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‘Luis Alfaro grew up in the Pico Union district near Downtown Los Angeles, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in East Los Angeles. His plays and fiction are set in Los Angeles’s Chicano barrios, including the Pico Union district, and often feature gay and lesbian and working-class themes.
- Galerie Dennis Cooper Presents … Nina Beier
On the issue of staying unresolved, I guess I am not the...
- For The Birds
15 Los Angeles Performance Artists of the 80s and early 90s,...
- 15 Los Angeles Performance Artists of The 80S and Early 90S, Part 1
15 Los Angeles Performance Artists of the 80s and early 90s,...
- Galerie Dennis Cooper Presents … Nina Beier
From monumental opalescent canvases by Mary Corse to quippy word-works by Ed Ruscha, discover available works by Los Angeles’ most influential artists, whether born into the sunshine city or self-adopted later in life.
Fine Art, Modern & Contemporary Art — Auction Results by Heritage Editorial. Los Angeles has and continues to be a key player in the international art scene. Most recently, there has been an influx of new galleries and institutions popping up across the vast city and artists moving from New York.
- Mobbing Busses and Writing Along The L.A. River
- Emerging Graffiti Writers in L.A.
- L.A.’s Latin-Influenced Graffiti Style
- Contributions from The CBS Crew
- Early 90's La Graffiti Wrap up...
In early-90s Los Angeles, the Rodney King beating and subsequent L.A. riots created a backdrop of racial tension. For young people feeling forgotten, angry, or marginalized, graffiti’s expressive power became a tool to push back. Just as their New York counterparts took to the public transportation system for its ease of access, the L.A. graffiti w...
While many taggers remained nameless, a number of taggers deftly combined clean concepts and slick artistry to sett the tone for the 90s street art scene in Los Angeles. RISK and fellow writer OG SLICK, a Hawaii native who fused elements of Japanese and American culture in his work, energized the scene. SLICK’s white-gloved hands, reminiscent of a ...
One of the more popular styles to emerge during the 90s in L.A. was the barrio style, which blends fine art references with pop culture influences and nods to Mexican Culture. Especially in Spanish-speaking areas of Los Angeles, this style thrived, with elaborate designs, punchy colors, and recurrent iconography such as lowriders and bikes. With th...
Short for “Can’t Be Stopped,” CBS represents one of the most prolific graffiti crews in L.A. during the 1990s. Founded in the 1984 by Hex, Frost, Theory, and Demo, the crew’s evolving personnel has included members across racial and economic divides. Kids from Compton and Beverly Hills alike joined forces to artfully brand what had become a blighte...
The graffiti writers of Los Angeles needed only to look in their backyard – the bland concrete channels of the city’s river or the buses coasting down the roadways – to find a blank slate in the early 90s. While the significant problem of gang violence dominated the news headlines, the problems found a voice in spray-painted imagery. Groups of arti...
Feb 13, 2020 · Maxwell Williams is a perfumer, olfactory artist, researcher, DJ/producer, and writer based in Los Angeles. Williams’ work places smell in the context of performance, research, sculpture, and photography to explore a personal history of sadomasochism, techno and gabber raves, global trade routes, heartbreak, and the psychology behind the ...
Dec 22, 2020 · Ever since Edward Kienholz teamed up with Walter Hopps to open the Ferus Gallery in 1957, Los Angeles has been renowned as a renegade city full of boundary-pushing artist-run spaces.
