UNTITLED NO.1 . NEO TRIBE(L.E 1/25)

Richard Knapp was born and raised in Los Angeles. He is a true Californian in his love for the outdoors. When he is not shooting you can often find him surfing or hiking the beaches and foothills of the greater Los Angeles area. His love of photography grew out of his desire to share the people and places he encountered traveling the world with his friends and family back home.

“Two things I love about photography, It’s ability to capture reality, and its ability to distort …

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study for big bear 40, oil on canvas, 44x60 inches, 2010

British artist Roni Stretch was born in St. Helens, Merseyside, England in 1964 and attended the St.Helens College of Art and Design from 1982 until 1984. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His work has been shown extensively in California since the 1990’s, including group shows at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Geffen Contemporary Museum and the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Why do a series on Big Bear?  I have always been fascinated with the fascination of the horizon, the sense of such majesty brings the questions of life and creation and tests our mental and visual perception. The instinctive way in which the series started, all of a 45 second photo shoot driving down the mountain , in itself intrigued me to explore more, the restrictiveness and purity of the images reminded me of the worlds first day. I found the broken horizon a welcomed change to Sugimoto’s iconic series.

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Scott Caan has soul. His photography reflects his celebrity experiences and his travels across the world. His work has a perspective that truly is rare air – most of us will not be shoulder to shoulder with Brad Pitt, George Clooney or Lake Bell for that matter, but to limit Scott’s work to just his celebrity images would be to miss his perspective on landscapes, cityscapes,  ordinary people and situations  that he captures ohh so well.

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No. 16

 

Wolfgang Bloch was introduced to us by a good friend of the store (Brett Coates from Stussy) who said we would love his work and we took to wolfgang’s work immediately. Wolfgang is a man of few words who is very satisfied to let his unique work speak for itself.

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Shan Buddha,titanium white,ivory.oil on canvas 50x60 inches, '08

To describe what Roni Stretch does with his art is difficult to put into words. What I can tell you is that when Canvas was a dream nearing completion, Roni Stretch looked at our dry-walled concept in the making, trusted our vision and committed to being a part of it. Roni Stretch was one of the first artist to show at Canvas in our art debut, and we were blessed by his work.

Stretch’s paintings are meditational exercises. Their perfectionism is at once spiritual and technical: the realization of perfect consciousness–and all art is ultimately about states of consciousness–and the seamless integration of figure and ground that symbolizes it.

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ROBOCALL

Markku Lahdesmaki began his photographic journey around the neighborhoods of his hometown of Tampere, Finland. This quiet industrial city supplied Markku with inspiration and passion. And together with these forces of creativity in hand, Markku began harvesting the world for images.

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Untitled

Victoria Nodiff is an extremely talented artist and local Malibu resident. The realism of her painted image has caused many who have viewed her work at Canvas to inquire if the images were actually photographs shopped together to create the work. Obviously this is not the case and having had the opportunity to visit Victoria in her studio, we have witnessed firsthand the amount of time, talent and love that she draws upon to give life and spirit to each of her pieces. Pieces are gouache, acrylic and metal leaf on paper.

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Sinatra

Messengers of Music is our current exhibit featuring images of various music icons through the years, dating back to Ella Fitzgerald  in 1949 as shot by Herman Leonard. The artists comprising this current exhibit are Richard Aaron, Janette Beckman, Jim Britt and Herman Leonard.

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