Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape at The Long Beach Museum of Art
The highly anticipated “Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape” exhibition, featuring murals and multi media installations, by well-known US and internationally urban contemporary artists, opens at The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA), this friday, June 26. The exhibition which is a collaboration between Thinkspace Gallery, POW! WOW Long Beach and The Long Beach Museum…
Pacific Rim State of Mind: Gajin Fujita at LA Louvre
In 1939, the World’s Fair in San Francisco, also known as the Golden Gate International Exposition, exhibited a transpacific unity that included West Coast modern design, Mexican and Asian artwork, and Pacific Coast goods. Stemming from xenophobic hostilities against Asian and Mexican minorities in California, the exhibition tried to bring awareness and understanding of outside…
Save the Date: “In the Heart of the City” Opens June 6th
Opening June 6, The Spring Arts Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles, upstairs from The Last Bookstore, hosts “In the Heart of the City” showcasing the original art of Morley, Colette Miller, Jennifer Korsen, AJ Hererra, and Sex, Drugs & Art. The exhibition is designed to highlight a movement seen in Downtown Los Angeles and surrounding…
Preview: Anthony Ausgang Solo Show “Catascopes” at Copro Gallery
Meow! This Saturday, May 30 from 8pm to 11:30, the cat man cometh, when Anthony Ausgang launches his purr-fect new solo show, CataScopes at Copro Gallery. For his solo show Ausgang, whose work is super mind- and reality-bending, brings an even further-out psychedelic edge to Pop Surrealism. His trademark cat characters are more than just…
Gajin Fujita Solo Show Opens Tonight, May 27 at L.A. Louver
L.A. Louver is presenting a solo exhibition”Warriors, Ghosts and Ancient Gods of the Pacific” that consists of 13 new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Gajin Fujita, created over the past 4 years that opens tonight from 7pm – 10pm and runs through July 2nd. “Studying the ukiyo-e woodblock prints and their intricacies, I strive to get closer…
Save the Date: Cuatro Love at The Gabba Gallery – June 6
The Gabba Gallery presents “Cuatro Love,” four diverse, mini exhibitions by artists Essi Zimm, Rene Gagnon, Morley and Max Neutra, curated by Jason Ostro and Phil Santos. Cuatro Love” opens on June 6, 2015 from 7pm-11pm and will be up through June 27, 2015. Essi Zimm’s exhibit “Nacht,” meaning night, in German, is a themed…
CSULA Masters Thesis Show: Saturday May 15
California State University, Los Angeles is one of the art world’s best kept secrets. Well sort of. Coagula’s Mat Gleason notoriously attended (and dropped out of ) the program, but has returned to lecture there. And that’s where Coagula draws its pool of interns, and this Saturday, May 15, two of this year’s Master’s program…
Lois Lambert Gallery “Straight from Cuba” Opens on Saturday!
Lois Lambert Gallery presents “Straight From Cuba,” an exhibition of three Cuban artists she discovered while visiting the island two years ago: Alan Manuel Gonzalez,Darwin Estacio Martinez, and Luis Rodriquez NOA. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, May 16th from 6:00pm – 9:00pm and will run through July 11, 2015 at the Lois Lambert…
Mark Grotjahn Continues to Amaze at Blum and Poe
While a clear thread continues to run throughout Mark Grotjahn’s work, it wasn’t until he began to employ a less rigid hand to his practice that his approach to painting underwent a substantial change. This change wasn’t one Grotjahn necessarily chose to make. Rather, the catalyst came from a tear to his rotator cuff and…
April 30 “Artopia” Flowers with Mud Baron
On April 30, the Container Yard in the Downtown LA Arts District will be aglow with murals and art for LA Weekly’s “Artopia” a one-night only celebration with art, music, food and drink. Adding even more color and bursting with Nature’s bounty: “Flowers on Your Head” an ongoing living art project from the amazing Mud…
Manifest Justice: Art & Activism Unite at Baldwin Hills Theater, May 1 to 10
May Day! May Day! “Manifest Justice” opens with an artist reception May 1 and to the public May 2 through May 10 for over a week of activism and art that calls for justice across society while addressing racism, sexism, economic and social ills–a large-scale pop-up art exhibition, cultural convening, and community organizing event featuring…