Drawing Mr. Toast...

 This piece is mine!

Gallery 1988: East opened Dan Goodsell's Drawing Mr. Toast show April 5th. At this show, we could buy the art off the wall and take it home immediately, so I bought one.

3 days, 3 openings...

I didn't make it to every art show I thought about going to, but I think I did pretty good.

Friday night, after an amazing meal at Upper West for dineLA with some girl friends, we (Rachel) convinced the door man at Gallery 1988: Melrose to let us in even though it was after 10pm. We promised to not be the last ones at Scott C.'s exhibit, and we weren't, heh. Such a fun show, and Scott C. drew E.T. in my sketchbook. I also got Jensen, the gallery owner, to sign my book; sorry for being late to the opening.
Saturday night, I drove out to Fullerton to have dinner with my sister and Cousinish at Tranquil Tea Lounge. Then Cousinish and I set out for the CSUF Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana. Suggestivism was so crowded, but so good. I feel in love with the tiger painting by Michael Page. My favorite was still an Audrey Kawasaki painting, 'Charlotte'.
Sunday night was the first time I went back to CSULB since I graduated. The tribute show for Lisa was so colorful and so filled with love; it was so Lisa...
Bonus: Saturday morning, I had brunch with my girls at Royal/T where the pop up shop for Mr. Toast was opened since Wednesday, and the Warholian show was on display. It was a full weekend.

rainy gallery hopping...

a couple friends and i bundled up saturday and braved the rain for a night of gallery hopping. first we went to Dan Goodsell's Mr. Toast mini art show at Monkeyhouse Toys in Silverlake.
this was one of our favorites...then we had dinner all the way in Long Beach so we could drop off a friend at the Long Beach airport. after that we headed to Culver City. it was opening night for Scott Belcastro at LeBasse Projects.this is a detail of the piece Snow Castle. the textures on his paintings were mind boggling.

we stopped by the Whole 9 Gallery on the way to Corey Helford's Multiplane group show. photos of the works at the Multiplane show do not do them justice. a ridiculously impressive list of artists were given a panel, 2 glass panes, and a frame to layer the final product. a lot of the artists showed up for opening night; it was pretty festively crowed in the gallery.
one of our favorite pieces was by Nathan Spoor. he took advantage of the layers really well. i also really liked Glen Barr's use of the transparency.
see the rest on the Corey Helford Gallery site.

thanks Tammy, Brian, Chris K, Christina, and Aileen!