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Popeil's Favorite Artist: Mr. R. Popeil and Alden Marin talk art
Wine of the Month Club president Paul Kalemkiarian debuts gift box designed by Alden Marin
Hamish Patterson shows off his new Alden Marin original
Daniel Rolnik Foundation presents Project 0001 [code name::Leaf Faces] by Alden Marin
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"A friend found a copy of one of your books in a coffeeshop in Chicago a year ago and talked the baristas into selling it to him for 8 USD. Last night in Mexico City we were discussing our favorite poets and this inspired that same friend to pull up your work online while bragging about you. You now have a half dozen new super fans from CA, MN, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. We all think you are brilliant, and reading you aloud made last night exceptionally fun, so gracias for that."
- Dawn Pankonien |
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"Alden sends me his poetry and I receive
it on my computer each morning - I look forward
to it like an old friend. Sometimes funny, sometimes
cranky - all the time true and brilliant."
- Jeffrey Tambor - actor |
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| "At first glance the art of Alden Marin
celebrates the vivid colors of a festive life.
His style, a folk /impressionistic mix is deceptively
complex in it simplicity. Each face subtly transmits
a unique emotion or persona. It is art that shows
best as a collection. For some unknown reason,
the message gets stronger when viewed in a comparative
light. It is not to say that each piece
is not independently impressive only that my
appreciation grows as I see more of his work.
As an added bonus Alden delights us with his
pithy titles. My favorite is, Two friends
having a frank discussion about color.
As you can tell, I like his work."
- Carl F.Cusato - president/CEO, Cusato
& Company, Inc. |
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| "French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas argues that the force of the face is always an ethical force before it is an ontological one. He is drawn back to the face--the demanding, transcendent, infinitely finite face--over and over in his thinking. This repetition, and the realization that founds it, is at work as well in the painting of Alden Marin. So often returning to the face, working out the meaning of the face, Marin explores the nature of an encounter with the Other, an embodied Other that more often than not is a manifestation of hope. With careful attention to color and space, Marin not so much constructs his subjects as allows them to appear on his canvas--a canvas which is, so often, a found-object, an article of trash or discard, itself an unwanted and overlooked Other. It is thus through both a process of reclamation and salvation that Marin founds his hope and works his alchemy, turning shape into gaze, line into Being. And as his deconstructed subjectivities--marginally identified, thumb-printed, and longing--stare through us like fragmented stained glass faces, we discover that they are ultimately staring with us, all of us tied together in a force that is always already an ethical force before it is an ontological one."
- Peter Steeves - critic/writer, Depaul University |
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"Your art always inspires me to grow and to squeeze another drop of joy out of the day."
- Jason Giles |
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"These faces of strangers delight the moments of my day."
- Barbara Smith |
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"Your work does not forego the playful but suggests more a transcendence than diversion."
- Geof Ryan |
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"A Gentler Way of Falling provides the reader great and varied pleasures. There is irony and satisfaction in the way the meditative 'Wonderland' leads into the combustible 'Role of the Bikers' which is followed by the gentle 'Memory of Scissors.' The author's love of nature animates each of these poems, making the personal become for the moment universal. The dates locate the poems in time, and prompt the reader to speculate on the life that produced them. 'In the Days Before Poetry' and 'All at Once' and "Grateful for the Door" and 'Kinship with the Shell' are stand outs. Altogether, this is a fascinating collection of poems.... I love how your day makes up the substance of your writing."
- John L’Heureux, author of The Medici Boy, Stanford University |
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from "The Little Big Show," 2010 |
| DRAGO RISTORANTE in Santa Monica. Sept. and Oct. of 2002 |
| HURSH HOME in Pacific Palisades. Sept of 2002 |
| CAFE VIDA in Pacific Palisades. April of 2002 |
| CALABASAS ART FESTIVAL in
2003 |
| RAW STYLE GALLERY in 2003 |
| CONTENTMENT GALLERY in
Pacific Palisades. Aug. through Oct. of 2003 |
| BABALOU RESTAURANT several pieces hanging throughout 2003 and 2004 |
| SCHOMBERG GALLERY at Bergamot Station, small show in 2004 |
| BRENTWOOD ART WALK in 2004 |
| DRAGO RISTORANTE in Santa
Monica. throughout 2004 |
| MALIBU ARTS FESTIVAL 2004 and 2005 |
| IL SOLARE RISTORANTE in
West Hollywood, throughout 2005 |
| BANK OF AMERICA in Pacific Palisades. June through Sept of 2006 |
| JAVA JONES in Santa Barbara.
Summer of 2007 show poster |
| TRACK 16 GALLERY, BERGAMOT STATION in
Santa Monica. Oct. - Nov. of 2007 |
| IRON PAN in
Ojai, Ca. Fall of 2007 show poster |
| BIRD PICK TEA & SPICE (3 locations around LA) permanent installation since 2007 |
| MARCH MICHEL EYEWEAR SALON in
Pacific Palisades, permanent installation since 2009 |
| OPTICAL ALLUSION GALLERY in MacArthur Park, "The Little Big Show", Aug.- Sept. 2010 show poster |
| ARTWORKS FOR THE CURE at Bergamot Station, Sept. 26, 2010 show poster |
| COLORI KITCHEN in
Downtown LA, permanent installation since 2010 |
| PLUM TREE RESTAURANT in
Chinatown, permanent installation since 2011 |
| 118 WINSTON GALLERY in
Downtown LA, Oct., 14 2010 show poster |
| GALLERY: UNKNOWN in
Downtown LA, April 9, 2011 show poster |
| FAST FRAME in
Santa Monica, 2011 |
| OGDEN'S DRY CLEANERS in
Pacific Palisades, permanent installation since 2011 |
| BLOOMING ART GALLERY in
Little Tokyo, 2011 |
| TAJ PALACE RESTAURANT in
Pacific Palisades, 2011 |
| FRAICHE RESTAURANT in
Santa Monica, 2011 |
| THE VITAMIN BARN in
Malibu, 2012 |
| TWENTY TWENTY WINE CO. in
West LA, since 2012 |
| GEM NETWORK in
Jalan Legian Tengah, Kuta-Bali, 2013 |
| BUZZ WINE/BEER SHOP in Downtown LA, 2013 |
| MARGERUM TASTING ROOM in Santa Barbara, 2013 |
| U.S.C. L.A. COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER in Los Angeles, since 2013 |
| D'AMORES PIZZA in Malibu, since 2014 |
| PACIFIC COAST GREENS in Malibu, since 2014 |
| ARROYO SECO DISCOVERY TOUR, 2014 |
| DANIEL ROLNIK GALLERY in Santa Monica, since 2014 |
| SCOTT MICHAEL GALLERY / PAGE COLEMAN GALLERY in Albuquerque, "Doing the Best I Can," November 14-16, 2014 show poster |
| BG GALLERY in Santa Monica, "Alden Marin: Animals of the Imagination," July 21 - August 4, 2018 |
| PRIMO PASSO COFFEE CO in Santa Monica, since 2018 |
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