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Gallery 1988 next Friday will be having its 4th Crazy for Cult show July 9th This year’s installment is once again hosted by cult filmmaker and actor Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier (Clerks, Mallrats, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. Pop culture paintings from films, like Back to the Future, Pee-wees big adventure and several other great cult classics., will adorn the walls of Gallery 1988!

Gallery 1988
7020 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038

Todd Schorr , an amazing artist will have a retrospective of limited edition prints at Merry Karnowsky’s on Saturday 3-6pm June 19.

MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY
170 S. La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323.933.4408

We invite you to drop by and show your support for our emerging artists during this special event. For more information please contact us at 818.708.9232.

Participating Artists: Eric Pedersen, Margaret Ouchida, Michael Hubbard, Marina Fridman, Alex Douziech, Alex Alvarado

LAAFA Instructor, Aaron Westerberg, is featured in American Artist Workshop Magazine! You can read the article in this summer’s issue of American Artist Workshop Magazine. http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/artistdaily/archive/2010/05/23/how-to-successfully-paint-color-relationships-from-the-start.aspx

Aaron Westerberg will be teaching a monochromatic head painting class at LAAFA. For information about this class, go to http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3140&cat_id=2

Taylor Montague, will be exhibiting June 5th-19th for the Laguna College of Art and Design MFA Thesis Show. The show will be at the Arena 1 Gallery in Santa Monica. http://www.lagunacollege.edu/mfa.php

He will be teaching a Figurative Oil Painting in a Setting class next quarter at LAAFA. For information on his class, go to:http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3122&cat_id=2

James Galindo, will be exhibiting at Dawson Cole Fine Art Gallery in Laguna June 3rd-17th. His work will be featured for the First Thursdays ArtWalk June 3rd. For more info about the show, go to http://www.dawsoncolefineart.com/selectart.php?id=38

To view his painting class at LAAFA, go to: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3129&cat_id=2

To view his drawing class at LAAFA, go to: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3133&cat_id=1

Sean Cheetham Alla Prima Portrait Workshop June 24th-28th

This Workshop will focus on learning to paint a portrait from life. The Instructor will be going over composition, drawing, likeness, organizing your palette, color mixing, value, edges, and producing a completed portrait. This will consist of one day costumed or semi- nude poses. Students can work in any media. Instructor will be working in oil.
Sean Cheetham uses a very distinct palette, called a “mud-Palette” when working on Alla-Prima Portraits. This palette will be discussed extensively throughout the workshop. The benefits of working with this palette are value and color control. Harmony and unity in you final piece and a simple step by step process to painting alla-prima portraits. Don’t miss this opportunity to study with one of the great Portrait Painters of this time.

Sean Cheetham has been recognized by many Galleries, Magazines, Museums, and Art Collectors as a valid and important Artist in today’s representational Fine Art world!

What: Sean Cheetham Portrait in Alla-Prima Workshop
Where: Atelier Marchant
15414 Cabrito Rd.
Van Nuys, CA 91406
When: June 24th-28th 10am-6pm each day
Cost: $695 total

www.seancheetham.blogspot.com

To Register or for more details please Call Matthew Marchant 661.350.1579 or e-mail: marchant07@sbcglobal.net

Hey folks,

There’s a great show at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra tonite. There will be more then a dozen paintings that are the works of faculty and notable contributors to the Illustration Academy.

210 East Main Street
Alhambra, CA 91801
(626) 458-7482
6pm-10pm

Works exhibited will be by

Trey Bryan, Doug Chayka,John English,Mark English,Jon Foster,Josh George,Sterling Hundley,Android Jones, Gary Kelley,Edward Kinsella,Anita Kunz, Robert Meganck, C.F. Payne,George Pratt, Barron Storey,Marshall Vandruff, Brent Watkinson, Andrew R. Wright

I’ll be there to tonight to document this great event. I’ll be the one in the grey hat, and red converse and camera in hand!

Van Eaton Galleries will be having a special event honoring the animation history of THE ART OF HARVEY COMICS. The event will include a retrospective look at the appearance of the beloved characters in the films of Fleischer and Famous Animation Studios as well as their printed lives in Harvey Comic.

VAN EATON GALLERIES . 8pm. on Saturday May 8th.
13613 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423

Jason Shawn Alexander an amazing figurative artist has a gallery opening on Saturday May 8th at 7pm at the Corey Helford Gallery. Jason is a painter and illustrator and has comics for Dark Horse, and DC, and a number of another companies. He recently won the Silver Medal Award from the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles,

“Mourners walk over Maple Leaves” Solo exhibition
Los Angeles/Culver City, CA

April 3 – 26, 2010

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 3, 7 – 10PM

210 East Main St, Alhambra CA 91801

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”- Coco Chanel

Artistic representation of fashion has existed since the dawn of civilization.  From the statues of Mesopotamia, the walls of Egyptian pyramids, the master paintings of the Renaissance, the cover of  Vogue’s first issue in 1892, and through today, artists have continued to carefully document fashion of the period. Gallery Nucleus is therefore proud to present our first fashion illustration exhibition.

We are privileged to have an international roster featuring established as well as emerging contemporary fashion illustrators. Exhibiting artists working in a variety of mediums from paint, watercolor, ink, textiles and digital media. These artists have worked with designers such as Dior, Jean-Paul Gualtier, and Marc Jacobs just to name a few. They have graced the pages of publications including, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Nylon and many more. We are pleased to showcase the ever expanding world of fashion illustration that represents the latest trends of our time and captivates the greatest styles that will last forever.

http://gallerynucleus.com/

March 13 – 29, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, Mar 13, 7:00PM – 10:00PM

“The untold want by life and land ne’er granted,
Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.”

Walt Whitman poetically put into words the innermost desire in all of us to seek adventure. Jared Andrew Schorr and Sean Chao brings this to life with a 2-man exhibit of playful and inspiring, new and original works of art.

Awaken the explorer inside of you and venture with us on a voyage into the wealth of creativity brought by two talented artistic adventurers. Both graduates of the treacheous land of Art Center College of Design, these men have braved the storms to bring you The Untold Want. Brace yourselves…

http://gallerynucleus.com/