18th Street Arts Center Presents Amir H. Fallah's Perfect Strangers Art & Performance Festival

18th Street Arts Center proudly presents Artist Lab Resident Amir H. Fallah's Perfect Strangers Art & Performance Festival at Bergamot Station on Saturday, March 21, 2015 from 1-4pm. This will be an afternoon-long series of art and music interventions. It features artists and musicians from throughout Los Angeles. Fallah often works with a diverse mix of local communities and groups. He collects materials from their private and public lives, transforming them into artworks. At Bergamot Station he has invited a cohort of LA-based artists including Carmen Argote, Abdul Mazid, Christopher Pate, Emily Silver, and Tanya Batura, with a musical lineup featuring Earth Like Planets, After the After, iKing!, and Caspar Sonnet.

Amir H. Fallah's Perfect Strangers Art & Performance Festival is the second of a series of artist interventions aimed at calling attention to the community of cultural organizations and commercial galleries at Bergamot Station. With the impending arrival of the EXPO light rail line in Santa Monica and the construction of the Bergamot Station train platform, the City of Santa Monica and Bergamot Station Gallery & Cultural Association (BSGCA) find creative ways to make the public aware that the Arts Center is still open for business and as vibrant as ever. Perfect Strangers Art & Performance Festival and other forthcoming projects are made possible by an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts awarded to City of Santa Monica. To implement the grant, the City works in partnership with Bergamot Ltd., 18th Street Arts Center, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and BSGCA.

Amir H. Fallah was born in Tehran, Iran in 1979. He received his MFA from UCLA in 2005. The solo exhibition, Amir H. Fallah: Perfect Strangers is on view in 18th Street Arts Center's gallery through March 27, 2015. Fallah's solo exhibition of new work, From the Primitive to the Present, at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles is on view from February 28 through April 11, 2015.

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