A new gallery opened up in downtown Los Angeles near my old stomping grounds where I used to sublet a small studio space. I decided to go down and check it out. The location of the gallery intrigued me. It is located adjacent to a couple of other downtown districts, the Fabric District and the… Read More
“Made in L.A.” is a biennial art show at the Hammer Museum that features the art work of people that live in Los Angeles. I live in L.A. and am heading over there to see how much it reflects our city…. Read More
Once in a quartermoon, Art Moura comes steaming down the western seaboard in his monstrous art car, packing all sorts of material transmissions from his empty commune in Northern California. By firelight, often chewing on a singed lizard, Art invents artifacts from a religion in his mind. A tapestry to the fallen earth mother, her… Read More
Anybody that has lived in Los Angeles has driven by this weird ass building on Wilshire with the giant, white, Colonial-era dude sculptures on it. Well, recently the Marciano family bought it and are using it to house a gigantic art collection they bought with all that Gap money. The interior of the building is… Read More
Once upon a time, Marc Chagall packed up and went down to Mexico to make some costumes…. Read More
There is a chance that Paul McCarthy used a chisel to make these, but I doubt it…. Read More
I like to take my kids down to Echo Park Lake and feed old bread butt ends to the turtles and geese, which according to the signs you’re not supposed to do but fuck that. Well, you guessed it, this afternoon there was a lady with a cool mullet yodeling on a float in the… Read More
Kerry James Marshall confronts you with giant, sign-like paintings whose unique and vast vocabulary demands that you either make up some stories about what is going on, or you let the images, text, patterns and techniques wash over you like dense poetry…. Read More
A felt molotov attack was successfully executed in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles in the Spring of 2017…. Read More
I’m getting ready for a Dodger themed show at Cofax. Here are a some WIPs. Please take care to notice the elements in the background. Sandy Koufax. Space and time…. Read More
