CARTWHEEL: Highlights of 2012
Just six months ago CARTWHEEL launched our website, and in that time we’ve visited studios and galleries, interviewed artists and collectors, and explored art fairs, with nearly 300 posts and thousands of photos that document our excitement over the art scenes in Southern California and beyond. One of the most thrilling things for us…
“Material Manifestation” Closing Reception at L2Kontemporary
Material Manifestation at L2Kontemporary featured innovative works by five Los Angeles-based artists who speak with a diverse range of talents across various media. Lisa Bartleson‘s Sphere paintings hypnotized, while Jed Berk created post-modern assemblages with acrylic, balloons, pvc tubing, spray bottles with pump, tape, spray paint, valves, paper, and air. Joe Davidson created massive abstracts…
FASH!ONART: Miami Basel Dinner
The inaugural FASH!ONART Miami Basel dinner, hosted by Alle Fister of Bollare Communications and produced by Walter Canas, welcomed international, New York City-based pop graffiti artist Bobby Hill to one of Forbes Magazine’s “Top 10 Most Anticipated Openings of 2012.”: The James Royal Palm in South Beach. Held at hotel’s soon-to-open South Shore Rum Lounge…
Myron Conan Dyal and Christopher Ulrich: Alchemy, Love, and “The Reckoning”
Sunday night mystic sculptor Myron Conan Dyal and painter Christopher Ulrich discussed their art, creativity, alchemy, religion, and love at La Luz de Jesus, further illuminating both artists’ works; Dyal has shown before at La Luz, and Ulrich’s monumental “The Christ Chronocator Series III: The Reckoning,” the final chapter in Ulrich’s six-year odyssey, the Demoneater…
CARTWHEEL BLOG: “Twilight” Star Noot Seear, Brian Butler Perform Aleister Crowley Ritual
Tuesday night, artist/musician Brian Butler –assisted by Twilight: New Moon actress Noot Seear, and actor Henry Hopper– was supposed to invoke Bartzabel, the forceful spirit of Mars into to the body of actor/hipster/ James Franco at L&M Gallery to celebrate “For The Martian Chronicles” exhibit, honoring the work of sci-fi author Ray Bradbury. But UPDATE:…
CARTWHEEL Blog: Gregory Siff is Everywhere!
Today I popped into one of my favorite local hair stylists, Madin, my go-to-genii for emergency blow outs and up-dos, and there taped to her mirror was a Gregory Siff drawing he’d done of her. What a surprise! Turns out this CARTWHEEL favorite is one of her clients, too.
CARTWHEEL Details Editorial Team; Prepares for Art Basel, Miami Art Fairs
With Art Basel and the Miami Art Fairs just around the corner, CARTWHEEL wants to introduce our editorial staff. As senior editor, I am thrilled, thrilled, thrilled to head up a staff of writers and photographers who are dedicated to bringing their love of art–and their knowledge about art, from street art to fine art,…
Collector and Gallerist Thomas Negovan: On Collecting and Century Guild in Los Angeles
Los Angeles has become a Great Art City, with hundreds of galleries, thousands of artists, important art fairs and exhibitions, arts districts throughout the metropolitan and suburban areas, and a style–Low Brow–which was incubated and midwifed in the region. It’s a sign of our city’s embrace of art that the country’s leading Art Nouveau…
CARTWHEEL Launches Blog Section for More Personal Art Coverage
With so much art in Los Angeles and elsewhere, and the CARTWHEEL team traveling throughout California, the U.S., Europe, and other destinations, hitting art fairs, galleries, museums, and openings, we launched a blog page. Along with our travel adventures, we’ll be writing about our own collections, museum pieces and exhibits that excite us, and other…
Baron Samedi’s Rituals of Sex and Death Rule the Fowler Museum’s In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art
West African Diasporic Religions—especially santeria and that all-American version, hoodoo—are important aspects of my belief system, and have been for decades, spawned by my Southern roots and fascination with Haiti, where the syncretic religion Vodou (popularly known as “voodoo”), combination of West African faiths and Catholicism, was one of the driving forces in the island’s…
Preview: Llyn Foulkes, Leigh Salgado, Vito LoRusso at Coagula Curatorial
As long as I’ve known Mat Gleason–from when he was organizing the Brewery’s original art shows and launching Coagula Magazine, and now with Coagula Curatorial–he still finds time to cast an astrological chart with the same fluidity he uses to toss out bon mots and cutting truths about the art scene; and he has…
