Preview: Anthony Ausgang Solo Show “Catascopes” at Copro Gallery
Meow! This Saturday, May 30 from 8pm to 11:30, the cat man cometh, when Anthony Ausgang launches his purr-fect new solo show, CataScopes at Copro Gallery. For his solo show Ausgang, whose work is super mind- and reality-bending, brings an even further-out psychedelic edge to Pop Surrealism. His trademark cat characters are more than just…
CSULA Masters Thesis Show: Saturday May 15
California State University, Los Angeles is one of the art world’s best kept secrets. Well sort of. Coagula’s Mat Gleason notoriously attended (and dropped out of ) the program, but has returned to lecture there. And that’s where Coagula draws its pool of interns, and this Saturday, May 15, two of this year’s Master’s program…
Curly: The Importance of Arts Education and the Legacy of Chouinard
When the California Locos were hanging at Red Pipe Gallery, the Locos–Chaz Bojórquez, Dave Tourjé, John Van Hamersveld, Norman Wisdom and Gary Wong–gave a talk about their evolution. The name on all their lips as Chouinard Arts Institute. Four out of five of the guys had gone to school there, and Dave Tourjé had bought…
Mother’s Day Art: John Kilduff’s Flowers Last Forever
I love flowers! It’s so sweet and thrilling to receive a bouquet. And oh the joy of one that lasts forever! No, I’m not talking paper or plastic, but paint, specifically artist John Kilduff’s beautiful bouquets available through May 10 at Daniel Rolnik Gallery. In a special wink at floral delivery services, you can special…
Canadian Artists! Your Art in a Mobile Music Video for Fido
Canadian artists–what do you love about your hometown? Your province? Your country? This summer Fido, the Canadian mobile phone provider, wants you to celebrate Canada with them and join in pushing Canadian culture forward. To make this happen, Fido has teamed up with with award-winning director Vania Heymann to create the first-ever interactive mobile music…
Kent Twitchell “Above the Streets” Art Share L.A. Gala May 14
Now we can all view the work of Los Angeles’ world renown muralist, Kent Twitchell, with a series of eight billboards that bring his work to major intersections across the city, while alerting us to the upcoming “Above the Streets” gala benefiting Art Share L.A., May 14. Twitchell, the evening’s honoree, provided eight images from…
April 30 “Artopia” Flowers with Mud Baron
On April 30, the Container Yard in the Downtown LA Arts District will be aglow with murals and art for LA Weekly’s “Artopia” a one-night only celebration with art, music, food and drink. Adding even more color and bursting with Nature’s bounty: “Flowers on Your Head” an ongoing living art project from the amazing Mud…
Manifest Justice: Art & Activism Unite at Baldwin Hills Theater, May 1 to 10
May Day! May Day! “Manifest Justice” opens with an artist reception May 1 and to the public May 2 through May 10 for over a week of activism and art that calls for justice across society while addressing racism, sexism, economic and social ills–a large-scale pop-up art exhibition, cultural convening, and community organizing event featuring…
Magic and Realism: Photographs by Bill Leigh Brewer and Osceola Refetoff
Photography captures reality in a way unlike any other art form, and it is the magical adeptness of the photographer which transforms what could have been a simple snapshot into fine art. The two day exhibition, “Magic and Realism: Photographs by Bill Leigh Brewer and Osceola Refetoff,” opening April 18 at Chungking Studios presents two…
100 Walkers: West Hollywood Interactive Art, April 18
West Hollywood becomes an interactive gallery on Saturday April 18 with “100 Walkers” 100 living works of art walking pre-determined routes through the city. “100 Walkers,” the ambitious Dada-ist art piece from artist Richard Kraft, begins at 2pm in the El Tovar parking lot between San Vincente and Robertson. The walkers, all in black, wearing…
Save the Date: LA Weekly’s Artopia, April 30 at The Container Yard
It’s a mega-art Thursday at The Container Yard on April 30 from 8:00pm to 11:00pm, featuring live art, music, fashion, artisanal cocktails and food trucks. Artopia is back for its third year and for 2015, art world superhero Shana Nys Dambrot has curated a sensory event to delight, entrance and expand your mind: My vision for…
