Marc Trujillo: 2016 LA Art Show Notes
Inside a large art fair there’s a geographical slippage that you feel at some point, you could be in Miami, New York, Basel, or any number of large cities where these fairs which cull galleries from all over the world happen. Sort of like being in a casino, indoor mall or a sprawling space with…
Observations of the 2016 LA Art Show: Steve Grody
The L.A. Art Show is always a mixed bag, and a lot to visually chew through with not necessarily enough attention span to make through properly in one try. There is work that might have been seen as edgy if it were at least 40 years ago. There is work where clearly the artist has…
2016 LA Art Show and the Los Angeles River
One of the most important focuses of the recent LA Art Show was a dialogue about the Los Angeles River and its relationship to art, moderated by Marisa Calchiolo, with guest speakers Edward Hughes, curator of exhibitions at the Museum of Latin American Art, Mexican-born painter Victor Hugo Zayas, and author, landscape designer, and professor…
Feb 12: “Dark Progressivism” Art History/Graffiti Documentary Screens at Orange County Museum of Art
Cartwheel Art is thrilled to announce that the Newport Beach Film Festival and Orange County Museum of Art will be presenting a free sneak preview screening of the feature length documentary Dark Progresssivism at the Orange County Museum of Art, Friday February 12th at 7pm, followed by a Q&A with director Rodrigo Ribera d’Ebre, producer…
Save the Date Feb 6: “The Debriti Show” at Market Gallery
“The Debriti Show,” a super cool exhibition by JonMarc Edwards, opens February 6 as the debut exhibition at Market, the new literary themed gallery in Sliver Lake. Debriti is term Edwards coined, a portmanteau of “debris” and “grafitti,” and for this interactive exhibition, the artist transformed Market into his take on a marijuana dispensary, but…
Preview & Save the Date: Feb 6 “Curate This, Part Deux” Gabba Gallery
Curators are in the spotlight at Gabba Gallery with “Curate This, Part Deux,” showing their art in the second installment of this popular group show. You’ll see work from many well known artists who curate, and discover that many curators have a sideline as artists. Full disclosure: I am the latter, and each time I…
Save the Date: February 4–“Ship Cats” Lecture by Paul Koudounaris, PhD
Here kitty, kitty, kitty! Dr. Paul Koudounaris is back on the lecture circuit, arriving with a splash tomorrow, February 4 at The Last Bookstore. The renown award-winning author of Empire of Death, Heavenly Bodies and Memento Mori, Koudounaris is probably the only author who gets sent well wishes from beyond the grave by the spirits…
Last Week to Experience TRACTIONARTS in the DTLA Arts District with NASA’s video of the Sun!
TRACTIONARTS has been a video venue in the heart of the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District for nearly three years, showing films from twilight to midnight. Actually, it’s been a window facing Traction Ave at the corner of Avery, between SCI-Arc’s parking lot and the new the new Arts District Brewery. TRACTIONARTS was started by…
Fabrik Expo Highlights & Cartwheel Art/Cartwheel Art Tours Booth: Featured Arts District Artists and Tomorrow’s Book Signing with Rodrigo Ribera d’Ebre Writer/Director of the Film Dark Progressivism.
Cartwheel Art is excited to be a media sponsor for Fabrik Expo–a celebration of art, design, multi-media and performance art–that premiered with an opening preview party last night benefitting Inner-City Art, a non-profit arts organization based in Downtown Los Angeles, that provides professional art instruction to under-served youth. Fabrik Expo fair platform presents emerging and established cross-disciplinary…
2016 LA At Show Honors Robert Williams, Celebrate on Chung King Road
Robert Williams is an astounding talent and a man who through sheer force of vision created an art movement (Low Brow), and thus shepherding in Pop Surrealism, New Modern Contemporary, Narrative Surrealism, Post-Abstract Neo-Figurative, and other styles across the international art world, as well as bringing about a return to draftsmanship and painterly skills. He…
2016 LA Art Show: We have Special Contributors!
This year for the LA Art Show, we have asked some of Los Angeles’ stellar art talents to contribute words and photos about what excites and engages them at the LA Art Show. Rodrigo Ribera d’Ebre is the author of Urban Politics: The Political Culture of Sur 13 Gangs, The NAFTA Blueprint, and A Grave…