Sekret City has expanded its brand with the launch of their first jewelry collection. Each piece is hand-made to order and are all sterling silver, however you can make special request regarding metals and stone choices where that applies.
Currently you have four design options available in pendant,ring, or pin with the exception of the Domino Pendant which is only available as a necklace.
These are so beautiful in person, although the photography is quite lovely it just does not do them justice.
I’m looking forward to seeing what else they come up with.
Also available are embroidered patches, apparel, and of course the most gorgeous prints you have ever set your eyes upon.

Please visit: http://www.sekretcity.com for more information.

Sanrio’s very first New York art event!!

Where: Open House Gallery 379 Broome (between Mott & Mulberry) NY,NY 10012

Hours of operation:

Friday & Saturday Hours are 11am-8pm

Sunday Hours 11am-5pm

On Saturday and Sunday, guests are invited to have their book signed by Hello Kitty, Hello Art! artists who will be onsite throughout the day to celebrate the book release.

This weekend is the much-anticipated Sanrio art event NYC style. Unlike its Los Angeles counterpart this will be a three day event instead of just one (There was a three hour line here in LA to get into the show)  This event will feature new and exciting Sanrio character inspired works by many talented and wonderful artisits including:

64 Colors, Adam Wallacavage, AIKO, Betsey Johnson, Cat Cult, Danni Shinya Luo, Grant Cobb, Jeremyville, Jessica Louise, Kenton Parker, Kime Buzzelli, Linas Garsys, Mark Mulroney, Miguel Paredes, Natalia Fabia, Niagara, Nicole Bruckman, Nina Chanel Abney, Paul Frank, POSE, Raul Gonzalez, RISK, Ron English, SEVER, Shane Jessup, Simone Legno, THANK YOU X, Tim Conlon, Tristan Eaton and more artists to be announced.

A limited edition print by beloved New York designer Betsey Johnson will be available.  Gallery events will include artist signings, specialty product releases in the popup shop, DABS MYLA will be onsite painting a custom mural (exciting) and many more fun and exciting activities and visual wonders.

SO if you are planning on attending any iconic Kitty event this weekend my NYC friends I vote for this one.

Hello Kitty Hello Art cover

Tim Conlon

Pose

Simone Legno

Linas Garsys

Aiko

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Tonight was the private Los Angeles screening for A Love Letter for you a film by Steve Powers and Joey Garfield at Moca in association with Moca Tv (which just launched a month ago) More info: MOCATV

The film documents The Love Letter mural project in West Philadelphia It mixes a fictional love story with the reality of this inspiring project.

This Saturday November 3rd at Space 15 Twenty there is a public screening of this movie. If you are not familiar with this project, love mural art, Steve Powers, or innovative creative endeavours you should go. Or if you are not in Los Angeles you can watch this film on Amazon, & iTunes

Please check out the website and help fund this project the minimum is just only $1.

FUND THIS PROJECT ON KICKSTARTER!!!!

Bullhorn Gang Website

What is the Bullhorn Gang?

The Bullhorn Gang is a comic book miniseries written by Dylan Stewart and illustrated by comic book artist, Julia Krase. It tells the story of Jack and Jessica, a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in the age of social media.

The Bullhorn Gang will be released as a 6 issue comic book miniseries. The first issue will be available in 2013. Please follow @bullhorngang on twitter for news and updates. Please email jack@bullhorngang.com with any questions or to reserve a copy of the Bullhorn Gang.

The Bullhorn Gang Story

Jack, Jessica and Chris are three misfits who moved to Los Angeles to pursue their dreams of fame and fortune. Instead they ended up broke, disenchanted and on the run.

Together they embark on an unprecedented crime spree throughout Los Angeles county. They videotape and upload each crime to their YouTube channel and share every moment with their twitter followers.

After three bank robbery videos, and the murder of a police officer, their notoriety skyrockets. Their videos generate millions of views online and their twitter account grows to 500,000 followers. Both the public and law enforcement officially recognize them as the “Bullhorn Gang.”

The Bullhorn Gang artwork is by comic book artist, Julia Krase. You can learn more about Julia and see some more of her artwork by visiting www.juliakrase.com and juliakrase.deviantart.com

All artwork © copyright 2012 Julia Krase. Based on characters and storylines by Dylan Stewart.

CHG Circa presents: 

SYLVIA JI 
“La Catrina”



Opening Reception Saturday, November 3, 2012 from 7-10 pm


On View November 3 to December 1, 2012

CHG Circa                        


8530-A Washington Boulevard              


Culver City, CA  90232      

www.chgcirca.com

Open Tuesday – Saturday, Noon to 6:00pm

Culver City (October 23, 2012) ­— On Saturday, November 3, 2012, CHG Circa will feature “La Catrina,” Sylvia Ji’s new paintings of sublime Catrina beauty and her fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.

Central to the paintings of “La Catrina” is the specter of La Calavera Catrina, an iconic deity of Mexico’s “Day of the Dead” celebrations, invoked by Sylvia Ji as a chromatic presence enciphered with allegory. “I wanted to revisit this female figure that haunts me, the Catrina, and put her in a less sexually provocative form to a more concerned, almost sad tranquility and reflection,” says Ji.

La Calavera Catrina, or The Elegant Skull, was originally portrayed in 1910s by the Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada as a richly adorned skeletal figure and became an enduring icon of the “Day of the Dead” celebrations. The Catrina was adoptive of the Aztecan goddess Mictecacihuatl who in the afterlife watched over the bones of the dead and all commemorating festivals. In “La Catrina,” the Lady of the Dead oversees the artist’s changes, divined through painting, and reflective with her unearthly visage.

“The color red is still prominent in a lot of the work, but takes on new meaning as the color of blood,” says Ji. “Not only is red prominent, but other colorful jewel tones as well; also intricate use of gold, copper and silver leaf.” Red hues change from the noir to traditional, shapeshifting its figure’s lives from the past to the present. As a painterly possession, “La Catrina” reveals the contemporary as a translucent identity of the past. “Many of the eyes are closed, mouths drawn in a sort of calm resignation to fate.” “La Catrina” exorcises the contemporary, where the past remains an ongoing force, grounding the present with an unworldly vibrance.

“La Catrina” will exhibit twenty-three paintings, including a series of smaller works. “I’ve tried to incorporate many of the textiles and patterns that evoke the indigenous spirit of Mexico,” says Sylvia. The rich hues and tonalities inlaid with traditional patterns and metallic foil motifs create an exhibition of saturnine beauty, resonant with life.

The opening reception for “La Catrina” takes place Saturday, November 3 at CHG Circa. The reception is open to the public, and the exhibition will be on view through December 1, 2012.

Sylvia Ji
Sylvia Ji was born in 1982, and raised in San Francisco, California, where she received her BFA at the Academy of Art University. Upon graduation, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2005 where she currently resides. Ji’s work encapsulates an alluring beauty that is both cutting edge and a nod to time-honored technique. Her paintings are symbolic reflections of herself, portraits of people she knows or nameless faces set in a landscape of fleeting and decaying beauty. Possessing an artistic voice as unique as the times we live in, Ji is at once contemplative, spiritual, enigmatic, and yet whimsically funny. Above all else, it is perhaps beauty that emerges as her defining characteristic, and her art reflects this: an extension of herself; a passionate appreciation of simple aesthetic pleasure fused with intimately complex subject matter. Ji’s work has been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions worldwide as well as Art Basel’s “Art Fair Now” and “Art From The New World” at Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery. She has been profiled in publications such as Juxtapoz, Trace, and Mesh Magazine, and her painting “Dona Dolorosa” graced the cover of the LA Weekly. For more information about Sylvia Ji, please visit sylviaji.com.

CHG Circa
Established in 2012 by Los Angeles gallerists Jan Corey Helford and Bruce Helford, CHG Circa is their exciting new art venue on Washington Blvd. After launching the highly-successful Corey Helford Gallery in 2006 in the Culver City Arts District, the Helfords opened CHG Circa as a platform to highlight figurative and pop surreal artists worldwide, including Lola, Van Arno, Sylvia Ji, Amy Sol and many more. Corey Helford Gallery is internationally-renowned for its standout exhibitions, from “Letters From America” during the 2012 London Olympics to “Art From The New World,” Corey Helford’s transatlantic collaboration with the Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery showcasing work by a formidable group of 49 of the finest emerging and noted American artists in the New Contemporary art scene. CHG Circa will present exhibitions and special projects of equal quality and caliber. “We believe the artists we show and support are creating timeless art,” the Helfords add, and to celebrate this, CHG Circa will have an elegant 1930s’ ambiance, stamped tin ceilings and 10 foot archways. CHG Circa presents new exhibitions every 4-5 weeks. For more information and an upcoming exhibition schedule, please visit chgcirca.com.

Just in case you did not know. Los Angeles currently has Christopher Conn Askew residing here once again. He has opened a very private studio Los Feliz and is tattooing. Three of my favorite bits of news.

Here are few of his latest. If you are interested booking time email: chris@sekretcity.com, with your full contact info and a description of the tattoo you’d like to get, and he will eventually get back to you.

He is already booking into next year.

Here are a few of the latest.

I only had a few days notice so having made antlers already I just kind of threw together a costume. There are deer in brothers Grimm, right? Specifically Little Brother Little Sister where the boy turns into a deer. So umm I was that. And Angelique was that too. 

Here are some of the great costumes.

All Images: Sarah Golonka

More Info on Flux: http://flux.net/hello

Jonathan Wells and Meg Grey Wells the Creative minds behind Flux

For more images go to: Flux Flickr

Soho House

THE TINGLER

(presented in “Percepto”!)
Tuesday, October 30th | 7:30pm

GHOSTWATCH
(20th Anniversary screening!)
Tuesday, October 30th | 9:45pm

DON’T GO IN THE HOUSE
Tuesday, October 30th | 11:59pm

IT CAME FROM THE VAULTS:
Classic Horror Trailers From The Academy Film Archive
Wednesday, October 31st | 7:30pm

For More Films & Info visit the website: Cinefamily

Alien Quadrilogy Midnites
ALIEN (director’s cut!)
Friday, November 2nd | 11:59pm

A few months ago, the British Film Institute voted Vertigo Number One in their new 50 Greatest Films Of All Time. They were wrong. The best film of all time is Ridley Scott’s blockbuster classic Alien. You don’t have to be a sci-fi fan or a horror fan to love Alien, for it’s impossible to not recognize what a masterpiece of suspense and tension it is. The bastard child of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the starbound scarefests of the ‘50s, Alien is a perfectly cast, perfectly designed (in part by Swiss nutter H.R. Giger, who delivered the most terrifying movie monster of all time) and perfectly executed deep-space shocker that has inspired endless imitations and sequels but has never, more than three decades after its release, been matched — but you don’t need us to tell you that. You know and love Alien, so why not suit up in your grimiest space-trucker jumpsuit and join us for a rare screening of the 2003 director’s cut? In space, no one can hear you scream — again!
Dir. Ridley Scott, 1979, 35mm, 116 min.

Tickets – $12/free for members