Cancelled~ Tran Nguyen

Sadly we have had to cancel our show with artist Tran Nguyen in March due to an unforseen event. We are working on getting her back in the gallery soon!
However, we are working on something REALLY COOL to help offset the disappointment with not having Tran that month...stay tuned...

Up Next! Nicoletta Ceccoli and Lynne Naylor

We are very pleased to present the work of painters Nicoletta Ceccoli and Lynne Naylor for our first show of 2012. We'll be posting more info soon, but here are a couple of sneak peeks in the meantime!

 Nicoletta Ceccoli " Girls Don't Cry "

 

Lynne Naylor "Abundantia "

Happy Holidays!!

detail of "Bed of Ivy" by Chris Berens

We hope you have a great holiday! The gallery will be closed from December 24th- December 29th. We will be open on December 30th and the 31st. Back to regular hours the following week- so if you didn't catch the "Lush Life 3" show there is still time!

Nicoletta Ceccoli Sneak Peek....

Nicoletta Ceccoli "Hide and Seek"

Here's a sneak peek of an upcoming painting by Italian artist Nicoletta Ceccoli for her show at Roq La Rue, entitled " Girls Don't Cry" opening Saturday January 14th!

Zoe Williams Update!

We just posted some much nicer, clearer images of Zoe Williams wonderful works for Lush Life. If you havent already, you can see the show HERE.

Lush Life 3 Opens!

Michael Alm and his striking and completely hand built hyena sculpture " Crocuta Calvaporto " (image by Marlow Harris)

Last night was the very lively opening for Lush Life 3...the place was packed, rum punch was flowing, and loads of artists turned up to help celebrate our last show of the year!


Josh Keyes with his painting "Exodus 1".


John Brophy with "Little Black Angel"


Peter Gronquist with his machine gun deer sculpture


Install shot with Jessica Joslin's work in the foreground. (image by Rebecca Jones)


Mia Araujo's intense new painting "Requiem (For The Damaged), hours could be spent looking at all the details in this piece.


Madeline Von Foerster's new painting " Ny Alantsika (Our Forests) " Says Madeline: "This painting was inspired by Malagasy singer and songwriter Razia Said, who has become an ardent voice for forests in Madagascar, which are being burned and illegally logged at an alarming rate. Here she personifies the Rosewood tree (Dalbergia Latifolia), and appears with a few examples of the unique Malagasy fauna, which exist nowhere else on earth. Part of my proceeds from this painting will go towards Razia's Wildlife Conservation Society initiative to plant trees in Madagascar, and Roq La Rue gallerist Kirsten Anderson has also volunteered a generous contribution!"

Coming Soon! John Brophy Prints

Witching Hour
Paper size: 17 x 22 inches
Image size : 15 x 18 inches
Edition: 100
On Hot Press Bright Fine Art Archival paper

Daughter of Vulcan
Paper size: 17 x 22 inches
Image size : 15 x 18 inches
Edition: 100
On Hot Press Bright Fine Art Archival paper

We are bringing in two gorgeous new prints by John Brophy. These will be released on opening night of Lush Life 3 (December 9th) and then online after that. Price info coming soon!

Up Next! Lush Life 3!

Corine Perier painting in her studio for Lush Life 3.

Opening on Friday, December 9th is our 3rd annual "Lush Life" show! This group show is one of our favorites- in which we give the theme to some of the most creative and technically accomplished artists we know and let them run with it. Stay tuned for more sneak peeks and info!

Artists include:Femke Hiemstra, Chris Berens, Josh Keyes, John Brophy, Travis Louie, Marco Mazzoni, Madeline Von Foerster, Jessica Joslin, Joseph Park, Chris Conn Askew, Christian Van Minnen, Andrew Arconti, Lindsey Carr, Zoe Williams, Michael Alm, Corine Perier, Mia Araujo, Peter Gronquist, and Mia Brownell.

Chris Berens Books

Just in- Chris Berens "Mapping Infinity" books! These huge, beautifully hand bound books feature Chris' artwork over the past 4 years, including his 2 exhibitions at Roq La Rue. You can pick one up at the gallery or we can ship you one. These books are $325. each and $50. shipping. Email us for more details.

Ryan Heshka Sneek Peek

Ryan Heshka will be showing alongside Femke Hiemstra on Nov 11th with his signature retro futuristic paintings featuring saucy dames, mad scientists, and horrifying mutant monsters! Here's a look at one of his upcoming pieces....

Femke Hiemstra Sneak Peek!

On November 11th we are opening a new show with Femke Hiemstra entitled "The Timid Cabbage". This show features a series of brand new drawings illustrating a poem by artist Charles Krafft. Here is a look at one of the drawings!

detail:

Special Event! Alice Bag at the Roq...

Alice Bag Reading and Acoustic Performance at Roq La Rue Gallery
Friday November 4th 2011 at 7pm

Roq La Rue is extremely pleased to host a reading and acoustic performance with the legendary Alice Bag. Alice has written about growing up in the LA Punk scene, and will be doing a reading from her book "Violence Girl" as well as a book signing at the gallery on FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4TH at 7:00PM. In addition, she will duet on a few songs with special guest El Vez!! We hope you will join us for this very special event!! (Books will also be available at the gallery)

"Alice Bag was the lead singer of the Bags, the first female fronted punk band to play the Masque during the West Coast punk revolution of 1977. Violence Girl, From East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage is the story of her upbringing in East LA, her eventual migration to Hollywood and the euphoria and aftermath of the first punk wave. Violence Girl reveals how domestic abuse fueled her desire for female empowerment and sheds a new perspective on the origin of hardcore, a style most often associated with white suburban males.
The proximity of the East L.A. barrio to Hollywood is as close as a short drive on the 101 freeway, but the cultural divide is enormous. Born to Mexican-born and American-naturalized parents, Alicia Armendariz migrated a few miles west to participate in the free-range birth of the 1970s punk movement. Alicia adopted the punk name Alice Bag, and became lead singer for The Bags, early punk visionaries who starred in Penelope Spheeris’ documentary The Decline of Western Civilization.
Here is a life of many crossed boundaries, from East L.A.’s musica ranchera to Hollywood’s punk rock; from a violent male-dominated family to female-dominated transgressive rock bands. Alice’s feminist sympathies can be understood by the name of her satiric all-girl early Goth band Castration Squad. Violence Girl takes us from a violent upbringing to an aggressive punk sensibility; this time a difficult coming-of-age memoir culminates with a satisfying conclusion, complete with a happy marriage and children. Many personal photographs energize the text in remarkable ways."

Here is a trailer for the book:

Derek Nobbs Prints In Stock

Derek Nobbs
"Sea Chantey Club"
signed and numbered giclee
11" x 11"
edition of 50
$60.

We have just got in Derek Nobbs new print "Sea Chantey Club". It looks super! Available at the gallery- or drop us an email if you'd like to order one!

Up Next! Femke Hiemstra and Ryan Heshka!

Our next show opens on November 11th and features Femke Hiemstra and Ryan Heshka. Femke designed this beautiful ad for us! Stay tuned for sneak peeks from the show...

Immer and Kehoe Opening

Big thanks to Robbie Lowery for photographing the opening and writing about it for Hi Fructose- you can read about it here.

Charlie Immer Sneak Peek

Charlie Immer "Slime Bones"

We are really looking forward to our October show with Charlie Immer and Andy Kehoe! Here is a sneak peek of Charlie's new work- very appropriate for the season...unless you are like us, then it's skulls year 'round!

New Roq T's Coming soon!

We are super excited about our new T-shirts coming soon! Designed by the Roq's Dave Place, these will be white on black shirts and come in both Men's and Women's cut. We'll post as soon as they are available! (We will be re-printing The Femke Hiemstra designed shirts soon as well!)

Andy Kehoe Sneak Peek!

Andy Kehoe "All Turns To Brilliance"

Andy Kehoe is gearing up for his upcoming show at Roq La Rue this October entitled "Arise Feral Night". This new series focuses on the otherwordly landscapes and nature-spirit denizens that populate Kehoe's work, however this new show opens up an even deeper portal to Kehoe's world, one that contains a similar magic and enigmatic mystery as that of Hayao Miyazaki.

As Andy told us, "Since it's in October around Halloween I decided to do a series based on the coming of night to my land. I've been meaning to do a night series for a while and this seemed like an appropriate time to do it. Most of my work exists in a state of constant Autumn and constant twilight. Night does come every once in a while but it's a different kind of night. Layers between worlds, tenuous to begin with, open up and intertwine. Fade in and out. So there's a lot of thin, overlapping layers of different worlds all converging and creatures wandering in and out of these worlds."
Here is a sneak peek at a few of these wonderful works coming up for the show! Andy will be showing alongside Charlie Immer.


Andy Kehoe in his studio.

Travis Louie for H.P. Lovecraft!

Travis Louie was recently asked to provide the artwork for the new reprinting of horror master H.P. Lovecraft's "Call of Cthulu". If this work looks familiar it might be because you saw the original at Roq la Rue as Travis' most recent show! Congrats Travis!

Chris Berens New Book!

Chris Berens will be releasing a beautiful new book this September called "Mapping Infinity". This book will feature his work over the past several years including his two stellar shows at Roq La Rue. Stay tuned for more info on how to get a copy!
Also- check out this time lapse video of Chris working on a painting. His technique is very complex but this should give a bit of an idea on how he creates such spectacular imagery and gets such unusual effects to his paintings...

Up Next! Yumiko Kayukawa!

Andy Kehoe/ Charlie Immer Sneak Peek

Andy Kehoe "Lord of Ghouls"

In October we will have a delightfully appropriate show for you featuring the work of Andy Kehoe and Charlie Immer...here is an early look!


Charlie Immer "Horse Skull"

Up Next!

(image by Nicoletta Ceccoli)

Hot on the heels of the gorgeous shows by Madeline Von Foerster and B.A. Vierling comes the Blab! Show curated by Monte Beauchamp. You can learn more about Blab! here if you are unfamiliar with the stellar art and illustration magazine. Monte has curated several very successful themed shows and we are thrilled to host his latest, with the theme of "Krampus". (Who is Krampus? Find out here!)
We will be posting sneak peeks and more info soon- but Krampus is a devil so you know we will be throwing one hell of an opening party!


image by Chris Buzzelli

Upcoming Show!

We are super excited for our upcoming show opening this Friday, July 8th from 6-9pm featuring the work of Madeline Von Foerster and B.A. Vierling. This will be Madeline's first full exhibition at the gallery after successfully participating in several group shows here. This will be Benjamin Vierling's first exhibition at Roq La Rue and are thrilled to host him as we became big fans of his after seeing his painting for Joanna Newson's album "Ys". Please join us at the opening!

Derek Nobbs at Roq la Rue

Derek Nobbs "Stumptown" watercolor, gouache, gold leaf on stained paper

We are pleased to give everyone a sneak peek at an artist we have just signed up for our roster in 2012- Derek Nobbs.
Derek Nobbs draws inspiration from various sources such as antique photographs, strange ephemera, vintage taxidermy, old items lovingly used until the missing paint works with nature's rust to tell a story, and the land from the desert to the sea. From this he combines elements of design with a tightly executed scenes painted on paper stained to look as old as the inspirations he draws from.
We will have a couple of works at the gallery through June!