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…)