At the night of the event, various new projects were probably born from conversation on the floor. Joint of music and art scene brought in different channels of audience, and the party went deep into the night. Sleeves were displayed on the wall in the manner so that people can pick it up and flip over to study them closely. That situation created the interaction with the could be stale installation and even after the light dimmed and gallery turned into a dance floor, art was not left alone. Another clever installation trick was the assigned serial number on each work, which perhaps encouraged people to appreciate the artwork itself than seeing the artist name first.

Wall consisted of the unique mix of known artist, to musician, and young creators all blended in. Mike Mills whose works are full of calm surprises in style and a well respected creator presented fragile and full of emotion pencil drawings. L.A.’s young couple artist Kozyndan also whipped out their pencils, and got into details of dublab’s office/studio. Artists like Ara Mgrdichian and Scott Richards presented their visual homage to California. Andrew Neuhues played his spell and send the viewers into storm of laughter listing up fictitious discarded band names. Some creative minds could not contain themselves in the 2D surface and took initiative to create skate board ramp, bird house and a train track that went through the sleeve’s hole in the middle.

© Up Our Sleeve

All the Dublab family & supporters had their part to contribute to this project. Be it the art work or physical labor of putting up the pegboards, the energy created from the collective is intwine. ‘Up Our Sleeve’ will travel to NYC this fall, and hop the ocean to greet Tokyo and London…and possibly more. All the sleeves will be auctioned off on ‘Up Our Sleeve’ website late this year and proceeds will be a soil to Dublab’s online effort. Spread the word. I guarantee you they would “put a smile or two on your face” (-Frosty).

Up Our Sleeve – The Dublab Covers Project
Curated by Brandy Flower & Frosty
Date: June 28th, 2003
Place: Inshallah Gallery
Address: 244 S. Main St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
https://www.upoursleeve.org