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…
Photos: Kenny Scharf Mural for Branded Arts
Kenny Scharf returns to Southern California–the New York-based artist was born in Hollywood–to paint a mural on Davis Tires 5931 W Washington Blvd. in Culver City for Branded Arts!
Culver City: Bar & Garden
Bar & Garden, located between Corey Helfond Gallery and the cluster of galleries around Thinkspace Gallery, and just two doors from Century Guild, celebrates the art of natural wine, beer, and spirits in a warm and welcoming environment. The cheerful liquor store stocks small batch, artisanal spirits and mixers (including bitters and sodas), along with…
I Believe in Unicorns, Too! at WWA Gallery
Does being sweet have an ugly side? That’s the curiosity drawn from “I believe in Unicorns, Too!,” the group show up at WWA Gallery through Mar. 23 featuring works by 50+ artists. Featuring an array of talented painters and illustrators who were tapped to portray the sticky-sweet fantasy world of their imagined lighter, softer dimension,…
Block Party in Culver City: Branded Arts
Branded Arts in Culver City held a block part, a one night event of art and community enrichment, last month which celebrated street and local art. The event, held in a vacant car lot surrounded by beautiful murals by some most impressive and stand-out street and underground artists from around the world–like DABS & MYLA, HERAKUT, Anthony…
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…
Andrew Schoultz: Ready to Take Over Los Angeles
As you drive east down Washington Boulevard, right before you hit Fairfax you might notice something different: Where there used to be a blank, brick wall there is now a sprawling, carefully detailed mural. The mural transforms the whole wall into a battlefield of sorts, large horses seeming to charge outside its boundaries carrying billowing…
Melanie Rothschild “Pours with Purpose” at Fresh Paint Art
This past Saturday night, Fresh Paint Art Gallery‘s neon sign glowed a few different colors, attracting groups of passersby. As they went inside the gallery’s doors, a group of hanging strips of variously colored paint greeted them. In all colors and patterns, the strips were only a taste of Melanie Rothschild‘s colorful work that comprises…
Andrew Schoultz Mural at Mark Moore Gallery
On a bright sunny day in Culver City, Andrew Schoultz stood armed with a ladder and paintbrush. The San Francisco artist is transforming the outer wall of Mark Moore Gallery into his own artistic vision. The large brick wall serves as a canvas for his distinct style, one that consists of an impressive amount of…
“Marvelous Expeditions” Group Show at Thinkspace
On September 1, Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City opened a wonderful group show “Marvelous Expeditions,” curated by the talented Dabs Myla. The buzz in the air was contributed by the artists featured in the show, billed as “friends” of the talented duo; and by their installation, with help from artists Greg “Craola” Simkins, which features…
We’ve Got Issues / Blood opening at WWA Gallery
On August 18th, WWA Gallery in Culver City opened the 4th Annual “We’ve Got Issues.” The black and white group show, which runs trough September 27th, features artists Ana Bagayan, Anthony Ausgang, David Flores, JC Rivera, Angry Woebots and many others. The impressive amount of work in this show were done in ink, graphite or…