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March 2013
Richard Kessler “This Is Not a Urinal” Tonight March 14, 7pm-9pm
He's been called the Quentin Tarantino of the LA art scene. Richard Kessler's sensuous, dizzying, apocalyptic vision of Los Angeles on display in a series of large works at District Gallery.New works by L.A. artist Richard Kessler, whose works evoke a sensuous urban culture of dead palms, aging signage, hot metal and playful objects crammed into a seedy landscape of dramatically angled planes. There will be wine at tonight's artist reception from 7pm to 10pm. The show's title is a…
Find out more »Desire Obtain Cherish: #undertheinfluence at KM Fine Arts
Desire Obtain Cherish #undertheinfluence, the artist's only solo in LA this year, opens March 15 at KM Fine Arts. A spectacle reflecting on Los Angeles, celebrity, death and immortality, disposable culture, our desires, obsessions, and addictions, fulsome with biting satire and lascivious excess, #undertheinfluence showcases Desire Obtain Cherish's super-sized resin sculptures, a new series of signature pill portraits featuring celebrities who have died of drug overdoses, and other works that are All about the 'wow!' and the 'how?' Check out…
Find out more »Artist’ Reception, “Letters from Los Angeles Part II” at Jack Rutberg
Hot on the heels of the successful "Letters from Los Angeles, Text in Southern California Art" gallery show and exhibition at the LA Art Show, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents Letters from "Los Angeles, Part II, Identity & Self-Identity Through Text In Art," opening March 9, with an artist reception March 16, and running through April 30, 2013. More than seventy works by forty artists--including Bill Barminski, Huguette Caland, Raul Guerrero, Raymond Pettibon, Bruce Richards, and Alexis Smith--are included…
Find out more »“Flotsam’s Harvest” — Mike Shine at White Walls, San Francisco
White Walls is pleased to present Flotsam’s Harvest by Mike Shine. Join us for the opening reception Saturday, March 16, from 7-11pm. The exhibit will be free and open to the public for viewing through April 6, 2013. Flotsam’s Harvest is a sweeping installation of street art, paintings, films, a medicine show performance and the launching of Shine’s graphic novella. Each aspect of the show will provide different coded tips and hints, offered to help viewers solve the dark “World Riddle”…
Find out more »CARTWHEEL Street and Outsider Art Pop-Up at PROJECT Gallery
CARTWHEEL presents the CARTWHEEL Street & Outsider Art Pop-Up Show, its second annual springtime group pop-up art show, March 21-24, 2013 at Hollywood’s PROJECT Gallery on the exciting Caheunga corridor. The opening reception is Thursday, March 21 at 7pm. CARTWHEEL’s pop-up features eight artists, comprised of street, outsider, surf, and new contemporary artists from around the U.S., most from the national art fair circuit, many of whom have never shown in Los Angeles before, selected by CARTWHEEL founder Cindy Schwarzstein. Greg Haberny, Lyle…
Find out more »Planes, Trains & Automobiles at Subliminal Project
Amanda and Shepard Fairey know how to throw a party! The occasion at Subliminal Projects on Friday, March 22? The opening reception for Planes, Trains & Automobiles, works by Tara Smith and Jessica Hess, focusing on machines of mobility and their current state--which many cases means decay. Hess, a graduate of RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) and a recipient of the Trent Burleson Painting Prize, the Faber Birren National Color Award, paints in vibrant photorealism. Smith, the Deputy Director…
Find out more »Copro: Heidi Taillifer — “Land of the Blind,” and “Futurology”– Group Show
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king, but can that one eye see the future? Copro Gallery presents a solo show, Heidi Taillifer's "Land of the Blind" and a group show "Futurology." Heidi's exhibit features new and sculptural works centered around the theme of Eros, and original oil paintings featuring Heidi's studies reflecting Mankind's ongoing hybridization with technology. Continuing the theme, the group show "Futurology," in which artists predict and change the Future using current political climate conditions…
Find out more »50 Years of the Rolling Stones: PROJECT Gallery
Fifty years ago, the Rolling Stones were "England's New Hit Makers (the title of their second album), and to celebrate this astounding anniversary--they have never broken up, despite addiction, overdoses and death;, girlfriend drama; monetary issues; and the famous internla tension between Mick and Keith, aka the Glimmer Twins--PROJECT Gallery presents: 50 Years of The Rolling Stones: A Rock and Roll Retrospective featuring rare, intimate and never-before seen photos of the Stones, at this, the show's United States debut.…
Find out more »Global Inheritance Presents: TRASHed Coachella through March 30
Global Inheritance presents TRASHed: Coachella-- over 100 redesigned recycling bins that will soon be receiving the used bottles, cans and wrappers of Coachella 2013. Global Inheritance's TRASHed :: Art Of Recycling campaign is an ongoing recycling education program that redefines the way people view recycling and trash collection.Global Inheritance arranges the artistic redesign of recycling bins, then integrates the bins at high visibility events to encourage recycling and provide additional outlets for people to appreciate the artwork. Global Inheritance has…
Find out more »Red Bull Canvas Cooler: Factory West, One Night Only
Lydia Emily at Red Bull Curates, Miami 2012 Red Bull celebrates Los Angeles' most innovative contemporary artists as they turn their eye-catching designs into canvas-wrapped Red Bull coolers. The work will be showcased at Factory West, Los Angeles on Thursday March 28, 2013 at 9pm. You, your fellow revelers, and a luminary panel of judges will vote two artists through to participate in a Red Bull Curates Canvas Cooler group exhibition this coming December in Miami during the 2013 Art…
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