July 27th, 2015 — Downtown Los Angeles has long been known as one of the premier cities for creative and cutting edge developments within the arts. Please join us on Thursday, August 13th as we collaborate with galleries, pop ups and artists to bring another Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk. Participating galleries for this Art Walk will include: The Fine Arts Building, These Days, DAC Gallery, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Carol Cirillo Stanley Studio Gallery, The Spring Arts Collective, Fa...
July 27th, 2015 — Downtown Los Angeles has long been known as one of the premier cities for creative and cutting edge developments within the arts. Please join us on Thursday, August 13th as we collaborate with galleries, pop ups and artists to bring another Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk. Participating galleries for this Art Walk will include: The Fine Arts Building, These Days, DAC Gallery, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Carol Cirillo Stanley Studio Gallery, The Spring Arts Collective, Fathom Gallery, REN Gallery, Hybrid DTLA, Howard Griffin Gallery, Labs.WIZNU.com, and Make It Happen Music.
PROGRAMMING
ART WALK LOUNGE
634 S. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90013, 6-10pm
Colors of Cuba - A Sensory Art Exhibition
Curated by Martha De Perez.
Following this month's transportation theme, the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk will be organizing a special exhibition designed to transport Art Walk guests to a new time, place, and culture... Cuba! Featuring artwork from an eclectic arrangement of Cuban painters, performers and photographers, the August Art Walk is sure to entice all guests as coffee tastings and the sound of Old Havana lure guests inside. Featured artists for this month will include Viredo, Rogelio E. Espinosa, Juan J. Perez, Lili Bernard, Silfredo La O, Clay Lipsky, Enrique Pita, and more.
Our monthly Art Walk Map, provided by the Los Angeles Times, will be available at the Art Walk Lounge and at participating galleries. Complimentary refreshments, courtesy of Perrier, will also be made available to Art Walk patrons.
HOWARD GRIFFIN GALLERY
724 South Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90014
- Journey Galactiko
Broken Fingaz are a world-renowned psych-pop graffiti collective from Haifa, Israel. Since their founding in 2001, its members Unga, Kip, Tant and Deso have worked prolifically on the international art scene, with a practice that extends to graphic design, music, film and installation. Using bold lines and acid pop colours, Broken Fingaz' work visually alludes to ‘80s comic book illustrations and pulp horror. Exploring two of art history’s oldest themes - sex and death – the BF confront viewers with humorous, controversial and often sexually explicit imagery, that contemplates notions of the abject through a confrontation with the baseness of humanity and its suppressed desires. Howard Griffin Gallery will be open on June 11th for a soft premiere of the newest exhibition from the Israeli arts collective. This show is Broken Fingaz' debut at the Gallery, and first exhibition in the USA.
THESE DAYS
118 Winston St. Los Angeles, CA 90013
- Twelve Women and a Nihilist
Twelve Women and a Nihilist—the title of Jack Zoltak’s exhibition at These Days—represents the controversy of someone who does not believe in anything, surrounded by twelve women. With its metaphysical multiplication of life, it is an Expressionist version of Odysseus and the sirens, as told by a Romantic—a man who loves women, but who may not trust women. These thirteen mixed media paintings and drawings on paper, canvas, and wood each began with something seen, witnessed, or experienced in the “real world” and were then worked to a further degree of completion through memory and intuition. In them, reality, or the natural world, gives way to some other state of experience through the layered application of perception.
DAC GALLERY
431 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013
- Summer Group Exhibition
DAC Gallery is pleased to present our Summer Group Exhibition featuring artists Carlos Beltran, Ching Ching Cheng, Valérie Daval, Tiffany Anne Jordan, Echo Lew, Juan Pierri, Molly Schulman and Thomas Sedgwick. The featured artists were selected by DAC Gallery curators from a pool of over 100 candidates who submitted works in a variety of 2D mediums. Works exhibited explore the relationship between organic and inorganic systems - how they coexist, how they can echo one another, and how organic consciousness negotiates artificial spaces. An opening reception will take place during the July Downtown Art Walk on Thursday, July 9th, from 7 to 9 PM. The exhibition will be on view at DAC Gallery from July 9th to August 28th, 2015.
CAROL CIRILLO STANLEY STUDIO GALLERY
112 W. 9th St. #507, Los Angeles, CA 90014
- LA Transport
“LA Transport”, an intriguing photographic exhibition inspired by the movement patterns of local Downtown residents, offers viewers a unique perspective into the fast paced foot traffic of DTLA and challenges the popular assumption that no one walks in LA! This show, which documents the footwear and pavement found on our local streets, will be open on Art Walk evening from 5 to 8 pm and by appointment, 949-633-8961.
GLORIA DELSON CONTEMPORARY ARTS GALLERY
727 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90014
Imprints & Anticipation of Chaos
This August, GDCA is proud to present two exhibits: “Imprints” – a group show celebrating the mediums of photography, painting & mixed media featuring artists Michael Britt, Holly Elander, Oren Giladi, Maureen Haldeman, Barbara Nathanson & Lisa Scadron, and “Anticipation of Chaos” - the highly anticipated multi-media solo exhibit by internationally renown artist Robert Toll. In this show, Toll will unveil his latest mobile-sculptures collection, alongside selected gems in his figurative and abstract-kinetic styles, as well as his renown Extreme Found Metal Horses. Additionally, “Anticipation of Chaos” introduces the artist’s hot-‐off-‐the-‐press series of never-‐before-‐seen paintings on canvas.
FATHOM GALLERY
California Market Center
110 East 9th Street, Suite CL002, Los Angeles, CA 90079
- Rock on Paper
A legendary photographer and Rock “N’ Roll insider, Richard E. Aaron captured the rock music scene throughout the classic era. He was named by Modern Photography Magazine as one of the ten best Rock Photographers in the world. The "Rock On Paper" exhibition highlights Mr. Aaron’s favorite shots and tells the story of Rock Music through the lens of a true artist.
FINE ARTS BUILDING
811 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
- The Art of Commercial Neon
Ever since the introduction of the first electric neon signs to the United States was made at a Los Angeles Packard car dealership in 1923 neon signs and signage have become synonymous with classic Americana. The ingenuity of glass tube making and bending became something that very skilled artisans created and their combination of shapes and colors along with animated lighting made for truly artistic signs and theater marquees. The exhibit, "The Art of Commercial Neon" featuring photographs by Mark Peacock, is designed to showcase the classic neon signs of Los Angeles and Southern California in a way that celebrates not only this unique art form, but the artisans that made them.
REN GALLERY
601 S. Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles CA 90014
- Polychrome
Showcasing pieces from Susan Doe's most recent body of work, "Polychrome", will feature six foot canvases with striking color compositions in geometric forms. Layer upon layer of paint has been scraped away and painted over multiple times to form a polychromatic scale of color presented on a grand scale. To the artist, these layers represent the hybrid identities that we have created in a hyper-connected information age. Two nights only, August 13th and 14th 5-10pm. Susan is about to begin the MFA program at the Rhode Island School of Design.
HYBRID DTLA
603 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles CA 90014
- Historic Pop
This month Hybrid DTLA transports you on a journey with a virtual tour of historic landmarks of DTLA with 360 Media. VR Glasses will transport the viewer to several historic landmarks in DTLA, brought to you by 360 Media. A Pop Art exhibition will be on display, curated by REN Gallery, with many limited edition prints from Pop Artists Knowledge Bennett, becca, Philip Lumbang, Haze, Richard Duardo, Marc Dean Veca, Dave Lefner, and Mear One. Finally, to top the evening off, a live musical performance by The Push featuring singer - songwriter Philippa Magnusson will take place from 9-10pm.
WINU LABS
724 South Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90014
- Cosmos & Self
Wiznu Labs is proud to present famed, independent journalist Abby Martin, is her first Downtown LA art exhibition, "Cosmos & Self". Martin, who is known for her controversial RT show Breaking The Set, will be presenting and discussing some of her latest art work to the public from 7pm till Midnight on Art Walk night. The show, which is described as "an exploration of the cosmos and the ego's perception of the whole" as well as "a celebration of the soul's depths and earth's psychedelic splendor", is sure to dazzle Art Walk patrons and invigorate art lovers of all kinds!
MAKE IT HAPPEN MUSIC
263 South Los Angeles St. Los Angeles, CA 90012
- Open Jam
Make It Happen Music is one of the newest locations in Downtown Los Angeles where art and live music meet. This exciting venue specializes in bringing the downtown art community together by offering music workshops, private instruction, live events and a creative atmosphere for all. For this upcoming July Art Walk, Make It Happen Music will be organizing a special blend of musicians together in an "open jam" performance series that will take place throughout the night.
DOVE BISCUIT STUDIO
453 S Spring St Los Angeles, CA 90013
- Create or Die
Located inside the Spring Arts Collective (on the mezzanine level of The Last Bookstore) "Create or Die", the annual exhibition hosted by Dove Biscuit Studio, will feature a variety of artists from Downtown LA all eager to promote one thing: unrestricted creativity. As Robin McGeough, owner of Dove Biscuit Studio, explains, "We are living in a time where days feel like they go by in the speed of light and decisions are being made for us before the blink of our eyes... We are artists, musicians, professionals, thinkers, and dreamers of the world with one purpose to fulfill for years and years to come...to create or die." In light of this truth, the artists of "Create or Die" invite everyone to celebrate the real meaning of freedom with them and experience emotions one may have long forgotten. The show, located on the mezzanine level of The Last Bookstore, will be open to visitors beginning August 1st.
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The Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk takes place on the second Thursday of each month and attracts upwards of 10,000 attendees. For over 10 years, Art Walk continues to be a free self-guided public art phenomenon that brings together attendees consisting of art lovers, community members, and repeat visitors who collect art, dine and shop at local businesses.