October 18: Curating Homeboy Industries 5k Run Outdoor Art Show
October 18 I am curating my biggest art show yet, an outdoor, four-hour pop-up benefiting Homeboy Industries as part of their 5k run/walk, over forty artists and approximately eighty pieces of art that will be hung on a chain link fence. We start hanging at 5am, the show opens at 8am and is over at…
TOMORROW! One Night Only Boxes of Death, October 11
Dig it! Boxes of Death returns to Southern California, now for the second time in Los Angeles. The show will open for one-night on Saturday October 11th from 6-10pm at The Chun, 1258 w. 2nd St in DTLA. Now in its fifth year, the traveling coffin show–yes, “boxes of death” are coffins, tabletop sized for your collecting…
Cameron: Arcane Artist, Model for the Modern Woman
Cameron: poet, artist, actress, muse, mystic, witch, woman. Cameron: wife of one of the most influential scientists and philosophers of the last century, a man whose tragic, violent death could not hinder or derail his consort’s own development. Cameron: a forceful, rebellious soul who embraced the shadows, stepping forth from the night of nights and…
Tom Hofer: “Paper View” of Retro Scenes at Palm Spring’s Archangel Gallery
I first knew Tom Hofer as “one of the handsome Hofer brothers.” He and his brother Manfred played in bands, lived in Pacific Palisades, and tons of girls had mad crushes on them–how I escaped his bass-playing charms in my youth is still beyond me, but I have been madly charmed by his collage art,…
South of Seventh Neighborhood Walk, Saturday September 20
Put on your walking shoes this Saturday, September 20 from 6pm to 9pm and get ready to experience the inaugural South of Seventh Neighborhood Walk, a community collaboration hosted by four galleries on the border of the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District, Cerre, CES Contemporary, Little Big Man Gallery and Wilding Cran Gallery. All four…
Illumetric: Public Art Shapes Santa Monica Blvd With Light
As dusk drapes Santa Monica Boulevard, geometric forms along the median begin to glow in primary colors. In day light the shapes are solid, bold. At night they luminesce magically thanks to photovoltaic sensors that detect a drop in ambient light levels that energizes the LED lights contained within the sculptures. The diamond, cube and…
Save The Date: Sept 19 to 21, Barrio Roots Street Art Fest
Experience three days of murals, music, workshops, panels and art during the first annual Barrio Roots Street Art Fest in the City of Bell, celebrating bi-national expression and relationships between Mexico, Mexican-American artists, and youth in the greater Los Angeles area. This free, three day event focuses on art and creativity, with workshops in musical…
LA Murals & Mentorship Program Will Help At-Risk Youth
Kids arrested for tagging now have the option to work with art mentors on murals in Downtown Los Angeles, thanks to LA Murals & Mentorship Program an innovative concept developed by All City Mural Endeavor (ACME), a project of Los Angeles Downtown Arts District Space (LADAD Space). Juvenile first time offenders who self identify as emerging…
The Olympic Freeway Murals: Celebrating 30 Years
It’s been thirty years since the Los Angeles Olympics. There have been earthquakes, riots, floods and fires; mountain lions and and bears have come down from the hills, buildings have gone up, landmarks have been torn down. And the Olympic murals–designed and painted in 1984 to celebrate the city, the Olympics and the athletes–have come…
Save the the Date: Aug 30, Skate & Create at Flower Pepper Gallery
We’re in a drought. The last time there a drought this bad in California, a new sport flowered–skate boarding. All those empty pools made for great neighborhood skate parks, legal or clandestine. The skateboard culture of Southern California played a seminal role in the early influences of many graffiti and street artists. The growth of…
