“LA Portraits” Estevan Oriol at La Luz de Jesus
Estevan Oriol’s LA Portraits shows a side of our city that belies the usual pretty staged shots of civic leaders, celebrities, and architectural glory. There are no swimming pools or movie stars. LA Portraits is tough unflinching look at Los Angeles gangs, photographed by Oriol, whose work takes us deep behind gang lines. These are…
Consumate Artist Mary Jo Bole “Tombs & Toilets” at Mount St. Mary’s College
Cleveland-born artist Mary Jo Bole reconfigures the past into a sublime present and a future where death is the beautiful certainty. For from morbid, Bole’s work is surreal, playful, thought-provoking, and exhibits a wide-eyed wonder and joy as well as an awareness that this all must end. But, as her art shows us, though we…
Interview: Marisabel Bazan at haleARTS S P A C E
Panamanian-born Marisbel Bazan‘s energetic paintings are part of haleARTS S P A C E’s latest group show in Santa Monica, opening March 21 with an artist reception from 5pm to 8pm. Bazan is showing with surfer/artist Michael Torquato de Nicola (and Cartwheel Art favorite) and filmmaker/artist Eric Oliver. Bazan herself is an singer-singwriter along with…
Save the Date May 3: Mark Ryden “Gay ’90s West” at Kohn Gallery
Throw on your Victorian finery and iron your steampunk ensembles for Mark Ryden’s opening Saturday, May 3, 2014 at Kohn Gallery. The progenitor of hyperocular damsels, the master of meat, the man himself Mark Ryden will signing books from 4pm to 6pm, the reception for “Gay ’90s West” begins at noon. Bring quarters for parking!
Inn Gallery Preview: New Show Opens March 14, 2014
Inn Gallery, Los Feliz’s newest neighborhood gallery, opens a new group show on Friday, March 14. Featuring paintings, sculpture, photography and video installations, “All Eyes Need Art” explores the self and our city. Alex Arizpe and Janet Grey take the viewer deep into their bodies and minds, into their struggles against death and recovery from…
Katherine Brannock: Art to Ignite an Atmosphere of Evolution
The biggest thrill of La Luz de Jesus‘s annual gianormous group show Laluzapalooza is discovering an artist with a stunning style, one you haven’t seen before, one whose work leaps off the wall. The two pieces she’s exhibiting at Laluzpalooza are very different from the ballpoint pen drawings in her first book, Katherine Brannock: Sketchbooks…
“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,…
Preview: “Laluzapalooza” Opens March 7 at La Luz de Jesus
It’s back! The biggest, boldest explosion of Pop Surrealism, conceptual narrative, Low Brow, contemporary grotesque, post-Industrial romanticism, Mid-Century graphic, and just about every other contemporary genre explodes over the walls at La Luz de Jesus’ 28th annual juried show. There’s no theme, just some freshest and most relevant artists working today, drawn from over…
Interview: Keith Dugas “The Season of Spring” at Flower Pepper Gallery
“The Season of Spring” will be in full bloom at Flower Pepper Gallery when the Daniel Rolnik-curated show opens March 1st. Rolnik,”the world’s most adorable art critic” presents over 100 artists from around the world, after giving them only one guideline. We checked in with one of the artists in “春 [The Season of Spring]”…
Dave Lebow “Weird Tales” Opens at La Luz de Jesus
Dave Lebow’s pulpy paintings are horror/adventure fan fantasies come to life. Voluptuous women, scary creatures, bizarre hominids, and strange worlds collide and merge. Lebow created the the Doomsday Killer paintings in the second to last story arc on the TV series Dexter, which showed last year at La Luz de Jesus, and now he’s back…
Two Johns and a Whore: Well Hung and Packed at Coagula
I admit it, I curated this show, so I am biased, but damn, the “Two Johns and a Whore” opening at Coagula Curatorial on January 11 was a fun, over the top night of art and people. There were five openings on Chung King Road, and by 7:30 the scene was hopping, cameras flashing, red…
