One of our favourite artists MEAR One recently just completed his first piece of 2017 aptly titled “Darth Tut”. The sculpture piece debuted last Saturday at Copro Gallery in Santa Monica. The bust was created out of copper & rhodium, dipped in 24k double gold plating finish and it’s his first sculptural work since 2010.
LOKISS –Multi‐sided artist, lives and works in France. He is one of the pioneers in the European graffiti culture, as well as one of the main actors of its esthetic renewal. Under his alias Vincent Elka, his work mainly utilises new media and video.
His work has been displayed in a number of Paris galleries, including the Lavignes Bastille, Bailly, and Celal galleries. Since his work extends on such a wide variety of media formats, viewers the public was also able to discover his work at the Vasarely Foundation (France), at the Rotterdam Film Festival, or at the Elektra Festival in Montreal.
Inna Babaeva is a Ukraine born artist currently living and working in New York City. With a BFA Florida Atlantic University and a MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, Babaeva creates stunning sculpture and installation work that transform the way we look at everyday objects.
A precursor to the avant-garde and recognized as one of the pioneers of the French “Street Art” movement (Urban Contemporary Art), today Speedy Graphito is internationally one of the major figures of his generation.
Since the early 80s, just after the free-figuration movement, the collective memory and walls of Paris were permeated with the coloring and snappy graphics of Speedy Graphito’s “Style Graphito.”
SG Product of Art.
Prolific and inventive, SG uses all forms of expression – painting, sculpture, installation, video and photography – to create through his work and through the ages a universal language that will infuse the cultural landscape.
Jon Ander Garcia is a fine artist born in 1989 in Santurtzi and currently lives and works in Bilbao. Garcia received BA of Fine Art at Faculty of Fine Art, University of the Basque Country, Spain in 2015 and is currently Currently pursuing MA in Art Research and Creation. Faculty of Fine Art, University of the Basque Country, Spain. Garcia creates incredible mixed media sculpture work that resemble something for the future.
Gary Mellon is a Brooklyn based fine artist who’s body of work are made of wood and hand carved. He says that the sculptures themselves “grow out of little sketchbook drawings” and feature many different aesthetic aspects such as busts, portraiture and nautical elements.
Athen B Gallery is pleased to announce they have a really great solo exhibition by Skinner opened up this past weekend on Saturday December 10th called “A Series of Unfortunate Events”.
The gallery will also be doing a artist talk on Tuesday, December 13th at 7:30 where the artist will break down the paintings, character development and story board for the animated film he made for a band called “High on Fire”. On Saturday, December 17th Skinner will be hosting his first Skinterview where he will be interviewing special guest (other local creatives) in only a way Skinner could.
Basically nothing is for sale and this is more of a unique exhibition where visitors will be able to jump in Skinner’s mind and see a process not usually seen. Peep some studio and installation images and a write up from the artists himself after the jump.
Beverly Fishman is fine artist currently doing her Artist-in-Residence and and acting as Head of the Painting Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. For over twenty-five years Fishman has worked as a full-time artist and has dedicated herself to educating aspiring artists as well. After reaching an MFA degree from Yale University, she accepted her first position as adjunct Associate Professor in the Graduate Art School of the College of New Rochelle, New York. Since 2000, Fishman has been exhibiting both solo and in group exhibitions all over the world. Her work has also been included in many thematic exhibitions addressing abstraction, technology, medicine, and the body.
Matt Bilfield is a fine artist who creates incredible painting installation which comprise of thousands of dowels that are individually painted and installation on board to give the illusion of imagery. His pop art influenced works range from Lichtenstein-esque portraiture to comic-book inspired typography. Here’s what the artist says about his work:
“Being somewhat of a neat freak and minimalist who thrives on order and pragmatism, I’m drawn to specific outlets to express my inner visions. Naturally, graphic design fit the bill when it came to career selection.
In the framework of the television graphics I create, I noticed it was always the image that constantly changes as the viewer watches, inactively. In conceptualizing a series of artwork, I wanted to create pieces where the vantage point dictates the image and abundance of color, in turn activating the viewer. Where the television screen has the screen framework as its boundary, I wanted to extend that boundary to the dimensions of the room itself. My idea was that everyone viewing the art gets his or her own unique perspective.”
Launch LA is pleased to present Out of Body featuring paintings by Jonathan Apgar, Tiffany Livingston, Victor Reyes and sculpture by Alisa Ochoa. Out of Body focuses on work that attempts to capture the invisible. All four artists in this exhibition embrace the unknown. They allow their processes to guide them towards a resolution that embodies a feeling, sound, or vibration. The show is curated by Rema Ghuloum and runs from December 10, 2016 – January 7, 2017. Opening Reception: Saturday, December 10, 6 – 9 PM. More information and images after the jump!
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