Dear Friends,

We will be opening the 2nd installation of Fallen Fruit’s Fruitique!:
GARDEN OF EDEN, which is loosely themed with animals and fruit. Please join us! Opening reception for the artists on Sunday, April 27th from 1pm to 4pm.
Light fare and refreshments provided by Whole Foods Market Westwood
and Juicing courtesy of HUROM Slow Juicers!

Fallen Fruit’s Fruitique
10920 Kinross Avenue @ Galey in Westwood Village
Los Angeles, CA 90029

Collage by Kristi Lippire and Matt Wardell

Artists:
Mark Allen
Jessicka Addams
Ursula Brookbank
Kelly Brooks
Miles Conrad
Spencer Douglass
David P. Earle
Daniel Flores
Cake and Eat It
Fab Hatters
Corbin Frame
Fallen Fruit
Finishing School
Bettina Hubby
Gustavo Herrera
Institute for Art and Olfaction
Alfalfa Jones
Virginia Katz
Jessicka Addams
Julie Lequin
Kristi Lippire
Mara Lonner
Hilary McLean
Michelle Muldrow
Ranu Mukherjee
National Bitter Melon Council
Jeanne Oliveri
Marjam Oskoui
Michael Padilla
Barry Pett
Eva Posey
Frances Frankie Ro
Susan Robb
Fred Salomon
Nina Salerno
Margie Schnibbe
Fred Solomon
Holly Topping
David Vanderpool
Matt Wardell
Susan Weber
Jacob Wick
Sarah Bay Williams
Dawn Whitmore
Bruce Yonemoto
Jenny Yurshansky
Carrie Yury

With Love and Fruit,
The Fallen Fruit Team

About the Fallen Fruit’s Fruitique

Created in conjunction with the Hammer Museum’s Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood in Los Angeles, CA. The “Fruitique” is a collaborative retail consignment store and art installation space that functions as Fallen Fruit Headquarters and also a retails boutique for fine art and unique gifts. Regularly scheduled public participatory events are programmed free of charge and everyone is welcome to participate!! Boutique + Fallen Fruit = Fruitique!

About Fallen Fruit

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. Fallen Fruit uses fruit as a common denominator to change the way you see the world. By always working with fruit as a material or media, the catalogue of projects and works reimagine public interactions with the margins of urban space, systems of community and narrative real-time experience. Fallen Fruit’s visual work includes an ongoing series of narrative photographs, wallpapers, everyday objects and video works that explore the social and political implications of our relationship to fruit and world around us.

Exhibition: Deborah Oropallo and Fallen Fruit opens Saturday, April 12, 3:00-5:00pm

Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener, Austin Young)

Fruit Machine, 2009

Video, Edition of 3 + 3AP

Variable dimensions

Media Room | Fallen Fruit | Fruit Machine
April 12, 2014 – May 31, 2014

Exhibiting concurrently with Deborah Oropallo will be the work of Fallen Fruit. Our dedicated media room will feature Fallen Fruit’s video Fruit Machine, on on-going project in which the artists capture teenagers (between the ages of 12 -17) eating a variety of fruit. A study in how we actually eat, the portraits range from graceful to awkward and comical, as the teenagers navigate what they quickly come to realize is a not-so-simple task.

Opening Reception: Saturday April 12, 2014: 3:00-5:00pm

Hi Everyone,

Let us know if you are interested in participating. There is a limited number of colors in making a rainbow. This collaborative project is inspired by artist Susan Robb (see below).

Love, David and Austin ——————————————————————-

RAINBOW DAY TRIP:

An “open call” to perform a color of the rainbow On Saturday, May 3, 2014 – All Day, 8am to Sunset. Join Fallen Fruit and friends for a day hike  from the edge of the world to  Deep Creek Hot Springs with trekking poles at Montem. Those heading out into the wilderness themselves may want to ensure that they are properly equipped with everything they need to stay safe and healthy. Reading the outdoorempire.com guide might help to source gear and products to help with this. We will become a rainbow as we engage with nature and embrace an idealized hippy lifestyle that calls back to a counterculture of days-gone-by in California.  Join us for group meditation, fruit songs, and a banana sound circle .  Along the trail we will meet with artist Susan Robb as she continues her Creative Capital award winning project Wild Times.  The Rainbow Day hikers become “trail angels” offering her and other PCT hikers facials, massages, fresh fruits and encouragement along the 4 month journey from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. ABOUT DEEP CREEK HOT SPRINGS

Deep Creek Hot Springs was once a self-organized hippie commune in the early 1970’s. An evolving group of residents built 4 swimming pools into the granite banks of Deep Creek, which is fed by snow melt from high above in the San Bernardino Mountains. The hot springs themselves are natural springs and typically measure about 108 degrees at the source. The pools range in temperature from about 104 to 88 degrees depending on season and distance from the mother spring. RESERVATIONS Only 22 spaces are available to perform the rainbow!!

Send an email here with your preferred color(s) and personal contact information, Fallen Fruit will reply to your rsvp with more information. RECOMMENDED AGES 16-60, anyone is welcome to participate!  Also, well behaved pets welcome!!  (NOTE: this is a very difficult hike for pets and only pets who are in very good condition can hike this trail.) REQUIRED SKILLS Must be capable of completing a rigorous hike to get to the hot springs because the elevation gain is demanding.  Also, there is minimal shade and you must pack-in and pack-out.  Other skills include; cooperation, colorful attitude, laughter, playfulness, singing and hugging.

CAST OF COLORS

Light Red
Light Orange Red
Light Orange
Light Orange Yellow
Light Yellow
Light Yellow Green
Light Green
Light Green Blue
Light Blue
Light Blue Purple
Light Purple

I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house – she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates. –Song of Songs 8:2

For our upcoming residency with the Skirball Cultural Center we  explored their vaults of Jewish cultural artifacts.  The Land of Israel is described as ‘A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey’ (Deut. 8:8). And we  found many beautiful objects  and paintings featuring figs, etrogs, apples, oranges, and all kinds of fruits. A seventeenth-century ketubbah (marriage contract) especailly caught our eyes.  The 17th century ketubbah is decorated with fruits, the signs of the zodiac,  and scenes from the Torah including Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

David Burns and Austin Young –Ketubah, 1677. Museum Purchase from the Collection of Salli Kirschstein. Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden- Ketubah, 1677. Museum Purchase from the Collection of Salli Kirschstein. Skirball Museum

Fruit Farmer Greeting Card. Gift of Martin and Doris Sosin. Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.

Share–Jewish Relief Campaign” poster. Purchase made possible by Peachy and Mark Levy Project Americana Acquisition Fund. Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.

When you eat a pomegranate you can give witness to its beautifully grotesque mess. Your hands may become blood-red stained. Some scholars believe the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden was a pomegranate.  The serpent talks Eve into eating the fruit and they are expulsed from the garden and go about the business of raising children.

 In Greek mythology, Persephone is forced to live in Hades’ underworld once a year after eating pomegranate seeds. Perhaps a representation of a return to the womb and her pregnancy.

The Chinese words for “son” and seed” are the same. In China an open pomegranate is a popular wedding present, wishing the couple to have as many sons as there are seeds.

Fallen Fruit is excited about the upcoming project at the Skirball, where we will focus our work on the Pomegranate.   Visit the Skirball’s website to learn more: http://www.skirball.org/exhibitions/fallen-fruit.

Ushpizin Cloth for Sukkot. Museum Purchase with Museum General Acquisition Fund. Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.

When people think of Los Angeles, it isn’t usually a bountiful landscape teeming with public fruit trees that comes to mind.  But the artists of Fallen Fruit – Austin Young and David Burns – are working with local communities to transform the neighborhoods surrounding Downtown Los Angeles into a walk-able network of Urban Fruit Trails. Starting this month Heart of LA (HOLA) will collaborate with Fallen Fruit to create the City’s very first Urban Fruit Trail: over 150-fruit trees planted in the MacArthur Park neighborhood.

HOLA students will research where the trees can be planted, plant them, and then map their location. During weekly workshops with Fallen Fruit, HOLA’s young artists will create site-specific artworks based on the places, people, cultures, and trees they discover along the Trail; and their actions and artworks will be documented and geo-tagged in a free downloadable app.

The MacArthur Park Urban Fruit Trail is the pilot for Endless Orchard, Fallen Fruit’s groundbreaking global-scale public art project, which will provide often-overlooked urban communities with public walking trails lined by fruit trees. The trees will be planted, sustained, nurtured and harvested by the public.   “We’re thrilled that our students are creating the roots for such a significant project,” said HOLA Visual Arts Director Nara Hernandez. “Fruit trails can create an abundant neighborhood and celebrate a community of sharing,” explained Austin Young. “It’s about transforming our relationship to the city and each other,” added David Burns.

Urban Fruit Trails invite the people of Los Angeles to experience the City as a fruitful place, to collectively re-imagine the function of public participation and urban space, and to explore the meaning of community through creating and sharing new and abundant resources.   The fruit trees planted along the Urban Fruit Trail will reflect the natural ripening of fruit during a season: plums and peaches in the summer, pomegranate and persimmon in the fall, and citrus – lime, lemon, orange, and kumquat – over the winter and spring. At the heart of LA’s Urban Fruit Trails a “Monument to Sharing” will be installed at the Los Angeles State Historic Park alongside an orchard of citrus trees.  

Endless Orchard is a Creative Capital awarded project. This pilot project, Urban Fruit Trails, is supported by a grant awarded to HOLA by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Program, which supports fearless and innovative collaborations in the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg: www.rauschenbergfoundation.org.  

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work: https://fallenfruit.org/about/

Heart of Los Angeles provides underserved youth with exceptional programs in academics, arts and athletics within a nurturing environment, empowering them to develop their potential, pursue their education, and strengthen their communities: http://heartofla.org   Fruit as public resource: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/del-aire-fruit-park.html

Press Contact: Lee Schube              (213) 389-1148 :: [email protected]

WHAT IS LOVE?
The pomegranate is a symbol of fertility and marriage in Jewish and many other cultures. Focused on this fruit, David Burns and Austin Young of Fallen Fruit are researching the emotional, cultural, and intellectual “ingredients that make for a great relationship.” To initiate their artist residency and upcoming exhibition at the Skirball, the artists want to collaborate with you! Your words will help create a new recipe for a lasting relationship.

Love is a universal experience. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, please take a moment to think about your relationships and consider the question: “What is the best ingredient for true love?” Send your responses to info at fallenfruit.org . We welcome responses from people of all ages.

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

FALLEN FRUIT is named as one of this year’s grantees. thank you Art Matters Foundation!
and congratulations to our fellow grantees!!

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

Fallen Fruit at SKIRBALL
Fallen Fruit and The Skirball Cultural Center are pleased to embark on a collaborative project, scheduled to open this spring. David Burns and Austin Young of Fallen Fruit recently visited the Skirball Museum to seek inspiration from objects in the collection. Together with Skirball Assistant Curator Linde Lehtinen, they examined many treasures, including a spice box made out of a dried orange and a 1931 cookbook of “Famous Recipes for Jewish Housewives.

Pictured above:
Orange peel pressed into a rounded box shape with Hebrew painted on lid along with a Star of David. Collection of Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA. Gift of Peachy and Mark Levy.

“What Shall I Serve? Famous Recipes for Jewish Housewives,” 1931. Collection of Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA. Gift of Solomon L. Gluck.

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

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This year was incredible! We were awarded Creative Capital, we were invited artists at TED Active, and we were in the The New York Times, Artforum.com, The Hammer Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Forbes.com, LA Weekley, KCET, The Athens Bienalle, The San Jose Museum of Art, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and The Blaffer Art Museum.
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