GA/LA Committee

While associated with the GA/LA Melrose Place project, John was in charge of "Quality Control" for all things sculptural. As one of the initial graduate students approached by Mel Chin, John was asked to create Peter Burns’ "Loving Cup", the very first GA/LA artwork created and sent to Spelling Production Studios for insertion into the set. For the next two years, during which John graduated from the University of Georgia, John was involved in every piece of three-dimensional work created for the show, often fabricating the piece alone or in collaboration with Joe Girandola and Mel Chin. Mel chose John and Joe as the GA/LA members to venture to the production of Melrose Place to visit the sets to take measurements and formulate ideas, and to travel to Cal Arts to oversee construction of more three-dimensional objects scheduled for insertion onto the show. When the project culminated in a showing at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s Temporary Contemporary, John and Joe were asked to oversee the construction and installation of the show over two months in the spring of 1997. For more information on GA/LA and to see great images and descriptions of the pieces aired on Melrose Place, go to:

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--> www.arts.ucsb.edu/projects/mpart/
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