Paris Photo LA Opening: Oh La La!
Paris! Photos! Los Angeles! Beautiful photos and beautiful people and photos of strange and beautiful places, people and things. Photo Paris launched itself in Los Angeles at Paramount Studios in a big and beautiful way. The three day exhibit was packed with attendees taking in 60 international exhibitors representing photographers from 14 countries, as well…
Julie Tolentino “Raised by Wolves” at Commonwealth & Council
Julie Tolentino‘s current multidisciplinary work glows at Commonwealth & Council, an arts space in Koreatown that is a combination short-term residency, studio, exhibition space, forum for dialogues, and workshop for cooperative knowledge and skill sharing. Gallery director Young Chung had followed Tolentino–whose most recent projects have been presented at Soma Arts, SF; UCLA Center for…
Pierre Picot (paintings and drawings “in absentia”)
I love Pierre Picot‘s art. I first saw his paintings, drawings, and woodcuts hanging in the Silver Lake home he shared with his wife designer and perfumer Wendy Holden before they moved to Bretagne, France late last year, and I felt they had such a European feel to them (Picot is originally from Paris, and…
Interview: An Artist with a View, Jeremiah Kille
It’s easy to envy the locale where artist Jeremiah Kille‘s studio is located: Northern California, at the doorstep of an oceanfront state park where the forest meets the sea. This budding artist-to-watch comes to L.A. this week for his show “Fragile Empire” at PROJECT Gallery opening April 25. In this recent interview, exclusively for CARTWHEELArt.com…
CARTWHEEL Preview: Gary Baseman “The Door is Always Open”
Ever see a show that is soooooo good you want to shout it from the rooftops and post ever single picture you took? But at the same time it’s so good you don’t want to spoil the surprise? The Gary Baseman retrospective “The Door is Always Open” at the Skirball Center is one of…
Celebrating Varnish Fine Art “Decade – 1, It’s Been a Bloody Good Ten Years”
For a decade now, Varnish Fine Arts’ Jen Rogers and Kerri Stephens have created a sense of community and family that embraces the Pop Surrealism/New Classical/avant-garde world. Their gallery showcases strong, strange art, and their mango-saki cocktails served at openings are notorious. They are stand-up gallery owners with an appreciation of both art and…
Ramsey Chahine Wins With “La Luta Art Show”
Last Thursday night, Ramsey Chahine opened his first solo show in Los Angeles at the The Daily Dose‘s exhibition space in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District. Presented by CARTWHEEL in conjunction with The Daily Dose, “La Luta Art Show” which runs through May 16, 2013 features 25 new works by the artist, ranging from drawings to…
Ben Brough “Children of the Wave” Opens at Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum
Ben Brough is one of the most authentic, talented, raddest guys I know. He lives his life full force, doesn’t care what other people say, is insanely intelligent and knows so much about the world–especially the art world–but doesn’t give into one iota of the pretentious nature of it. He’s a family man, can…
MOCA Gala: Urs Fischer, the GoGo’s, 420 and $2.5 Million Raised
MOCA threw its annual fundraising gala on 4/20 and through the haze of date-appropriate smoke and imagery, at MOCA Geffen, past the 2013 Ferraris parked in front of MOCA Grand, over the bleating baby of goats and blare of the USC Trojan marching band, under the giant panda with the “potty” sign directing guests to…
“YES!” They Did at Coagula
Cartwheel Art founder Cindy Schwarzstein had just finished the Cartwheel Art Mini-Art Fair at PROJECT Gallery and was planning La Luta, Ramsey Chahine’s debut solo show at Daily Dose’s exhibition space, when she and Coagula Curator College partner, painter Gina Mead Howie were assigned April 6th for their one night show at Coagula. Using Joe O’Neill’s…
Coagula Curator’s College Finishes Up with Salon Style Saturday
April 13 was the final show for the six of us taking Mat Gleason’s curatorial seminar. The show 13•4•13 was curated by me and painter Wini Brewer, and featured 13 artists. Each had one piece, with the exception of Tim Youd who had four, because, well they’re small and we used them to balance out…