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New Works - Juxtapoz
Last weekend was a fine turnout for art in Los Angeles. Honestly, there hasn't been a weekend lacking in good art in the city of Angeles for some time. In case you've been locked up inside your house, let me tell you that the monthly Downtown L.A. Art Walk is so out of control now you have to wear shoulder pads to get down the sidewalk. A few blocks before downtown though, in lovely Echo Park, we found our way to Subliminal Projects Gallery to check out some of L.A. and a little of San Francisco that dropped by, 'New Works by Andres Guerrero (that'd be the SF) and Albert Reyes (native Angelino).'
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Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes - The Dirt Floor
Sitting with artists Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes as the hustle and bustle of last minute preparations surrounded us for their show, "New works by Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes," at the Subliminal Projects Gallery in Echo Park, California, was an undeniable treat for me. The show is presented as "two longtime friends contrasting bodies of work show both ends of the contemplation spectrum." The contrast is clear, but also present is the thread that bonds these artists and their work.
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Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes - Flavorpill
From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing is what it appears to be.
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Preview: Albert Reyes Work - Juxtapoz
Albert Reyes will unveil new works in a two-man show alongside Andres Guerrero tomorrow night at Subliminal Projects LA. Eager to see what this weird/awesome/talented/insightful guy has in store, we now present a few of our favorite pieces Reyes will be showing off.
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Exclusive Interview with Andres Guerrero - Juxtapoz
As if the past year hasn't been crazy enough, San Francisco based Andres Guerrero left as founder of White Walls gallery, worked on a ton of new art for an upcoming solo at Subliminal Projects gallery (opening February 6th, 2010) and will be opening the fresh doors of his very own spot, Guerrero Gallery. Hey, no one ever called Andres lazy. Get the scoop on it all in an exclusive interview as well as a peek at the work he'll be showing off next week.
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Bitter Tears, Fury, and Politics - LA Weekly
Art is the antidote. The timeless truth became clear once again on Saturday night when Subliminal Projects, the Echo Park art gallery owned by Shepard Fairey, hosted a politically- and musically- charged event that celebrated artists as activists and art as a way to agitate consciousness and raise awareness about social justice.
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A Furious Heartbeat At Subliminal Projects - Living Proof Mag
Opening on December 19th at Subliminal Projects, Shepard Fairey and Antonino D'Ambrosio present D'Ambrosio's A Heartbeat and a Guitar and Let Fury Have the Hour with a unique multimedia exhibit, featuring artwork by Shepard Fairey, special musical performances by Antonino D'Ambrosio, Wayne Kramer of the MC5, and other special guests, illustrations by Ben Scanlon, photos of the Clash by Kate Simon, plus plenty of other special events. And that's just the opening night!
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Openings: WK Interact - Arrested Motion
This past weekend, WK Interact opened his "amped-up" show "How To Blow Yourself Up" at LA's Subliminal Projects. Unlike his last show at Jonathan Levine, which focused on giant canvas works, his show centered around the intricately designed urban mechanisms and interactive installations which were handcrafted by WK himself. The show was filled with his signature kinetic energy and even the installations seemed to radiate and pulsate with intense pressure.
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Welcome to the Show! You're Under Arrest - Brooklyn Street Art
WK turns his opening into a perp walk. At his recent opening at Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles, 200 people were arrested.
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WK Interact: How to Blow Yourself Up - Cool Hunting
No stranger to controversy, WK Interact keeps upping his ante. For his newest show "How to Blow Yourself Up" at L.A.'s Subliminal Projects, the artist moves away from spray paint into multimedia work. Playing on ideas of the apocalypse (2012 being the most recent buzzed-about theory), he takes them for a turn by presenting impending death as controllable by the believer.
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WK Interact Next Sat - Sour Harvest
WK Interact is coming to Los Angeles next weekend - get excited! 'How To Blow Yourself Up' opens on Sat, November 7th at Subliminal Projects out in Echo Park. Unlike his solo show in New York at Jonathan Levine earlier in the year, which showcased his huge motion portrait series, I'm told this exhibit will feature a range of smaller, mixed media works like his popular skateboard series.
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Opening Night Party at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects - Racked LA
Echo Park-In addition to being a famous artist and ruthless provocateur, Shepard Fairey throws a good party. Saturday is the opening reception for an exhibit called How to Blow Yourself Up from WK Interact. The art sounds a li'l scary... But to lighten the mood, there'll be booze, and possibly Shep himself as DJ.
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Weekend Pacifists - Flavorpill
Weekend warriors find their more enlightened alter ego in Weekend Pacifists, a group show featuring the work of five artists - Russ Pope, Andy Jenkins, Mike Myers, Chris Pastras, and Michael Sieben - steeped in laid back spirit of the SoCal surf/skate scene. Following the revolutionary footsteps of counter-culture icons such as Barry McGee and Subliminal Projects co-founder Shepard Fairey, these artists find stylistic inspiration in street art, graffiti, and graphic design in order to find their own ways of sticking it to the Man.
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The Weekend - Hypebeast
Over the weekend I stopped by Amanda and Shepard's gallery, Subliminal Projects in Echo Park. They've been there for a minute, but it's actually the first time I was able to stop by and say hello. Andy Jenkins and friend Chris Pastras were presenting Weekend Pacifists...
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Weekend Pacifists - Juxtapoz
In the skate world there are many great people who have set standards and made their mark. This show features just a few of those individuals.
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Openings: "Park Life: The New Utopia" - Arrested Motion
This past Saturday, Subliminal Projects presented the second installment of their "Park Life" series. Curated by Studio Number One, the latest body of work revolves around the theme of "The New Utopia," which presents each artists' individual representations of a perfect society...
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An Exclusive Look at Park Life: The New Utopia - Juxtapoz
The gang at Studio Number One worked hard on a theme and concept for their 2nd annual group show, Park Life. This year's theme, The New Utopia, was a brainchild of the studio to pose several questions to both the artist and the viewer. "Why do we create utopias? What can we learn from our past utopias? How does our current existence inform our ideas of utopia?..."
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Recap: "Ego, Addiction & Other Bedtime Stories" by Sam Flores - Juxtapoz
Sam Flores is a Juxtapoz household name. I can pretty much guarantee that if he has art showing in your neighborhood, you need to leave your comfortable couch and go take a look! "Ego, Addiction & Other Bedtime Stories" is a dark show laced with Flores' style beauty and hope...
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Sam Flores @ Subliminal Projects - Upper Playground
Tomorrow night at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects Gallery in Los Angeles, Upper Playground's own 12 Grain artist, Sam Flores will be debuting his latest solo show. Featuring a whole new body of work, Ego, Addiction & Other Bedtime Stories will follow up on Flores' themes of fantasy, feudalism, and the juxtoposition of good/evil and light/dark.
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Sam Flores Interview - Modart
Tonight, May 2nd, is the opening of Sam Flores' major solo exhibition, 'Ego, Addiction, & Other Bedtime Stories' at Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles. Ripo got a chance to ask him a few questions about dark and light, traveling, artist branding, and quacamole. Read on for the full interview.
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Sam Flores X Subliminal Projects - Fresher Than
Saturday night was alive and well with art and booze. Ego, Addiction and Other Bedtime Stories was a huge success with all those little red "sold" dots stuck to the wall...
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Preview/Interview: Sam Flores - "Ego, Addiction, and Other Bedtime Stores" @ Subliminal Projects - Arrested Motion
We had an inkling this would be a strong show from Sam Flores when AM first hooked up last month for a creative process article for his upcoming show. As we saw more images leaked from his show entitled "Ego, Addiction, and Other Bedtime Stories," opening this Saturday, May 2nd at Subliminal Projects, we became more and more excited about this body of work.
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Sam Flores: Ego, Addiction, and Other Bedtime Stories - Flavorpill
Sam Flores has brand recognition in the skate-deck and design worlds, but as a fine-art painter, his work might surprise even the dreamiest fashionista. Flores constructs fairy-tale worlds in which impossibly lovely 50-foot tall female spirits, eyes downcast in pensive moods, do meditative battle with dragons, all among the sun-kissed rooftops of sleepy hamlets.
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Show Review: John Van Hamersveld's Career Retrospective, "Post-Future" - Juxtapoz
A great artist like John is rare, simply because he has lived through a period of time that many artists don't make it out of alive. A Retrospective at this point is to be expected and because his work is so cool, it is also to be appreciated. This is one of those art culture lessons that you read about in books and may not feel connected to because not only are you much younger buy you may have never taken this many drugs.
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In With The Out Crowd - ArtSlant
Given all that he's done, it's kind of amazing that you've never heard of John Van Hamersveld. It's not unlikely you grew up with one of his images taped to the wall of your bedroom. This remarkable graphic artist designed instantly recognizable album covers for bands ranging from the Beatles (Magical Mystery Tour) and the Rolling Stones (Exile On Main Street) to Blondie and Public Image...
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The Raw Power of Glen E. Friedman - LA Weekly
"Search and Destroy" funnels out onto the 10:30 p.m. Saturday Sunset Blvd. sidewalk, violently greeting late-arrivals to Glen E. Friedman's Idealist Propaganda exhibit. Iggy's cocaine cacophony carves up Tymphanic cavities. Like a pistol gripped power drill, James Williamson's guitar rattles the window panes of the poor saps staying at the Echo Park Super 8, adjacent to Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery. Good luck trying to turn in early when confronted with the one-two assault of The Stooges, plus the 100+ Dewars-drunk art geeks serried into the small space-among the thousand-plus bold-faced names and miscellaneous, vivid characters that poured in during the three hour opening.
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'Idealist Propaganda' by Glen E. Friedman - Los Angeles Times
Master of the fish-eye lens, Glen E. Friedman has killer instincts that put him at the ascendancy of the burgeoning punk, hip-hop and skate scenes in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles in the late 1970s and early '80s, later branching out to include political subjects matter and photography with a distinctly fine art bent.
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Glen E. Friedman Retrospective
Legendary photographer Glen E. Friedman comes to Los Angeles' Subliminal Projects gallery for a major retrospective of his works in a show titled Idealist Propaganda opening December 13th, 2008.
Idealist Propaganda will feature a rare selection of Friedman's oeuvre, including twenty-five never-before exhibited photographs of his celebrated iconic photos of the pioneering skate, punk and hip-hop subcultures to his equally political and polarized subject matter of the natural world.
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Idealist Propaganda - Flavorpill
One of the best-known names in street photography, Glen Friedman produces jaunty, richly printed black-and-white portraits of skate, punk, and indie hip-hop scenes. His iconic photos have defined a generation of alternative, progressive artists and struck at the heart of any number of music-friendly subcultures.
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Glen E. Friedman's Photo Show - BoingBoing
Photographer Glen E. Friedman is best known for iconic images that captured the roots of three indigenous American pop cultures: skateboarding, American hardcore, and hip hop. Starting tonight, you can see all three represented at Shepard Fairey's (relatively new) gallery, Subliminal Projects, over in the Silverlake/Echo Park area of Los Angeles.
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House Industries Hits Subliminal Projects - Creativity Magazine
Since 1993, House Industries has made art out of the letters we see everyday. Often using cultural references to create lettering and type that no only communicate a message, but create a distinct mood and feel. But while we're used to seeing everyone from H&M to Lucky Charms to NYC's beloved Shake Shack use their fonts, this Saturday the Wilmington, Delaware-based wizards take their artful approach to communication and hang it on the gallery wall. Letters and Ligatures opens at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery and promises to feature a new collection of prints, sculpture, and installations that reflect the shop's unique design sensibility.
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"Letters and Ligatures" From House Industries - Juxtapoz
Delaware based typography foundry House Industries (Rich Roat, Andy Cruz, and Adam Cruz) has an obsession with letters and corresponding ligatures. Good thing they are able to show off their sexy lettering in a new show, appropriately titled Letters and Ligatures, at Los Angeles' Subliminal Projects Gallery. The work of creating letters may seem like an oxymoron (haven't 26 letters already been created?) but that would do a massive injustice to this creative trio, as well as the alphabet (and way would you want to do that when its done so much for you?)
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Openings: House Industries - Arrested Motion
This past Saturday night, Subliminal Projects was decked out in the typographical patterns of House Industries. The Delaware based group showcased a new collection of prints and patterns and transformed the gallery into a graphical delight that showcased just was what some simple fonts can do. AM was invited to the opening night rock out with the beats of DJ Diabetic, who kept the night bumping way past closing time.
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Typographically Speaking - GenArt pulse
Helvetica may be the subliminal face of the corporate world, but this colloquial type was founded in 1957 and is in its prime mid-life crisis years. There are a few Gen Y-ers quietly reforming and refining the art of the letter, and the majority of them are tucked away in Yorklyn, Delaware at font foundry House Industries.
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Life Of The Park - Juxtapoz
If you like immersing yourself into an atmosphere akin to packed sardines - Subliminal Projects Gallery in Echo Park definitely has to be on your radar. The gallery, which Shepard and Amanda Fairey recently opened in this new space, only does six shows a year, and if any of the others were like their first annual Park Life exhibit on Saturday - meaning crammed wall-to-wall with arties sousing themselves on a wild concoction of scotch mixed with ginger beer - better grease up your hips.
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Park Life - Flavorpill
Subliminal Projects uses its recent move from Koreatown to the more pastoral environs of Echo Park as the curatorial focus for its latest exhibition, Park Life. Studio Number One, the art/design-oriented arm of the Shepard Fairey-run Subliminal family, focuses on the idea of community during an ongoing project, the first leg of which includes this show featuring artists close to the curators. Expect an eclectic but consistently invigorating array of outsider styles with urban accents and strongly held political views, plus some cheeky celebrations of togetherness by the usual Eastside suspects.
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Swell City Guide - Park Life Exhibit
On Saturday October 4th 2008 Subliminal Projects presented the first installment of their new Studio Number One curatorial program, Park Life. The series of exhibitions focuses on the creative crossroads of art, design, pop culture, and technology. With works from an expansive network of artists, Park Life attempts to showcase the sense of community that art has the power to create.
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Grimy Goods - Subliminal Projects Presents
You can never go wrong in attending an art show presented by Subliminal Projects. Always astounding works, always good times. Check out the goods on Park Life below and see for yourself what it's all about.
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Living Proof Magazine - Park Life
This month, Subliminal Projects will host a fairly gigantic group show featuring works from their friends and family. The show, entitled Park Life has close to 50 artists, some with more than one piece, from various different mediums.
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