“Laluzapalooza” at La Luz de Jesus
No theme! Eye-popping! Mind-blowing! Over 100 pieces of art! It’s that time again–Laluzapalooza is back at La Luz de Jesus. Now in its in 28th year, the annual juried show brings together gallery artists, commercial illustrators, graphic designers, tattooists, scenics, students, street taggers, and animators for an explosion of contemporary art and one of the…
Preview: “Laluzapalooza” Opens March 7 at La Luz de Jesus
It’s back! The biggest, boldest explosion of Pop Surrealism, conceptual narrative, Low Brow, contemporary grotesque, post-Industrial romanticism, Mid-Century graphic, and just about every other contemporary genre explodes over the walls at La Luz de Jesus’ 28th annual juried show. There’s no theme, just some freshest and most relevant artists working today, drawn from over…
Interview/Preview: Karrie Ross, Our Ever Changing World Pop-Up
So exciting! Chung King Road is loaded with art January 11 with five galleries staging the their openings. At Chung King Studio, 975 Chung King Road, award winning author, visual artist, and professional book designer, Karrie Ross launches her one-night-only pop gallery, showcasing the many artists in her recently published book, Our Ever Changing World…
Karrie Ross Book signing at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena
Come celebrate Karrie Ross’s new book “Our Ever-Changing World: Through the Eyes of Artists” at Pasadena’s Vroman’s Bookstore book signing event.
Myron Conan Dyal and Christopher Ulrich: Alchemy, Love, and “The Reckoning”
Sunday night mystic sculptor Myron Conan Dyal and painter Christopher Ulrich discussed their art, creativity, alchemy, religion, and love at La Luz de Jesus, further illuminating both artists’ works; Dyal has shown before at La Luz, and Ulrich’s monumental “The Christ Chronocator Series III: The Reckoning,” the final chapter in Ulrich’s six-year odyssey, the Demoneater…
“MAN/SON and the Haunting of the American Madonna” at Hyaena Gallery
The Tate/LaBianca Murders, also known as the Manson Family Murders, were a pivotal point in Los Angeles and U.S. culture, signalling the end of the happy days of hippiedom, proving conclusively to grown-ups, squares, and law enforcement that long hair, rock n’ roll, and drugs were bad, beyond bad, beyond the baddest; an evil combination…
Vega, Kimberly Zsebe “Girls Doin’ It” at The Loft at Liz’s
“Girls Doin’ It, Featuring a New Wave of Women Artists” is an all-woman show, curated by a man, but let’s not delve into the concepts of patriarchy, because they have no bearing on the nature of the work shown; nor is the work about “doin’ it” in the boy/girl, beast-with-two-backs sense. This lively and…