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Another Sasquatch Sighting ~ Venice

Hadley — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:46:44 +0000

Venice ~ CA

Mike Kelley ~ R.I.P.

Hadley — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:06:36 +0000

“Kelley is an avatar of the power and humanity inherent in recognizing the radical impurity of human experience. His art searches out dark and soiled places where defects, fault lines and inadequacies are obvious and routine, and where failure takes on the poignant, fragile, even heartbreaking beauty that accompanies any loss of self.” ~ Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight in 1994.

“Not many artists count as a game-changer for art. Mike Kelley did. His work altered the international conversation about art, and it changed the Los Angeles art world. His death Tuesday at 57 is an unspeakable loss.” ~ Knight, today.

LACMA’s Got a Giant Cock

Hadley — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:30:46 +0000

As well as eleven other animal head statues representing the Chinese Zodiac from artist Ai Weiwei.

RETNA & EL MAC ~ Mid-City

Hadley — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:01:48 +0000

Mid-City ~ Los Angeles

Photo: Tatiana Arbogast

Two Rabbits ~ “Buy Product” ~ January 12th to February 5th at Crewest

Hadley — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:40:59 +0000

Our work lately has been drasticly focused on the repurposing of our by-product. Running a commercial print shop, making printed products all day, yields a lot of excess and leftover material, and we don’t like to see anything go to waste. From our test prints to our mixing sticks, we see the chaos and beauty of our artistic endeavours in everything that’s left over. We have taken what many consider to be useless and turned it into beautiful works of color and shape. In an almost Dadaesque fashion we are taking the by-product of making art and turning that into art to buy.

Pumped ~ Venice

Hadley — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:31:12 +0000

Venice ~ CA

MAKE ~ West Hollywood

Hadley — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:20:54 +0000

West Hollywood ~ CA

L.A. graffiti O.G. and L.A. Taco contributor Galo MAKE Canote has a new 130-foot tall, 60-foot wide, three-panel building wrap on Sunset and La Cienega that he helped design in collaboration with shoe designer Christian Louboutin for Neiman Marcus, neither of whom are, as far as we know, L.A. graffiti O.G.s. The artist says he’ll be following this piece, scheduled to be up for a month, with several more projects with the two big names.

ART IS… ~ Venice

Hadley — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:30:47 +0000

Venice ~ CA

Spook ~ Hollywood

Hadley — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:42:10 +0000

Hollywood ~ CA

Photo: Tatiana Arbogast

OCCUPY L.A. ~ Santa Monica Freeway

Hadley — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:10:38 +0000

The 10 FWY ~ Los Angeles

CRAOLA ~ 33Third ~ Mid-City

Hadley — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:01:49 +0000

Greg “Craola” Simkins ~ Mid-City ~ Los Angeles