Clive Barker: Imaginer at Century Guild in Culver City

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Clive Barker: Imaginer at Century Guild in Culver City

A rare chance to view Clive Barker’s paintings and drawings for a week-long exhibition at Century Guild in Culver City.

LA Art Show 2014: Preview Photos, Coagula, Century Guild, Murals, and More!

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LA Art Show 2014: Preview Photos, Coagula, Century Guild, Murals, and More!

It’s not a sculpture, but rather some huge thing mover, used ot move many of the things I saw Tuesday when I went down to preview the LA Art Show during install. What a scene! And oh thank goodness for LA’s unofficial city food, the bacon wrapped hot dog, which was the fuel of necessity…

Clive Barker’s INK at Century Guild in Culver City

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Clive Barker’s INK at Century Guild in Culver City

An exhibition of Clive Barker, David Mack, and David Keane’s brush and ink art at the Century Club in Culver City opens on Nov. 16.

Gail Potocki “Fragmented Alice” at Century Guild

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Gail Potocki “Fragmented Alice” at Century Guild

Robert Williams has called Gail Potocki A really fantastic artist… It’s refreshing to see a modern painter that has a classic, romantic touch and the skills to add a fresh facet of expression to the new period of Realism. On August 17, Potocki’s new series “Fragmented Alice” opens at Century Guild, featuring 15 new works…

Preview: Gail Potocki on “Fragmented Alice” at Century Guild

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Preview: Gail Potocki on “Fragmented Alice” at Century Guild

Gail Potocki is an award-winning Symbolist painter who combines the techniques of the Old Masters with 21st Century themes. With subjects ranging from the extinction of species to circus freaks, Potocki creating dramatic, evocative works in elaborate frames she makes herself, the draw the viewer into worlds of danger of beauty. Her new series “Fragmented…

Preview: All Jazzed Up About the 1920s–The Great Gatsby at the Century Guild

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Preview: All Jazzed Up About the 1920s–The Great Gatsby at the Century Guild

It may not be the art you’re used to us covering at CARTWHEEL, but I couldn’t pass up the invitation from the Century Guild for a solo preview of Academy Award-winning designer Catherine Martin‘s costumes and sketches for The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann.  Martin created the sketches, which are printed on watercolor paper,…

Collecting: It’s in the Cards

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Collecting: It’s in the Cards

  I love collecting postcards of art, and often spend time in museum gift shops mulling over the options. Usually I buy duplicates, one for me to save, and extras to mail or use as gift cards in packages. Packaged postcards of exhibitions have been an increasingly popular item, and some sets of postcards, notably…

Collector and Gallerist Thomas Negovan: On Collecting and Century Guild in Los Angeles

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Collector and Gallerist Thomas Negovan: On Collecting and Century Guild in Los Angeles

  Los Angeles has become a Great Art City, with hundreds of galleries, thousands of artists,  important art fairs and exhibitions, arts districts throughout the metropolitan and suburban areas, and a style–Low Brow–which was incubated and midwifed in the region. It’s a sign of our city’s embrace of art that the country’s leading Art Nouveau…