Gag Me With A Toon 5 at WWA Gallery!
If you think WWA Gallery is preying on your easiest emotions with their fifth annual “Gag Me With A Toon” exhibit, well, you’re absolutely right. This is a very specific vein they are tapping. The first dramatic connection many of us have with art is through cartoons, comic strips, comic books. and for Generation…
Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This: Eye Candy at WWA Gallery
It’s a can’t lose proposition really. “Eye Candy,” that’s the title of the latest group exhibition at WWA Gallery. It’s a wide open theme, leaving an infinite panorama of options for the eleven artists featured to throw themselves into. Some of the artists, like Gabe Larson and Aaron Jasinski, clearly reveled in the opportunity to stray…
I Believe in Unicorns, Too! at WWA Gallery
Does being sweet have an ugly side? That’s the curiosity drawn from “I believe in Unicorns, Too!,” the group show up at WWA Gallery through Mar. 23 featuring works by 50+ artists. Featuring an array of talented painters and illustrators who were tapped to portray the sticky-sweet fantasy world of their imagined lighter, softer dimension,…
Dreamweaver: Interview with Vincent Cacciotti
My first encounter with the work of Vincent Cacciotti was fairly intense. Back in November of 2012, I walked into WWA Gallery and was immediately confronted with a row of masterful oil paintings that were at once dark, mysterious, psychological, sensual, and gripping. I was unfamiliar with the name, but I quickly filed it away…
Creepy, Cute and Categories in Between at WWA Gallery
A fun and freaky showcase where treacly sweetness and spooky visions collide, “Creepy Cute” at WWA Gallery features paintings by seven artists: Peter Adamyan, Jonathan Bergeron, Dee Chavez, Desiree Fessler, Kelly Hutchison, Larkin and Chase Tafoya. Under the category of cute is a series of paintings (acrylic on wood) by Dee Chavez. Redolent of childhood fantasies…
CARTWHEEL: Highlights of 2012
Just six months ago CARTWHEEL launched our website, and in that time we’ve visited studios and galleries, interviewed artists and collectors, and explored art fairs, with nearly 300 posts and thousands of photos that document our excitement over the art scenes in Southern California and beyond. One of the most thrilling things for us…
Charity Case: “Art with a Heart” & “Print Isn’t Dead” at WWA Gallery
Let’s face it, we humans are contrary folk. We will cut each other off in traffic without even signaling. We will berate underpaid, blameless supermarket cashiers for not opening more registers, even if there are only two people ahead of us. We will bump into each other while walking and texting, then scowl at…
“We Are Who We Pretend To Be” at WWA Gallery
Los Angeles seems like the ideal place to stage an art exhibit that tackles issues of identity. People everywhere struggle with their identities, but in Los Angeles, that struggle is our very culture. Here that struggle breeds, festers and spreads its influential bile to all points on the globe. From studio execs who define…
“The Noise in the Basement” at WWA Gallery
Exhibit titles can be rather frustrating beasts for me. They tend to be oblique, esoteric things that rarely have any relevance to the art they’re intended to encapsulate. It may sound like a nitpicky, pet peevey gripe, but I’m prone to melodramatic bouts of anxiety over art as a general rule. However, when I find myself awake…
We’ve Got Issues / Blood opening at WWA Gallery
On August 18th, WWA Gallery in Culver City opened the 4th Annual “We’ve Got Issues.” The black and white group show, which runs trough September 27th, features artists Ana Bagayan, Anthony Ausgang, David Flores, JC Rivera, Angry Woebots and many others. The impressive amount of work in this show were done in ink, graphite or…