Art
A&E Fall Preview
Art
From drywall assemblages to paintings of mannequins, this season is rich in art of all kinds
September 1st, 2011
Art in the Park: Parodies of art walks may have made you apprehensive, but we must respect this 49-year-old Boulder City tradition. The event, with 320 artists this year, has survived with a smart mix of arts and crafts. Read more »
Art Scene
Get Your Licks
August 18th, 2011
See some art that’s guaranteed to make even the ice cream man melt. This month, 222 Imperial Gallery presents Ice Cream Pop, a group show for which 21 local artists created delicious pieces of art containing everyone’s favorite summer dessert (222 E. Imperial Ave., 6-midnight Fridays, through Aug. 31, free, 271-2844). Here are five tastes: Read more »
Art Scene
Cirque Gets Visual
August 11th, 2011
Strip entertainment giant Cirque du Soleil is taking over the art scene this month with two big events. Read more »
Art
Power Pop
Bright colors, sharp lines and bold lettering give Angee Jackson’s vinyl art punch
August 11th, 2011
The pop culture décor of Angee Jackson’s living room says a lot about her own art. In the corner, she’s got a 1965 Lucky Strike pinball machine with fantastic drawings of suburban women bowling. Next to that are three pink Eames-esque fiberglass shell chairs that look fresh from a funky old Laundromat. Beyond that is an enormous shelf of vinyl records. Then there’s the 4-foot-high thrift-store painting of an eight-point buck, praying hands and a serpent. Read more »
Art
Mural Man
Alexander Huerta brings his ubiquitous Arts District designs to a downtown apartment community
July 28th, 2011
Alexander P. Huerta’s murals can be found nearly everywhere in downtown’s Arts District. Colorful, floating palettes, guitars and mysterious eyes signal to whoever’s driving through or strolling by that, Hey, this is where art in Las Vegas happens. Indeed, Huerta’s beautiful works serve as the unofficial markers of our creative center, his bright works elevating the district’s visual profile. Huerta, 44, knows about elevation. A graduate of Clark High School, he worked for 15 years in the Harrah’s race and sports book before hitting “rock bottom.” Read more »
Art
Cheaper Than a Pack of Cigs
How the maker of the Cosmopolitan’s Art-o-mat provided art lovers with a $5 entry into the art world
July 21st, 2011
If you’ve explored the Cosmopolitan, surely you’ve noticed its scattering of old-school cigarette vending machines, which deliver $5 miniature works of art instead of Marlboro Reds. They’re called Art-o-mats, and they originated as a conceptual art piece by Clark Whittington. Today the Art-o-mat has grown to sell work from 300-400 artists from 10 countries. There are 100 machines in the U.S.A. (and machines in Australia, Canada and Austria), with the Cosmopolitan housing seven. Read more »
Art
Deck the Walls
July 21st, 2011
Empire Gallery owner Justin McCroy is hosting the group show LVSK8 V, opening his doors to more than 70 skateboard decks, each covered in a different artistic vision. The contributing artists are mostly local tattooists who deviated from their usual medium. Read more »
Art
Show and Sell
Visit the fortune-cookie art fair to find out why all the are dealers flocking to Hong Kong
July 7th, 2011
Faces of First Friday
Flesh and Feathers
Kevin Chupik’s diptych series explores visual link between birds and babes
June 30th, 2011
Plumage, Kevin Chupik’s new show at Brett Wesley Gallery, is as dazzling as the feathers of the most exotic avian. It presents split-canvas diptych paintings of birds and women’s body parts, reducing them both to aesthetic objects and demonstrating how far apart and close together we are as species. Read more »
Art
Crimson Confidential
Engaging the enigma of Red, as the mystical artist visits the Venetian
June 30th, 2011
The oil paintings of L.A.-based artist Red possess an otherworldly quality. They are at once dark and vibrant; their figurative subject matter—goldfish, Buddha, demons and dragons—is spiritual, psychedelic, eerie, Eastern. Read more »
