Address: 3137 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90039
On the web: www.blackmariagallery.com

Black Maria also offers an Under the Table space.

Density Fields is an "extreme cantilever" built from aluminum and silicon tubing to hover over the courtyard of Materials and Applications (M&A) in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. This structure is an outdoor exhibition created by Sci-Arc professors Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, called Density Fields. Defying classification as either sculpture or architecture, the piece will flex with a gesture that extends imaginary lines of force beyond the small courtyard, seeming to pierce buildings and features in the surrounding neighborhood.

Address: 1619 Silverlake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.materialsandapplications.org

Materials & Applications is a non-profit outdoor installation space.

New Orleans painter Keith Perelli will unveil a new series of post-Katrina paintings at Found Gallery in September of 2007.

Perelli is a native New Orleanian, most of his family living in Chalmette prior to the storm. While teaching at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts by day, he spends his spare time and summers painting in his shotgun home within walking distance of the campus. The shotgun house, a New Orleans staple, can be seen being tossed around in a grim stratosphere in several of his new paintings, without the magical sense of justice prevailing as in Dorothy's case. In addition, his new work has also focused on abandoned fishing vessels, trapped against a sparse, lonely, and invisible horizon.

This past year Mr. Perelli exhibited for the first time at Art Basel in Miami with Steve Martin Gallery, and 'Return' marks the maiden voyage to the West Coast to exhibit his vastly moving work.

Address: 1903 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
On the web: www.foundla.com

Found Gallery also carries work on an Online Store.

"This show is all about human nature and how varied the human experience can be. I wanted to explore everything from searching for love to heartache, from birth, to death, sexuality, drug use, suicide, self image, insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams. This is the most figurative and personal show I have done. I have used images of people I know, personal experiences and even myself to try and portray all these aspects." --Joshua Roman, Artist

Joshua Roman, a 29-year old New York transplant in Los Angeles, attended Cal Arts for animation, and took figurative drawing and industrial design classes at Art Center Pasadena. His work ranges from comical, to political, from cartoonish to down right frightening. He did his first portrait at the age of 11 and as he says, "from then on I was hooked."

Address: 2380 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90039
On the web: www.ghettogloss.com

Ghettogloss Gallery also offers a Rentals Catalogue and a Retail Space.

In the work of Drew Beckmeyer, Kate Guillen and Brian Rush Personal belief systems, social and logical constructs are put to the test in a coded internal language that often has a diagrammatic quality. Through this internal lens everyday objects and familiar events are given a grainy mystery that reveal an awkward inner reality liying just beneath the surface...

Address: 4017 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029
On the web: www.juncgallery.com

Junc Gallery also offers an Online Store.

Secret Headquarters
30 Days of Night by Ben Templesmith

Ben Templesmith is a critically acclaimed Australian artist and writer most widely known for his work in the Anglo-American comic book industry where he has received numerous nominations for the industry's top prize, the Eisner Award.

In addition to his work helping revitalize the horror genre in comics with 30 Days of Night , he has worked with renowned writer Warren Ellis to introduce a new 16 page format comic book with the highly praised crime comic, Fell. Ben's other projects include his creator-owned seriesWormwood: Gentleman Corpse and Singularity 7 and Hatter M.

He has also worked on the Star Wars, Army of Darkness, Silent Hill and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer properties and produces art and design for music bands, dvds, video games, toys, and film. Ben holds a Bachelor's degree in Design from Curtin University. He currently lives and works in Perth, Australia.

Address: 3817 W Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.thesecretheadquarters.com

Secret Headquaters primarily serves as a retail space for graphic novels and comics.

LA Municipal Art Gallery and the Department of Cultural Affairs present humor us, an exhibition guest curated by Viet Le, Yong Soon Min and Leta Ming. The exhibition includes twenty Asian American artists with ties to Southern California who engage in strategies such as absurdity, foolery, parody and satire in their artistic practice. By linking humor to Asian Americans, humor us questions the parameters of identity, yet recognizes the continuing importance of race and representation. With explorations of playfulness, incongruities, absurdities and irrationalities, humor us seeks to evoke a smile, chuckle or a laugh, as well as engage the viewer in a critical exploration of what, indeed, is so funny.

Participating artists - Shane Abad, Tetsuji Aono, Susan Choi, Young Chung, Allan deSouza, Cirilo Domine, Reanne Estrada, Pearl Hsiung, Byoung Ok Koh, Terence Koh, kozyndan, Dinh Q. Le, Candice Lin, Sandra Low, Sandeep Mukherjee, Uudam Nguyen, Kaz Oshiro, Joey Santarromana, Anna Sew Hoy, Niphan Suwannakas

Admission: General $7.00, Seniors and Students $3.00, Children under 12 with Adults Free

Address: 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
On the web: www.barnsdallartpark.com

Unadulterated by formal training and embedded with the desire for pure expression, her work stands apart from virtually everything else that is being seen in galleries at this current time. The work is bold and complex, raw and at once delicate, profoundly in-depth and yet totally hilarious, to the point of radical inquiry.

Of important note is the use of every single thing in her studio. Lovingly referred to as 'art trash' (or in the academic world - art detritus), Wery incorporates all that is acquired, collected, gathered, used, consumed. She uses every drop of paint - fresh and dried, every paint tube and every sheet of palette paper, all art packaging, store bags, liquor bottles from art gatherings and parties...everything. Notwithstanding the obvious use of 'art trash,' and upon closer inspection, we see into the personality and the psyche of the artist.

Address: 3204 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.galleryrevisited.com

Gallery Revisited also offers a Salon/Back Room Inventory of available works outside normal exhibits.

Solid Gallery One is proud to announce opening its doors with its first solo exhibit of new works by Ryan Graeff. Trained under master printer Tony Zepeda, Graeff has combined traditional hand printing techniques with strong imagery to evoke emotions and ideas on the greater Los Angeles area. He will be transforming the gallery space with prints and murals in his installation.

Solid Gallery One recognizes how contemporary art, street culture & tattooing all influence one another. We provide a platform where these art forms can come together to inspire each other. So whether on skin or canvas, the luxury of art is something you can enjoy and acquire here.

The opening reception will take place on Friday, Oct. 12 7-10pm.

Address: 1639 1/2 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.solidgalleryone.com

Solid Gallery One serves as a custom tattoo studio.

'I have a fascination with crows because of their cleverness and mystery. Considering how abundant they are, you rarely see a dead crow so I got the idea that they go someplace to die which in turn related to the narrative of this show,' states Bob Dob.

Dob was born and raised in the once lazy beach town of Hermosa Beach, California. After his childhood dream of becoming a pro baseball player was taken from him due to a battle with cancer he gravitated towards music and art. For 10 years, Dob played in a punk band called Lunacy; the exposure to the music scene in Los Angeles had a great influence on his art.

Where Crows Die is Bob Dob's first solo show. He has been in several group shows including EVERYTHING But The Kitschen Synch at La Luz De Jesus and I AM 8 BIT at Gallery 1988. He has also shown at galleries in Seattle, San Francisco, Palm Springs and Denver. Dob has a BFA in Illustration from Otis and is inspired by Edward Hopper, old Disney, Film Noir and James Ellroy.

Address: 4633 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
On the web: www.laluzdejesus.com

La Luz de Jesus also offers an Online Store and a novelty/toy/book/oddities/soap store in the same building as the Gallery.

Metro Gallery
The Floating World by Gina Stepaniuk and Linda Vallejo

Amidst the towering skyscrapers, congested city streets, and mounting construction in the name of urban expansion two artists, Gina Stepaniuk and Linda Vallejo, detail the awesome energy of nature in a two-woman show, 'The Floating World.' To dismiss the notion that nature is something to be viewed through a car window or found between the confined spaces of concrete, both artists guide and reconnect us to a nature that is alive and vibrant.

Immersing themselves in the elemental energy of the natural world, Stepaniuk and Vallejo create pieces that are much more than merely landscapes. Instead, what appears on the canvas is the at-times forgotten connection and relationship between the viewer and the experience of nature. Electric, in a state of constant flux, the paintings themselves become alive. One need only witness the paintings to experience the infusing power of nature and be reminded of its potential to (re)connect us all to a force much greater than ourselves.

'The Floating World' will run from October 6, 2007 to November 3, 2007. An opening reception will by held Saturday, October 6, 2007 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. A conversation with the artists will begin at 7:00 pm.

Address: 1835 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
On the web: www.metrogallery.org

LittleBird Gallery is thrilled to present Oakland based artist, Lisa Solomon for her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

Just like Solomon's art, 'Over the River and Through the Woods' is rooted in the notion of hybridization. Perhaps this is because she sees herself as a cultural hybrid: her mother is Japanese and her father is caucasian. She works within a frame of domesticity, continually trying to balance, recontextualize and fuse items that may not appear to go together. She engages in 'nesting' activities and see a deep relation in what women have traditionally made in their 'spare time' or in an affort to make a household nicer and her practice art. Solomon questions the interpretations of ART & CRAFT - Are they compatible? Linked? Interchangeable?

In this particular body of her work, Solomon focuses on the doily and how its connotations reflect a relationship between personal home-space to the greater space of the natural world.

Address: 3195 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90039
On the web: www.littlebirdgallery.com

LittleBird Gallery also runs its own Imprint.

Los Angeles, CA- Christopher Naylor has been residing in Los Angeles since 1978. He worked in the animation industry for 18 years. He worked for many studios including Warner Bros. and Disney. He has credits on numerous animation features including "Little Mermaid." His paintings have shown in many galleries and private collections in Los Angeles.

Naylor's goal as a painter is to visually achieve a sense of uplifting energy experienced through a personal use of color. The imagery represents God, Man and Family.

Naylor's lines are free and childlike. Freedom in expressing line and color is its own reward. Projecting his thoughts and inner feelings in a tangible form with paint is his true love in life.

Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, September 8th, 2007 from 7 to 11pm. Exhibit will run until October 14th.

Address: 3015 Glendale Blvd., Atwater Village, CA 90039
On the web: www.jferrarigallery.com

Similar its roadside counterparts, truXtop gallery strives to provide a small respite from the mundane: a break from the mainstream by creatively refueling and providing an artistic forum for its diverse patrons to engage in discussions relevant to their local creative issues and aspirations. truXtop brings passion paired with approachability back to the gallery with work that is attainable to art enthusiasts and casual collectors alike. With most of the space dedicated strictly to showcasing the more "traditional" mediums such as paintings and photography (and everything in between), there is still space made for a small revolving and evolving selection of some of the founders' favorite works in alternate forms, such as movies, books, and creations from local crafts(wo)men. Engaging, exciting, and up to no good...X marks the spot....

And with those ideas at its heart, truXtop is proud to announce its latest group show, the "Any Artist, Any Piece $99.95...riiiight! Earl Scheib Show". 60+ artists bring out their best and best-priced work to give all you art-crawlers a chance to give your home, office, or business that new coat of art you've been wanting but just couldn't afford...until now! The show runs from October 5th (opening party) through the 26th, and at this price this is THE group sow you can't afford to miss!

Address: 2876 Rowena Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90039
On the web: www.truxtopgallery.com

truXtop Gallery also carries graphic novels and other artist-related publications.

"The Scout Motto is 'Be Prepared.'

A child falls into water- a Scout is prepared to save it. Someone breaks an arm -a Scout is prepared with first aid.A burning building,a life in danger- a scout is prepared,because he is trained and knows in advance what to do.

To 'Be Prepared' you must KNOW WHAT to do,and you must be trained in HOW to do it."

-Scout Field Book, Boy Scouts of America, 1948

Ryan Jacob Smith is a graduate,with honors,from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,California (2001). He lives and works in Portland,Oregon where he enjoys a vegan breakfast,drinking too much coffee,and riding his bike (even in the rain). He was raised in Orange County where he passed his early days rock collect- ing,skateboarding and cub scouting.He never made it passed Webeleos.His work has been shown at Motel Gallery (PDX),BLK MRKT Gallery (LA),New Image Art (LA),111 Minna (SF),Society of Illustrators (NY),Rocket Gallery (Tokyo),and more.

Address: 4014 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029
On the web: www.reformschoolrules.com

ReForm School also serves as an artist boutique, offering artist creations like clothing, cards, etc.

Alvaro Carreno -- jewelry in silver and semi-precious stones

Deycy Llerena -- contemporary ceramics and Christmas ornaments

Adelaida Pumayalli -- traditional weavings

Esperanza Palomino and Raquel Sanabria -- engraved gourds (matis)

New talavera designs in dinnerware and bakeware from the artists at "Arte y Barro" and also lots of new crafts, knits, cards, and other special items.

Address: 1617 Silverlake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.studio1617.com

Studio 1617 offers arts and crafts of all sorts, including textiles, prints, hand-knits, paintings, and ceramics.

Crawling vines sweep up through the cracks of damp moss, and you know you've entered the darkest part of the forest. You wait for your eyes to adjust before you can capture sight of the scattering creatures that hide, watching you, nestled amongst the leaves.

Overgrown weeds expand to take back the earth, creeping, crawling, sprawling, spiraling, providing shelter for all the critters nestled safely inside its earthy cocoon. You hear the crack of a dead branch, and turn in time to catch a glimpse of fur. The smell of foliage surrounds you and devours you in all of its magnitude.

What is hiding under the dew drenched leaves?

What we overlook, what we can not see, what our eyes aren't yet trained to comprehend...it's there beneath the undergrowth.

Join Lesley Reppeteaux and Chris Ryniak as they lead you to a place where guardians of animals, the hunters and the hunted all thrive.

Also showing in the project room:

Into The Forest Of Broken Dreams featuring new works from Andy Kehoe.

Address: 4210 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066
On the web: www.thinkspacegallery.com

Featuring new work by:

Address: 1615 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026

Grace Ellay is a collective gallery and boutique.

Brian Marrier, the Thin Man, studied at Goddard College in Vermont.

His style is fearless as it combines mixed media and materials at hand such as paint, dirt, grass, leaves and resin. With gloved hands and mask, he viscerally marries paint, debris and canvas. He might use blasts of motion coming from leaf blowers or disburse fragment with water from a spewing hose, drenching the canvas. Then perhaps, he may drag the canvas through the lawn, picking up particles of nature along the way. Brushing, dabbing, spraying, drawing, erasing, layering the canvass with photographic materials, adding, subtracting, an orchestra of techniques and poetic motion.

Marrier is the winner of numerous awards including "Best New Artist of 2006" by the Vista Art Gallery and winner of AAI Open Show 2006.'

Address: 3824 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: http://www.sunsetorange.net/

Sunset Orange primarily carries furniture, accessories, and lighting for the home in mid-century, Danish, & contemporary styles.

A select group of artistic talents have been invited create and exhibit their version of a traditional portrait of one of the Classic Monsters. Artists include: Aaron Jasinski, Blinky, Bughouse, CrAiGer, Deborah Samantha, Douglas Alvarez, Elizabeth Ito, Ian O'Phelan, Julie Lee, Katherine Chiu, M. Harper, Marlon McWilliams, Misha, Randy Kono, Steph Calvert and Terri Tooter Berman.

Address: 1559 Echo Park Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.myspace.com/changocoffeehouse

Chango is a long time local hang out that offers coffees, teas, light fare, free internet and monthly art exhibits.

Living Room presents the work of some truly talented local artists. Included are: paintings, sculptures, photographs, and mixed media as well as an array of functional tables crafted form concrete and other materials.

Featured Artists include Bernard Collin [sculptor], Uli Boege [Tarrazo & Concrete], Chuck Espinosa [Photographer], Stephen Fleitz [Sculptor], Kimberly Jordan [Painter], Carolin Kewer [Painting with Light], Vanessa Prager [Painter], Chassidy Rana [Mixed Media], and Andrew Sears [Photographer].

Address: 3531 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.livingroomhome.com

Living Room carries modern, high quality furniture for the contemporary home.

eastside studios is primarily an on camera, commercial, and print casting company & facility.

Using our reception area as an informal gallery, eastside studios provides a space for artists/photographers to show their work on a monthly basis.

eastside studios will be having a group photography exhibition for art crawl X.

eastside studios has been a proud participant of the art crawl for the past 5 years.

Address: 4626 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
On the web: www.eastsidestudiosla.com

Dutch-born artist Sean Hageraats recent pieces are an ode to both pop art and the natural world. He is an avid collector of fossils, and this fascination with the preservation of organic forms in a different medium is what informs his current range of work. Tree barks and wood grain are rendered in limestone plaster, applied with a trowel, which gives the surface a delicate, multi-layered patina. The hard smooth stone surface harks back to his interest in fossil forms, while his color palette can have the vibrancy of Pop Art. The layering process that he employs in the surface of the paintings allows them to change with the light of the day, rendering them truly organic. He calls this work 'Organic Pop.'

Kate Simmons derives inspiration from the desert landscape surrounding her home in the Palm Springs area. Her oil paintings are both abstract and atmospheric landscapes on canvases four feet or larger. Her paintings evolve from a very personal and emotional place, and are built in layers of paint, found objects and wax. Many canvases have layers stripped away, and are then rebuilt with new transparent layers on top, allowing the viewer to see glimpses of what is hidden underneath.

Address: 1627 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.rubbishinteriors.com

Rubbish Interiors acts as a design firm and exhibition space.

For its October exhibition, Los Angeles Gallery Tiny Creatures finds oddly similar bedfellows in the multimedia installation work of Julia Holter and Jason Grier and the landscape paintings of Conor Thompson. In a gallery whose floor will be transformed by living grass, the collision of experiences, inner and outer, personal and worldly, contemplative and meditative, is bound to be intriguing. Both are equally concerned with the unique effects of sensory experience upon the notion of place and self. Yet, while Church/Music explores this influence as felt in sacred architecture and personal contemplation in public spaces, Conor Thompson's paintings harvest this experience in landscape.

Address: 628 N. Alvardo St., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.tiny-creatures.com

Tiny Creatures is a label founded May 2006 that opened itself as an art space and community center in September of 2006.

Makoto Takigawa's art is influenced by the concept of 'Wabi Sabi,' which is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature.

His mixed use of lines, brush and finger strokes create images that seem undefined. Unintentional, often accidental markings become part of the art making process, not viewed as mistakes to be corrected. He sees imperfection as intrinsic towards creating more dynamic images.

Address: 2818 Rowena Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90039


S B London
Exhibit of Industrial Art

"EXplants: Wearable Forms" are mixed-media sculpture intended to be affixed to the outside of the body as opposed to implants which go inside. By combining stainless steel, silicone, resin, imprinted fabric, and cement, these forms resemble biological material. Round, sensual, and fitting easily into the hand, these mysterious creations are futuristic artifacts, and resemble their pre-historic predecessors: "Venus Figurines." With their talismanic quality, the organ-like forms challenge our sensory perceptions by at once mimicking bodily formations and textures while seductively combining modern materials, linking them to our coveted high-tech devices.

Address: 3740 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.sblondon.com

Jeremy Szuder is a California native working and showing his works at Masa of Echo Park. Szuder's paintings are the nostalgic echoes of surrealistic portraiture mixed with the influences of graffitti and classical abstractions. Witness this intimate collection of Szuder's works spanning the last 4 years of his travels and tribulations as a Los Angeles artist on the rise.

Address: 1800 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.masaofechopark.com

Masa is a bakery and cafe at the heart of Echo Park with regular art exhibitions.

Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Anthony Clough has lived in Los Angeles for 4 years. He has a BS in Animation/Graphic Design, and is currently a freelancing graphic designer and works as a silk screen apprentice. Inspirations include but are not limited to Donald, George, Burt, Frank, Hank, Ed, Dan, and Sam. PRODUCT OF US is aimed at realizing what we have all collectively created around ourselves but often do not take responsibility as a whole.

Address: 1612 Waterloo St., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.undergroundgallery.org

So come on by, and view the vexed venerations and color-pencil pieties, art that imitates, flatters, copies, panders, plagorizes, mocks and otherwise showers love and respect on our heroes, be they imaginary, real or born full grown from the side of the television.

And get them priced to sell sell sell.

Also don't be the fool who forgets the weekend's musical ejaculants...

Address: 1519 W Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.echocurio.com

Echo Curio acts as a 'Curiosity Shop' as well as an art gallery.

The crisp bite of Autumn is in the air as the dark season descends upon Los Angeles. Every wretched worm that ever wriggled its slimy substance into your nightmares has assembled for the ultimate fright fest. Some of the most prestigious artists in Los Angeles, and some of the least known, contribute their creations to the things that go bump in the night. The focus is on October, Horror and Halloween; and Anomaly extends open arms to the works of: Misha, Justin Cox, Gabe Gutierrez, Kari Barba, Alyce Harlequin, Shawn Humiston, Jeremiah Barba, .ruinsoncemore., Salem, and many more. Many of the artists will be present Friday, October 12 from 8 to midnight, and DJ Canoe will be upholding the auditory provisions during the reception.

Address: 2121 W Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.myspace.com/anomaly213

Anomaly exists as a functioning fine art gallery, a full service hair and make-up salon, a professional body piercing establishment, and an upscale apparel boutique.

Monkeyhouse Toys, an art-based toy store and art gallery in Silver Lake, is celebrating its two-year anniversary starting this weekend with a group art show for 70 participating artists. The theme of the show is wood, hence the “block” party.

Monkeyhouse Toys aims to “inspire kids (and adults) to be creative in any and every way they want original artwork, handmade items and very unusual toys.” With this event, that will coincide with Art Crawl X, Monkeyhouse seeks to showcase local and some national talent in an inclusive environment where original art work is made accessible to all who appreciate it.

Artists include: Douglas Alvarez, Terri "Tooter" Berman, Leecifier, Daniel Damocles Wall, Blinky, Smear, Paul Torres, Kettle, Carol Powell, Randy Kono, Vague, Jeremy Szuder, John Hicks, JonzeyArt, The Grocer, Darren Goldman, Tuner, Bill "13:11" McEvoy, Walt Hall, Nomad, Monk, Sueno, KACA, Cynthia, Sophia Gasparian, Amanda Lyons, Evan Mitchell, John Hicks, Ichae Ackso, Alyce Harlequin, Maddi & Tori, Cynthia Rogers, Jenna Colby, Adrian Pina, Breana Cante, Carl Lozada, Eduardo73, Clara Boo of Curoddities, Kyle Harper, Gina Ramirez, Justin Angelos, Gnarf Death, Vera Paras, Mr. Toast, Nick Da Ring, Yuki Miyazaki, Lydiaemily, paintmonkey, Laura Diamond, Peabe, Phoneticontrol, PJ Andrews, Scom, olive47, Spooky Daddy, and more...

Address: 1618 1/2 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
On the web: www.monkeyhousetoys.com

Monkeyhouse Toys & Art Gallery carries and exhibits fine art and unique toys and childrens' goods.