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YA’ HEARD brought to you by your hosts, kaNO, Ritzy Periwinkle, Shane Jessup, and Sket One, YA’ HEARD is a no-holds-barred look into the current state of the arts, the community, and all things ‘From the Street Up’. Covering a wide range of topics, YA’ HEARD will touch on the business side of art, politicin’, beef, style, technique, tools, exhibits, current events, designer toys, music, conventions, and much more in the manner you’d only expect from this group of artists that are living the life every day. Future episodes promise special guests ranging from fellow artists and designers to tastemakers and the usual haters.

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“EXCAVATED REVELATIONS”
Featuring: ZES & RETNA
Opening: February 11, 2012 | 8 – 11 pm

Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@knowngallery.com

SAGE VAUGHN | LAST YEAR

January 13 – January 29, 2012
Opening reception: Friday, January 13, 2012 | 8:00 -11:00pm

Known Gallery is excited to start off this year with “Last Year”, a show of new works by Sage Vaughn and a very special guest. This will be Sage’s first solo exhibition at Known Gallery, featuring new large-scale woven editions based on paintings and collages from his ongoing ENVELOPE SERIES. Contrasting the nonchalant qualities of collage making and the painstaking exactness of woven tapestry, this work becomes part of an experiment in making art that can exist both off and outside the gallery walls.

Sage has been working with collage for the past four years and attributes the passion to friends Jason Dill and Dash Snow who introduced him to the medium. “I enjoy sorting through vintage magazines and culling imagery to illustrate themes in my work. The printing processes used back then are so pleasing to the eye. Everything was hand created. No Photoshop.”

Selected works from the ENVELOPE SERIES will also be on display. The series, consisting of both small paintings as well as cut and reassembled imagery on manila envelopes, serves as an intimate window to the artist’s creative process. “They’ve taken the place of sketchbooks in my practice. I have them all over the studio so I can constantly make things while I make things.” Numbering in the hundreds, Sage has been working on the ENVELOPE SERIES since 2007.

When asked about the inspiration behind this unique medium of woven artwork, Sage explains, “I love looking at tapestries, rugs and textiles. The richness of the color and the texture are so intricate. I would spend all my money on them if I could.” Sage further discusses “When I was a child, my grandmother told me a story about when she was a young recently divorced woman; she and her sister were on a quest, driving through New Mexico, trying to purchase a genuine Navajo rug from an actual Navajo Indian. She ended up at a general store, which sold Native American crafts.” When his grandmother asked the owner how to purchase goods directly from the Navajo Indians, the disappointing response was, “The way it works is you buy it from us, not from the Navajo.” “It took her a week of driving down endless desert roads until she finally met an old Indian woman who sold her a beautiful piece that she still has in her home out in the Valley.”

LBJ holding a toddler Indian, Dr. Phil as a spiritual guru and a Native Indian teaching a Caucasian boy how to take aim with a bow and arrow are just some examples of Sage’s social commentary via satire. “I think most good art has an element of humor within it to help us laugh at the human condition.” Imagery of foxes, birds, and Indians also echo Sage’s obsession with the line between wilderness and civilization.

Sage Vaughn (b. 1976 Jackson, OR) lives and works in Los Angeles. For the past seven years, Sage’s work has been exhibited at fine art galleries around the world including Lazarides/London, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner/Geneva, Art Agents Gallery/Hamburg, The Dactyl Foundation for the Arts and Humanities/New York, Corey Helford/Culver City, Richard Heller/Los Angeles and FIFTY24SF/San Francisco.

Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
310-860-6263

Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown (two-time Academy Award(R) nominee Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world, complete with two ex-wives who are sisters, two daughters, an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, investigators galore, and a series of seemingly random women, starts making less and less sense. In the end, what is left is a human being stripped of all his pretense, machismo, chauvinism, arrogance, sexism, homophobia, racism, aggression, misanthropy; but is it enough to redeem him as a man?

RAMPART will open for a one week run in New York and Los Angeles on November 23rd.

We attended the opening reception for the Artist’s Choice show presented by Jack Rudy’s Koolsville. The family and I stopped by before we went out to dinner. Great art, lots of people and a lot of nice cars. Check it out if you have a chance @ Good Time Charlie’s Tattooland 2641 W Lincoln Ave Anaheim, CA 92801

HUF will be hosting an opening reception for the release of the upcoming HUF x Haroshi x DLX collaboration on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, from 7PM – 11PM. The event will include an exhibition of six original works by Haroshi created for the collaboration as well as a live performance by Tommy Guerrero, and all collaboration product will be directly available for purchase. Admission is free and all RSVPs can be directed to haroshi_rsvp@hufworldwide.com. For more information see the flyer below. See you there!

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A couple of weeks ago was the annual Mooneyes Xmas Party at the Irwindale Raceway. Let me sum it up this way; if you were not there, you missed a good one! The show is good every year (even in the rain) but for some reason this year was extra good, even great! The vibe was excellent, the cars looked really good and the people were all having a great time.  I heard it was at capacity by 10am and people were waiting 1 1/2 to 2 hours to get in. Thankfully Stephanie & I were there by 8am. We have to once again thank Chico and the Mooneyes team for the passes and the parking pass. It is very much appreciated.

We saw a whole lot of our friends at the show including Paul & Julie who were looking stylish as always.

Audie & Liz spent the day at the show with “She Devil”, his 65 Riviera that flys the Lifestyle CC plaque.

My Pachuco CC brother from the 415 Tony I and his lady Frisco Dollie. Hella (inside joke!) good seeing you two!

We met up with the Machado family after the show for dinner and they showed up in Julie’s 64 Impala drop top.

The images above and below are from a 1930′s map for children, via the wonderful Big Map Blog. It gives some nice insights into the major sights and marvels of “the wonder city” according to graphic artist, K M Leuschner in 1932. Heavy on country clubs, luxury hotels, school and institutions, this map seems to be a Hancock Park centric view of upper middle class landmarks of early 30′s LA. More info is definitely needed about the “nude sun baths” of Santa Monica.

You can explore the entire map, plus download it as JPG here: Big Map Blog 1932 Map of Los Angeles

“Surrounded by the rugged mountainsides and overgrown by brush, the burned-out and crumbling buildings are what remain of the Murphy Ranch, where during the late 1930s a small group hoping to establish a Nazi utopia built an elaborate infrastructure that included a 395,000-gallon concrete water tank, a 20,000-gallon diesel fuel tank and a power station.” – LA TIMES

Definitely a place to check out.

To view more photos on Murphy Ranch, visit cyan79 on Flickr.

Produced by Madlib, directed by Eric Coleman. MED’s album Classic is out now. Check it out here: http://sthrow.com/med

Click to view full panoramic image. For more photos, visit cyan79 on Flickr.