Flow State: Mikael B. @ Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles

Mikael B’s latest body of work follows three years of preparation, experimentation and the pursuit of his full potential. Inspired by Dalí, Kay Sage, Pollock, Peter Saul and Albert Oehlen, Flow State unanimously explores, juxtaposes and reconciles the three worlds of abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction and surrealism, with Mikael’s signature idiom. Showcasing an array of vibrant canvases where colours and geometric shapes organically flow into one another, the exhibition echoes the mental and physical process behind the creation of art, and the experience of art.

Breonna's Garden at Tribeca Festival Uses Augmented Reality to Honor Her Memory

“In the month Breonna Taylor would have turned 28 her family celebrated her life with flowers - this is a living, breathing, garden in honor of the young woman whose name galvanized people across the country”

The memory of Breonna Taylor lives on at the Tribeca Festival thanks to augmented reality. An art exhibit doesn’t focus on Taylor’s death, but rather her life as her family remembers it. NBC New York’s Gilma Avalos reports.

Words and Pictures: Viral artist Harmonia Rosales’ first collection of paintings reimagines classic works with black femininity

“People said, ‘God should not be a black or Muslim or anything like that,’ and that tells me that what I’m doing is not only what needs to be done, but I need to keep going.”

Harmonia Rosales’ work has gone viral — which is both a good and bad thing. The Afro Cuban artist’s oil painting “Creation of God” — modeled after Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” with God depicted as a black woman — garnered thousands of likes and comments when it went on Instagram in the spring, attracting big-name fans like Samuel L. Jackson, Willow Smith and Erykah Badu. But it also provoked the ire of trolls.

‘Roseanne’ Co-Showrunner Launches Art Exhibit Made From Recycled Cardboard

Bruce Helford has had hands full with the Roseanne revival, but the co-showrunner and his wife, Jan Corey Helford, have managed to fit a side project in their fingers with roots far from network TV. Actually, closer to a trash-filled alley in downtown Los Angeles. The couple has opened doors to their Corey Helford Gallery space (571 S. Anderson St. in downtown) to reveal a brand-new cardboard-only exhibit from artist duo Dosshaus, a collaboration of Zoey Taylor and David Connelly. Titled “Paper-Thin Hotel,” the unique exhibit transforms CHG’s Gallery 2 into a flophouse hotel of sorts — think New York’s infamous Chelsea Hotel — complete with seedy hotel re-creations that are made entirely of used, abused and recycled cardboard.

Shepard Fairey and 30 other artists turn Maya Angelou school into an outdoor gallery

School was out for the day at Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School, but the campus was bright with activity. More than two dozen enormous murals were going up at the South L.A. school, transforming the mostly gray and drab-green buildings into an explosion of color and story. The paintings — done by 31 artists as part of a weeklong festival co-produced by the L.A. firm Branded Arts and the Los Angeles Unified School District — were the first major LAUSD mural project since a similar 2016 effort at Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Koreatown became a lightning rod for protest after some community members found one of the murals offensive. It sparked a debate over cultural sensitivity versus freedom of expression in the realm of public art.

An Artist’s Terrifying Dental Surgeries Inspired This Fairy Tale About the Fear of Falling Apart

The 200-page illustrated book The Cabinet of Dr. Deekay, the first installment in a series about a boy named Alex who wakes up in a dystopian hospital to discover pieces of his person are missing, is being released later this summer. In the meantime (through June 16), Corey Helford Gallery in Boyle Heights is hosting The Wonderful World of Dr. Deekay, an exhibit that’s a prelude to the book’s release, featuring paintings associated with the characters in the book, as well as a stop-motion animation project she’s working on with animator Martin Meunier of Coraline and James and the Giant Peach fame.

Inside the charming animal metropolis of Kozyndan

While Dan found himself spending more time than usual on the couch, sad about the state of his home country, Kozy began to lean further into her own cultural heritage. She went back to Japan, spent time with her parents, and drew inspiration from the traditional relics of her childhood, the prayer beads and scrolls, fabrics and paints. When she returned to the U.S, she was inspired to start painting again.

Santa Fe Arts Colony Deemed Historic Amid Fight for Affordable Housing

“A lot of income has been lost here at the art colony,” said Tidwell. “There are no gallery exhibitions. You can’t bring a buyer to your studio to show them your work and there’s a lot of hardship on that score. And yet we’re a tight knit community. We’re helping one another and this is a community that we want to keep intact.”

“The ultimate goal for us is to be able to own the place so we don't have to worry about month-to-month, what's going to happen. It’s like living in constant anxiety,” said Han.

Exhibit Featuring 20 Red Punching Bags Opens At LA Art Show

“You can punch people like Kim Jong Un or Fidel Castro. The artist grew up in Cuba. Antuane Rodriguez says he learned to distrust politicians as a young child. The name of the work, "Left Or Right," is both boxing and a political pun. Though, Rodriguez says it's supposed to be healing.”

“Healthy says, Rodriguez, because listening to the news is stressful, and it demands psychic release. Because we're at an art show in California, it's no surprise our current president is the most popular face to punch.”