Corey Helford Gallery x Kazuki Takamastsu, Camilla d'Errico, and Hirabayashi Takahiro
Hey guys, hope your weekend is going well! Last night we had the chance to go the New Corey Helford location near Boyle Heights. It's such a beautiful location!! It's open, airy, spacious, clean, modern, and all around gorgeous. Their main gallery was in Culver city, and this new one opened with a stunning Ron English show in December 2015.
New space with 12,000 sq feet 4,500 on the main space.
Corey Helford works with artists I've talked about before on here like Eric Joyner, D*Face, Buff Monster, and ones I have not gotten to yet like Natalia Fabia, Beau Stanton, Hush, and so many more! They carry originals and prints as well. This new ones is a showcase of three amazingly talented artists, Kazuki Takamatsu, Camilla d'Errico, and Hirabayashi Takahiro. Such stunning work if you're in Los Angeles you should stop by. Kazuki's new work Decoration Armament is an amazing juxtaposition of deadly weaponry, cultural and pop culture iconography, and children/women illustrated in a topographic mapping method.
These images do not do the paintings justice, definitely a must see in person. The layers the artist uses are mostly airbrush and gouache creating stunning nearly topographic maps of the body, and the iconography surrounding. The spacial relationship between the white and the stark black backgrounds make it look nearly like an x-ray.
Next was the work of Camilla d'Errico. Her work is a stunning mixture of black and white Pen and Inks alongside oil paintings on board.
The oil paintings are just so good in person. These pop surrealist portraits evoke a sense of longing in the eyes that look like porcelain dolls. There is something about the eyes that totally grab you and lock you in. They have a sort of victorian quality about them in identity and the details while still reading contemporary in color palette and choices made in the ornament.
Next we have Hirabayashi Takahiro, an amazing oil painter who's work embodies the ideas of mythology and nature intertwining to make colorful landscapes that draw the viewer in.
Like I said, this art is absolutely stunning, and if you are in Los Angeles you should make your way down to Corey Helford, 571 S Anderson St (Enter on Willow St) Los Angeles, CA 90033. Their hours are Tuesday-Saturday: noon to 6pm. It's an absolutely brilliant exhibition, and I really love their gallery.
That's all for today folks. Lots more coming in the near future, many things in the works/new projects, new products, and much much more. Stay Tuned and go look at some art!
-Blakebot5000
