Chalk: Owned by five “brothers” (two by blood), Chalk is a creative mill that functions as art gallery, design studio, storefront and workshop in West LA. It showcases artists whose craft emphasizes the process as much as the end result. Thus, at any given time, visitors will find a wide variety of live art projects underway, ranging from painting to screen printing. Those who missed a recent spray-painting performance by some of the featured players at
Parallel Dimensions can check out the upcoming
opening reception for Escape Artists where Drew Brophy, Mark Longnecker, Jim Darling and Chalk owners DJ Neff and Justin Mitchell all will be painting on site.
LAB ART: This La Brea gallery showed approximately 300 works from 30 artists at its
grand opening earlier this year. With a mission to become the de facto home to the street art genre, former designer-turned-curator
Iskander Lemseffer makes a point to organize wide-ranging exhibitions. Arguably the largest such gallery in the US, it maximizes its 7,000 square feet by using it as both a showcase and performance space, via
live painting events. After visiting, observant patrons will notice, in the streets of LA,
signature works from
artists shown at LAB ART, including
Thank You X and
Gregory Siff, both of whom have been spotted
painting live at
events around town.
