Oscar – Page 8 – Oscar Magallanes

February 19, 2011May 17, 2011

Morning offerings

Copalli for the Creator.

February 13, 2011May 17, 2011

Artwork featured in The Roots Jam Session

I was lucky enough to have been approached by Michelynn Woodard from Be the Change/Opportunity Nation about creating some journals and poster using images of inspirational people. They liked my Martin Luther King Jr. portrait and was commissioned to create 6 more to feature on the Posters used to help kick off and promote Opportunity Nation at the Roots Jam Session. Here are a few images of the finished posters.

Detail of Doris Lessing Poster for the Roots Jam

February 10, 2011February 20, 2011

420 Open Studios

January 16, 2011January 19, 2011

Edgar “OSOK” Hoill getting some work done

My good friend Edgar Hoill, aka OSOK, was in town on Friday so I stopped by to catch up a bit and took a few pics of him getting some work done by tattoo artist Espi.

January 16, 2011August 23, 2013

Zocalo’s Street Art Panel Discussion

Had a good week. On Thursday went to the Fowler Museum for Zocalo’s Street Art panel discussion with a friend. Before we went in I ran into Shervin Shahbazi from Morono Kiang a great gallery in downtown LA. Also had a good talk with Carol Wells from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

The talk itself was nothing great. Had it not been for my good friend Retna and Man 1 from Crewest gallery the talk would have lacked in substance and been a bit boring. It would have been nice if the moderator, Jori Finkel from the LA Times would have brought up the topic which was “does street art humanize cities.” Also seems as if no one wanted to talk about the elephant in the room, censorship or more specifically the removal of Blu’s antiwar mural from MoCA. Perhaps they did not want to offend Jeffery Deitch who was in the audience.

The reception proved interesting with LA Raw setting out a long print of Blu’s mural before it’s removal as well as an image of the whitewashed wall. They also handed out some condom’s reading “Don’t be blu Deitch, Practice safe art.

My friend and fellow board member at Self Help Graphics, Rudy Espinoza and I got to chat a bit with Deitch but he seemed a bit frazzled and anxious to get out of there. Go figure.