ARTE: REEL TAWLK

One of our LA favorites Patrick Martinez opened his solo show in Hawaii earlier this month.  It looks amazing from the photos by Brandon Shigeta!

ARTE: Ray Ban + Sebastian Onufszak + Sakke Soini

80's Purple talks about there love for Ray Ban and this campaign with artists Sebastian Onufszak and Sakke Soini. We love it too.

If you like this you probably will also like Nikki and/or Tauba

ARTE: Melissa Scherrer

Melissa Scherrer - Painting on photograph

Bullet Proof - Chromogenic Print, 2011

Andre S. Belcher - Contributor

ARTE: Ben Eine is on a world tour

UK street artist Ben Eine is on a world tour with stops from SA to SF.

South Africa Oct 2010 freehand spray paint on wine towersChina - Eine in Beijing 

London, Middlesex Street - Jan-March 2010 freehand spray paint on shuttersSan Francisco, Teach in Tenderlion - 2011

ARTE: Amber Robles-Gordon

Emerging Voice & Vision

Introspective:Art For Joy, Love and Life

Amber Robles-Gordon received some blunt criticism during her graduate studies when she was told she couldn’t seem to separate herself from her artwork. Robles-Gordon became introspective, and identified why she’s so entrenched in her art.

Community Voice Project is a collaboration with the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences and the University Library. American University’s School of Communication and College of Arts and Sciences.

Amber Robles-Gordon

Amber Robles-Gordon is a mixed media artist. Her preferred medium is collage and assemblage. She also works with pastels, acrylic, watercolors, photography and oil paint sticks. She then merges these mediums into to her collages.

Her work is representational of her experiences and the paradoxes within the female experience. She focuses on fusing found objects to convey her own personal memories, inspired by nature, womanhood and her belief in recycling energy and materials.

Robles-Gordon has over fifteen years of exhibiting and art educational experience. She completed her Masters of Fine Arts from Howard University in December 2010, where she has received annual awards and accolades for her artwork. She has exhibited in California, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, New York, Ohio, Spain and throughout the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area.

Robles-Gordon has been commissioned by the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center of African American History and other organizations to teach workshops about creating paper mosaics and collages. She was commissioned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2010 to create a mural for the Windows in to DC project at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Most recently, she has been granted an apprenticeship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, D.C. Creates Public Arts Program.

Cosmic Black III, mixed media on canvas, 22 x 22 x 22"

Artist Statement [ Excerpt ]

My artistic compositions reflect my gender and are also a visual representation of my hybridism: a fusion of my ethnic, cultural, and social experiences. I intentionally impose colors, imagery, and materials that evoke femininity, tranquility, and positive concepts with the intent of transcending or balancing a specific form. I associate working with light, color, and energy as a positive means to focus on the healing power found within all of us.

We function in a world, where change is the only constant. Everything in our universe will and has to change, be used, recycled and/or maintained. In order to evolve we constantly have to reassess and redefine what we value and how we manage, appreciate, and maintain our resources. Through my work I seek to examine the parallels between how humanity perceives its greatest resources, man/woman power verses how we treat our possessions and environment.

Untitled

Amber Robles-Gordon works in a studio full of the accumulations necessary to create her work. Bits of fabric, tile, beads, string, ribbons, and wire are collected and organized, ready to become mixed media wall oriented pieces. Some of her works are structured and geometric, while others are masses of vibrant complexity organized around basic shapes such as an eye, the DNA helix or a rising wingspan. These are works that entice the viewer to look in as well as at, to experience fully a carefully controlled chaos and all the beautiful paradoxes encompassed therein.

Andre S. Belcher - Contributor

ARTE: Ronald Hall - Blind Nation

ARTE: Now Dig This

We went to the opening of NOW DIG THIS at the Hammer Museum last Saturday.  It was a blast, we met artist Hank Willis Thomas and chatted with Garth Trinidad about his new art studio and what he thought about the opening of the exhibit.

NOW DIG THIS is curated by Kellie Jones and features the work of Black artists in LA from 1960 - 1980. Painter Charles White's piece Love Letter #1 is the cover of the catalog pictured below.  Some highlights for me were Betye Saar and David Hammons but the artist that blew me away was sculptor Fred Eversley.

Now Dig This catalogDale Brockman Davis - Viet Nam GameFred Eversley - UntitledBetye Saar - Dark Girls WindowDavid Hammons - Bag Lady in Flight

ARTE: D FACE RIDICULOUS PAINT

THIS IS COOL. #SKATECREATE

ARTE: Matthew-Freemantle Arthurs 3D Paintings

Southern California painter.  If you have 3-D glasses while looking at these paintings you will see some interesting things fly off the canvas.

ARTE: Mequitta Ahuja

ARTE: Essie Baroz

She is Palestinian. She lives in Tel Aviv. She is a painter and installation artist. She is Essie Baroz. Ask about her.

ARTE: Mark Bradford x Pinocchio is on Fire

http://www.pinocchioisonfire.org

ARTE: Kerry James Marshall

ARTE: DTLA x ARTWALK x TWTR

Downtown LA's Art Walk went down last night and we caught some of our fav twitpics from it.

@kawaimatthews tweeted "makes you wanna throw up"

@SebastianWolski tweeted "downtown la #ARTWALK awesomeness"

ARTE: Kehinde Wiley x World Stage Israel

Kehinde Wiley: World Stage Israel is still up on view in LA at Robert's and Tilton

ARTE: Ronald Hall

DO YOU HEAR US artist Ronald Hall releases new works

ARTE: Patrick Martinez

HUSTLEMANIA at Known Gallery ends 4/9 go see this : LA artist Patrick Martinez is always a favorite

ARTE: GLENN LIGON

AMERICA is still up at the Whitney

ARTE: Frederik Heyman

http://frederikheyman.com of Antwerp Belgium

ARTE: Barkley Hendricks

The Beautiful Paintings of Mr. Barkley Hendricks