Coaster Show 2014@La Luz De Jesus Gallery 9/5
The Coaster Show 2014 at La Luz De Jesus :: Art by Daisuke Okamoto from Daisuke Okamoto on Vimeo.
The Coaster Show, Our Annual L.A. Beer Week Tie-In Show
& Harold Fox “On the Fringe of the Mundane”
去年に引き続き今回も展示させてもらえる「LA Beer Week：コースターショウ２０１４」＠La Luz De Jesus Gallery (Laluzdejesus.com) 。
今回１０００枚以上の作品が展示されてるらしいです。La Luzでのオープニングは大盛況のため作品がなかなか見れないと言う事がただあります、でも自分の作品探してきたいと思います（笑）。
今回の展示には４枚のコースターを創りました。オープニングは今週の金曜日９／５の夜８時から１１時になります。ぜひお越し下さい！
The Mecha (2014)
The Heart (2014)
The Ball (2014)
Love Mushroom (2014)
September 5 – 28, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 5th, 8-11 PM
Harold Fox “On the Fringe of the Mundane”
http://laluzdejesus.com/the-2nd-annual-coaster-show-harold-fox/
Harold Fox has been in retirement for quite a few years now, but you’d never know it from his output. His paintings are vivid reminiscences of a bygone era. If Charles Bukowski used paintbrushes instead of a typewriter, the outcome might look something like this. But there’s also a bit of Steinbeck and Hemingway and a whole lot of Nightmare Alley. Like a skid row Robert Williams, or a sideshow Frank Cassara, Fox’s work is both cartooned, but realistic, with the types of surrealist flourishes that would make Dali proud. Fox’s is a dark, shadowy world of second rate carnivals, low rent flophouses and dustbowl trailer parks filled with ornery hustlers, scheming grifters, and Machiavellian femmes fatales, as witnessed by a support cast of affable hobos and menacing clowns.
When you find an artist whose collector base is composed mostly of other artists, you know you’re onto something. And it’s not enough that his paintings are the cat’s pajamas, he also custom carves his own frames. The resultant tramp art aesthetic adds a whole other dimensionality to the work, as each frame seems predestined for the piece that occupies it.
The Coaster Show 2014
We’ve all done it. We’ve sat at the bar, drinking a beer and doodled on a coaster.
But most of us aren’t the extremely skilled painters, illustrators, animators, tattooists, sculptors or collage artists that are featured in this exhibition that takes a love of craft brewing and elevates it to high art.
The folks behind L.A. Beer Week produced a custom canvas for some of our favorite gallery folks to do what they do best, and transform a 4″ tondo coaster into museum worthy exhibition pieces.
Last year, we dotted our walls with over 700 tiny masterpieces, and this year we’re looking to outdo ourselves–with over 1000! The rules are simple: Each coaster must be a solitary work (though it’s fine if several pieces work together contextually), and they must be priced $250 or less. There is no bottom, so some coasters might even be free!
This isn’t just the same, old crop of folks you see in every group show across town. There are a lot of participants who we quite frankly can’t believe we got to participate. Maybe it’s because we kept the rules simple: We told them to do whatever they wanted. Whether you love beer or don’t, the art will blow your mind.
And just like last year, there will be some amazing beer here, too!
Contact Matt Kennedy, Gallery Director for availability and purchase info: (323) 666-7667
Beer is ART at La Luz de Jesus Gallery :: art by Daisuke Okamoto from Daisuke Okamoto on Vimeo.
去年のCoaster show 2013の１作品になります。よかったらご覧下さい。
This video is from the last year’s Coaster show. Check it out!
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