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"Arizona 911 Carnage from the US Border"

Neil Bernstein
Famed Holocaust Artist
About the Artist

Bernstein's controversial memorial works (paintings, sculpture and architectural structures) are exhibited and acquired by museums and collectors throughout the world. The works are historically grounded in world events using an ecclectic collision of disparate elements which range from the sacred to the profane. "My purpose has always been to provide the public with something more potent and effective than the commonplace - a means of transformation - mythological beasts - for issues like 9/11 and the holocaust - a representation of the un-representational"

Bernstein has lectured at colleges and appeared on numerous tv programs to discuss 9/11 and art.

ARTIST’s STATEMENT: “Induced by the tempests of innovation, my studios breed a mythological vessel and alter-world for the interpretation of historically significant events. Catalytic cyclones, the works mix classic car parts, carnival implements, vintage motorcycle… with archeological and sacred materials (World Trade Center debris, egyptian pyramid dust, carnage remnants…)”. NB.

Exhibit features...

 


The Artist setting up the exhibit




Ennubus, after the build

 
   


Front window display

  


Neil Bernstein, right, answering questions

 


The latest Remote Installation:

Installed in Arivaca, Arizona on the 22nd of February.  Vandalized days later, the artist has rebuilt and rededicated this memorial to those who have died in the desert, seeking America.
 

"A Retrospective"

Michael Hyatt
 Since 1968, photographer Michael Hyatt’s work has ranged from street photography in Boston, Los Angeles, Mexico and Ireland to documenting the performances and backstage activities of prominent punk rock and roots rock bands in Los Angeles from 1980 to 1986. Since moving to Arizona in late 1986, his camerawork has focused on a variety of subjects including the U.S./Mexico borderlands.

Key pieces of Mr. Hyatt’s Migrant Artifacts (an unsettling view of the perilous trek that has become one of the most controversial issues in today's national and international political debate) were featured in the recent Heart’s Path Exhibit at El Ojito Springs, which ran from October 2007 to January 2008.

Included in this retrospective are:
Rock Scene – Los Angeles
While a student at Moorpark College in California in 1969 Mr. Hyatt captured the anti-war movement and the folksingers around campus. During a trip to Ireland in 1979 he photographed The Boy Scouts following their performance at an anti-nuclear demonstration (see Ireland portfolio at his website: www.michael-hyatt.com). Upon his return to Los Angeles he documented The Plugz, one of Hollywood’s seminal punk rock bands. This exhibit also includes provocative photos of Los Angeles rock band X taken between the years 1980-1983 and Vanilla, an icon of the Hollywood punk scene.

5th and Wall Street – Los Angeles
Mr. Hyatt began photographing Skid Row in Los Angeles in 1972. During this time he was working on a documentary film that Charles Pavlich was making about two residents of the Chapman Hotel on the corner of 5th and Wall Street. While editing the film he met and photographed many of the other hotel residents and their neighbors. Whether on the street or on the roof, he found something or someone interesting to photograph at 5th and Wall Street.

Along The Migrant Trail
Since 2002 Mr. Hyatt has followed the efforts of Humane Borders (the volunteer organization that places water stations in the desert to help prevent migrant deaths, and lobbies for a more humane border policy), Samaritans and No More Deaths. Images in this series illustrate an annual walk for migrants, a water station in the desert, migrants near the Arizona/Mexico border, a mysterious form near a migrant camp and more.

 Michael’s most recent books, Migrant Artifacts: Magic and Loss in the Sonoran Desert, and Organ Pipe – Life on the Edge are on sale at El Ojito Springs in conjunction with the exhibit.

"Coppelia's View"

Coppelia Tarantal




Updated March 4, 2008