While on our trip to Los Angeles last night we tried to make the most of our visit so after our first stop we drove down to Culver City to check out the opening of
Yoskay Yamamoto's "
Picking Up Where We Left Off" solo exhibition at
LeBasse Projects Gallery. which was the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, and it showcased a fantastic body of work! Honestly, these photos really can't do Yoskay's pieces justice, the sheer depth of each piece - layers upon layers of paint - tacked on to stencil work, masking and a wide array of color, this show had it all!
There was even a really great sculptural aspect to this show that featured the humanoid faces that appear in the majority of Yoskay's work that rocked pairs of antlers... all of which were mounted on walls adorned with stencil work tying in the canvases to the sculptures... amazing stuff! This show is a must see and I would recommend driving a good distance to check out all the amazing pieces in person, but if you can't I guess my photos will suffice, so feel free to hit the jump for a ton more! Great work Yosaky... I am still reeling from what I saw!
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Last night I had the opportunity to drive up to Los Angeles to attend
Cooper Berella aka SuperCooper's second curated art show titled "Stop It!" which was held at
Munky King Gallery on Melrose... and wow was I blown away at the sheer amount of art on display for this show. Coopster did an amazing job, with the help of his family, to pretty much round up a who's who list of participants for this show and everyone who participated brought their 'A' game!
There were custom toys, one-off sculptures, resin pieces, plush figures, prints, photographs, paintings, screen prints... a little bit of every medium was represented at the gallery and with so many participants it really filled the gallery wall with a collage of visual eye candy that invited the viewer to fully interpret the theme of the show, which was bullying/cyber-bullying! Oh, and it was Coopers 12th b-day party as well which made the event that much more special with cake, drinks, cookies and an outside taco cart... awesome! This event drew the biggest crowd I have ever seen for a show at Munky King, and rightfully so as it was all for a great cause! The show itself will be on display for 2 weeks, so if you were unable to make it out, be sure to swing by and see all the art in person... well worth it! Hit the jump for a HUGE photo slide show from the event!
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Well... unbenounced to all of us folks that live in San Diego we were struck with a county wide blackout that lasted over 12 hours, which set us back here on SS.com - but the show must go on, and today we have a very special FREE GOODIE FRIDAY! We are on the eve of
Super Cooper's second curated show entitled "Stop It!", which is opening this Saturday at
Munky King in Los Angeles... oh and it's also his 12th birthday party!!!!
To celebrate/promote this show/birthday, Cooper is donating a special edition shirt and a hand drawn sketch to one luck SS.com reader... awesome right! Wanna know how ho win this ? Keep reading...
To enter, all you need to do is leave a comment in this post... simple as that! It can be a birthday greeting to Coopster, you can mention how rad he is, or you can just tell us what you are up to this weekend! You can also earn one additional entry by using your Twitter account and send out this tweet "
A HUGE happy birthday to @GoSuperCooper - Please go check out the rad contest he is sponsoring over at http://www.spankystokes.com #SSSTO" You can just copy and paste the above quoted text, without the quotes of course :-) One entry only please, and a winner will be picked at random this Sunday 09/11/2011! Thanks to Coopster for doing this giveaway and I hope to see all of you at his show this Saturday night... it's going to be a great one!
****UPDATE****
Alright folks, thanks for entering this awesome contest... I know Coopster read every single one of these comments as he told me so at the show and was really stoked to be doing a contest on here so thanks! We had to randomly pick one winner though and that lucky entry came from
TrustPigs, so congrats! Please continue to stop by every Friday as we continue our Free Goodie Friday tradition!
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Artist Daniel Yu aka
Dory sent up this custom ThreeA Bramble titled "Disco Martyr Luca" and this guy is all decked out with added sculptural elements as well as found objects and a sick paint job! Part of "The Pink Swagger Ensemble" (at right), Dory has a knack for ThreeA customs and hopefully new recruits will be added to the squad in time to come. Hit up Dory's
flickr for more pics of this fantastic piece as well as lots of other customs.
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