Betye Saar is a legend of the Los Angeles art community. Defying racist and sexist social norms of the 20th century, she studied design and fine art in southern...
Challenging identity politics both in her homeland of Iran and the along global patriarchal front at large, groundbreaking international visual artist Shirin Ne...
Sadie Barnette is a multi-media millennial artist engaged in reminding and reinventing. Hailing from Oakland, and armed with a BFA from Cal Arts and an MFA from...
Lee Quiñones, who greeted fame with the moniker LEE, is an originator of the New York graffiti movement. A Puerto Rican from the Lower East Side, he started painting subway cars in 1974 and emerged as one of a select group of avant-garde influencers of Wild Style graffiti in an art scene that absolutely exploded around the world. LEE puts it another way, "Before Instagram, there was InstaDammnnn!"...
“Remembering to Forget,” Martinez’s second solo show, opens Saturday, Sept. 8, at Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown. Among the authentic Los Angeles artists (born and raised in L.A.) who continue to evolve here, Martinez is making art not only for art’s sake but with society in mind; and his work may leave you thinking, why is there any American art right now without a message? L.A. Weekly spoke to Martinez on the eve of his new show, about all of this plus music, politics, police violence and, in the end, how to have hope....
Political graphics are specifically made to be easy to read. Powerful, artistic and dynamic, the symbols and messages elevate ideas and pass on knowledge of the struggles that are often hidden and censored. Carol Wells, founder of the profound historical art archive Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles, explains, "The posters function as a graphic novel, teaching viewers a history they do not learn in school."...
American social movements have come to define our culture in the face of capitalism. In fact, it’s the cataclysmic intersections of visual art, writing and performance art that have contributed to great cultural change in the United States. Though hip-hop originated in the Bronx in the 1970s, the exhibit "Don’t Believe the Hype: L.A. Asian-Americans in Hip-Hop" documents the way the 40-year-old music movement has inspired resilience and defiance in the art created by Los Angeles' Asian-American population....
Just one of the 150 artists in the knockout "Beyond the Streets" installation taking over downtown this summer, AIKO has a unique story to tell about finding success as a woman of color in the street-art world. It’s a sexy story, too, full of action and adventure....
Mejorado's portrait of her friend was the basis for posters, stickers and other media of the “We the People” series, a collaboration with the non-profit Amplifier foundation, photographer Aaron Huey and artist Shepard Fairey....
At a secret location in Koreatown on July 12, Los Angeles native, multimedia artist and millionaire David Choe opened his invite-only art exhibit, "The Choe Show." The event — which closes on Sat., Aug. 5 — is free but involves an extensive online application process and, even with the build-up......
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