Mark Ryden’s “Gay 90’s West” Art at Kohn Gallery in Hollywood
CARTWHEEL takes a look at some of Mark Ryden’s art featured in Kohn Gallery’s “The Gay 90’s” show, on view until June 28, 2013.
LA Art Show 2014: Los Angeles Murals Reclaim Their Place
Saturday at the LA Art Show, Isabel Rojas-Williams presented “Will Los Angeles Reclaim Its Title as the Mural Capital of the World?” CARTWHEEL is presented a special guided tour of the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District murals for LA Art Show guests which tied into the exhibition. Rojas-Williams also curated “Paris Women & Bicycles” a photo exhibit by former Los Angeles District attorney Gil Garcetti, the father of our current mayor, Eric Garcetti and lead discussions on both exhibitions as part of the LA Art Show’s Dialog series.
Photos: Rogue Wave “Art Dorks Rise” at Florida’s space:eight Gallery
St. Augustine, Florida, known as the “Oldest City in America” was invaded by an exhibit of new and cutting-edge art with the opening reception for “Art Dorks Rise”. The gallery, space: eight, is currently presenting the show running through November 30, which features works by 30 internationally renowned artists who call themselves the Art Dorks.…
Save the Date! TJ Martell Artworks for the Cure October 11-13
Over 100 artists fill Barker Hanger in Santa Monica the weekend of October 11-13 for the TJ Martell Artworks for the Cure, celebrating offbeat, eclectic and irreverent art while funding innovative medical research focused on finding cures for leukemia, cancer and AIDS. The list of artists is fresh, exciting and impressive. The participating galleries include…
Nathan Ota Signs “Nathan Ota: Ikiru” Friday at La Luz de Jesus
Nathan Ota’s adept, surreal artwork takes viewers into a perilous nether world, off-color and off-kilter. And with Nathan Ota: Ikiru, the full overview of the artist’s work, readers can explore the artist’s beginnings as street artist, through illustration, fine art and coming full circle to his collaboration with RISK. He’ll be at La Luz de…
Pasadena: Flower Pepper Gallery
Specializing in Low Brow and PoMo Pop Art art, Flower Pepper Gallery exhibits local and international emerging artists in the gallery/shop located in the heart of Old Town Pasadena. The art stands in bold contrast to what you’d find at Pasadena’s legendary art repositories, the Huntington or Norton Simon: Think group shows based around the internalization…
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…
Sleepwalking Along the Dotted Line: JoKa at C.A.V.E. Gallery
JoKa is definitely up to something. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that he has nefarious intent, but he’s certainly lurking in our dreamworld, observing our lust and our fears, ready to pounce on the first chimera he finds. Well, I’ve been observing JoKa too. He’s an artist that seized my attention…
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…
CARTWHEEL Review: “Mitch O’Connell, The World’s Best Artist”
It takes a lotta guts–and a certain amount of glory–to call yourself “the world’s best artist” even with your tongue firmly planted in your cheek–or someone else’s. But Mitch O’Connell’s gloriously good-natured, candy-colored art is just so much fun to well, wallow in, that during many hours spent immersed in O’Connell’s career-spanning tome “Mitch O’Connell,…
I Got a Bunny for Christmas!
This Christmas/Hexmess I got a really cool and unexpected present from ceramicist Max Lehman–one of his signature bunny sculptures. I had met Max and his partner Mark Burton when I went to Denver in November for the opening of “Toy Stories 2” at William Havu Gallery which featured Lehman’s sculptures celebrating Anahuak-Mayan culture (more on…