Adapta Project

       Round Three, the final round, will go down from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, at Cream, 4496 Park Blvd. and will pit Tijuana artist Jorge Tellaeche against San Diego artist Wes Bruce. The one and only Joel P. West will provide the musical entertainment.

The official press release is below:

Adapta Project takes on Sezio in a three-round art-off at Cream Coffee Bar, 4496 Park Blvd. in University Heights

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. (Oct. 27, 2008) – Adapta Project, a Tijuana-based curatorial collective, takes on Sezio.org, a new online site dedicated to covering local art and music, in a three-round art-off at Cream Coffee Bar, 4496 Park Blvd. in University Heights. The art shows will feature one Tijuana artist chosen by Adapta and one San Diego artist chosen by Sezio. Round one already went down on Oct. 16 and pitted San Diego pop-surrealist painter Mike Maxwell (Sezio’s artist) against Tijuana graphic-design guru and digital artist, Organika (Adapta’s artist). Round went down Thursday, Nov. 13, and featured San Diego artist Justin Skeesuck against Tijuana artist Fernanda Uski. Round Three is happening from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, and features Jorge Tellaeche against Wes Bruce. MORE ABOUT THE SHOW: Tijuana and San Diego are sister cities, whether you like it or not. Adapta and San Diego hope to remind attendees of the two city’s relationship through a good-hearted competition that’s really not a competition at all. The collaboration between Adapta Project and Sezio is a reminder that art and culture exist in both cities, and if we both reached out and worked together more often, the whole megalopolis would be a lot more interesting. The border, in Adapta and Sezio’s opinion, is one of the most interesting things about this area. 

MORE ABOUT ADAPTA PROJECT: Adapta Project is a curatorial duo that shows art whenever, however and wherever we can. Since 2007, we’ve shown in downtown warehouses, a metal-fabrication workshop, The San Diego Children’s Museum, a hallway in CECUT (the Tijuana museum of art), a mansion outside of Playas de Tijuana and a small gallery in North Park.In short, we take over spaces for the purpose of showing art. We were sick of sitting around complaining about the Tijuana/San Diego art scene, so we did something about it: We started producing the quality shows we wanted to see. One show led to another and now there doesn’t seem to be a foreseeable end in sight. The duo is Kinsee Morlan and Jorge Tellaeche. Kinsee is the arts and culture editor for San Diego CityBeat, an alt weekly, and Jorge is a fulltime painter and graphic designer. Both reside in Tijuana, but often leap back and forth between San Diego and TJ.

MORE ABOUT SEZIO: Sezio.org (se’-zee-ö) is an Art Movement. Sezio provides resources, exposure and community support to Artists.

WWW.ADAPTAPROJECT.COM                                                 WWW.SEZIO.ORG