This past Saturday, February 19th, the Copro Gallery opened a group show entitled “Lowbrow Life”. The show features new work by Leslie Ditto, Bob Doucette, Tin, Chrystal Chan, Keith Weesner, and P-Jay Fidler. It’s a good mix of artists with a variety of styles, there is bound to be some work that captures you. I have a hard time keeping up with what the current art scene is named, Lowbrow, Urban Contemporary, New Contemporary and so on, so I was happy to see the show named as such, when the artists in this show are not often linked to the word “Lowbrow”. Either way, it’s a great show. I really liked the new work by Keith Weesner and Chrystal Chan. Leslie Ditto also created a great series of works. She stated that her new works were inspired by “my love of vintage toys and my fascination of the heart and mind of the pure inventor.” The show runs until March 12th, and is now online to view.
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Preview: Playboy Redux II @ Copro Nason
Opening this Saturday, December 18th at Copro Nason is the second showing of the Playboy Redux Group Exhibition. The first showing was at Rotofugi Gallery, and from the looks of it there is a few new artists added to the show this time around. This second showing will feature work by Bob Doucette, Glenn Barr, Isabel Samaras, Frank Kozik, Tara McPherson, Brian Viveros, Scott Anderson, TIN, Vincent Cacciotti, Luke Chueh, Dan Quintana, Keith Weesner, William Wray, Gary Baseman, Leslie Ditto, Lisa Petrucci, Lang Leav, Brian Ewing, Andrew Schoultz, Shaunna Peterson, Jennybird Alcantra, Ken Keirns, Ain Cocke, Jeremiah Ketner, Travis Lampe, Anthony Ausgang, R. Black, Jeremy Tinder, Erik Alos, Bonni Reid, Mark Bodnar, Nouar, Shag, and more. I like Bob Doucette’s painting, with inspiration taken from “Venus Anadyomène” by Ingres. I also really like what William Wray, Leslie Ditto, Glenn Barr, and Ken Keirns created. Take a look at the preview and then over to the galleries page for the full show.
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Books: EdgyCute: From Neo-Pop to Low Brow and Back Again
Mark Batty Publisher has just releases a new art book, “EdgyCute: From Neo-Pop to Low Brow and Back Again”. The book is compiled by Orbit Gallery owner Harry Saylor along with Carolyn Frisch. The book features work from 47 artists such as, Ana Bagayan, Gary Baseman, Becca, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Chris Crites. Greg Gossell, Ryan Heshka, Angelique Houtkamp, Jeremiah Ketner, Travis Lampe, Angie Mason, Elizabeth McGrath, Brandi Milne, Mitch O’Connell, Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters, Lisa Petrucci, Joe Scarano, Shag, Gary Taxali, Brian Taylor, Chris Uminga, Brian Viveros, Keith Weesner and more.
The book is 10″ x 12″, casebound with 176 pages for $45.Get em here: EdgyCute @ Mark Batty Publisher
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Shows this weekend: Joshua Clay, Naoto Hattori & Balls Out
Joshua Clay has a solo show called “Midnight Parade” at the Distinction Gallery in Escondido. The work is up for viewing and it all looks amazing. There are also two prints available, “Love and Lust” and “Fresh Beats”. Both prints are limited to 50, signed and numbered.
Check out the show Here.At the Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica three artists will have work shown, Naoto Hattori, Keith Weesner & Christopher Polentz. All the pieces are up for preview and it looks like Naoto’s show is almost sold out. Check out the show here.
Opening the 7th at La Luz De Jesus gallery will be “Everything But The Kitschen Sync”, a no themed huge group show. There is a lot of work to be seen here, most notably is some pieces by Stephen Blickenstaff. He was one of the first artists that I really got into, I have yet to see his work in person. Check out the show Here.
“kaleidoscope” opens the 8th at the Project Gallery in LA and features work by: Jen Corace, Rebecca Artemisa Urias,
Katy Horan, Allison Cole and Dan-ah Kim. Check out the show Here.Create:Fixate has a pretty huge group show going on, featuring work by Brady Redman, Paul Torres, Shannon Keller and many others. Check it out Here.
Finally the “Balls” Out” group show opens the 7th at the Grass Hut Gallery in Portland. The show features work by Bwana Spoons, Jeff Soto, James Jean, Reuben Rude, Deth P Sun, Ryan Bubnis, Chris Ryniak, Amanda Visell, Scott Saw and many others. Looks like it’s going to be a very exciting show. Some really great artists there. Check out the show Here.
