Art Traffic

Justin Michell is a Los Angeles baised painter who incorporates collage into his artwork.   http://justinmichell.com https://www.instagram.com/michell_justin/

Creative Arts Coalition to Transform Urban Space (CACtTUS) is a donation based project space for emerging contemporary artists established by both Jorge Mujica and Mayra Serna. We interviewed Jorge and their current artist in residence, Roxana Martinez and discuss their personal practices and the ways CACtTUS functions as art gallery and work space.

Michael Nannery is an artist based in Long Beach, California. His prints, illistrations, installations, and communal activities deal with time, our relationship with the natural world, and much more. Nannery currently has work on view at Gallery Flux in Long Beach.

Adee is an La Based interdisciplinary artist born in Florida whose work is a "celebration of joy and black liberation" and about finding the balance between grief + celebration. She uses music, painting, and filmmaking and has recently collaborated with MOCA Los Angeles.

Tatiana Vahan is a Los Angeles artist and curator whose work is conceptual in nature and focuses on the relationship between art, the artist, and capitalism. She is the founder of the Bar Fund grant initiative and is currently working on the Los Angeles Artist Census. 

Gerardo is a ceramic based artist from Oaxaca, Mexico whose work is influenced by murals, graffiti art, and other imagery from the streets of LA. He has work up right now at the Riverside Museum of Art and is currently working on a body of work for a solo show in the near future. 

Mark McKnight is an analog photographer who strictly works with the traditional black and white film. Upcoming shows include: Turn Into Mark's forthcoming solo exhibition at the James Harris Gallery in Seattle Washington on September 6th Monotasking Group show at the Luisotti Gallery in Santa Monica from June 23st through August 4th       

Essence Harden is an independent curator and artist (and much more!) born and raised in Oakland California. Upcoming shows she has curated and worked on are: She Loves Her  The Los Angeles LGBT Center's Advocate and Gochis Galleries in October Bold Visual Language: Emory Douglas  Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions on July 7th Second Look Twice  Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) on September 19th Refuge: Shinique Smith California African American Museum (CAAM) currently on view

Sergio Teran is a painter, printmaker and teacher. His subjects are usually of his friends, collegues, and family members posing infront of a Los Angeles landscape. 

Norm Laich is an artist, sign painter, and fabricator that has been intrigul to the Los Angeles art scene for several years. He has worked with several of the art world's biggest names and currently has a show at the ICA/LA of peices he fabricated for others such as Mike Kelley and Arturo Herrera.

Dana Duff is an artist and sculptor who tends to prefer the nonstatic image over the still; ranging from documentary to more experimental type films. She is currently a sculpture/New Genres professor at Otis College of Art and Design.

Maiden LA is a network of art happenings with the main idea of creating an egalitarian art scene. Submissions for the Maiden LA 2018 Open Call will be open soon. www.maiden.la

Elmer shares his initial interest in art making, graffiti, and how that led him to pursue a career in art. Today, he paints abstracted portraits of underrepresented individuals, such as homeless people in his community, in an exploration of identity and its changes through displacement.

Meg Cranston is a conceptual artist who investigates the intersections between individual and shared experience and how imagery and objects acquire meaning in our culture. Exhibiting internationally since 1988, Meg has collected many accolades throughout her career; becoming an influencial force in the art world.

Flatline co-directors Elizabeth Munzon and Cynthia Lujan sat down with us in their studio/gallery in North Long Beach to discuss the challenges and triumphs of opening a new space, local art collectives, life after art school, and their own work. Elizabeth Munzon's latest work, Centzon Tototchtin: 400 Rabbits, is on the Flatline walls now. 

We interviewed Narsiso Martinez at the Long Beach Museum of Art where he is doing a residency. We discussed his artwork and ideas, and touched on todays political climate. His current group show, Farm to Table, will be closing this weekend at Brainworks Gallery.

Jungmok Sona Lee is a Korean artist who currently lives in Long Beach. She is part of a group show titled "Farm to Table" at Brainworks Gallery at 5364 W Pico Bl. that goes on from November 4th - 25th.

Carole Caroompas is a painter whose work examines the intersection of pop culture and gender archetypes.Carole Caroompas is currently a Professor of Fine Art at Otis College of Art and Design. She is a painter, performance artist, and recording artist with numerous awards and grants to her name.

Mario Ybarra Jr. is a visual artist that has shown all over the world, a founding member of slanguage studio, and a teacher that lectures all over the city. From his studio in San Pedro we talk about his work with aspiring young artists, scary movies, critical thinking, and making art out of whatever you got.

In this episode we spoke to Executive Director Amy Eriksen and Curator Martabel Wasserman of the Angel's Gate Cultural Center about the history of the campus, and about their upcoming 2017 shows with Pacific Standard Time.

Vincent Ramos is a long time West Side resident and artist. You can see his work right now at LACMA on display with the Pacific Standard Time showcase.

Today we talk to artist Linda Vallejo. She is going to be showing her work for Pacific Standard Time all throughout Los Angeles this fall. Upcoming Shows: "Keepin’ It Brown,” solo exhibition bG Gallery, September 9 – October 10, Opening Reception September 9, 5 – 8 pm “Día de los Muertos: A Cultural Legacy, Past Present & Future,” Self Help Graphics & Art, September 17, 2017—January 20, 2018, Opening Reception: September 17, 12 - 5 pm “Descendants and Dissonance: Cultural Iconography in Contemporary LA,” Salt Fine Art, September 18 – October 31, 2017, Opening Reception: October 5, 2017, 6 – 9 pm. “LA/Landscapes: Real and Imagined,” Studio Channel Islands, September 16—November 18, 2017, Opening Reception: September 16, 7 - 9 pm “A Universal History of Infamy,” LACMA Charles White Gallery, November 2017 – Spring 2018 “Deconstructing Liberty: A Destiny Manifested,” Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center, August 5 – October 15, 2017    

Artist Juan Capistrán talks about politics, Guadalajara, being a father, and his "side hustles" on the second part of his interview. Juan, who runs an exhibition space and book store called Mandujano/Cell in Inglewood, will be showing at MOCAD from September 8th  to January 7th in a show titled Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance. softestbulletevershot.com

Artist Juan Capistrán talks about growing up in south central entering the art world and working with music, history, la Raza, and mysterious racist white ladies. This is part one of a two part interview.    

Interview with artist Kristine Schomaker about her artistic practice, second life, and working in an E.R. She is the creator of ShoeboxPR and of an experimental project space called Shoebox Projects. She is also the founder of a Contemporary Art Magazine focused on the Los Angeles Art Scene called Art and Cake. https://shoeboxpr.com

Interview with Los Angeles artist Erin Adams. She talks of her early childhood life to present time and discusses what it is like to be an artist with children. She has an upcoming solo exhibition titled "The She Coyote of Los Angeles" at the Los Angeles LGBT center opening on September 16th.

Introduction to our new interview based show about the LA art scene. Press play, download and subscribe. If you want to hear from someone in the contemporary LA art world contact us at arttraffic@thomasadamsart.com