SAVE THE DATE: Patrick McGrath Muniz “Credo” Opens at La Luz de Jesus – May 4th
La Luz de Jesus Gallery presents “CREDO” by Patrick McGrath Muniz. This marks the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery. CREDO explores and questions myths, assumptions, and beliefs in an age of political uncertainty and misinformation by connecting American Pop consumer culture and religion in paintings inspired by Spanish Colonial Iconography. The work presented responds…
SAVE THE DATE: Carrie Ann Baade “The Apocalyptic Orgasm” Opens at La Luz de Jesus – May 4
La Luz de Jesus Gallery will be presenting a new exhibition “Apocalyptic Orgasm” by artist Carrie Ann Baade. This is the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery. The apocalypse represents the time after the present one and not a literal end of the world, but a release after the climax from the tension and accumulation…
SAVE THE DATE: L.A. Collects L.A. – Latin America in Southern California Collections Talk + Book Signing – Saturday April 7th
Saturday, 7 April, Soap Plant Wacko: Purveyor of Post-Pop Culture hosts the editor (Jesse Lerner) & photographer (Rubén Ortiz Torres) of L.A. Collects L.A. – Latin America in Southern California Collections (Vincent Price Art Museum, 2018) for a night of engaging discussion with some of the book’s featured collectors (Billy Shire, Carl Baldwin, Tom Patchett).…
SAVE THE DATE & PREVIEW: Laluzapalooza 2018 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery – Opening Reception on Friday, March 2nd
La Luz de Jesus Gallery will be presenting their annual juried group exhibition, LALUZAPALOOZA with an opening reception on Friday, March 2nd. This gigantic, no-theme show will be featuring works from some of the freshest and most relevant artists working today. Each year, the gallery sorts through tens of thousands of submissions from commercial illustrators, graphic designers, tattooists,…
Save the Date: Hi-Fructose Co-Founder Annie Owens shows A Place Worth Knowing at La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Hi-Fructose co-founder Annie Owens A Place Worth Knowing opens up tonight at La Luz de Jesus Gallery. Her watercolors have a melodramatic, film-noir edge; her subjects exist in a remote world. As one of my favorite authors Algernon Blackwood put it, “No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on…
Save the Date, Interview, Preview: Parker Day “ICONS” Book and Pop-Up at La Luz de Jesus – May 28th
At 6:00 p.m. May 28, author Parker Day, and several of her Icon models will converge upon La Luz de Jesus Gallery for a One Night Only Pop-up Exhibit and Books Signing.
Save the Date & Preview: Laluzapalooza 2017 at La Luz de Jesus – March 3rd
La Luz De Jesus Gallery presents their huge no-theme group show “Laluzapalooza” in March of each year. This year the gallery has chosen 67 artists and have hung 144 pieces, “making this the most exclusive selection of tastefully, jam-packed, salon-style exhibited works in Post-Pop.” The gallery threw a private opening for the artists on Thursday,…
Cartwheel Art Tours Coverage: Neighborhood Explorations in Los Feliz, with Cartwheel Art Tours Host – Matt Kennedy
“Pop Surrealism: The History of California Post-Contemporary Art” Matt Kennedy, the director of the world famous La Luz de Jesus Gallery (the birthplace of Pop Surrealism), the host of Pod Sequentialism on iTunes, and a respected art curator, and publisher, led groups on Neighborhood Explorations with Cartwheel Art Tours on Thursday November 17th. The Neighborhood…
Cartwheel Art Tours Coverage: Neighborhood Explorations in Los Feliz, with Cartwheel Art Tours Host – Lee Joseph
“The Kitschy Culture of Los Feliz Village” Musician, publicist and indie label mogul Lee Joseph, led Neighborhood Explorations of Los Angeles’ legendary Los Feliz Village on Thursday November 17th, as part of the Neighborhood Explorations, curated and produced by Cartwheel Art Tours founder, Cindy Schwarzstein, for the Airbnb Open – Los Angeles. Lee showed the neighborhood…
Save the Date with Preview and Interview: “Mollior” by Danni Shinya Luo at La Luz de Jesus Gallery on Friday November 4th
Danni Shinya Luo will be presenting her third exhibition at La Luz de Jesus, opening Friday, Nov. 4, titled “Mollior”, the latin word for “softer” which per the show statement is a “concept that sums up the show’s spirit in entirety, from the subject matters to the style of expression.” “Mollior” finds Shinya Luo returning…