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BBC NEWS AFRIQUE June 2019
Featuring LAAA Artist Kodjovi Olympio
EAT TRAVEL GO June 2019
Los Angeles Art Association has participated in the art fair for nine years (as of 2019). You can find them at Projektraum (a satellite show). Gallery Director Peter Mays said “Basel in Basel is a very different thing than any other fair…(much more serious than Art Basel Miami, which has morphed into a city-wide cultural thing). While not driven by a party atmosphere, the soberness manifests in the monumental commerce that happens there…
FRANCE TELEVISIONS June 2019
A portrait of a talented artist, Olympio, was shown this morning on Télématin (France 2 and TV5MONDE). He has already been nicknamed "The Jackson Pollock of West Africa", has been exhibited at Art Basel and has been ranked among the 10 best artists of Red Dot Miami. Take a look...
ART AND CAKE October 2018
Each unique and exciting, the three solo shows at Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 (LAAA) through October 12th give viewers a lot to take in both visually and emotionally. The exhibitions are all intense, powerful, meticulously created, and seem nestled in a state that is part dream…
ART AND CAKE November 2017
Erika Lizée may be Eternally Searching (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13) as the title of the artist’s new, utterly stunning installation at Los Angeles Art Association’s Gallery 825 suggests, but in seeing the work, viewers have arrived at the perfect destination....
ARTILLERY September 2017
Sometimes a drawing is not a drawing. For example, when an artist transcends rendering and goes for something entirely more direct. In the case of Flora Kao and her unique, evocative architectural rubbings, her method of depiction is itself a tactile, durational, almost performative act—making the resulting drawings the artifacts of poignant, physical presence...
ART AND CAKE September 2017 John Rosewall’s Grip, now at Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 (LAAA) through October 13th, is one of four beautifully rendered solo shows on exhibit and a compelling standout. Rosewall’s work here is based on photographs taken by the artist and those culled from other sources.
The dark color palette of the work adds to the gravitas of the exhibition, whose heightened realism is packed with tension and power...
Basler Zeitung: Ping Pong between Europe & the USA
June 2017
Basel. This year's exhibition of Ping Pong Basel is presented in the snow-white project room M54 at Mörsbergerstrasse 54. Fitting to the opening floods on Wednesday evening sunlight - the only one of this week? - the exhibition and immerses them in gleaming light.....
ART AND CAKE May 2017 Susan Amorde’s In My Case, now at the Los Angeles Arts Association/Gallery 825, is a collection of new and recent mixed media sculptural works and installations. Using vintage suitcases as the framework, Amorde traverses emotional depths on a journey of self-discovery for viewers....
Erin Dorothy Visuals April 2017 The show Los Angeles Art Association/ Gallery 825 is currently hosting User to User at their North Gallery. The show is a contemporary mediation on conflicts in human communication, with an emphasis in technology and social isolation...
ART AND CAKE April 2017 At LAAA’s Gallery 825 through the 21st, Joshua Levine’s solo exhibition, Laetiporus Leeway is a mix of natural wonder and art. This is a magical world, one that could be inhabited by fairies or tribal ancestors, or at least created by them. Levine’s crazy-beautiful work is all about the ‘shrooms...
The Huffington Post October 4, 2016
Luigia Gio Martelloni: The Forest of Then & Now by Shana Nys Dambrot. Call it conceptual nostalgia for the present. Or allegorical landscape history. Or diaristic arboreal cartography. What photographer, painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and installation artist Luigia Gio Martelloni pursues, across and in-between...
CBS Los Angeles May 28, 2016
10 Best Art Galleries In West Hollywood The Los Angeles Art Association is a non-profit gallery that operates as a cooperative, and frequently shows cutting-edge solo and group shows. From video art installations to sculpture and paintings, there’s always something fresh….
Cartwheel Art April 5, 2016
"Paleolithic Creatures" by Lisa Derrick. Artist Devin Thor sculpts slabs of sandstone into representation of extinct mammals, an homage to our prehistoric ancestors and the animals they painted on cave walls across the globe. His work will be on display through April, at Gallery 825...
Huffington Post: Arts & Culture April 4, 2016
Janine Brown’s “Wallflower Project“ is a portrait series in which individual subjects seem to emerge from wisps and filigrees of the unique, vintage wallpaper patterns of the backgrounds that surround them. With a nod to...
LA Times: Special to the Times November 2, 2006
An art fee that'll make you blush: At Gallery 825 on La Cienega Boulevard, there is one piece of art that does not have a price tag.The photograph, mounted on an easel near the entrance to the gallery, is of a naked person or persons, and it is occasionally replaced by another photograph of similar subject matter. A sign beckons in red capital letters: "Buy this art for free!"....