For the past six years, Beatnik Studios has played a vital role in Sacramento’s art and music scenes, hosting creative events, throwing rad parties and gallery openings and acting as a crucial link in the arts chain. In August 2013, Beatnik partners Lindsay Calmettes and Wes Davis (both amazing artists/photographers…
Supergiant Productions’ Gina Azzarello is celebrating her 30th birthday surrounding herself with what she loves most: local music and art. On Saturday, July 12, 2014, Azzarello is throwing a huge party at Starlite Lounge (1517 21st Street) that includes a Second Saturday art exhibit from 6 to 9 p.m. including…
Society through the Eyes of Jacqueline Gallagher Jacqueline Gallagher wants to be taken seriously as an artist—just don’t take her art too seriously. Gallagher sees the gorgeous and the grotesque in humanity, finds the comic relief and intricately recreates it in her oil paintings and drawings. The centerpiece for her…
On Thursday, June 5, Verge Center for the Arts will be celebrating the opening of their newly remodeled space with an exhibit featuring an artistically accessible treat for guests. The exhibit, curated by San Francisco visual and performing artist Yarrow Slaps and titled Champagne, celebrates the variety of cultural influences…
Submerge’s Fourth Annual Bicycle Mural Tour Ride along with Submerge for its fourth-annual Bicycle Mural Tour. Yes, that’s right: the journey inspired by street art returns and features some of the city’s newest pieces—blasted in the alleyways of businesses like the Wilkerson Theatre on 25th Street, or covering a vacant…
Skinner is easily one of our favorite artists to have ever called Sacramento home (he currently lives in Oakland). We’ve been fans for years, and his work even graced the covers of one of our earliest issues. Looking at his extremely detailed, creepy, almost nightmare-inducing art might lead one to…
Watercolorist & photographer Sarah Marie Hawkins develops nonprofit to support Sacramento artists I have walked past the 2110 Gallery countless times, but sadly have never seen past the sculpture garden and central showroom (shame on me!). On a Thursday afternoon, I finally indulged in all the incredible gems this space…
Biker newbies, enthusiasts, socialites and experts alike, it’s time to celebrate that super-small carbon footprint of yours. In honor of Bike Month, Art Mix will be hosting Spoke-tacular at the Crocker Art Museum on Thursday, May 8, 2014, from 5 to 9 p.m. Park your bike at the free bike…
Michael Sarich’s Work Comes to Sacramento Butting Heads, a solo art exhibit by Michael Sarich at JayJay Gallery ending May 24, 2014, is a visual exploration of pop iconography through painting and sculpture. Sarich’s modern, allegorical, layered compositions are each tornadoes of symbolic imagery that include elements of nature such…
Talking with Artist/Musician Troy Mighty About the End of the World Words by Andrew Scoggins In case you were unaware, there is a general sinking feeling permeating every aspect of our glitzy, plastic 21st century pop culture. Whether this feeling stems from the quickly escalating confrontation between Russia and the…
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