Los Angeles, A Veritable Font of Type in LA Art Show “Letters from Los Angeles: Text in Southern California Art”
Los Angeles has a lot of signage. A friend of mine was visiting recently and said that he’d seen more billboards, especially ones advertising movies, than in any other city he’d visited. We’ve had the Hollywood[land] sign for almost a century, and our cars (ideally!) keep our eyes constantly aware of our surroundings, making billboards,…
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…
LA Art Show 2013 at Los Angeles Convention Center
The LA Art Show, now in its 18th year, is the longest running platform for contemporary, modern, historic, and traditional fine art in the country. Taking place from January 24-‐27, The LA Art Show kicks off at the Los Angeles Convention Center with a star-studded gala opening on January 23 with James Franco, benefiting The…
“This Side Up” opening at Robert Berman Gallery
Los Angeles based artist and UCLA lecturer Bill Barminski will debut his first solo exhibition in over five years. Barminksi produces artwork that critically engages consumer-culture, mass media, and the strange nostalgia people feel towards “classic” products of the postwar era. His work has been widely received and reviewed in publications such as Juxtapoz, Art…