Save the Date: “Yare: One More Dance” by Cristobal Valecillos, a PST LA/LA Exhibition – Saturday October 21st
One of the most exciting exhibitions for PST LA/LA will be Cristobal Valecillos “Yare: One More Dance” at Timothy Yarger Fine Art, that opens’s this weekend. Cristobal Valecillos will be invoking the annual Los Diablos de Yare festival of his home country of Venezuela by creating a stunning collection of eight handcrafted masks, for his…
Save the Date: January 14, Steve Diet Goedde at Garboushian Gallery
Hands down, Steve Diet Goedde is one of the top fetish/erotic photographers in the world, and full disclosure, I’ve curated him into shows before because I truly love how he photographs women. His work shows an awareness of women–of their dreams, their spirits, their inner life–making his photos more than just fancy fap shots. Goedde’s…
Dan Baldwin: Reliquia at Garboushian
Wow. Just wow. This is Reliquia, a sculpture by Dan Baldwin, on exhibition at Garboushian Gallery in Beverly Hills. Over three feet high, it is ceramic coated in platinum and inlaid with mother-of-pear. One of the NBYA (New Young British Artists), Baldwin shares of the similarities of his predecessors–namely the use of precious metals and…
Preview: Julien’s Auctions Street Art Auction: Banksy Murals and More
The annual Street Art Auction by Julien’s Auctions offers works produced by the most significant and collectible artists in the urban art movement and several controversial lots: Banksy murals excised from walls in Bethlehem and Detroit, the latter of which contains portions of paint showing clear fingerprints of the unidentified artist. Banksy’s Donkey Documents, created in in…
The Transition from Graffiti to Fine Art: Exclave in Beverly Hills
The textbook definition of exclave is a piece of land which is politically attached to a larger piece but not physically conterminous with it because of surrounding foreign territory. According to Gerald Breaux Kelly, the curator of a new exhibition, “The Intro” at Exclave Gallery in Beverly Hills, the gallery takes its name from this…
“Matter of Time” Opening Night Reception at Gallery Brown
Under the blanket of night, the crowd at Gallery Brown for the opening of Matter of Time was buzzing. Music and drinks flowed, and excitement bubbled for the man of the hour, Gregory Siff. This marks Siff’s second show in 2012, and notably, Matter of Time — like his previous exhibition “There + Back”–will be…
ARRESTED MOTION curates the group exhibit “City of Fire”
ARRESTED MOTION, an art blog followed by more than 36,000 people, curated its first West-Coast exhibit of 2012 — named “CITY ON FIRE.” The show was inside of the boutique jewelry store STEPHEN WEBSTER, which is on the walking road of RODEO DRIVE – the most elite retail section of the 90210 zip code. And…