Living in LA gets old sometimes – people are clique-y, you have to drive everywhere, you have to sit in traffic, you have to pay for parking, cops might pull some shit, yadda yadda yadda…I could go on and on. But as soon as I’m away for just a few days, I actually miss it. Fuckn’ a. This is the only place I know.

But LA is also quite the place to be – great weather, lots of job opportunities, art, culture, diversity, mexican food, the sickest graffiti writers and legendary tattoo artists like Bob Roberts.

available now at Canceptual V.3 at Crewest
(photo courtesy of Crewest)

exhibit opens on my mother’s birthday…

Murals Continue to be Outlawed by Newly Proposed Sign Ordinance in City of L.A.

Host: Crewest, Stash Maleski (ICU Art), Alex Poli

Type: Meetings – Informational Meeting

Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: Crewest Gallery

110 Winston St., Los Angeles, CA

Phone: 213 627 8272       Email: info@crewest.com

Description:

The City of Los Angeles Planning Department has proposed a new sign ordinance. This ordinance is meant to address the unwanted proliferations of signs in the City of Los Angeles, but it has dramatic effects on murals. The proposed ordinance severely limits the size, scope and placement of murals of any kind. There is currently a moratorium against any signs or murals being erected on private property in the City of Los Angeles. In fact, murals on private property in the City of LA have been banned since June of 2007. The Planning Department believes murals have actually been outlawed since the year 2002. If this proposal passes as presented, it will severely limit any type of mural work on private property for many years to come.

ICU Art and Crewest Gallery are hosting an informal Artist Discussion to talk about the revised proposal shortly after it comes out, but before the next public hearing. 

Artists and concerned community members are invited to come to this discussion and contribute ideas and to help formulate a plan for the muralist community. 

Free street parking or $5 parking in the lot across the street. To RSVP for the meeting or to send letters of support, please contact Stash Maleski of ICU Art – In Creative Unity at phone (310) 309-7756, fax (310) 414-9932 icuart@aol.com. RSVP not required.

It’s always exciting to see your friends succeed doing what they love to do; especially when you know they’ve put their blood, sweat and tears into a project. Anyways if you’re in LA, check out Marka at Munky King on Melrose this Thursday for his Mexico Minigod Release Party and Art Show!