Interview with Jon Beinart, Beinart Collective: “Anomalies” Opens October 13 at Copro
Jon Beinart has just curated “Anomalies,” an exhibit at CoproGallery, opening on October 13th When will the Beinart Collective radically take over the mainstream art world? As much as the suppressed megalomaniac inside me would love this, I don’t think it would be healthy for me, or the mainstream art world.. I just hope the collective…
Everywhere at Once: “INTERVIEWS” at Curio by AFN
There’s something not quite right about Daniel Rolnik. Don’t get me wrong, I like the guy, everybody does, but I suspect something strange afoot there. Aside from his popular blog, he writes for a number of sites and publications that include Beautiful/Decay, Fecal Face, and LA Weekly, not to mention his work here at CARTWHEEL. He has…
UAM CSULB – Songbirds of Today and a History Lesson from Long Ago
Apologies for not including the decoder ring in the title, but UAM CSULB stands for University Art Museum at California State University Long Beach …whew! It’s a hidden gem on the campus and definitely worth discovering if you get the chance. Especially since over several months they will have an offering of three different exhibits within the same…
Home Room’s Final Days
Home Room was an indie gallery run by Walt Gorecki and Shaddy Zeineddine where each exhibit was dedicated whole heartily to its entire concept. For example, when they did a haunted house show last year they sourced and used the same wallpaper from the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland, built special crevices to hide spirit projectors in, and even curated a…
Ricky Allman’s Abstract Cityscapes at Marine Contemporary
In July, Ricky Allman presented Marine Contemporary with the awesome challenge of exhibiting his painting This Is A Lighthouse. It is the largest work the Venice-based gallery has shown to date and since there was no way the gargantuan canvas was going to fit through the door, they had to stretch it inside of the…
Home Is Where The Needle Marks at POP TART GALLERY
In July, artist Ellen Schinderman curated a two-part exhibit, “Home Is Where the Needle Marks” that culminated at POP tART GALLERY. POP tART’s owner, Phyllis Navidad, greeted my guest and me at the door with a giant hug — after which we found ourselves immersed in a world of inventive needlepoint and wonderful folks. The…
Venice Beach Contemporary – POP-UP EXHIBIT
While I was cruising around the Venice Beach boardwalk one weekend in July,the 14th to be exact, I stumbled upon this house on the sand with a pop-up exhibit inside. The space was dubbed Venice Beach Contemporary and featured a variety of artists, including Alex Andre who was outside on the patio with his…
The Pygmy Hippo Shoppe
Pygmy Hippo Shoppe is a boutique gallery just off of Beverly Blvd. It’s big enough for about ten people to comfortably stand in and features a carefully curated selection of cuteness. Antiques and rubber iPhone cases blend seamlessly together amongst ‘zines and limited-edition prints, which are all displayed along custom cabinets that remind me of…
Goth and Spooky Art at The Congregation Art Gallery
Inside THE CONGREGATION OF FORGOTTEN SAINTS, a gothic rocker clothing store on Melrose, is a gallery of spooky and dark art. A majority of the work features bones and skeletons, including one praying in front of a mock-Rothko that is directly across from one of the largest portraits of a skull I think I have…
A Theater In The Woods
The theater pictured above is in the midst of a redwood forest on UC Santa Cruz’s campus. The stage crew had just taken a break from building a massive installation, which on an even surface would be easy to do, but seemed impossible to execute on the soft floor. However, due to the ingenuity of…
Venice Beach: Sunny Bak curates Ed Freeman at The Canal Club
The epic photographer, SUNNY BAK, has taken action as an art curator for THE CANAL CLUB in Venice Beach. Over the course of the year she will be presenting various photographers’ and artists’ work in the space with its opening receptions simultaneously occurring during the Venice Art Crawl. And for the month of June, she…