CELEBRATING PRIDE THROUGH ART– Los Angeles Coastline
Venice Pride presents Artist Yvette Mattern’s Global Rainbow installation in association with Bacardi nightly from June 3 to 5 across the California Coast.
You do not want to miss this large-scale public art light installation. A beacon of diversity and acceptance, the artwork beams seven rays of laser light representing the color spectrum of a natural rainbow. The presentation is poetic, magical and powerful.
The Global Rainbow is a large-scale public art light installation created by Yvette Mattern. The artwork beams seven rays of laser light representing the color spectrum of a natural rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. The 120+Wpowerlaserlight projection beaming in parallel horizontal lines creates a natural perspective horizon arc simulating a natural rainbow arc and has a trajectory or viewing spectrum of up to 60 KM depending on atmospheric conditions.
The presentation is poetic, magical, and powerful. It encompasses the skyline and its viewing perspective is as ephemeral as viewing a natural rainbow. Theoretically and symbolically its presentation encompasses geographical and social diversity in its reach throughout distinct points across the globe.
About Yvette Mattern
Yvette Mattern is a New York and Berlin-based visual artist whose work has an emphasis on video and film, which frequently intersects performance, public art, and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
Yvette Mattern received her MFA in New York City from Columbia University’s Film Division in 1987. She has worked on and collaborated with many artists on film and theater projects including Cindy Sherman’s theatrical feature ‘Office Killer’, Al Pacino, Nicolas Cage, Diller+Scofidio, and The Builder’s Association among many others.
Her ongoing monumental laser light installation Global Rainbow has been presented over fifteen times since 2009 including launching the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad in the Northeast, Northwest England, and Northern Ireland.
The Global Rainbow installation beams seven rays of high specification laser light, representing the spectrum of the seven colors of the rainbow. The artist had been inspired by seeing an unusual rainbow in a beautiful spot at ‘Walden Pond’ in Massachusetts. Mattern aims to connect all demographics in a beautifully engaging experience. She sees her work as a visual translation of hope and peace.
SAVING LIVES THROUGH ACCEPTANCE OF DIVERSITY
A REBIRTH OF PRIDE
For nearly 100 years Los Angeles’ Westside has been known as a place that celebrates differences. Decades before West Hollywood’s birth, L.A.’s coastal region was an inclusive oasis home to no fewer than ten gay bars and bathhouses in the ’40s and ‘50s. Among them The Friendship, Tropical Village, Jack’s at the Beach, and the Crystal Baths. Over the years businesses serving the neighborhood came and went, but by 2006 Roosterfish (est. ’79) was all that remained. A decade later it too would shutter forcing an orphaned community to ponder their place West of the 405. Venice’s first Pride celebration took place on June 3, 2016, in an effort to protect an LGBTQ community at risk of extinction due to Roosterfish’s exit. A year later Venice Pride unveiled the Venice Pride Flag Lifeguard Tower, scored the first NFL team in history to sponsor an LGBT Pride event, promoted the opening of a new gay bar in Santa Monica, The Birdcage. Venice Pride’s biggest accomplishment was yet to come. In Fall 2017, Venice Pride announced amid much fanfare the return of Roosterfish. Made possible through a unique nonprofit partnership with the new operator, the beloved gathering place held its grand re-opening in June 2018 to coincide with the third annual Venice Pride.
What began as a grassroots push to promote visibility and a renewed sense of community among Westside queer Angelenos each June is blossoming into a year-round organization with programming dedicated to saving lives through acceptance of diversity.Venice Pride is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We are proud members of InterPride and dedicated to education, to the commemoration of LGBT heritage and to the celebration of LGBT culture and liberation.
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