Sakura (safety cones on panel) Golden Leaves (safety cones on panel) Neopolitan (safety cones on panel) Arctic Slush Ethnomorphic Landscapes Grass for Klimt

Sustainable art? Ethnomorphic Landscapes by Lana Shuttleworth. 

She created these wonderful pieces using cut-up traffic cones and other found material.  Her art begs the question:  how can we as a society continue to live in harmony with nature if we continue producing plastic junk? 

These landscapes are part of a selected group show that opened last weekend at George Billis Gallery in LA and continues through June 16.  George Billis, of course, has previously established a successful contemporary art gallery in NYC before opening the one at 2716 S. La Cienega Blvd in LA.  Be sure to stop by for a visit. 

The art of Sesame Street.

This short showing at Known Gallery in Los Angeles over the weekend featured an impressive lineup of artists including Dabs & Myla, Evol, Jasper Wong, Jeff McMillan, Mark Dean Veca, Kelsey Brookes, Anthony Lister, Augustine Kofie, and many more. Proceeds from this group exhibition go to benefit the City of Hope Department of Pediatrics (images from The Seventh Letter).

Outdoor art installations by Chris Engman.

Engman’s work undoubtedly begs closer examination.  It calls attention to our misperceptions—the gulf that exists between how we see and how we think, and how we think we see and think we think—and the inconstant and constructed nature of memory.  He takes the human condition as a central theme and examines the illusive and unknowable nature of reality.

Engman is currently exhibiting at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles as part of “Dualities, Omissions, Loops, and Ruptures: Chris Engman, Cody Trepte, Samantha Roth, and John Houck”, an exhibition of four LA-based artists on view at the gallery until Apr 7.

David Choe, my new artist crush?

Born in LA, now living in NYC, yet still keeps a makeshift studio thirty minutes south of San Fran; Choe is prolific. He’s a street artist, painter, muralist, photographer, graphic novelist, sculptor, all-around artist-nomad. He’s won lots of awards and has an impressive list of clients. He travels all the time and counts Israel, NYC, Vietnam, the Bay Area as his favorite places. Plus he gets to sleep in past 12pm pretty much every day.

Recently, Choe caught up with Mark Zuckerberg at the new fb headquarters then headed over to Mile-High City for the Terminal Kings project at Denver International Airport where he brought along his friends, artists DVS-1 and Joseph To, to create three massive murals.

Kevin Cooley’s gorgeous exhibition titled Take Refuge is showing at Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles until Feb 11.

Featuring large scale photographs and videos created in various locations including the American West and the Arctic territory of Spitsbergen as well as the Big Apple and the City of Angels, Cooley’s work affirms both the fear and longing that nature uniquely inspires.

Make sure to check it out if you’re in LA.