David Choong Lee’s show opened this weekend and it was an unquestioned hit for all that attended. This is a show that is a must see for both the scale and level of detail in a body of work over 4 years in the making.

The preview is now online at LeBasseProjects.com and opening photos are on our flickr page and below the jump.

For a better look drop into the gallery to view in person.

David Choong Lee :: ‘Acquiring Signal’
LeBasse Projects
6023 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

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Bay Area art enthusiast and Hi-Fructose Web Editor Ken Harman recently opened his first curatorial endeavor. His show titled  “A Decade With No Name” is a pop-up style exhibit at Oakland’s Jack london Square. I wish I could see it in person, but Ken was kind enough to forward some exclusive images from last weekends opening.

From Ken “From the politically and socially inspired street art of Eddie Colla, to the three-dimensional monstrous cake sculptures of Scott Hove, to Brett Amory’s figurative paintings, Amanda Lopez’ Dia de los Muertos photographs, Monica Canilao’s found object installations and Emory Douglas’ historical Black Panther graphic agitation, this showcase serves as a veritable who’s-who of the East Bay’s emerging and established artist community.”

A “Decade With No Name”
54 Washington St. Oakland, CA
Open: Saturday and Sunday through September 12th.
For more info visit www.spokeart.net.

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LeBasse Projects is proud to announce David Choong Lee’s exhibition, ‘Acquiring Signal’ – his first major solo in Los Angeles

‘Acquiring Signal’ will be David Choong Lee’s second major Installation based exhibition. Completely wrapping the gallery walls, Lee’s 500+ piece installation pays homage to street people and the cities they inhabit. A combination of paintings and sculptures, his large scale wall collage will be his most inventive architectural work to date.

Based out of San Francisco’s street art movement, Korean born artist Lee reflects on social conditions within youth culture, urban environments and generation “next,” tapping into both American and Korean visual aesthetics. Sociopolitical and economic issues surrounding homelessness and youth populations are at the heart of Lee’s paintings, which play with the subcultures’ politics of power, judgment and perception. Lee’s on-location assemblages embody concepts that float between his choice of subject matter, material and technique. The graffiti-like amalgamations fold in traditional figurative portraiture and promote public discourse, challenging the notion of what is considered fine art.

David Choong Lee :: Acquiring Signal
LeBasse Projects
Opening: Saturday August 14th, 7-10pm
6023 Washington Blvd. Culver City

See a series of installation in progress images after the jump:

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Put August 14th on your calendar as LeBasse Projects will showcase a mammoth installation from SF based David Choong Lee. The exhibition will feature more than 500 pieces from Lee’s body of work and will take up the entire gallery space – a first for any artist in our gallery. Lee is coming off his solo exhibition in 2009 at the University of Arizona’s Joseph Gross Museum and will be showcasing work from that series along with new paintings from the last year.

Also keep a look out for LBP artists showing across the country. Andrew Hem, Nate Frizzell and Morgan Slade all take part in the Invitational show at Jonathan Levine NY this week. In early September you will see Yoskay Yamamoto and Edwin Ushiro in Seattle at RoqlaRue.

More news soon about upcoming fairs in San Diego and the return to LA by the German duo Herakut…

Artist Eric Fortune is opening a small show in Seattle this weekend at Roq la Rue. Fortune has been painting away since we last heard of him earlier this year and has been focusing heavily on refining his personal work…after years as a successful illustrator. Now with his 2nd of 3 gallery shows in 2010, Fortune’s work is looking positively sublime. Eric will have his largest set of work this October with a solo show at LeBasse Projects.

He was nice enough to send us some process images of a recent painting, but keep tabs on Roq la Rue to see his newest body of work. See more after the jump:

Eric Fortune
Roq la Rue
Opening: Saturday July 9th 2010

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NY based Matt Haber opens a show at BLDG Gallery in Kentucky this weekend with quite a few new paintings and drawings. Haber’s dynamic paintings

This exhibit encompasses new work by the artist, as well as the unveiling of Haber’s first life-size sculpture.

Haber’s artwork is connected to a civilization that once existed in the artist’s own mind. He presents a catalogue of characters in scenarios, which explore moral and ethical dilemmas in a stage-like setting. Referencing existing allegory and pop culture he creates a familiar feel to his works. Within them you may see the innocence of the 1950’s, the industrial invention of the Victorian Era, or the eloquence of the Rococo Era.

Matt Haber
‘The Little Voyagers’
BLDG Gallery
30 W. Pike St. Covington, KY 41011

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This weekend LBP opens the third solo exhibition from Yoskay Yamamoto…

LeBasse Projects is proud to announce, ‘Familiar Strangers,’ a solo exhibition from Japanese artist Yoskay Yamamoto. This will be the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, and will mark his most diverse body of work to date. The show represents a breakthrough in work from Yamamoto containing both painting and sculptural work. The show will reflect a continuation of intimate statements of self-expression that began in his last series of exhibitions.

The exhibit is an amazing combination of painting and sculpture showing off Yamamoto’s range of talents. 100 black resin sculpts will be on display and for sale only at the opening…and in addition a series of polished metal versions will also be out. Yamamoto sculpted the original pieces and shows off his 3-dimensional talents with a series of hand carved wood pieces…all in addition to a new body of paintings.

LeBasse Projects
Yoskay Yamamoto :: ‘Familiar Strangers’
June 12th – July 3rd 2010
Artist reception: Saturday, June 12th, 7-10p
6023 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA

You can view a preview online at: lebasseprojects.com/current

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Jeremy Asher Lynch just finished a fantastic and cinematic ‘day in the life’ preview of Yoskay Yamamoto’s upcoming solo show at LeBasse Projects. This show looks to be the most ambitious of Yamamoto’s career as it features paintings, hand carved wood, metal and resin cast sculptures. More previews coming soon…

Artist Morgan Slade is getting ready for his July show at LeBasse Projects and was nice enough to let us tag along for his photo shoot portion of his work. In the past Morgan has photographed models in his own studio but for his July show he is collaborating with cutting edge designer Betsey Johnson. The shoot this weekend was at the flagship LA store and Slade used both clothing and models from the Betsey Johnson ranks.

If you have not seen Morgan Slade’s work, the artist starts with ‘masked’ portraits of his models and then creates unique mixed media pieces by painting and collaging over the one-off images. Slade just had a very successful show at San Francisco’s Shooting Gallery and will be seen this summer in LA, NY and European shows.

We had a good time messing around the store while Morgan worked, images after the jump. Keep up to date here as an interview with the artist should be coming soon…

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In addition to Thomas Doyle releasing a new series of sculptures this weekend, LeBasse Projects will also feature a return to the gallery for Blaine Fontana. After a several year hiatus from gallery shows, Fontana is returning with a full body of paintings that have been in development over the last year.

Blaine will also be adding an installation mural and have some gift giveaways for those who come early. Join us Saturday:

Blaine Fontana
‘The Golden Record’

Thomas Doyle
‘Collateral Damage’
Saturday, April 24th 7-10pm

Add yourself to the FB RSVP here.

Opening in our Project Room, the LeBasse Projects presents Thomas Doyle’s first Los Angeles solo show. Doyle’s work mines the debris of memory through the creation of intricate worlds sculpted in 1:43 scale and smaller. Often sealed under glass, the works depict the remnants of things past – whether major, transformational experiences, or the quieter moments that resonate loudly throughout a life.

For ‘Collateral Damage,’ Doyle continues to explore the impact of memory through his Distillation Series. Based on the premise that a personality can be distilled down to certain key formative events, the work in this series centers on the home and family life. Doyle begins with this safe, archetypal space, then distorts reality through a warped and dreamlike lens, in much the same way the mind recalls events through the fog of time. The result is a world where houses are inverted, earth crumbles away, and people sink into the ground – all trapped under glass and frozen in time.

Thomas Doyle :: ‘Collateral Damage’
Opening Saturday, April 24th, 2010
LeBasse Projects
6023 Washington Blvd.

There is an excellent interview with Doyle posted here on the Erratic Phenomena blog as well.

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Kevin Earl Taylor is one of the fresh faces in the San Francisco art scene. After recent shows at the Shooting Gallery and in LA at LeBasse Projects, Taylor is huddled into his studio carving out fresh work and creating some new directions for his oil paintings. His large studio space sits just off Union Square in SF but the Taylor’s paintings could not be farther from the ‘tourist’ styled galleries surrounding his neighborhood. We look forward to seeing what Kevin has to show us in the near future…

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Artist David Choong Lee is coming off last year’s massive exhibit at the University of Arizona’s Museum and is freshly moved into a new studio space next door to San Francisco’s iconic Luggage Store Gallery. The new studio is enormous and looks to give Choong Lee the space he needs for his ever expanding body of work.

Moving away from figurative painting, Choong Lee is now experimenting and creating more abstract work after a psychedelic trip to Yosemite to paint with Mars-1, Oliver Vernon and Robert Hardgrave. I was fortunate to get a peek into the studio and catch a few glimpses of whats coming out. David has his next major show at LeBasse Projects in Culver City this August.

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