Block Party in Culver City: Branded Arts

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Block Party in Culver City: Branded Arts

Branded Arts in Culver City held a block part, a one night event of art and community enrichment, last month which celebrated street and local art.  The event, held in a vacant car lot surrounded by beautiful murals by some most impressive and stand-out street and underground artists from around the world–like DABS & MYLA, HERAKUT, Anthony…

Opening Night of “Crucifixion” at Corey Helford Gallery

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Opening Night of “Crucifixion” at Corey Helford Gallery

CARTWHEEL’s Luis Ochoa was on hand for the  opening of “Crucifixion,”  the huge, stunning group show at Corey Helford Gallery, with works that focus on a theme more commonly associated wiht Easter, rather than the winter holiday season. The show features all new work from an incredible list of artists: D*Face, HUSH, Natalia Fabia, Kukula,…

“Mad Society” Opens at Known Gallery

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“Mad Society” Opens at Known Gallery

“Mad Society“ opened this month at Known Gallery with works from artists like Risk, Zes, Revok, Askew, Rime and RETNA, plus  other artists gracing the walls at this famed Fairfax Avenue gallery with And Known Gallery’s current show “Mad Society” features these artists creations that go beyond the expected: Foraged geometric collages, pop color creations,…

Our Favorite Moments at SCOPE Miami Beach

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Our Favorite Moments at SCOPE Miami Beach

Enjoy these photos of the exciting art and smiling faces that CARTWHEEL encountered at SCOPE Miami Beach Art Fair, Dec. 4-9, 2012. About SCOPE Miami: SCOPE Miami ran December 4 – December 9, 2012 featuring the best and brightest across multiple creative industries, including fashion, film, music and performance. With over a decade of critically…

Highlights from Pulse Miami Beach

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Highlights from Pulse Miami Beach

CARTWHEEL’s photo highlights from Pulse Art Fair Miami Beach, Dec. 6-9, 2012 — enjoy! Here’s the scoop from Pulse Contemporary Art Fair: Pulse is the leading U.S. art fair dedicated solely to contemporary art. Through its annual editions in Miami and New York, PULSE provides a unique platform for diverse galleries to present a progressive…

Rebel Yell: Stay Up! and Billboard Bandits Join Forces for Show

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Rebel Yell: Stay Up! and Billboard Bandits Join Forces for Show

As the Los Angeles art world kept chugging along with opening after opening inside its pristine, white walls, a group of artists went out under the cloak of the night and made art in the darkness. Working on any surface they could find, these brave souls created illegal street art unafraid of any legal consequences…

The Best of 2012 Miami Beach Art Fairs

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The Best of 2012 Miami Beach Art Fairs

CARTWHEEL’s List of Trends, Successes and Discoveries at Miami Beach Art Fairs, Dec. 6-9, 2012 I didn’t know I had reached maximum art stimulus overload in Miami until it was 4am east coast time on Monday. The fairs were over, I was on a plane about to land in Los Angeles and, coming out of…

Cartwheel Recap: Designer Con 2012 opens in Pasadena ~ Part Two

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Cartwheel Recap: Designer Con 2012 opens in Pasadena ~ Part Two

DesignerCon is a great way to get closer to your favorite artists, while discovering new and emerging artists.  I’ve been followingSave The Panduhs and Sket One for the past year and here they were at D-CON 2012 in Pasadena. These two artists are on different playing fields, but have one end goal, to make it…

“California Photography Now” at New Image Art

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“California Photography Now” at New Image Art

“California Photography Now” opened December 1st at New Image Art Gallery in West Hollywood. A photographic exhibition, encapsulating the essence of portraiture, urban landscapes, lifestyles and trends specific to the current California environment. Featured photographers in this exhibit are; Jerry Hsu, Todd Jordan, Kevin “Spanky” Long, Jen “JR” Reynolds, Curits Buchanan, Tino Razo, Neck Face,…

Myron Conan Dyal and Christopher Ulrich: Alchemy, Love, and “The Reckoning”

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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…

Charity Case: “Art with a Heart” & “Print Isn’t Dead” at WWA Gallery

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Charity Case: “Art with a Heart” & “Print Isn’t Dead” at WWA Gallery

  Let’s face it, we humans are contrary folk. We will cut each other off in traffic without even signaling. We will berate underpaid, blameless supermarket cashiers for not opening more registers, even if there are only two people ahead of us. We will bump into each other while walking and texting, then scowl at…