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 :: lschube@heartofla.org

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.

Support Fallen Fruit

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.
Help make our 2014 and our upcoming projects even more spectacular with an end of the year, tax free donation!

#FRUITCAKE
4-8 pm Saturday Dec. 14th
Fresh Fruit Cake with Fancy Boyz, DJ H-Bomb spins Fruit Songs, Fallen Fruit serves fruit infused vodkas from our Neig

FRUITIQUE!
A pop up art installation and retail store with The Hammer Museum’s project, Arts Restore LA

10920 Kinross Ave, 90024
Nov. 1st through December 24th
Thursday-Saturday 11am-8pm; Sundays 11am-5pm

Sunday Dec. 15th Noon to 4pm
Fallen Fruit Factory with Susan Weber
FALLEN FRUIT FACTORY a public participatory project by Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young).  see the Hammer Blog Post

The Fallen Fruit Factory is a public participatory art project that allows the public to collaborate with Fallen Fruit and contemporary artists to create fast-art pieces. The Factory is co-hosted by a contemporary artist and Fallen Fruit and creates an immersive art experience where the public can participate in making works of art. In exchange for working on Factory art projects, the public gets Fruit Dollars redeemable for Fallen Fruit or Factory art at the Fruitique! or online at the Fallen Fruit store. Projects are always group-authored, meaning there isn’t one person who creates each individual work. Often the works are inspired both by the guest artist and Fallen Fruit, but it is the stranger or passerby who sets the color, tone, or unique dimensionality of each piece. No two works of art will be the same!

Join Fallen Fruit at 10920 Kinross Avenue this Sunday, December 15 from 12–4PM for another Fallen Fruit Factory!

FRUITIQUE HAPPY HOUR!
Thursday, Friday,Saturdays through Nov. 23rd.
4-8pm join us for Happy Hour!  at FRUITIQUE!
LEMONADE STAND!
Saturday Nov. 16 and 23,  Noon to 4pm
@ FRUITIQUE!
10920 Kinross Blvd, 90024

In exchange for a cold glass of lemonade, participants will be asked to create self-portraits using black ink markers on lemons and to share stories of sadness and disappointment, or happiness and positive self-reflection.

Lemonade Stand = Fun

FALLEN FRUIT FACTORY
Sunday, Nov. 17th  noon to 4pm
@ FRUITIQUE!
10920 Kinross Ave, 90024
rsvp: info@fallenfruit.org
Become a collaborator in creating our project for The Hammer Museum. WE ARE TRANSMORPHING your unwanted or found OBJECTS INTO MAGICAL ART OBJECTS through a process called THE FALLEN FRUIT FACTORY.

All original fruit themed artworks are for sale at low prices. Any Fruitique! purchase enters you to win a Hurom Slow Juicer!   Courtesy of  Hurom/Roland Inc. Come visit! Here’s a map to  see all the Arts REstore vendors.

FRUITIQUE!
A pop up art installation and retail store with The Hammer Museum’s project, Arts Restore LA

10920 Kinross Ave, 90024
Nov. 1st through December 24th
Thursday-Saturday 11am-8pm; Sundays 11am-5pm

Join us on Saturday, November 9th  at Ojai Art Festival! !

Ojai Mulberry Rye is the latest Neighborhood Infusions created by Fallen Fruit in collaboration with Ojai Beverage Company for OAF 2013. The Porch Gallery is the location for the public participatory performance hosted by David Burns and Austin Young of Fallen Fruit in which tastes of local mulberry infused rye are served to the public also with social prompts that question childhood memories and emotional connections to fruit. An ongoing project by Fallen Fruit in which local fruit is infused into a distilled spirit and name it for the surrounding neighborhood. One of the questions  that interests us in thinking about local places is to determine what the essence of that neighborhood is, to think about its unique qualities connect community. The question Neighborhood Infusions asks is tinged with a bit of irony: can you capture the essence of a place in a bottle? It is served by docents (rather than bartenders) who take time to interpret the work for those interested in consuming it.

1. FRUITIQUE! part of the Hammer Museum‘s LA2050 project, Arts ReStore LA

Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) collaborate with artists to create a site-specific art installation that functions both as an exhibition and also as a retail store open to the public.  The project combines curated and consigned art works  into a Fallen Fruit installation project using our fruit wallpaper as a common ground.  The public is invited to participate at the ‘Fallen Fruit Factory’ and  re-imagine found objects (hand-picked items from thrift stores with fruit as a theme) into art objects that explore the margins  of the every day and contemporary art.

Fruitique! 10920 Kinross Blvd, Westwood CA 90024
Thursday-Saturday 11am-8pm; Sundays 11am-5pm

opening event Friday Nov. 1st 7-9pm  #ArtsReStore
Watermelon cocktails by Hurom/Roland Inc
Fruit songs by Dj Hbomb. Hosted by Lenora Claire, Barry Pett, Catherine Oppio, Ada Tinnel, Frankie Ro and Jim McGuire
Fruit provided by Whole Foods Market Westwood
Win a Hurom Slow Juicer provided by Hurom/Roland Inc.
winner announced Nov. 24

Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood is organized by the Hammer Museum as part of the Goldhirsh Foundation’s citywide LA2050 initiative. Arts ReSTORE is made possible by a major grant from the Goldhirsh Foundation and has received significant funding from UCLA.

Artists include:
Mark Allen
Deidre Argyle
Julia Beynon
Ursula Brookbank
Cake and Eat It
Michelle Carr
Zoe Crosher
Miles Conrad
David Earle
Daniel Flores
Daiana Feuer
Corbin Frame
Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young)
Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young)
Finishing School
Louise Griffin
Gordy Grundy
Oliver Hess

Bettina Hubby
Marielos Kluck
Julie Lequin
Matt Lipps
Mara Lonner
Libby McInnery
Michelle Muldrow
Ranu Mukherjee
National Bitter Melon Council
Paul Pescador
Jeanne Nikolai Olivieri
Marjam Oskoui
Michael Padilla
Barry Pett
Frances Frankie Ro
Margie Schnibbe
Holly Topping
Abby Travis
Carrie Ungerman
David Vanderpool
Matt Wardell
Susan C. Weber
Jacob Wick
Bruce Yonemoto
Jenny Yurshansky
Carrie Yury

Matt Lipps
Fruit
2013
20 x 12.75 inches
Edition of 5 +2APs

Paul Pescador
1 of 9, #1
12×18 inches
Photo collage
Edition of 1
$1800

• Opening Celebration
  

  Fri Nov 1 | 5:00-8:00PM

Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood is organized by the Hammer Museum as part of the Goldhirsh Foundation’s citywide LA2050 initiative. Arts ReSTORE is made possible by a major grant from the Goldhirsh Foundation and has received significant funding from UCLA.