Preview: Anthony Ausgang Solo Show “Catascopes” at Copro Gallery
Meow! This Saturday, May 30 from 8pm to 11:30, the cat man cometh, when Anthony Ausgang launches his purr-fect new solo show, CataScopes at Copro Gallery. For his solo show Ausgang, whose work is super mind- and reality-bending, brings an even further-out psychedelic edge to Pop Surrealism. His trademark cat characters are more than just…
Odd Nerdrum: “Pupils of Apelles” and the Crime of Art
Artist Odd Nerdrum is controversial and influential, and his show at Copro Gallery opening Saturday November 15 featuring new works, may be his last in a very long time. The Swedish-born, Norwegian-based painter, who draws on classical imagery and has a worldwide following, was convicted of tax evasion in Norway. During his two year and…
Photos & Video: Krampus Art Walk, a Los Angeles First!
The celebration of Krampus continues! A dozen of Dark Yule Lords invaded the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk, carrying switches and dragging naughty maidens in chains, led by St Nicholas, and accompanied by an oompah-pah-pah band. Beginning at the DTLA Art Walk Lounge, the troupe and about a hundred followers trundled and lumbered down the…
Krampus is Coming to Town! The Anti-Santa is Here! Krampus Ball, Krampus Run and Art Show
Krampus is coming! Krampus is coming! The dark and devilish character of the winter holiday season, the anti-Santa, arrives in Los Angeles for the first time ever with a series of events over the next week. Krampus owes his American popularity in part to author/collector Monte Beauchamp who compiled images and history for his books,…
Miami 2013 Photoblog: Copro Gallery’s Greg Escalante
Curator/gallerist Greg Escalante brought Copro Gallery to Miami for Scope Art Fair and now brings us his views of the goings-on in Miami. Here are snaps from December 3rd and 4th. Kazushiro Tsuji, with his masterpiece, Andy (silicon, chrome, mixed media) Copro Gallery, Scope. New Jersey’s Parlor Gallery: Jen Hampton, Jill Ricci, Sarah Potter artist Pork…
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: Multi-Gallery Show Celebrates New Contemporary Art
L.A.’s New Contemporary art scene–think Pop Surrealism, conceptual narrative, low brow, interpretive representational; you know, Los Angeles art!–gets its fourth showcasing in the historical, and very LA setting, Barnsdall Art Park in East Hollywood, Oct. 12 and 13, 2013. Beyond Eden, at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park in East Hollywood, …
Beyond Eden Sneak Peek!
Beyond Eden! Oh, what those words imply–the knowledge of good and evil, the struggle to make one’s mark in a harsh world, and the desire to return to a paradise lost. All of that is implicit in Beyond Eden, the two day art fair at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, October…
Save The Date! October 12-13 Beyond Eden 2013 Honors Greg Escalante
Los Angeles’ very Los-Angeles-in-the-best-way art fair, Beyond Eden returns to the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park in East Hollywood, October 12 and 13 after a one year hiatus. This celebration of New Contemporary Art–think Pop Surrealism, conceptual narrative, low brow, no brow, interpretive representational, neo-expressionism–is a multi-gallery show featuring bold…
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…
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…