Entries in Sculpture (61)
ARTE: FASHION WEEK WRAP UP

Instagram seems to be the way to keep track of all the photos being snapped at our events! Check out what some instagrammers were posting about the AFRICA FASHION WEEK LA and ZALEZ STUDIO fashion show for the SS 13 collection Bloom Galaxy.
Video for both coming soon!
ZALEZ STUDIO
The designers and the host Kelly Love in the middle
ARTE: KNOW HOW SHOP LA

Knowhow Shop participated in our Earth Day Social with Broccoli City...they brought in the really awesome Garden Table! It was amazing having the table in the space and to learn about all the other things the guys do over at the shop. One of the photos below is a test shot of the Hammock class they are doing with SMMoA be sure to check that on Cinco de Mayo.
Knowhow Shop is a cooperative fabrication laboratory and design studio located in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. We provide design services at all scales, as well as workspace and training for designers and enthusiasts working in furniture, art, and architectural fabrication. We provide one-on-one assistance and frequent classes on both traditional and digital fabrication open to all.
The Garden Table
ARTE: Elizabeth Catlett we Honor your Legacy

An important figure in the art world passed April 2, 2012. The amazing Elizabeth Catlett a sculptor, a painter, printmaker and a force against social injustices.
ARTE: Rashid Johnson

Rashid Johnson
Reader, 2011
Cosmic Slop, 2011 black soap and wax
The Moment of Creation, 2011, mirrored tile, black soap, wax and vinyl, cb radio, oyster shells, shea butter, books, space rocks, ink jet photograph on glass 71 x 129.5 x 8 inches
ARTE: Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford has a joint exhibition going on in California. One part at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the other at San Francisco MOMA
ARTE: Takashi Murakami "EGO"

Takashi Murakami's exhibition EGO opened this month at the Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall in Qatar.
ARTE: HUGO MCCLOUD

Artist and designer Hugo McCloud has some very impressive skills. His creations are made from tangible items mostly consisting of natural elements...metal, rust, earth etc. We once heard him say,
"I just love the contrast between the refined and the unrefined of materials. and my real focus in design, no matter what it is is to find beauty in the things overlooked. i believe real beauty is in the imperfections."
ARTE: VIVA LA COLOR

A new post on some favorite artists we've covered in the past.
First up is Choi Jeong-Hwa as he talks about his art and not being an artist.
Next is Tauba Auerbach with her color book.
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: Fred Eversley - Love, Light, Energy

Absolutely adore Fred Eversley sculptures and the concept that created them.

We just got word from William Turner himself that the solo show has been extended until Nov. 12 - "Peope GO see this exhibition" PSA from P.I.A. details at williamturnergallery.com
ARTE: Mary Sibande - Long Live The Dead Queen

South African artist Mary Sibande has done something amazing in her series Long Live The Dead Queen. We really love her installation/sculptures but what we love the most is how she takes over buildings in some nice and not so nice places with putting the “Dead Queen” up for the entire city to see.
ARTE: OLEK...YES

YES OLEK…Occupy Wall Street has been continuing to stay in the headlines and put NYC back on the map. A very special artist using crocheting has been making her own #OccupyNY statements. Her crocheted bull perfectly compliments the protest. Her name is Agata Olek, she is from Poland and her art studio is in lower Manhattan. She has and will crochet anything from a car to a person and recently sent a photo to her facebook of a ping pong table in London…maybe the UK will be seeing interesting things popping up soon.
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 catalog
Dale Brockman Davis - Viet Nam Game
Fred Eversley - Untitled
Betye Saar - Dark Girls Window
David Hammons - Bag Lady in Flight
ARTE: Drake + Patrick Martinez + Tupac

Drake purchased this Patrick Martinez piece earlier this summer.