Tonight at Carmichael Gallery: book signing for LA Woman by Estevan Oriol and closing reception for Eriberto Oriol and Estevan Oriol : Like Father, Like Son. 6-10pm.
Pick up a copy of the newest tasj supplement, featuring the Oriols, while you’re there!
Eriberto and Estevan Oriol : Like Father, Like Son has been extended one week!
There will also be a closing reception + signing for Estevan’s book LA Woman this Friday, 6-9pm. Hope to see you there!
Image (c) Estevan Oriol.
Carmichael Gallery invites you to a signing of TASCHEN’s With editor Jim Heimann and featured photographer Eriberto Oriol. Please join us for drinks and the opportunity to spend time with Eriberto Oriol and Jim Heimann, Executive Editor for TASCHEN America, as they sign copies of TASCHEN’s “Los Angeles, Portrait of a City” and speak about the historical and cultural significance of Oriol’s “America’s Most Wanted” photograph, which is featured in the book. About the book: From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city’s cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. It traces the city’s development from the 1880s’ real estate boom, through the early days of Hollywood and the urban sprawl of the late 20th century, right up to the present day. With over 500 images, L.A. is shown emerging from a desert wasteland to become a vast palm-studded urban metropolis. Events that made world news—including two Olympics, Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, and the Rodney King riots—reveal a city of many dimensions. The entertainment capital of the world, Hollywood, and its celebrities are showcased along with many other notable residents, personalities, architects, artists, and musicians. The city’s pop cultural movements, its music, surfing, health food fads, gangs, and hot rods are included, as are its notorious crimes and criminals. This book depicts Los Angeles in all its glory and grit, via hundreds of freshly discovered images including those of Julius Shulman, Garry Winogrand, William Claxton and many other superb photographers, culled from major historical archives, museums, private collectors, and universities. These are given context and resonance through essays by renowned California historian Kevin Starr and Los Angeles literature expert David L. Ulin. Jim Heimann Cultural anthropologist and graphic design historian Jim Heimann is Executive Editor for TASCHEN America, and author of numerous books on architecture, pop culture, and the history of the West Coast, Los Angeles, and Hollywood. His unrivaled private collection of ephemera has been featured in museum exhibitions around the world and dozens of books. He has been active in the arts for over thirty-five years, a faculty member at Loyola Marymount University, Art Center School of Design, and Otis School of Design, where he taught for 14 years. Eriberto Oriol Born in Indio, CA, Eriberto Oriol grew up in the San Diego neighborhood of Barrio Logan before relocating to Los Angeles, his home now for over three decades. In addition to expanding his internationally recognized portfolio of photographs of LA Latino street life, street art and graffiti, a talent he would later pass down to son Estevan, he and wife Angelica Gonzalez-Oriol are enthusiastic, proactive supporters of the local art scene, which led them to curate the first major exhibition of graffiti art in Los Angeles in 1989. In addition to the recognition the Oriols received from the Los Angeles City Council for the show’s contribution to the community and the praise from numerous media outlets, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles acquired a featured artwork for its permanent collection. Select galleries that have exhibited Eriberto’s work to date include Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles, Chinese American Museum of Los Angeles, Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles and Anno Domini, San Jose, while commercial projects have ranged from work for the NBA, Nike, Vans and T Mobil to Jokerbrand, LA Metro, Altamont Apparel and Warner Bros. In addition to featuring in Los Angeles: Portrait of a City (Kevin Starr, David L. Ulin, Jim Heimann, TASCHEN Books, 2009), Eriberto and his work have been profiled in The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Daily Telegraph, Downtown News - Los Angeles, Vogue Australia, Mass Appeal, tasj magazine, Swindle, Thrasher, Hypebeast, Rebel Ink, Juxtapoz, Oversight, Warp, Scratch, Rime, Fader Magazine, TCLY (thecitylovesyou.com), Format Magazine and Freshness Mag, amongst numerous other national and international print and online media outlets. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles. To view available photography click here.Los Angeles, Portrait of a City
Rise and Sprawl: How Los Angeles Came To Be
A Pictorial History of the City of Angels
The latest edition of tasj PORTRAIT is out! This issue features LA-based father and son photographers, Eriberto Oriol & Estevan Oriol.
Note to tasj print subscribers: unfortunately, we have had to go local for the time being, but if you live in LA, come by Carmichael Gallery and grab a copy! The address is 5795 Washington Blvd, Culver City.
If you aren’t LA-based, keep hitting up the tasj tumblr to keep up to date with our art world news and artist highlights til we get things going international again. Hopefully it won’t be long!
PS Thanks for the support, everyone - it means a lot, seriously. x
Dan Witz, Stavanger, 2011.
Nuart 2011.
Photo by Carl-Frederic Salicath.
Estevan Oriol, Cartoon Doin’ His Thing, 2011.
MOCA, Los Angeles / Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles.
(c) Estevan Oriol
Want to win a signed copy of Estevan Oriol’s LA Woman book? Visit the tasj magazine Facebook page and click like.
Someone (maybe you!) will be chosen at random on Monday!
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If you live in LA, don’t miss the opening for Like Father, Like Son with Eriberto and Estevan Oriol at Carmichael Gallery this Saturday - both will be in attendance. Details here.
Carmichael Gallery | Like Father, Like Son | October 1 - 29, 2011 Estevan Oriol From hip-hop club bouncer to tour manager for Cypress Hill and House of Pain in the late 1980s and early 1990s to the internationally celebrated professional photographer, director and urban lifestyle entrepreneur he is recognized as today, Estevan Oriol’s talent, fame and success only continue to grow. 1992 saw the beginning of what quickly grew to be an influential relationship with best friend, fellow Soul Assassin associate and now world-famous tattoo artist, Mister Cartoon. Together, they created the increasingly lucrative and high-profile Joker Brand Clothing, just one of Estevan’s ventures in the clothing industry, which range from Not Guilty, produced with Everlast, and his solo line Scandalous to his eponymous line with Upper Playground. In 1995, however, Eriberto gave his son a camera, and what began as a means of capturing life on tour led to a career that has snapped up images of everyone from gang members and graffiti artists to hip hop stars and Hollywood celebrities. Select galleries and institutions that have exhibited Estevan’s work include Rivera Gallery, Los Angeles, Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles, FIFTY24SF, San Francisco, FIFTY24PDX, Portland, Lab 101, Los Angeles and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in whose highly acclaimed, controversial blockbuster exhibition Art In The Streets his work contributed an integral depiction of Los Angeles’ part in the worldwide evolution of graffiti, street art, skater, tattoo and related countercultures. In 2009, Italian print house Drago published LA Woman, a 112 page, hardback book that celebrates a decade of Estevan’s provocative, sensitive and alluring documentation of the city’s less-photographed female population. Highly sought-after for both high-profile commercial projects and private commissions, celebrities photographed by Estevan include Xzibit, 50 Cent, Kim Kardashian, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Dennis Hopper, Mena Suvari, Dr. Dre, Blink 182, Eminem, Adrien Brody, Forrest Whittaker and Juliette Lewis. In addition to shooting campaigns for companies such as Cadillac, Nike and Rockford Fosgate and directing new media projects for My Cadillac Stories, MTV and Apple Computer, he has designed album covers and/or directed music videos for artists such as Eminem, Cypress Hill, Blink 182, Snoop Dogg and Tech N9ne. Estevan and his work have been profiled in Rolling Stone, Complex, FHM, GQ, Details, Vibe, The Fader, Mass Appeal, Hypebeast, Juxtapoz, High Snobiety, Daily du Jour, Fecal Face, Risen Magazine, Acclaim Magazine, tasj magazine and The Source, amongst numerous other national and international print and online media outlets.
He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
(c) Estevan Oriol
Carmichael Gallery | Like Father, Like Son | October 1 - 29, 2011
Eriberto Oriol
Born in Indio, CA, Eriberto Oriol grew up in the San Diego neighborhood of Barrio Logan before relocating to Los Angeles, his home now for over three decades. In addition to expanding his internationally recognized portfolio of photographs of LA Latino street life, street art and graffiti, a talent he would later pass down to son Estevan, he and wife Angelica Gonzalez-Oriol are enthusiastic, proactive supporters of the local art scene, which led them to curate the first major exhibition of graffiti art in Los Angeles in 1989. In addition to the recognition the Oriols received from the Los Angeles City Council for the show’s contribution to the community and the praise from numerous media outlets, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles acquired a featured artwork for its permanent collection./p>
Select galleries that have exhibited Eriberto’s work to date include Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles, Chinese American Museum of Los Angeles, Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles and Anno Domini, San Jose, while commercial projects have ranged from work for the NBA, Nike, Vans and T Mobil to Jokerbrand, LA Metro, Altamont Apparel and Warner Bros. In addition to featuring in Los Angeles: Portrait of a City (Kevin Starr, David L. Ulin, Jim Heimann, TASCHEN Books, 2009), Eriberto and his work have been profiled in The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Daily Telegraph, Downtown News - Los Angeles, Vogue Australia, Mass Appeal, tasj magazine, Swindle, Thrasher, Hypebeast, Rebel Ink, Juxtapoz, Oversight, Warp, Scratch, Rime, Fader Magazine, TCLY (thecitylovesyou.com), Format Magazine and Freshness Mag, amongst numerous other national and international print and online media outlets.
He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
(c) Eriberto Oriol / ForbiddenArtLA.com
Carmichael Gallery | Eriberto Oriol and Estevan Oriol
Like Father, Like Son | October 1 - 29, 2011
Carmichael Gallery is pleased to announce Like Father, Like Son, a retrospective survey of works by renowned Chicano, Los Angeles-based father and son photographers, Eriberto and Estevan Oriol. The exhibition will comprise twenty-five limited edition prints from each photographer, including black and white, color, silver gelatin and digital c-prints.
Whilst often distinguished by a complex melange of memory, emotion and intimacy that can manifest itself in equally terrifying and wonderful forms, the relationship between a parent and his or her child is a particularly unique human exchange and can hardly be defined in generalized terms. For Eriberto and Estevan Oriol, who are often cited as two of the most important contemporary documentarians of urban, hip hop, lowrider and Latino culture, the deep familial tie they share extends into and only serves to empower the unique nature of their professional relationship and the intense puissance of their work. Whether viewed together or apart, the Oriols’ photography presents the multitudinous contours of Los Angeles and urban life through a piercing, visionary lens that lends a fascinating, almost hyperreal layer to the earthy, often confrontational authenticity of their subject matter.
Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the Oriols’ oeuvre to date when considered as a whole, as in Like Father, Like Son, is its ability to complement and contrast the talents and purports of each photographer. Both are long-time observers of city life and the experiences of its inhabitants; Eriberto, whose understanding of shape, line and shadow are key features of works such as LA Financial District, 2011, The Thinker, 1974, and Need A Helping Hand, 2000, which define with gut-wrenching elegance the struggle and strength of the poor and homeless in Downtown Los Angeles and San Diego, form an effective and deeply affecting concordance with Estevan’s depictions of these communities, who, in works such as Skid Row Body Bag, 2009, Chestnut Family, 1998, and Pepper’s Shopping Cart, 2011, combines brutal honesty with rich sagacity to uncover a subtle, fleeting beauty that might otherwise have disappeared unnoticed.
Other series represented in Like Father, Like Son include the photographers’ varied and illuminating portrayals of LA’s lowrider culture, dramatized to distinction in Eriberto’s color photograph Las Vegas Lifestyle Car Club, 2004, and the city’s gang life, exposed in a singularly vulnerable light in Estevan’s Bullet Holes and Stab Wounds, 2002, and Shaving the Dome, 2008. In addition to these and Estevan’s portraits of celebrities, including Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Dennis Hopper, both Oriols will present a selection of their exquisite, oft-touted photographs of LA women, from Eriberto’s Traffic Jam 110 FWY, 2011, to Estevan’s Erlinda, 2003.
There will be an opening reception for Like Father, Like Son on Saturday, October 1 from 6 to 9pm with both Eriberto and Estevan Oriol in attendance. The exhibition will run through October 29, 2011.
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Carmichael Gallery | Now Not Never | September 10 - 24, 2011
Daniel Desure
Daniel Desure has worked as a visual artist and art producer in Los Angeles for the past 5 years. He earned his undergraduate degree at the California Institute of Arts in 2000, studying experimental film and video. Daniel lives and works in Los Angeles.
(c) Daniel Desure
Carmichael Gallery | Now Not Never | September 10 - 24, 2011
Maya Lujan
Maya Lujan earned a BFA at Art Center, then a MFA at University of Southern California. Trained as a classical painter, her sculptures merge object and painting with a tendency toward abstraction. These works also explore the concepts of spatiality and essentialism, which the artist seeks to define, in various ways, through installation. Maya lives and works in Los Angeles.
(c) Maya Lujan
Carmichael Gallery | Now Not Never | September 10 - 24, 2011
Rob Brander
Rob Brander was born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Wisconsin. He received a BFA in Art History and Photography from the University of Arizona. Rob lives and works in Los Angeles.
(c) Rob Brander
Carmichael Gallery | Now Not Never | September 10 - 24, 2011
Kyle De Lotto
Kyle De Lotto was born in New Jersey and educated in Baltimore (Maryland Institute College of Art). He lives and works in Los Angeles.
(c) Kyle De Lotto
