PREVIEW: Armory Arts Week NY 2013: The Armory Show, Scope, Fountain, and Volta
The oldest art fair in the United States, The Armory Show, has spawned a massive series of events that encompasses all five boroughs of New York City bringing international artists, galleries, dealers, collectors, and enthusiasts to the city for a week of non-stop art and culture activities. Armory Arts Week running March 5-10, 2013 includes…
The Dreamscapes of DevNGosha
On a chilly Saturday night, the walls of Soze Gallery felt less like spaces for mere art and more like projections of strange dreams and fragmented nightmares. The same white walls stood there but getting lost in a piece by artistic duo DevNGosha meant virtually leaving the gallery and entering a completely different world.…
CARTWHEEL Preview/Studio Visit: Desire Obtain Cherish #undertheinfluence
Damn, I love Desire Obtain Cherish. It’s art that’s just so crassly, in-your-face-smart, so spot on; but so luxuriously well-thought out and executed; lush, voluptuous, yet razor sharp; the lover’s kiss is really a dagger; so sweet and brutal, savvy and seductive. Desire Obtain Cherish is actually a he, Jonathan Paul, but it’s also brand…
Laluzapalooza Opening: Big, Bold, Bad-Assed, and Beautiful
Packed with art, packed with with people, Laluzapalooza is La Luz de Jesus‘s best juried group show to date, with cleverly grouped pieces that embraced the La Luz aesthetic of Low Brow and Pop Surrealism while pushing its definitions further: While one whole wall was devoted to skulls and skeletons, and throughout bunnies, octopi, saints…
Herb and Dorothy: 50 Artworks Move to MOCA
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection has been described as one of the great American collections of conceptual and minimalist art. An exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s recent acquisition of 50 artworks from this outstanding collection of post-1960 and contemporary artworks, “The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States at…
CARTWHEEL Interview: Roy Gonzalez
Even in Orange County, it’s a rare experience to stand on the beach with someone who is as much “of the ocean” as Roy Gonzalez. The artist has spent so much time on the sands of San Clemente, Dana Point, and Laguna Beach that he speaks in tune with the waves rolling in. Most of…
CARTWHEEL Interview: Lyle Carbajal
Artist Lyle Carbajal moves around a lot, and was actually en route during this interview, headed to his native L.A. via Portland with plans for Spain and France in the near future. Excited about showing his works in the upcoming CARTWHEEL Street & Outsider Art Pop-Up Show, we asked him about travel, music, and painting.…
From the Streets to the Walls: The Godfather of Graffiti – Seen – at Fabien Castanier Gallery
In his first solo U.S. show in eight years at Fabien Castanier Gallery, the legendary graffiti artist Seen, gives us a peak into an experimental series of abstract paintings produced while living in Paris from 2007 to 2012.
A Model Studio Visit with J. Michael Walker
When artist J. Michael Walker and I first met it was at my house, about three years ago. I had seen his exhibition All the Saints of the City of the Angels, and through the modern miracle of Facebook, we had mutual friends, would hit “like” on each others posts, and then started commenting back…
Laluzapalooza Preview: Mark Edward and his Magical Devices
Laluzapalooza is one of my favorite art shows of the year: Over a hundred artists from all over the world exhibiting so much amazing art, plus the opening is one of the best parties ever. While looking at–okay drooling over–all the art I don’t have room for in my house, a name leapt out, one…
Press Release: CARTWHEEL Street & Outsider Art Spring Pop-Up at PROJECT GALLERY
-For Immediate Release- PROJECT Gallery Hosts CARTWHEEL Street & Outsider Art Spring Pop-Up WHAT: Hollywood newcomer PROJECT Gallery hosts CARTWHEEL’s Second Annual Pop-Up Art Show. This is an exciting opportunity for collectors and art enthusiasts to view and purchase unique works by eight stand-out street, outsider, assemblage, surf, and new contemporary artists primarily from…