Photos, Interviews: “Boxes of Death Four” at AR4T Gallery

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Photos, Interviews: “Boxes of Death Four” at AR4T Gallery

The brilliant pairing of the two terms “Electric” and “Coffin” creates a high-watt kinetic introduction every time this Seattle team produces a project, an installation, an assemblage, or a show. In their annual Boxes of Death group exhibition, which features the work of fifty artists, they tap into a larger store of amplified energy. It’s…

“Boxes of Death 4” Opening at AR4T Gallery

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“Boxes of Death 4” Opening at AR4T Gallery

“Boxes of Death 4” is a large traveling group show of coffin art that has been making its way closer and closer to southern California since April. On Aug. 17, 2013 its final resting place (couldn’t resist!) is AR4T Gallery in Laguna Beach, California. The show opens with a party on Aug. 17 from 6…

Dennis McNett’s Solo Show and the Importance of Making Art with Kids

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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…

CARTWHEEL Interview: Roy Gonzalez

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CARTWHEEL Interview: Roy Gonzalez

Even in Orange County, it’s a rare experience to stand on the beach with someone who is as much “of the ocean” as Roy Gonzalez. The artist has spent so much time on the sands of San Clemente, Dana Point, and Laguna Beach that he speaks in tune with the waves rolling in. Most of…

CARTWHEEL Interview: Sticky Shaw and Lauren Buckingham Over on “Birds” at Artists Republic 4 Tomorrow Gallery

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CARTWHEEL Interview: Sticky Shaw and Lauren Buckingham Over on “Birds” at Artists Republic 4 Tomorrow Gallery

In the first show of the new year at Artists Republic 4 Tomorrow Gallery in Laguna Beach, artist Sticky Shaw curates a four-artist exhibition titled “Birds” with artwork by Shaw, Karlee Mackie, Lauren Buckingham Over, and Katherine Clarke Langlands. The Birds theme proves an interesting exploration in masculinity vs. femininity with this output of one…

Reporting from Laguna Beach: Spangled and Spankin’ New

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Reporting from Laguna Beach: Spangled and Spankin’ New

Laguna Beach is producing more diverse and vigorous shows than ever, and this month proves it. Within a few blocks of one another, close enough by foot to enjoy a warm fall evening, three art exhibitions opened last weekend.  Like walking from Tomorrowland through Sleeping Beauty’s Castle past Fantasyland to the Haunted Mansion and then…

Soul Project Debuts New Art Tees by Julie Goldstein in October at Del Mar Fairgrounds

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Soul Project Debuts New Art Tees by Julie Goldstein in October at Del Mar Fairgrounds

The Soul Project believes in the power of place, which is something I love about this OC-based apparel art tee project. Places are people, too, at least that’s what I think whenever I turn up in my short list of neighborhoods, beaches and wide-spots-in-the-road. Soul Project was started by Summer and Don Meek of Laguna…

The Garage at AR4T Gallery

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The Garage at AR4T Gallery

The Garage at AR4T Gallery: Laguna Beach, Aug. 2-25, 2012 – Coming off the heels of a existential femininity show last month, the timing could not have been better to swing the pendulum the other way at AR4T Gallery and introduce a machismo-fueled, oily rag-devoted, ode to the realm of man: The Garage. Seattle artist…