Robert Williams Mr. Bitchin’ Screening, Interview with Filmmakers, Special Offer!
Robert Williams is Mr Bitchin, pure and simple. He is a primogenitor, a force and source of Pop Surrealism, Low Brow and Kustom Kulture whose generosity to younger artists is matched only by his exacting attention to detail and his deep, abiding fascination with humans and the machines they create (and destroy). And now, after…
Kulture Kreator: An Interview with Craig Stecyk
I’m not going to lie, from the moment I was asked to interview Craig Stecyk about curating Kustom Kulture II, I started to freak the hell out. Oh, I put on a calm front—‘Sure. Yeah, I’ll do it.” But once I hung up the phone, I was seized by a mild neurotic meltdown. There is the…
Coagula’s Mat Gleason to Teach Art World Bootcamp
He’s baaaaaack! Mat Gleason is bringing back his Art World Boot Camp, a six week course designed to teach artists what they need to know to do succeed in Los Angeles and beyond. And he certainly has the bona fides (and balls) for it. Google his name, check him out on CARTWHEEL. Mat, who owns…
Photos: “The NEW Testosterone” and “Seance” at Coagula
WARNING: SOME IMAGES NSFW Coagula Curatorial was packed for two group shows, “Seance, ” curated by Maria Vasquez, up top; down below was throbbing with “The NEW Testosterone.” Women artist shows are marketing tool (“look, chicks can paint!”), but no one bothers to advertise a show that’s all dudes. Except Mat Gleason. The NEW Testosterone…
The Force Was With Them All Day: Sean StarWars at Coagula
Mat Gleason is bold, creative, smart, and goofy as hell, so having a Star Wars themed show on International Star Wars Day (May the 4th, for the non-nerds reading this) with an artist who legally changed his name to Sean StarWars seemed totally reasonable. Kind of. As the show was setting up, Gleason joked: Yeah…
Photos: Brewery Art Walk Spring 2013
The Brewery is world’s largest arts complex. With over 100 live/work spaces and now a restaurant/bar/cafe, the landmark location, once home of Pabst (“the Champange of bottled beer”), is a blue chip gem and in its nearly 40 years of existence has spurred the downtown Los Angeles arts revival. The Brewery grounds have expanded to…
“Lust Letters” Celebrates Sex and Text at Coagula
“Lust Letters,” Coagula Curatorial‘s sweet and smutty Valentine to Los Angeles opened Saturday night just as crowds were leaving the confetti covered streets of Chinatown, post-Year of the Snake Gong Hey Fot Choy parade. Tim Youd’s wall of retyped prose from Anais Nin’s erotica hung across from Bruce Richards’ poignant odes to love. Gaijin Fujita’s…
MAS Attack: One Night, 90 Artists at LA Mart
Art lovers who wanted more than the heaping eyeful at the LA Art Show found a feast at MAS Attack, a one night show/party featuring 90 artists at the LA Mart downtown. It was a total attack of the Mutual Appreciation Society, packed with art lovers and artists.
Photos: “Quad Shots,” “Sext Me If You Can” Opening at Coagula
Huge turn out at Coagula Curitorial for “Quad Shots” with Renée A. Fox, Diane Gamboa, Germs, and Gronk showing up top and Karen Finley down below with Sext Me If You Can. At Coagula during Projects Miami in December last year, Finley accepted sexts and turned the images into watercolors, not on display in Cogaula’s…
Mat Gleason Dishes on Parking in Chinatown
Wednesday I went by Coagula Curatorial to preview this weekend’s “Quad Shot” show— and especially to look at my friend Gronk‘s work–and was happy to see Mat Gleason, gallery owner and director, on hand to supervise its installation. Some of you know that Mat recently had a pacemaker installed to stabilize his heartbeat and was…
#TwitterArtExhibit: Postcards,Tweets for Arts Division Charity at Exhale Unlimited
Nothing could stop generous Los Angelenos from layering-up and coming out on a chilly Saturday night in Chinatown to buy postcards! The ongoing “Twitter Art Exhibit” at Exhale Unlimited Gallery benefits Art Division, a non-profit program supporting under-served young adults in LA’s Rampart district in preparation for careers in the visual arts, and…