Hustler of Culture

NYC - Tofer Chin "Totally" (01.27.12 - 03.25.12)

LA - Eric Joyner New Works (01.21.12 - 02.28.12)

Corey Helford Gallery

Invites You To ERIC JOYNER

Opening Reception
Saturday, January 21, 2012  7 to 10pm

Pure Evil will be featured in the upstairs gallery
“Pure Evil Goes Pop!”

8522 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA  90232
t: 310.287.2340

LA - David Berezin (01.21.12 - 02.18.12)

David Berezin
January 21 – February 18, 2012
Opening Saturday, January 21st, 6-10pm

Jancar Jones Gallery is excited to announce an exhibit of new work by David Berezin, comprised of a selection of photographs and videos.

David Berezin creates compositions by collaging recognizable signifiers that beg to be read narratively, yet their meanings can only be inferred.  His work mimics the styles of commercial photography but is wholly made with low-resolution stock photo samples on the computer.  By invoking the medium of photography he creates a platform where the viewer expects to interpret an image and deduce specific meaning. While narrative is compositionally implied, the final photographs bear no information beyond the immediately identifiable characteristics of each respective image contained within.

LA - John Van Hamersveld "T.V. Life" (01.14.12 - 02.11.12)

T.V. LIFE
Photographs by John Van Hamersveld

January 14- February 11, 2012

Opening Reception Saturday, January 14, 7-10 pm

Best known for his legendary poster for the 1964 blockbuster surf film The Endless Summer and his album covers for the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour, The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street, and The Grateful Dead Skeletons in the Closet among others, John Van Hamersveld has built up a wide-ranging body of work over a career verging on its sixth decade. The iconography of his oeuvre runs deep.

NYC - "OTHER BODIES: A COLLECTION OF VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH" (01.14.12 - 02.11.12)

OTHER BODIES:  A COLLECTION OF VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY

January 14 – February 11, 2012

ZieherSmith proudly presents 65 found photographs spanning the American 20th century, celebrating its conspicuous beauty and encapsulating a lifestyle of exquisite hubris, baffling habits and poetic leisure. Focusing on the eerie and bizarre found in everyday life, including odd family units, perverse couplings of awkward figures in vaguely familiar places, and solo views of predominantly male figures, the patina of the vintage prints are often enhanced by blurring caused by misfired flash-bulbs, over and double exposures, crude processing and care-worn edges.  This singular grouping invites the viewer to see a crooked world through straight and narrow eyes and 65 ostensibly unrelated (and virtually untraceable) sources reinvented as a new, fleeting narrative.

LA - "Tag You're It!" (01.14.12)

SF - Whitney Lynn "Sculptures Involontaires" and Jeffrey Augustine Songco "Public Displays of Affection" (01.07.12 - 02.18.12)

WHITNEY LYNN
Sculptures Involontaires

JEFFREY AUGUSTINE SONGCO
Public Displays of Affection

January 7 – February 18, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 7, 6-8pm

Gallery Hours: 
Wednesday – Friday 10:30-5:30
Saturday 11:00-5:00

Steven Wolf Fine Arts
2747 19th Street, A
San Francisco, CA
415-263-3677
stevenwolffinearts.com

Levi Maestro + Vans Vault Old Skool Decon 77 (01.07.12)

Levi Maestro + Vans Vault Old Skool Decon 77

Los Angeles release at UNDFTD La Brea
Saturday January 7th 2012
7:00pm-9:00pm
Food provided by: Kogi BBQ

UNDFTD // 112.5 S. La Brea Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036

LA - Drugs Crew, Teen Witch, and Charlie Marks Opening (12.17.11 - 01.21.11)

LA - 30th Annual Venice Canals Holiday Boat Parade (12.11.11)

The VCA’s 30th Annual Holiday Boat Parade takes place Sunday, December 11 at 4:00 pm.

LA - "Post-It Show 7" (12.10.11 - 12.29.11)

LA - Urban Roots Benefit (12.03.11)

More info: http://urbanrootsbenefit.eventbrite.com/

NYC - Beginningless Thought/Endless Seeing: The Works of Stuart Sherman (12.02.11)

Printed Matter is pleased to announce a launch for Beginningless Thought/Endless Seeing: The Works of Stuart Sherman on Friday, December 2nd, 6-8 PM. The publication is presented by The Estate of Stuart Sherman, in collaboration with New York University’s Department of Art and Art Professions and 80WSE Galleries, the NYU Humanities Initiative, and The Fales Library. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue, New York, at 22nd Street.

Beginningless Thought/Endless Seeing is a fully illustrated color catalog documenting the acclaimed 2009 retrospective exhibition of the artist Stuart Sherman curated by John Hagan, Yolanda Hawkins, and John Matturri. It is the first and only monograph of Sherman’s work, surveying the wide spectrum of media that constituted the entirety of the artist’s creative practice including performance, writing, drawing, collage, sculpture and film.

Ron English “Seasons in Supurbia”

We attended a very special opening for master pop surrealist painter Ron English's highly anticipated solo show at The Corey Helford Gallery. My photos simply don't do his work any justice. You must visit and review in person. It'll blow your mind, promise.

RON ENGLISH
“Seasons in Supurbia”

Friday, November 18, 2011 Reception

Corey Helford Gallery                
8522 Washington Boulevard           
Culver City, CA  90232               
T: 310-287-2340          

LA - Ron English "Seasons In Supurbia" (11.19.11 - 12.10.11)

Opening Reception Saturday, November 19, 2011 from 7‑10pm
On View November 19 – December 10, 2011

On Saturday, November 19, Corey Helford Gallery is pleased to present “Seasons In Supurbia,” the highly anticipated solo exhibition of original new works by Ron English, renowned street artist and master pop surrealist painter.
 
Considered one of the most prolific artists of our generation, English is the father of POPaganda, a term he coined to define his signature mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, from superhero mythology to totems of art history, creating a visual language of evolution. Recognized for his stunning technique and inventive use of color, English’s artistic presence continues to evolve from illegal street murals to movie screens, where he is crowned “the Greatest Living Artist” in Morgan Spurlock’s 2011 film “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.”

LA - Michael Gittes "My Western Civilization" (11.16.11 - 12.14.11)

 

LA - Thomas Doyle “Surface to Air” (11.12.11 - 12.17.11)

 

“Surface to Air”
A solo exhibition by Thomas Doyle

LBP :: Culver City
November 12th – December 17, 2011
Artist reception: Saturday, November 12th, 7-10 pm

LeBasse Projects is proud to announce ‘Surface to Air,’ a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Thomas Doyle.

LA - "We Was Them Kids" (11.11.11 - 12.20.11)

LA - Michael Brennan "Muhammad Ali, 1977" (11.10.11)

Michael Brennan’s Muhammad Ali

DWR Beverly Boulevard Studio and Artworks Gallery (http://www.artworksgallery.com/) invite you to join us as we showcase the black and white photography of subject Muhammad Ali by National Portrait Gallery artist Michael Brennan. According to Artworks, “The original image [“1977”] resulted from a unique intimacy between Michael Brennan, and Ali, who wanted to be helpful to the young photographer.” At the time, Ali was training in Deer Park, Pa., for his come-from-behind win against Earnie Shavers at Madison Square Garden, and Brennan’s report with Ali allowed him to capture the session on film. Cocktails and light snacks will be served.

Muhammad Ali, 1977
Thursday, November 10, 6–9pm
DWR Los Angeles Studio
8070 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Phone: 323.653.3923
Directions: http://www.dwr.com/category/find+a+studio/beverlyblvd.do

LA - Chris Lux "Find Out Why They Call Them Pigs" (11.05.11 - 11.26.11)

Chris Lux: Find Out Why They Call Them Pigs

November 5 - November 26, 2011
Opening Saturday, November 5th, 6-9pm

The Jancar Jones Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibit of new work by San Francisco-based artist Chris Lux, titled Find Out Why They Call Them Pigs. The show will consist of a selection of sculptures and drawings started during the artist’s recent stay in Italy and completed upon his return to San Francisco.

Inspired by the Animal Room (a collection of statues amassed by Pope Pius VI throughout the 18th century) in the Pio-Clementino Vatican Museum, Lux will address Roman and Etruscan symbology to create his own bestial menagerie. By likening rough abstract figures to prescribed animal counterparts, his grouping of forms invariably blends the ancient with the modern.