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Flag Stop pulls into Torrance for the Labor Day Weekend

Having an art show at a high-end car dealership doesn’t seem like a recipe for a marriage made in Heaven, but Flag Stop and Lexus are at least holding hands – and there’s every indication that the three-day event (Sept. 2-4) will be rewarding and memorable.

The committee that conceived and organized Flag Stop took their name and basic concept from the impromptu train stops, often made where they were least expected. As associate director Nick Lisica puts it, “our modern interpretation of Flag Stop is an unconventional stop for art enthusiasts.”

The initial idea, says Bernard Fallon, was for “an alternative art event that we could do in a non-art museum or (non-) art gallery setting.” They set their sights on downtown or Old Torrance with its many vacant storefronts. “We were looking at warehouses and factories and office spaces and empty buildings,” Fallon continues. Some of the businesses were encouraging, but one day things changed when Jody Wiggins drove by South Bay Lexus, which is near enough to the Torrance airport to be mistaken for an international terminal.

By this time the Flag Stop committee must have been thinking large scale, because that’s what struck Wiggins when she noticed the dealership. Not long afterwards, Flag Stop’s director Tm Gratkowski sat down with South Bay Lexus senior vice president and general manager Bob Wills, who must have figured that the resulting publicity could only be a good thing.

“This nailed it, because it was all self-contained,” Fallon says of the expansive property. “Once Tm and Jody talked with Bill, that was it.” They knew they needn’t keep searching.

Gratkowski says that this was what they were looking for from the start – a significant partnership. “They’ve been great all along the way; they’ve been very supportive, very encouraging, and pretty much giving us the leeway to do whatever we want.”

Which is? To place art in the large, spacious lobby, in one of the long, gallery-like side rooms, and in a clean, warehouse-sized chamber around the side of the building and towards the back. “I think it’s over 5,000 square feet,” Gratkowski adds. “That’s going to be one single, major exhibition,” with the art of Bob Zoell as selected by former L.A. County Museum of Art curator Howard Fox.

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