DOZE Collective’s 2501 is brewing something explosive for his upcoming solo show at SOZE Gallery in LA opening on the 24th of May. “See You On The Other Side” will be 2501’s first one man show in the US. Words by Crist Espiritu and Gargamella. 2501 has been making a name internationally through a series…
Stephen Tompkins’ “Sacred Data” opened last April 19, 2013 at Soze Gallery in LA. Tompkins’ takes the familiar gestures and palette from the cartoon shows of our youth and use them in compositions that verges on abstract and representational. He yanks out those moments from our childhood spent in front of the TV, fragments them…
Joram Roukes’ latest exhibition opened last Saturday, April 19th at The Cave Gallery in Los Angeles. The show featured the most recent oil paintings from this Dutch painter. Roukes is fond of capturing human motions, freezing the moment and infusing various symbolic imageries in them. He fragments these motions and incorporates images of wild animals…
Meggs’ “Heavenly Creature” opened last Saturday, April 6 at Thinkspace Art Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition features, installations, paintings and sculptures that discusses myths, personal symbolisms and introspective thoughts. Most notable amongst the collection is a series of mixed media paintings that consist of hypnagogic fussion of familiar images and erratic spatters of lively…
Greg “Craola” Simkins’ latest solo show entitled “Stop Haunting Me”, opened last April 6, 2013, at Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles. The show features several superbly executed artworks in the realm of the weird and unexpected. Craola’s paintings are fantastic clusters of various animals, familiar cartoon characters, skulls and unknown splashing liquids all mutated…
Travis Millard opened his latest solo exhibition entitled, “No Pressure”, at THIS Gallery last Friday, March 22, 2013. The show features the most recent artworks from Millard. A dog riding the waves, a mob of shocked faces, bums in an affectionate brotherly embrace; the randomness of the imagery that inhabits Millard’s works on paper is…
John John Jesse, an artist referred to by many as the “punk painter” exhibited his latest works at Opera Gallery in New York last February 28. John John Jesse had made a name for himself through distinctive artworks that gives one glimpses of the underground punk lifestyle the artist have lead. Deriving inspiration from his…
DOZE’s Collective 2501 made yet another stunning piece together with Basik and Gaia in Italy over the last weekend. Four commemorative pieces dedicated to a friend, an anti-fascist Davide Cesare aka DAX who died 10 years ago at age 26. Each made their works in various walls, but there is but one noticeable piece that…
DOZE Collective’s Gab Sarmiento and Maui Hidalgo, together with Mark Cristino, recently released the fourth issue of their surf and skate culture magazine, Blunt. Having been around for more than 2 years now, Blunt, has consistently provided coverage of the Philippines’ local surf and skate scenes. The magazine has release 3 digital copies but this…
The two-man collaboration known as DevNGosha opened their latest show last March 1, 2013 at SOZE gallery in Los Angeles, entitled “Pressure. This duo consists of Devin Liston, former member of the art group Cyrcle and Gosha Levochkin, a contemporary artist known for his whimsical watercolor creations. “Pressure” features the latest collaborative pieces from DevNGosha…
