Street Artist Faith47: New DTLA Mural
We’ve beeen following Internationally acclaimed street- and studio-based artist, Faith47 who currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and now we can see her work in person–she just finished a new mural in the South Park area of DTLA last week titled The Preciousness of the Hunt. Faith 47’s poetic elegant swan mural, painted across…
Surreal Serrano: The Collage of Rafael Serrano at District Gallery
Rafael Serrano has a show up at CARTWHEEL favorite artspot District Gallery until September 7, 2014.
Coachella 2014 Interviews:The Diverse Visual Art From Major Production to DIY
Coachella definitely put the ‘Art’ in its 2014 Music and Arts Festival. For the first time in its history of 16 years, the festival’s official poster bore the names of its visual artists alongside the musical acts. The presence of visual art is inseparable from music and performance at Coachella, and it’s been an important…
Interview: Ashley Fisher–Silhouette Show Opens May 10 at the Fold Gallery
Ashley Fisher’s delicate paper silhouettes reflect her fascination with Victorian memento mori and hair jewelery, flora and fauna, beautiful women of the silent film era, Art Deco, taxidermy, and silhouette portraits. Using a combination of computer and and handwork, she creates seductive pieces that are more dark than whimsical, and retain a delicate feminine sense…
Brewery Art Walk: Artists’ Life in the Brewery Art Colony
Industrial. Maze-like. Colorful. Zany. Worn. Comfortable. Uncomfortable. Electric. Magical. Home. That’s how long-time Brewery Art Colony resident Wini Brewer describes the vibe at The Brewery Art Colony. And she should know a little something about the vibe of what she calls “a village.” The talented painter of abstracts on wood panels that juxtapose figurative elements…
Interview: Nathan Cartwright and The Hive Gallery’s 9th Anniversay Show
Saturday, April 5th, 2014 was a magical day, indeed! It saw the 9 Year Anniversary celebration of The Hive Gallery & Studios: a fantastic artist collective that has pioneered the expansion and power of creative energy in Historic Downtown Los Angeles’ Gallery Row. The Hive and its founder/curator/King Bee, Nathan Cartwright, is a way-paver from…
Sophia Gasparian “Soft Serve” at Ginger Corner Market
The name is slyly deceptive: “Soft Serve” packs a punch. Sophia Gasparian, the self-described Armo-MILF (and an acclaimed socio-political artist) uses folk art style children to carry her messages of equality–social, gender and political– genocide history, and a hell of a lot more. She’d decided to retire from painting and focus on raising her two…
Coachella Preview with Poetic Kinetics
This year marks the 16th anniversary of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which runs April 11-13 and April 18-20 where thousands of fans from around the world will attend in celebration of today’s best in music and art. Ever since the inaugural festival in 1999 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, Coachella…
Consumate Artist Mary Jo Bole “Tombs & Toilets” at Mount St. Mary’s College
Cleveland-born artist Mary Jo Bole reconfigures the past into a sublime present and a future where death is the beautiful certainty. For from morbid, Bole’s work is surreal, playful, thought-provoking, and exhibits a wide-eyed wonder and joy as well as an awareness that this all must end. But, as her art shows us, though we…
Interview: Marisabel Bazan at haleARTS S P A C E
Panamanian-born Marisbel Bazan‘s energetic paintings are part of haleARTS S P A C E’s latest group show in Santa Monica, opening March 21 with an artist reception from 5pm to 8pm. Bazan is showing with surfer/artist Michael Torquato de Nicola (and Cartwheel Art favorite) and filmmaker/artist Eric Oliver. Bazan herself is an singer-singwriter along with…
Katherine Brannock: Art to Ignite an Atmosphere of Evolution
The biggest thrill of La Luz de Jesus‘s annual gianormous group show Laluzapalooza is discovering an artist with a stunning style, one you haven’t seen before, one whose work leaps off the wall. The two pieces she’s exhibiting at Laluzpalooza are very different from the ballpoint pen drawings in her first book, Katherine Brannock: Sketchbooks…