Senor Chips Puts Gringo Twist on Dia de Los Muertos
A day of sugar skulls, painted faces and pan de muertos (bread of the dead), Dia de Los Muertos proves one of the most artistically inspiring days of the year with easily recognizable aesthetic themes. The biggest one is the most simple – the skull. That sent self-proclaimed gringo Senor Chips on a quest…
Once There Were Parking Lots: Chloe Early – “Rainbow Ruins” at Corey Helford Gallery
The last studio album the Talking Heads ever made included a song called “Nothing But Flowers.” The protagonist of the song describes a post-industrial landscape in which Mother Earth, having reached the limit of her tolerance, has sprung full bloom in retaliation, blanketing our shopping malls and skyscrapers with trees, rivers, and daisies. The man…
Paper Cuts: Interview with Leigh Salgado
The first time I saw a photo of Leigh Salgado‘s work, I wasn’t sure what I was seeing. When I first got to see her work in person, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. She cuts, and burns, and folds, and paints largish paperscapes depicting vintage lace, lingerie, and flowers that cascade and fuse…
“Abandon All Hope”: Destroy all Design and Septerhed Join Forces at Lab Art
A few people sat inside the cafe, laptops open. A sign nearby reminded patrons they should take their calls outside. On one of the outdoor tables, a woman video-chatted with a friend and next to her sat two men laughing about the first time they met. Not everyone would recognize Septerhed and Destroy all Design sitting outside the cafe…
Elephants & Asses at AR4T Gallery
“Elephants & Asses” at AR4T Gallery is the perfect excursion in the days before, or the hours after, casting one’s vote Nov. 6. With most of the show poking at the storm of media during election season, “Elephants & Asses” is a cacophony of 27 minds releasing an intense amount of tension that sounds like:…
Tea & Crumpets: The Friends, Journalists, and Artists I Met on my London Art Adventure
I journeyed to London to go on a world-class art adventure during which I met new and old friends, journalists, and artists to share experiences with. The following is a dissected look at some of the outings and synchronicities I experienced during my week long stay of jam-packed 10am-midnight walks with individuals. There will be…
CARTWHEEL Launches Blog Section for More Personal Art Coverage
With so much art in Los Angeles and elsewhere, and the CARTWHEEL team traveling throughout California, the U.S., Europe, and other destinations, hitting art fairs, galleries, museums, and openings, we launched a blog page. Along with our travel adventures, we’ll be writing about our own collections, museum pieces and exhibits that excite us, and other…
Baron Samedi’s Rituals of Sex and Death Rule the Fowler Museum’s In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art
West African Diasporic Religions—especially santeria and that all-American version, hoodoo—are important aspects of my belief system, and have been for decades, spawned by my Southern roots and fascination with Haiti, where the syncretic religion Vodou (popularly known as “voodoo”), combination of West African faiths and Catholicism, was one of the driving forces in the island’s…
Ken Gonzales-Day’s Captivating Images
It’s not until you get behind a camera that you realize just how much thought it takes to create a stunning photograph. At least that’s the lesson I’m taking away from my film photography class. Now when I step into the gallery space, I appreciate more a photograph that can not only aesthetically blow me…
The CARTWHEEL Interview with Isabel Samaras
Look, I know you, dear CARTWHEEL reader, I know you. You’re wicked smart, probably very attractive, you have an unquenchable thirst for art, and you most certainly already know who Isabel Samaras is. Still, new art fanatics are born every day and for them a little background may be in order. So kids, Isabel…
“Catharsis” by SANER opens at New Image Art
Mexico City-based artist SANER‘s opening at New Image Art on Saturday, October 27–captured here by CARTWHEEL’s new team member, photographer Luis Ochoa– was an exhilarating display of artist’s work, moving the viewer through mental, emotional, and spiritual states–appropriate, since the show is called “Catharsis.” Drawing on folklore, mysticism, and murals, SANER creates a pathway between…