Camille Rose Garcia, Dosshaus, Brandi Milne, and Pip & Pop at the 2019 LA Art Show CHG’s Caro Buermann curating Littletopia show
Camille Rose Garcia, Dosshaus, Brandi Milne, and Pip & Pop
at the 2019 LA Art Show
CHG’s Caro Buermann curating Littletopia show
Downtown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery is honored to be a featured gallery at this year’s LA Art Show and major contributor to the show’s beloved curated area, Littletopia.
This Thursday (1/24) though Sunday (1/27) at the Los Angeles Convention Center – West Hall (1201 South Figueroa Street), CHG will present works by Camille Rose Garcia, Dosshaus, Brandi Milne, and Pip & Pop, plus CHG’s Caro Buermann joins New Orleans’ Red Truck Gallery as this year’s curator for Littletopia.
Corey Helford Gallery @ LA Art Show / Littletopia, Booth #140
Thursday (1/24) through Saturday (1/26) | 11am – 7pm
Sunday (1/27) | 11am – 5pm
Held annually at the LA Art Show, Littletopia was conceived by Red Truck Gallery founder Noah Antieau and Juxtapoz co-founder Greg Escalante to showcase the best and brightest from the lowbrow and pop art movements, which originated in Los Angeles. This year’s curators, CHG’s Caro Buermann and Red Truck Gallery, will bring the show into the future by highlighting the women who have fueled the rise of the lowbrow art movement.
This Thursday (1/24) at 5:30pm, artist Brandi Milne will present Camille Rose Garcia with this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, while the recipients for this year’s Collector Award are Daniel Carey (drummer from the GRAMMY® award-winning band Tool) and his wife, Rynne Stump. Every edition of Littletopia is marked by a custom, artist-created archway. The 2019 edition will be created by the iconic cardboard duo, Dosshaus.
Confirmed galleries exhibiting include: Boxheart Gallery, Copro Gallery, Corey Helford Gallery, John Natsoulas Gallery, Keane Eyes Gallery, Red Truck Gallery, and Sally Centigrade.
Littletopia Archway: Carboard sculptures by Dosshaus
Curated by Caro Buermann
Presented by Corey Helford Gallery
Dosshaus is the creative collaboration of Zoey Taylor and David Connelly, artists whose work blends painting, sculpture, photography, fashion, video, and performance. Their April 2018 solo show at Corey Helford Gallery, titled Paper-Thin Hotel, was an immersive, multi-room exhibit of cardboard sculptures centered around the theme of the American Dream. Fresh off their award for Outdoor Sculpture at the 2018 Lucca Biennale, CHG-artist Dosshaus will be creating this year’s Littletopia archway.
Caro Buermann is a Los Angeles based art curator and writer, specializing in Japanese contemporary art. As a curator of Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles, Caro helps define the gallery’s growing program of artists and has curated numerous notable exhibitions. She most recently organized a major mid-career survey of painter Hikari Shimoda for the Asahi Art Museum in Nagano, Japan. Her writing is regularly published in the contemporary art magazine, Hi-Fructose.
“Lolita Phantasma” by Camille Rose Garcia
Presented by Corey Helford Gallery, Booth #140
Installation by Camille Rose Garcia
Approximate size: 6 ft (h) x 4 ft (w)
Presented by Martin Meunier Films and Corey Helford Gallery, Booth #140
Camille Rose Garcia was born in 1970 in Los Angeles, California. The child of a Mexican activist filmmaker father and a muralist/painter mother, she apprenticed at age 14 working on murals with her mother while growing up in the generic suburbs of Orange County, visiting Disneyland and going to punk shows with the other disenchanted youth of that era.
Garcia’s layered, broken narrative paintings of wasteland fairy tales are influenced by William Burroughs’ cut-up writings and surrealist film, as well as vintage Disney and Fleischer cartoons, acting as critical commentaries on the failures of capitalist utopias, blending nostalgic pop culture references with a satirical slant on modern society.
Her work has been displayed internationally and featured in numerous magazines, including: Juxtapoz (twice gracing the cover), Rolling Stone, Flaunt, Nylon, Paper Magazine, Los Angeles Times, and Modern Painter. Her work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (The Resnick Collection) and San Jose Museum of Art, which held a retrospective of her work, entitled Tragic Kingdom, accompanied by a catalog of the same name. Garcia’s recent book, The Illustrated Alice in Wonderland (published by Harper Collins) was a New York Times Bestseller. Garcia recently moved to the Pacific Northwest after 38 years in Los Angeles.
Garcia’s installation at the LA Art Show is inspired by her witch-house character, appearing in her painting "Someone's In the Wolf" (pictured below) and other paintings, which will also be on display.
“Lolita Phantasma” (acrylic and glitter on wood panel, 96" x 72") by Camille Rose Garcia
“Milk (an expression of bliss)”: Installation by Brandi Milne
Approximate size: 6 ft (h) x 4 ft (w)
Presented by Corey Helford Gallery, Booth #140
Milne shares, “‘Milk (an expression of bliss)’ is based off of my painting titled ‘Milk,’ in which a gleeful little snowman has found himself a pile of cookies, a saucer of milk and cherries (for dunking), and enjoys a moment of true contentment to himself.
To me a snowman represents a feeling of pure bliss and innocence. Has any snowperson ever been built from a sad, angry heart? I don’t think so. The jolly spirit in which one plays in the snow and creates a person out of that snow is the exact spirit I often aim to convey in my artwork. I want my viewers to tap into that feeling of childhood – I want them to feel warm in remembering a time when they were free to just simply be. Happy, bright, silly, joyful.
Having been given the opportunity to work with Benchmark Arts to recreate this character for LA Art Show in 3D and stand 6 feet tall is a DREAM!! My hope is that ‘Milk’ shares a moment of delight and cheer with each of his art loving viewers and ignites within them a contagious state of optimism and good will.”
Work in progress - “Milk (an expression of bliss)” by Brandi Milne
“Hand in Hand in the Sky”: Installation by Pip & Pop
Approximate size: 2.5 ft (h) x 16 ft (w)
Presented by Corey Helford Gallery, Booth #140
Australian artist Tanya Schultz works as Pip & Pop to create immersive installations and artworks from an eclectic range of materials including sugar, glitter, candy, plastic flowers, everyday craft materials and all sorts of objects she finds on her travels. Her practice embodies both independent and collaborative processes across varying disciplines including installation, painting, wall-works and sculpture. Often ephemeral, her meticulously constructed and highly detailed works embrace notions of abundance, utopian dreams and fleeting pleasure. She is fascinated with ideas of paradise and wish-fulfillment described in folk tales, mythologies and cinema.
Pip & Pop began as a collaboration with fellow artist Nicole Andrijevic in 2007. After four years, Nicole left the partnership to pursue a different career. Tanya now works solo and with other friends and artists creating projects in many parts of the world. She has exhibited her work in Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, Germany, Netherlands, Mexico, the UAE and the UK.
The artist shares: “Pip & Pop’s installation is made especially for Littletopia from a series of sugary, gloopy and sparkly objects, atop a reflective and glittery platform. Lots of the materials were sourced locally in L.A. from craft stores and the fashion district - a mecca for shiny and sparkly stuff! The work is created from sugar, pigment, glitter, sequins, modeling clay, tinsel, pompoms, adhesive vinyl and various craft materials. The work draws on my interest in paradise and wish-fulfillment, as told through mythologies, cinema and folk-tales. It embraces notions of abundance, utopian dreams and fleeting pleasure.”
The LA Art Show is Los Angeles’ (and west coast’s) largest art fair and one of the most diversely programmed in the world. The show features a comprehensive lineup of exhibitors not only in contemporary and modern art, but also classical and other specialized art scenes that often command their own dedicated shows.
About Littletopia:
Held annually at the LA Art Show, Littletopia was conceived by Red Truck Gallery founder Noah Antieau and Juxtapoz Magazine co-founder Greg Escalante as a showcase of the best and brightest from the lowbrow and pop art movements, which originated in Los Angeles. One of the only shows in the world to devote so much programming and space to this kind of work, thousands of attendees pass under Littletopia’s custom archway each year to enter the LA Art Show’s mecca for imaginative, new contemporary voices, and honor the visionary artists who came before.
Littletopia has received accolades from national and regional media outlets, including: Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, KCET, Los Angeles Magazine, LA Daily News, LA Weekly and The Art Newspaper, who described as the show as: “a super cool section at the LA Art Show that is casual, inviting, and full of sexy, disturbing, dark, playful art. Expect plenty of pleasant surprises from this explosive, innovative group of galleries.”
In 2019, Littletopia will be curated by New Orleans’ Red Truck Gallery and Caro Buermann of Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery, who will bring the show into the future by highlighting the women who have fueled the rise of the new contemporary art movement. Hi-Fructose Magazine joins as media partner for the first time ever.
About LA Art Show:
LA Art Show creates one of the largest international art fairs in the United States providing an exciting, immersive, insider art experience to sponsors, their select guests and VIP clients. The show attracts an elite roster of national and international galleries, acclaimed artists, highly regarded curators, architects, design professionals, along with discerning collectors. This innovative, exceptional cultural environment attracts executives and board members of Southern California businesses, state, county, and municipal government representatives, as well as leaders of the region’s cultural institutions. Attendees are trend setters, influencers and alpha consumers, who seek and demand the newest and the best in all areas of their lives—art, design, food, technology and travel being specific passion points. For more info, visit LAArtShow.com and follow @LAArtShow on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
About Corey Helford Gallery:
Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) was first established in 2006 by Jan Corey Helford and her husband, television producer and creator, Bruce Helford (Anger Management, The Drew Carey Show, George Lopez, The Oblongs) and has since evolved into one of the premier galleries of New Contemporary art. Its goals as an institution are the support and growth of young and emerging, to well-known and internationally established artists, the production and promotion of their artwork, and the general production of their exhibits, events and projects.
CHG represents a diverse collection of international artists, primarily influenced by today’s pop culture and collectively encompassing style genres such as New Figurative Art, Pop Surrealism, Neo Pop, Graffiti and Street Art, and Post-Graffiti.
After nine years in Culver City, CHG relocated in December 2015 to a robust 12,000 square foot building in Downtown Los Angeles, where it continues to host exhibitions within the heart of the city’s art community. The current space boasts three separate galleries, each of which house individual artist and group exhibitions, whereas the main gallery offers 4,500 square feet, providing total immersion for its attendees. New exhibitions are presented approximately every five weeks. For more info and an upcoming exhibition schedule, visit CoreyHelfordGallery.com and connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
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571 S. Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA 90033
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