Ken Gonzales-Day’s Captivating Images

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Ken Gonzales-Day’s Captivating Images

It’s not until you get behind a camera that you realize just how much thought it takes to create a stunning photograph. At least that’s the lesson I’m taking away from my film photography class. Now when I step into the gallery space, I appreciate more a photograph that can not only aesthetically blow me…

Saying Goodbye to Who Shot Rock & Roll

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Saying Goodbye to Who Shot Rock & Roll

It’s not easy to capture someone’s complex personality in one simple photograph. That’s something I’ve come to learn in taking amateur portrait photographs. So it came as a real treat to me that the Annenberg Space for Photography was hosting a show dedicated to the photographers who caught the musical and intimate personality of some…

Closing Weekend of “Common Tread” at Begovich Gallery, Cal State Fullerton

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Closing Weekend of “Common Tread” at Begovich Gallery, Cal State Fullerton

  “Common Tread: Traversing the American Landscape” is a group art exhibition about the great American road trip curated by Martha Lourdes Rocha and Martin Lorigan. Last summer the two curators road tripped to galleries from sea to shining sea, then spent four months installing this impressive show, now in its last week at the…

Art Platform Raises the Art Bar at Barker Hangar

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Art Platform Raises the Art Bar at Barker Hangar

Say Los Angeles, and people think traffic and celebrities.  This weekend screw Carmageddon with its closure of the 405 Freeway–Art Platform is here bringing in stars and ingenues of the art world. Some of the biggest, established  names in art along with exciting newer artists, emerging artists, alternative artists, and up-and-comers are on exhibit at…

Wet Plates with Photographer Ian Ruhter

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Wet Plates with Photographer Ian Ruhter

L.A. River, Ian Ruhter Photography Ian Ruhter is a wet plate photographer with a camera on wheels, always going somewhere, so I consider myself one of the lucky few for getting to see his large, unprecedented 24×36-inch and 48×60-inch silver nitrate collodion wet plates in person. His special camera truck was parked at the Brewery…

Daniel Joseph Martinez, “I Am a Verb” at Roberts & Tilton

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Daniel Joseph Martinez, “I Am a Verb” at Roberts & Tilton

  From the outside, the building looked simple. Mostly nondescript, it blended into other buildings on Washington Boulevard, but when you got closer you could spot a neon sign that spelled out “BAIL BONDS” next to a similar sign that read “OXYGEN.” The man near the door held it open and you entered a space…

Andy Freeberg, “Art Fare” and Alexandra Bellissimo, “Simulations” at Kopeikin Gallery

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Andy Freeberg, “Art Fare” and Alexandra Bellissimo, “Simulations” at Kopeikin Gallery

  If you visit Culver City’s Kopeikin Gallery anytime soon, you’ll be in for quite the visual treat. Andy Freeberg‘s “Art Fare” and Alexandra Bellissimo‘s “Simulations” give their own spin to images in ways that will make you look twice at the image in front of you. Freeberg takes the people usually behind the scenes…

“Heaven’s on Fire” at AR4T Gallery

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“Heaven’s on Fire” at AR4T Gallery

Heaven’s on Fire at AR4T Gallery, Sept. 8, 2012: Objects borne out of rock and roll’s indeterminate firestorm are on display this month as part of a music-themed show at AR4T Gallery in Laguna Beach. These include a Swarovski-crystal encrusted mohawk skull, a purple haze guitar with orange strings and a record player retrofitted with LED lights.

Punk Rock Saves: We Got P0WER! At Track 16

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Punk Rock Saves: We Got P0WER! At Track 16

Some of you will never understand this, but punk rock saves lives. It certainly saved mine. There is salvation to be found in shared despair. You’ll have to excuse my navel-gazing for a moment, but when I was fifteen, things were pretty bleak. I’ll spare you the details but I was a really messed-up kid,…

“Remix Revise Reframe” in Long Beach

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“Remix Revise Reframe” in Long Beach

Bungalow Gallery–located just a few blocks north of downtown Long Beach and comprised of vacant commercial spaces  made into active galleries for local artists and the community at large–is currently hosting a group show, “Remix Revise Reframe.”  Galleries are one great way of creating some atmosphere in a not so heavy foot traffic area. And…

Venice Beach: Sunny Bak curates Ed Freeman at The Canal Club

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Venice Beach: Sunny Bak curates Ed Freeman at The Canal Club

The epic photographer, SUNNY BAK, has taken action as an art curator for THE CANAL CLUB in Venice Beach. Over the course of the year she will be presenting various photographers’ and artists’ work in the space with its opening receptions simultaneously occurring during the Venice Art Crawl. And for the month of June, she…