“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…
LA Art Show 2014: Preview Photos, Coagula, Century Guild, Murals, and More!
It’s not a sculpture, but rather some huge thing mover, used ot move many of the things I saw Tuesday when I went down to preview the LA Art Show during install. What a scene! And oh thank goodness for LA’s unofficial city food, the bacon wrapped hot dog, which was the fuel of necessity…
Gail Potocki “Fragmented Alice” at Century Guild
Robert Williams has called Gail Potocki A really fantastic artist… It’s refreshing to see a modern painter that has a classic, romantic touch and the skills to add a fresh facet of expression to the new period of Realism. On August 17, Potocki’s new series “Fragmented Alice” opens at Century Guild, featuring 15 new works…
Collecting: It’s in the Cards
I love collecting postcards of art, and often spend time in museum gift shops mulling over the options. Usually I buy duplicates, one for me to save, and extras to mail or use as gift cards in packages. Packaged postcards of exhibitions have been an increasingly popular item, and some sets of postcards, notably…
Collector and Gallerist Thomas Negovan: On Collecting and Century Guild in Los Angeles
Los Angeles has become a Great Art City, with hundreds of galleries, thousands of artists, important art fairs and exhibitions, arts districts throughout the metropolitan and suburban areas, and a style–Low Brow–which was incubated and midwifed in the region. It’s a sign of our city’s embrace of art that the country’s leading Art Nouveau…
“The Macabre Show” Opens at La Luz de Jesus
Awe-inspiring. Jaw-droppingly, soul-moving beautiful works of art. Friday night I was faint with appreciation for what is the strongest, most focused group shows La Luz de Jesus has offered this year. Each artist in “The Macabre Show” exhibited coherent, cohesive, and unique visions that blended seamlessly, creating a powerful impact that left attendees uncharacteristically subdued…
Preview: October’s “The Macabre Show” at La Luz Highlights Grotesque Beauty
The word grotesque comes from the same Greek root as “grotto,” meaning a hidden place. It was in grottoes, either natural or man-made caves, on their sprawling estates where nobility would have artists create strange, fantasy-driven works of art to surprise, delight and disturb. By the 18th Century, the word’s usage, whether in English, French or…