Art Renegades Group Show @ Place Gallery runs thru October, Fri/Sat/Sun 11am-6pm.

(From Las Vegas Weekly…) Place Gallery kicked off last week with a month-long group show of artists from an online collective called Art Renegades. Founded in 2001 by Las Vegas artist Michael Arthurholtz and a handful of artist friends, the group has now grown to 62 members—15 from Vegas. The show at Place is not organized around any theme, but the art collectively feels alive, wicked, surreal. “We’re not going with the mainstream art,” Arthurholtz says. “We lean toward the lowbrow, the darker side.”

It’s been a frantic couple of months installing the 30-odd pieces for the exhibition. But Arthurholtz says the art here looks good and can be appreciated on any level. “You don’t have to feel looked down on because you’re not part of the art crowd. You just enjoy the image for what it is.”

Live Art Time Lapse By Chad Carothers – Tokyo Japan from index ink on Vimeo.

See more of Chad’s artwork at Art Renegades

Emerging Artists Set To Shine At Gallery Grand Opening
New Arts District venue displays works of local art group on First Friday Anniversary

September 18, 2009 Las Vegas – The downtown Las Vegas Arts District has been hard hit by the economic crisis as artists, galleries, and shops are forced to close their doors. Even the venerable First Friday art festival put its street fair events on temporary hiatus for the summer months as funding dried up.

Fortunately the artistic community is one tenacious bunch. Slowly but surely the arts are making a comeback downtown, as evidenced by the grand opening of Place Gallery at 1054 S. Main St., just across from the S2 Arts building. The gallery has dedicated exhibit space, working artists studios, and space for music and performances. The staff is busy preparing for it’s inaugural exhibit, which happens to coincide with the anniversary of First Friday on October 2nd. The mild weather of the anniversary event typically draws the largest crowd of the year, something gallery manager Gina Quaranto is counting on given the scope of the opening show.

Place Gallery’s inaugural exhibit will feature works in a group show from the members of Art Renegades, a local art collective. “We have about 60 emerging and established artists in our ranks, about half of which will be showing work”, says Art Renegades founder Mike Arthurholtz. “We’re bringing Las Vegas some artwork it’s never seen before, and we‘re hoping to spoil the walls for anyone who follows.”

According to the groups website, Art Renegades generally subscribes to the fringes of the art world, i.e. underground, alternative, lowbrow, kustom kulture, outsider, tattoo, graffiti… raw, inspiring, disturbing, and all out bad ass art…” – certainly not a collective of “black turtleneck” artistic types. Local members of the collective with work in the show include Lance Smith, JSKA Priebe, Peter Mengert, Juan “Frijol Boy“ Muniz, Mike Biggs, Mark Zeilman, and Teresa Williams. Other notable artists include Leslie Ditto, Amandalynn, Ashley “COREROC” Voss, Fernando Carpaneda, and Bruce New. The group will also feature early works by Danny Roberts.

Place Gallery will kick off the opening night reception Friday night at 6pm, and the festivities will run until 11. The exhibit can also be viewed on Preview Thursday when all First Friday venues open their doors from 6-10pm. Wine and hor d’ouevres will be served and artists will be in attendance. The exhibit will hang from October 2-30, with hours Friday thru Sunday, and by appointment throughout the week. Visit www.artrenegades.com for more information and hours.

Renegade artist and Muay Thai kickboxer Kevin Ross avenged his previous loss by decision to Kang En with a 4th round knockout blow, earning him the WBC super lightweight Muay Thai championship last night at the Las Vegas Hilton. Congratulations Kevin!

pssst… Art Renegades Group Show???

Edwin Ushiro - "Softly Encompassing the Womb"

Renegade artist Edwin Ushiro has a solo show at Le Basse Projects in Culver City entitled “Softly Encompassing the Womb”, beginning September 12th 7-9pm. Please check out this amazing artist if you’re lucky enough to be in the area.

Bruce New

Renegade artist Bruce New was featured as “Artist of the Day” on Proteus Mag web blog.

Check out Bruce News’ contribution to penmarkermagic.

Leslie Ditto featured on artist-a-day.

and check out our friends at Dirty Sneakers.

Renegade artist Molly Crabapple has an interview on Marvel.com News that is definitely worth a read; http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.4752.Strange_Tales_Spotlight~colon~_Molly_Crabapple_Q&A

Renegade artist Hugo Patao will be participating in Recently Acquired at the Miami-Dade College Kendall Campus in September…

Naomi Arin(of Dust Gallery) is, to quote a certain cliched little ditty, leaving Las Vegas. She was interviewed in City Life magazine recently and explains why the art scene in Vegas seems to be perpetually headed south, which is where she happens to be heading as well…

and last but not least, please join Jerry Misko at Henri & Odette Gallery for his show titled “Jerry F’n Misko” TONIGHT 08.14.09 at 7pm

Henri & Odette Gallery