The L.A. Art Show: Metropolis Rising
Now in its 20th year, the Los Angeles Art Show concluded this past weekend. However, it has only been in the past few years that its international recognition…
Unlocking the Pandora Box
When you read the first page of Penny Dora and the Wishing Box by Image Comics, you’re at once introduced to concepts of land use and…
God Help the Girl
For the past year or so, I had been listening to songs from God Help the Girl, in anticipation for the new film written and directed…
Looking Backward; Looking Forward: The Art of Jason Hernandez
Often when we do art, we tap into a historical narrative that influences our current perspective. This could be done in several ways such as examining…
War on the Cholo Colony
I’ve read different variations of the origin of the word “cholo”. I read somewhere that it was an ancient pre-Columbian word, the equivalent to a mixed-bred…
Devils’ Town Art Exhibition Opening This Weekend
Los Angeles is a fragmented metropolis. Since the war of conquest when California was annexed into the United States and the village or pueblo of Los…
Gothic Summer
Photo Courtesy of: JWNY 2014 If you grew up in Southern California during the 80’s and 90’s, and were exposed to street gangs and violence anywhere…
El Segundo Museum of Art: Scratch Exhibition
Many years ago art collector, Ed Sweeney, began taking notice of a young man, Juan Carlos Munoz Hernandez, a sculptor and graffiti artist. The work he…
The Gritty Landscapes of Roberto Gutierrez
Roberto Gutierrez was born in 1943 in Los Angeles to a family at the edge of poverty and the youngest of nine children. They moved around…
Violating Expectations: Gajin Fujita
On radiant days like today, Mayday, with the rising sun in the background escorted by the cordial climate, Gajin Fujita is at his best. The topography,…
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