Rae of San Paulo and Gavin up top filming and never missing a trick!
Gustavo,Otaviao painting at Retna's Studio for our show in Miami!
Retna graciously opened his studio to Os Gemeos while
This spells RETNA!!!!!
Chris Johanson and Christopher Garret in our newly fixed up storage space
Tobin and our fave Femme Fatal: Cheryl Dunn
Photographer and video artist Tobin Yelland, Kellie, CoCo and friend.
Julie, Jose and Amber 
Amy Jo Diaz,Julie's Boyfriend, Julie Machado and Jose Parla
Cleon had a super opening last week.
Last night at the Taschen bookstore in Los Angeles, Ethel Seno, critic and Senior Editor of Paper Magazine Carlo McCormick and Marc and Sara Schiller of the Wooster Collective came out –- along with over 300 eager fans — to celebrate their take on the new rebels of the art world in their book Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Art. The tome is a collaboration celebrating the global phenomenon of graffiti and unsanctioned art and a historical retrospective of sorts and discusses the methods behind the art of spray painting and the impact the genre had on the art world for nearly four generations. Featured works include pieces by artists including Guerrilla Girls, Ron English, Skullphone, Shepard Fairey, and Banksy.
“There are a lot if street art books, but no books that put street art into historical context and take a broader view of the movement to include performance, interventions, protests and graffiti,” said Sara Schiller, who together with husband Mark curated the majority of the images in Trespass. “The way this stuff works in our urban environment is, it’s an interruption,” mused McCormick, who wrote and titled the book, (while Ethel Seno was the editor who pulled it all together and now is working with MOCA’s Jeffrey Deitch, who came in support, as well as the co-curators of his upcoming show “Art in the Streets”, Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose). “It’s an intervention,” added McCormick. “Making people question reality; that’s the ultimate provocation and the best way to reach them.”
The book includes dozens of previously unpublished artworks and photographs, as well as an exclusive preface by the ever elusive Banksy. While he wasn’t there, (or maybe he was; we’ll never know) many of the artists in the book were on hand including Ron English, the aforementioned Skullphone, and photographer Craig R. Stecyk, who were all thrilled at the chance to participate. “… We were able to focus on unauthorized pieces which take into account a specific motivation of the artist,” said Ms. Schiller about her street art literary homage. “These artists risk arrest and spend time and money to make art that may only last minutes. This aspect needed to be examined.”
The art of Cleon Peterson has never been for the fainthearted. LikePieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting The Triumph of Death, his unapologetic, graphic depictions of acts of brutality are both disquieting and strangely captivating. Daybreak is the artist’s latest solo show opening this Saturday, November 20th at New Image Art Gallery. The exhibition, which draws inspiration and its title from Nietzsche’s Daybreak: Reflections on Moral Prejudices, marks Peterson’s powerful return with another morally ambiguous and beautifully composed orgy of violence.
Damien Ortega's beautiful kinetic sculpture at Frieze 
Awesome installation by Brazilian artist Titi Freak at Moniker Art Fair
While in Oaxaca a few months ago I met these Mexican artists.
Ben Eine installation
SF artist and xpat Rebecca Miller and son.
Herakut Installation
The Girl with the Tempelton Tatoo!
Photographer Spencer Tunic stopped by
Phallus cart by Christo!
Los Angeles Art dealer Javier Perez
A portrait by the late and great New Yorker, Alice Neal reminds me a bit
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