Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss have Solo Shows opening at Gallery C tonight, Thursday November 15, 7-10 PM. Kenny’s paintings depict of moody empty rooms in the urban enclaves of South America. This guy is as adept with a paintbrush as they come and the sensory familiarity of places you have never visited is an …
A similar thing happened when I was running the Coagula Projects Gallery at the Brewery Art Colony in 1999. We had hung a solo show of Marion Lane’s work and people made appointments to buy art ahead of the opening. It was like a mini-gold rush. So there is one on now for the Kenny …
So of course my girlfriend is the greatest artist on Earth. So you would probably want to therefore see the art of the greatest artist on Earth in person, right? Well, she is in a two-person show at Ave. 50 Studio that opens this Saturday, November 10, from 7-10 pm. She has a website and …
If you ever wanted to know what famous L.A. Photographer GAry LEonard looks like, HE IS JUST TO THE RIGHT OF JOE TORRE in this picture looking pissed off at the other photographers getting the money shot…
(L) Takashi Murakami, October 26, 2007, L.A. MOCA (R) Takashi Murakami Louis Vuitton Boutique in MOCA for duration of Murakami Retrospective Exhibit If you read the headlines, the papers, the news, you know that our most hallowed institutions have been shamed by scandals that started with a violation of the public trust. The Catholic church …
The insight just arrived that my entire life philosophy could be summed up in one paradoxical thought: “I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance policies”
The gallery is opened but there is a pall across the Southland – very low energy people walking about, traffic is much liter, the light everywhere is orange, filtered through a cloud of soot – a black mercedes parked outside the gallery is covered in white flecks, the white jaguar in front of it is …
The art world is closed on Mondays, yes this is the art world rule – Museums on Sunday, banking on Monday is the common refrain. But I find I can actually get a bit more work done at the galelry on Monday than on other days. No interruptions – that is the best part. So …
So I went to this show of absraction at the Torrance Art Museum. It was a kinda disappointing show, as there were some tired and trendy painters from “the right galleries” and then some free agents that masterfully stood out over the establishment. So I picked one up for the gallery. His name is Eric …
We went to Jail today – haha, Jail Gallery, which is across the street from the Men’s Central Jail in Downtown L.A. The show there was a photgraphy exhibit of portraits, intense, up-close, personal and unsettling ones. Good stuff. If you need to make bail and look at art, this is a good place, great …
I may be the exhibitions director at Gallery C, but it was our director, Alisun Woolery, who hooked us up with Kent Twitchell. Props to Alisun… We had a great meeting – Kent has some great stories and is like the last great hippie, so easygoing – and the gallery will be getting some work …