TKU Preview: Ausgang, Boyd, Heller, Neutra, Veca
The artwork for The Karma Underground‘s “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou” benefit expresses a wide variety of styles and subject matter, from Anthony Ausgang’s Pop Narrative and Max Neutra’s Pop Surrealism to Matthew Heller’s line drawings and Brandon Boyd’s water colors and Mark Dean Veca’s strong graphics. These and works of over thirty other artists…
TKU Preview: Birdman, Ransom & Mitchell, Laura Schumate
On August 8, The Karma Underground presents “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou” at Angel City Brewery, This year’s beneficiary is Tibet House U.S., dedicated to preserving Tibet’s unique culture at a time when it is confronted with extinction on its own soil. By presenting Tibetan civilization and its profound wisdom, beauty, and special art of…
Barminski Billboard for AIDS Healthcare Foundation Hits Hollywood
I drove past a new billboard on Santa Monica and Highland with artwork that has a familiar vibe to it. I held up traffic for a moment as cruised by, straining my eyes and bingo! BARMINSKI! Bill Barminski, who was featured in Jack Rutberg’s Letters From Los Angeles. Bill Barminski who recently showed at…
Robert Williams Mr. Bitchin’ Screening, Interview with Filmmakers, Special Offer!
Robert Williams is Mr Bitchin, pure and simple. He is a primogenitor, a force and source of Pop Surrealism, Low Brow and Kustom Kulture whose generosity to younger artists is matched only by his exacting attention to detail and his deep, abiding fascination with humans and the machines they create (and destroy). And now, after…
Save the Date: The Karma Underground Charity Art Auction August 8, 2013
The Karma Underground–a dedicated group of art-centric Angelenos: artists, photographers, filmmakers, writers, and event producers–support the people of Tibet and their goal of remaining a unique and unified culture. Last year, TKU’s first ever art auction raised over $10,000 for Karmablast, a non-profit group dedicated to building schools and monasteries for the Tibetan people. …
Sean Tully Discusses Dark Beach: Visions of SoCal’s Underbelly
Dark Beach, curated by Innocnts, opens on July 27th at New Image Art Gallery. The exhibition focuses on the underbelly of surf culture, the conflicting elements of fantasy and reality found in the surf culture and lifestyle. And because surfing is so intimately tied to Southern California, Dark Beach reveals the shadows of our lives…
Reading: Anthony Ausgang “The Pawnee Republican” plus John Tottenham and Shana Nys Dambrot
Anthony Ausgang can paint, that’s for sure, and he’s a genius with fine line work and colors. On July 20, Ausgang steps away from the easel, unlocks his unconscious, and opens his spam folder to read from The Pawnee Republican, the follow up to last year’s The Adventures of Puss Twitter. For five years Ausgang…
Tim Youd Heats Up With Post Office Parking Lot Performance
Tim Youd is a bad ass. He’s sitting in the parking lot of the downtown Los Angeles Terminal Annex Post office with a manual typewriter set up on the bed of a pick up truck. It’s 93 degrees and the sun beats down on the pages of Charles Bukowski’s autobiographical novel Post Office-set during…
Lost: Needs Medication-An Exhibition of Lost Pet Flyers from the Collection of Don Bolles
Back in the late 1970s, the hip kids were scurrying around collecting fliers announcing the shows of LA’s new breed of punk bands. But one of the members of the very bands which was causing all the buzz was collecting fliers of a different sort. Don Bolles, famed as the drummer for the seminal punk…
Preview Photos: Shrine On at Lightning in a Bottle
It’s no secret: CARTWHEEL loves Shrine On! From the use of global reclaimed material in all his work, to his belief that we are all true artists, to his enthusiasm and support of others’ work, he stands out as an extremely important, and extremely thrilling, voice in our community. Shrine builds beautiful structures for festivals…
Dennis McNett’s Solo Show and the Importance of Making Art with Kids
Making and sharing art with the next generation of artists is important to Brooklyn printmaker/ woodcarver Dennis McNett, which is why, when he spent a week in Laguna Beach for his solo show this month–which opened July 6, 2013 at AR4T Gallery — he took a break from making art to hold a workshop at…