Cartwheel Art Tours x Atlas Obscura: “Shrine’s Haunted Shacks Gardens After Dark” – Pasadena
Self-taught painter, installation, and performance artist Brent Allen Spears (a.k.a. Shrine) has spent the past 20-plus years transforming his Pasadena home into a vivid sanctuary of altars, totems, and sculptures. Join Cindy Schwarzstein, founder of Cartwheel Art Tours, for an exclusive “after dark” tour of this architectural wonder known as Haunted Shack Gardens. Guided by…
Cartwheel Art Tours x Atlas Obscura: “Shrine’s Haunted Shack Gardens” – Pasadena
Self-taught painter, installation, and performance artist Brent Allen Spears (a.k.a. Shrine) has spent the past twenty plus years transforming his Pasadena home into a vivid sanctuary of altars, totems, and sculptures. Join Cindy Schwarzstein, founder of Cartwheel Art Tours, for an exclusive tour of this architectural wonder known as Haunted Shack Gardens. Guided by Shrine,…
Photos, Wrap Up: Lightning in a Bottle 2014
What happens when three ever-engaging, ridiculously charismatic brothers invite 15,000 of their closest friends to camp, picnic and party somewhere in the wine valley, midway btween San Francisco and Los Angeles? The answer is the biggest and most inventive Lightening in a Bottle to date. The location of this year’s LIB at a new rural…
Shrine’s Empire of Love Shack at Craft and Folk Art Museum
Shrine’s beautiful new window at The Craft and Folk Art Museum This May, Los Angeles was practically run over with art openings and happenings. Cartwheel Art engaged many of our contributors to get out there, take pics, enjoys spaces, talk to artists and generally take in all that was going on–in order to share, share,…
Coachella 2014 Interviews:The Diverse Visual Art From Major Production to DIY
Coachella definitely put the ‘Art’ in its 2014 Music and Arts Festival. For the first time in its history of 16 years, the festival’s official poster bore the names of its visual artists alongside the musical acts. The presence of visual art is inseparable from music and performance at Coachella, and it’s been an important…
Let There Be Light: Shrine Edition in Haiti
The Do Art Foundation‘s Let There Be Light project in collaboration with Project HOPE Art went to Haiti to help spread a message of healing and empowerment through arts during Kanavale (carnival season), along with partners Cuddle the World from Lucient Dossier and Burners without Borders. This year, the group also brought noted architectural installation…
Let There Be Light: Shrine Goes To Haiti
We at CARTWHEEL love Shrine. His works are spectacular constructions built from discarded objects, bringing new awareness through reclaiming materials. His work shows us how to find the beauty and usefulness in everything around us. From Joshua Tree to Coachella and Lightening in a Bottle, to other international locations like India and Kenya, Shrine has…
Lightning in a Bottle: Shrine On Creates Reclaimed Artisan Village, Festival Creators Talk Sustainability
Over July 11-15th, Lightning in a Bottle Music and Art Festival was held in Temecula, CA. And on the festival’s Saturday morning, right in the middle of the perfectly controlled chaos that is LIB, staffers held a really cool intimate meet and greet brunch that honestly rocked it. The Herbert Bail Orchestra, who played the…
Meet Shrine On, the Artist Behind the Towering Coachella Installations
One of the literal high points of Coachella over the years has been the one-of-a-kind, mind-blowing complex, giant, towering installations built entirely out of trash and reclaimed items that loom over the weekend music festival. These dominating sky rises are assembled by artist Shrine On who has been building shine towers for Coachella and other…