Around the August Art Walk: The Movement Continues

Animation artist Renae Radford, currently studying for her Masters of Fine Arts in Digital Art and Animation, fronts her "Visagno" (visual tango). Chapman Lofts housed USC's grad students this summer and extended the invitation to Fall.

At Habeas Index, calls were needed to direct people to the 7th and Fig location. Leah Marsh checks messages while urban planner James Rojas looks on, waiting to give a walking tour of Downtown.

Raw Materials held a soft opening with select inventory and enticed shoppers with this special offer from Wonton.

The loud and proud Killsonic Marching Gang hit the streets and invaded a few galleries with horns and percussion. EVFA Fine Arts will be hosting their NYC Conquest Fundraiser August 23rd.

As seen through the window of Crewest Gallery, Man-One was being captured on video.

Gallery goers felt free to walk under Stephanie Allespach’s installation of yarn, wood and screws that bisected the Pacific Electric Lofts. Through Phantom Galleries, The L.A. Art Girls Art Fair Biennale was held at the 6th and Main venue.

At compact_space_, Bradley Hyppa was the inaugural artist and had a dynamic video installation of abstract landscapes. The gallery just relocated to Downtown and adds to the street life on 6th, between Main and Los Angeles.

Silverlake's Found Gallery joined Digital Art L.A.––the three day festival that opened during Thursday's Art Walk–– at the Yarger Strauss Downtown Annex.

Bert Green Fine Art is the background for the night time crowd at 5th and Main. Bert Green reports 1,200 people visited his gallery Thursday.

A small space off 5th was the Comedy Walk's "The Onion Room" and not as comfortable as LATC. Still, comedian Keith Healy worked the crowd, later staring at the steel doors under harsh lighting to quip "I feel like I'm in a waiting room for the DMV."

August saw Katalyst Gallery open in the former DLANC office on Main, including the space's second floor. It took five straight ten hour days to prepare for Art Walk.

At The Hive, a collective of personal art studios, Travis Morley's detailed sketches in ink rivaled work on the walls.

Inside the Regent, installations and projections are framed by the columns of the old theater as curators are learning the advantages of the cavernous space.

Blues musician Scott Detweiler belts out “"Katrina Brought the Water" at Infusion Gallery. Originally from New Orleans, Detweiler has been playing for 25 years, and has been a regular at Infusion’s openings for the last seven years, as well as playing with his current band the last ten years. His first eight CD’s were independent releases. This year, he released a ninth CD, his first with a label.

Richard Schave recruits riders for Esotouric’s The Hippodrome, the curated, floating parlor of performance art fun. Inside, the world is a tad upside down as the mime ended his set with spoken word poetry.