Everybody comes to TerryWood, they wanna make it in the neighborhood…they like the smell of it in Terrywood… How can it hurt you when it LOOKS so good?

Call it pop irony, but it seems all too appropriate that Terry Richardson’s first solo exhibition TERRYWOOD opens late next month in Los Angeles. The show presents over 25 of his latest photographs, inspired by the multiple facets of Hollywood life.TERRYWOOD opens Feb 24, at OHWOW Gallery and runs through March 31. Click here for more information.

Terryworld meets Hollywood, as the local characters, familiar landscapes, and architectural details, now verge on having a new identity. With images such as Untitled (Hollywood), and Untitled (Nude), both photographs of the proverbial chintzy signs that are ubiquitous throughout Hollywood, Richardson illustrates his proclivity for branding whatever subject matter he approaches. Through a medium not typically understood as effective in translating an artist’s personality, Richardson manages to make his hand evident within his photographs. His identity is unmistakably present here, as if he created the very objects and scenes his camera captures. An artist often attributed with changing the field of photography, Richardson also defies the ideological limitations of the practice, while redefining an epitome. TERRYWOOD takes all that Hollywood represents – the celebrity, broken dreams, kitsch, and sorted history – but, just as with all of Richardson’s well-known work, he re-contextualizes familiar imagery, re-identifying it with characteristics reflective of his own persona, imparting them with a different narrative.

…push the button, don’t push the button

“In Shark City: just because you don’t see the danger, doesn’t mean it isn’t there.” #lifelines

It seems like it’s always shark week in the streets thanks to Los Angeles based street artist Shark Toof. Whether it’s the aforementioned home turf of LA, Miami Beach or Atlanta, you’re bound to stumble on one of his masterful wheat-paste murals which feature his signature aesthetic and his favorite subject, sharks.

Shark Toof recently opened his latest solo exhibition entitled Album of Nature this past Friday, Aug 12. The exhibition features new paintings, early serigraph prints/wheatpastes and an installation of hand embellished serigraph wood panels. Album of Nature is currently showing at ABV Gallery . Take a closer look at some of Shark Toof’s work below. Be careful, they pack a mean bite.

#AnimalKingdom Shark Toof Collab with Cat Cult

This week is the last week to enjoy Super Pop! if you haven’t already seen it. And If you want more Super Pop! join us this Thursday, Aug 12, for the closing reception and artist talk featuring seven of the 15 artists included in the group exhibition. Corinne Stevie, Baracahn, Paper Frank, Nikita Gale, Sean Fahie, Faatimah Stevens and Chris Pop are all scheduled to speak.

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“Super Pop!” is the third art show I’ve curated. The first was “All Together Now” two years back and the second was Creative Loafing’s 2009 Best Art Exhibit “Extraordinary Machine.” As curator of the group show “Super Pop!” my role as artist/curator finds me painting, sculpting, and photographing my own pieces as well as hand-selecting my favorite works by some really amazing artists. Here are some photos of where my head is at right now. All pop everything.

Super Pop! opening reception
Aug 5th at Wm Turner Gallery
7pm – 10 pm

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