Carmen Zella
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Carmen is an interdisciplinary artist and curator working in Los Angeles. Her home base in Montreal served to inspire and foster her MFA education in fine arts and build on a career in performance, installation and video based work. She has exhibited in such places as Mexico, England, Portugal and throughout the United States and Canada supported by art collectives and Canada Council of the Arts. Currently she is working as the executive director at a non-profit arts foundation.

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Preview: When Lucent Met Herakut at Palace Theater

Posted February 17, 2012 | 02/17/12 02:03 PM ET

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In L.A. in the historic Palace Theater on Broadway, a street art duo from Germany, Herakut, will be onstage performing with world acclaimed troupe Lucent Dossier Experience. The two have joined creative forces to create a performance about...

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InterZona Urban Art

Posted October 12, 2011 | 10/12/11 04:53 PM ET

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During the end of September I attended the InterZona festival held as a biannual festival between San Diego and Tijuana. I went specifically to observe a project created by an artist who I have worked with, Alfredo LIBRE, native to TJ but living...

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L.A. 'Street Art' in South Central at Manual Arts High

Posted July 13, 2011 | 07/13/11 04:18 PM ET

I went to Manual Arts High School during the fall of 2010, on a tip from some of the street artists who have done work there. It exceeded any description I'd been given or picture that I had formed in my mind. I immediately recognized the value of...

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London Art Festivals and the East End's Response

Posted November 4, 2010 | 11/04/10 11:41 AM ET

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Angus Braithwaite,The Moment of Conception, JTG Gallery 2010


The Frieze Art festival in London this year opened a window not only onto contemporary art from around world, but also onto the economic climate of the arts market and artists' response...

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Augustine Kofie at White Walls

Posted October 13, 2010 | 10/13/10 02:37 PM ET

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Kofie at opening

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A key player in the Urban Art movement of Los Angeles, Augustine Kofie, opened his solo...

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GERMANY on the STREETS of LA

Posted September 29, 2010 | 09/29/10 04:34 PM ET

Art helps us to understand - at times only retrospectively - how events of great importance have left their mark on the lives not only of artists, but have also informed the collective consciousness of whole societies. Art is a seismograph of experience which often reveals the common intersections within...

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Soundcrash: The Art Movement of Hip Hop

Posted August 11, 2010 | 08/11/10 03:44 PM ET

Hip hop is an art movement. Despite its mainstream appeal, the effects and associations visually and musically echo accredited fine art movements throughout history, and it's been forcefully crashing through the layers of the art establishment over the last decade. But where are you going to go to experience a...

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STREET ART: LA Exposed At Art Basel's VOLTA 6

Posted June 28, 2010 | 06/28/10 06:45 PM ET

An invitation to hang out with four of LA's best-known street artists at the biggest art fair in the world? Irresistible. It was an opportunity to be submerged in the environment of installation, photography, sculpture, performance, painting, video art and sheer inspiration at the VOLTA 6 exhibition at

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