The decoratively trendy and architecturally cutting-edge Ace Hotel DTLA is starting off 2016 on an artistic foot, continuing its eye-catching billboard art series with file-sharing company WeTransfer. This time, the billboard features a captivating piece from digital artist and YouTube rapper, Yung Jake.
Chelsea Bayouth loves a challenge. She loves to dig her teeth in, and figure out a way to physically create what usually starts out as a scribbled note in her sketchbook.
Much-respected artist and lauded skate and graffiti culture icon Barry McGee opened his latest exhibition “China Boo” at Ratio 3 in San Francisco. The show, which runs until December 19th is a humungous collection of works by McGee along with a bonus group exhibition in the neighboring store front that includes well over 50 artists and friends. See our full gallery of photos from the show.
Jason Moore has few boundaries. In any particular series of his collages you can find a loose inventory of imagery that includes bare breasts, atomic bomb explosions, skeletons, dicks, vintage porn, guns, black eyes, cops, death, decay, vaginas, mosques, skulls and nuns. His cache of symbols seems to leave no trash bin unturned, no corner of ebay unrummaged.
Sussingham grew up on Long Island, used to the convergence of assorted cultures and people, all of which he captures in his photos. From city sidewalks to friends' living rooms, Sussingham makes the most of his surroundings, employing his cameras rather than effects to grab the attention of his audience via the attention of his subjects.
Gabriel Luis Perez used to perform as a circus clown. The New Mexico native moved to Texas to make music and DJ in the mid 90s, where he inadvertently fell into playing music for circus performers. In making music for these small time performers he started to take to the community and lifestyle, and started traveling with the circus, eventually becoming one of its comedic acts.
At a young age, dexterous New York City graffiti artist WERD, found himself inspired by the well-known reality show that captured the famously eclectic tattoo s... Read More...
Boston based artist, Josh Jefferson uses crayons, colored pencils and common acrylic paint, often found upon torn out pages of art history books. It is not uncommon to flip over a Jefferson drawing to find yourself staring at the image of a famed piece by Mondigliani or Titian. Check out photos from Jefferson's show at Gallery 16 via one of amadeus’ fresh new photographers, Mira Laing.
Luka Fisher is like an unofficial mayor of the Los Angeles underground. He's usually working on an innumerable list of projects and collaborations with the city's edgiest and most forward-thinking musicians and artists, and if need be, can act as the connective glue between you and just about anyone in LA's creative realm. We premiere his debut EP "Sleep Gallery" and talk about working in a range of media and eradicating double standards in art.
Portland-based illustrator Clark Jackson's friendly, yet gruesome cartoon illustrations exorcise some art demons from mid-century EC Comics to old Robert Crumb and 90s horror imagery. amadeus talks with Jackson about his first CD with a "Parental Advisory" sticker on it, watching Gremlins and Beetlejuice as a kid, and what he loves about having his worked printed on everything from a vinyl record to a t-shirt.
In the four weeks leading up to his much anticipated show, Colman used Chandran as his studio, creating large-scale paintings specifically to fit the gallery's walls and floors. Check out photos from the show via one of amadeus' fresh new photographers, Mira Laing.
