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

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“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

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IMG_4753“Made in Los Angeles” wall by Stigma One

IMG_4776Permanent art above the bar with witty symbolism.

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

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Sunny Boy, Shoe Game

IMG_4755Juan “Naper” Teyer

IMG_4701Ulises Vasquez, Have I Sinned

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Ulises Vasquez

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Kitore, The Wise Dead

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

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Espi, Force of Nature

 

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Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River

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Detail, Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River

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Ricardo Estrada, Tlaloc

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Noah “Kast” Teran, Made in Los #4

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

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Mr. Rhythm, 2 Live and Die in LA

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Chamako

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Phowl, Angel

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Ed Gutter, Sacred Diamond

 

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1 Comment

  1. Krown187 44/53
    March 10, 2014

    Rad article. L.A L.A Big City Of Dreams…

    Reply

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