Wildlife Painting:

One of the first steps in creating a stellar art piece is to have ample choices to make the final selection from. The options could be completely imaginary or one could have a database of images to choose from. For the latter, you can opt to go out and shoot images using your camera or use images…

A group exhibition entitled Augment This (Meditations on the Image) will celebrate its opening this Saturday, July 12, from 4 to 6 om. The show, curated by Christopher Eamon, includes an international list of artists, including Jennifer Boysen, Gintaras Didziapetris, Gary Hill, Tobias Kaspar, Susanne Kriemann, Pat O’Neill, Anna Ostoya and Mandla Reuter.

The…

The Culver City Arts District will present its first annual Summer Solstice event on Saturday, June 21, from 12:00 PM to 7:00 pm. The Summer Solstice event -- to celebrate the longest day of the year -- will be a great time to check out all the galleries throughout the district. There will also be musical performances throughout the day at various venues, children’s arts and crafts, and special discounts at area restaurants and retail. 

Musical…

Los Angeles-based artist Alec Egan's new show, "Luminous Opera," opens at Western Project this Saturday, June 14. The reception, which is fun, free, and open to the public, is on Saturday from 6 to 8 pm.

Here's what the gallery has to say about the artist, who earned an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design:

Egan's…

Fifteen local art contest winners whose artwork highlighted the importance of conserving water were recognized by the West Basin Municipal Water District on April 28, 2014. Out of the 470 entrees, three of the winners hailed from Culver City, including:

• Elementary School Honorable Mention Award: Nyala Bingener, a 4th grader from El Marino Elementary…

The 27th Annual Los Angeles Modernism Show & Sale takes place this weekend, April 26th and 27th, at 3LABS Studio in Culver City. Featuring more than 40 national and international exhibitors presenting decorative and fine arts from all design movements of the 20th century, the Los Angeles Modernism Show & Sale offers furniture, lighting, sculpture, paintings,…

The 18th Annual Los Angeles Antiques, Art + Design Show takea place this week, October 9th-13th, at the new 3LABS Studio in Culver City. As in years past, the four-day show features more than 50 national and international exhibitors of decorative and fine art reflecting all design movements across the millennia, including American and European period…

The George Lawson Gallery's new show offers elected works on paper by Lorene Anderson, Judith Belzer, Sara Bright, Richmond Burton, David Eddington, Roger Herman, Tama Hochbaum, Linda Jacobson, Masaru Kurose, Jacob Melchi, Michael Moore, Marie Thibeault, and Jennah Ward.

The artist's reception is this Saturday, August 12, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. 

George Lawson…

Artist Joshua Petker's new show,"Adrift" opens at LaBasse Projects in Culver City this Saturday, June 9th. The opening reception is from 6 pm to 9 pm, and, as always, the public is welcome.

LaBasse Projects -- which represents Branded Arts muralists …

Artist Pietro Roccasalva's first show in the United States opens at the David Kordansky Gallery in Culver City this Saturday, the 11th. The opening reception will take place from 6 to 9 pm (and the public is welcome as always). But you should really visit the gallery any time on Saturday, because -- in addition to paintings, drawings, and a neon work by the…

Skotia Gallery has recently located from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Culver City and we are so happy to be here! We are a contemporary art gallery focused on emerging international painters. Our featured artist December and January is Suzy O'Mullane from Ireland. Her work is elegant, emotionally charged and exquisitely drafted. Please come by to meet the artist, have a glass of bubbly, and help welcome Skotia Gallery and Suzy O'Mullane to beautiful Culver City!

We are located at: 6144…

Blum & Poe gallery in Culver City will present a lecture on art and philosophy by distinguished German philosopher Marcus Steinweg this Saturday, November 19, at 6 p.m. Steinweg is renowned for his collaborations with artists, including Thomas Hirschhorn and Rosemarie Trockel. He lives in Berlin and is currently organizing a lecture series at…

If you want to lay your eyes upon "Going Nowhere Fast," the mural that British street artist D*Face painted on the side of Corey Helford Gallery, you better do it now. Construction is underway to erect a building in the empty lot beside the gallery, and the blocks are rising…

(an image from Siri Kaur's "Know Me for the First Time," at Blythe Projects Gallery in Culver City)

Nearly all of the galleries in the Culver City will celebrate new openings this Saturday, October 29, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.  As always, these openings are free and open to the public. 

All the galleries are within a couple of blocks of one another, so…

Blum & Poe Gallery in Culver CIty will feature works by the great Chuck Close, beginning this Saturday, October 29. Featured will be new large-scale oil paintings of artists Kara Walker, Laurie Anderson, and Zhang Huan, works from Close's ongoing self-portrait series, and an intimately scaled portrait of musician Paul Simon. 

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Culver City is home to more than 30 art galleries, but the art also spills into the street -- especially in and around the Art District. As I've observed several times…

As I mentioned last week in the post about the new CYRCLE. mural at the BrandedArt Building in Culver CIty, another wall of the complex had also been prepared for a new work by artist David Flores. Now it's here -- a large image of artist…

The art collective known as CYRCLE. is responsible for the new mural at the BrandedArt building, one block west of National & Washington in Culver City. The BrandedArt building, which according to site curator Warren Brand is due for demolition within…