Checks Cashed is the new gallery show by notorius artist Bill McMullen, opening July 31st, 2010 at Los Angeles’ HVW8 Art + Design Gallery. Checks Cashed is all about subverting history with absurd pop-cultured imagery.

This year's Frieze Art Fair proved that despite a faltering economy, art fairs can still get bigger and stronger. Chris Osburn attended this massive London fair, where over 150 of the world’s most exciting galleries showcase their best artists.

Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the collections of Jordan D Schnitzer and his family foundation presents a broad range of prints from the past 35 years by some of the foremost contemporary women printmakers at work in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

New York based artist Lauren Bergman’s paintings explore the idealization of both the feminine identity and American culture by simultaneously debunking both. Check out this great piece she recently completed called Mousetrap. How could you not want a sassy redhead in your collection of paintings? Working primarily in watercolor and acrylic, Bergman’s paintings feature women and young girls in iconic suburban-pastoral settings. The colors are soft and the images stylized and defined, reminiscent of American realists Norman Rockwell, John Sloan, and Edward Hopper, with more than a tinge of legendary pin-up artists Alberto Vargas and Gil Elvgren. By referencing this genre however, Bergman challenges this tradition, acknowledging that her “heroes are more along the lines of Barbara Kruger and Martha Rosler.” Read more on this visionary artist here…

Follow us now as we take an educated look at a the latest body of work from Hugh Brown, Grammy Award winning designer and Creative Director of Rhino Records. This latest solo exhibition at Cal State’s tastemaker museum exhibition space, Grand Central Art Center, features a rather fascinating and controversial collection. Curious? So are we.