Here is another lil’ ol’ commercial for the fabulous Cerasoli:LeBasse Gallery in Culver City from the video nerds at Analog Color.

It’s a pretty incredible show with all 12X12 painting and will be full of great art considering the line up including Blaine Fontana, Yoskay Yamamoto, Eric Fortune, Hellovon, Jennifer Davis, Scott Belcastro, Justin Gibbens, Meggs, Melissa Haslam, Tessar Lo, Tofer Chin, Jack Long, Edwin Ushiro and even more.

If you are still shopping for a Christmas present that you want to really be powerful, the gift of art is always the best! And these are all priced very moderate.

Hope you enjoy the video!!!

Jeff Soto: Turning in Circles
December 2, 2008 - February 21, 2009
RECEPTIONS: Dec 13, 2008
Julia Morgan Society Reception 6 - 7pm
Public Reception 7 - 9pm

Nowadays, painting in southern California is all over the place, stylistically as well as geographically. But it has been adopted with particular verve by one still new, rapidly evolving genre. The manifold sources for this new genre, from graffiti to cartoons to psychedelia to car (and surf/skateboard) customizing and on and on, provide these self-styled, technically adept “lowbrow” or “newbrow” or “pop surrealist” painters with an immense variety of styles, subjects, attitudes, and rhetorics.

Riverside artist Jeff Soto has achieved an especially prominent place among the legions of “newbrow” painters. In his work of the past couple of years, Soto has reached a clarity of intent, as well as pitch of technique, that embodies a true vision – true, that is, to his grasp of reality, not just to the making of a richly faceted yet coherent image. Soto made his reputation on visually assured, pictorially ambitious paintings; now, he is challenging himself to produce visually challenging, even unstable imagery, imagery that reflects back at us something more than our need for entertaining stimulus.

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In this episode of Analog Color we are off to Alhambra, California for the “Endless Reflections” Sandman 20th Year Anniversary Tribute Show. First we spoke with Wade Buchannan about the history, and details of the gallery. Then we speak to the shows curator to find out the story behind the show. Also included are some great interviews with Emonic, Jason Shawn Alexander, and Mike Shine.

Last week I get a frantic call from Jeremy reminding me of the Cerasoli:LeBasse Opening Night show. More like he’s vehement, insisting my technical services are needed to film the upcoming Analog Color. It’s impending doom. Hot wind whipping through the car I tell him to speak up as I’m hurtling through death valley in the beater, air conditioning shot and I’m shirtless, wiping my face, en route to Vegas for Love, the new Cirque De Sole show. Happiness is a Warm Gun is blaring on the stereo and in the rearview mirror my daughter is delirious, singing, “Mother Superior Jumped the Gun …”

That’s why I missed the gallery opening, but Love was amazing (in a Fear and Loathing/fat cowboys littered throughout the audience kind of way). However, the Analog Color video is up here. Check it out. Doesn’t Ogi seem to be enjoying the scene? Which takes me back …

Three weeks ago we’re filming Endless Reflection: 20 Years of Sandman at the Nucleus Gallery in Alahambra. For a Sandman fan like myself, the art was incredible. The pics are here. Numerous artists contributed pieces, notably Jason Shawn Alexander and Mike Shine. Ryan Graff curated the show. Interesting. Talk to the guy more than fifteen minutes and you realize his obsession with Sandman borders on neurosis, and that’s always awesome to witness. Really, I say that in a flattering way, as in, If we all could find something to imbue our lives with such rich meaning … Halfway through the show I’m thirsty and my feet are aching, so when Jeremy turns his back I slip through the warehouse door and sneak upstairs to the comfort of an empty couch. Intent on a nap I start flipping through a book on the coffee table, Io: Art of the Wired, and see one of the featured artists is Ogi, which brings me back to Cerasoli:LeBasse, thus neatly wrapping up this entry.

Disclaimer: The election has me freaked out–as in every ten minutes I’m checking the real-time poll numbers in battleground states, so it’s gonna be a few days before I post regarding our recent Sunday afternoon filming Jeff Soto at his Riverside warehouse. Jeff is preparing for a museum show and, wait … phew, Obama’s up +5 in Ohio …

- Nicolas Kurdt

Analog Color is a series of insightful video documentaries featuring rising contemporary painters.  We’re pleased to have the creators of Analog Color guest blogging on dailyduJour.  They will be blogging here shortly.