LA Artshow 2022 Highlights and Weekend Program.

 LA Artshow 2022 Highlights and Weekend Program.
(WestHollywoodToday blog, Los Angeles, January 21, 2022)
Photos by Karen Ostlund
                                                                           

 LA Art Show, kicked off the Los Angeles 2022 art season with an opening party, January 19th, with the official host model and actress Kaia Gerber.The event was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and the exhibits will continue to stay open until 6pm, January 23rd 2022..
Kaia Gerber is known for her love of fostering community, fashion, art, and culture, and is a great supporter of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ® and the LA Art Show. She is lending her platform to others for the sake of education.

                                                                             

Cirque du Soleil dancers from show OVO, opening in LA, March 16 - May 1 2022

It’s LAArtshow’s  8th year in partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® under the new direction of Kassandra Voyagis and returning DIVERSEartLA curator Marisa Caichiolo,

"LA Art Show Gallerist Talks" presented by Citi is produced by Consuelo Echhardt of CeConsulting  in partnership with MaryLinda Moss of Source Art.The Gallerist Talks were launched as a platform to support a variety of international gallerists and provide global access to new audiences, art lovers, and collectors; Program Citi Talks until January 23rd: https://www.laartshow.com/citi/
Galleries featured are NEUE KUNST Gallery, ABEND Gallery and BEATRIZ ESGUERRA Gallery.

 Complete list of LAArtshow galleries 2022: https://www.laartshow.com/Participating-galleries
                                                                             

Judson Studios design made art debut at LA Artshow 2022, booth 612, and showcases artist collaborations of stained glass and fused artworks to create light, life and energy. Judson's design restores historically significant windows to preserve their beauty, by using the technology of fused glass in the  world of art, architecture, and design.

                                                                  

Conceptual Traditions booth 398 at Jane Kahan Gallery features a selection of artworks from its collection of 20th century art by Modern art superstars, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Alexander Calder. Their five artworks highlight the collaborative process of creating art in tapestry, printmaking and ceramic. Known for creating powerful images inspired by the beauty of the natural world. Photo of Pablo Picasso’s “Femme sur l’echelle”.

                                                                          

“Little Beasts” by artist Johnny ‘KMNDZ” Rodriguez, is presented by Merry Karnowsky of
KP Projects, booth 404 in partnership with LGND...the perfect NFT storm.
The hand-drawn and weaved compositions feature 15 robots and 48 animals -
 to create a whole universe of "little beasts" from Rodriguez’s imagination. He uses glass
eyed robots, drawn from discarded metal pieces.

                                                                            

Alexandra Dillon's Installation Artifacts bG Gallery, booth 1216, "The Mothers”, acrylic and oil-paint on vintage dresses, metal tray, shovel head, antique chairs and chains. Project-artist Dillon shows character, personality and emotion by painting imagined portraits on used tools, recycled from swap meets and flea markets.

                                                                          

Surrealist paintings of Italian artist Carlo Maria Mariani (1930 – 2021) at Pan American Art Projects, booth 404. which work involving a manipulation of symbols of ideality, presented with sensuous perfection. They are a celebration of the ideal in art in perfection The featured painting, Flying in Spatial Atmosphere, 1989, is an autobiographical leap into space based on Yves Klein’s Leap into the Void (1960), thus rendered in Klein’s signature blue.

                                                                                                
                                                                           

ACOSTA ARTS, booth 205, 14-year-old LA native Tex Hammond brings bold, organic style back to debut LA Artshow with an exhibition revealing unique perspectives of school, music & youth.

                                                                              

Mizuma Gallery, booth 509 comes with their own contemporary art contribution to the Los Angeles art landscape, with locations in Japan and Singapore. The gallery highlights Japanese artists including Oku Dayuta, OHATA Shintaro and Yuna Ogino. Photo of  OHATA Shintaro's, “Evening Sky”.

WEEKEND OPENING HOURS:
Friday, January 21, 2022
12pm – 8pm

Saturday, January 22, 2022
10am – 8pm (Early entry, VIP Red Card and Opening Night Ticket)
12pm – 8pm (General Admission)

Sunday, January 23, 2022
10am – 6pm (Early entry, VIP Red Card and Opening Night Ticket)
12pm – 6pm (General Admission)

LA Convention Center South Hall
1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
https://www.laartshow.com