As California reopens, we are inspired and invested to help the community bounce back with a renewed vibrancy through the arts. To help the galleries, small businesses, and art enthusiasts reconnect, we’re providing online tools to help everyone navigate and design their own Art Walk any day of the week.
When Dale Youngman saw the nascent growth of art advocacy in Downtown Los Angeles’ Historic Core in 2005, she saw an opportunity. It was a way to grow an art business on the back of her experience as a consultant and designer for a digital print production company. The timing seemed right.
It was a hot, dog-days-of-summer afternoon when I rolled out of Pershing Square subway station in Downtown Los Angeles and looked up to discover Angelus, the in-progress and reputed “largest mural in the world by one artist.” It was the rendezvous point for my first meeting with the artist himself, Robert Vargas.
Owning and running a contemporary art gallery is not for the fainthearted. For art gallery startups in particular, it can be a daunting test of survival. A love it or leave it commitment. That said, stalwarts like REN Gallery owner Renee Warren prove that success is possible with a passion for art…
Chicano artist Gronk (né Glugio Nicandro) may have earned a reputation as mercurial, but he has also gained legendary status with his prolific practice as painter, theatrical set designer, performance artist, muralist, art collective co-founder, art activist, provocateur, and more.
Step into the Fine Arts Building in Downtown Los Angeles and you step back into an era when art and architecture merged with breathtaking panache. A landmark Romanesque Revival hidden gem, the building was constructed in 1926 to house the studios of local Downtown Los Angeles artists.
Spring Arts Tower has seen constant change since it was founded in 1915. A remarkable group of five artists – the Spring Arts Collective – have built a steadfast presence with their gallery/studio spaces on the building’s mezzanine.
Martha De Perez, art curator and pop-up exhibition organizer extraordinaire, has been volunteering her time to promote artists in and around Los Angeles for over a decade.