Stream their entire self-titled album here.

iam8bit

2147 W. Sunset Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90026

“Hand-painted” video by artist Cédric De Smedt, see more of his work here.

“My work is about what people can survive and what they can’t. It’s about decay, how life can be reckless, and how you have to keep going. I explore how people can pick themselves up.” – Tabitha Soren

Kopeikin Gallery
2766 South La Cienega Blvd (at Washington)
Los Angeles, California 90034
310-559-0800

www.kopeikingallery.com

Tues – Sat 11:00 – 5:00

Cod.Act, more information here.

“Pendulum Choir is an original choral piece for 9 A Cappella voices and 18 hydraulic jacks. The choir stands on tilting platforms, constituting a living, sonorous body. That body expresses itself through various physical states. Its plasticity varies at the mercy of its sonority. It varies between abstract sounds, repetitive sounds, and lyrical or narrative sounds. The bodies of the singers and their voices play with and against gravity. They brush and avoid each other creating subtle vocal polyphonies. Or, supported by electronic sounds, they break their cohesion and burst into lyrical flight or fold up into an obsessional and dark ritual. The organ travels from life to death in a robotic allegory where the technological complexity and the lyricism of the moving bodies combine into a work with Promethean accents.”

The Oestronettes – Shawn Dickinson

Shawn Dickinson, see the art for sale here and pick it up fast, looks like it’s selling out before the show even happens. Pretty awesome stuff, someone give this guy a Nickelodeon cartoon stat.

Gonna Brawl – Shawn Dickinson

Locals Rule – Shawn Dickinson

From the release:
“For our (seventh) anniversary show, it is a huge honor to present Shawn Dickinsonwith his new exhibit, “Swing you Sinners.” Longtime favorite of the LowBrow art scene, this is surprisingly Shawn’s first solo art exhibition. Take a hearty dose of Fleischer animation, throw in some rockabilly attitude and car culture suave, add a dash of alcohol, then shake with a bit of good old California surfing and you get one hell of a great art explosion on the wall. Shawn Dickinson’s classic art style harkens back to the true roots of LowBrow and perfectly illustrates what the movement was all about in the first place. I hope you are as excited for this as we are…”

Opening Reception:
Saturday, April 6th
8pm to Midnight

Always
FREE ADMISSION

Shawn Dickinson is a SoCal cartoonist & illustrator who draws spooky, crazy,
fun, cartoony comics, album art, posters, t-shirts, stickers, all things rock n’ roll,
garage/punk, surf & hotrod art, car-toons, caricatures, gags, jokes,
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera…

A favorite among collectors, Shawn carries on in the tradition of the original
LowBrow art movement, bringing all of the flavor, fun, and rebelliousness
that comes with the genre.

Original Art
and Prints
Available for Sale

For more information:
http://www.hyaenagallery.com

Hyaena
1928 W. Olive Ave.
Burbank, CA 91506
1-818-972-2448

Junip is playing the Troubadour Wednesday, May 29th. Tickets here.

More info here.

mmmmmm….. sedaaaaaaaate…..

Handiedan, Mandala, no 2, closeup

From the release: “Thinkspace presents:

‘Heavenly Creatures’

Featuring new paintings + mixed media works + an installation from Meggs

Plus in our project room:

‘Elegant Universe’

Featuring new mixed media collage works from Handiedan

Reception with the artists:

Saturday, April 6th 6-9PM

Exhibitions on view: April 6th – April 27th, 2013

Los Angeles, CA – Thinkspace is pleased to present Heavenly Creatures, featuring new work by acclaimed Australian artist David ‘Meggs’ Hooke. Renowned for his founding work and involvement with the Everfresh Studio collective – established in Melbourne in 2004 – Meggs has been a prolific street artist and exhibitor for over a decade. Distilling his inspiration from an amalgam of pop cultural references, ancient mythology, classical imagery, and street art, Meggs’ recombines familiar imagery to explore and reinvent the archetype.

In Heavenly Creatures, Meggs explores the persistence of mythological themes and imagery through a distinctly contemporary voice. Through his dynamic, and highly detailed, signature mixed media style, Meggs creates characters that merge aspects of the contemporary superhero or comic book character with aspects of the classical mythological entity, revealing a shared thematic lineage despite their seemingly disparate origins. Meggs combines representational elements with expressionistic abstraction, ever seeking to strike a balance between the two. His interest in the ways in which fantasy becomes an arbiter of secular conflict, leads to the re-imagining of familiar stories with renewed energy and relevance. We look to the characters of myth and fantasy to embody difficult polarities and resolve our deepest longings. By tapping into this intensity, Meggs’ explores the power of story in the constitution of belief and ideology. Drawing from our shared identification with archetypal narratives, whether they be culled from ancient mythology or the fantasy of comic books, Meggs’ work appeals to the endurance of these myths, and the ways in which we continue to look to them to reflect our sense of self and other.

Heavenly Creatures will feature ambitious new works by Meggs ranging from painting, sculpture, and installation. Working across media, the artist will also be creating a large scale thaumatrope as part of the exhibition installation – an antiquated Victorian device used historically to demonstrate the persistence of vision. The thaumatrope in the context of Heavenly Creatures speaks to the stamina of the historical precedent, while also literally demonstrating the recombination of an image as it is optically derived from two distinct parts – an apt metaphor for Meggs’ work. The artist’s interest in fostering an exchange between historical themes and contemporary culture is apparent. Meggs strives to revitalize the aesthetic encounter and to devise new ways for people to experience and engage with his work, whether it be in the context of the gallery, or on a wall in the urban landscape. In Heavenly Creatures Meggs explores the capacity of myth to reconcile the secular with fantasy, and creates work that speaks forcefully to our shared desire for some existential compass.

Take a sneak peek inside Meggs’ studios here:

http://thinkspacegallery.com/shows/2013-04/#photos

Artist websites:

www.houseofmeggs.com

ON VIEW IN OUR PROJECT ROOM:

Handiedan ‘Elegant Universe’

Concurrently on view in the Thinkspace project room is Elegant Universe, featuring new work by Dutch artist Handiedan. Handiedan creates elaborate three-dimensional collage pieces from a cut and paste method of re-assemblage. Starting with the iconic imagery of the vintage pin-up girl, popularized in the 30’s, the artist creates complex images from a combination of pattern, figurative imagery, and symbol. Her materials are culled from a vast array of printed cultural currency. Appropriating everything from postage stamps, and legal tender, to origami paper patterns, and historical sheet music motifs, the artist’s work is a combination of re-design and aggregation. Her multi-layered compositions transform found two dimensional imagery, literally re-imagining it in relief.

Handiedan’s facility and skill in graphic design, illustration, and photography, is immediately visible in her complex works. Graphically sophisticated, their actual assemblage involves a highly detailed sculptural component. The artist incorporates wood and other materials to raise the surfaces and increase their dimensionality. At times the works feel like complex visual puzzles, with pattern and figurative elements interchangeably intermixed. The degree of complexity and depth is impressive. A pastiche of historical styles, the artist borrows from the Baroque to the Neo-Classical, and from the Victorian to the post-war eras. Handiedan explores beauty as a process of aggregation and re-construction, as she re-assembles the found into highly detailed compositions. The artist also incorporates subtle drawing elements – small tattoos, and seemingly haphazard ballpoint pen doodles – to remind us of her agency in the work’s making, and to strategically interrupt her artfully re-purposed illusions.

Internationally exhibited, Handiedan has shown extensively. Her work is currently part of a significant Museum survey show entitled: HEY! Modern Art & Pop Culture II at Musée La Halle Saint Pierre, in Paris, France.

Take a sneak peek at some of Handiedan’s new works here:

http://thinkspacegallery.com/shows/2013-04-project/#photos

Artist Website:

www.handiedan.com

HOUSE OF MEGGS

(1) Robin Evans, Translations from Drawing to Building in Translations From Drawing to Building and Other Essays (1997), 155 (2) Evans, 156.

Design Matters is located at 11527 Pico in West Hollywood.

From the release: “Low Fidelity – Erin Besler
Opening Reception Saturday March 30, 7-10 pm
Low Fidelity pushes through the homogeneous high fidelity verisimilitude, beginning with the architectural object, moving through translation and abstraction to its representation. While the drawing continues to be the two dimensional architectural communicant (1), the intervening medium (2) with the ability to flatten and abstract, to distance itself from the object, and produce friction between objects and their mutual representations, this work goes further. The drawing’s agency is extended through alternative mediums of translation to subvert the uniformity of digital tools. Through the registration of projected points in space, the reduction and delineation of a single curve and the materialization of the drawn form through mechanically attenuated extrusion, Low Fidelity activates tension between architectural mediums and alienates objects of representation to locate alternative sites for design.”