Save the Date: “Layers” with Essi Zimm, Toshee, Nicholas Bonamy and Joey Feldman at The Gabba Gallery – March 12th
We are really looking forward to the opening of “LAYERS”, four simultaneous solo exhibitions at The Gabba Gallery, featuring the work of artists Essi Zimm, Tōshee, Nicholas Bonamy, and Joey Feldman, curated by Jason Ostro. Opening reception is on Saturday March 12th from 7pm-11pm. There will be music by DJ Jonathan Williams, and the Richeeze Gourmet…
“Dark Progressivism” Screening at Orange County Museum of Art
The sneak peak screening of the documentary Dark Progressivism at the Orange County Museum of Art, presented by the OCMA and the Newport Beach Film Festival, was both the culmination of two years of hard work by the filmmakers and the beginning of the film’s path through festivals. The documentary follows the careers and progress…
Cartwheel Art Tours & Obscura Society LA in South Central LA: Mural Tour with Steve Grody, Smile South Central & Paradox
Join Cartwheel Art Tours and Obscura Society LA, in South Central, Los Angels, where we are partnering for our first tour on our new monthly series with mural tour’s. For this month’s mural tour, we will be offering an immersive urban art exploration in contemporary street art and graffiti where we will learn about the 11 walls, 2 alleys and 9 roll…
Coverge from Tuesday Night’s Book Signing & Talk, with Lynn Goldsmith, at the Morrison Hotel Gallery
West Hollywood’s Morrison Hotel Gallery (located at Sunset Marquis Hotel) hosted acclaimed photographer Lynn Goldsmith in a book signing & talk with close friend & jewelry designer Loree Rodkin, on Tuesday February 9th, 2016. The 100 person audience clamored to hear of Lynn’s very early start in photography, the evolution of her career, and inside…
LA Art Show 2016 Event Coverage Summary: Cartwheel Art’s Guest Contributors Highlights
Celebrating its twenty first year anniversary, LA Art Show 2016 delivered on its promise to be the best ever! For four days, the Los Angeles Convention Center hosted over 50,000 attendees at more than 120 galleries representing 22 countries, and our guest contributors–author/filmmaker Rodrigo Ribera D’Ebre, author/historian Steve Grody, author/photographer Dr. Paul Koudounaris, and painter Marc Trujillo…
Dr. Paul K’s Photo Highlights from the 2016 LA Art Show
Alexandra Gestin Editors Note: Photographer, author, and adventurer Dr Paul Koudounaris is an internationally known art historian, lauded for his portraits of bejeweled skeletons and ossuaries, published as the books Empire of Death, Heavenly Bodies, and Memento Mori. Here he turns his camera on the 2016 LA Art Show. Ben Jones Catherine Coan Catherine Coan…
Observations of the 2016 LA Art Show: Steve Grody
The L.A. Art Show is always a mixed bag, and a lot to visually chew through with not necessarily enough attention span to make through properly in one try. There is work that might have been seen as edgy if it were at least 40 years ago. There is work where clearly the artist has…
2016 LA Art Show and the Los Angeles River
One of the most important focuses of the recent LA Art Show was a dialogue about the Los Angeles River and its relationship to art, moderated by Marisa Calchiolo, with guest speakers Edward Hughes, curator of exhibitions at the Museum of Latin American Art, Mexican-born painter Victor Hugo Zayas, and author, landscape designer, and professor…
2015 Cartwheel Art/Cartwheel Art Tours in Review
This year was an amazing year for art, and for those of us at Cartwheel Art! We kicked off the year with a special exhibition booth at the 2015 LA Art Fair, “Dark Progressivism: Metropolis Rising,” curated by Rodrigo Ribera D’Ebre and Lisa Derrick, and featuring14 artists, including Chaz Bojorquez, Defer, Big Sleeps, Prime, Abel…
Trace Mendoza’s “Always Lurking” at Daniel Rolnik Gallery opens Dec. 12th, 2015
Trace Mendoza’s “Always Lurking” at Daniel Rolnik Gallery opens Dec. 12th, 2015. The concept behind this show is as follows: While Trace Mendoza was in college, a freak flood broke out causing the artist to lose everything. Trace stood In the ruins of his room and had an epiphany that would change his life and…
‘Between Worlds” at Corey Helford Gallery Opens at New CHG Space in Boyle Heights.
On Saturday night, December 12th, in Corey Helford Gallery‘s new 12,000 square foot, Boyle Heights location, “Between Worlds”, a new group exhibition curated by Caro, exploring the fantasy of planets and lands yet to be explored, will open. The exhibition is a follow up to “Dreamlands”, where artists pushed the boundaries of the limitless landscape of…