LA Weekly: Fast Times at SLOMA. A modern art museum w a long history & big ambitions, since the 1950s San Luis Obispo Museum of Art has grown, evolved & thought about the future—never losing sight of its mission to support the arts of CA’s Central Coast. https://www.laweekly.com/fast-times-at-sloma/
03:24 PM - Aug 30, 2023
L.A. WEEKLY ARTS CALENDAR: July 20-26. https://www.laweekly.com/one-another-arts-calendar-july-20-26/
05:45 AM - Jul 20, 2023
Meet an Artist Monday: Rakeem Cunningham. In a heady mixture of conceptual cosplay, collage, installation, video, photography, painting & performance, Cunningham creates multivalent portraits of himself & his eclectic community. https://www.laweekly.com/meet-cosplay-collagist-rakeem-cunningham/
05:48 PM - Jul 10, 2023
LA Weekly Arts Calendar: July 6-12. Pioneering personalities in film, theater, music & performance art; big summer group shows; dancing for joy, institutional deconstruction, seeding nature & home-cooking as metaphor for tending the soul. https://www.laweekly.com/generational-arts-calendar-july-6-12
08:44 PM - Jul 05, 2023
LA Weekly Meet an Artist Monday: Beck+Col are an artist duo who build worlds for queer, regal surrealist beings—only to shake it up with stylish gore. An ambitious installation featuring art & artifacts from/after their new film Red Night is on view in #DTLA through July 28. https://lnkd.in/gaFtdiWp
05:07 PM - Jul 03, 2023
New LA Weekly cover: Corey Pemberton's embrace of classical genres is anything but classical. His disarming portraits& still life paintings infuse ordinary life w/ layered patterns, daily rituals & hinted-at histories. https://www.laweekly.com/painter-corey-pembertons-portraits-are-a-personal-thing
05:45 PM - Jun 30, 2023
LA Weekly Arts Calendar: June 29-July 5. A block party with drones instead of fireworks, a collagist inspired by natural disaster, a painter across borders, an Arthur Miller classic updated, late-night ambient music in the garden. https://www.laweekly.com/star-spangled-arts-calendar-june-29-july-5
08:06 PM - Jun 28, 2023
LA Weekly Meet an Artist Monday: Guided by organic principles of rhythm, motion, sublimated patterns, saturated color & rich texture, Robert Standish’s gestural painting channels & expands hidden forces of the universe. https://www.laweekly.com/meet-transcendent-expressionism-painter-robert-standish
05:17 PM - Jun 19, 2023
LA Weekly Arts Calendar: June 15-21. New & historical Pop art, ballet, group shows merging the meta with the embodied, ecological & architectural, indie arts publishing, a botanical explosion at Bergamot, Juneteenth, Indigenous film. https://www.laweekly.com/june-blooms-arts-calendar-june-15-21
07:31 PM - Jun 14, 2023
LA Weekly Meet an Artist Monday: Casper Brindle renders pure color in aerated layers that capture and refract light, creating breath and a sense of motion with their awe-inspiring luminosity. https://www.laweekly.com/meet-light-fields-painter-casper-brindle
06:23 PM - Jun 12, 2023
LA Weekly Arts: June 8-14. Mark-making as metaphor, queer avant-garde horror, not your daddy’s dad jokes, performative food art, painting every ocean, Puck & the Scottish play, art in parks, poems in the temple, BIPOC theatrical voices. https://www.laweekly.com/its-a-metaphor-arts-calendar-june-8-14
06:26 PM - Jun 07, 2023
LA Weekly Meet an Artist Monday: Dakota Noot turns scissors, paint, and tape into a lively playland of cut paper characters and scenarios, using his body to stage darkly whimsical drawing, painting, performance, video, and installation. https://www.laweekly.com/meet-cut-paper-character-dakota-noot/
04:57 PM - Jun 05, 2023
LA Weekly Arts Calendar: June 1-7. Artists see the world differently—more intimately, holistically, empathetically & engaged w nature & each other—in video, dance, painting, poetry, environmental surrealism & art historical flower power. https://www.laweekly.com/see-the-world-arts-calendar-june-1-7/
06:07 PM - May 31, 2023
LA Weekly Meet an Artist Monday: Huntrezz Janos operates at the exuberant & boundary-blurring intersection of tech, gaming, community, identity, social justice, generative aesthetics, adornment, & post-body consciousness. https://www.laweekly.com/meet-transcorporeal-artifice-artist-huntrezz-janos
03:48 PM - May 29, 2023
LA Weekly Arts Calendar: May 25-31. Paintings with soulful sweetness, the immersive energy of dance floor culture, the sustaining power of natural elements, the quirks of city living, the intimacies & subtle magic that soften hard times. https://www.laweekly.com/memorialize-arts-calendar-may-25-31
03:13 PM - May 24, 2023
LA Weekly Arts Calendar: May 18-24. Artists remix classics of Cali literature, the nature of consciousness, the pageant of art history, the politics of craft, fashion & surrealism, photography & performance, narrative & abstraction. https://www.laweekly.com/retell-and-remix-arts-calendar-may-18-24
02:32 PM - May 17, 2023
Autumn Breon Trades Aeronautics for Art in the Pursuit of Creative Equity. Breon is about images & experiences of beauty—always with justice, political & economic equity, and community care in mind. https://www.laweekly.com/autumn-breon-trades-aeronautics-for-art-in-the-pursuit-of-creative-equity/
06:00 PM - May 16, 2023
#meetanartistmonday : Victor Wilde is an artist & fashion designer inspired by mercurial materials, transforming a vast inventory of found & salvaged treasures filling his #DTLA studio. Wilde America opens this week at REN Gallery. https://www.laweekly.com/meet-mercurial-materials-artist-victor-wilde
07:27 PM - May 15, 2023
Michael Hilsman at Various Small Fires, new for Artillery Mag "Still life meets prop table in a series of surreal symbolist tableaux, as a painter inventories his dreams and sets the scene for unguessable actions to come, or inscrutable actions just past..." https://artillerymag.com/michael-hilsman/
02:43 PM - May 12, 2023
The Fantastical World of Myrlande Constant. The Haitian artist works in a cosmos of demigods, saints, symbols, nature, myth & magic—in large-scale hand-beaded tapestries of superlative shimmer, divinity & detail. https://www.laweekly.com/enter-the-fantastical-world-of-myrlande-constant-at-the-fowler
07:59 PM - May 09, 2023
LA Weekly Meet an #artist Monday: Mary Lai is known for radiant palettes & messages of tireless optimism in paintings, murals & digital. This week she opens Unlock Your Dreams, a yearlong project as the W Los Angeles artist in residence. https://www.laweekly.com/meet-radiant-palettes-artist-mary-lai
08:04 PM - May 08, 2023
#laweekly #arts Calendar: May 4-10. Mystics of scent, contentious histories of Hollywood, photography both surreal & scenographic, rooftop dance, literature reattributed, new African art, narrative design objects, trashy fiction. https://www.laweekly.com/mystics-and-histories-arts-calendar-may-4
07:19 PM - May 03, 2023
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#laweekly #meetanartistmonday : Brenda Gonzalez is a stitching-forward mixed media sculptor. The materials & embedded narratives of in her objects are intentional in their elevation of humble housewares into vessels of memory. https://www.laweekly.com/meet-mixed-media-stitching-artist-brenda-gonzalez
05:17 PM - May 01, 2023
LA Weekly Arts Calendar: April 27 - May 3. Interdisciplinary projects from artists, composers, filmmakers, modern dance companies, photographers, technologists, designers, playwrights, documentarians, titans of Pop art. https://www.laweekly.com/inter-cross-disciplinary-arts-calendar-april-27-may-3/
07:35 PM - Apr 26, 2023
One thing about the #basquiat : King Pleasure exhibition newly opened in #DTLA , is that it’s very much a family affair. It was organized by Jean-Michel’s sisters & drawn from the whole family’s personal collections. Read more: https://www.laweekly.com/a-basquiat-family-affair-arrives-in-los-angeles/
07:36 PM - Apr 25, 2023
#meetanartistmonday : Sarah Rosalena's crossplatform art & research merge Native craft & future tech to transcend colonial narratives. Her site-specific sculpture For Submersion is installed & capturing rain at LA State Historic Park https://www.laweekly.com/meet-native-futures-artist-sarah-rosalena/
10:11 PM - Apr 24, 2023
The new book Heads Together: Weed & the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–73, which drops on April 20, gathers & honors prescient efforts on behalf of #cannabis as emblematic of broader social justice issues. #420 https://www.laweekly.com/what-was-once-underground-vintage-weed-ads-from-the-heyday/
07:07 PM - Apr 18, 2023
#meetanartistmonday : Edwin Marcelin uses abstract painting’s power as a prompt & spark of spiritual reconsideration within the black experience. Unrepd presents Elevation: Abstract Meditations on Iconic Black Discipline. #DTLA https://www.laweekly.com/meet-abstract-painting-proponent-edwin-marcelin/
08:19 PM - Apr 17, 2023
David Bowie in the Soviet Union at Wende Museum. How did Bowie end up on a train in 1973 USSR? And who’s the cheeky friend behind the lens capturing Bowie in moments from introspective to hung-over & inspired? https://www.laweekly.com/changing-trains-david-bowie-in-the-soviet-union-at-the-wende/
05:10 PM - Apr 12, 2023
Last year I visited the Refract Seattle Glassblowing Festival and it was gorgeous. Read my Day by Day journal of the trip, and see like a zillion pictures here: https://artandcakela.com/2023/03/28/refract-seattle-2022-three-solid-days-of-liquid-magic #art #glass #Seattle #refract2022
06:58 PM - Apr 04, 2023
