CARTWHEEL’s Guide to ArtPadSF May 16-19, 2013
For three days and four nights beginning the evening of May 16, a selection of contemporary California galleries will all be poolside in San Francisco, and they’ll be doing more than just kicking back and relaxing! Quite the opposite: At ArtPadSF, the art fair at ultra-hip Phoenix Hotel, the whole complex is abuzz as collectors,…
Interview: An Artist with a View, Jeremiah Kille
It’s easy to envy the locale where artist Jeremiah Kille‘s studio is located: Northern California, at the doorstep of an oceanfront state park where the forest meets the sea. This budding artist-to-watch comes to L.A. this week for his show “Fragile Empire” at PROJECT Gallery opening April 25. In this recent interview, exclusively for CARTWHEELArt.com…
Collector Interview: Coachella Content Coordinator Jon Halperin
The secret to a good art collection? Form strong relationships with galleries. Have a good framer you can depend on. Buy at charity shows when you can. These pointers come from Jon Halperin, who has one of the most enviable pop art / street art collections of small-to-medium prints, original paintings and toys we’ve ever…
Meet Shrine On, the Artist Behind the Towering Coachella Installations
One of the literal high points of Coachella over the years has been the one-of-a-kind, mind-blowing complex, giant, towering installations built entirely out of trash and reclaimed items that loom over the weekend music festival. These dominating sky rises are assembled by artist Shrine On who has been building shine towers for Coachella and other…
Coachella Preview: “TRASHed: The Art of Recycling”
Despite this art project’s name, if you call these amusing works “trash cans” you’re wrong. They’re recycling bins, and they will be fully functional at The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival April 12-14 and April 19-21, 2013. The bins have been painted by 60 artists who were chosen from thousands of online submissions,…
Photos: CARTWHEEL Mini Art Fair Pop Up Opening Draws Artists and Art Lovers
Scott Michael Ackerman’s art card series set the tone for the opening night of the CARTWHEEL’s Mini Art Fair Street & Outsider Art Pop Up Show: Take pictures so we did–and so did our friends! And we’ll have more coming from the rest of the weekend, including Kashmere live at PROJECT Gallery, Saturday yoga, and…
Gallerists Discuss Armory Arts Week
Amory Arts Week was a flurry of activity for collectors, artists, and of course gallerists, the majority of whom travel thousands of miles, coordinating the shipping of art works, setting up their booths, and then greeting myriads of visitors over the course of four days, before tearing it all down, and shipping it back. We…
CARTWHEEL Interview: RADICAL!
In addition to spray cans, RADICAL!‘s art studio in New York houses a sketchy-looking wood rack of stretcher materials, a chop saw and plenty of tools. The 22-year-old artist paints on found objects, sometimes constructing his own frames out of discarded items like a microwave door or a chunk of bricks. He also paints wall…
Highlights of Armory Week: Recap From Artists’ Point of View
This is the first of our Armory Arts Week recap. Our next will feature gallerists. For Armory Arts Week 2013 in New York City, CARTWHEEL tapped several artists to send us updates and opinions through the week (We stayed home in L.A. busily prepping for our annual Pop-Up Art Show, which is itself a mini art…
CARTWHEEL Interview: Scott Michael Ackerman
Throughout his growing career, Scott Michael Ackerman has consistently painted captivating textured artworks that reflect his outsider sensibility. He resides in upstate New York where he lives the life of a work-by-day, paint-by-night artist. His work rarely makes it to California, but a certain painting on a found old door caught the attention of CARTWHEEL founder…
CARTWHEEL INTERVIEW: Putting Pork Chops on the Table with Lydia Emily
A multi-tasker of the most admirable sort, L.A. street and gallery artist Lydia Emily makes art, produces art shows, advocates street art, wins art contests, runs a non-profit, volunteers her time in after-school art programs, and sets the table nightly for the gaggle of pre-teens in her household. Her series on Africa, which we loved,…