'Maria I Still Love You' Vasmoulakis and collaborator Paris Koutsikos

LeBasse Projects is excited to present, ‘Is Everybody Happy?,’ the first US solo exhibition from Greek artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis. In this anticipated solo project, Vasmoulakis brings his first major body of work to the US after becoming recognized across Europe for his work both on the streets and in galleries.

Vasmoulakis is mostly known by his work in the streets of Athens, Greece as he has painted on and embellished various buildings across the city and is expected to do the same here in Los Angeles. While recognized for his street work, Vasmoulakis’ paintings are beginning to reflect the maturity of his work as an artist.

His works’ main theme is the psychology of his figures – the struggle and the element of conflict dominates in the pairs of his figures as well as in each character separately. With the perceptive analysis of his characters Vasmoulakis achieves through his work he persuades us that he has penetrated into their mentality by holding a role of a competent and gifted anatomist and of an expressive soul searcher.

‘Is Everybody Happy’ will be Vasmoulakis’ first US solo exhibition.

Alexandros Vasmoulakis :: Is Everybody Happy?
LeBasse Projects
March 20th through April 17th
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 20th, 7-10pm

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This March LeBasse Projects opens a solo show for Greek artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis but that’s not the only thing keeping us busy. The LBP artists are keeping busy worldwide…

Edwin Ushiro (pictured) opens his first NY solo show with Sloan Fine Art on the 24th. Nate Frizzell also has a solo show, his debut in the UK at Bo.Lee Gallery in Bath. From what I hear, both are already selling their shows on preview so better reach out to the galleries now. Eric Fortune just sold out his mini-show at the High Fructose curated exhibit as well…so better get on the list for his next show with us in October.

Join us in LA this Saturday for:

Alexandros Vasmoulakis.
‘Is Everybody Happy?’
LeBasse Projects
Saturday March 20th, 7-10pm

Gallery NOSCO in London has released an online print shop featuring Bom.K’s “La Limite” as the first editioned print by the artist.

Details of the print as follows:

75.6 x 60 cm, giclee and matt silkscreened varnish
on 330gsm Somerset art paper.
Edition of 25, signed, dated and stamped.
Price £175 with free shipping worldwide.

Online store also features works from:
Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Dran, Bom.K, Arno, Herakut, Brusk, Kareem Lotfy, Sal, Matthew Curry, Tom Hine, Anthony Lister, Nicolas Ruston and more to come…

For more prints go to their website.

Art Mosh is a successful series of rotating art exhibitions. It’s an exclusive, invitation only event, hosted in original and unusual spaces across selected European cities including Dublin, London, and most recently, Paris (08-09). Art Mosh showcases a one-off collection of photography, sculpture, live painting and sketches, ensuring a diverse and arresting range of work from some of today’s most talented artists. Art Mosh discovers and showcases talent, both established and emerging. Their important crossover relationship within the music sector also ensures a multimedia event, with DJ’s and live acts performing dangerously close to the art.
ArtMosh just released this video recap of the recent Paris show.

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Greek artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis, showing with LeBasse Projects in 2010, just finished another large scale mural in Athens. No guerilla work here, as the project was commissioned for Greek, film director Nikos Perakis.

Perakis is shooting a docu-fiction film which shows the life and the difficulties of young artists today. Vasmoulakis plays himself in the film while working on the mural.

Alexandros tells us:
“…according to the script, this mural is a commission from a big company and the boss is not satisfied at all with my work so a hard conflict between him and me rises. Iit was not too bad to play there, i dare say it was funny…”

While the mural is a commission, the content was left to Alexandros and he was strongly influenced from the wide riots that had taken place in athens in December 2008.

We are looking forward to his show next year, his first in LA and first solo in the US, at LeBasse Projects.

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Saturday was the 4th Annual Culver City Artwalk and our 1st year participating in the new gallery. With a much larger space tha last year, we still managed to fill the gallery with walkers, baby-strollers and dogs. We also had a new show on view with work from gallery represented artists like Nate Frizzell, Edwin Ushiro, Tessar Lo and Yoskay Yamamoto, alog with work from some new artists to the gallery like Thomas Doyle, Morgan Slade, Alexandros Vasmoulakis and Joe Black.

Joe Black show stopper...

Some of the new faces created some real showstoppers. Joe Black’s 2000 button collage was creating a bottleneck all day into the back rooms, and we were forced to post interns to protect Thomas Doyle’s sculptures from the hands of eager children and their equally enthralled parents.

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Couple gallery updates to share…

Wednesday, May 27th from 7-10pm we will be hosting both the closing party for Yoskay Yamamoto and Melissa Haslam’s shows, while also releasing the new gallery Koibito from Yoskay and Munky King. Lots of things for Yamamoto fans to pick up at the party from postcard sets, our first exhibition catalog, a new print and some other surprises for those who join us.

The busy week continues on Saturday May 30th for the Annual Culver City Artwalk where we will be showcasing work from gallery represented artists as well as artists we will have coming up in the near future. We have some excellent new work from our usual suspects, plus work from Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Thomas Doyle, Joe Black, Morgan Slade and several others new to the gallery. Make sure to come visit with the masses that will be descending on Culver City.

The revolution begins from within. So Alexandros Vasmoulakis is introduced with his first major solo exhibition at AART in Athens, Greece. The street…yet oh so fine…artist delivers a strong body of work that we wish was local.

Vasmoulakis’ work is that rare combination of street appeal with aesthetically pleasing graphic design elements and technically proficient painting and drawing style.

His present work culls from faces and sentiments. Wide-open colorful eyes, shattered bodies, at times dynamic at times paralyzed isolated or coupled Vasmoulakis’ individuals debate openly with the audience in the most sharp and eloquent way. Hey Ho! they scream through Syd Barrett’s lyrics, Here we go ever so high, rising in revolt initially against some obscure, erotic probably, opponent but essentially against their same self.

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