Beast Ashtray x Known Gallery

 Joe Hahn made a movie called Mall, and this show was different artist interpretations of the movie. Even though I haven't seen the movie, the pieces were so amazing. 

My favorites were by Tristan Eaton...

 Axis...

 Mike Shinoda...

 

and James Jean.

 Also, mind blown when I saw Dabs and Myla chatting with Mike Shinoda.

at Rebus...

I almost missed James Jean's Rebus show, twice. One, for some reason I had it in my mind that Martha Otero gallery was not in LA; silly me. Two, my best friend and I arrived at about 20 minutes after the opening night event was closed, because we had family obligations first. It had actually been a really long day already, but we weren't that tired: we worked, we ran errands, we fixed a toilet, we got pedicures (yes, fixing a toilet is something I am willing to help you with if you're my friend). There was no lingering crowd, and the small parking lot outside the gallery was empty, but since we were there we walked up to the door to peek, and it was slightly ajar! We walked into the empty gallery and asked the gallery staff if we could look around. The girls were so nice, and the show was amazing...

Something's wrong with my camera or the SD card, so the gallery images are from the Martha Otero Gallery site. I did manage to pull the last picture of our night walking around the Grove.

birds and boys...

James Jean "Birds and Boys" art show opens tomorrow at 3.1 Phillip Lim!

Art Books...

My copy of James Jean's Rift arrived in the mail this week! Such a fun piece.
I have too many playing cards, too many sketchbooks, and too many books. That doesn't stop me from wanting more! On my current wish list includes Martin Hsu's MultiGrain (his updated website is so clean and pretty), and David Choe's most recent book.
I must pay attention to when signings are, and probably budget better. I should also post about the other books I have...

rift...

james jean's new book looks spectacular and fun to play with...

holiday hint mints...

james jean designed holiday hint mint tins too!
found on daily du jour.

an art adventure: nucleus to lebasse...

saturday night, i decided i could make two events that were occurring at the same time practically twenty miles apart. with a little planning and a posse of crime fighters, we headed to alhambra for an early dinner. i didn't want my girls to starve while i dragged them all over southern california. we ate a pretty filling dinner at Baccali about 5pm and headed to Nucleus Studios around 6pm. their current show was October Shadows: drawings, paintings, and sculptures of the halloween variety.
i was mesmerized and disturbed by the art of Cam de Leon. there was a cute little painting of trick-or-treaters that made us smile too...although the october shadows show was cool, the point of going to Nucleus was to meet James Jean. i missed his book signing at GR2, so i could not miss this one too.
i bought his book of 12 prints, Kindling and all three of his artist series Hint Mints (previously posted here). he was really nice despite the hot lights he was sitting under, and did this quick, quirky sketch for me. its cute and a little freaky at the same time, i like it...
part one of the adventure was complete with treasures successfully gathered! we left Nucleus a little after 7pm and fought a little traffic to make it to LeBasse Projects just about 8pm. it was opening night for Nate Frizzell's solo show! Mr Beau Basse, who we met last week, helped me get a sketch from Nate too! he wrote "i'm sorry," but Sir, for a little drawing in the middle of your solo show, it's pretty fantastic...
Yoskay Yamamoto was running around in an animal mask; i've met him before, but i was too nervous to say 'hi.' i took a picture of a little Yoskay sculpture on Nate's installation tree though...the show was called Lost in the Thicket and this was my favorite piece, Never Alone...
and these are my friends...

also at LeBasse Projects was the Kids are Alright show in the Project Room. i loved this piece in person...
awesome night, all around. both events ended at 10pm, but we were on our way to get dessert at Cafe Ugo by 9:30; perfect way to end the night.

james jean for hint mint...

i love mints. i can't believe i didn't know hint mint had artist series tins. according to james jean's blog he's been working on it for a year. i love how he shows his process...james jean site.
hint mint site.