Category Archives: Art/Design

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Art/Design Gallery Clogged Caps

by Dustin Downing
March 23, 2011 - 12:55 pm

“Section Sec. 28.08 of the Texas Penal Code GRAFFITI. (a) A person commits an offense if with aerosol paint or an indelible marker and without the effective consent of the owner the person intentionally or knowingly makes markings, including inscriptions, slogans, drawings, or paintings, on the tangible property of the owner.” Shhh, could someone please not tell the guys behind the world recognized Clogged Caps Aerosol Art Festival? Because I just came back from shooting the 7th year of this 3 day live mural festival and it was off the hook. Let me break it down for you.

Clogged Caps

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Art/Design The Scope Art Fair (And How The Sausage Is Made)

by Molly Crabapple
March 16, 2011 - 1:46 pm

The Artists Wanted booth is made of win.

I’m standing at the VIP preview for Scope Art Fair, the hip, more affordable sister of the the contemporary art megalopolis Armory.  The entire fair is one of those white warehouses on the Hudson that it takes a very cold, windy walk to reach.

But the Artists Wanted booth made it worth it.  In the sea of the aloof, formal work that often characterizes The Good Stuff, Artists Wanted has splashed out the colour.  Their walls are pink and gold baroque, their floor is checkerboard, and an albino satyr is giving me some sausage slices.  Then I look up.  In the center of the booth is a throne- a gold Boschian nightmare- a Carravagio come to life.  On top, another satyr is throwing meat into a grinder.  Which is being slowly crapped out from cow corpse into sausages.  Which is being devoured by artsnobs.  Including me.

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Art/Design Gallery Meat Me at Meltdown

by Zoetica Ebb
March 15, 2011 - 10:35 am

The summer season is almost upon Los Angeles, if one can even call that slight temperature elevation between April and May a “season change”. No matter! Even now, some winter-banished grills are seeing daylight again, and America’s favorite pastime is returning to SoCal lawns. Just in time for barbeque season, DIKLIK art and Meltdown Comics bring you Meat! – an art show dedicated to the edible flesh, and featuring art by Michael Kupperman,  Brandon Bird,  Charlyne Yi,  Carlos Ramos,  J.R. Goldberg,  Julia Vickerman,  Myke Chilian,  Layron Dejarnette,  John Olsen,  Richard Lee,  Deanna Rooney,  Britt Sanders,  Andy Ristaino, and  Jhonen Vasquez.

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Art/Design Gallery “The Rabbit” – Giant Robot Style

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing
March 15, 2011 - 10:31 am

The Chinese Zodiac has deemed 2011 the year of the rabbit. In case you’ve wondered what that means exactly, I did some efficient Googling.

The rabbit, which is the fourth sign of the 12 animal Zodiac signs, is considered to be the lucky sign. According to the Chinese, the rabbit brings a year to calm your nerves and catch your breath. This is a year to focus on negotiation, family, home, security, diplomacy, and relationships.

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Art/Design Featured Gallery A Million Watts of Blood,Toil, and Tears: The Museum of Neon Art

by Jeff Nau and Zoetica Ebb
March 10, 2011 - 11:22 am

If you’ve ever seen reels from the early days of cinema — It’s a Wonderful Life or any number of Rat Pack films comes to mind — one thing you might remember are the montages of neon signs, flashing advertisements that enticed potential patrons to buy sex, cigarettes and cheap liquor. Truth is, ain’t many of these gems around anymore — many have been dismantled and trashed, but several others are now at the Museum of Neon Art.

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Art/Design Gallery The “Unfinished” Works of James Franco and Gus Van Sant

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing
March 9, 2011 - 10:46 am

If you love James Franco (and let’s be honest, who doesn’t right now?) you should high tail it over to the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. The Oscar host, Academy Award nominee, soap opera star, author, painter, male model, film director, performance artist, and Tweeting mastermind has managed to squeeze one additional bullet point onto his resume: an art exhibit titled “Unfinished.”

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Art/Design “Language” at LA Art Lab

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing
March 7, 2011 - 11:29 am

Language at LA Art Lab 2011

I’ve never attended an art show and walked out with homework but this was the case at LA Art Lab’s “Language”.  After perusing Typeface (Barbara Kosoff), a piece that puts a spin on the language of typography, I meandered over to a piece titled Field Trip (Jill Vacarra). The caption instructed me to pick up an assignment and take it home with me. I couldn’t commit to just one and therefore grabbed three:

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Art/Design Gallery Oceanic Awareness Collaboration’s “Art For Awareness” Auction

by Dustin Downing
March 4, 2011 - 1:00 pm

Every piece of plastic that has ever been stamped, “Made in China”, or by any other country for that matter, still exists. Yes, some small portion has been burnt, but that just released toxic gas to the atmosphere. The rest sits in land fills, in your neighborhood park, or swims with the fishes in one of many swirling pools of plastic debris the size of Texas in our oceans. Tonight, two So-Cal boys named Tanner Hoss and Clay Wendel are out to change that.

Their “Oceanic Awareness Collaboration” has brought together 70+ artists from around the world, including my lovely boss lady Barbie Brady and this photographer’s favorite “photo stylist”/artist Renee Lawter, for an art show and silent auction this past weekend in Pamona, CA. I had a chance to chat up the founders for a quick minute over the roar of the show and the following is what they had to say…

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Art/Design Gallery Twin Peaks Celebrates 20th Anniversary at Clifton’s

by Zoetica Ebb
February 25, 2011 - 11:35 am

This month, Twin Peaks is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Conceived and created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, the haunting TV series ran its fleeting course in the early nineties, suffering tremendous interferences at the hands of ratings-hungry studio execs. Despite its untimely conclusion, Twin Peaks received critical acclaim and spawned a devoted cult following. The plot unfolded around the shocking murder of a prom queen in a fictional Washington town, and the arrival of Seattle FBI agent, Dale Cooper, sent to solve the mystery. The eccentricities and shady undercurrents of small-town life are the heart of the show, though. Coffee, pie, doughnuts, trees and owls – daily staples of Twin Peaks life – became the show’s iconic motifs, and were prominently featured in the artwork of In the Trees – an art event commemorating the series.

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Art/Design Gallery A Gamer’s Louvre: “Multiplayer” at Gallery 1988

by Dustin Downing
February 24, 2011 - 9:28 am

Multiplayer, the inaugural art show at Gallery 1988 in Venice,  took poster submissions from some 30 artists inspired by the video games of now and yore.  Aided by curators OMG Posters! 1988 turned their new home base into a gamers Louvre. The talent within spanned from seasoned artists like Eric Tan, a PIXAR collaborator and Mike Mitchell, who designed the “I’m with Coco” poster, to freelancers Adam Hanson and Markku Metso.

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