Event Coverage: Designer Con 2017 Show Recap
Designer Con, an incredible art and design convention, again broke its own attendance records with between 35-37 thousand attendees, including kids, passing through its doors all weekend November 11th – 12th at the Pasadena Convention Center. This was an increase of almost 10 thousand for Designer Con 2017! Cindy Schwarzstein of Cartwheel Art was at Designer…
Preview: Art Gathering LA with 6 Gallery/Artist Exhibitions Opens June 2nd-June 5th!
Pop Surrealism! Lowbrow! Tattoos! Performance! Installation! Film! Punk Rock DJs, Collectibles! Utter coolness! Art Gathering–the giant indie art fair and tattoo convention aboard the Queen Mary–is going to be huge! On board the venerable ship will be over hundred independent artists hanging on the Kulture Klash walls and showing in booths. Ron English and Chet…
“Twenty Years Under the Influence of Juxtapoz” Opens at Barnsdall
February 22 celebrate two decades of groundbreaking art, celebrated with a mega show featuring over 100 artists popularized through the genius of Juxtapoz Magazine. Founded in San Francisco Robert Williams, Craig Stecyk, Greg Escalante, Eric Swenson and Fausto Vitello as a West coast nose-thumb to the New Your art establishment, Juxtapoz slammed contemporary street culture,…
Krampus-themed “Naughty or Nice” at Copro Gallery in Santa Monica
Copro Gallery offers to the public “Naughty or Nice,” a group exhibition of Krampus-themed artwork with performances b y Krampus L.A. to boot.
Preview: Krampus at Copro “Naughty or Nice”
And again I’ve been debating how to approach CARTWHEEL story because (full disclosure) there are some rather full disclosure of me in Louie Metz’s Krampus painting that will be part of the Krampus Art Show, Naughty or Nice opening Saturday. Now granted, Louie is a gentleman, so he discreetly covered parts of me, but yeah,…
beinArt Collective’s 2013 at Copro Gallery in Santa Monica
The 4th annual beinArt Collective’s 2013 group art exhibition at opens Nov. 9 at Copro Gallery with art curated by Jon Beinart.
Copro: One Night Only! Chet Zar “Ego Death” Ceremony and Nikko Hurtado
Rev up your horror engines and get a jump on Halloween–along with some inspiration for a costume or haunted house as Copro presents the closing event for Chet Zar’s monument to monsters “Ego Death” and Nikko Hurtado’s first solo show “Renati.” This is a one-night-only, over top event. Along with the Ego Death series presented…
Beyond Eden: See It Sunday!
Beyond Eden was jammed full last night with art lovers taking in this art fair featuring three major New Contemporary galleries from the Westside and San Francisco’s Spoke Art Gallery. Beyond Eden continues today from noon to 5pm at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, one of the loveliest spots in spots…
Copro 20th Anniversary Exhibition
This one is huge! It’s Copro Gallery‘s 20th Anniversary Group Art Exhibition, paying tribute to the gallery’s role in the beginnings of the Lowbrow / Pop Surreal movement since 1993. What began with a selection of works by Robert Williams, Big Daddy Roth, Sandow Birk, Russell Crotty, and others has continued for two decades with…
Photos: Bobby Furst, Rat Fink Opening at La Luz
Acclaimed Joshua Tree artist Bobby Furst and fans of Rat Fink filled La Luz de Jesus on Friday Jun 7 for the opening of a doubled barreled pair of shows packing a whallop. Furst’s assemblage–shown for the first time outside of his desert studio and curated by Billy Shire–displayed his passion and social conscience.…
Brave New Worlds: “Futurology” and Heidi Taillifer at Copro Gallery
Considering we live in an age of digital footprints, cyber-surveillance, and iron domes, I’m surprised that I don’t see more paranoid art. I see a lot of sad bunnies and suicidal bears, but I reckon that has more to do with our inner-child, lost youth, and other icky therapeutic garbage than anything dealing with Orwellian…