2012_04_26
The opening for Jose A. Guzman Colon’s Pushing The Illusion at Pop Tart Gallery was quite the scene, with many east-side notables giving face + serving fashion. Also great to meet SF’s Accidental Bear Mike + stunning sibling male models the Godfres, Benjamin + Michael.
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2012_04_06
Spring fever at Cub Scout with Chris Bowen + Victor Rodriguez. Birds chirped, bunnies hopped, and pastures were green with new beginnings. Mating season is clearly starting early this year.
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2012_03_29
David McGough art exibit at PAR-LA.
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2011_11_19
Inside a group of LA’s most eclectic and manicured men, women and in-betweens, have amassed a crowd that mimics the English blitz kids of the early 80′s (think Boy George) and the dance embellishments of LA’s own krumpers and clowns (think LaChapelle’s “RIZE”). But these kids do it with their own funk and grace that sets them apart from any other club scene I have been to in my 26 years in LA. I fully believe, that if we embrace this event and this scene, we have a brand new New Romanticism on our hands. The creators of Runway have intelligently gathered not one name, but over 10 of the most recognizable and interesting faces of young gay LA.
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2011_06_09
/venue: The Downtown Independent
/party: ArtWerq presents BISHI
/hosts: CoMa
/music: Aaron Elvis & Phyllis Navidad
/curator: Steven Kiss of Callinois Art
/photos: Jake
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/venue: (Sub)Urban Home
/event: UN[tit]LED
New Work by Cody Bayne
For more information of the on-going exhibition check out the facebook event, and reference our earlier interview with Mr. Bayne himself.
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2011_05_20
The queen bee over at Pop Tart gallery, Phyliss Navidad, teamed up with Geisha, Jessica&Kelly, and several local designers and artists to bring us Dripped this past weekend. The first in a series of bi-monthly trunk shows was quite the success and luckily I was able to get an amazing pair of Banjela white hot pants just in time for summer.
Looking forward to some more summer night shopping.
/venue: Pop Tart Gallery
/party: Dripped: A Trunk Show x Fashion Soiree
/host: JAK
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Having been friends with Cody for a few years now, we’ve never talked candidly about his work and process. Initially getting to know him as a promoter and eventually client, it wasn’t until later that I came to know him as a painter. And though we’ve discussed art in general terms or compared notes on other artists, this is the first time I’ve gotten to get some insight of this side to him.
Where do you derive inspiration for your work?
It varies really.
About 4 years ago in Berlin I got really inspired by the tagged walls and graffitti upon practically every building. There is something about where the need to make marks upon a wall, and in a sense say “I am here, I exist.” I find the need for what i call the “immediacy of identity” the most interesting, and then the culture of painting over this mark by authorities just as interesting.
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