“Made in Los Angeles” Opens in Pomona at Smoking Mirrors

 

“Made in Los Angeles,” featuring over twenty artists from the Greater Los Angeles area, opened Saturday night  at Smoking Mirrors during the Pomona Art Walk. The show reflects a strong urban sensibility and one that is distinctive to the Southland– sugar skulls, ghetto birds, sunsets, cityscapes, the LA River and LA graffiti, custom cars, curvaceous women, tattoos and Marilyn Monroe. Outside the gallery, metal flaked muscle cars and super styled low riders from the Usuals Car Club and the Tribe Car Club glistened under the streetlamps. Inside tracks were spinning, the energy was high, and the art glowed and glowered with Cholo cool and Chicano style. “Made in Los Angeles” showcases poignant and proud art, steeped in SoCal tradition with its roots in Aztec and Olmec mythologies, imbued with loss and love.

Through April 12, 2014, Call for regular gallery hours: 909-622-0948.

Top photo:  Krown 187, Lost Aztlan

“Made in Los Angeles” wall by Stigma One

Permanent art above the bar with witty symbolism.

Tyson Pedroza

Robert Yager, Spider’s Web (top) and Krown 187, Lost Aztlan

Robert Yager, Spider’s Web

Sunny Boy, Shoe Game

Juan “Naper” Teyer

Ulises Vasquez, Have I Sinned

Ulises Vasquez

Kitore, The Wise Dead

Paul Barrientos, Viva la Revolucion (top).  Takashi Kikushi, Rest in Peace Hugo (left) and Gypsy Rose (right)

Espi, Force of Nature

 

Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River

Detail, Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River

Ricardo Estrada, Tlaloc

Noah “Kast” Teran, Made in Los #4

Lucky Hellcat, La Reina de Los Angeles (top).  D.A. Designs, Lost Angeles (below)

Mr. Rhythm, 2 Live and Die in LA

Chamako

Phowl, Angel

Ed Gutter, Sacred Diamond