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 & 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,…
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…
Exclusive Preview Photos! Laluzapalooza is BACK! March 6 at La Luz de Jesus
Huge! Hot! Cool! Explosive! Your eyeballs will never be the same! Your brain will never recover! Friday, March 6 at 8pm, Laluzapalooza launches a megaton of amazing art that will explode your imagination and hammer your dreams into a new universe. See you at La Luz de Jesus for this gigantic, no-theme show featuring works…
Katherine Brannock: Art to Ignite an Atmosphere of Evolution
The biggest thrill of La Luz de Jesus‘s annual gianormous group show Laluzapalooza is discovering an artist with a stunning style, one you haven’t seen before, one whose work leaps off the wall. The two pieces she’s exhibiting at Laluzpalooza are very different from the ballpoint pen drawings in her first book, Katherine Brannock: Sketchbooks…
“Laluzapalooza” at La Luz de Jesus
No theme! Eye-popping! Mind-blowing! Over 100 pieces of art! It’s that time again–Laluzapalooza is back at La Luz de Jesus. Now in its in 28th year, the annual juried show brings together gallery artists, commercial illustrators, graphic designers, tattooists, scenics, students, street taggers, and animators for an explosion of contemporary art and one of the…
Preview: “Laluzapalooza” Opens March 7 at La Luz de Jesus
It’s back! The biggest, boldest explosion of Pop Surrealism, conceptual narrative, Low Brow, contemporary grotesque, post-Industrial romanticism, Mid-Century graphic, and just about every other contemporary genre explodes over the walls at La Luz de Jesus’ 28th annual juried show. There’s no theme, just some freshest and most relevant artists working today, drawn from over…
Photos from La Luz de Jesus: José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros, Laluzapalooze Juried Show Winner
In his latest series, “DisHollywood,” José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros takes his social commentary to a new level, mixing beloved fairytale icons with characters from the world of cinema, celebrity and music to create a pop culture mash-up that enchants and provokes. Along with Ontiveros, this month La Luz de Jesus presents the Laluzapalooza juried show…
Laluzapalooza Opening: Big, Bold, Bad-Assed, and Beautiful
Packed with art, packed with with people, Laluzapalooza is La Luz de Jesus‘s best juried group show to date, with cleverly grouped pieces that embraced the La Luz aesthetic of Low Brow and Pop Surrealism while pushing its definitions further: While one whole wall was devoted to skulls and skeletons, and throughout bunnies, octopi, saints…