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Art, East Hollywood, Free Event, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, Stuff We Like

Slideshow – Laluzapalooza installation at La Luz de Jesus Gallery

This month, La Luz de Jesus Gallery presents their yearly juried group show freshly rechristened “Laluzapalooa.”  This gigantic, no-theme show features works from from commercial illustrators, graphic designers, tattooists, scenics, students, street taggers, animators and working gallery artists. This tastefully, jam-packed, salon-style exhibition features some familiar names from La Luz de Jesus Gallery’s ever-growing roster of feature artists, and an overwhelming number of pieces from brand new undiscovered, emerging talent.

Watch this slideshow, shot over a four-day period as La Luz de Jesus Gallery owner/curator  Billy Shire, gallery manager Matt Kennedy and company transform empty walls into the “Greatest Group Show on Earth!”

La Luz de Jesus Gallery presents:
LALUZAPALOOZA
Vol. XV of the Greatest Group Show on Earth

March 2 – April 1
Opening Reception: Friday, March 2nd, 8-11 pm
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027

March 2, 2012by Dionysus Records
East Hollywood, Free Event, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz

Danni Shinya Luo Valentines Day Book Signing and Exhib at La Luz

Danni Shinya Luo “Soft Candy“

February 14 – 26, 2012 –
Valentine’s Day
Book Signing Party
Tue, Feb 14th; 7-10 PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery

click for show preview

Shanghai-born Danni Shinya Luo presents a collection of brand new drawings, paintings and illustrations. Turning the pages of this dainty 7″ x 7″ art volume is like stealing glances into a beautiful young woman’s salon — the voyeuristic reward of forbidden access. Watercolor, ink and graphite give rise to Luo’s vision of sexuality, innocence and whimsy over 200 full color pages behind a foreword by art impresario Billy Shire (of Soap Plant, Wacko and La Luz de Jesus Gallery). This new collection explores shifting perspectives of beauty, attraction, lust and decency presented through alluring and decadent images of the female figure. Visions of nymphs in a myriad of suggestive contexts are divided into five distinct chapters -each acknowledging a different aspect of sensuality as expressed through food, frailty, fetish, fauna and fantasy. The notion of eye candy is emblematic of the capacity to sense flavor, and Luo’s gift for capturing the soft, subtle sweetness of young adulthood is often erotic but always tasteful.

Shinya’s art is whimsically feminine, and her watercolor paintings are meditations on the female figure. The colors are fresh and luscious, her line work fluid and organic, and her composition engaging and impactful. Psychological tension and emotional torsion fill the images, binding love and lust. SOFT CANDY is an irresistible temptation that satiates the hunger of desire.

At first blush, Danni Shinya Luo would seem to be the unlikeliest source of the sexually charged material in Soft Candy. A sweet and invariably good-natured Chinese girl, she can disarm you with her bubbly personality while her paintings all but clobber you over the head. Her primary subjects are nubile nymphets; as wrapped in allegory as they are naked. They are both innocent and in your face. While the natural inclination of many artists is to paint naked women, most of Danni’s contemporaries (and a great deal of her predecessors) have managed to miss the sublime femininity that seems to come so easily to her. Sensuality and fragility, enacted simultaneously, don’t battle on her arches –they dance. Whether in her watercolors or in her sketches, which encompass both the doe-eyed and the deadly, the graceful lines of her figures boast that most prized of artistic commodity: intuition.

All of the drawings in this show were created specifically for (and published in) the Soft Candy art volume (published by Last Gasp Books, and available for pre-order).

Soft Candy:
The Girls of Danni Shinya Luo
Hardcover, 200 pages
7″ x 7″
$25.00

The first 100 orders will receive a signed, limited edition (1/100) book plate created specifically for this event!

February 13, 2012by Dionysus Records
Book reading, East Hollywood, Events, Free Event, Hollywood, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz

12/10: Feral House / Process Media Winter Solstice at La Luz

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Feral House / Process Media
Third Annual Winter Solstice Celebration

20% on ALL Feral House and Process Media titles!

Saturday, December 10, 2011 6pm – 9pm
La Luz de Jesus Gallery

463 3 Hollywood Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 900 27
(323) 666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com

La Luz de Jesus and Soap Plant/Wacko presents their third annual Feral House – Process Media Winter Solstice Celebration featuring Maja D’Aoust and Adam Parfry, co-authors of “Secret Source: The Law of Attraction and its Hermetic Influence Throughout the Ages,” Jodi Wille who just completed her amazing “Source Family” documentary, Martin Olson author of “The Encyclopedia of Hell,” famed illustrator/cartoonist Tony Millionaire, Erik Knutzen author of “Urban Homestead,” Sean Tejaratchi of “Craphound” fame, Mel Gordon will be showing a clip from a ’30s film on black sex magic and Eban Schletter who will fill the gallery with the sounds of his Theremin and sign his Christmas CD.

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The event will spotlight several titles from the publisher’s catalog including the limited edition “Propaganda and Holy Writ of The Process Church of The Final Judgment,” the brand new True Crime book about felon vandals titled “Graffiti Underworld” and the decade in-the-works “Ritual America.”

“Ritual America” is clearly the first comprehensive American treatment of the examination of the secrets subtly stored away for those who are on the inside and those looking in from the outside…. It is created to challenge every fiber of your critical thinking and wonder.”
-Loren Coleman

In addition to the Feral House and Process Media titles – copies of Tony Millionaire’s new release, “500 Portraits” will be available for signing by the artist.

“…[Process Media’s] books on supposed ‘fringe’ type characters are in fact memoirs of the true innovators-those truly bound for the stratosphere without commercial concerns.”
-Plastic Crimewave

“I rank Feral House, a small press with a taste for the outrageous, among the most valuable in America.”
-Richard Kostelanetz, Rain Taxi

FERAL HOUSE WEBSITE    PROCESS MEDIA WEBSITE

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December 9, 2011by Dionysus Records
Book reading, East Hollywood, Events, Free Event, La Luz de Jesus, Stuff We Like

Tonight! Braaaaainsgiving Zombie Party at La Luz de Jesus Gallery

Braaaaainsgiving Zombie Party with author, Matt Mogk  Signing “Everything You Wanted to Know about Zombies” & “That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore”  

DMD Wednesday, November 23, 2011  7 – 9 PM

La Luz de Jesus Gallery

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ZOMBIE HANDBOOK EVER PUBLISHED!

Zombie expert Matt Mogk, founder and head of the Zombie Research Society, busts popular myths and answers all your raging questions about the living dead with a lecture, slide show & other paraphernalia on zombie 101.

 

Q. How can I increase my chances of survival? A. One simple step is to keep away from other people. Without people there can be no zombies. Q. What is the connection between the Voodoo zombie and the flesh-eating zombie of popular culture? A. Other than a shared name, absolutely nothing. Q. Will zombies actually eat me, or will they just bite and chew? A. Research suggests the neuromuscular activity required for swallowing may be too complex for a zombie. Q. Will we see any warning signs before the dead rise? A. Unfortunately, entire populations could be infected with the zombie sickness before anyone even knows there’s a problem. Q. How come Zombie Awareness Month is in May and not October? A. Unlike witches and vampires, zombies are not otherworldly creatures. They are made of flesh and blood. Don’t forget to wear your gray ribbon. * Many more questions about zombies-including why not all of them are undead-are answered inside the book, published by Simon and Schuster 

 

Click here for Matt Mogk video presentation

November 23, 2011by Dionysus Records
Art, East Hollywood, Events, Free Event, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, sculpture, Stuff We Like

October 7 and 8, La Luz de Jesus Gallery Turns 25 – Part One!

In just two more weeks La Luz de Jesus Gallery opens the biggest exhibition in their history. In fact it’s so big that it’s going to take them two months to showcase it all. This is LA LUZ DE JESUS 25.

On the weekends of October 7th and November 4th, La Luz de Jesus Gallery will be celebrating their twenty-fifth year of groundbreaking exhibitions with a show including almost everyone who’s ever been featured here. Billy Shire has masterminded and organized a monumental group show featuring over 250 artists, each of whom have contributed one new piece and a written anecdote about their experience with the gallery. This is La Luz de Jesus Gallery’s first survey, featuring three generations of the most important artists working today. There will also be a book –a companion to the show, chronicling the rich legacy of La Luz de Jesus and the movements it helped launch.
The exhibition roster for Part One is below
A full index for both exhibitions can be found here.

La Luz de Jesus 25 Part 1
Opening October 7 & 8
Friday & Saturday, 8–11 pm

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com

Jennybird Alcantara
Marco Almera
David Anderle
Rick Araluce
Robert Armstrong
Axel
Roberto Baldazzini
Paul Barnes
Glenn Barr
Lou Beach
Vicki Berndt
Cathie Bleck
Jon Bok
Walter Bortolossi
Frijol Boy
Scott G. Brooks
Calef Brown
Ken Brown
Mark Bryan
Robert Burden
Kalynn Campbell
Christian Clayton
Rob Clayton
Joe Coleman
R.S. Connett
Dave Cooper
Lisa Crafts
Bryan Cunningham
Jason D’Aquino
DAST
Glen C. Davies
Alfredo de Batuc
John de Fazio
Gerald de Jesus
Alex de Leon
Georganne Deen
Marc Dennis
Daniel Martin Díaz
Sam Doyle
Myron Conan Dyal
Brice Eichelberger
Bruce Eichelberger
P-Jay Fidler
Matt Fink
Tony Fitzpatrick
Mary Fleener
Alan Forbes
Don Fritz
Gregg Gibbs
Mark Gleason
Paul Glynn
Ralfka Gonzalez
Josh Gosfield
Bruce Gossett
Phillip Graffham
Matt Groening
Tamara Guion
Don Ed Hardy
Scott Harrison
Ric Heitzman
Al Honig
Jason Houchen
Norma Jones
Damara Kaminecki
Christine Karas-Gough
Dean Karr
Norbert H. Kox
Frank Kozik
Krystine Kryttre
Stacy Lande
Jon Langford
Craig LaRotonda
Laura Levine
Laurie Lipton
Alpha Lubicz
Sam Lubicz
Snow Mack
Jason Maloney
ManWoman
Hudson Marquez
Lyn Mayer
Matjames Metson
Sergio Mora
Victor Moscoso
Stanley Mouse
Clare O’Callaghan
Manuel Ocampo
Mu Pan
Gary Panter
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker
Robert Pasternak
Lisa Petrucci
Gail Potocki
Matthew Price
Moritz R*
Brent Riley
Chris Roberts-Antieau
Francisco Rodriguez Maruca
Spain Rodriguez
Jonathon Rosen
Isabel Samaras
Corey Sandelius
David Sandlin
Kim Scott
Anna Sea
Daniel “DX” Segura
Jonathan Shaw
Jacqueline Shepard
Shrine
Aaron Smith
Owen Smith
Alyson Souza
Karl Stalnaker
Joanne Stephens
Stanislav Szukalski
Yoko Tanaka
Gary Taxali
Michael Teague
Pol Turgeon
Christopher Umana
Elizabeth Uyehara
Sarita Vendetta
Trici Venola
Nicola Verlato
Byron Werner
Robert Williams
Suzanne Williams
S. Clay Wilson
Martin Wittfooth
Dennis Worden
XNO
Trevor Young

October 5, 2011by Dionysus Records
Art, Events, Free Event, Fundraiser, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Street Art

Beyond Eden Multi Gallery Event this weekend in Los Angeles


BEYOND EDEN returns this Sat, October 1st!!! This is our 3rd year putting this beast together and we feel this is the best year yet and can’t wait for you all to share in the goodness.

Please join the Beyond Eden ‘group’ on Facebook:

Website now updated with all info

FULL EVENT DETAILS
BEYOND EDEN 2011
Opening Reception:
Sat, October 1st 6-11PM
with 8PM award presentation for Anthony Ausgang

ALSO ON VIEW on Sun, October 2nd from Noon-5PM

Gallery LineUp:
Thinkspace
La Luz De Jesus
Copro Gallery
Toy Art Gallery
Gallery Nucleus
C.A.V.E. Gallery

Special Exhibitions from:
Cannibal Flower (underground LA area artists / 11th Anniversary)
Spoke Art (‘Round III’ – the LA stop of the traveling ‘Quentin vs. Coens’ exhibit)
‘Creator / Spectator’ – a showcase of LA street artists curated by local street artist Euth and presented by Thinkspace

In the media room:
A special showcase video of the ‘best of’ Sketch Theater (popular online site showcasing artists creating works from scratch on camera that is filmed from above)

Live painting from:
John Park, Hans Haveron, Anthony Clarkson, Michael Pukac, Mimi Yoon and Steven P. Williams

Presented by:
Arrested Motion
Blik Wall Graphics
Color Ink Book
Daily Dujour
Hi-Fructose
Juxtapoz
Lee Joseph Publicity for the Visual Arts
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Associates (LAMAGA)
Sketch Theater
Sour Harvest
Warholian

Special Event Details

La Luz de Jesus Gallery’s 25, Mark Todd, and more!
La Luz de Jesus Gallery will be featuring a new museum work from Wayne Martin Belger as part of the upcoming two-part exhibition and book, “La Luz de Jesus 25“, a celebration of the gallery’s 25th anniversary milestone opening in October and November. Also featured is a much requested encore of Mark Todd’s  “Power Fury Fireworks Shack ” installation -a 3:4 scale shack built from scratch and filledmwith hand-painted firework sculptures constructed in Todd’s distinct style (Note: these are sculptures and are not live fireworks!), along with encore presentations from Mark Gleason, Lyle Motley and Van Saro. La Luz de Jesus will also be featuring a rare screen print poster from their first show, 25 years ago by Daniel “DX” Segura. New works from Kristopher Sapp and Alex Manukyan will offer a special preview of the 2012 calendar, with other surprises  in store that are sure to delight attendees of all ages.

“Creator / Spectator”
Presented by Thinkspace and curated by Euth

Thinkspace is pleased to present “Creator / Spectator,” an exhibition curated by local artist Euth, featuring some of the most exciting names currently gracing the streets of Los Angeles with their work. The artists chosen to participate represent the outside circle of underground art in Los Angeles. These are individuals exploring concepts deeply rooted in their own personal history and that are not looking to follow in the footsteps of those who came before them. Each artist was selected because their work is not simply about a name and a product, but more so about who he or she is as a individual – this is not a group working towards a common title or theme like “street art” but instead a group of individuals who have found common ground in a medium that promotes the individuality of each component explored.

This exhibit looks to explore beyond the mentality that the medium is the message. This is about a path of life chosen by these artists that constitutes the very nature of who they are. Each artist involved in this show offers something unique to the city of Los Angeles, a personal message to which they are both creator and spectator.

Featuring works from:
Cat Cult, Corrina Corina, CRYPTIK, Duart JDI, Euth, Line Line Dot, NOMADE, Smog City

Sketch Theater Video Screenings
featuring the best episodes of Sketch Theater

Sketch Theatre is a popular online showplace where viewers can watch the process of professional artists creating original sketches via timelapse photography set to inspirational music. Sketch Theatre showcases artists who make their livings in the fields of Fine Art, Video Game Design, Motion Picture Visual Effects & Concept Art, Comic Book & Graphic Novel Illustration, Commercial Illustration & Advertising Art, Tattoos, Animation, and Fashion Design. As such it provides education and inspiration to aspiring artists of a diverse range of interests and skill levels.

The brilliant myriad of artists featured on Sketch Theatre strip down and expose raw sketches on camera, never failing to captivate and inspire.   Sketch Theatre combines visuals with music as all of their artists feel strongly about how music has shaped their lives and inspired their work.

sketchtheatre.com

“Quentin vs. Coen – Round III”
San Francisco’s Spoke Art is proud to present the third and final installment of the touring “Quentin vs. Coen” art show at Beyond Eden. Following their successful stops in New York City and San Francisco, they will be bringing the highly publicized show to the pop culture capital of the world, Los Angeles.

An art show tribute that pits the films of cult favorites Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brother sagainst each other, “Quentin vs. Coen” is a battle royale (with cheese) of painting, sculpture, prints and collage. Featuring over 100 different artists from around the world, the show serves as a look at some of the most iconic and memorable scenes, characters and films from the highly heralded director’s oeuvres.

The Beyond Eden 2011 installment of “Quentin vs. Coen” will feature:
Max Dalton, Steven Foundling, Christopher Brewer, Robert Bowen, Dave Correia, Derek Gores, Irma Rivera, Peter Adamyan, Andrew Spear, Anville, Boxx, Dave Greco, David Choquette, Evanimal, Greg Gossel, Gustavo Ponce, Jason Vivona, Gwendolyn, Jeff Rassie, Jesse Riggle, Johannah O’Donnell, Kenyon Bajus, Lucas Gluesenkamp,, Killer Napkins, Rich Pellegrino, Morgan Blair, Roland Tamayo, Sam Wolfe, Connelly, Sandi Calistro, Steve Seeley, Tatiana Suarez, Tessa Morrison, Tom Haubrick, Ken Guardano, Zach Landrum

spoke-art.com

Special showcase of local underground talent from Cannibal Flower
Cannibal Flower is a once-a-month, portable venue that showcases art, music, dance, film, projections, magic and fashion shows. Started in the year 2000 by L.Croskey, Jean-Paul Garnier, Michele Waterman as a means for a group of friends to showcase their art and music without having to deal with the politics of the conventional gallery, Cannibal Flower believes that if there’s an artist that’s truly passionate and dedicated to what they do, they deserve a chance to be seen.Cannibal Flower aims to create artist unity and collaboration, hence the beauty and liveliness of their “venue” being portable. By working with other galleries and alternative spaces, they not only bring promotion to other locations but bring the arts to wider audience. Every Cannibal Flowershow is entirely different, bringing in all walks and groups of people young and old.

Cannibal Flower’s Beyond Eden installation will feature Sean Joyce, Lauren Haggis , Kelly Berg , William Zdan, Andrea Iakovidis, Mimi Yoon, Nate Seubert, Cody Lusby, Stephen Williams, Michael Christy, N.S. David, Norman Maxwell, Ariel Deandrea, Michael Pukac, Crystal Sylver, Nicole Bruckman, Rafael Delgado Jr., David Natale, Michael Ramstead, Carlos Ulloa, L. Croskey, Tony Venegas and Erik Siador

cannibalflower.com  

Live painting throughout the event!
John Park, Hans Haveron, Anthony Clarkson, Michael Pukac, Mimi Yoon and Steven P. Williams

An award ceremony for Anthony Ausgang
2011 marks 20 years since Anthony Ausgang’s first solo show. In 1993 Ausgang was included in the Laguna Beach Art Museum’s seminal exhibit “Kustom Kulture” which investigated art influenced by gearhead car culture and in 1996 was featured in Juxtapoz Magazine. In 2003 Ausgang’s paintings could be seen in Morning Wood, a primer of Post Graf art; in 2004 his work graced the pages of contemporary art survey Pop Surrealism and in 2005 Weirdo Deluxe. Ausgang’s paintings have graced the covers of records released by Sympathy for the Record Industry, Bomp!, Sony UK, Columbia, Warner Japan and most recently Augang’s art appeard on MGMT’s 2010 release “Congtratulation” which went Gold in the US and Canada, and Platinum in Australia, Ireland and the UK. Ausgang will be presented with an appreciation of his work and longgevyt at Beyond Eden on Saturday Night at 8pm.

Beyond Eden Bar to benefit Latino Arts LA
Featured in the bar at this year’s will be beer from Davis microbrewers; Sudwerk’s Brewery. Their hand-crafted awarding winning Pilsner and seasonal Fest Marzen will be served in compostable glassware with proceeds donated to Latino Arts LA. Manning the Beyond Eden Bar will be famed local bar personality Ian Malcolm.  Known about town as Sir Ian Dangerous, Mr. Malcolm will be showcasing his amazing mixology skills with refreshing cocktails developed for the event  Join us  for this year’s no host bar as we celebrate the 3rd annual Beyond Eden

September 29, 2011by Dionysus Records
Dance Club, DJ Lee, Free Event, Garage Music, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, Mod, Soul

9/24: The Bullet Mod and Soul Club celebrates eight years!

The Bullet – Eight Year Anniversary Dance Party –  NO COVER!

Saturday, September 24 at 9:00pm – 2 am
Hollywood Studio Bar and Grill
6122 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

Celebrate The Bullet’s eighth anniversary in style with vintage soul, garage and freakbeat 45s. NO COVER ALL NIGHT and 100% non stop dancing with Bullet DJs Dan Electro, Soulshaker, Jason Pandora, Dr Ray, Ladybug and Lee Joseph + special guests!

– Huge dancefloor
– Booth seating
– lighting fx show
– 60s video projections
– Outside smoking/drinking area
– FREE PARKING
– Food Served til 1030pm
– $4 Stellas and $5 Jack n Cokes til 10:30 pm

The Bullet Facebook Page

September 20, 2011by Dionysus Records
Art, East Hollywood, Free Event, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz

Friday August 5 – legendary album cover artist Lou Beach at La Luz!

Lou Beach, Alpha Lubicz and Sam Lubicz
Gene Pool

Opening Reception: Friday, August 5, 8-11 pm, show runs August 5 – 28
Also showing: Jessicka Addams, Walt Hall, Derek Harrison,
Rodolfo Loaiza, Miso, Click Mort, Jasmine Worth

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com

Preview Lou’s pieces
Preview Alpha’s pieces

Lou Beach, Alpha Lubicz and Sam Lubicz are connected via DNA ( father, daughter, son), glue, scissors and X-acto blades and a love of cutting and pasting. They make collages of depth and beauty that chronicle their journeys through the subconscious, creating imagery that is strongly graphic and narrative, telling tales that alternate between the immediate and the mysterious, visionary speculations on pop culture, comics, death, sex and personal history.

Over the last 30 years Lou Beach’s work has been featured in major magazines as well as on countless record and cd packages, book covers and advertisements. A much-admired pop icon of Los Angeles’s wild era of illustration in the 1970s and 80s, Lou Beach has remained a vital force in today’s competitive world of popular art, creating imagery for clients as diverse as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Utne Reader, The Paris Revue, MCA Records, Random House, McGraw-Hill and Houghton-Mifflin among others. A tour of this self-taught collagist’s mind reveals a delight in visual puns and a direct link to such greats of the medium as Hannah Hoch, George Heartfield, Max Ernst, Romare Beardon and Tadanori Yokoo as well as influences from popular culture. His collages have also landed on record covers for Weather Report [Grammy nomination],The Carpenters, The Neville Brothers, Dave Alvin, Dr. John, Ethel Merman and Blink 182.


Lou Beach was born in Gottingen, Germany in 1947, and his name is actually the phonetic pronounciation of his real last name, Lubicz. His Polish parents were unwilling guests of the Nazis–his father a prisoner-of-war, his mother a slave laborer. In the 1970s, he began his career as a record cover illustrator. In the 80s and 90s he was a beloved instructor at Art Center College of Design and Otis. He has recently collaborated on a short book of fiction with author J. Robert Lennon, and a book of his short stories will see publication through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in December 2011.

 

For a much more detailed Lou Beach bio – click here
August 4, 2011by Dionysus Records
Art, Culver City, Events, Free Event, Stuff We Like, The Creepy Creeps

Dave Warshaw of The Creepy Creeps in Color Ink Book art show!

Color Ink Book Dave Warshaw Custom Rayola sculpture
Custom Rayola by Color Ink Book Artist: Dave Warshaw

Print isn’t Dead!!
One of the most innovative and clever art periodicals on the market, known simply as Color Ink Book, springs from the creative minds of brothers Adam and Jason Washburn. It is Color Ink Book’s simplicity that makes it so unique and such an amazing “why didn’t I think of that” kind of idea. True to its name, Color Ink Book is on the surface just a magazine filled with black and white illustrations which the reader is welcome to color in as they see fit. But the catch is that the Brothers Washburn have the ability to lure some of the greatest artistic talents working in the contemporary art and illustration scenes into creating the eye-catching graphic artwork that graces its pages.

A coloring book aimed at adults (!), Color Ink Book not only allows avid art collectors and fans alike to afford a plethora of images by their favorite artists, but if they should get the urge to color, offer a unique opportunity to interact with artists who are often otherwise inaccessible. Color Ink Book’s innovation is why, in a time when it seemed like financial suicide to venture into print media, The Brothers Washburn and Color Ink Book are flourishing.

Friday, July 29th, Color Ink Book art leaps out of the coloring books and onto the walls of WWA Gallery. Shades of Ray – Color Ink Book’s 3rd Anniversary Showcase features the talents of Alex Pardee, Andrew Bell, Angry Woebots (Aaron Martin), Anthony Ausgang, C J Metzger, Chris Ryniak, Dan Goodsell, Dave Crosland AKA King Gum, Dave Warshaw, David Arshawsky, David Lozeau, Deph, Deryke Cardenaz, “Dirty” Donny Gillies, Dolla, DrilOne, Fernando Berger, Frijol Boy, Goreilla, Heiko Müller, J*RYU, James Henry Dufresne, Jason Limon, JC Rivera, Jim Mahfood AKA Food One, John “Spanky” Stokes, kaNO, Kevin Gosselin, Leecifer, Luke Chueh, Martin Ontiveros, MCA, Miss Mindy, Mr. Shane Jessup, Ritzy Periwinkle, Sam Arshawsky, Shawn “Shawnimals” Smith, Sket One, Skinner, Steff Bomb, Steven J Daily, Tom Haubrick, Travis Lampe, Yosiell Lorenzo, many of whom will be in attendance.

 

July 29, 2011by Dionysus Records
Art, Events, Free Event, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Stuff We Like

July 1: Mark Todd’s Force Field at La Luz de Jesus Gallery

Mark Todd “Force Field”


July 1 – 31
Opening Reception: Friday, July 1st, 8-11 pm

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com

Also showing:  Van Saro, Simon Sotelo, Andy Steele, Hui Tan

Click here to preview “Force Field”

Mark Todd
continues his process of reinterpreting, deconstructing and adopting classic iconic comic imagery in his July 2011 La Luz de Jesus Gallery show, “Force Field”. The works reference snippets of abstracted comics and combine many covers and characters, melding them together in mixed media paintings and layered collage works, producing rich layers of oozing, fragmented and multiple plains. Anchoring the show will be a large dimensional centerpiece installation – a ¾ scale comics inspired fireworks stand composed of wood, chicken wire, lights and flags with painted surfaces.

Todd took his first creative cues from comic books, role playing games and Star Wars: worlds of inventive fantasy that still inform his work today. For the last six years he has categorically documented the world of his teenage obsession, intense scrutiny and alteration of classic comic covers from “Fantastic Four,” “X-Men,” “Iron Man,” “Spiderman” and other series, including the work of legendary illustrators like Jack Kirby. “I love the type, the heavy shadows, the colors and the way they seemed to use very inch of the page,” says Todd. “I sit and study them, and my brush reconstructs them.” Todd is referencing the past, waxing nostalgic about it and simultaneously lending his own post-modern sensibility to it, employing a limited palette, repetition, distortion and mixed media materials including spray paint, cel-vinyl, glossy varnishes, silkscreen and dusty stains. The pieces appear as prized objects; tablets encoded with civilization’s most iconic collective wisdom. Todd recently put up PowerFury.com, a new website and blog dedicated to his artwork www.powerfury.com

July 1, 2011by Dionysus Records
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