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Apollo Staar in front of his work at the Desolation Holiday Gallery show.
July, 2009.
Apollo Staar (ne’ Paul-Anthony Trevino) is a Los Angeles based visual artist currently working in a variety of mediums including film, photography and mixed media painting. He has shown work in limited release at Galleries including Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.)(1992), and The Pasadena City College Art Gallery(1991) In 2004, Apollo and partner/designer Mercedes Sumida opened up Le Chic Boutique, a 60s themed boutique where they represented and sold original designs by local independent designers as well as vintage pieces. At this time, Apollo also created a line of ‘space-age’ Gold/Chrome handbags complete with a line of erotic futuristic looking earrings inspired by the 1968 Roger Vadim film, Barbarella.
Currently, Apollo is involved in a new mixed media painting project combining photography, painting, and graphic imaging. He works exclusively out if his Hollywood Photography and Art studio known as Ultrastar Studio.
Now, he is somewhat of a recluse is rarely seen outside of his studio, leaving only on quick jaunts to the Health Food Store and Fleamarkets. Photographically, he is currently working on a project entitled 'Hollywood Death Dolls'; staged Polaroid portraits of dead Hollywood girls in gruesome death scenes. These Polaroid portraits will be published in an upcoming mini-book limited to 50 copies, for collectors. Release date is Fall 2010. Price is $69.00 per book, hand signed and numbered. Reserve your copy today at scorpiorising2000@gmail.com.
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PAST GALLERY EVENTS:
"FIGURATIVE THEATRE"
A group photography exhibition
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH, 2009.
6PM TO 10PM.
REBECCA MOLAYEM GALLERY
306 N. Robertson Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90048
FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Dean Karr, Dale May, Dan Santoni, Chad Michael Ward, Apollo Star, Saryn Angel.
"EROTIC ART SCHOOL"
A group exhibition
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 2009.
9PM TO 1AM.
ULTRASTAR GALLERY
6432 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038
"DESOLATION HOLIDAY"
A group photography exhibition
interpreting the theme of 'Desolation'...
physical, mental, spiritual, etc.
SATURDAY, JULY 18TH, 2009.
8PM TO MIDNIGHT.
ULTRASTAR GALLERY
6432 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038
"GIRLS OF THE SS"
A group photography exhibition
New Military Fetish Photography
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd, 2008.
8PM TO MIDNIGHT.
ULTRASTAR GALLERY
6432 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038
(Video clip of show in 'Current Projects" section)
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DESTINATION: DESOLATION
This is a short clip of downtown LA, while I was walking down 7th st. towards Maple on a Sunday at dusk in mid march. The desolation and emptiness was breathtaking.
"The downtown streets and sidewalks are more alive when there are no humans trampling over their faces. They become living, breathing testaments to times now forgotten, only remembered by the derelicts who have been there for years, bottles in hand, pissing in the dark corners, adding that certain downtown 'Musk' that tickles our sinuses, wandering barefoot, massaging the concrete squares and rivers of pavement that constitute this land. The deco buildings are the jaded elders who have seen it all come and go. They have bared witness to the weak sons and daughters, destroyed, only to make room for the new strong son-in-laws. The true beauty of loneliness and alienation lies in this one single potato chip bag. Floating endlessly thru the streets. Stopping momentarily to kiss the ground and pay homage to the desolate city streets that are the very foundation for city existence."
-Apollo Staar
Selected Credits
Photography:
-Group Show, Sierra Madre Public Art Gallery, 1987
-“Bad Attitude” One Man Show, TROY Café & Gallery, 1992
-Group Show portraits of Nightlife Personalities, Ten Fifteen Folsom, San Francisco, 1994
-“Girls of the SS”,
Ultrastar Gallery, Nov. 2008, curated show and guest artist.
-"Desolation Holiday", Ultrastar Gallery, July 2009, curated show and guest artist.
-"Figurative Theatre", Rebecca Molayem Gallery, November 2009, guest photographer.
Paintings/Mixed Media:
-Biennial Group Show, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.), 1992
-Student Group Show, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, 1992
-Group Show, Glass House, Pomona, 2005
-Benefit for Compound Radio, Group Show, April, Thought Gallery, Los Angeles, 2008
-Fall Group Show, October-January, Thought Gallery,
Los Angeles, 2008
-"Erotic Art School", October 10th, Ultrastar Gallery, Los Angeles, 2009
Film:
-Founded “Suicide Cinema” in 1992, his mini production company for Super-8 & 16mm films, Pasadena CA.
-“Beyond Flesh” 16mm, dual-screen, B/W, 12 min., Screening at Pasadena City College, 1993
-Founded “Cinema Nouveau” Film Collective, Group Screening, TROY Café & Gallery, 1993
-“Paul-Anthony, Al-Fresco” a retrospective of early film work from 1988 to1993, TROY Café & Gallery, 1993 (Films included ‘Apt. 18’, ‘Trauma’, ‘Split Personality’, ‘Loser’ and the dual-screen ‘Beyond Flesh’), outdoor screening on the west wall of the Gallery building.
-‘Get Lost’ 16mm
B/W, 14 min., Screening at Mayer Gallery, San Francisco, 1995
Music Video:
Molly Jensen, “Give it Time”, Art Director, 2009
N-Force, “All or Nothing”,
Art Director, 2009
Fashion Design:
-2003, Launches Apollo Staar Couture, a collection of ready-to-wear one-of-a-kinds. Described as ‘Sci-Fi meets 70s Disco’, the entire collection was made in reflective Gold and chrome vinyl. Complete with a collection of matching space-age handbags and a 15 piece line of 2’ long dangling chrome/gold hoop earrings.
-2004, Opens the very 60s Mod themed “Le Chic Boutique” with partner/designer Mercedes Sumida. Representing local designers as well as retailing original 60s vintage dead stock and ready-to-wear designs.
-2005, Guest Designer in ‘Art Bags’ Gallery show at Star Shoes, Hollywood, curated by Ashley Eckenweiler
-2006, Guest Designer in ‘Art Shoes’ Gallery show at Star Shoes, curated by Ashley Eckenweiler.
