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El Gato Chimney
El Gato Chimney is an artist and printmaker who's been on the international scene for at least a decade, I came across his work via Flickr and was really impressed with his portfolio. my poor Spanish tells me his pseudonym …
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Bad Trippin’ With Charlie Immer
Ever had a bad trip? You know the sort, you can't stop laughing and before you know it the world is melting around your knees? You know, like this >>>
Charlie Immer is blessed/cursed (depending on which side of the …
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Rob Gonsalves
I'm not the biggest fan of Magic Realism, usually it's a bit airy fairy for me but when it comes to the art of Canadian painter Rob Gonsalves I make an exception. It's more about the ideas for me …
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Kevin Van Aelst
Kevin Van Aelst is a visual prankster, like a Marcel Duchamp who's eaten too much candy and is on a mad sugar rush. He has fun with his audience, sharing the delight he feels for visual metaphor and trickery. I …
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Wes Magyar
It's all about the subtext with Wes Magyar. I discovered this Denver-based painter's work via a rather fascinating interview at Syntax and I have to admit it I'm hooked. I'm not usually a fan of broad brush strokes or …
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Andrew Lewicki – Subverting Reality
Andrew Lewicki is one of those artists who should be big, I mean at the top of his game. But he isn't and I have no idea why. He knocks out a great line in visual punnery, subverting the …
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Richard Colman – Keep Out The Light
Richard Colman’s solo exhibition opens this weekend at New Image Art, it's his first LA solo in 3 years and if you're in the Santa Monica Boulevard area on the 21st of July pop in after 7pm and …
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I Am Going To Crush Your Head
Don't take it literally folks, your cranium is perfectly safe in my hands, that doesn't sound right anyway, I do always seem to drift from deep water to doggy doo doo when it comes to metaphor. Anyway, I've found a …
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Surreal Anatomy
Kate MacDowell looks at the world in the way I'd imagine a surgeon living in the earliest days of the Age of Enlightenment might view theirs, inside and out, and wherever information is lacking, through her own slightly surreal imagination. …
