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…
Save the Date: La Luz de Jesus 31st Anniversary Drawing Show – December 1st
2017 marks La Luz de Jesus Galley 31st birthday, bringing Los Angeles 31 years of continuous, monthly exhibitions. This year-end show invitational event traces the history of Post-Pop in its birthplace. The gallery chose from the best illustrators featured in the 31-year history of La Luz de Jesus to create a new, original drawing for…
“Laluzapalooza” at La Luz de Jesus
No theme! Eye-popping! Mind-blowing! Over 100 pieces of art! It’s that time again–Laluzapalooza is back at La Luz de Jesus. Now in its in 28th year, the annual juried show brings together gallery artists, commercial illustrators, graphic designers, tattooists, scenics, students, street taggers, and animators for an explosion of contemporary art and one of the…
Preview: “Laluzapalooza” Opens March 7 at La Luz de Jesus
It’s back! The biggest, boldest explosion of Pop Surrealism, conceptual narrative, Low Brow, contemporary grotesque, post-Industrial romanticism, Mid-Century graphic, and just about every other contemporary genre explodes over the walls at La Luz de Jesus’ 28th annual juried show. There’s no theme, just some freshest and most relevant artists working today, drawn from over…
CARTWHEEL: Highlights of 2012
Just six months ago CARTWHEEL launched our website, and in that time we’ve visited studios and galleries, interviewed artists and collectors, and explored art fairs, with nearly 300 posts and thousands of photos that document our excitement over the art scenes in Southern California and beyond. One of the most thrilling things for us…
Myron Conan Dyal and Christopher Ulrich: Alchemy, Love, and “The Reckoning”
Sunday night mystic sculptor Myron Conan Dyal and painter Christopher Ulrich discussed their art, creativity, alchemy, religion, and love at La Luz de Jesus, further illuminating both artists’ works; Dyal has shown before at La Luz, and Ulrich’s monumental “The Christ Chronocator Series III: The Reckoning,” the final chapter in Ulrich’s six-year odyssey, the Demoneater…
“MAN/SON and the Haunting of the American Madonna” at Hyaena Gallery
The Tate/LaBianca Murders, also known as the Manson Family Murders, were a pivotal point in Los Angeles and U.S. culture, signalling the end of the happy days of hippiedom, proving conclusively to grown-ups, squares, and law enforcement that long hair, rock n’ roll, and drugs were bad, beyond bad, beyond the baddest; an evil combination…