Mar is pleased to present artist Ken Solomon as the third installment in the Live Well Again Art and Event Series. The web-surfing artist’s work will be featured from January 26 to April 20, 2011.
This exhibition will include, among others, a series of watercolors of Google Image Search results. Solomon believes Google image search is today’s contemporary encyclopedia. He creates an image by appropriating Google’s appropriation of other people’s images.
“I believe it’s an artist’s job to take an everyday item and give it another meaning. Most people use Google image search purely as a resource. If it’s regurgitated into something done by hand, you’re going to look at it with another perspective,” he said.
The exhibition includes paintings and drawings as well as three single-channel videos that demonstrate the vitality and diversity of modern and contemporary art.
These works include Ken Solomon’s Google Portrait: Genetic Optimism I (2009) and Google Portrait: Genetic Optimism II (2009) as well asKen Solomon and Marco Maggi’s timelapse video Micro and Soft on Macintosh Apple (2004).Ken is exhibiting these pieces at Hotel Casa del Mar until April 20th. Artwork is available for purchase through Cynthia Greenwald Art Advisory.
Ken Solomon will be at Hotel Casa del Mar January 26-30, 2011 and is available for commissioned work, including his custom Google Search or Facebook works.
About Hotel Casa del Mar
Originally built in 1926 as the grandest of the opulent beach club hotels and the premier playground for Hollywood ‘A-listers,’ Hotel Casa del Mar re-emerged in October 1999, following a $50 million restoration by Edward Thomas Hotels, parent company to Casa and its sister property, Shutters on the Beach. True to its indulgent past, Hotel Casa del Mar remains as one of the most well-appointed addresses on the West Coast, with luxurious décor evoking the grandeur and elegance of a European coastal experience. Known for its sophisticated accommodations and stylish public spaces, an indulgent and relaxing ambiance and extraordinary service and privacy, the beachfront escape provides 129 beautifully appointed guestrooms, including 17 suites, and panoramic views of the Pacific and Southern California shore. The signature restaurant, Catch Restaurant and Sushi Bar, offers innovative “market fresh” cuisine and spectacular vantages of picturesque sunsets in a comfortably elegant setting. A member of The Leading Hotels of the World, Hotel Casa del Mar is located at 1910 Ocean Way in Santa Monica, Calif., only 20 minutes from Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Los Angeles International Airport and adjacent to the historic Santa Monica Pier.
