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LOS ANGELES- RIVERA & RIVERA is pleased to announce a new floor-to-ceiling installation piece by international graffiti artist RETNA. RETNA’s installation which spans a 25 foot high wall and carpets the floor entices and envelops viewers in a black and white web of text.
The installation explores the complex nature of a fluid lexicon derived from a multitude of sources including hieroglyphics and street tagging. RETNA’s original typography is based on the Latin alphabet, and can be decoded and translated to read messages in English or Spanish.
RETNA’s work is featured around the world–his collaborative murals can be seen on the streets of Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Miami, New York, Mexico City, Barcelona and Milan. His most recent exhibitions include showing at Volta Basel in Switzerland, Desaturated at New Image, and the Los Angeles Art Show. This is the final show at RIVERA & RIVERA’s South Park location.
Please look for our new location in the Gallery District of downtown Los Angeles, set to open in the fall.
DATE: Thursday July 29, 2010
TIME: 8:00PM -11:00PM
RSVP: rsvp@riveraandrivera.com

Summer time in Los Angeles is one of the only places to be for everything world class including art. If you’re in L.A tonight for Art Walk stop by Bang Gallery and chill for a spell. It’s a Jarritos party, and I’ve never been to one but for some reason any company that makes technicolor soda seems like they’d be a blast to have as a host.

I’m going to be in LA for this and if you say you’re trilly into ink and you have a spare day even you should be too.

The homie Jamal over @ Segue doesn’t stop throwing events. Homie has an uncanny ability to organize and keep things fresh and entertaining and this line up is no different. See you out there!

CaliLOVE: Behind The Photo Shoot from Amanda Martinez on Vimeo.

There are some super dope events going on in S.F Thursday the 18th. One of them is our homie and amazing photographer Amanda Lopez’s gallery opening of her “CaliLove” show. Amanda has been shooting for magazines like Vapors, The Source and XXL for years as well as apprenticing under Los Angeles street photography titan Estevan Oriol. The S.F opening of her exhibit features portraits shot over the course of a few months featuring people adorned in the macabre face paint traditional to the Mexican holiday Dia De Los Muertos. Of course she had to add her own flare to the makeup. The end result is an amazing fusion of culture and visual effect. COME THROUGH AND ENJOY THE SHOW!

CaliLOVE

Opening June 18th

7-11pm

@ FreeGoldWatch on Waller & Stanyan off of Haight St.

BE THERE!

The Reignforest Collective and posse throw some super solid hip hop events here in S.F and around the Bay Area. “Listening Lounge” on June 18th @ 111 Minna continues the cycle by bringing up none other than Exile and Fashawn.  Also in the building is an amazing producer out of the Bay Area & now LA, 6 Fingers along with Vallejo emcee Top Kat. This show right here is un-missable if you’re in S.F trust me. 24KMilkCrate will be there front and center. Wouldn’t miss it for the world and neither should you!

And if you haven’t yet HIT UP THEIR BANDCAMP AND GRAB “THE SANDWICH SHOP”

“Medicine Agency is proud to present Beryl Fine’s exotic and erotic photo exhibition “DIRTY GLAMOUR” this Friday, June 4th at Medicine Agency. Join us at 1262 Mason Street for some free drinks and nasty fun!

“In my collection DIRTY GLAMOUR I have taken the female form and allowed these sexual entities to take their own shape, creating a space that embodies a less than archetypal strength and power. Along with the sexually charged imagery of the female embodiment of femininity I also draw from my Divas series of transsexual/ cross dressers. These lovely ladies have transcended the gender barrier re-contextualizing sex and the borders of gender.

Rather than weak, innocent and coy I present a modern woman; one that
exudes strength, possesses power and demands identity of self.”

- Beryl Fine”