Praccis

Come to GATE Projects reception Feb. 25

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• Reception for the artists and closing reception for INCREMENTS February 25, 2011 from 7-10PM at 101 N. Brand Ave. Suite 140. Glendale, CA 91203

• Parking available West of Brand Boulevard on Orange (90 min free) and in Glendale City Center (paid).

Glendale Area Temporary Exhibitions (GATE) is pleased to present new works by Srboohie Abajian, Jeremy J. Quinn, and P. Williams. Occupying display windows on W. Broadway, just east of Brand Blvd., Abajian’s mixed media installation of drawings and paintings on scrims of fabric will address how we assign value to commercial and personal objects. Williams’ distinctly graphic sculpture will form the centerpiece of window installations on the opposite side of the street. Quinn will transform 116 E. Wilson Ave into a street level billboard and multimedia installation, which will prompt viewers to ponder the future.

February 25 will also mark the closing reception for INCREMENTS, featuring art by Jonathan Cecil and Yumi Kinoshita, Karen Frimkess Wolff and Dori Atlantis, David O. Johnson, William Kheel, Mark Lere, Dillon Markey, Cynthia Minet, Scott Raby, James Rojas, and Carrie Ungerman. For more information visit gateprojects.org

Why We Fight

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Winner of the 2005 Sundance Grand Jury Award, Why We Fight is a film examining the political and economic interests and ideological factors, past and present, influencing American militarism. Working closely with writer director Eugene dreckie on this critically acclaimed documentary, Cletus Daglish-Schommer provided creative consulting shaping the thematic art direction for the film. Additionally, Daglish-Schomer conducted extensive research, developing questions for interviews with a number of high-ranking officials including William Crystal, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Pearl.

Seso

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Praccis works collaboratively as astrategic partner with the Los Angeles and Vienna based Seso media group, providing branding expertise to Seso’s numerous clients.

For more information on seso

visit seso.net.

Fuel Links

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Now known as Metrosplash Systems Group, Metrosplash / Fuel Links markets a fuel rewards credit card enabling users to earn money towards free gas and free medicine. After attracting the attention of a national audience of consumers and business partners, the company brought in Daglish-Schommer to redesign is brand identity and website. Working with designer Volker Durre, Praccis art directed the project taking the companies old image burdened with a confusing message and transforming it into a clean, concise identity evoking feelings of health, fluidity and movement, culminating in the entire redesign of the parent company’s website and a new print campaign targeting 20 million consumers.

Westwood House

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Clients approached Praccis to transform a property in Westwood. We created a radical new space plan adding two new bedrooms and an expanded kitchen. An exterior facelift integrated pool and patio while the master suite balcony now opens to views of the Getty museum.

Malibu House

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Praccis recently was the lead designer for the remodel of a multi-million dollar home in Malibu, CA. The house was transformed from an out-of date beach house to a uniquely modern sea-front home.

Palisades house

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The challenge here was to add a new guest suite to this one story bungalow. An entirely new garage with living space above was created in keeping with the homes original style.

Access to the guest space as well as the outdoor patio was reconfigured to create a new outdoor living space in the process.

About Praccis

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Praccis brings a wealth of experience across the fields of art, design, media and marketing. Through active collaboration we align the right resources with the right creative direction.

Our Team:

Cletus Dalglish-Schommer

Chief Creative Director

Cletus brings an interdisciplinary approach to translating challenges into opportunities and developing creative solutions. Before launching the branding consultancy, HotWaterGroup, in Los Angeles, Cletus worked with Ogilvy & Mather Interactive, and managed business development and national marketing programs for American Express in New York. Cletus also teaches at Otis College of Art and Design.

Erik Qvale

Public Art Director

Erik Qvale is a public art and design consultant with experience working with multiple government agencies, arts organizations, and private developers to provide project management in the fields of Public Art, Design, Fine Art, and Real Estate Development.

His experience includes the coordination of artist/architect design collaborations for permanent and temporary art projects. His management services include the facilitation of the artist selection process, community participation, design development through to fabrication and installation, and the administration of contracts and budgets.

Tucker Neel

Curator, Project Manager

Tucker Neel brings extensive art, writing, curatorial and project management experience to Praccis.

As Fine Arts Coordinator for the 2007 Live Earth concerts he curated and organized fine artists from around the globe, including Vik Muniz, Scott Grieger, Katie Holten and Peter Blake, to create unique posters to raise money for Al Gore’s Alliance For Climate Protection, a non-profit dedicated to fighting the causes of global warming. At the same time he collaborated with THE_GROOP, an award-winning online branding company in Los Angeles and project managed an international selection of graphic designers and artists to create dynamic venue-specific identities, t-shirts, posters, and stage sets for each of the seven Live Earth concerts.

As curatorial assistant to Joanne Stuhr Curatorial Services in Tucson, AZ he managed and archived multi-million dollar private collections of contemporary, modern, and Pre-Columbian art.

He currently manages and edits the collected works of Marcia Tucker, founder of The New Museum in New York City, compiling and archiving these writings for future publication.

Additionally, he is Vice President and co-editor for GYST-Ink, an arts services company providing software, classes and support to artists to help them develop their professional practice and build business skills.

As an artist he has shown in venues across the US and has been reviewed in The L.A. Times, The Nashville Scene, ArtWeek, The Tennessean, The LA City Beat, artforum.com and flavorpill.com. You can see his complete projects at tuckerneel.com

He regularly publishes his writings about art in the L.A. Alternative Newspaper and Artillery Magazine in Los Angeles and Art Lies in Huston. You can read his published writings at tuckerneel.wordpress.com.

He founded (323) Projects in 2010. (323) Projects exists to provide a dispersed, peripatetic, and constantly accessible venue for artists of all kinds who seek to explore issues important to their respective practices. The artists involved with (323) Projects provide, create, or perform works that can be appreciated in bits and pieces, and at more than one time, in both public and private spaces, by an unseen, yet omnipresent, local and international audience. You can access (323) Projects by dialing (323) 843-4652 or (323) TIE-IN-LA. For more information visit www.323projects.com

Neutra Apartments

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Famed architect Richard Neutra designed the Poster apartments as one of his many celebrated Los Angeles projects to demonstrate the egalitarian possibilities of modern design.

As part of a charity fundraiser to celebrate the rehabilitation of this modernist gem, a handful of designers, including Praccis, were selected to stage a creative interprations of contemporary life in this Neutra classic.

Angelus House

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Praccis is currently in the preliminary phase of designing a home to showcase our ideas on modern living and Green design.

Aiming for LEED

Platinum certification and minimal construction waste, the project takes advantage of the features of a narrow lot in the hills of Silverlake, Los Angeles.