David Hinnebusch Artworks Presents I LOVE YOUR DONKEY

March 20, 2011 - PRLog -- Venice, CA (March 18, 2011) For the first time in history, from now until April 15
2011, Abbot’s Habit in Venice, California, presents new paintings by artist David
Hinnebusch. A reception for the artist will commence on April 1 from 5- 9PM
during “1st Fridays on Abbot Kinney”.1

I love your Donkey, narrates the story of the major successes for Mr. Hinnebusch
finding his place in the West-side art scene. In 1974 at age 10, the 46-year old
West Los Angeles painter fell in love with Venice and spent his summers at the end
of Brooks Avenue scoping out the naked ladies on the sand and breaking bottles
in the alley dumpsters... In 1990 he lived in Venice for the first time on Ocean
Front Walk. In 2000 gentrification forced him back into Santa Monica shortly after
realizing his childhood dream of moving to Brooks Avenue, and then again last
year, ironically enough, he and his new family have found themselves in Malibu- in
a place they can afford!

“When I was a kid my best friend was Nickey Delmonte and his father Bob was a
Venice artist. They lived on Brooks (later on the canals) and their place was full or
art. Bob’s studio was supposedly floated down from Santa Monica Canyon and in
the beginning of the 20th Century and planted next to Abbot’s Pizza2. This is where
Bob had his foundry. They [The Delmontes (Joan Delmonte is a published writer)]
are the reason I’m a painter today.”

“ I love your Donkey celebrates my travels through the neighborhoods from Point
Dume in Malibu to the Venice Canals...”


“A creative furnace!” - Joan Delmonte, Venice.

Abbot’s Habit is located at :
1401 Abbot Kinney Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90291 (310) 399-1171 Tuesday through
Saturday, 11am - 6pm. For more information, please call Melanie Cote 310-403-9056.
1http://www.abbotkinney1stfridays.com/
2http://www.westland.net/venicehistory/mapsdocs/venice-map...


For more information, please call Melanie
Cote 310-403-9056.

Biography:
For Malibu, California painter David Hinnebusch, artistic work has evolved over his
46 years with a special interest in the joy of creating. "Art encourages, or gives joy
(or fear and loathing) to the viewer." An linguistics scholar, Hinnebusch’s father
moved his wife and David from Pittsburgh to Tanzania, then to Los Angeles, then
Kenya, and finally accepted a professorship at UCLA. Hinnebusch recalls growing up
in Africa with fondness. “I was the only American kid, I got along with the African
children, the European children picked on me. It was always ‘Yank’ this, and ‘Yank’
that.” However, traveling back and forth between the United States and Africa
during the political tumult of the early ’70s did serve to develop David’s worldly and
inquisitive nature at a very green age. He remembers a question he posed to his
father at a soldier surrounded Uganda Entebbe International Airport. “I was 10, and
while we were waiting to get on a plane, I went to my father and asked ‘Dad, who’s
crazier, Idi Amin or Richard Nixon?’ I think he said 'Shush!'.” David started his
creative career writing children's' adventure books at age 8 in Africa, singing in the
Los Angeles punk rock band Entropy, and then began using the camera to paint for
a living in 1990. (Adapted from Rena Kosnett interview for LAWeekly New People
Issue 2008.)

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Santa Monica, California painter and picture taker David Hinnebusch, artistic work has evolved over his 45 years with a special interest in the joy of creating. "Art encourages, or gives joy (or fear and loathing) to the viewer." www.fakeart.net