{"id":1861,"date":"2011-01-14T06:51:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2011-01-14T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T21:31:41","slug":"art-walk-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1861","title":{"rendered":"Art Walk January"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another second thursday – another art walk downtown. \u00a0Once again, I drove to Sam’s office to pick her up. \u00a0I decided to take a new route to try and avoid traffic, which was maybe five miles longer and looped around downtown – but was much quicker. \u00a0This put me on the 5 south connecting to the 10 west. \u00a0It was about 5:30 and the sun was setting. \u00a0The view from that little section of freeway is nice as it is raised up above the city streets and the view of the downtown skyline is clear. \u00a0Unfortunately my photos are not clear, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n

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Much more impressive in person.<\/p>\n

This art walk was largely even further diminished from that of December. \u00a0There seemed to be less of a crowd and less art. \u00a0More galleries were closed and some that were open had nothing changed from last month (including the half-assed show at Bang). \u00a0The food trucks were out in abundance though. \u00a0Sam and I split a\u00a0pomegranate\u00a0black tea boba drink. \u00a0Even though the proprietor assured us it was “decaf tea” I didn’t get to sleep that night until 2am the next morning – not good on a Thursday night.<\/p>\n

There is a gallery that is on the second floor of a building near the epicenter of the Art Walk. \u00a0If you’ve gone, you know what gallery I’m talking about. \u00a0On this Art Walk the space below that gallery (ground floor) was rented out for BlueCanvas.com’s show. \u00a0The show was actually quite impressive, a mix of traditional art and newer art forms (or just now recognized as art) like tattoo and digital painting.<\/p>\n

Here are some impressive pieces from the show:<\/p>\n

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John Park<\/a> live painting demo.<\/p>\n

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Figure based photography prints by Andrea Pun<\/a>. \u00a0Reminds me a lot of \u00a0Brooke Shaden – not sure who came first, but they’ve both exhibited work at\/on BlueCanvas.<\/p>\n

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Tony Hong<\/a> had a number of lovely intricate ink drawings inspired by trees (both the insides and outsides).<\/p>\n

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James Paick<\/a> had some great environmental design digital paintings and was doing a Wacom sponsored demo.<\/p>\n

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Korin Faught<\/a> had a few small paintings (or perhaps they were prints). \u00a0Korin’s work is largely figurative and she uses a lot of symbolism. \u00a0This is one of those artists that I’m sort of jealous of – as I wish I had the skills to paint the figures I see in my head the way she can and put them in believable environments.<\/p>\n

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Aron Wiesenfeld<\/a>, one of the current darlings of the New Brow art scene had a small charcoal piece. \u00a0I’d actually seen this piece online before as Aron’s shows have been covered in the art press, and his work often finds its way into daily art photo blogs like\u00a0thisisnthappiness.com<\/a> (which I subscribe to).<\/p>\n

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Right next to Aron’s piece was a similarly sized piece by another New Brow darling – Andrew Hem<\/a> (arguably more popular right now than Aron).<\/p>\n

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There were several life-size paintings from Lance Richlin <\/a>in the show including the one above called “actress.” \u00a0You can’t see from the photo – but the detail work is amazing in Lance’s work. \u00a0The\u00a0statuette\u00a0on the table has tarnish on it that is only visible from about a foot away. \u00a0Just like a few of the other painters I mentioned earlier in this post (and appeared in the same show), Lance’s work pairs stunning skill in realistic rendering (look at that granite counter top!) with subtle symbolism (note the arm on left with wrist cut, ghost with crown, etc.).<\/p>\n

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The gallery also had a tattoo parlor doing a live “demo.”<\/p>\n

After seeing all the great art that BlueCanvas had on display we headed to the upstairs gallery… where… we found stuff like this:<\/p>\n

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(sigh)<\/p>\n

When we got to the Temple of Visions it was full of new art. \u00a0Many many Amanda Sage pieces and four or five by James Zar. \u00a0As we walked to the back of the gallery we passed a man and a woman sitting on the benches. \u00a0The women looked like she was asleep – but then I noticed her hands were outstretched (on her knees) and open in a meditative posture. \u00a0THEN I did a double take at the man sitting next to her. \u00a0I’ll be damned if it didn’t look like Gallagher<\/a>. \u00a0I kid you not, after doing a double take on him I noticed he was wearing a coat that literally said “Gallagher” on it, thus leaving no doubt to my previous suspicions. \u00a0Within five minutes others noticed and started having their pictures taken and I tried to very slyly document the moment. \u00a0The result was this horrible shot:<\/p>\n

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Next door at the hive we walked through the Tarot card themed show. \u00a0Below are some of the pieces \u00a0(to see mine go to my post from a few days ago) that I liked:<\/p>\n

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Yoko D’Holbachie<\/a> was one of the featured artists and had a bunch of these little paintings that look like candy coated Hello Kitty monsters. \u00a0 I think she could take this farther (less cute, more crazy) and go to some really interesting places in the future.<\/p>\n

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Asia Eng<\/a> also has a nice style that will be very interesting to watch change and mature over the next few years. \u00a0She has a way of painting very vibrant abstract paintings that incorporate very intricate details not too far away from realism (like detailed butterfly wings emerging from a sea of swirling colors). \u00a0Above is a small photo of a large painting of Koi. \u00a0I’ve always liked Koi, so of course I’m drawn to work like this.<\/p>\n

Asia’s paintings were right behind the Tarot table (which was by the door last time).<\/p>\n

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Sze Jones<\/a> had a pretty cool alto-relievo <\/em>sculpture. \u00a0I didn’t post it, however, because upon investigating her web site I found the above sculpture which is\u00a0intensely\u00a0beautiful and much more refined than the piece in the show.<\/p>\n

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Augie Pagan<\/a> had this cool little piece; his interpretation of the “strength” card in the tarot.<\/p>\n

For my piece in the show, Ten of Wands, see the next blog entry below….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another second thursday – another art walk downtown. \u00a0Once again, I drove to Sam’s office to pick her up. \u00a0I decided to take a new route to try and avoid traffic, which was maybe five miles longer and looped around downtown – but was much quicker. \u00a0This put me on the 5 south connecting to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}