Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 5:00AM Photographer Eric Berry took some photos at our anniversary party! Special thanks to Shafiq Husayn and the Dove Society, Johnny Polygon and DJ Nattu for keeping the festivites bubbly!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 5:00AM Knowhow Shop participated in our Earth Day Social with Broccoli City...they brought in the really awesome Garden Table! It was amazing having the table in the space and to learn about all the other things the guys do over at the shop. One of the photos below is a test shot of the Hammock class they are doing with SMMoA be sure to check that on Cinco de Mayo.
Knowhow Shop is a cooperative fabrication laboratory and design studio located in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. We provide design services at all scales, as well as workspace and training for designers and enthusiasts working in furniture, art, and architectural fabrication. We provide one-on-one assistance and frequent classes on both traditional and digital fabrication open to all.
The Garden Table
Monday, April 23, 2012 at 5:00AM This is seriously cool.
Protest takes you on a journey "From here to there" with 5 of their professional surfers, following them on their journey from their personal here to get there, whether it's a search for solitude and empty breaks, winning contests under pressure or simply searching for the perfect wave in imperfect locations.
Lars Musschoot travels his “here to there” through the waters from Norway to Tarifa, Spain, where he hunts down perfect surf with empty line-ups.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 5:00AM Jimetta Rose blessed us at the Be Beautiful Project opening by performing a few ballads, she came back with Dove Society to rock it for our 2 year anniversary/Pre Coachella kick off! We love Miss Jimetta Rose!
"my name is jimetta rose and i represent love"
Monday, April 16, 2012 at 5:00AM Atlanta based artist Fahamu Pecou is famous! Taken from the artist website here is is statement about how and what he creates. We included paintings of a series of magazine covers but Fahamu also works as a performance artist and a digital artist. Having just successfully funding his kickstarter campaign for a new series If Heaven Had Heights, the artist is preparing for a show in NY and Paris to present this series.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work can be viewed as meditations on contemporary popular culture. I began my career experimenting with practices employed in contemporary branding strategies, particularly as they pertained to hip-hop music. These experiments ultimately led me to question not only the stereotypes that drive consumerism, fame, celebrity-worship etc. but how an unspoken racial and cultural divide often influenced these factors. I appear in my work not in an autobiographical sense, but as an allegory. My character becomes a stand-in to represent black masculinity and both the realities and fantasies projected from and onto black male bodies. I seek to challenge the expectations around black men and, to a larger extent, society in general. Adopting the traits typically associated with black men in hip hop, I extract them from their more popular associations and distort or exaggerate them by appropriating them within a fine art context. The end result is a parody on our obsession with celebrity, our exploitation of black masculinity and the divide that racial ignorance and stereotypes perpetuate. These ideas are expressed in paintings, videos and live performances. Each medium allows me to articulate various nuances around my themes and further distort the assumptions we tend to make about one another.
Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 5:00AM HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
Its been 2 amazing years here in LA and we could not have done it with out you!!! We look forward to presenting more exhibitions, screenings, preformances, installations, lectures and artists talks through our on going dialogue between us and our audience. We thank you and you should thank yourselves!
We also share this special day with Elizabeth Catlett, she would have been celebrating her 97th birthday today!
Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 5:00AM BRAVO MTV
The first video is Mickalene Thomas who opens at the Santa Monica Museum of Art tonight! And the second video is Rashad Newsome's SWAG...which I LOVE! Both are recent works by the artists.
Friday, April 13, 2012 at 5:00AM WERE ALL IN ON THIS ONE!
GIOGO - get in or get out
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 5:00AM Caine is a 9 year old arcade developer in East LA! Designing and building his first arcade, he understands the first rule in being an entrepreneur with a tight budget...improvise!
Today is our big day! We are celebrating 2 years of exhibiting, introducing and educating LA on contemporary art and artists from all over the globe! The little genius Caine is a perfect example of why we love LA and will continue the art conversation we've started here.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 5:00AM You don't have to tell me about what the power of music really is. Just see for yourself!
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 5:00AM We can't even believe 2 years have come and gone, we have had some amazing memorable experiences in the space and its all because of you LA! We owe you everything... Join us Thursday night as we celebrate turning 2 at our Pre-Coachalla ARTE PARTY! Featuring Shafiq Husayn and the Dove Society plus other special guests! You don't want to miss this.
Saturday, April 7, 2012 at 5:00AM On a recent trip to Europe photographer and director Jon Genius takes a look back at James Baldwin defining what being a Black person in America means and what a NIGGER is. James Baldwin a prominent American writer, poet and playwright created works that dealt with social issues on race and identity. He lived most of his later life in France where he died in 1987.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 5:00AM An important figure in the art world passed April 2, 2012. The amazing Elizabeth Catlett a sculptor, a painter, printmaker and a force against social injustices.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 5:00AM NY photographer Dwayne Rodgers has created the site The Black Vernacular to honor the ancestors.
"The Black Vernacular is a living document of the deceased, conceived by Dwayne Rodgers and co-curated with friends and the social media community. If you would like to place a photograph of a family member on this communal altar please contact diggswayne1@gmail.com. Please read an interview about this project here."
Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 5:00AM "I’m a voyeur. I like to watch. Or rather, I love to observe. Take in and capture the human experience- moments. Beauty, pain, their complex nature, evokes in me a desire to capture life~
Making my subjects their own icon. Life fascinates me. Humans inspire. Seeing is my meditation"
Chenoa Maxwell - papillionart.org/chenoa-maxwell
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 5:00AM The piece directly below, "mother mother" represents two generations of women in the artists family. Kenturah's drawing technique is quite remarkable. For the works below Kenturah creates a grid she than stamps a letter in each box and those letters by her design are used to create the image. In the case for "mother mother" each stamped drawing was made using the "word mother".
"mother mother" diptych stamped drawing on paper, 2008 - SOLD
"Self Portrait" stamped drawing on paper, 2010 on view and for sale in the gallery
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 5:00AM Love all the beautiful people that turned out and are posting things like this! THANK U to kingjaythree
Monday, March 19, 2012 at 5:00AM New work from mixed media painter and collagist Terence Rosemore
Fine Young Cannibals - 24 x 18 mixed media collage on paper, 2011
Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 5:00AM Rashid Johnson
Reader, 2011 
Cosmic Slop, 2011 black soap and wax
The Moment of Creation, 2011, mirrored tile, black soap, wax and vinyl, cb radio, oyster shells, shea butter, books, space rocks, ink jet photograph on glass 71 x 129.5 x 8 inches
