Max Neutra and Amanda Marie Craft Intriguing Worlds
Saturday night proved a super busy one for Los Angeles’ art scene but I still looked forward to one show the most–Max Neutra and Amanda Marie. C.A.V.E. Gallery pulsed with the energy of laughing art lovers and the sounds created by a nearby DJ as artists Neutra and Marie premiered their respective shows “New Tongues…
Bunnies, Music, and Paint: Max Neutra on His Journey and New Tongues
Back in January of last year, I walked into Crewest for their group show “Audio Canvas 3” and my eyes immediately fell on one explosively colorful wall that featured drooping boobs. Amidst the many breasts, a few small canvases depicted simple images like an ice cream cone, and a pair of lips, but the palette…
Use Your Words: Letters from Los Angeles at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Some people really hate writing. Something about word choice, grammar, and syntax completely turns them off. But even outside their given grammatical order, words serve as great inspiration for a completely different expression — the visual arts. That rings especially true for the fascinating works in the show “Letters from Los Angeles.” At Jack Rutberg…
Eyeone Captures Los Angeles’ Streets
Los Angeles prides itself on diversity. At this point in the city’s history, it’s cliché to refer to the sprawling space as a melting pot of cultures, but that argument still holds. Just think of the art scene–walk into any gallery opening and you can view work from an artist that works halfway across the world…
Rebel Yell: Stay Up! and Billboard Bandits Join Forces for Show
As the Los Angeles art world kept chugging along with opening after opening inside its pristine, white walls, a group of artists went out under the cloak of the night and made art in the darkness. Working on any surface they could find, these brave souls created illegal street art unafraid of any legal consequences…
The Art of Letting Go: THEFL on His Art and Impermanence
Last month, I attended a signing at The Last Bookstore for Stay Up!: Los Angeles Street Art in my ever-present goal to keep up with the street art scene. I came across quite a few familiar street artists but a name I didn’t recognize was THEFL, also known as The Forest Lawn. Intrigued, I researched the…
CYRCLE.’s “Organized Chaos!”
I’m afraid of bees. I don’t mean that lightly. I can’t hear their buzz or see them on TV or see a picture of them without my heart racing. So imagine my sudden shock as I hear the sound of bees buzzing right when I’m searching for the entrance to an art show. I find…
Eat a Taco, See Great Art – Restitution Press at C.A.V.E. Gallery
In a truck. At a restaurant. From a drive-thru. Nothing quite gets me as excited as a delicious, mouth-watering taco. Or should I say tacos – plural. Living in Los Angeles basically means residence in taco heaven. From big-chain restaurants to hole-in-the wall eateries, you can find tacos practically everywhere in the city. And visitors who…
Stay Up! Book Signing at The Last Bookstore
For street art fanatics, Saturday evening was super exciting as professor and author Jim G. Daichendt hosted a signing for his book Stay Up!: Los Angeles Street Art at the Last Book Store As the first street art book dedicate solely to Los Angeles, “Stay Up!” has been received warmly by the street art…
Stanley Kubrick Transforms LACMA
It’s not every day you walk into an art museum and encounter the chilling, psychologically shaking imagery of Stanley Kubrick‘s films. But that’s exactly what happens when you walk into the Los Angeles County Museum of Art‘s current show on the director. The impressively large exhibition explores h Kubrick’s directorial journey through photos, props…
Senor Chips Puts Gringo Twist on Dia de Los Muertos
A day of sugar skulls, painted faces and pan de muertos (bread of the dead), Dia de Los Muertos proves one of the most artistically inspiring days of the year with easily recognizable aesthetic themes. The biggest one is the most simple – the skull. That sent self-proclaimed gringo Senor Chips on a quest…
