Save the Date April 11: “La Bulla” at Plaza de la Raza
¡Viva Luche Libre! On April 11, experience “La Bulla” at Plaza de la Raza. Like its inspiration, Mexican wrestling, this show is gonna be larger than life, colorful and over top with 70 artists including Defer, Gaijin Fujita, Ed Gutter, Antonio Pelayo, Isaac Pelayo, Phowl, Prime, Esmeralda Villarreal, Matthew Weinberg, and Jaime Germs Zacarias,…
Party Tonight! Red Bull Latagráfica at Plaza de la Raza
Tonight October 24, starting at 8:30pm at Plaza de la Raza, Red Bull presents a festival celebrating their major Los Angeles mural project, Latagráfica.Beginning in January, 2014 Red Bull gave wings to Southern California artists and unveiled one mural every month showcasing artists’ interpretations of the Spanish term “puedes” or “you can.” And tonight night…
Dave Lebow “Weird Tales” Opens at La Luz de Jesus
Dave Lebow’s pulpy paintings are horror/adventure fan fantasies come to life. Voluptuous women, scary creatures, bizarre hominids, and strange worlds collide and merge. Lebow created the the Doomsday Killer paintings in the second to last story arc on the TV series Dexter, which showed last year at La Luz de Jesus, and now he’s back…
California Punk Rock Photo Pop-Up, Booksigning June 28-30 at La Luz de Jesus
Punk rock has had lasting grip on Los Angeles where the musical and cultural phenomenon developed from a freeways-based melting pot. The passion for punk has continued for forty years! The GoGo’s, X, Social Distortion, Mike Watt are still big draws, and smaller bands from LA punk’s early days still play and draw fans–as well…
Training Wheels: “Art Collector Starter Kit” at Corey Helford Gallery
It’s a shrewd move really, and one I’m sure a lot of galleries will be emulating. Corey Helford Gallery asked their stable of top tier artists to create 12″ x 12″ pieces for “Art Collector Starter Kit” (which opened Saturday). This allowed the artists and gallery to set the prices within the realm of possibility for…
Laluzapalooza Preview: Mark Edward and his Magical Devices
Laluzapalooza is one of my favorite art shows of the year: Over a hundred artists from all over the world exhibiting so much amazing art, plus the opening is one of the best parties ever. While looking at–okay drooling over–all the art I don’t have room for in my house, a name leapt out, one…
Preview: Gronk at Coagula Curatorial
Gronk’s work in the “Quad Shot: Renee A. Fox, Diane Gamboa, Germs and Gronk” show, opening at Coagula Curatorial this Saturday January 19, serves up an excellent blend of the artist’s vision and versatility in his unique low-brow high-brow way. Entering the gallery and seeing the brightly-colored floating Madonna is like turning a corner in…
Mat Gleason Dishes on Parking in Chinatown
Wednesday I went by Coagula Curatorial to preview this weekend’s “Quad Shot” show— and especially to look at my friend Gronk‘s work–and was happy to see Mat Gleason, gallery owner and director, on hand to supervise its installation. Some of you know that Mat recently had a pacemaker installed to stabilize his heartbeat and was…
Cartwheel Recap: “El Velorio” at KGB Studios
The GetDown Collective hosted a celebration at KGB Studios in Chinatown, “El Velorio” (The Wake), a Day of the Dead Cultural Event and Community Art Exhibit curated by Antonio Pelayo. Hosted by Wilmer Valdarama this event had music, dance, face painting, photo booth, live painting and food and drinks for all that attended. This event…
Cretin Hop: Dee Dee Ramone at Subliminal Projects
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. This review was supposed to be a piece of cake for me. I mean, it’s freaking Dee Dee Ramone! A lot of music blares in my studio, but no other band gets more play than the Ramones, none. There are other bands that are more important to me (the Clash), bands…
Borderlines: “Narcolandia” at Coagula Curatorial
What is it about an outlaw? There are few limits to our collective tendency to mythologize them. We blow them all out of proportion. We romanticize the hell out of them. In order to secure outlaws in the firmament of lore, we even ascribe certain moral codes to their legends. We distort the often mundane…