Two Johns and a Whore: Well Hung and Packed at Coagula
I admit it, I curated this show, so I am biased, but damn, the “Two Johns and a Whore” opening at Coagula Curatorial on January 11 was a fun, over the top night of art and people. There were five openings on Chung King Road, and by 7:30 the scene was hopping, cameras flashing, red…
New in Los Feliz: The Inn Gallery
The Inn Gallery, next to Ye Old Rustic Inn on Hillhurst Avenue is a perfect local gallery. It’s got a parking lot, a Chinese restaurant on one side and a popular, funky drinking dive on the other, and it’s on a busty walk street. Open for openings and closing, and evenings after 6pm, the gallery…
Two Johns and a Whore: Conjugating Myself
Sunday’s LA Times let the cat of the bag: If you read to the end in the awesome profile of Mat Gleason, you’ll see that I’m an artist and I’m curating an art show that opens January 11, 2014 at Coagula Curatorial. Part of the reason I began writing about art is that I love…
Antebellum Gallery: Decadent Charm
The galleries of Los Angeles are myriad, and none more mysterious than a canopied store front across from venerable Boardner’s bar on Las Palmas in Hollywood. A large painting or photograph hangs in the huge window, indicating this is indeed a gallery. A small sign on the black painted door frames requests that you buzz…
Miami 2013 Photoblog: Copro Gallery’s Greg Escalante
Curator/gallerist Greg Escalante brought Copro Gallery to Miami for Scope Art Fair and now brings us his views of the goings-on in Miami. Here are snaps from December 3rd and 4th. Kazushiro Tsuji, with his masterpiece, Andy (silicon, chrome, mixed media) Copro Gallery, Scope. New Jersey’s Parlor Gallery: Jen Hampton, Jill Ricci, Sarah Potter artist Pork…
Exclusive Preview, Photos: “Beyond the Dark Veil: PostMortem and Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive”
November 2nd, on the heels of Halloween, on the Day of the Dead and All Souls Day, November 2, Cal State Fullerton’s Begovich Gallery opens “Beyond the Dark Veil: PostMortem and Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive,” a haunting and sublime exploration of love and loss featuring Victorian post-mortem and mourning photography from the Thantos Archive.…