Whoever said Los Angeles is lacking in arts and culture has certainly NOT visited Barnsdall Art Park, and has especially not visited the park on the second Sunday of the month. That’s right, the arts are alive and well here. This I am sure of after Sunday April 11th when I headed over to the art park, being a first timer myself, for a night of vibrant, living art.

Lawrence Asher Gallery held an artists reception last Wednesday to celebrate the close of its latest exhibition featuring the works of Paul Davies, Christina Shurts, and Andre Yi called Structural Through-Line (Coherence). With a title like that, I didn’t go in expecting to be impressed much—I figured that I would be surrounded by a hodge-podge of lines and circles and be forced to nod and smile as someone waxed poetic about their importance and originality. But I actually like this work. Touché, Lawrence Asher.

La Luz de Jesus Gallery looks like a store from the outside. That’s because it is. The gallery takes up two rooms in the back of a very cool, much hipper than me shop that sells a plethora of not only quirky books but bizarre and rare merchandise. I mean where else would one find a plastic goblet made to look like a vein-y eyeball than at this amazing, rather large store that is appropriately named Wacko? So too is it appropriate that Wacko should house La Luz de Jesus Gallery which in and of itself houses some not so run of the mill artwork. Max Grundy and Dennis Larkins are two artists whose work is seen in the first room, Gallery I, and who share quite similar Armageddon-like themes. In Gallery II there is some visually fascinating work that is produced by Scott Hove whose theme touches on those seen in Gallery I, but in a slightly different light.

The Happening Gallery certainly lived up to its name during its grand opening celebration on Saturday night, March 27th. The little gallery located on Lincoln Blvd in Marina del Rey was packed full of wide eyed spectators, each with a hankering for some fine, fine art. Thankfully, they were in luck as there was no shortage of amazing art work happening at The Happening Gallery.

On Saturday, March 20, I found myself exploring airplane hangars full of art at the Santa Monica Airport Artwalk. Literally—airplane hangars full of art. Studio space like you would not even believe. And everyone was showing it off—and everyone and their mother was there (as well as their children wearing Disney Princess costumes—apparently I missed the memo).