Around Art Walk: October, 2008

By Ed Fuentes
Published: Friday, October 10, 2008, at 09:09PM

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Phantom Galleries at the P.E. Lofts.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — October's Downtown Art Walk had the first visible dip in attendance since April. That didn't concern many gallery owners who credit the reduction in -- and in some cases the elimination of -- alcohol being served during Art Walk night.

Still, Main street between 4th and 5th was filled with people lingering on the street well past 10pm. The crowd started outside Pete's and stretched all the way past the Regent Theater. That's still an eye-catching sight in a neighborhood that was so recently a very different place.

Take a look at some of the sights from October's Art Walk...

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Farmers and Merchant's Bank, site of blogdowntown's "Take it to the Bank," which featured live screenprinting by Hit+Run.

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The Exchange on 5th street was site of a voter registration drive where a full line of Obama wear could be purchased.

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"Snap to Grid" at The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art was packed all evening.

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Armed with copies of Dame Darcy’s graphic novels, fans compared original art on display at BGFA to their personal archives.

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Robert Vargas takes 15 minutes per person to sketch and always gathers a crowd. The image on the portrait remains unidentifiable.

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Taxis brought in gallerygoers from South Park. The cabs were then hailed by those leaving Art Walk.

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USC Animation students added street life to Broadway with window exhibitions, and bus riders were entertained.

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Morono Kiang Gallery's new exhibition was off the map, but made a powerful display.

Comments

Bert Green writes:

Not sure what it was like elsewhere, but we were busy as hell, with more than 1200 people at the gallery, as busy or busier than we have ever been. It was not slower for us.

# on Oct.11.2008 AT 02:18 AM

Eric Richardson writes:

I was guessing we probably had up around 1000 people through the bank as well. I wish we'd had a clicker to get a real count.

# on Oct.11.2008 AT 02:43 AM

jim winstead writes:

it felt slower, but i didn't keep any sort of count. i think it got started more slowly than the last couple of months. it wasn't a big difference, it was still quite a crowd.

# on Oct.11.2008 AT 05:30 PM

Brady Westwater writes:

It was Yom Kippur. Of course there was fewer people - particularly in the early evening. In fact, I had expected there to be far fewer people than did show up.

# on Oct.11.2008 AT 06:11 PM