March 4 - 27

Opening Reception: Friday, March 4th, 8-11 pm

La Luz de Jesus Gallery

4633 Hollywood Blvd.

Los Angeles CA 90027

323-666-7667

www.laluzdejesus.com 

info@laluzdejesus.com

 

La Luz De Jesus Gallery proudly presents their annual juried group exhibition, "Everything but the Kitschen Sync." This gigantic, no-theme show features works from some of the freshest and most relevant artists working today. Commercial illustrators, graphic designers, tattooists, scenic painters, students, and animators and other have been invited to submit images. The show includes artists the gallery has previously exhibited, who consistently produce some of the most interesting paintings and sculptures in pop contemporary, as well as a large selection of work from a brand new batch of undiscovered, underground talent. This year's list of 121 Kitschen Sync artists showing 225 pieces were chosen from over 8000 entries that were sent to the gallery throughout the year.

"Everything but the Kitschen Synch" began in October 1986 as the "Día de los Muertos" show which was entirely focused on the folk art, sculptures and imagery of Mexico's "Day of the Dead" celebration. By 1995, gallery owner and curator Billy Shire felt the show had run its course and presented other themed group exhibitions such as the 1996 "21st Century Tiki Show" curated with Otto Von Stroheim. In 1998 Shire decided to present a non-themed show dedicated to illustrative and narrative artwork. As many local artists work in commercial graphic art fields such as illustration, cartooning, animation, ect, the show was named "Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artists." In 2004, Shire changed the show name to the more encompassing and less-cumbersome "Everything but the Kitschen Synch."

"Everyone looks at this show for new and interesting artists" states Shire - and indeed, not only does La Luz de Jesus pick artists from the Kitchen Synch for future smaller group and solo shows - numerous curators and owners of other galleries also keep their eyes on the yearly show for potential artists to add to their rosters.

"This is the only opportunity for emerging artists to show at the most prestigious gallery in post-pop and it is one of the most anticipated shows of the year because patrons get a crack at buying art from future superstars" states gallery director Matt Kennedy.    

   

Jessicka Addams

Ron Adkins

Marco Almera

Betty Alvarez

Susanne Apgar

Chris Athans

Davidd Batalon

John Brosio

Greg Brotherton

Michael Brown

Blue Broxton

Jeaneen Carlino

Evan Chambers

Andy Clark

Lacey Clemens

JAW Cooper

Edward Robin Coronel

Matthew Couper

Robert Craig

Will Crane

Jessica Dalva

Patrick "Star27" Deignan

Delphia

Robert Doucette

Dimitri Drjuchin

Jesse Fillingham

Mary Fleener

Vanessa Flores

Tim Forbus

Harold Fox

Frijol Boy

Don Fritz

Richard Frost

Rachel Fujii

Damian Fulton

Jeff Gillette

Mark Gleason

Bruce Gossett

Desiree Grisham

Max Grundy

Sunny Gu

Tamara Guion

Conrad Haberland

Caitlin Hackett

August Hall

Walt Hall

Ashley Harrison

Derek Harrison

Gale Hart

Andy Hernandez

Brett Hess

Scott Holloway

Jack Howe

Bree Hranek

Eric Hudgins

Jeremy Hush

Jennifer Jelenski

JoKa

Damara Kaminecki

Da Hae Kim

Miran Kim

Tara Krebs

Eunbyul Kwak

Dennis Larkins

Dave Lebow

Caroline Lee

Alexis Lopez

Carl Lozado

Danni Shinya Luo

Dion Macellari

Jon MacNair

Monika Malewska

Apricot Mantle

Robert Marbury

Aya Masuda

Mark Melchior

Miso

Junko Mizuno

Nicole Moan

Roberto Morales

Click Mort

Emi Motokawa

Munk One

Corinne Odermatt

Daisuke Okamoto

Jose Ontiveros

Amy Ortiz

Nathan Ota

Cristina Paulos

Celene Petrulak

Linda Quakenbush

Cate Rangel

Brian Raszka

Bonni Reid

Eric Richardson

Gustavo Rimada

Antonio Roybal

Leigh Salgado

Van Saro

Scott Saw

Kim Scott

Simon Sotelo

Andy Steele

Bryce Takara

David Russell Talbott

Hui Tan

Johnny Taylor

Pol Turgeon

Marietta Villalva

Javier Villanueva

Edith Waddell

Jessica Ward

Dave Warshaw

Mel Weiner

Mirmy Winn

Jasmine Worth

Christine Wu

Adam Ybarra

George Yepes

James Zar

Kim Zsebe