Mark Dean Veca’s Solo Show “The Troubled Teens (Work of a Decade)” Opens at Jason Vass Gallery – Saturday, January 26, 2019
Los Angeles artist Mark Dean Veca has a new solo show opening this week at Jason Vass Gallery in the DTLA Arts District, featuring works from 2010-2019. Veca’s art follows in the pop art tradition, but includes a surreal, psychedelic aspect that he describes as a “biomorphic abstraction.” He told Cartwheel, “The last time I…
“Twenty Years Under the Influence of Juxtapoz” Opens at Barnsdall
February 22 celebrate two decades of groundbreaking art, celebrated with a mega show featuring over 100 artists popularized through the genius of Juxtapoz Magazine. Founded in San Francisco Robert Williams, Craig Stecyk, Greg Escalante, Eric Swenson and Fausto Vitello as a West coast nose-thumb to the New Your art establishment, Juxtapoz slammed contemporary street culture,…
Save the Date: October 25 Branded Arts Benefit for Vista de Mar
WOW! A mega art show featuring some of the biggest names in today’s art world benefiting one of Los Angeles’ best organizations, Vista del Mar Child and Family Services (and members of my family have been helped through this wonderful organization). Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services’ mission is to provide comprehensive, family-centered social,…
Mark Dean Veca Exhibition & Book Signing at Western Project
The exhibition presenting works from Zero + Publishing‘s new coffee table book “MARK DEAN VECA: 20 Years” opens Sept. 7, 2013 with a reception from 6 to 8pm. A book signing will be held at Culver City gallery Western Project Sept. 14 from 6 to 8pm, and the exhibition will continue to be on view…
TKU Preview: Ausgang, Boyd, Heller, Neutra, Veca
The artwork for The Karma Underground‘s “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou” benefit expresses a wide variety of styles and subject matter, from Anthony Ausgang’s Pop Narrative and Max Neutra’s Pop Surrealism to Matthew Heller’s line drawings and Brandon Boyd’s water colors and Mark Dean Veca’s strong graphics. These and works of over thirty other artists…
CARTWHEEL Interview With Kirk Pederson of ZERO+ Publishing
Last year at photo l.a.–the longest running art fair west of New York City, which opens this year on January 17–CARTWHEEL founder Cindy Schwarzstein was turned onto fine arts/photography publisher ZERO+ Publishing through their book Everyday Heroes and Villains, a collection of portraits by photographers Tatiana Wills and Roman Cho which surveys some of the most…
Opening Night of “Crucifixion” at Corey Helford Gallery
CARTWHEEL’s Luis Ochoa was on hand for the opening of “Crucifixion,” the huge, stunning group show at Corey Helford Gallery, with works that focus on a theme more commonly associated wiht Easter, rather than the winter holiday season. The show features all new work from an incredible list of artists: D*Face, HUSH, Natalia Fabia, Kukula,…