ART NOTES : Galleries Shuffle and Garage Gets a Home

In the ever-continuing galleries shuffle, Jan Turner Gallery has moved a few doors down the block to 9006 Melrose Ave. and opens the new space on Saturday with three one-person shows: John Hull, Robert Cavolina and Tina Hulett. In the same building, Turner will oversee the Turner/Krull Gallery, a photography space to be run by her former gallery director, Craig Krull. The second space opens with “Photographing L.A. Architecture,” with artists including Diane Arbus, Robbert Flick, John Guttmann and Max Yavno.

More Shuffles: Santa Monica’s Boritzer/Gray Gallery has closed its doors on Main Street and joined recent New York arrival Bess Cutler Gallery at 903 Colorado Ave. But after leaving “the yogurt and beach crowd scene” for an atmosphere where “more serious art” is presented, Boritzer/Gray will take a couple of months to find a new batch of artists, and won’t begin its exhibition schedule until about August. In the meantime, the gallery has opened 100 Market Street, a new Venice space that will be run as a rental gallery, allowing out-of-town dealers, independent artists and others to mount their own shows. The space opened last Friday with Topanga-based artist Daniel Storozynsky.

And a most welcome shuffle: The infamous Tom Solomon’s Garage has become a regular gallery space with a new location at 928 N. Fairfax Ave., open Tuesdays through Sundays. Solomon’s first show, sculpture and paintings by Nicholas Africano, will remain on view through June 16.

Other changes: Jordan Halsey, who has worked with Melrose’s Zero-One and Venice’s Marquardt, had opened Fine Arts Management, a gallery liaison for emerging artists. Halsey will hold a special one-day exhibition June 15 from 7-11 p.m. at 48 Market St. in Venice, with a portion of proceeds going to support abused children. More than 25 artists--including Rafael Serrano, Mark Heresy, Anthony Ausgang and Guillermo Bert--will show works valued at $500 or less.

Happening: The annual Art for Milk benefit, featuring a silent auction of works by 70 noted artists including George Herms, Jeffrey Vallance, Kent Twitchell, Laddie John Dill and Gronk, will take place Tuesday from 7-10 p.m. at the Armand Hammer Museum. Proceeds will be used to provide milk to homeless children in Los Angeles shelters. Tickets are $30.

Information: (213) 458-9114.

Also Happening: The Santa Monica/Venice Art Dealers Assn. brings several top museum curators to town Friday and Saturday when it presents two programs at the Santa Monica Museum of Art dealing with ways to introduce new contemporary artists to museum audiences. Information: (213) 458-9187. . . . “Art Beyond Disability: A Working Symposium,” a daylong event featuring 21 prominent artists, disability activists and arts educators from throughout California, will be held Saturday at Pasadena’s Armory Center for the Arts. Information: (818) 504- 0259. . . . L.A. Contemporary Exhibitions holds its 12th annual Open Studios Tour Saturday and next Sunday from noon-5 p.m. Maps are $10 and the home/work spaces of several artists living in the downtown area will be featured. Information: (213) 624-5650. . . . L.A. Cultural Affairs representative Barbara Goldstein will be at Encino’s Installations One Monday night to answer questions about how the city’s new 1% fees on development will be used to fund the arts. Reservations: (818) 981-9422. Billboards, etc.: The first installation of L.A. artist Alex Echo’s three dimensional billboard, “Absolut Sunset,” a tribute to artists and AIDS victims Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, can be seen in Hollywood at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights. Commissioned by Absolut vodka, Echo will add to the billboard for a year, after which its 300 or so individual parts will be auctioned to benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles.

Also recently unveiling a work is painter Francisco Letelier whose mural installation “Inheritance” is on view in the Santa Monica Museum of Art’s Edgemar Courtyard through June 20. Letelier worked on the mural--produced through the L.A. Theatre Works’ Arts and Children Project--with eight teen-age students from the Santa Monica Community Day Center, a probationary Juvenile Court school. It deals with the legacy our generation is leaving to the world.

Grants: Los Angeles artists Sue Kornfeld and Eric Saks and Bay Area artists Lynn Hershman and Ulysses Jenkins have been named as the 1991 recipients of the Long Beach Museum of Art’s seventh annual Open Channels Television Production Grant Program. Each artist will receive a $2,000 cash grant, plus videotape stock, technical support and access to production and post-production facilities to create a new video work.

Institutions recently receiving grants include Cal State Long Beach University Art Museum ($193,000 from the American Federation of Arts/Knight Foundation), Craft & Folk Art Museum ($75,000 from the Institute of Museum Services and $30,000 from Times Mirror Foundation), LACMA ($50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts), Japanese American Cultural and Community Center ($35,000 from the NEA), LACE ($16,000 from the NEA), and San Diego’s Museum of Photographic Arts ($75,000 from the Institute of Museum Services).