CARTWHEEL Interview: RADICAL!
In addition to spray cans, RADICAL!‘s art studio in New York houses a sketchy-looking wood rack of stretcher materials, a chop saw and plenty of tools. The 22-year-old artist paints on found objects, sometimes constructing his own frames out of discarded items like a microwave door or a chunk of bricks. He also paints wall…
Highlights of Armory Week: Recap From Artists’ Point of View
This is the first of our Armory Arts Week recap. Our next will feature gallerists. For Armory Arts Week 2013 in New York City, CARTWHEEL tapped several artists to send us updates and opinions through the week (We stayed home in L.A. busily prepping for our annual Pop-Up Art Show, which is itself a mini art…
CARTWHEEL Pop Up: Mini Art Fair with Events and Entertainment
It’s not just art at the second annual CARTWHEEL Pop Up at PROJECT Gallery. Since the eight artists were drawn from art fairs across the country and are coming to Los Angeles for the event, CARTWHEEL founder Cindy Schwarzstein thought it would be fitting to create a mini art fair environment with special events every…
CARTWHEEL Interview: Scott Michael Ackerman
Throughout his growing career, Scott Michael Ackerman has consistently painted captivating textured artworks that reflect his outsider sensibility. He resides in upstate New York where he lives the life of a work-by-day, paint-by-night artist. His work rarely makes it to California, but a certain painting on a found old door caught the attention of CARTWHEEL founder…
Sleepwalking Along the Dotted Line: JoKa at C.A.V.E. Gallery
JoKa is definitely up to something. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that he has nefarious intent, but he’s certainly lurking in our dreamworld, observing our lust and our fears, ready to pounce on the first chimera he finds. Well, I’ve been observing JoKa too. He’s an artist that seized my attention…
“YOU Look At ME Like An EMERGENCY”: Photographs by Cig Harvey at Kopeikin Gallery
Cig Harvey‘s “YOU Look At ME Like An EMERGENCY” –her first solo show in Los Angeles now at Kopeikin Gallery-– gives us a poignant group of photographs that are rich and suggestive. These 24 artworks are selected from a range of photographs in the artist’s recently released book, YOU Look At ME Like An EMERGENCY (Shilt Publishing,…
Wayne White, “Master Retrospective 2000-2009” at Western Project
Wayne White’s art isn’t highbrow. It isn’t Low Brow. But it qualifies as both. It’s also all-American in the best of ways: Pure, funny, shoot-from-the-hip, self-made, inventive, imaginative. Wayne White is Will Rogers or Mark Twain with a paintbrush and a hot glue gun, an artist whose mural work greeted attendees at the 2009 Art…
CARTWHEEL INTERVIEW: Putting Pork Chops on the Table with Lydia Emily
A multi-tasker of the most admirable sort, L.A. street and gallery artist Lydia Emily makes art, produces art shows, advocates street art, wins art contests, runs a non-profit, volunteers her time in after-school art programs, and sets the table nightly for the gaggle of pre-teens in her household. Her series on Africa, which we loved,…
Raul Guerrero’s Inspired Roadwork at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla
Raul Guerrero‘s elegant show “Beatniks” marks his own creative take on Beatnik author Jack Kerouac’s American classic On the Road; it is up now in the Rotunda Gallery at the lovely Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla. Beatniks, or the Beats, were non-conformist artists and writers of the 1950s and 60s, and their…
I Believe in Unicorns, Too! at WWA Gallery
Does being sweet have an ugly side? That’s the curiosity drawn from “I believe in Unicorns, Too!,” the group show up at WWA Gallery through Mar. 23 featuring works by 50+ artists. Featuring an array of talented painters and illustrators who were tapped to portray the sticky-sweet fantasy world of their imagined lighter, softer dimension,…
CARTWHEEL Interview: Greg Haberny
For the most part, the eight artists selected for this month’s annual springtime CARTWHEEL Art Street & Outsider Art Pop-Up Show are artists who have grabbed our attention at nation-wide art fairs. And Greg Haberny grabs! There is no mistaking a Greg Haberny space, which may include an airplane fuselage, a shredded piano, confetti, nails,…