Highlights from Aqua Art Fair Miami Beach
The Aqua Art Fair in Miami Beach, Dec. 6-9, 2012 featured galleries and artists that inspired us beyond the setting of the traditional convention center setting: a hotel where emerging art lies within every threshold. About Aqua: Aqua is a contemporary art fair which takes place in Miami Beach each December, during Art Basel Week.…
Ike Turner Killed JFK: A Conversation with Hudson Marquez
Hudson Marquez is one of the most gifted raconteurs I’ve ever met. He has the kind of gift for gab that only comes from living a nomadic life peppered with thorny characters. His voice is loud but oddly soothing, with just the gentlest Louisiana lilt. Hudson has a salty tongue, and appears to have no…
Use Your Words: Letters from Los Angeles at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Some people really hate writing. Something about word choice, grammar, and syntax completely turns them off. But even outside their given grammatical order, words serve as great inspiration for a completely different expression — the visual arts. That rings especially true for the fascinating works in the show “Letters from Los Angeles.” At Jack Rutberg…
“Material Manifestation” Closing Reception at L2Kontemporary
Material Manifestation at L2Kontemporary featured innovative works by five Los Angeles-based artists who speak with a diverse range of talents across various media. Lisa Bartleson‘s Sphere paintings hypnotized, while Jed Berk created post-modern assemblages with acrylic, balloons, pvc tubing, spray bottles with pump, tape, spray paint, valves, paper, and air. Joe Davidson created massive abstracts…
FASH!ONART: Miami Basel Dinner
The inaugural FASH!ONART Miami Basel dinner, hosted by Alle Fister of Bollare Communications and produced by Walter Canas, welcomed international, New York City-based pop graffiti artist Bobby Hill to one of Forbes Magazine’s “Top 10 Most Anticipated Openings of 2012.”: The James Royal Palm in South Beach. Held at hotel’s soon-to-open South Shore Rum Lounge…
Block Party in Culver City: Branded Arts
Branded Arts in Culver City held a block part, a one night event of art and community enrichment, last month which celebrated street and local art. The event, held in a vacant car lot surrounded by beautiful murals by some most impressive and stand-out street and underground artists from around the world–like DABS & MYLA, HERAKUT, Anthony…
Opening Night of “Crucifixion” at Corey Helford Gallery
CARTWHEEL’s Luis Ochoa was on hand for the opening of “Crucifixion,” the huge, stunning group show at Corey Helford Gallery, with works that focus on a theme more commonly associated wiht Easter, rather than the winter holiday season. The show features all new work from an incredible list of artists: D*Face, HUSH, Natalia Fabia, Kukula,…
“Mad Society” Opens at Known Gallery
“Mad Society“ opened this month at Known Gallery with works from artists like Risk, Zes, Revok, Askew, Rime and RETNA, plus other artists gracing the walls at this famed Fairfax Avenue gallery with And Known Gallery’s current show “Mad Society” features these artists creations that go beyond the expected: Foraged geometric collages, pop color creations,…
Our Favorite Moments at SCOPE Miami Beach
Enjoy these photos of the exciting art and smiling faces that CARTWHEEL encountered at SCOPE Miami Beach Art Fair, Dec. 4-9, 2012. About SCOPE Miami: SCOPE Miami ran December 4 – December 9, 2012 featuring the best and brightest across multiple creative industries, including fashion, film, music and performance. With over a decade of critically…
Highlights from Pulse Miami Beach
CARTWHEEL’s photo highlights from Pulse Art Fair Miami Beach, Dec. 6-9, 2012 — enjoy! Here’s the scoop from Pulse Contemporary Art Fair: Pulse is the leading U.S. art fair dedicated solely to contemporary art. Through its annual editions in Miami and New York, PULSE provides a unique platform for diverse galleries to present a progressive…
Rebel Yell: Stay Up! and Billboard Bandits Join Forces for Show
As the Los Angeles art world kept chugging along with opening after opening inside its pristine, white walls, a group of artists went out under the cloak of the night and made art in the darkness. Working on any surface they could find, these brave souls created illegal street art unafraid of any legal consequences…