Sour Harvest

The street work of Bumblebee - look for him to be featured in 'Outside/In' at LeBasse this weekend and watch for him this June in Thinkspace's annual art walk group show

Fri, April 22nd 7-10PM
THIS: Los Angeles
5906 North Figueroa Street in Los Angeles
‘A Depiction of Love and Reality: Terri & Gary’ – new works (?) from Sage Vaughn and Anthony Anzalone
(On view through May 14th)
www.thislosangeles.com

Sat, April 23rd 6-10PM (free admission / $10 donation = 2 DIY button templates)
Gallery Nucleus
210 E. Main St., Alhambra / 626.458.7482
‘Art For Japan’ – emergency campaign project supporting the efforts of Give2Asia and Artists Help Japan – for every $10 you donate, you will get to select the button of your choice from your favorite artist and/or purchase 2 blank templates to create your own button + live music + there will be an online art auction starting at 7PM PST featuring over 100 works generously donated by artists from around the globe – 100% of proceeds go to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan
www.gallerynucleus.com

April 23rd 8-11PM
Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles
New works from Alessandro Gottardo (aka Shout!) and Kellesimone Waits
www.knowngallery.com

Sat, April 23rd 7-10PM
LeBasse Projects
6023 Washington Blvd in Culver City / 310.558.0200
‘Outside/In’ featuring new works from Herakut, Case, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Shark Toof, and Bumblebee
(On view through May 30th)
www.lebasseprojects.com

Check out a larger version of Gagnon’s ‘Profile’ piece in the March issue of Juxtapoz here:
www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/5641840003/in/set-72157626042350439

‘Elements and Oddites’ opens April 30th at Thinkspace

www.jacubgagnon.com

If you dare to enter the world of Japanese artist Yosuke Ueno, get ready for a strange and surreal adventure. Ueno’s art stands out for its interesting juxtapositions and hidden symbolism. Skulls, swans, scissors and even AOL characters appear in his paintings, making you wonder what kind of hidden message they all carry. Ueno’s themes are very cosmic and his palette often includes red, green, yellow, and blue. These colors represent the four bases of DNA: adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine, or in simpler terms, A, T, G and C., molecular elements that all animate beings share. Vibrancy of palettes aside, his works bears a message; that all animate beings have equal worth.

Check out a great ‘image key’ to the recurring symbols and characters in Ueno’s work here:
www.spaceegg77.com/spaceegg77site/index2/key/key.html

“I always start new work without any detailed designs. My hope is for a piece to complete itself beyond my imagination. I sometimes say that artists are parallel to scientists. Scientists have no way of knowing the result of an experiment beforehand. The same can be said about creating art.” - Yosuke Ueno

Yosuke Ueno was born in Japan in 1977. He has been building his world since a young child and had his first solo show in Yamaguchi, Japan in 1994 at the young age of 16. Ueno’s work has shown with some of the most established galleries within our movement. The artist has also taken part in major exhibitions in his home country of Japan at the Shimoni-Seki Museum (Yamaguchi, Japan) and Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) and also has work in the traveling exhibition ‘The Animamix Biennial 2009-2010’ that has thus far visited the Today Art Museum (Beijing, China), MOCA Shanghai, MOCA Taipei, and MOCA Kaohsiung.

Check out add’l pics from Yosuke’s studio along with a look inside Gagnon’s studio here:
www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157626042350439/

‘Elements and Oddities’
New works from Yosuke Ueno and Jacub Gagnon

Reception with the artists: Sat, April 30th 6-8PM

On view April 30th – May 14th

Thinkspace / 6009 Washington Blvd. / Culver City, CA 90232 / Wed-Fri 1 to 6PM and Sat 1 to 8PM
www.thinkspacegallery.com

David MacDowell 'Blood Thirsty Savages' - acrylic on canvas

Juxtapoz just interviewed David MacDowell as he prepares for the opening of ‘Lowbrow Love Letter‘, his latest solo show with us that kicks off next Sat, April 30th. His latest series will feature some of his most brazen works to date. Trust us, you will not want to miss this one!

Check out the full ‘Back Talk’ interview from Juxtapoz here:
www.juxtapoz.com/Features/back-talk-with-david-macdowell

David MacDowell ‘Lowbrow Love Letter’

Reception with the artist: Sat, April 30th 6-8PM in our project room

On view April 30th – May 14th in our project room

Details will be announced next week for the limited edition print release of ‘Abide’.

Thinkspace / 6009 Washington Blvd. / Culver City, CA 90232 / Wed-Fri 1 to 6PM – Sat 1 to 8PM
www.thinkspacegallery.com

'Bling Bling That Hot Street Thing' street view

'Bling Bling That Hot Street Thing' close up

'Bling Bling That Hot Street Thing' close up

'Bling Bling That Hot Street Thing' close up

'Bling Bling That Hot Street Thing' close up

New to the streets of Los Angeles is this amazing new mural from DABS MYLA, HOW and NOSM, and RIME. Completed this past weekend just a few days after DABS MYLA and HOW and NOSM completed their massive ‘Cream Of The Crop’ mural in downtown Los Angeles as part of the LA Freewalls Project.

DABS MYLA www.dabsmyla.com

HOW and NOSM www.howandnosm.com

RIME www.jerseyjoeart.com