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.
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.
*Photos by Aaron Salcido.
Chief Sitting Bull
A commission of the Chief Sitting Bull portrait from the piece I did for the Dreams Deferred Exhibit.
Hole in the Wall
Here is a picture of a small installation I did in Pomona.
Located in the alley behind the Glass House and Bunny Gunner.
Dreams Deferred
Some photos of the final piece for the Dreams Deferred show @ the Chinese American Museum .
El Veterano II
Revisited the Veterano image I created a few years back for the up coming show at Crewest dealing with Skid Row and homelessness. On any given night there are 8,000 homeless veterans in LA alone. Something to think about.
Dreams Deferred
A very timely show with the vote of the dream act coming up.
Faces of Skid Row @ Crewest
I will be participating in this upcoming show at Crewest.
Flores para Juarez for Smoking Mirrors Show
Some pictures of my painting for Smoking Mirrors Gallery’s Dia de los Muertos show. Did this in honor of all the woman who have been murdered in the city of Juarez, Mexico.