Palette Cleanser: Fall Group Exhibition at C.A.V.E. Gallery
Has the Los Angeles summer art season exhausted you? Have the crushing throngs of fashionista scenesters tested your patience? Has it all left a slightly bitter taste of pretension in your mouth? As usual, C.A.V.E Gallery has just the antidote with their palette cleansing annual “Fall Group Exhibition.” The show features over a dozen artists, and pretty much exemplifies…
Vega, Kimberly Zsebe “Girls Doin’ It” at The Loft at Liz’s
“Girls Doin’ It, Featuring a New Wave of Women Artists” is an all-woman show, curated by a man, but let’s not delve into the concepts of patriarchy, because they have no bearing on the nature of the work shown; nor is the work about “doin’ it” in the boy/girl, beast-with-two-backs sense. This lively and…
XVALA introduces the “Bieberbot” at Art Is Shit Editions
XVALA is an artist ahead of his time. A free spirit who does what he wants to do, when he wants to do it. So, when he stole Justin Bieber’s trashcan and painted it silver to display at Art Is Shit Editions it might make you scratch your head at first, but then it becomes…
Home Room’s Final Days
Home Room was an indie gallery run by Walt Gorecki and Shaddy Zeineddine where each exhibit was dedicated whole heartily to its entire concept. For example, when they did a haunted house show last year they sourced and used the same wallpaper from the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland, built special crevices to hide spirit projectors in, and even curated a…
Preview: KarmaBlast Art Show Benefiting the People of Tibet
The Karma Underground and KarmaBlast Charity Art Show and Auction to benefit the people of Tibet takes place on Friday, September 21 from 7pm – 10pm at Art Share LA, 801 East 4th Place in Los Angeles CA, 90013. This phenomenal benefit event features live painting by Samir Arghandwall of 7th Letter and DJ sets…
Ricky Allman’s Abstract Cityscapes at Marine Contemporary
In July, Ricky Allman presented Marine Contemporary with the awesome challenge of exhibiting his painting This Is A Lighthouse. It is the largest work the Venice-based gallery has shown to date and since there was no way the gargantuan canvas was going to fit through the door, they had to stretch it inside of the…
Retna at Michael Kohn Gallery
More than a decade ago, Marquis Lewis aka Retna began making art around the city. The Los Angeles native quickly began to cover more and more of the city while developing an eye-catching style: characters that mesh Arabic writing with Asian calligraphy and much more. Fast forward to today, and he remains one of the…
Borderlines: “Narcolandia” at Coagula Curatorial
What is it about an outlaw? There are few limits to our collective tendency to mythologize them. We blow them all out of proportion. We romanticize the hell out of them. In order to secure outlaws in the firmament of lore, we even ascribe certain moral codes to their legends. We distort the often mundane…
Home Is Where The Needle Marks at POP TART GALLERY
In July, artist Ellen Schinderman curated a two-part exhibit, “Home Is Where the Needle Marks” that culminated at POP tART GALLERY. POP tART’s owner, Phyllis Navidad, greeted my guest and me at the door with a giant hug — after which we found ourselves immersed in a world of inventive needlepoint and wonderful folks. The…
Melanie Rothschild “Pours with Purpose” at Fresh Paint Art
This past Saturday night, Fresh Paint Art Gallery‘s neon sign glowed a few different colors, attracting groups of passersby. As they went inside the gallery’s doors, a group of hanging strips of variously colored paint greeted them. In all colors and patterns, the strips were only a taste of Melanie Rothschild‘s colorful work that comprises…
High Voltage: “Rock Is Dead” at Hyaena Gallery
First things first, if you’re the type of gallery-goer who likes to engage in polemics regarding Reagan’s influence on the Neo-Expressionists, all the while sipping a ten dollar glass of chardonnay, well Hyaena Gallery probably isn’t the place for you. However, if you’ve ever stayed up late drinking PBR, drawing monsters and zombies while “Reign…