As art critic Shana Nys Dambrot says, \u201cUnderstanding the LOCOS legacy is not about who influenced them, so much as it is about who they went on to influence.\u201d The ripples of their visual styles across the world are impossible to deny, and after a stellar critical reception in Los Angeles, the CALIFORNIA LOCOS are coming to Miami\u2019s international Art Basel to take their rightful place at the art table.<\/p>\n
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The CALIFORNIA LOCOS<\/b> are:<\/p>\n
Chaz Bojorquez<\/b>, known as the godfather of graffiti art and is considered one of the first artists who successfully made the transition from street to gallery. His iconic street image, a stylized skull called \u201cSenor Suerte\u201d (Mr. Luck), has become a seminal icon in graffiti art. Bojorquez\u2019s paintings are in the permanent collection of the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM, and the Orange County Museum of Art. Bojorquez was prominently featured in the renowned Art in the Streets exhibit at MOCA in 2011. Chaz is known as a primary influence on many contemporary graffiti artists such as Saber, Banksy, Shepard Fairey and others.<\/p>\n
Dave Tourj\u00e9<\/b> was born and raised in the culturally eclectic Northeast L.A. of the 1970s and his upbringing amongst the skaters, gangs, and the area\u2019s tribal friction play heavily in his work. Also a musician, Tourj\u00e9 was a member of the influential L.A. band the Dissidents, playing shows with Camper Van Beethoven, Saccharine Trust, The Minutemen to name a few. Tourj\u00e9\u2019s artwork oscillates between high and low, punk and institutional hegemony and was the subject of a one-man exhibition covering 15 years of paintings on acrylic glass at the Riverside Art Museum in 2002. It has been featured at the Oceanside Museum of Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, and Laguna Art Museum. In 1998, Tourj\u00e9 helped to form the Chouinard Foundation after purchasing the home of Nelbert Chouinard, in order to help restore the lost history of one of the great art schools in the world.<\/p>\n
John Van Hamersveld<\/b>, known for an enormous catalog of pop images. From his iconic poster for the movie The Endless Summer<\/i>, to his album cover work for The Beatles (Magical Mystery Tour<\/i>), Blondie (Eat To The Beat<\/i>) and the Rolling Stones (Exile On Main Street<\/i>) to name but a few, Van Hamersveld\u2019s iconic images have had a tremendous impact on popular culture and fashion from the early 60s to the present, including his influence on street artist Shepard Fairey. Van Hamersveld\u2019s images incorporate a diverse mixture of sub-cultural design elements and formal academic training from both Chouinard and Art Center during the \u201960s, drawing off of diverse influences from Lorser Feitelson to his life as an iconic surfer.<\/p>\n
Norton Wisdom<\/b>, who has been collaborating with musical ensembles for live art painting performances since 1979. <\/span>His collaborations with renowned artists include Nels Cline (Wilco), Bernard Fowler (Rolling Stones), Ivan Neville, Stephen Perkins (Janes Addiction), Llyn Foulkes, National Bamboo Orchestra of Bali, the Disney Hall with Christoph Bull, and the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, to name only a few. His live painting performances have touched off a growing international movement of the same type, which he has been forwarding since the \u201970s.<\/span><\/p>\n Gary Wong<\/b>, who studied under Emerson Woelffer and Matsumi Kanemitsu at Chouinard and was a vital part of the shifting dialogue integral to the formation of West Coast postmodernism and surf\/skate\/rock culture as we know it today. His visual language is a complex collage-based paint\/draw process that often uses photography, and reflects his involvement in music as well as wider social and political concerns. Close friends and influences have included artists as diverse as Rick Griffin, Doug Wheeler and Terry Allen<\/span>.<\/p>\n More details will be released as they are available. For more information, visit www.CALIFORNIALOCOS.com<\/span><\/a> and www.ContextArtMiami.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Must-See Group Show of L.A. Culture-Defining Artists Head to Miami during Art Basel. CALIFORNIA LOCOS, represented by Coagula Curatorial\u2019s Mat Gleason, brings over 50 years of\u00a0Southern California art culture\u00a0to Context Miami December 2-7, 2014. The traveling show,\u00a0which premiered with\u00a0positive press and curious crowds\u00a0in Los Angeles\u00a0earlier this year, features the work of legendary artists Chaz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4022,4026],"tags":[14250,14212,13882,13476,13884,3756,13883],"class_list":["post-47311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-event","tag-art","tag-california-locos","tag-chaz-bojorquez","tag-dave-tourje","tag-gary-wong","tag-john-van-hamersveld","tag-norton-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/calilocosmiamiblack.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48776,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47311\/revisions\/48776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}