PAST EXHIBITIONS

RETROSPECTIVE

March 24th - April 14th, 2018

VIP PREVIEW

WHERE: Hollywood - 1546 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028
WHEN: Saturday, March 24, 2018, 8pm - Midnight

Retrospective features works by the most sought after AC Gallery LA artists from the past 3 years of exhibitions in Hollywood! An eclectic exhibition showcasing the greatest highlights of his or her respective careers, Retrospective will connect these past artists to current dialogues and seek to put on full display the natural evolution of an artistic oeuvre.

The launch of AC Gallery's residency program 2018 will also coincide with Retrospective, combining the present with the future and giving rise to the newest artists of the Los Angeles art scene.

PLINIO MAINES JUNIOR

CONSTRUCTIVE COLORS

March 24th - April 14th, 2018

VIP PREVIEW

WHERE: Hollywood - 1546 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028
WHEN: Saturday, March 24, 2018, 8pm - Midnight

AC Gallery MIAMI presents Plinio Maines Junior x Constructive Colors. At the intersection of true logic and interpretational beauty, one will find contemporary artist Plinio Maines Junior.

Born in Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil in 1963, Plinio Maines Junior always had an interest in the materiality of objects and a knack for creating with his hands, but was never fully aware of the role art could play in his life. It was not until a week before entering la Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina located on “La Isla de la Magia” Florianopolis in 1982 that Junior would have a revelation. Starting off with a block of wood and simple chisel set, Junior created his first sculptural work. It was at this point that Junior found an activity that seemed to fully spark his underlying interests. With the beginning of school year in a matter of days though, a field of study decision was destined to occur.

Weighing his options between his newfound passion and an in-demand career option, Junior hesitantly chose the latter and entered the mechanical production engineer program at UFSC. His career would turn out to be very lucrative and filled with successes yet his desire was never fully present, only making appearances as a hobby.

An engineering career did benefit Junior in one major way; as a lead manager for an engineering enterprise, he was given the perk of air travel. It was during these trips from Brazil to Belgium, Canada to China and the world over that Junior would contemplate whilst glancing down onto the surface of the world and witness the lines and forms that shaped our home planet. Blocks of fields would congregate, rows of buildings would sprout and the geometry of life would come alive. With canvas scraps and acrylic pens, Junior went to work on bringing these macro geometries to the human scale and fuel the creative passion that continued to exist within.

Color blocking and definite lines convene and construct the cityscapes, faces, flora and fauna in the works of Plinio Maines Junior as he believes the building blocks of life occur in such a way; abstraction is reconfigured figuratively through our mind. Yet he understands that all interpretations are valid and it is only through our individual interpretations of reality that things will blend to a cohesive state we will all collectively understand.

Los Angeles x Miami Contemporary Art:

AFTER HOURS

January 10th - February 24th, 2018

OPENING GALA

WHERE: Hollywood - 1546 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028
WHEN: Saturday, January 13, 2018, 8pm - 2am

DAVID KROVBLIT

DELICATE and DESTRUCTIVE

January 19th - February 19th, 2018

OPENING RECEPTION

WHERE: Wynwood - 98 NW 29th St, Miami, FL 33127
WHEN: Saturday, January 20, 2018, 7pm - 11pm

PRESS RELEASE

AC Gallery MIAMI presents David Krovblit x Delicate and Destructive. Krovblit's interpretation and response to the common is intriguing and thought provoking – his art engaging, personal and relevant. His work is an experience, both visual and cerebral. Each new piece exhibits well-crafted, colorful images steeped in highly conceptual, contemporary themes. Exploring social commentary, you can usually find a streak of humor running straight through his work. Pieces often incorporate compositing and retouching techniques that show his keen eye for detail and experience with the medium.

AC Gallery is proud to present the works of Vance Lorenzini throughout the week of LA Art Show. Vance is an award winning production designer and artist — that has professionally worked in the entertainment industry for the past four decades. His paintings represent images, themes and story telling aspects that are all related to his every day life and experiences. Living in Los Angeles, his fine art pieces reflect our contemporary cultural nuances.

VANCE LORENZINI

Booth 7032

WHERE: Downtown Los Angeles Convention Center,

1201 South Figueroa Street, South Hall

WHEN: Wednesday, January 10th - Sunday, January 14th, 2018

Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 7pm – 11pm
Thursday, January 11, 2018, 11am – 7pm
Friday, January 12, 2018, 11am – 7pm
Saturday, January 13, 2018, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, January 14, 2018, 11am – 5pm

GENERAL SHOW HOURS

WHERE: WYNWOOD - 98 NW 29TH ST., MIAMI, FLORIDA, 33127

WHEN: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6TH - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10TH

TIME: 11AM - 5PM | 7PM - 3AM

LINKS: Opening Night Video

AC GALLERY RETURNS TO MIAMI bringing the Hollywood-famed, energy-fueled nightlife along with a renowned, contemporary art scene. Featuring International Exhibitors from across the globe under the umbrella of MIAMI X LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY ART, the showcase will attract thousands of visitors throughout Miami Art Week 2017.

With over 50 art exhibitions spanning 5 years, Artists Corner (AC Gallery) is celebrated as the premier showcase for established and emerging artists in Hollywood. AC Gallery Art exhibitions and receptions garner extensive critical acclaim and media coverage with over 1 million unique annual impressions across digital and web platforms.

In addition, AC Gallery will host eclectic installations and activations day and night throughout the Miami Basel Art Week including a Live action mural painting event, Wearable art fashion show and much-anticipated Music performance by Lanz Pierce. A celebratory Miami Industry night send-off is planned before heading out to Los Angeles and premiering an encore showcase to California audiences in 2018.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

HARAJUKU HALLOWEEN ART GROUP SHOW

October 27th - November 10th, 2017

ARTISTS RECEPTION Friday October 27th | 8PM-2AM

RSVP: Gallery@artistscorner.us

LINKS: Opening Night Video

FEATURING VIALS

Ghosts and Ghouls and... Gumby? Do not miss an immersive art, fashion and music experience presented by AC Gallery this Halloween weekend. Characters conceived entirely in the exhibiting artists' minds come together in Hollywood for the annual Autumn group exhibition. Come one, come all to Harajuku Halloween with special guest VIALS. Costumes highly recommended!

Expect a dynamic evening with collectors, curators, art critics and artists while enjoying:

• Blacklight experience with Mr. MK Ultra

• Signature Cocktails

• Live Music Performance by VIALS and DJ set by Parisa (Tokyo), Carmen Dee (Los Angeles), Barb Marley (Toronto).

ARCHITECT OF DECEPTION

Mr. MK Ultra

October 7th - October 21st, 2017

GALA RECEPTION Saturday October 7th | 5PM-2AM

LINKS: Opening Night Video

Electric colors showcasing brooding themes, the Architect of Deception is all too familiar with the real world that we all inhabit… and the one that has been completely conceived in his mind.

Hailing from the magically sinful Las Vegas, Mr. MK Ultra is on a mission to invite the masses into the deepest crevices of his vivid imagination. A one way ticket to pop culture icons living current perceptions and all who enter is in for one hell of a wild ride. A ride that is seemingly familiar filled with imagery we all have grown up with over the years yet placed in situations designed specifically for the today.

Imagery of our present state is the pop culture of tomorrow, so Mr. MK Ultra is well on his way to exhibiting our future realities. Perhaps the world the Architect of Deception has constructed is not as farfetched as it seems.

Expect a energetic evening with collectors, curators, art critics and artists while enjoying:

• Interactive installations and experiences

• Carnival Hors d'oeuvres

• Signature Cocktails

• Live Performance by Josiah Falco and sets by the hottest Hollywood area DJs

LIVE MURAL PAINTING BATTLE

GROUP EXHIBITION

September 30th - October 7th

LINKS: Intro Video | Opening Night Video

Don't miss an iconic evening of live competitive painting at AC Gallery. The twelve (12) selected Muralists will paint creative mural concepts on ready-to-hang, large wooden panels inside gallery walls, while the audience along with AC Gallery curatorial committee vote to pick the winner. One (1) winner from competition wins a round trip airline ticket to MIAMI ART WEEK AND A 3 DAY/ 2 NIGHT STAY AT AC ARTIST COMPOUND LOCATED IN THE HEART OF WYNWOOD (valued at $5,000 USD)

George Hobbs | James Peter Henry | Jazz | Kendall Iris Devine |

Mauricio M Salazar | Molly Brandenburg | Vera Long

We Shot Rock Stars and Lived by the Rock & Roll

GROUP SHOW

August 26th - Sept 9th, 2017

GALA RECEPTION Saturday August 26th | 7-11PM

LINKS: Opening Night Video

PHOTOGRAPHERS: GLEN LA FERMAN | GLEN WEXLER | HARRY ZIMMERMAN | JEAN-MARIE PERIER | JEROME BRUNET | JULIAN JOHNSON | LARA SOLANKI | LISA JOHNSON | MARK MANOS | MICHAEL EIVAZ | MITCHELL ROSE | R MICHAEL DECHELLIS | RICHARD UPPER

PAINTERS: BRAYDEN | DAN KUBAT | DENNIS SMITH | LIZ WILINSKI | REENA TOLENTINO

A Photographic History 1960-Present through the lenses of photographers, curated by Gallery Director Carlos Benitez to spotlight the creative and collaborative role that photographers played in the history of rock music.

Original interviews will be produced exclusively for the exhibit. In addition, guests can view a giant outdoor screen of 150 images or more taken by Photographers between 1960-present, set to a soundtrack.

Expect a chic evening with collectors, curators, art critics and artists while enjoying

• Hosted Hors d'oeuvres by Chef Gwen Kenneally

• Mixed Cocktails (Full open bar)

• Live Music Performances and sets by the hottest Hollywood area DJs

• Unique Exclusive VIP entry for AC Gallery After Hours Party at The Rock N' Roll historical Hall of Fame Rainbow Bar N' Grill

RICHARD DRAKE

BLUE Hawaii

August 5th - August 19th

Links: Opening Night Video | Exhibition video

GALA RECEPTION Saturday August 5th | 7-11PM

RSVP: Gallery@artistscorner.us | Admission is Free

Expect a chic evening while enjoying complimentary

Hosted Hors d'oeuvres | Mixed Cocktails

Exotic Dances | Exciting Music Performance by Josiah Falco and sets by the hottest Hollywood area DJs

Richard Drake started taking photos in the morning in front of his house on the beach in Kailua. He then started posting them on Facebook. Soon people from all over the world started to buy them. Richard grew up in Kailua, Oahu and has worked in the film industry here for over forty years; working with the likes of Herb Ritz and Bill Fraker. His passion for photography and his love of the islands comes through in each of his amazing photos. Owning one of his photos is like waking up with a little bit of Hawaiian's paradise in you life every day. Aloha!

abstract VISIONS

July 15th - July 29th, 2017

Links: Opening Night Video

GALA RECEPTION: Saturday July 15th | 7-11PM RSVP: Gallery@artistscorner.us | Admission is Free

Expect a chic evening while enjoying complimentary

Hosted Hors d'oeuvres | Mixed Cocktails | Music

abstract VISIONS expresses the group collective’s lively innermost thoughts. Form and creativity convene throughout the exhibition with beauty, color and shapes coming together to initiate abstracted visual experiences. The six different artists express these thoughts through a combination of acrylic, monoprinting, watercolor, sculpture, neon and a variety of other mixed media and surfaces. The group collective thoughtfully release and surrender to this incredible force called art, together bringing about a balanced harmony concealed within the bustling abstraction.

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SUMMER EXHIBITION | Endless SUMMER | July 1st - July 8th, 2017

GALA RECEPTION | Saturday July 1st | 7-11PM | RSVP: Gallery@artistscorner.us

Expect a chic evening with collectors, curators, art critics and artists while enjoying

Hosted Hors d'oeuvres by Chef Gwen Kenneally

Mixed Cocktails (Full open bar)

Live Painting by Frida Davidsson

Portrait "Treasures Of The Heart" by Milena Mortati

Experience “The Glow Room” with Messy Masterpiece & LED Glow Installation by Joey James Salehi

Live Music Performance by Josiah and sets by the hottest Hollywood area DJs

Unique VIP Guest Key for Exclusive AC Gallery After Hours Party at MA LOUNGE on Sunset in West Hollywood | 10:30PM - 2:00AM (http://estrellasunset.com/)

*Admission fee of $20/person applies

(includes wristband for access to all the above throughout night + unique VIP key and address to AC Gallery After Hours Party at MA LOUNGE)

Illmatic by MESSY MASTERPIECE | Mixed Media | 48x30 | $2600

Re-IMAGINED by MESSY MASTERPIECE

June 10th - June 24th, 2017

LINK TO PREVIEW RECEPTION

GALA PREVIEW RECEPTION | Saturday June 10th | 7-11PM | RSVP: Gallery@artistscorner.us

Artists Corner Gallery (AC Gallery) and Messy Masterpiece announced the West Coast debut of The Glow Room showcasing within a large-scale installation with fluro-paintings. Upon entering this surreal environment, guests can move through this space freely and expect all emotions to flow. The installation will be located on the front of Gallery on Highland Ave.

“Messy Masterpiece works comes from basic human need to create and from passion and interest. Even playful gestures are sort of complex hidden stories. Every aspect of her paintings interests me” said Gallery Director and Curator Carlos Benitez.

Los Angeles based artist MESSY MASTERPIECE paints for the pure LOVE of it. She lets the creative process flow through her onto the canvas. Since she is not a fan of manufactured enthusiasm, her pieces represent her genuine expression at the moment. With a focus of acrylic and aerosol on canvas, wild mixes of colors in matt, gloss and metallic finishes bring visual interest and demand attention. Heather's messy little masterpieces express her emotional connection, playful nature and limitless joy. Shop original art online.

Santa Fe | 46 x 66 | Acrylic on Canvas

LINDA STELLING

The Poetry of Color

May 20th - June 3rd, 2017

GALA RECEPTION

Saturday May 20th | 7-10PM

RSVP: Gallery@artistscorner.us

The reception will offer 3 Colorful Cocktails Perfect for Linda's Large Colorful Paintings that are meant to instill a psychic vibration while enjoying Hors d'oeuvres by Ladurée, and performances by top nightclub DJs.

Press Links:

Fabrik | Opening Night Video | Exhibition video

Linda Stelling is a Los Angeles artist who fills her paintings with the poetry of color. The images she conjures up are point and counterpoint to the verse that she writes. Stelling is a visceral artist who also contemplates her inner life on canvas.

Phosphorescent, phantasmagorical color pours out of her mind’s eye and saturates each of Stelling’s artworks. Her highly chromatic abstracts leave the viewer enthralled and invigorated by their clashes of originality and a kind of sweet synesthesia that her wild palette provokes.

Stelling can’t resist giving way to creative flights of fanciful abstraction. Rapturous and playful, the best of her paintings, like Santa Fe, are deeply and beautifully rendered. Her expressive smudges, along with the heavy orbs of pigment she uses, emphasize her striking, wildly colored brushwork. Luminous and numinous, her paintings reveal, on close inspection, a complex, somewhat mysterious layering technique that pulls your soul deeply inside the colors in her canvases. The painter’s use of brilliant pigments—sometimes sparingly, other times forcefully—creates powerful explosions of movement, hue, and intensity.

Stelling abstracts figurative images infused with her own bright, incendiary palette. Her curvy, undulating depictions of feathers, flowers, land and seascapes organically tumble together as she reconfigures their shapes. Stelling feels that, “my paintings are meant to instill a psychic vibration. The blending of colors and abstract forms are meant to parallel the dynamics of internal desire, redirecting the viewer from expression to actuality.”

The relationship between the subject and the background speaks to an ongoing dynamic not only within the subject itself, but in the artist’s perception of it. As the figurative subject disappears in a maelstrom of color, it is the abstraction, and its emotional appeal to the viewer, that lingers. Stelling has been working on a vast suite, an ode, if you will, that aspires to a new genre of figurative abstracts, filled with raucous riots of color.

The result is a congenial exhibition, a mix of twenty-odd paintings brimming with a cacophony of moody, delicious, colorful madness and a myriad of painterly delights.

- Phil Tarley, Curator

SPRING EXHIBIT

ElectriCAL Colors

Links: Opening Night Party Video | Exhibition Video

May 13th - May 18th, 2017

GALA RECEPTION

Saturday May 13th | 7-11PM

RSVP: Gallery@artistscorner.us

A renaissance of colors within an explosion of a vibrant summer energy. We at AC Gallery take pride on being from California and feel the necessity to push the positivity of the COLOR component to each and every art enthusiast. Curated selection of National and International Contemporary Artists. Expect a chic evening with collectors, artists, and art critics while enjoying hosted Hors d'oeuvres, cocktails by Buzzbox, live installations and music performance.

BILL WISHNER

POST NO BILLS

Press Links: The Huffington Post | Exhibition Video | Opening Night Party Video

April 29th - May 13th, 2017

GALA RECEPTION

Saturday April 29th | 7-10PM

RSVP: Gallery@artistscorner.us

AC Gallery presents a solo exhibition titled “Post No Bills” featuring the work of Bill Wishner on Saturday, April 29th. Wishner has been an accomplished photographer for the past twenty years, garnering acclaim for his jazz photography. He was the co-editor (with Bill Minor) of the 40th Anniversary book for the Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years, Angel City Press, 1997). In 2012, he started the ongoing series – The Art of the City Wall depicting the art and visual aesthetics of city walls from various countries across the globe.

Wishner is also the founder of f8 Pasadena Salon, dedicated to the art and aesthetics of photography as well as the Co-Director of PasadenaPhotographyArts (a Project of the Pasadena Arts Council EMERGE program). A local Pasadena resident, Bill currently serves on the board of Five Acres and helps teach medical ethics as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Keck USC School of Medicine. Bill enjoys prose poetry and has published two volumes of prose poems called “Things That Happen When You Travel.”

AC Gallery Director and Curator Carlos Benitez said he was excited to show Wishner’s work. An opening will be held on on Saturday April 29, from 7-10pm at AC Gallery, 1546 N. Highland Ave. Los Angeles CA., 90028. The reception will offer wines and food from international countries such as France, UK, Germany, Chili, Argentina.

The AC Gallery is located on Highland Avenue between the famed Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards. With a location right in the “Heart of Hollywood” and within walking distance to popular attractions such as the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hollywood & Highland Center and the Dolby Theatre (formerly known as the Kodak Theatre), the AC Gallery will put your brand front and center of an estimated physical audience of over 100,000 daily individuals including art collectors, curators, artists, commuters and tourists (with thousands more virtual visitors through our digital platforms, e-mails, and social media outlets).

AC Gallery opened in Los Angeles in 2012 to make art accessible to a broader audience of collectors, artists and enthusiasts. The gallery has since exhibited extraordinary artists, both emerging and established, who have gone out and been successful in the art world. AC Gallery continues to create rich opportunities for artists and galleries by collaborating alongside curators and art buyers.

Don’t miss the opening reception of “Post No Bills,” a solo exhibition celebrating the photography of Bill Wishner ” at AC Gallery on Saturday April 29, from 7-10pm. RSVP: Gallery@artistscorner.us

The AC Gallery is located at 1546 N. Highland Ave. Los Angeles CA., 90028; Hours are: Mondays – Fridays, 9-6:30pm; Saturday: Noon-5:00pm; Sunday: Closed. For more information about the AC Gallery, visit http://www.artistscorner.us

Additional information about Bill Wisner can be found on his website at http://www.paracosmphotography.com http://f8pasadenasalon.weebly.com

April 21-23, 2017

OPENING NIGHT PARTY VIDEO

EXPO Contemporary x AC Gallery presents national and international Artists to those who love and collect art and the artists who make it – a celebration of art, design, multi-media and performance art in downtown LA’s Arts Community. The 2nd Annual EXPO Contemporary, presented by Fabrik Magazine will take place in downtown Los Angeles April 21-23 and will be part of Spring Art Week LA, which includes the Photo Independent Art Fair, the Los Angeles Festival of Photography, and Photobook Independent, all taking place at The Reef, in downtown Los Angeles.

AIDA NOVOSEL SAVIC

MAJESTIC

April 1st - 22nd, 2017

Click here for more of Aida's work. Also Aida is currently accepting commission work from Haute Couture dresses with wide selection of materials and decorative elements to men's coats with painting embellishments as well as mixed media (charcoal, ink, etc. ) paintings.

GALA RECEPTION GUEST OF HONOR SPOKES-MODEL & ACTRESS

ANNA KULINOVA

SEE HER WEARING AIDA NOVOSEL SAVIC COLLECTION DURING THE ART EXHIBIT .

Saturday April 1st | 7-10PM

RSVP: Gallery@artistscorner.us

Press Links: The Huffington Post | LA Art Party | Gala Video | Exhibition Video

Aida creates on a daily basis. She is also a fashion designer and has created costumes in various productions of popular shows such as Don Quixote, Poor little hamsters, and Roots…just to name a few.

Aida said she felt she had to share her art and creative works with people. When she came to California, she fell in love with it, and knew she had to stay. “I did not dream that I would come to live in such an inspiring country as America.” She grew up in Europe surrounded by the history of ancient civilizations. She studied art and started to draw every chance she had. Aida continued, “Every trip, going for a walk, reading a book, everything gives me inspiration.”

Spokesperson, model and actress Anna Kulinova will be wearing Aida’s fashions at the opening event. The pair met at AC Gallery and have become good friends planning to partner to launch a new Haute Couture collection for men and women.

Don’t miss the opening reception and art party for “MAJESTIC,” on Saturday, April 1st, 2017 from 7:00pm -10:00pm at AC Gallery (1546 Highland Ave., LA 90028). On view through April 22nd, 2017. RSVP to Gallery@artistscorner.us

STEFAN PINTO

SMOKE + MIRRORS

March 4th - 25th, 2017

Press Links: The Advocate | Tom of Finland | WeHo Ville | Exhibition Video I

Stefan Pinto uses intimate portraits of differently bodied LGBT and LGBT-friendly people to produce a brilliant new vision of community. His photography is filled with smoke and mirrors, flashing-hot strobe lights, and fashion focused poses that twist into sublime humanist statements of the sweetest intimacy. Bodies of all shapes and sizes are his canvas. In Smoke and Mirrors, Pinto produces a compelling photographic survey, chronicling a post modern age of multiracial, multicultural and gender-fluid people who inhabit Pinto’s portraiture. His luminous images are filled with tender interactions. His solo portraits intimately connect us with their subjects. This is the artist-photographer’s first solo exhibition and it is a thrilling and auspicious debut. The people who live in Stefan Pinto’s photographs are in deep conversation and they all have something to say. Like Diane Arbus, Pinto evokes the human condition with a deep love and respect for his subjects. Each person in Pinto’s world is making a statement about affection, desire, and vulnerability. Within his mirrored photo booth and mini sets, Pinto makes his subjects visually compelling. With strobe lights and mirrored reflections he gives us a double look at his subjects that is highly revelatory. He ferrets out their individuality and directs them to reveal who they truly are. Sometimes he anoints them with smoke, other times you might catch Pinto’s own reflection in their portraits.

The artist-photographer’s background as a fashion model and fitness instructor, who conquered his own obesity, combine to lend him both insight and to impart glamour to those he shoots. He directs them into simple, naturalist poses and helps them communicate their humanity. Artists see with indelible eyes and they are capable of great vision. That’s what Stefan Pinto achieves. His mirrors reflect what Pinto wants us to see. These amazing portraits explore the complexities of human need and the yearnings of us all to be connected. Pinto’s initial foray into this body of work can be seen in a small portfolio published by Out Magazine

~Phil Tarley

VIP RECEPTION AFTER HOURS EXHIBIT | JANUARY 14 - 31, 2017

Artists:

Brayden
Michael Mason
Miros
Brittney Palmer
Shen Li
Ying Jiu Jiang

Lina Valentina
Jerome Brunet
Fed Tiken
MIke Spitz
Karen Bysted
Alex Elkin

Milena Mortati
Federico Naef
Stefan Pinto

LA ART SHOW 2017 JAN. 11-15, 2017

MODERN | CONTEMPORARY

The LA Art Show embraces its role as the regions preeminent art fair and emerges as the annual civic celebration of the visual arts. The record breaking enthusiasm surrounding our 2016 edition surpassed all expectations and encourages our team to deepen our roster of galleries and pursue new exciting art programming. The evolving role of the art fair as a fulcrum for art commerce, connecting galleries, artists, curators, and collectors drives our marketing and planning. The art fair world is expanding and we are proud to be one of the world’s largest and longest running events with 150,000 square feet of exhibition space and close to 70,000 attendees this past year. As Los Angeles takes its place as a vanguard of the global art scene, our ability to adapt and evolve to meet the art market’s current trends is vital.

Produced by Kim Martindale since its inception, The LA Art Show entered its third decade with an expanded curatorial team, harnessing their knowledge and experience to drive the International focus and content development of the fair. We partnered with galleries and non-profits to feature bold new art performances and continued to expand out Littletopia and Street Art sections both at the fair and at off-site events to facilitate dealer and collector networking and create a sense of immediacy. While dedicated to maintaining our commitment to technique and integrity, we are further refining our curatorial vision and presenting innovative galleries, lectures, and artist performances that showcase premier Modern and Contemporary work.

Artists:
Mark Sharp
Michael Mason
Miros
Susan Sommer
Shen Li
Ying Jiu Jiang

PHOTO LA 2017 JAN. 12-15, 2017

photo l.a. has a long and rich history of bringing the photographic and arts community together. For one night and three days the community celebrates photography in its many forms. Each year we expand our uniquely diverse showcase of photographic art, ranging from 19th Century works to contemporary and innovative photography-based art. Galleries, dealers, museums, schools, and non-profit organizations participate to define what photography has been, what it is today, and what it might evolve into. To foster a dialogue we curate and present our acclaimed programming, which includes, lectures, roundtable discussions, special installations, and docent tours with distinguished members of the photograph/arts community.

Artists:
Bill Wishner
Federico Naef

I REMEMBER FACES BY BRITTNEY PALMER | November 5th - December 10th, 2016

Britney Palmer’s acrylic depictions are characterized by her intent to portray the subjects as they exist in the world according to her unique perspective. Typified by a rejection of traditional portraiture, Palmer’s art is contemporary and relevant, yet reminiscent and iconic; bold in color yet gentle in structure. Her abstract portrayals of renowned pop and rock icons of the 60’s and 70’s have been exhibited worldwide gaining critical acclaim from Esquire, Playboy, FHM, Vice, Complex, Maxim and Fox Sports, to name a few. Finding her inspiration in the expression of legends, Palmer has begun to build a legacy of her own, showcasing her work alongside the iconic Andy Warhol.

Celebrity clients includes: Michael Dell | CEO Dell, Computers, Dana White | President of UFC, Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson | UFC Fighter, Arianny Celeste | Model

LINKS: | GUIDE | GALA RECEPTION | VIDEO |

AC GALLERY AT XCONTEMPORARY | MIAMI BEACH | 2016

BRITTNEY PALMER

BRAYDEN

Brayden is a Los Angeles-based street artist with work that is in essence smaller stories within a larger context of a greater story line. As a university student, Brayden was highly inspired by magazines, forming an almost obsession-like relationship with them. An obsession that eventually led him to becoming an editorial photographer working with large-scale magazines across the country. Over time the obsession did not disappear and he found himself creating photographs and works out of his recycled magazine collection, creating collages and mixing a various array of visual elements throughout the collages. As a photographer, Brayden started to build a fascination with the idea of the disposability of printed media and with it, a deeply upsetting internal emotion of how the digital revolution has cheapened the cost of photography work. These internal emotions led Brayden to build with his hands and have a more physical connection to his work, breathing new life into these so-called discarded magazines. Pieces of bright colors, turned into new story lines; a greater image with precise details giving way to a deeper message of longing and subtle sadness masked by the beauty inherent within the work.

BORIS BEZROUKOV

Boris Bezroukov is a truth seeker on a quest for spiritual survival. He does not create based on need, but desire. His feverous demeanor and veracity is contagious. Bezroukov is forthright and honest in his artistic approach creating a consistent dialogue between the artist, the piece and the audience. He is clear in his message, yet consistently allows individual interpretation and perception. One of his series, Timeless, features photographs advantageously layered on top of one another conceal seductive women positioned paradoxically next to Jesus Christ. Congruent, tonic images, refuting in nature, stimulate our imagination and catalyze personal inquisition. Sultry women in provocative, assuming positions coat religious images of Jesus nailed to the cross. Despite the absence of religious figures in a selection of his pieces, leaving the seducers to fend for themselves, Bezroukov has succeeded to maintain a sacred, churchly feel avoiding sacrilegious overtones.

MILENA MORTATI

Milena Mortati is an Italian artist, painter, sculptor and photographer. She has had the opportunity to exhibit worldwide and is excited to be showcasing her newest mixed media series at XContemporary during Art Basel 2016 VIVA VOCE was inspired by unaltered beauty, by embracing flaws, owning them and viewing them as unique perfections. The Calavera sculpture symbolizes the infinite potential we possess. The naked body represents the casing, which holds that immense power. The ultimate form of freedom is self confidence, to turn misfortune into fortune, poison into medicine and to view every setback as a springboard to an immeasurable benefit. Some may want to hide, I say live out loud by embracing it all. VIVA VOCE!

MICHAEL MASON

Michael Mason is born-again in America. A self–taught artist who paints, draws, uses printing making and collage to express stories from his previous life experience. His non-representational style is deliberate as he tries to dissect mythological stories, fairy tales, movies…etc, and combines these ideas in a modern day context. Thus forming a sometimes provocative picture which pokes fun at these long standing institutions and beliefs. Born in Mesopotamia, a land steeped with a rich historical background, all of which would later be suppressed by a visually limited regime. Americana imagery from comic books and movies provided relief and began to shape Mason’s young mind. Sketching, watercolor and pastels helped him escape into his art world. Mason spent six years in the army and describes this as ‘the worst time of his life’ and yet this too would provide influence in his work. Ultimately it has made him seek Freedom. The goal of which is to have freedom of thought. Moving to the US has helped Mason realize his need to create art again. Taking art classes has renewed his respect for the “old masters” and their influence is seen as he begins many artworks with the beacon of the human form and builds visual stories filled with deliberate symbols around them. He has shown his work at three exhibitions at the GCC Gallery and has won two People’s Choice Awards. Mason is constantly working at his craft and is slowly rising like the tower of Babylon to manifest himself and his art into the beautiful Garden of Eden.

BILL WISHNER

Bill Wishner started his career in photography more than 20 years ago as a photographer focusing on jazz music; his jazz photography has been included in multiple international exhibits and he was the co-editor (along with Bill Minor) of the 40th Anniversary book for the Monterey Jazz Festival. In 2007, Wishner founded f8 Pasadena Salon, exploring the aesthetics and art of photography. In 2012, Wishner founded and is currently Co-Project Director of “Pasadena Photography Arts” dedicated to promoting photography and helping emerging photographers in the East Los Angeles area. More recently Wishner has turned his creative lens on the urban environment in cities around the world. The project, started in 2012, is titled “Art of the City Wall” and focuses on the visual art and aesthetics of urban walls.

GODS & MONSTERS BY PEGASUS. October 1st - October 31st, 2016

Gods & Monsters is the first solo exhibition for London-based street artist Pegasus. Works in the show will feature royal family members, religious figures and pop culture icons ranging from Princess Diana to Kim Kardashian. The exhibition debuted at London’s Faith Inc Factory in July before traveling to Hollywood’s AC Gallery in October, marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Pegasus is the name and signature of an anonymous North London street artist. Originally from Chicago, his stenciled pieces play with popular culture’s most recognizable icons, such as Marilyn Monroe, JFK and I Love Lucy, and are sometimes ironic or controversial. Pegasus has stated his influences including “the genius Andy Warhol.” The artist also admires other artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring, Mr. Brainwash, Daren West the Neon Artist, Horace Panter, Eelus and of course Mr. Banksy. Pegasus is featured in two books, Happy Graffiti and Planet Banksy, published in 2013.

Celebrity clients includes: Johnny Depp, Kim Kardashian, Alexandra Burke (UK X factor winner 2008) Lindsay Lohan, Adele, Janis and Mitch Winehouse (Amy Winehouse’s mother and father) Alan Carr (UK television host) Ben Cohen (UK Rugby player) Kristina Rihanoff (U.K. Strictly come dancing celebrity dancer)

Recent Exhibitions: October 2015 Moniker Art fair in London-2nd solo exhibition Gods and Monsters travelling show opened in London on the 16th of July. October 2015 Hollywood Museum and others.

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VISIONS III BY BAGHIR. August 20th - September 06, 2016

Nicolas Baghir Maslowski was born in France. Baghir, the photographer’s artist name, was the first name of his grandfather, who died in his native Russia during the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. His father, in exile, emigrated to France as a child and eventually became a writer, giving a small camera to his own son Nicholas Baghir when he was 8 years old. As an introverted child captivated by images, Baghir took his camera everywhere, photographing everything that came into sight to create a personal photographic universe.
His secondary passion was music. In the early 2000s he spent time in Jamaica, meeting several musicians who were more or less forgotten and created the label imprint Makasound/Inna de Yard with a friend. They produced and reedited a number of buried masterpieces, eventually popularizing the Jamaican artist Winston McAnuff in France. Many of visuals for the label’s albums were photographed and composed by Baghir. The label took off and eventually became a division of a major company, but in 2013 Baghir took a chance and made the decision to leave his successful career in the music business, return to photography, and fully pursue his artistic vision.

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