Save the Date: Saturday August 16, Painted Dot Show at I5 Gallery
The Brewery is community of artists who live and work together in one of the most inspiring–and the largest– art colonies in the world, right here in downtown Los Angeles. And while they have their own live/work studios (and the semi-annual Brewery ArtWalk) to show their art, the Brewery Artwalk Association wanted to create an…
Save the Date Aug 30: Blade, Freedom Bring NYC Graf to 7th Letter
New York graffiti legend Blade hits LA with his new book Blade: King of Graffiti, and the opening of his first LA solo show at 7th Letter August 30th, with Blade signing his book from 6pm to 8pm. By 1980, after painting 5,000 wildly creative trains, Blade stopped counting, and kept painting. This exhibit–Blade’s first…
La Luz de Jesus: August 2014 Show Explodes!
La Luz de Jesus balances light and dark, humor and horror, debauchery, death and Disney in a super show featuring solo works José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros and the winners of the La Luz de Jesus Laluzapalooza juried show, opening Friday August 1st at 8pm. Oh my dark gods, Ontiveros brings it hard. He has been…
“Heads Will Roll” Aug 2 at Coagula Curatorial
“Heads Will Roll” is a hugely important exhibition, curated by Kelly Thompson, opeing August 2 at Coagula Curatorial. Kelly is a force of nature, an unstoppable artist. I first saw her work when she was in “Two Johns and a Whore” which I curated at Coagula Curatorial, and now she’s curating there, with a line…
“Street Art Throwndown” Monday Party Filming: Guests/Extras Invited
The above flier explains it all: The TV show “Street Art Throwdown” invites you to be part of the grand finale block party on Monday July 21. If you’d like to participate read the above very carefully (especially about what (not) to wear. VERY IMPORTANT: No logos, band names, copyrighted material, no band names, sports…
Cartwheel Art at ArtExpoSD: Pop, Goth, Prints, and Dark Progressivism
ArtExpoSD starts in less than two weeks–we do our load-in on opening day, July 24 at 7am–well, we can start at 7am, but since Dahlia Jane and I driving down the day before with our art installer from @ColdFireArtCo to see the Latin Lovers play, we might be at the Wonder Bread Factory at…
Preview: ArtExpoSanDiego 2014, July 24 to 26 at WonderBread Factory
ArtExpoSD makes it debut at San Diego’s Wonder Bread Factory July 24 to 26. The brainchild of artist and designer Mark Murphy who organized art shows at Comic-Con, ArtExpoSD runs simultaneously with that mega-fest and Gam3rCon, giving San Diego locals and visitors a chance to see world class artists in an intimate (and free!) setting.…
Dark Progressivism: LA Art Documentary Nearing Completion
Los Angeles sets global trend. Our art is exploding around the world. And can show your support for our city and its art through supporting the final stages of production on the LA art documentary Dark Progressivism: On Rupture and Rebellion. A few months ago, I began working as an associate producer on Dark Progressivism:…
“Scratch” at El Segundo Museum of Art
One of the most important museum shows to open this year, if not this decade, “Scratch” at the El Segundo Museum of Art works on numerous levels to highlight the past, present, and future of art, lettering, and Los Angeles. Last year, the Getty Research Institute began an ambitious program conceived by graffiti collector…
Paul Schimmel Announces HUGE Arts District Gallery
Former MOCA chief curator Paul Schimmel who left over MOCA’s then-director Jeffrey Deitch’s shall we say “deitchiness”–has returned victorious and triumphant to downtown Los Angeles, specifically to the Downtown Art District. On his Facebook page, Schimmel posted: My new home in downtown LA -a late 19 th early 20 th Century flour Mill. The 100,000…
California Locos Speak: “The Origins of Rebellion” Panel Discussion June 7
Saturday, June 7th at 4pm, the California Locos–five artists, who over the past five decades, have shaped the Southern California art scene–discuss the evolution of LA surf-skate-street-art culture in panel, “The Origins of Rebellion” moderated by artist Anna Pomonis at Red Pipe Gallery, as a compliment to the “California Locos” group show. These native Angelenos–Chaz Bojorquez,…
