Here is video that Alex Rodriguez put together of the opening for Papel Y Madera at Crewest this past Sat. If you missed it we are doing it again for Downtown LA’s ArtWalk this Thursday March 8th.
Oscar Magallanes “Papel Y Madera” Crewest Gallery from Alex Rodriguez on Vimeo.
Here is a short video that my good friend Estee Ochoa, who is very talented in so many ways, shot and produced.
You were a friend and a mentor. Thank you for everything.
Good bye Maestro. Until we meet again at the big Mental Menudo in the sky.
A benefit to help preserve the art and legacy of Magu will be taking place at the Pomona DA Center for the Arts.
Here is the information and a link:
Cruisin’ Magulandia
A Benefit for the Preservation of a Legacy
August 13 –30, 2011
252 South Main Street, Pomona, CA 91767
At the opening of Art in the Streets with 2 legends, Mr. Chaz Bojorquez & Paul “Skept” Kanemitsu.
Pic by Ed Sweeney.
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.
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.
