'Get Rich Quick' opens at Carmichael Gallery...

The Carmichael Gallery just opened 'Get Rich Quick' - an all-star group show of after market works from the collections of the gallery's patrons including: Adam Neate, Antony Micallef, Banksy, Barry McGee, Bast, D*Face, Dalek, David Choe, David Choong Lee, Faile, Herbert Baglione, Ian Francis, KAWS, Nick Walker, Paul Insect, Shepard Fairey, Sixeart, Skullphone, Space Invader, Swoon, Will Barras and many more. The buzz on this one was large, and the gallery was packed throughout the evening. Made the trek out to the gallery with Allison Sommers and Joao Ruas in tow...

Wall of KAWS goodness...

An iconic Faile from their 1st show up at Fifty24SF... had for $150 originally... god bless the art market... now $15K (not much more than a few years later)...

By far the monster piece of the show from the one and only BANKSY...

Someone else cashing in on one of the gems from their early show up in SF at Fifty24SF

A beautiful piece from Nick Walker...

Knock knock... WOW... would kill for this door from the mighty SWOON...

Monster 4x8' piece from David Choe...

Collection of Antony Micallef prints...

Goodness from D*Face...

The magic that is Ian Francis...

BAST keeps it dirty...

Tons of Shepard Fairey works were on view...

Another great piece from Nick Walker...

Another view of the collection of Faile boxes that were on view...

Fellow Brazilians meet for the 1st time - Joao Ruas with Thais Beltrame...

Whose 'When All The Stars Are Gone' solo also opened in conjunction with 'Get Rich Quick'. Profiled here in an earlier post, the works of Beltrame need to be viewed in person, as does her delicatley intricate constellation installation.

Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
1257 N. La Brea Ave in West Hollywood / 323.969.0600
http://www.carmichaelgallery.com/

'American Realities' opens at New Image Art...

'American Realities' opened last night at New Image Art in West Hollywood to a packed house. The works of Lydia Fong (aka Barry McGee), Clare Rojas and Andrew Jeffrey Wright were on display and did not disappoint. These three always deliver and have done numerous shows together over the years and are great friends as well, and it shows.

McGee really showed strength through diversity with this show, and exhibited a ton of great work. The above wall of geometrics was different than usual, in that it highlighted the words 'Lydia' in the collage make up...

One of McGee's signature "wall pimples" in full effect... below numerous close ups of other choice works from McGee that caught our eye...

How does he paint these? Hard to even look at without going all crosseyed... awesome.

Several of his highly detailed ballpoint pen works were included in the show...

The gem of the show, in my opinion, was hidden most of the night as it was in the shadow of a pedestal that held one of McGee's sculptures... but he's a tendency to put awesome pieces in crazy places and that's why going to his shows are always so fun...

Opening night crowd view with McGee's wall of geometrics and wall pimple in the background...

Classic McGee.

Unique install from McGee featuring his new direction of works...

And another install from McGee...

Close up of one of McGee's newer pieces... incorporating his use of geometrics still, but more minimal in certain aspects...

Another close up of one of the 'wall pimple' pieces...

Me wants :)

McGee checking out some new ink Travis Millard got recently...

Wall of work from Clare Rojas...

Close up of Clare's massive centerpiece...

Clare's new works were just beautiful... over 30 new pieces were included in the show...

My favorite of the new pieces from Rojas...

In the project room were the works of Andrew Jeffrey Wright...

Where a trashcan was filled with Furbies... but once one walked around the back, they found an automated Frubie that kind of mimiced the traveling installation piece from McGee that had Amaze bombing a bathroom (that was housed in the back of an old truck trailer)... genious this lil' install was, be sure to check it out when you swing through (as you could well miss it).

The whole project room was just taken over by Wright - one of the walls above. His view on life and things in general, is 100% unique and all Wright.

Andrew Jeffrey Wright delivered a short set of his unique stand up comedy...

While Barry McGee and the crowd looked on...

Above, ithe crowd gathers to hear Peggy Honeywell (Clare Rojas' alter-ego)... her acoustic driven songs are just beautiful and I can't recommend enough picking up some of her albums...

Peggy Honeywell (aka Clare Rojas) in action... check out a short song from her set the night of the opening below...

New Image Art

7908 Santa Monica Blvd. in Los Angeles / 323.654.2192

"American Realities" featuring new works from Clare Rojas, Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Lydia Fong (aka Robert Pimple, aka Barry McGee)

http://www.newimageartgallery.com/

New Image Art's 15th Anniversary opening night...

New Image Art over on Fairfax celebrated their 15th Anniversary this evening in grand fashion (see previous post). When we arrived a bit after 8PM, the crowd swelled into the streets as the band No Age was rocking the house big time...

Marsea Goldberg of New Image in front of a work from Cleon Peterson (congrats Marsea!)

The epic 12' tall work from Judith Supine that greated patrons as they entered...

The crowd view from mid-gallery looking out with Supine's piece looming in the distance

Faile

Megan Whitmarsh's plush bling... gotta love it.

Taylor McKimens

Matt Leines

Rebecca Westcott (R.I.P)

Shepard Fairey - pulled out the OG Andre for the event... nice!

Patrons taking in the beauty of Jim Houser's intricate work...

Swoon

Dave Kinsey

Thomas Campbell

No Age are rocking out in there somewhere... the place was just packed all night...

Claire Rojas

Barry Mc Gee - just killin' it, one of the highlights...

Os Gemeos... how sick is that thing?!?!

More goodness from Os Gemeos

BAST

Neckface custome cycle... definitely a nice touch.

Another shot of the monster Judith Supine piece... because it was that amazing.

A wall of work from The Date Farmers

Albert Reyes bombin' our sketchbook...

The Clayton Brothers

DJ Alf Alpha with a work from Anthony Lister looming in the background...

Thomas Campbell

Phil Frost

Rich Jacobs

AIKO

What an amazing night!!! So many artists came out to pay their props to Marsea including Jeff Soto, The Clayton Brothers, Kelsey Brookes, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, The Date Farmers, Rich Jacobs, Albert Reyes, Neckface, Ed Templeton, Deanna Templeton, and more... just an amazing turnout and show - Congrats again Marsea!