by Carolyn Blais
photos by Nicole DeVries

Not too long ago I read an article about the massive amounts of garbage that scientists have found floating about in our oceans. The article, not too mention the images, made me never want to step on a beach again. While it seems some humans are dumping trash into Earth’s precious waters, others are recycling their unwanted goods and using them to create art. Others yet are painting pictures or taking photographs that capture the beauties of nature that have fortunately been able to remain untouched by mankind’s pestering paws. If you have respect for the glories and wonders of the planet we live on, then you share the sentiments of Tony Clark, founder and curator of Affinity Galleries in West Hollywood. Read the whole story »

by Carolyn Blais

If you happen to be walking or driving down Lincoln Blvd in Venice and you see a cow on the sidewalk you may be craving dairy and experiencing a mirage, or more likely, you have passed The Happening Gallery. I forgot to ask the significance of the cow statue that stands directly outside the doors to the little gallery located near the corner of Lincoln and Washington but for whatever reason it’s there, and you can’t miss it as it often dons balloons from around its neck. Saturday, April 18, I went back to The Happening Gallery after having been there last month for its first ever opening reception. And no, my return this month had nothing to do with the free wine; it was the art that really interested me. Read the whole story »

by Carolyn Blais

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. Read the whole story »

by Elizabeth Manson

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. Read the whole story »

by Carolyn Blais
photos by Bona Hong

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. Read the whole story »