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.…
Secret Art from Celebrities, Artists, Everyday People Benefits Burbank Arts For All
It’s a great equalizer: Over 550 hundred pieces of art, each $40. Buy what speaks to you, buy what you love and then you’ll learn who the artist is. The art, created on 4″ x 6″ pieces of white paper by people from all walks of life–animators, celebrities, fine artists, teachers, students, parents–is part of…
“Heavenly Bodies” Beautiful Bones and Diadems of the Dead
Gloriously decorated with gold and gems, dressed in elaborate finery, in life these bones once supported purported saints and martyrs, and now in death show the historic veneration, an appreciation of miracles once worked, having reminded the faithful living of the spiritual treasures that awaited them upon death. These bones are more than beautiful expressions…
Preview: TJ Martell Foundation Artworks for the Cure
The image above by Richard Ehrlich is part the “Anatomia Digitale” series created by the artist–who is also a physician and surgeon at UCLA–based on digitally altered MRI and CT scans. Combining art and science is his passion, and it so it makes perfect sense that Erlich, described by Santa Monica gallery owner Craig Krull…
Beyond Eden Sneak Peek!
Beyond Eden! Oh, what those words imply–the knowledge of good and evil, the struggle to make one’s mark in a harsh world, and the desire to return to a paradise lost. All of that is implicit in Beyond Eden, the two day art fair at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, October…
Preview: Calavera Gallery Part of Evolving Urban Landscape
Northeast Los Angeles has new gallery: Calavera Gallery on a strip of Cypress Ave that also houses the new bar from punk rock filmmaker Dave Travis who took over the Tops Club, keeping the interior intact adn renaming it Cafe NELA, at 1906 Cypress, conveniently located next to a taco joint–a dollar a taco! Perfect…
Preview: So the Echo, Brandon Boyd
So the Echo, Brandon Boyd’s third book of artwork and writings, takes its name from the proverb As the call, so the echo Since childhood Boyd was called to draw, carrying with him a sketchbook, a habit that he brought with him into adulthood, where his notebooks became repositories for both his art and his…
Save The Date! October 12-13 Beyond Eden 2013 Honors Greg Escalante
Los Angeles’ very Los-Angeles-in-the-best-way art fair, Beyond Eden returns to the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park in East Hollywood, October 12 and 13 after a one year hiatus. This celebration of New Contemporary Art–think Pop Surrealism, conceptual narrative, low brow, no brow, interpretive representational, neo-expressionism–is a multi-gallery show featuring bold…
Richard Newton, “La Gruta Azul/The Grotto”
Conceptual artist Richard Newton’s newest installation,”La Gruta Azul/The Grotto” blends Jewish, Catholic and Buddhist religious symbolism with empty drink cans and water bottles that create an otherworldly environment. Opening at Jancar gallery on Saturday night–the only evening “The Grotto” will be able to be viewed in the nighttime light–“The Grotto” will in place until…
Nathan Ota Signs “Nathan Ota: Ikiru” Friday at La Luz de Jesus
Nathan Ota’s adept, surreal artwork takes viewers into a perilous nether world, off-color and off-kilter. And with Nathan Ota: Ikiru, the full overview of the artist’s work, readers can explore the artist’s beginnings as street artist, through illustration, fine art and coming full circle to his collaboration with RISK. He’ll be at La Luz de…
Chung King Road’s Autumn Cornucopia of Art
This Saturday September 14, plan to get hopped up in Chinatown, because it’s the high season on Chung King Road under a waxing moon at the peak of autumn’s balmy nights. Coagula throws a grand re-opening bash at their new location, 974 Chung King Road, across the walkway from the their old spot which was…