It’s amazing what you can find on the internet. What’s more amazing
is how the artists in MISAPPROPRIATION use images found on the
internet to create artwork. From January 23rd through the 30th, the
online world and the art world managed to collide at Studio Orange in
Culver City.
MISAPPROPRIATION, described as a “pop-up group show,” consisted of
work from four different artists. After checking out the screwdrivers
in the back patio—as in the refreshing beverage, not hand tool—and the
orange flavored candies (Studio Orange was keeping with a theme
fitting to its name), I’m ready to check out some art. One of the
first pieces to catch my attention …

The National Italian American Foundation and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Los Angeles co-host Canali.
To view Mario Canali’s art is to transport into a world of paradox, both delightful and disturbing. Featuring inquisitive human hybrids and surreal landscapes, Canali’s works are disruptive, edgy and innovative, as they were when he painted them in the 70s’ and 80s’. To gaze into the eyes of his creatures is like looking into the eyes of a lion, knowing you are safe only because they are caged. Canali’s hybrid humans not only catch the eye, they hold it spellbound.

Title: “My bed” size: queen size mattress;
medium: paint, yarn with needlework on bed mattress 2009

“Untitled 13.” 60” x 60”.
Silkscreen, dyed paper, acrylic and resin on panel and aluminum.