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This person’s portrait has been stuck in my head for about 2weeks now.
Finally got a version on paper after finishing another piece.
I think there are a few more portraits of this person to come.

Heres a new favorite song/video

enjoy these

no really watch them, you might piss your panties

We went and visited some galleries yesterday and it was pretty uneventful until I went into Gallery Track16.

The Gee Vaucher: Introspective was great. Lots of wonderfully grotesque and humerous mixed media, drawing, and collage. Most of the work was commentary on life at the time… its interesting to see in art how times rarely differ.

Next we went into the Lora Schlesinger Gallery where Adonna Khare’s show was about to end. I had checked it out last the month but wanted to get some pictures of the drawings on display.

On our way back home I noticed this strange store was open that I have been wanting to check out since i moved back to Culver City a few months ago. Royal T is a Cafe/Gallery/boutique all wrapped up in one nice cute Asian aesthetic. Its a really interesting space that owner of the cafe displays her private collection of top notch contemporary Asian Art. The best part of the place is that as soon as you walk in there are two cute girls in outfits to greet you and explain what the place is all about.

We ended up in Culver City at Cerasoli Gallery.

Ryan Kapp and Michelle Carlson had some nice work up.

While we where at Cerasoli Gallery we heard that Murakami was having an opening at Blum and Poe.

I saw his show at MOCA and was impressed with so many different aspects from technique to business.

The new work was executed with precision and beautiful design. I know a lot of people may talk shit about Murakami and the fact that he doesn’t always have a hand directly in making the work but I feel, when standing in front of the work and squinting 3 inches from the surface, there is a haze mystery that runs through me that I never really feel about art anymore.

Last but not least we ended up at my friend Yoskay Yamamoto’s solo show at Project Gallery.

Yosk was nervous even though he almost completely sold out before the doors opened. He has definetly come a long way in the past few years. Congrats Yosk.

I’ll post some pictures of the Art center graduate student’s grad show later.(NO I WONT CAUSE IT SUCKED.

99.9999999% of it looks like it was thrown together the night before. The undergrad dept. looked better than the grad students)

Actually this installation using Jello was quite nice, smelled lovely too. Bill Cosby was no where to be found.

Also theres an opening at Cherry and Martin that should be good.

Daniel Dove can paint things well, cant wait to see them in person.

Good stuff. Mike was there.

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Andy and I went to some galleries this last weekend. Oh yeah check out Andy’s work. We saw some interesting work.

I always love looking at Wangechi Mutu’s abstracted figures.

We went into the building that houses Honor Fraser and Angstrom Gallery.

Great work in both the galleries there.

At Angstrom there was Colin Chillag. I don’t think I have ever seen his work before.

His work brings to mind Robert Crumb, if Crumb was a retired science professor who knew how to paint.

Really interesting layering going on and the size was impressive.

At Honor Frasier was some great work.

The artist in the front room, Andre Ethier, had a great technique that I couldn’t figure out.

The paintings, although using a bright palette for the most part, where kind of disturbing and grotesque.(good times)

Cathy Akers had the back room with some great sculptures displayed. I didn’t get any pictures of the outside of the pieces but one of them required that you peep through various lenses to see what was inside. I had to use the macro setting to get a visible picture, turned out nice.

Go to Library of Congress Website and start digging through the archive.

The link I gave is a short cut through the site cuz it can take a while.

Here are some samples of a quick search on Circus animals gave me. You can find super high res files there.

Im to lazy to figure out the name and gallery the art was in.

Your lucky I post it.

Saw some interesting stuff in Bergamont Station. Go walk around there. Salomon Huerta has wrk up there that was nice.
Anna Helwing in Culver City has an awesome show up right now by Mindy Shapero. Check out here older stuff as well. Here are a few pictures.