2015 Cartwheel Art/Cartwheel Art Tours in Review
This year was an amazing year for art, and for those of us at Cartwheel Art! We kicked off the year with a special exhibition booth at the 2015 LA Art Fair, “Dark Progressivism: Metropolis Rising,” curated by Rodrigo Ribera D’Ebre and Lisa Derrick, and featuring14 artists, including Chaz Bojorquez, Defer, Big Sleeps, Prime, Abel…
Obscura Society LA Explores “Gabba Art District” in LA, with Cartwheel Art Tours
Join Cartwheel Art Tours and Obscura Society LA, for an immersive urban art exploration tour on street art, in an unknown area of Historic Filipino Town. It is here where we will discover the over 80 murals recently painted, by local and international, emerging and well-known street artists, located in the alleys of what is now…
Obscura Society LA Explores the DTLA Arts District with Cartwheel Art Tours
Join Cartwheel Art Tours and Obscura Society LA on Sunday November 15th, for a unique perspective and immersive urban experience in art, food/beverage and history. The exciting new tour itinerary provides an opportunity for guests to meet artists and makers along with learning about the new developments occurring in one of Los Angeles’s most unique, dynamic, art-centric and…
Tour of DTLA Arts District and Hopscotch Murals with Cartwheel Art Tours
Join us on an urban exploration tour in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, where Cartwheel Art Tours is offering to our guests, a unique perspective and immersive experience in art, food/beverage and history, with a focus on supporting artists and artisan businesses in our neighborhood. This tour itinerary has been created as a tie-in to Hopscotch,…
Cartwheel Art Tours : Graffiti Tour by Steve Grody with Cornbread Presented by Gallery 38 and Art Above Reality
Join us for a very special Cartwheel Art Tours graffiti tour with Steve Grody, presented by Gallery 38 and Art Above Reality with Cornbread. It is on this tour where in addition to learning about graffiti lettering and styles from Steve Grody, historian and author of Graffiti LA, you will meet the first philadelphia graffiti…
“On the Wall” at Huntington Beach Art Center Photo Preview
The Huntington Beach Art Center–the exhibition location for Kustom Kulture in 2013, for which we were a media sponsor–presents a new exhibition titled “On the Wall.” The show consists of street art, featuring noted artists and many of those seen on the walls in Los Angeles by our Cartwheel Art Tours explorers in the Downtown Los Angeles…
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…
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…
LA Weekly’s Urban Exploration for Artopia with Cartwheel Art Tours
As part of LA Weekly’s Artopia programming, join Cartwheel Art Tours with “Insiders,” founder Cindy Schwarzstein and Steve Grody, author of Graffiti LA, for a FREE urban adventure on the streets outside of The Container Yard. This urban adventure has been created for participants to discover, explore and experience what was once a gritty section…
The Transition from Graffiti to Fine Art: Exclave in Beverly Hills
The textbook definition of exclave is a piece of land which is politically attached to a larger piece but not physically conterminous with it because of surrounding foreign territory. According to Gerald Breaux Kelly, the curator of a new exhibition, “The Intro” at Exclave Gallery in Beverly Hills, the gallery takes its name from this…