Pollution paintings, I love 'em

The reason I live near the beach, and far from any main roads is this. Marie Jager is the artist
Pollution paintings. They have been done before, yet these are free of any contraints of those. Beautiful, even without the knowledge of the process, and yet ferocious in meaning.
http://ghebaly.com/

Jim McHugh at Yarger Fine art

Really great show of photo's from a great photographer. Jim's a 3rd generation angeleno, an avid boxer, and greatly admired by the entire art and architectural community for all his contributions to Los Angeles culture. A lot of wonderful, beautiful work, already properly framed. This show will be a sell out!

http://www.yargerfineart.com/main.html

This Thursday! LACE Auction

http://www.welcometolace.org/auction/lace-benefit-art-auction-2010/page/schedule-2/

This is it folks. This is the best of the best benefit auction. This is a fun party, and great art up for both silent, and live auction. Wonderful deals, lots of fun; I'll be there. Here's the Don Suggs work, I'll be bidding on....

Richard Hawkins at Richard Telles Fine Art

OK, so I finally figured out how to add images to my Blog. Everyone loves pictures, so here's one.
This is a pic of the sculptural work of Hawkins. The actual one that I'll be moving is almost 8 feet tall!! Pleas come to the Telles gallery to see if I was successful (I'm just kidding, Richards)

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (AKA: LACE)

It's spring auction-time! LACE, an LA landmark of art exhibition on the famous Hollywood Blvd. strip is having their annual fundraiser. You can buy fabulous contemporary art, and get a tax deduction (if anyone still needs those things). Me and my firm installed all the artwork for this auction (pro-bono, thank you) and it's a damn fine show! My favorites are the Carlee Fernandez string of stuffed parakeets (pictured) , and the Don Suggs painting (I might even be able to afford bidding on one of them).
http://www.welcometolace.org/auction/
I'll see you at the auction!!!!!

Auction time, Buy art NOW!

Spring is when the Blue Chip material hits the block. Picasso proved (once again) there is no shortage of cash for the important works coming to market. On Monday, Bonham & Butterfield held their springtime, contemporary art auction. There were quite a few works of interest to me. The Sandow Birk paintings went under 8, the Claire Falkenstein lots went for around 4. The 2 pieces that I saw run up were a nice sculpture by Guy Dill, estimated at 7-9 went in the low 30's, and a seminole work by Chas Bjorquez, "The words that Cut", estimated around 3, went into the 20's. A wonderful auction to set the stage for the anticipated LAMA auction, which just uploaded it's auction catalogue: http://www.lamodern.com/. I am looking forward to the Tierney Gearon lots! Coming in early June is the semi-annual Santa Monica Auction, http://www.smauctions.com/
My friend and mentor, Robert Berman unveils both the old Haring /Warhol stuff he's been trying to sell for 20 years, as well as a bounty of local California artists work, come to market as a result of the economy, divorce, or move to a smaller abode. Now is the time to buy art at unbelievable low prices. Just like real estate and the Dow industrials, prices are depressed, but rising. This is a very exciting time to be in the art market, as work is entering the market that has been in private hands for generations, and will probably be again, as institutional buyers are hoarding cash for operations right now. Buy, Buy, Buy!!