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Glow is returning to the splendor of Santa Monica beach on September 25, 2010. Building on the extraordinary success of Glow 2008, the free dusk-to-dawn biannual event features the work of international, national and local artists. Glow is the only all-night art event in the United States that emphasizes the commissioning of original artwork. Glow projects invite active audience engagement and exploration and constantly surprise in their unexpected placement in spaces and times not normally reserved for fine art. Santa Monica joins such cities as Paris, Toronto, Montreal, Rome, Brussels, Madrid and Riga as part of a global movement producing “white night” or “nuit blanche” events.
Glow 2010 will commission 20 original artworks specifically for this one-night event. Artists include Anne Bray (Los Angeles), Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (Séte, France), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Montreal, Canada), Yoshua Okón (Mexico City) and Steve Roden (Los Angeles) . In addition to these five internationally known artists, an additional fifteen artists were selected through an open-call to artists in Los Angeles County. An important component of Glow’s programming includes the Glow Network, an affiliation with organizations in Los Angeles that are engaged in unusual and/or locally-based arts and culture activities. This year Glow is partnering with 18th Street Art Center, Freewaves, LAND and Machine Project to jointly curate and commission projects.
Glow is a production of the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Foundation.
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