3rd Annual Coaster Show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery Opens Tonight!
Who hasn’t sat at a bar, drinking a beer and doodled on a coaster? But many of us aren’t the extremely skilled painters, illustrators, animators, tattooists, sculptors or collage artists that are featured in the Annual La Luz de Jesus Coaster Show exhibition that takes a love of craft brewing and elevates it to high…
Interview: Art Publicists Draw Attention to Clients
The Miami Art Fairs and the the upcoming Los Angeles Art Show make it clear that there are a lot of artists, emerging and established, vying for wall space be it in your museums or your home. In Los Angeles, there are gallery shows opening every weekend, and thousands of artists hoping to hang their…
Art Walk: Pilates & Arts Echo Park
Located close to downtown LA, Echo Park has experienced a hipster and pseudo-hipster influx over the past few years, along with a new development of townhouses on Echo Park Blvd., but it still retains its funky vibe. Echo Park Blvd., the main street of this enclave, is lined with small shops, cafes, and service businesses…
Photos from La Luz de Jesus: José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros, Laluzapalooze Juried Show Winner
In his latest series, “DisHollywood,” José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros takes his social commentary to a new level, mixing beloved fairytale icons with characters from the world of cinema, celebrity and music to create a pop culture mash-up that enchants and provokes. Along with Ontiveros, this month La Luz de Jesus presents the Laluzapalooza juried show…
Preview: Bobby Furst’s Desert Art Raises the Heat at La Luz de Jesus
Joshua Tree-based artist Bobby Furst has been creating assemblage since he was little boy growing up in Laurel Canyon. Decades later, after meeting George Herms, Furst brought a portfolio of his own work to Santa Monica College of Design Art and Architecture’s administration on the first day of classes, and was admitted into Herm’s…
Ike Turner Killed JFK: A Conversation with Hudson Marquez
Hudson Marquez is one of the most gifted raconteurs I’ve ever met. He has the kind of gift for gab that only comes from living a nomadic life peppered with thorny characters. His voice is loud but oddly soothing, with just the gentlest Louisiana lilt. Hudson has a salty tongue, and appears to have no…
The Lowdown from Joe Copro: Interview with Greg Escalante
Cultural movements, as organic as they may seem, don’t just happen on their own. Especially so when it comes to art movements. There are catalysts involved. Art cannot breathe and flourish in a vacuum. Whether it’s been the Medici or Theo Van Gogh, art has always needed it’s patrons, it’s champions, it’s guardians of…
Cartwheel Recap: “The Mouseketeer Army” ~ New Works by Bob Dob
The opening reception for the exhibit seemed packed with a bunch of rad players in the lowbrow art world like Anthony Ausgang, Andrew Hosner of Thinkspace Gallery, Marc Trujillo, actress/singer Kate Flannery from NBC’s The Office who is also part of the Hollywood lounge duo The Lampshades. I wasn’t there to catch the action, but CARTWHEEL founder…
Billy’s Thursday Night Fish Fry Brings Community Together with Cool Acts and Tunes
Every final Thursday of the month, La Luz de Jesus becomes a throbbing scene. Music, comedy and performance art resounds in the gallery as the crowd spills out into the back patio and onto the street, takes in the art, or browses through the huge collection of books, toys, and unusual items in the retail…
Welcome to Disasterland
As I approached the gallery entrance last night, I was greeted by a young woman clad in a black leather Mickey Mouse bondage outfit. She handed me a show card and let me pass. My kind of party! Welcome to Disasterland. Enjoy the pixie dust. “Disasterland” is Jose Rodolfo Rodolfo Loaiza’s much anticipated solo…