Highlights of Armory Week: Recap From Artists’ Point of View
This is the first of our Armory Arts Week recap. Our next will feature gallerists. For Armory Arts Week 2013 in New York City, CARTWHEEL tapped several artists to send us updates and opinions through the week (We stayed home in L.A. busily prepping for our annual Pop-Up Art Show, which is itself a mini art…
CARTWHEEL Interview: Scott Michael Ackerman
Throughout his growing career, Scott Michael Ackerman has consistently painted captivating textured artworks that reflect his outsider sensibility. He resides in upstate New York where he lives the life of a work-by-day, paint-by-night artist. His work rarely makes it to California, but a certain painting on a found old door caught the attention of CARTWHEEL founder…
CARTWHEEL Interview: Corey Hagberg in his Rockford, Ill. Studio
When 33-year-old artist Corey Hagberg was four years old, he watched his dad draw super heroes and fighter planes with a mechanical pencil and equated the scents of lead and erasers with magical abilities to stop time. Two years later, at a garage sale, I remember coming across this skateboard with some of the most…
Corey Hagberg Joins CARTWHEEL Shop’s Six Featured Artists
CARTWHEEL is now representing Rockford, Illinois artist Corey Hagberg! Corey Hagberg’s CARTWHEEL representation is thanks to a Miami art fair encounter: While exploring Fountain Art Fair in December, CARTWHEEL founder Cindy Schwarzstein rounded one of the labyrinthine fair’s corners and immediately spotted the artist’s psycho-chromatic layered paintings. She was drawn to his use of machinery…
Photos from Fountain Art Fair Miami Beach
Fountain Art Fair Miami Beach, Dec. 6-9, 2012, is the annual emerging arts fair held in the Wynwood Arts District. It’s hot. There’s loud music. And paint. And beer, and bicycles, and puppet shows. It’s the best place to find young talent, and guess what? We found one we especially admire — Corey Hagberg. Keep…
CARTWHEEL’s Guide to Miami Art Fairs
Art Basel Miami Beach, the most exciting art fair in the world, is fast approaching on Dec. 6-9! Three, two, one, liftoff: CARTWHEEL is Miami bound! Art Basel is the overall term used to describe a week of art fairs and events in Miami that center around the actual Art Basel fair where blue chip,…