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Provoking Art Experience In 5 Hidden Art Galleries To Discover

Contemporary art is easy to follow when it is mainstream or of infamous history.  Under the radar, Los Angeles has become a mecca for emerging and establish contemporary artists today. L.A.'s contemporary art scene is a hidden subculture for the art scene sophisticated who are looking to explore new realms of art innovations.

Throughout history, the arts have been form a escape or a window into worlds that may be known only by the artist, in reflection to their perceived reality of their society, to express views of it and ideas for solutions. The renaissance worked in this way and influenced major changes of modern day Western society and culture.

Some progressive works being created are from artists who produce work known as art installations. Where canvas is an open space and the objects of focus are three dimensional and sometimes in motion. We encourage for you to explore interactive contemporary art through art installations and see how this form of are transcends the experience of wall art appreciation into a more interactive experience that taps into the hidden imagination of your own self.

As a child, my imagination often searched for the secret cabinet, the magical seashell, the hidden passageway that was a gate or a key to some place far away where there was adventure, something meaningful and exciting that was waiting for me.  As I grew older, I learned to subside these feelings by finding ways to sync them with the reality of things today, secretly still searching and learning how to now find the secret gardens, wishing wells, and sea of stars in hidden locations and scenarios throughout Los Angeles County.

 Looking for an escape, or to see the world through a different pair of eyes to expand my understanding of differences between myself and others, realizing how contemporary art has become another form of communication for people to express themselves freely and colorfully without judgement, and express common human emotion in reflection to the world that is surrounding for us to understand in a more humane approach versus logically.  

Honor Fraser

The current Exhibition is of Kenny Scharf with a series titled Blox and Blax where wall art becomes 3 dimensional and colors and images are of a an abstract pop imagination. He makes the world contained in his work comes out for a public event and interactive showcase. Honor Fraser is a world a realm of imagination of intellectual creatives who utilize the open spaces of the gallery as their complete canvas and set new limits of imagination coming alive using strategies of object focus, process driven, and research base.

http://honorfraser.com 2622 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034  

Blum & Poe

Blum & Poe is the hidden doorway to another world. From the outside the building seems very plane. A grayish, cream colored industrial looking building against the California clear bright blue skies gives an obvious yet overlooked curious invoking invitation. The life within the walls challenges participants to stretch the imagination and create stories out of the abstract creations of familiar shapes and movement that are put together into unordinary collaborations.  What we discover at the end of the tour is the artist's real motive was to utilize the imaginations of the people to paint his ultimate master pieces with throught provoking works to create a story within our own minds from what is being received in each display. View the work that is outward used to create within at their current exhibit of works byKishio Suga.

http://blumandpoe.com 2727 S. LA CIENEGA BOULEVARD LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90034  

Freedman Fritzpatrick

Walking in the Freedman Fritzpatrick is journeying to abstract visuals that shares harmony between space, color, and object focus of the more darker side. This gallery is a place of inspiration for your own creativity. Each piece seems to have a gravitational force for suppressed imagination waiting to be extracted from our minds. See the works of thought provoking artists both local and international whose installations includes its followers to making them apart of the bigger picture.

http://freedmanfitzpatrick.com 6051 Hollywood Blvd, #107 Los Angeles, CA 90028  

Ghebaly's Gallery

Provides the escape from reality into a an atmosphere of friendly and fun. This art installation venue takes objects and images of a familiarity and then stretches them with imagination not limiting its' completion to be contained on a canvas. The art work takes over the floors, walls, and ceilings. Objects of focus spill out of the canvas and become alive in the Ghebaly Gallery. As the artists feature fearlessly do not hold back expressions and figments of their imagination, to inspire creativity and putting life into it. Rather being entertained by the performances of others, you find yourself being entertained within yourself in your explorations in the minds of such artists. The experience is the feeling of being the object of focus in a giant pre-prepped canvas.

   Intro Art Gallery and Chef's Table

There is a hidden hole in the wall in North Hollywood that leads you into a wall to wall art gallery whose focus is viewing a long 24 seat dining table. Intro Art Gallery and Chef's Table is a unique interaction with art and art culture with combining both fine and culinary arts fused into a whole experience. An enchanting experience and experimental. A combination of ambiance with your personal palate as part of the masterpiece over a 12 course dinner paired with wine serving as an urban escape. This venue is meant to partake in with others and becomes an art interaction that is fulfilled by being a shared experience. A unique way and memorable way of viewing receiving art by being sharing it with others.    

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This Week's Top Rooftop Locations in Los Angeles

Why not make your next adventure in Los Angeles include a more luxe experience of L.A.? Follow Juice L.A. for four weeks of content about rooftop locations.  Include views of the city’s skyscrapers and beach landscapes in your photo memory collection. We feel that rooftop locations of L.A. offer different various types of contemporary modern designs that reflect a high-status lifestyle and high end service, while hanging out in a laid back, social atmosphere.

These locations give a sense of the more affluential culture of Los Angeles and is not completely exclusive for people to share in similar involvement in the leisure of such lifestyles. Here is a list of this week’s picks of rooftop locations for you to explore.

 Penthouse at The Huntley Hotel

The Penthouse is a higher end type of restaurant that offers a high class, chic in its setting, menu, and service. This restaurant is enclosed but is located at the top of the Huntley Hotel, 18 stories high. It is a nice place to visit especially if you come to L.A. on colder, rainier seasons. The décor has a fine attention to details accenting the environment to feel like comfort in understated elegance. Such as transparent white curtains around your sitting booth for an exclusive feeling and tiny chandeliers for dim candlelit evenings. Catch this place in the early evenings to indulge in the view of the ocean and west coast sunsets over a glass of wine.

What makes this place worthy to visit for a smaller travel budget is that you do not have to have the full restaurant experience and making a reservation is not strictly required to get a good seat with a view of the ocean. You can inquire to be able to sit on a quieter side of the restaurant if you prefer a more private enjoyment of the location and if you do decide to explore the menu, they offer a seasonal special which includes a salad, a main course, and a desert. The dishes offer local California creations using Asian influences in fusion with extravagant American cuisine.

Huntley Hotel 1111 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA 90403

Hours: 7am – 10pm, Menu $$$, gluten free options, parking: Meter parking on the streets in front of the hotel, and valet offered by the hotel parking structure.

 The Rooftop Bar at the Standard Hotel DTLA

City, chic, metropolitan lifestyle at the retro styled rooftop at the Standard Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. It is noted as a bar but the locations serves more as a lounge with features that makes the experience here not your typical lounge location. Located in the middle of the Financial District, this part of the city is more of a business lifestyle of Angelinos. However, The Standard isn’t so standard, by adding a more interactive setting with plastic canopied waterbeds, and telescope quarter machines. It is a blend of metropolitan luxe and recreation with fireplaces, ping pong tables, and even a heated swimming pool. It gives the insight of a young professional or entrepreneur in the city who needs a place to unwind and be social.

The location surrounded by towering skyscrapers so you can have a nice view of generations of buildings reflecting on the architectural style of Los Angeles for its time. There are events held sometimes if you are looking for a livelier reality of the place, but during the work weeks, it’s a place to loosen up, and unwind. Furniture are seats that offer a recline and do a bit of star gazing at night. The menu and prices are in the mid-high range and is of fresh ingredients to make up a cuisine of classic American diner style dishes.

Rooftop Bar – The Standard Hotel  550 S. Flower St., Los Angeles, CA 90071

Hours: 12pm – 1am, Menu: $$, Parking: Paid parking on location or meter parking on the street.

 Perch

Here is a restaurant lounge combo. Perch is a location you can feel more comfortable if you are out in the city for a more semi-formal explore of the city. There is a bar lounge area for the passerby and fine dining with reservations required. There is a stunning overlook of the city from its 13th story high location. You can catch a far view of the city during the day or a lit city at night. It is one of the many places in Downtown L.A. where French culture influence as part of L.A.’s heritage can be seen in its offered cuisine by a local Executive Chef. Beverages at the bar are specific to cater a rich decadence within their variety of dishes, to satisfy fine dining anytime of the day.

The interior is overall dim lit and if you catch this place during the day, you can experience its French, Victorian luxurious interior under natural sunlight. It gives the dose of couture sophistication; hidden culture in Los Angeles. The wide-open sky view over live music by a fireplace makes the California dreaming free and possible. Achieve luxury as you are.

Perch 448 Hill St, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Hours: 4pm-1am, Menu: $$$, Parking: Meter parking on the streets, or structure parking located within the city.

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The Return Of Ska

Tonight, let your feet wander into the Friday night of Downtown Los Angeles, specifically in Little Tokyo. Find your feet walking in rhythm to a steady bass line that is accented with off the beat rhythms of dominating guitar riffs and sections of large horn sounds. You will end up at The Return of Ska event scheduled at The Five Star Bar. This once at large sound found in the late 80s and 90s in Los Angeles, still exists as an uprising subculture yet again with a frontline of local bands and artists from L.A. and in small pockets throughout the U.S. People with love of sounds like No Doubt, Sublime, and Reel Big Fish.

This third wave sound of the bands of ska and ska punk has maintained its original era sound and for some bands playing at the event tonight, is evolving it with a more heavier and edgier punk influence. Noteworthy bands such as Absurd Tones. In this event, tonight, The Return of Ska, we find leaders of this day and age in an expressive form of ideas based on current events with rooted foundational feeling of its origin such as reggae and original ska. Still carrying voices of social gossips, political comments and news related to the current times with live instruments of a blend of Caribbean, American Jazz and Blues.

The Five Star Bar is a first step platform venue for rising bands from all over. As a venue, the sound offered is clear and good quality. A great stage to hear and discover live music and noise of local subcultures. The crowd is made up of locals resembling the many sides of a subculture created by the music it is surrounded by in forms of fashion, social behavior, social behavior, and the artsy side to their lifestyle. The Five Star is a window for people looking to discover good live music of classic genres. Find comfort at the bar, and social entertainment at the pool table. The bar offers a variety of beers which includes imports, a gallery of wall art from talented local artists and if the game is playing, there is a small TV at the corner of the bar. Live music, live game, and craft beer. Good people, good sounds, and good times for any adventurer.

Follow the event and the line-up by checking out the flyer provided in the website of The Five Star Bar and in their social media. https://fivestarbardtla.com/

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Intro To Fairfax Blvd.

When visiting Los Angeles, it wouldn’t be a completed trip without visiting Hollywood, one of the city’s major neighborhoods. Stars and movies comes to mind of most tourists, however, there is a current culture to Hollywood that is contemporary and artsy. It reflects the real feel of Hollywood that we all seek to know. Seventy years ago, the places and activities which made Hollywood what it is today, occurred in more hidden places within the city and not where you will commonly see tourists. It was within the outskirts of Hollywood where this culture was developing and was even contemporary and a subculture for its time.

It is no different today, within the same neighborhoods, the same activities occur that is reshaping the future of Hollywood. We’d like to take time to explore the neighborhood Fairfax, which is a small part of the greater Hollywood neighborhood and is where we see the film, art, fashion evolved from a previous time within these industries and manifesting into the creation of another exploration. Discover authentic culture of L.A. that is in Hollywood. I will share with you a few locations for your next adventure. Explore more!

Fairfax has a history of music genres of rock and hip hop, high end fashion, and contemporary urban art. We see the neighborhood changing much over the years but what is extracted as its core remains the same. Even today, you can still see reminiscent expressions of its heritage throughout the streets. Most shops on Fairfax still holds onto the original artworks and design as it was then. You are probably more likely to run into real celebrity stories here on Fairfax as much as on the boulevard. 

Catwalk

Catwalk Is a vintage designer boutique, very high-end and chic. Explore the closet of a fashion stylist and costume designer. Today, Renee Johnston’s collection is a design resource for celebrities, and designers. Classic and timeless clothing c still adds to modern elegance to imitate classic red carpet feeling; eye catching and notable to any fashionista. Find pieces that will let such a side in you show. 

The Seventh Letter Gallery

The Seventh Letter Gallery  is an art gallery created by local street artists of Los Angeles. The gallery is also a venue for local artists to rent out, customize and feature their own works to the public. Under appreciated art found on billboards, buses, trains, slap tags throughout the city is now recognized and on display as wall art within the lounge area of the venue. Take yourself to a moment in time of a once lifestyle for street artists in Los Angeles and see expressions of a subculture’s idea of pop culture. 

The Silent Movie Theater

The Silent Movie Theater is an amazing place of many groups of film of many genres. The Silent Movie Theater is a place where films are explored in an intellectual way within creativity of storytelling, film production and movie marketing throughout history and the world. Many events are held here such as movie premieres, cult classic screenings, and themed film such as foreign, style, genre, works of, screened and explored for weeks at a time. It is a one of a kind theater from anything else in the world and is an authentic side of the film culture of Hollywood that gives insight of what makes the industry intriguing and innovative. 

Ewkuks

Ewkuks is an acronym for Everyone Who Knows Us Knows. They are the t-shirt clothing brand that represents the art culture of Los Angeles. They specifically promote urban street artists by allowing their shop to serve as an art gallery and hold events for the public to intimately get to know artists and their works. Ewkuks is motivated to providing art to the communities and collaborates with programs that gives back to the education industry. It is a great place to understand the current times of Los Angeles and social views of locals represented by street artists and learn about how society comes together for the arts of Los Angeles youth. 

424 Boutique

The 424 is a fashion and accessory boutique that both serves a high-end fashion consumer and local crowd with street wear. They have feature pieces that are current in high end fashion runways, full brands created by of local L.A. designers. They blend the two spectrums of the fashion world in a very clean setting where also, people opposite either side are being exposed to each other’s world in the such a layered industry by simply visiting the shop.

The in-house brand, 424, is a mix of street wear fuses metropolitan chic in a dark sporty grunge look and classic punk streetwear. They allow their clothing pieces to serve as a platform to voice social opinions that they feel causes division with peoples within our society. The shop transforms itself sometimes at nights to hold events surrounded by music, fashion and ideas of the ever-evolving culture.

There are a lot more shops within the same strip of Fairfax but this is intended to be a short read. I hope for you to breathe this in so that you will easily see the captivating and fragrant intangible and meaningful moments for you to take with you and be left inspired to new ideas and possibilities of new creativity for you to use however you desire.  

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Hollywood Culture Located on Fairfax Blvd.

When visiting Los Angeles, it wouldn’t be a completed trip without visiting Hollywood, one of the city’s major neighborhoods. Stars and movies comes to mind of most tourists, however, there is a current culture to Hollywood that is contemporary and artsy. It reflects the real feel of Hollywood that we all seek to know. Seventy years ago, the places and activities which made Hollywood what it is today, occurred in more hidden places within the city and not where you will commonly see tourists. It was within the outskirts of Hollywood where this culture was developing and was even contemporary and a subculture for its time.

It is no different today, within the same neighborhoods, the same activities occur that is reshaping the future of Hollywood. We’d like to take time to explore the neighborhood Fairfax, which is a small part of the greater Hollywood neighborhood and is where we see the film, art, fashion evolved from a previous time within these industries and manifesting into the creation of another exploration. Discover authentic culture of L.A. that is in Hollywood. I will share with you a few locations for your next adventure. Explore more!

 Fairfax has a history of music genres of rock and hip hop, high end fashion, and contemporary urban art. We see the neighborhood changing much over the years but what is extracted as its core remains the same. Even today, you can still see reminiscent expressions of its heritage throughout the streets. Most shops on Fairfax still holds onto the original artworks and design as it was then. You are probably more likely to run into real celebrity stories here on Fairfax as much as on the boulevard.

Catwalk: Is a vintage designer boutique, very high-end and chic. Explore the closet of a fashion stylist and costume designer. Today, Renee Johnston’s collection is a design resource for celebrities, and designers. Classic and timeless clothing c still adds to modern elegance to imitate classic red carpet feeling; eye catching and notable to any fashionista. Find pieces that will let such a side in you show.

The Seventh Letter Gallery: It is an art gallery created by local street artists of Los Angeles. The gallery is also a venue for local artists to rent out, customize and feature their own works to the public. Under appreciated art found on billboards, buses, trains, slap tags throughout the city is now recognized and on display as wall art within the lounge area of the venue. Take yourself to a moment in time of a once lifestyle for street artists in Los Angeles and see expressions of a subculture’s idea of pop culture.

 The Silent Movie Theater is an amazing place of many groups of film of many genres. The Silent Movie Theater is a place where films are explored in an intellectual way within creativity of storytelling, film production and movie marketing throughout history and the world. Many events are held here such as movie premieres, cult classic screenings, and themed film such as foreign, style, genre, works of, screened and explored for weeks at a time. It is a one of a kind theater from anything else in the world and is an authentic side of the film culture of Hollywood that gives insight of what makes the industry intriguing and innovative.

 Ewkuks: is an acronym for Everyone Who Knows Us Knows. They are the t-shirt clothing brand that represents the art culture of Los Angeles. They specifically promote urban street artists by allowing their shop to serve as an art gallery and hold events for the public to intimately get to know artists and their

424 Boutique: The 424 is a fashion and accessory boutique that both serves a high-end fashion consumer and local crowd with street wear. They have feature pieces that are current in high end fashion runways, full brands created by of local L.A. designers. They blend the two spectrums of the fashion world in a very clean setting where also, people opposite either side are being exposed to each other’s world in the such a layered industry by simply visiting the shop. The in-house brand, 424, is a mix of street wear fuses metropolitan chic in a dark sporty grunge look and classic punk streetwear. They allow their clothing pieces to serve as a platform to voice social opinions that they feel causes division with peoples within our society. The shop transforms itself sometimes at nights to hold events surrounded by music, fashion and ideas of the ever-evolving culture.

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Auction Event At the 424 On Fairfax

Fairfax Blvd is made up of small shops, mostly by the locals themselves. Entrepreneurs who, in their lives, become professionals in different industries. The refreshing and noteworthy attributes about these business owners, although appear similar outwardly, they have acquired uniqueness in idea, perception, and forms of expressing their brand through production in their businesses.

So, we would like to take you for a moment to explore the 424 clothing boutique. It is a shop that carries high end, exclusive designer and vintage, street wear as well as full brands of upcoming local designers from Los Angeles. By simply knowing the type of inventory they carry, you can already gain insight as to what this business is about and what is on the mind of the owner in expressing his passion and knowledge of his industry. It doesn’t stop there. This business owner has realized his love for fashionable pieces seen as collectibles is a shared interest with his clientele.

Through 424’s shop on Fairfax Blvd., we experience culture of the fashion industry in which we can see designers influenced by the times in which they are living in. On December 16th 2016, the shops on Fairfax close by 7pm, 424 as often transforms itself to hold an event and takes its audience into a more in depth and enriched experience of the fashion industry. 424 pulls archive designs of Raf Simons and takes us to brief moments within our contemporary culture which inspired the later appreciated works of an independent designer and artist who was ahead of his time in a very timely way.

Here are some of the items auctioned at the event.

Sleeveless Hoodie part of the Riot Riot Riot Collection

Fishtail Parka from the Closer Collection

Bomber Jacket from the Suma Cum Laude Collectio

Consumed Collection

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Maritime in California

  Angelinos connection with the sea has a long history that is not realized by most locals. Maritime in California has a long history that can be divided into several different periods beginning from the time of Native Americans.  From the Native American period follow the European exploration in the 17th century, the Spanish colonial period in the 18th century, the Mexican period in the 19th…

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Juice Los Angeles Intro

The Renaissance bridged the middle ages to the Enlightenment and was a time of cultural movement that helped shape our modern day views and conduct of humanity.  The Industrial Revolution expanded possibility of production and sustainability for human society in North America and nurtured and supported the emancipation of women and once again our views and conduct of humanity grows. The counterculture of the 1960s grew from a confluence of people, ideas, technological developments, issues and led to key movements in the U.S. that ended racial segregation, created anti-poverty programs, giving equal rights to women in the work field and in education, and environmentalism.

There exists the main culture of societies and within these main cultures is the forming of subcultures. These subcultures are derived from our societies, environments, current times, regions, and heritage and have been the nourishment of social modernization and development of evolution of governments. Juice LA aka. Juice Los Angeles was created to bring awareness of subcultures in Los Angeles by sharing about the lifestyles, trends, views and values. Sub cultures are always emerging and are not typically always the mainstream of things. If we take a moment to reflect on history, some of the most positive values that have been adopted within society came from the influences of cultural views that were challenged because of not being what was considered the mainstream of things.

Today, we are very privileged in being able to travel to and from one country to another. There’s always the common ‘To Do’ list when it comes to traveling. One priority item is creating your travel destinations when visiting a city. There are many sites and magazines that provide information in what are the main attractions to see when visiting a country/ city.  Juice Los Angeles, finds a demand for travelers to be informed more of local culture which many sites today do not inform but it is what any traveler wants to experience and learn about. In Los Angeles alone, what is mainly promoted is what is considered as the “Tourist areas” such as the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Griffith Observatory, The Getty Center, Walt Disney Concert Music Hall, TLC Chinese Theater, Universal Studios, and so on. Underlining these mainstream attractions are subcultures that have an image, a voice, a mission and is in the making of history and covers all topics of lifestyles such as fashion, music, film, art, food, design, writing, and entrepreneurism.

Here in Los Angeles subcultures thrive and can be distinguished from the different areas of Los Angeles such as Downtown, The Arts District, Silver Lake and Echo Park. Today, there are groups of people and some have a category associated with them such as hipsters, punks, skaters, and within these are influences from the trends within these groups that is shaping views, conduct and mainstream culture of modern society in Los Angeles. It is the same throughout the world. Within Los Angeles there are a lot of subcultures existing that have not been recognized and a lot them come from their natural urban surroundings. Juice Los Angeles has been created as a source to learn about these subcultures and the locations where they are experienced.

Within the neighborhoods of Los Angeles, exists hidden gems where innovative fashion, art music, food, film, lifestyles are being created and is the bi-products from the various Angelinos. It is inspiring, thought provoking, enlightening and fulfilling in any form of visitation whether you are from LA or not.