Expression Session 2 at AR4T Gallery
Artists Republic 4 Tomorrow is currently showing Expression Session 2, a group exhibition with works spanning two generations of surf culture, featuring seven of its most influential artists. Will Pennartz, founder and owner of The Surf Gallery (2001-2010) and guest curator, selected the works on exhibition consisting of paintings, photographs, prints and posters by John Severson, Mike Salisbury, Rick…
SID: Superman is Dead at Subliminal Messages in Echo Park
A night of art and music based on the too-brief life of Sex Pistols guitarist Sid Vicious at Subliminal Projects in Echo Park.
LA Art Show: Desire Obtain Cherish, Diamond Dust, Duchamp, and a Series of Portraits.
For me the absolute stand out commentary work at the LA Art Show was Desire Obtain Cherish, Designer Pill Packs at The McLoughlin Gallery: Spot-on brutal commentary on the Business of Art, Designer Pill Packs state baldly that neither art nor consumer goods are a panacea for shallow weltschmerz or consumptive malaise. DOC’s barbed doses…
Ryan McIntosh – Print release on the street
Ryan McIntosh just enacted the most innovative art releases I’ve ever seen in the history of Los Angeles. He stapled 36 of his prints to a wall on Melrose near the intersection of Formosa and within several hours all of them were snatched up by his various collectors — which included everyone from museum curators…