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A Wild Thing group comes to town as wildly talented artists Noah Davis, Chris Johanson and Kehinde Wiley amongst many more attack Roberts & Tilton in Culver City.

From Roberts & Tilton:

“Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present Wild Thing, an exhibition of works comprised of various approaches to what is considered wild and untamable, yet simultaneously conceptual and laborious. The works included in Wild Thing are not the embodiment or exacting replica of any one “wild thing,” but of any and all things considered “wild.” By presenting a selection of international and local artists, we come to realize that no distance or variation in culture has the ability to jeopardize the absolute integrity or the personal experience of what each viewer might consider “wild.”

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A west coast double dip from Culver City’s Roberts & Tilton welcomes the Writings on the Wall of Ellen De Meutter and the Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes of Barbara McCullough.

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New York based artist Adam Pendleton returns to Culver City’s Roberts & Tilton gallery with his sleek sculptures and monochromatic code paintings in his latest solo show  EL  T D    K Los Angeles.

From R&T:

“Roberts & Tilton is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition with New York based artist Adam Pendleton. The artist’s work plays with conventional notions of history and language, proceeding from the notion that thought does not always determine language, language can also determine thought.   EL  T D    K Los Angeles is a selection of projects from 2007-present that deal directly with the abstraction and instrumentalization of language and image through sculpture and wall-based work.”

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UPDATE: More from Ed’s Toy Machine blog:

“I went minimal for this show, a departure from my usual chaotic display. But there was a theme and concept for this show that I stuck to. All photos were shot from a moving car, and all hung in a straght line.”

Last week Ed opened his latest photo show The Seconds Pass at Culver City’s Roberts & Tilton to the usual large gathering of skaters, photographers and art appreciators alike. And what we all saw was a show that was slightly different for Ed, as in streamlined opposed to his signature clustering style, more “in the moment” snapshots and far less nude/explicit imagery than what viewers have grown accustomed to over the years. All in all, Ed’s The Second Pass is definitely worth a second pass.

Show runs at Roberts & Tilton through April 3, 2010.

Many thanks to my friend Yoshi Shimura of Megane Zine and Star Graphics fame for providing the following photos from the opening. Please click here to see Yoshi’s entire set.

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As The Armory Show and PULSE art fairs make their annual return to New York this weekend, a couple of Los Angeles galleries have joined in on buying and selling art fun with Roberts & Tilton of Culver City and West Hollywood’s M+B.

• Roberts & Tilton will be showcasing stalwarts such as Barry McGee, Ed Templeton and Kehinde Wiley among others at the aforementioned Armory Show.

Martin Denker

Alex Prager

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Painter, photographer, pro skateboarder, loving husband, Toy Machine leader, vegan. Ed Templeton is many a thing. But as Ed describes himself and his artistic brethren in our film Beautiful Losers, “In titling the show Beautiful Losers, that gave it a label and people are now ‘oh, you’re a beautiful loser’. Well you can’t tag me as a one thing or the other, you can’t tag anyone in the show as just a painter, as just a photographer…we’re just artists.”

Ed’s The Seconds Pass passes through Roberts & Tilton in Culver City starting this Friday.

Read and see more from the mind of Ed at his Toy Machine blog here.

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Aaron Rose, one of my favorite collaborators and director of Beautiful Losers, brings a festival of rare and hard to see films from some of my favorite artists and filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Jonze, Mike Mills, Harmony Korine, Thomas Campbell, Roman Coppola, Cheryl Dunn, Bucky Fukumoto, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Miranda July, Tobin Yelland and many, many more to the Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Culver City this Saturday night.

Read artist/filmmaker bios here.

See entire schedule of films here.

And read all about it from A. Rose here.

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Plenty of inspiring openings and closings around LA this weekend, oh and some additional ass kicking as well.

• The Secret Headquarters brings new art by comic book artist Josh Simmons to their not-so-secret shop in Silver Lake with Special Nice Cosmic Hyperdeath.

• Bill McMullen’s Hype, Hustle, Ripoff ends today at the Constant Gallery on La Cienega with a closing BBQ just for you!

• KAWS‘ latest works in The Long Way Home will finally be going home as his much hyped first show in LA comes to a close at the Honor Fraser Gallery. Check out this amazing show as well as the closing of Bill McMullen’s at the Constant Gallery as they’re just a block from each other! Both well worth your time and travels (lot’s of other galleries in the area too!)

• French artistic heavyweight Parra shows off his latest works with Is That A Gun My Friend? at Saturday’s HVW8 Gallery opening off of Melrose in Hollywood.

• Art superstar Kehinde Wiley brings his latest works titled The World Stage: Brazil to Roberts & Tilton on Washington in Culver City. See more and read more about Wiley’s show inspirations here.

• On another note, wanna cheer on former Asshole of the Year Chris Pouy as he kicks ass and gets his ass kicked Muay Thai style? Of course you do!




South Coast Martial Arts
Fight night Saturday April 4th starting at 7pmdoors open at 6pm

2990 Grace Ln. Costa Mesa CA 92626

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