Silent Art Auction Benefiting The National Multiple Sclerosis Society
On Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, a Silent Art Auction will benefit The National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s 50 mile Challenge Walk. The event will be held at 1302 Yosemite Dr. in Eagle Rock. The auction will be open 7pm to 9pm, and a cash bar will be available. Join the Facebook event here. Artists include Aaron…
Photos, Interviews: Mural Painting on La Brea via Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Over the weekend of August 17 and 18th the fabulous Merry Karnowsky Gallery, in partnership with TarFest 2013 hosted a rousing street art event that brought fine art and street art together in a bold new way. Gallery artists hit the streets alongside tried and true graffiti artists to share their craft by creating unique…
Kustom Kulture II: All Star Legends Art Panel Saturday August 24
Grab your black books and cameras for Kustom Kulture II closing reception and panel this Saturday August 24 at the Huntington Beach Art Center. Holy flash, legendary tattooist and fine artist Don Ed Hardy, the man who revived and revolutionized personal customization with his tattoo skills will be on the panel! Years ago I had…
Fred 62: Art in a 24-hour Diner
People sip cherry cokes 24 hours a day under the sherbet-orange awnings at Fred 62, whether Vermont Avenue’s passing traffic is at 9am rush hour intensity or 3am’s streetlights and occasional revving motorcycle. Inside this neighborhood institution, which has been serving Los Feliz as Fred62 since 1997 (before that it was George’s Coffee Shop), the…
TarFest: Craola, Axis Team Up on La Brea
A crowd gathered on La Brea Blvd between 1st and 2nd late Sunday afternoon to watch Axis and Craola participate in TarFest Art, a live painting event. We were lucky enough to catch Craola and Axis doing a team mural. More photos to come from the reception at Merry Karnowsi Gallery where participant Edward Walton Wilcox…
Gail Potocki “Fragmented Alice” at Century Guild
Robert Williams has called Gail Potocki A really fantastic artist… It’s refreshing to see a modern painter that has a classic, romantic touch and the skills to add a fresh facet of expression to the new period of Realism. On August 17, Potocki’s new series “Fragmented Alice” opens at Century Guild, featuring 15 new works…
Tiki Oasis in San Diego
Tiki Oasis, the four-day annual gathering of “spies, bad guys and glamour girls” — as described in the story about what happened at last year’s event after too many Mai Tais, on CARTWHEEL here — is scheduled for Aug. 15-18, 2013 at San Diego’s Crowne Plaza Hotel. The 2013 event is a music and art…
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…
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…
Le Summer Street Art Show at Lexington Social House
For one night, the Hollywood supper club/nightclub Lexington Social House will be turned into a street art gallery, but not just any street art gallery — a French street art gallery featuring the works of 15 artists. The show, “Le Summer Street Art Show,” takes place on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013 starting at 8pm until…
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!