Our Pick of the week takes placeRBG-35years this Saturday September 13, at the ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY.

THIS JUST IN….CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN with Bill Barminski set to jam starting at 8pm!…Yes the art party continues!

The gallery will host an art party and kick off for “the 35 Year Anniversary Show,” celebrating 35 years of showing contemporary and modern art in all mediums.

To commemorate this anniversary, the gallery will be exhibiting throughout the fall a four month, rotating sampling of artists and artworks which it has presented at one of its seven different locations, throughout its 35 years in business in Santa Monica.

From the gallery’s first solo artist exhibition with local artist Zox in 1979, through to its most recent summer 2014 exhibition of photographer Murray Garrett, the ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY will be presenting samplings of some very well known artists such as: Keith Haring, Raymond Pettibon, Cameron Jamie, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Bill Barminski, Alex Prager and Shepard Fairey.

SRobertBermanee image: Alex Steinweiss : The Creator of the Album Cover November 2007 – February 2008

Starting in the 1980’s, ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY was one of the first galleries in Los Angeles to exhibit, in mass, Chicano street artists and muralists.

Presently exhibiting with the gallery and a featured artist in the 35 Year Anniversary Exhibition is chicano muralist and painter John Valadez. Valadez will also be the premier artist for our January 2015 exhibition.

As a focus on the 1990’s, ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY will also feature a sampling from its three seminal shows: Man Ray : Paris – LA, Concrete and Buckshot : The Works of William S. Burroughs, George Herms: Beat Bar, all of which were presented in conjunction with Track 16 Gallery.

See image: Keith Haring, Andy RBG-KeithHaring-AndyMouse1-1986-SilkscreenMouse 1, 1986, Silkscreen

Advancing in on the 2000’s ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY presented between its three exhibition spaces in Santa Monica, C2, D5 and B7 as well as at the San Francisco location E6 Gallery, a collection of exhibitions including: Alex Steinweiss “The Creator of the Album Cover,” Alex Prager’s first solo exhibition Polyester; Will Rise featuring the works of TheSeventhLettter, Rock Paper Scissor (Featuring: Raymond Pettibon, Daniel Johnston, Ron English, Thurston Moore, Gibby Haynes), Vagos Y Reinas (Retna & The Mac), the album covers of Shepard Fairey, Charles Brittin: Vintage Photographs, Transformation the works of Robert Heinecken and Victor Landweber, Paid to Play Illustrating LA (Featured: Charles White III, Dave Willardson, Bob Zoell, Mark Ryden, Todd Schorr), Just Occupy – Ted Soqui, Shepard Fairey, Christopher Felver on the LA Occupy Movement.

Covering this span of the 1980’s, 90’s and 2000’s, “the 35 Year Anniversary Show,” will feature the artwork a huge list of both well known and emerging artists.

ORBG-CBLdgan view: September 13 – December 20, 2014

What: Opening reception
Where: THE ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY, Bergamot Station, (B-7) 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica, 90404
When: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm , then at 8pm performance begins. Saturday, September 13, 2014
Phone: 310.586.9128
Website: http://www.robertbermangallery.com/