Local Art with a Side of Bacon

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Last weekend I showed my paintings at January’s Bacon Social event in downtown LA. In a converted warehouse space popped up 20 artists, several local bands, and plenty of bacon any which way you wanted it!

Until recently I’d been a vegetarian for 10 years, but now that I’m eating meat again I thought it would be fun to do an event that had plenty of bacon! Indeed it was a fun event and it was really darn tasty bacon too: bourbon-glazed premium strips, BLTs, bacon mac and cheese, bacon chocolate cupcakes, maple bacon candy, bacon any which way you wanted it, including bacon-flavored vodka!

Enough about bacon though, let’s talk about the art. I myself pulled out a lot of new, smaller, and also less exposed paintings that have been hiding in my studio for a while, and generated a good amount of  interest. I particularly love hearing people’s different interpretations of my work; in abstract art like mine, there is so much fun one’s imagination can have!

I enjoyed meeting lots of interesting new artists, in particular those I am picturing here in my photo album. My personal favorites included painter Jan Zoya, painter Jimmy Williams, illustrator Madnaloy, illustrator Justin Piccari, and photographer Summer Evans. It was also great to see my new painter friend Carlos Nieotos III again.

I felt particular artist artistic kinship with abstract painter Jan Zoya. Her explorative abstractions really gave me pause to daydream, with very interesting hints of colorful shapes and lines floating around in an almost dreamlike transparencies.

Also, you can easily see why I personally would be drawn to Jimmy Williams‘ paintings. His uber bright contemporary pop works sung in psychedelic juxtapositions of color. The highly stylized interpretations of human life and culture were so playfully joyous that it almost made me want to dance.

Carlos Nietos III  never fails to impress everyone in the room, with his masterly romantic interpretations of Dios de los Meurtos portraits that he is known for. DDLM paintings often abound in downtown LA, but after you see the quality of what he does, it ruins you for all others, really. Also he showed his range of talents by doing a live portrait sketch on the spot and then jamming on the bass guitar in one of the featured local rock bands: Harmful if Swallowed. His band rocks hard and dirty, but he’s not fooling me, he’s still one of the nicer artists you’ll ever meet!

Please check out all my other top picks in the gallery above, and let me know what you like.

There are monthly Bacon Social events like this, so if you want to attend, just follow them for more information.