June 2 to 5: Art Gathering, Long Beach’s Biggest Art Fest Gonna be HUGE
Pop Surrealism! Lowbrow! Tattoos! Performance! Installation! Film! Punk Rock DJs, Collectibles! Utter coolness! Art Gathering–the giant indie art fair and tattoo convention aboard the Queen Mary–is going to be huge! On board the venerable ship will be over hundred independent artists hanging on the Kulture Klash walls and showing in booths. Ron English and Chet…
Save the Date June 2 – June 5: Art Gathering, Queen Mary Long Beach
This is gonna be huge! Art Gathering brings over 400 artists together for a tattoo-influenced fine art fair weekend aboard the Queen Mary. Michael Keith of New Era Arts Group, Art Gathering’s parent company, explains: We noticed that many kids out of art school would jump straight into tattooing, while many longtime tattooists also were…
MOLAA: New Exhibition Captures Tradition in Southern California Landscape Painting
On September 19th the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach (MOLAA) unveils a regional aesthetic of landscape painting, focusing on Southern California artists. “Somewhere Over El Arco Iris” presents works from the Chicano Movement, while simultaneously contrasting these works with modern-day street artists Man One, Vyal Reyes, and Johnny KMDZ Martinez. Coincidentally, “Somewhere…
Saber ” Too Many Names” Addresses Death by Cop at Long Beach Museum of Art
Graffiti artist Saber has created a bold piece of art to confront the topic of officer-involved shootings. Here is the background: Pow! Wow!, a graffiti and Pop Surrealism arts organization, recently worked with the Long Beach Museum of Art to help bring street art and graffiti into a museum setting, with Saber as a contributor. As Saber…
Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape at The Long Beach Museum of Art
The highly anticipated “Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape” exhibition, featuring murals and multi media installations, by well-known US and internationally urban contemporary artists, opens at The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA), this friday, June 26. The exhibition which is a collaboration between Thinkspace Gallery, POW! WOW Long Beach and The Long Beach Museum…
Science Fiction Double Feature Show at Illuminoidal Arts
Sci-fi fans, rocket rollers, Trekkies and Trekkers, robot-lovers, Chewbacca groupies and more will be in outer-orbit ecstasy at Illuminoidal Arts Science Fiction Double Feature Show opening this Saturday, November 8 with out-of-this-world art, a costume party, and full warp-factor weirdness–plus it’s also the Long Beach Art Walk so you can shock the twelfth monkey in…
Book Signing: “A Grave Situation”–Painting Inspires Novel
Friday, May 30th author/journalist/director Rodrigo Ribera D’Ebre signs his novel A Grave Situation at the Museum of Latin American Art. I’ll also be asking him questions about the novel, which is the deeply disturbing story of a woman whose grip on her psyche and ability to control her anti-social tendencies crumble as she commits…
Meme Democracy – Meme-Themed Art Show in Long Beach
A curated show of meme-themed art in Long Beach is sure to delight and astound.
Appetite: Tasting Hunger and Desire – A Food-Themed Show in Long Beach
Appetite, a food-theme art show just in time for the annual holiday feeding frenzy, will open in Long Beach.
Tamara Guion & Lethargic Artist at illuminoidal arts
As part of the downtown Long Beach “Second Saturday” artwalk, illuminoidal arts is hosting a duo show featuring two Southern California artists. “Tamara Guion & Lethargic Artist” will open Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013, and will be open by appointment through Sept. 6. Illustrator / artist Guion is originally from Catalina Island and uses symbols and…
UAM CSULB – Songbirds of Today and a History Lesson from Long Ago
Apologies for not including the decoder ring in the title, but UAM CSULB stands for University Art Museum at California State University Long Beach …whew! It’s a hidden gem on the campus and definitely worth discovering if you get the chance. Especially since over several months they will have an offering of three different exhibits within the same…