Last time I went to the Chinatown Arts District (CAD) I barely missed seeing the first artist's reception of the year at L2Kontemporary. This exhibit will be up from January 5 to February 9 and is known as Facades and Exploding Fu-Dogs. It's by Simone Gad who in my opinion is extremely talented. Her works are very colorful and make use of very nice brushwork. The subjects are things you might expect to see in Chinatown like Fu-Dogs or Imperial Guardian Lions and traditional Chinese architecture. The paintings really have a lot of movement in them so the term exploding really suits them.  Like exploding fireworks the works really draw your attention. Flames, smoke and flowers come to mind when you first view the works. When you give them a closer look you can see the faces of the Imperial Guardian Lions and the facades of the buildings come out of the smokey, flowery color formations.

As you can see, the face can just barely be made out of the swirling mane composed of beautiful brushstrokes of this Guardian Lion. This one is more smoke than flame.

I really love the use of pinks in this work. The building facade looks alive as if the face of a dragon.

In this one the brushstrokes transform the smoke into a gorgeous tsunami of cool tones. Love the lavender in it.

More examples, a little bit less mysterious, but beautiful nonetheless.



Next up is the Twitter exhibit which is currently up at Exhale Unlimited. It is an exhibit made up of many postcard sized works which greatly vary in quality. Some are very poorly executed. Here are some examples of the better ones. Just slightly more than eye candy.

Here is an example of the really bad stuff that was on display.

On the bottom left hand corner you can read "No more cookies???"   Ahem....

How about some in your face art now? Jancar once again shows just how good it is at exhibiting great art with its current Annie Sprinkle/Elizabeth Stephens "The Collaboration" show from January 16 to February 16, 2013. Annie has been around for quite a while and has some of her books on display here.  Much of the art displays nudity and adult themes. Most of the art regards female sexuality. However, there are some penises present just in case you feel left out. Here is a great map that shows penises and vaginas lurk everywhere.

I really like the DIY like style that Annie has. Much of the art is just pictures with associated witty commentary.

I really liked this illustrated bra!

Great pictures of Annie!

Here's a females familiar friend! Some call it the "duck". Annie used one of these to artistically show her inner vagina to some.

Next up is Coagula curatorial which has a pretty decent exhibition going on now. Once again the art has Mexican icons in it which I highly enjoyed but at the same time I think it could have been executed much better. This is not saying that the artist is not very talented, just that it lacks a little in composition perhaps.

There are also some works up which make us think of gonads and that's always good, right?

Basically, as it is often, the art on the left hand side as you enter is pretty good but the art on the right hand side is pretty poor. I didn't much like the art up on the wall you face as you enter either - Mexican/Latino influenced or not. Once again Coagula is hit and miss.