The Most Unique Homes in LA: The Extraordinary Mosaic Tile House VENICE BEACH

2-Part event. Cross-posted. Please read details before you RSVP.

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A fantastic Instagram photo-op!!

Welcome to the Mosaic Tile House
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For years I’ve wanted to see the Mossic Tile House. I’m thrilled the artist owners, Cheri & Gonzalo, are still welcoming the public into their EXTRAORDINARY whimsical home. I planned this event years ago then Covid it. I had to postpone as a result. Here’s your chance to see it. It’s mosaic tile work in progress since 1994 of love, dedication and artistic creativity.

PART 2 (separate post): Brunch at Belles Beach House (5-minute drive)

Summer is approaching so I have scheduled June’s “Most Beautiful Restaurants in LA” in Venice Beach to take advantage of our lovely 2-part event.

Gonzalo has requested I make payment for the entire group to reserve our time slot for our larger group size. They accept guests for a few hours ONLY on Saturdays and book up for groups about three months ahead. I’m super excited about our reservation! It’s been years in the planning!

SELF-GUIDED TOUR
Cheri and/or Gonzalo will be available to answer questions.

RESERVE YOUR ENTRANCE

ADMISSION: Please pay accordingly
▪️Admin event fee $3 (supports the cost to post Meetup events)
▪️Adults $20

▪️Seniors 65+ $15

$23 Adults or $18 seniors RSVP PayPal, Venmo or Zelle (NOT if waitlisted).

🛑IMPORTANT CANCELLATION DISCLAIMER
Should you need to cancel you will be REFUNDED $20 ($15 Seniors) excluding the $3 admin fee ONLY if your cancelation is made within 48 hours. If under 48 hours you can attempt to sell your spot if there’s a waitlist.

AT TIME OF PAYMENT INDICATE: Tile House

NOTIFICATIONS-ON ARE REQUIRED
It is YOUR responsibility to know if you were moved-up from the waitlist.

Payment contact provided at time of RSVP made within 24-hrs or immediate removal. This allows those waitlisted a fair opportunity to join events.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Cheri Pann started life in the projects in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles.
At an early age she began drawing and coloring everything within her reach, but her mom, knowing only about the performing arts, proceeded to send her to piano, dancing, and acting lessons.

In her late teens, Cheri went to see a Vincent Van Gogh exhibit, stood in front of his paintings, said “I’m an artist!”, and has never looked back. For the next few years she went to UCLA where she studied printmaking, then subsequently apprenticed herself to the printmaker Don LaViere Turner, and took additional printmaking classes at USC. Later, at Cal State L.A., she immersed herself in drawing and ceramics, eventually earning a Masters in Fine Art.

From the late sixties to the mid-nineties, Cheri had more than 20 solo exhibitions in California and Japan, as well as having been in more than 50 group shows. For over two decades, a portion of each year was spent traveling throughout Europe and Asia, living in Japan, France, and Hawaii for periods of four to fifteen months at a time.

Since the mid-nineties she has exhibited exclusively in her live/work studio in Venice, CA., where she is continuously at work painting in oil, building mural-sized constructions which are political commentaries, and creating vessels, functional items, & tiles out of stoneware clay. Her tiles have found their way into the mosaics decorating her home like a Gaudi or the Watts Towers, as well as numerous private commissions, all jointly executed with her husband, Gonzalo Duran.

Born in Mexico, raised in East L.A., the son of a shoemaker, Gonzalo Duran came to the U.S. at an early age. He attended Otis Art Institute and Chouinard Art School. The world of Gonzalo is a fanciful place, peopled with characters, half-fable, half-fact. He has been called the Marc Chagall of the North and Central Americas. His brilliant, sometimes startling palette, complements his unbounded imagination.

Duran’s career has been followed and his works have been acquired by many collectors throughout the U. S. and Mexico.

PARKING
Free street parking (residential neighborhood)

MEETUP POLICY
🔺 No drop-ins. RSVP Meetup members only
🔺 3 under 24-hr cancellations/3-months out
🔺 3 failures to pay (fee events)/6-months out
🔺 2 no-shows/1-year out
🔺 Excessive cancellations perm. removed