Latest in: Los Angeles
Featured Image
1 Jan 2017
Now that ROLL CALL: 11 Artists from L.A. is in its final week, we’re taking the opportunity to share portraits of the exhibiting artists by Los Angeles-based photographer Jim McHugh. McHugh is renowned for …
Featured Image
12 Dec 2016
MY LA INTERVIEW SERIES with BIG SLEEPS/DAVID CAVAZOS Where did you grow up in LA?  Iwas born and raised in Los Angeles in the Pico Union District/Downtown. What is your favorite thing about Los …
Featured Image
12 Dec 2016
MY LA INTERVIEW SERIES with PATRICK MARTINEZ Where did you grow up in LA? 90’s Pasadena, SGV What is your favorite thing about Los Angeles? The sublime beauty of the city. Traffic in the …
Featured Image
11 Nov 2016
Where did you grow up in LA? I grew up in Boyle Heights, although as a kid – I traveled all over the city. I also moved around a lot so I lived in …
Featured Image
10 Oct 2016
“Drawing is not a mysterious activity. Drawing is making an image which expresses commitment and involvement…rejecting ideas which are possible to preconceive…destroying images that lie, discarding images that are dead.” Leon Kossoff, in Frank …
Featured Image
7 Jul 2016
During visits to California’s Yosemite Valley in 2010 and 2011, David Hockney sought to capture its resplendent landscape. Working in situ, the artist rendered the scenery using a drawing application on his iPad. With …
Featured Image
5 May 2016
Over his 45 year career as an artist, Don Suggs has often returned to the vividly colored concentric circles that continue to remain at the core of his work. This ongoing fascination with circular …
Featured Image
5 May 2016
Here, we get a look into Alison Saar’s studio as she prepares for her upcoming L.A. Louver exhibition Silt, Soot and Smut. Utilizing a wide range of materials and mediums, Alison Saar has created a …
Featured Image
4 Apr 2016
In Peach Boy (2016) Gajin Fujita draws his primary inspiration from Toyohara Kunichika, a Japanese woodblock print artist. Kunichika is one of Gajin’s favorite artists and is known for depicting theatre actors.  The particular …
Featured Image
3 Mar 2016
In creating his latest painting Crush (2016), Gajin Fujita referenced Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s woodblock print “Sagami Jiro and Taira no Masakado Attacking an Opponent on Horseback,” 1883 December 7. Fujita was drawn to the movement and …
Featured Image
2 Feb 2016
Looking for new and out of print art books to add to your library? Printed Matter’s L.A. Art Book Fair is the place to be! We’ll be there with a selection of books on …
Featured Image
2 Feb 2016
The story behind what inspired the name L.A. Louver and the gallery’s original 1976 logo as told by Peter Goulds: “A Rose by any other name Peter Goulds on L.A. Louver” In 1920, Marcel …
Featured Image
12 Dec 2015
Michael C. McMillen, best known for his immersive installations and assemblage sculptures, will be presenting a selection of early and new mixed media sculptures at L.A. Louver in January 2016. Of the works included …
Featured Image
10 Oct 2015
Downtown Los Angeles just added another work to its public art collection with this commissioned sculpture by L.A.-based artist Alison Saar. Located outside the Hall of Justice the towering 12 ft tall bronze sculpture …
Featured Image
10 Oct 2015
“The painting, Atop Olympus, shows five figures –– presumably Greek gods and goddesses. Four of them are naked, though it seems like the artist doesn’t care to clearly distinguish their genders. At the center …
Featured Image
8 Aug 2015
In her series “Beer with a Painter,” Hyperalleric’s Jennifer Samet sat down with Charles Garabedian to chat about his childhood, his indirect path to becoming an artist, and what he’s still learning from painting …
Featured Image
8 Aug 2015
Ed and Nancy Kienholz at The Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: COLLECTING AND SHARING.  (Runs through August 22 - December 6, 2015) Alison Saar at the Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburg, Philadelphia: …
Featured Image
8 Aug 2015
Tom Wudl invited us into his Downtown Los Angeles studio for a preview of the works in his upcoming exhibition at L.A. Louver. Opening in October 2015, the drawings and paintings are a continued …
Featured Image
8 Aug 2015
In his Athens, Ohio studio, Matt Wedel works closely with nature…His ceramic sculptures converge harmoniously with the forces of nature, creating a picturesque scene in which his sculptures quietly stares back at you…And sometimes, …
Featured Image
7 Jul 2015
At 91 years of age, Charles Garabedian continues to maintain an active studio practice and paints almost every day. We are thrilled to be showing his latest paintings and drawrings at L.A. Louver this …
Featured Image
7 Jul 2015
There has been a flurry of press since our David Hockney exhibition opened last Wednesday, July 15. If you didn’t catch them all, here is a press roundup for your reading pleasure: L.A. Weekly: …
Featured Image
7 Jul 2015
Get a look at David Hockney on the news! ABC7 correspondent Adrienne Alpert visited L.A. Louver to chat with Hockney about his latest body of work, and his vested interest in depicting perspective. Click …
Featured Image
7 Jul 2015
A candid moment from this morning’s media preview event with David Hockney as he speaks to ABC7′s Adrienne Alpert. “This exhibition is about vanishing points– extending it. Chinese art, Japanese art, Persian art, Indian …
Featured Image
7 Jul 2015
David Hockney: Painting and Photography opens at L.A. Louver this Wednesday, July 15, 6-8 pm. All of the 36 works on view were created over the past two years in the artist’s Los Angeles studio. …
Featured Image
7 Jul 2015
Gajin Fujita begins each of his paintings with a preparatory drawing, or drawings, through which he determines scale, composition and palette. He then actively uses the drawing to make the painting: cutting away its …
Featured Image
6 Jun 2015
Here’s a round-up of Gajin Fujita’s graffiti crew members and friends at opening night of his current exhibition Warriors, Ghosts and Ancient Gods of the Pacific.  Reminded of Fujita’s 2011 exhibition, Made in L.A., …
Featured Image
6 Jun 2015
LOS ANGELES TIMES REVIEW “Brands, symbols and emblems in Gajin Fujita’s paintings at L.A. Louver”  by David Pagel  Ten years ago, billboards across Southern California proclaimed that the baseball team then known as the …
Featured Image
6 Jun 2015
In addition to our longstanding gallery space in Venice, CA,  L.A. Louver has also acquired a 13,000 square foot industrial warehouse space in the emerging urban corridor between Culver City and Central Los Angeles. …
Featured Image
6 Jun 2015
Incorporating symbols of his urban Los Angeles upbringing into scenes drawn from traditional Japanese art, painter Gajin Fujita’s cross-cultural mashups achieve an identity uniquely their own. With a LACMA spotlight already under his belt, …
Featured Image
5 May 2015
Tony Berlant, Charles Garabedian, Don Suggs and Tom Wudl are included in the group exhibition Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 70s, currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA though August 2, …
Featured Image
4 Apr 2015
One of Gajin Fujita’s most ambitious works to date has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and now resides in their permanent collection. Titled Southland Standoff, the painting …
Featured Image
3 Mar 2015
We’re thrilled to be presenting a solo exhibition of new works by Enrique Martínez Celaya this coming April 2015. Encompassing all of the gallery spaces, including the first and second floor galleries as well …
Featured Image
3 Mar 2015
Pick up copy of the Los Angeles Times for a recent feature on David Hockney. The article touches on the artist’s return to Los Angeles, his revived interest in portraiture, and what he’s described …