OUT IN TRAFFIK: PLACES WE GO… THE ASSOCIATION
Dark, sleek and cool. This bar may be hard to find, located on 6th Street (110 E. 6th Street ) near S. Main Street down a sublevel alley in the basement of a loft building, but worth the drive around the downtown streets. Good-looking bartenders serving up great tasting drinks with music that is easy to ease into. Space is small and fills quickly – great place for drinks after work if you’re in the downtown area. The vibe is speakeasy meets a burlesquese setting with a good LA crowd – easy going and mellow. In fact, to keep the easygoing local pub feel of the bar, the owners go as far as to not work with promoters The scattered mirrors and chandeler give you just enough of the “fancy” to bring you back a second and third time.
This is a great place to hit up after Downtown ArtWalk (which happens the 2nd Thursday of every month)
Drink recommended: The French 75 – a wonderful sugary (but not overly sugary), lemony gin concoction
The Association is located at: 110 E. 6th Street (Los Angeles, CA)
Out in TRAffIK – Artwalk Culver City Part II – THE ART: La Piece de Resistance
by: Maureen Shampine
Artwalk—Culver City
Lost and Found
Artist: Joe Black
Gallery: LaBasse Projects Gallery
Of all the forty galleries showing contemporary artists, one enigmatic piece caused crowds to gather all afternoon and into the evening of Saturday, May 30th at the LaBasse Projects Gallery. Lost and Found, by artist Joe Black, is a truly remarkable piece that provoked the average onlooker to look on for more than the obligatory thirty seconds that the Artwalk patrons deemed necessary for the other pieces displayed in the over forty galleries showing at the weekend’s festivities.
Tucked away in the back corner of its gallery, its magnetic appeal captured patrons as they crowded the piece, marveling at its originality, and soaking in the creative surge offered by the mixed media collage that recalled both the expressionist, pop art of the 80’s and the pointillism pieces rendered during the neo-impressionist movement.
In the vein of artists like Warhol and Basquiat, using other pictures—vintage, mini-buttons—the artist created (more…)