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Preview: Basel Week Miami ’10 – Corey Helford Gallery

Posted by lowpro, November 26, 2010

In what will prove to be another worthwhile inclusion at SCOPE Miami, Corey Helford Gallery will be traveling down to South Beach for their debut showing at the prestigious contemporary art fair. The gallery has huge plans in store for their premiere exhibition, with an 800 square foot booth reserved for an impressive ensemble cast of artists including Ron English, Korin Faught, Buff Monster, Natalia Fabia, Luke Chueh, Chloe Early, Sarah Folkman, Joshua Petker, David Stoupakis, Nouar, Kukula, COOP, Pandora, Lavender, Brandi Milne, Sylvia Ji, […]

Openings: “BLABWORLD … Scenes from THE HEREAFTER” @ Copro Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, September 14, 2010

Last Saturday, the long time running publication BLAB! completed its makeover with their reoccurring show at Copro Gallery – this time as BLABWORLD. The renamed anthology of comics, illustration, and graphic design from Monte Beauchamp focused on thematic works based on “scenes from THE HEREAFTER” and a nice slate of artists obliged with their unique interpretations. Take a look at all the opening images after the jump…

Openings: “Art From The New World” @ Bristol City Museum

Posted by sven, May 14, 2010

Our friends from the Corey Helford Gallery brought their West Coast Style to the West Country this evening for the much anticipated opening of “Art From The New World” at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. It seemed as though UK art fans were highly responsive to some of the wonderful work on show at the preview night, with a packed house drawing in the crowd from the length and breadth of the United Kingdom. Some real visual treats are on offer, from the […]

Preview: “Art From The New World” (Curated by Corey Helford Gallery) @ Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Posted by sven, April 18, 2010

Something exciting is coming to the UK in the month of May in the shape of “Art from the New World”, an exhibition organized and curated by Los Angeles based Corey Helford Gallery. The exhibit will show a snapshot of the blossoming American new contemporary scene that we at AM love so much and is to be held at the location of last year’s Banksy versus the Bristol Museum – The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. If you’re in the UK, don’t miss this chance […]

Openings: Hi-Fructose Five Year Anniversary Show @ Copro Gallery

Posted by juggernut3, March 17, 2010

Last Saturday, AM attended Copro Gallery for the anniversary of one of our favorite magazines – Hi-Fructose. Known for bringing some of the best pop surrealist art coverage for the past 5 years, Hi-Fructose curated a diverse and top notch mix of some of the best talent in the industry. Many of LA’s booming art scene made it out to celebrate the anniversary show and catch the works of favorites such as Mark Ryden, Lori Earley, Audrey Kawasaki, Jeff Soto, Kevin Cyr, Thomas Doyle, Scott Musgrove, […]

Preview: “2010 Group Exhibition, Part 2” @ David B. Smith Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, February 19, 2010

Part deux of the 2010 Group Exhibition at David B. Smith Gallery opens tonight in Denver. Just like the first edition, this show features a stellar lineup of artists including Josh Agle aka SHAG (interviewed), Jud Bergeron, Kris Lewis (interviewed), MARS-1, Niall McClelland, Amy Sol (interviewed), Cole Sternberg and Jason Thielke (interviewed). Take at this charming new piece from Amy Sol (above) which she posted some progress pics of on her blog. More preview images after the jump…

Openings: SHAG – “Autumn’s Come Undone” @ Corey Helford Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, November 26, 2009

SHAG’s epic show at Corey Helford Gallery opened to a packed house last weekend in the Culver City arts district. Parties, good food, drinks aplenty, music, beautiful people, immaculate modern homes with mid-century furniture – in general, the hedonistic lifestyle of suburbia have always been the mainstay of SHAG’s paintings. As we mentioned in the preview, his work takes a more somber turn as he seems to have grown tired consumerism and decadent focus of his characters and in his own life. However, this turn […]

Preview: SHAG – “Autumn’s Come Undone” @ Corey Helford Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, November 17, 2009

One of the shows we are looking forward to this weekend is SHAG’s (interviewed) “Autumn’s Come Undone” in Culver City at the Corey Helford Gallery. Attendees will be treated to a new “retro-cool” body of work, this time reflecting on fall colors, a more somber mood, and darker overtones. He explains “something happened to me in the last year – call it an unexpected change of hear, if you like, but a lot of the unfettered hedonism my artwork espoused has begun to catch up […]

Teaser: SHAG – “Autumn’s Come Undone” @ Corey Helford Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, September 12, 2009

Looks like SHAG (interviewed) will be channeling some Hieronymus Bosch for his solo show at Corey Helford in November.Â The exhibiton entitled “Autumn’s Come Undone” will be his first at the Culver City gallery andÂ will presumably have some pieces paying tribute to the famous 15th century painter.Â Another image after the jump…

Teaser: “The BLAB! Show” @ Copro Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, July 29, 2009

Take a look at this stunning new painting from Joe Sorren entitled “The Secret Collapse of Miss Loraine.” He explains it as his “micro-take about an apocalypse for this one girl, her world being suddenly being interrupted by unknown forces (the phone call)” It will be printed in the next issue of BLAB! for the theme of The Apocalypse with the original available at the annual “BLAB!” show at Copro Gallery, opening August 8th. Other artists participating in this show include Alex Gross, Jeff Soto […]