Ginger Opening Reception At New Image Art Gallery

New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles has been a steady source of beauty and subculture since 2000, very rarely showing work that I’m not impressed and taken by. Their website doesn’t do any of the artwork the slightest bit of justice–you’ll have to go in there and get involved. I know that leaving the house can be scary, but just imagine that your neighbor changed their internet WEP key and you’re forced to actually go out into the real world to discover something new and amazing. You can only watch so much Deadliest Catch. Anyway, New Image are specialists in the showcasing and presentation of alternative, urban, & contemporary artists, having done shows with Ed Templeton, Chris Lindig, Alex Kopps, & Rich Jacobs, just to name a few geniuses. The gallery has a thick-as-blood relationship with independent art based (even though they sell at Nordstroms) clothing brand/now mogul RVCA, who in their defense still hold hands with some pretty outstanding artists and musicians. I am a little disturbed by their current sponsorship/boasting of cage fighter BJ Penn. Paint brushes and broken noses? Oh well, the ANP’s familyship with Modest Mouse, Grandaddy, Mars Volta, Animal Collective, & Pharcyde’s Fatlip is more than enough to earn my respect.

Okay, so about the gallery–they are having the opening reception for their latest installation Ginger on June 7th. You’ll see the typography based works of Tauba Auerbach, some paintings from indie/folk icon Devendra Banhart, plus a great deal more of wonderment from 8 other artists involved in the group show.