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

Adapta Project is taking on Sezio for its next art show. For three months straight, our collective will be bringing up Tijuana artists and Sezio will be choosing San Diego artists for a one-on-one match at Cream Coffee Bar, 4496 Park Boulevard in University  Heights.

Round three:
Thursday, December 11th

Jorge Tellaeche v. Wes Bruce

live music by: Joel P West

The Marking Territory show looks great hanging on the green walls of The Loft.  We invite any and all art and design appreciators and buyers to join us for the opening.  If, like us, you get lost every time you go to UCSD, follow these simple directions:

From Interstate 5:

Take the La Jolla Village Drive exit and take a left onto La Jolla Village Drive.

Immediately get to your right and, at the first stop light, take a right on Villa Ja Jolla Drive.

When you get to the light at Gilman Drive,  head straight into the parking structure.  Bring lots of quarters for the meters.

Park, then exit the parking structure and follow Gilman Drive heading west.

Take a right on Myers and head north and you’ll see the Price Center and The Loft.

“Saturday Morning Sign-off” by Robert L. Nelson

Adapta Project presents Marking Territory: The Imaginary Lines that Limit Us

The show: At its core, Marking Territory: The Imaginary Lines that Limit Us, is about San Diego and Tijuana artists telling stories about leaving comfort zones and exploring both personal and political territories. As a binational collective that works within and around the literal confines of the San Diego/Tijuana border fence, Adapta Project knows about barriers and how to exploit and work around them.

For the show, though, we’re not just talking about physical borders. We’re more interested in the invisible walls of social, economic, cultural, gender, sexual and familial boundaries. Our artists’ works are a visual trip around and through lines, either real or drawn in the sand.

Robert Nelson’s work, for example, looks at the duality between good and evil, innocence and corruption. His striking images may haunt some while others will simply chuckle. Children’s toys are a reoccurring image in Nelson’s work and it will make you question which side of the good/evil line you stand, or whether there’s a clear line between the two at all.

“Children’s toys are usually seen as possessing innocence,” says Nelson, “It intrigues me that a toy can, at once, be innocent and menacing.”

Ben Darby’s work, too, uses children’s toys to play with your perception. Toy guns and teddy bears look cute from afar, but get up-close and you’ll see something more. While using childhood as a starting point and inspiration, Darby manages to deal with the very adult subjects of sex and war in some of his work.

In Vero Glezqui’s short film, passports and visas are eaten by a machine then recycled into thread that reaches out to connect different cultures and countries. And in Inkstain’s chaotic yet balanced and beautiful collages, we’re asked to step outside of ourselves to see the world around us. Ryan Tannascoli’s series of storyboard-like paintings, too, remind us that we can’t spend our entire lives playing with toy trains. We need to step out and jump on the real trains rushing all around us.

The artists:

Ben Darby

Vero Glezqui

INKSTAIN: Janelle Carter and Carla Naden

Robert L. Nelson

Ryan Tannascoli

The curators:

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. Visit www.adaptaproject.com for updated info, or call 619-436-9034 if you want to support the arts by actually buying art.

We paired Michael James Armstrong with Sugardale and look at what these two perfectionists came up with:

We paired Grammatique with Acamonchi and this is what they made:

We paired Jorge Tellaeche with Jorge Sanchez and this is their creation:

We paired Beatroot with Victor Sandoval and this is their gentleman’s outfit:

And we paired Vero Glezqui with Fernanda Uski:

Adapt Project’s own Jorge Tellaeche will be showing his newest works.  The opening will be held in conjunction with the launch of the new North Park Nights event from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11.