Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show takes Bakersfield to industrial zone freakiness through light and sculpture - By N.L. Belardes

Rubber duck culture change art by N.L. Belardes


Brought to you by Bakersfield Art Rave, Noveltown, Bakotopia, and MAS Magazine.

The Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show takes place on these two Saturdays only: August 19th and 26th at Capistrano’s, 19th and Eye Street. I’ll tell you now, Bakersfield culture hasn’t see anything like this show, with the strangest of the strange coming out of the woodwork to bring you pieces of art dug from the very robotic souls of the Southern Valley, from the multi-talented depths of assemblage creations, and from the poetic industrial wastes of a city normally thought more for oil and cotton.

Broken robots, computers ripped and painted and fused with toxic sludge... Music from the industrial wasteland of San Francisco accompanies projected poetry from N.L. Belardes, Black Dog, Matildakay, Art Czar, Julie Jordan Scott, and the raving lunatic himself, Greg Goodsell—all in a freaky factory-themed film collage slammed together by The War Days Director; mini-films from Hectic Films, and the Cinema of the Lords trailer. Sculptures spawned from a whirlwind of glass, metal parts and who knows what; fused assemblages of sight and sound; lighted sculptures in a freaky industrial underground art motif that will flicker like your own neon-haunted dreams.

Here's a photo essay taste of the show:


The new downtown mural adorns the side of Capistrano's
created by the industrial grafitti kings of Street Klothes


Inside Capistrano's is another mural by the airbrush masters.
Visit them at 1823 Chester Ave. in Bakersfield


The upstairs gallery room has an industrial wasteland feel.
Imagine art hanging and staring and waiting for you...


Sey created this maddening piece that you need to see in person
for all the demented angular specifics of its insanity...


Do you know what she's hanging?


CSUB art student Amanda Camerer is in touch with static


Down below is a second room for film and strange lighted sculptures.
Music will haunt from San Francisco's industrial wasteland with
music dug from a meeting with N.L. in the San Francisco industrial zone pre-9/11.
It was then I met with industrial audio maestro Scott Arford...
He slipped me incredible sounds I am only now unearthing...


Dare the toxic darkness far below the Bakersfield underground...
See the poetry and let it invade your mind with the grinding of steel.
Beware of images and poetry growing like an industrial nightmare.
See Hectic Films shine on the wall with A FLY ON THE WALL series...


Broken Robot invades with shapes from an apocalyptic robot graveyard. Watch out for robot sludge invasions.


For just a moment it's almost like a real restaurant,
though it won't be open yet for the event...


Matildakay plots with the Bakersfield Art Rave maestro
A.S. Ashley about poetry sculpture and Bakersfield art culture


Sculpture lust in a broken glass infinite kiss


The kiss continues and waits for you on Saturday night...
5pm-midnight...

*Bonus: Friday night at Narducci's is an event I may read a poem at: Latin Cultural Revolution. Features art exhibit by Maricela Oropeza, poetry from CSUB Hermes Club and the best Spanish rock in Bakersfield with LIKHY2

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