Category Archives: Art

Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented collaboration of cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene. Beginning October 2011, over 60 cultural institutions will make their contributions to this region-wide initiative encompassing every major L.A. art movement from 1945 to 1980. Celebrate the era that continues to inspire the world.

Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California. Check out the map here, and see all of the participating galleries and near by exhibits.

Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames:

Jason Schwartzman Celebrates John Baldessari:

Anthony Kiedis Celebrates Ed Ruscha:

Ai Kijima is a stunning Tokyo raised, and New York planted, artist that takes the materials around him and weaves them into a capturing piece. Taking the icons and graphics of the world surrounding us today, he seamlessly machine quilts them into unique unique art that place a bookmark in time. The patchwork evokes cross-cultural references and chaotic collages.

For a list of upcoming art exhibits check here

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Li Wei is a mysterious Chinese photographer from Beijing who specializes in confusing performance art photography. He creates and captures physically challenging feats, not relying on Photoshop, as many artists do, but by recreating conceptual stunts using bodily strength and painstaking detail. His work often depicts gravity-defying situations using props such as mirrors, wires, scaffolding, and acrobatics to get the shot.

“There’s an important point between reality and fantasy,” Wei says. “I’m trying to find that point in my art.”

Check out the works of American artist Greg Gossel. With a background in design, his work is an expressive interplay of many diverse words, images, and gestures. Gossel’s multi-layered work illustrates a visual journey through each piece. With a theme of babes, rock stars, celebs, and cartoon characters, Gossel’s work is sure to entertain the mind and dazzle the eyes for days.

Check out this video of Greg Gossel speaking his mind and his thought process of his exhibit Sleepwalking (2010) at White Walls Gallery San Francisco.

James McCarthy is an American surrealist artist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He finds inspiration from an intertwining combination of sources. The ancient ruins of Europe, the changing of the seasons, and his eclectic catalog of music, are major inspirations for his art and are very visible in his works.

The combination of all of these influences combines to bring about an incredible mixture of biomorphic imagery, surreal landscapes, organic forms, and abstract shapes.

James McCarthy is an American surrealist artist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He finds inspiration from an intertwining combination of sources. The ancient ruins of Europe, the changing of the seasons, and his eclectic catalog of music, are major inspirations for his art and are very visible in his works.

The combination of all of these influences combines to bring about an incredible mixture of biomorphic imagery, surreal landscapes, organic forms, and abstract shapes.