Photos: “The NEW Testosterone” and “Seance” at Coagula
WARNING: SOME IMAGES NSFW Coagula Curatorial was packed for two group shows, “Seance, ” curated by Maria Vasquez, up top; down below was throbbing with “The NEW Testosterone.” Women artist shows are marketing tool (“look, chicks can paint!”), but no one bothers to advertise a show that’s all dudes. Except Mat Gleason. The NEW Testosterone…
Create: Fixate “Constellations” Shines in Downtown
Create:Fixate‘s spring multi-media event “Constellations” blended visual arts, live music, and DJs in a dynamic atmosphere for art appreciation that mirrored the diversity of Los Angeles itself. Held in Lot 63, a Downtown Los Angeles Arts District warehouse space just blocks from CARTWHEEL’s offices, Create: Fixate “Constellations” drew over 1,200 people who experienced some of…
Flowers, “SuperCallaFragileMysticEcstasyDioecious,” Bloom at MOAH
Los Angeles’ County’s high desert community of Lancaster is famous for spring wildflowers, riotous, iridescent fields of California poppies punctuated by spikes of purple lupine that carpet the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, just fifteen miles outside of Lancaster, spilling over the desert’s hills and basins. The city too spills over the hills; its population…
How Selfish? “The Selfish Show” at Katherine Cone Gallery
While some might disagree, there is a school of thought that every piece of art is a self-portrait, unintended or not, revealing as much about the creator as the subject. Southern Californian author Ross MacDonald wrote: Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged…
The Force Was With Them All Day: Sean StarWars at Coagula
Mat Gleason is bold, creative, smart, and goofy as hell, so having a Star Wars themed show on International Star Wars Day (May the 4th, for the non-nerds reading this) with an artist who legally changed his name to Sean StarWars seemed totally reasonable. Kind of. As the show was setting up, Gleason joked: Yeah…
Gag Me With A Toon 5 at WWA Gallery!
If you think WWA Gallery is preying on your easiest emotions with their fifth annual “Gag Me With A Toon” exhibit, well, you’re absolutely right. This is a very specific vein they are tapping. The first dramatic connection many of us have with art is through cartoons, comic strips, comic books. and for Generation…
La Luz de Jesus Highlights Contrasts: Vicki Berndt, Dave Dexter, Mark Gleason
Contemporary artists Vicki Berndt, Mark Gleason, and Dave Dexter at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, through June 2, 2013
In Your Face: How Artists Transformed LA’s Urban Landscape
Although there are “3 Movements” (or sections) to the “In Your Face” exhibition, which opened at the Angel City Brewery in conjunction with the District Gallery on April 11th, the majority of the show is the devoted to the Art Dock, the world’s first drive-by art gallery, located in the original Downtown Los Angeles Arts…
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…