CARTWHEEL’s Guide to Miami Art Fairs
Art Basel Miami Beach, the most exciting art fair in the world, is fast approaching on Dec. 6-9! Three, two, one, liftoff: CARTWHEEL is Miami bound! Art Basel is the overall term used to describe a week of art fairs and events in Miami that center around the actual Art Basel fair where blue chip,…
People Are Strange: Mercedes Helnwein’s “Make It Dark” at Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Let’s not get too bogged down in who Mercedes Helnwein is just yet. Let us, for the moment, focus on the work which, with Helnwein, is a writer’s dream. No matter how you attempt to describe her art, you can’t really go wrong, given that one avoids words like “convivial” and “uplifting”. Helnwein traffics in oblique, moody…
New York, New York: An Eyewitness Report After Hurricane Sandy
I arrived in New York just a few days after Hurricane Sandy decimated the East Coast. She was a wicked wind that caused the death of over 100 individuals and incomprehensible damage to countless more. Her scene playing out as a tragic act in the cycle of life, showing us that yet again one of the scariest things…
Stay Up! Book Signing at The Last Bookstore
For street art fanatics, Saturday evening was super exciting as professor and author Jim G. Daichendt hosted a signing for his book Stay Up!: Los Angeles Street Art at the Last Book Store As the first street art book dedicate solely to Los Angeles, “Stay Up!” has been received warmly by the street art…
Cartwheel Recap: “The Weight” opens at Known Gallery
Know Hope’s first solo show in Los Angeles since 2009 at Known Gallery, “The Weight”.
Cartwheel Recap: “Conversations” opens at Soze Gallery
Augustine Kofie and Jaybo Monk have been secretly working on new work for this one day show at Soze Gallery’s new Location in Los Angeles. The show titled “Conversations” focuses on recent studio sessions involving both artists. Unconventional in approach, Soze Galley allows the artists to freely create and curate their collaboration. It is great…
A Cup of Joe & A Quick Smoke with SeasOverSeas
SeasOverSeas is an artist based out of North Hollywood who is making original works that traverse the lines between graffiti, skateboard illustrations, and fine art. We’ve known each other for a long time and have constantly traded info on both the music and art that we live for. Especially music in the case of SeasOverSeas,…
Cartwheel Recap: “The Mouseketeer Army” ~ New Works by Bob Dob
The opening reception for the exhibit seemed packed with a bunch of rad players in the lowbrow art world like Anthony Ausgang, Andrew Hosner of Thinkspace Gallery, Marc Trujillo, actress/singer Kate Flannery from NBC’s The Office who is also part of the Hollywood lounge duo The Lampshades. I wasn’t there to catch the action, but CARTWHEEL founder…
Stanley Kubrick Transforms LACMA
It’s not every day you walk into an art museum and encounter the chilling, psychologically shaking imagery of Stanley Kubrick‘s films. But that’s exactly what happens when you walk into the Los Angeles County Museum of Art‘s current show on the director. The impressively large exhibition explores h Kubrick’s directorial journey through photos, props…
Studio Visit: Bob Dob, Part 2
Bob Dob just had the opening reception for his exhibit “The Mouseketeer Army” at La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, so it’s finally alright for me to leak a ton of awesome pictures I nabbed while I was at his studio. If you’ve kept up with the story, then you’ll remember that in part 1 of…
The Art of Shaping and Painting Custom Surfboards in Maui
While I was in Maui, I got the awesome opportunity to not only meet the founder of Maui Skimmers, Brent Edwards, but also visit the shop where he paints and shapes one-of-a-kind skimboards, surfboards, and stand-up paddle boards. You may be asking yourself, what does a surfboard have to do with a art? Well, it has a…