designLAb: Where Art Meets Design

Inspiration was all around the Big Blue Building at the Pacific Design Center.

Estevan Ramos | Thursday, February 2, 2017

Estevan Ramos

designLAb, located on the 2nd floor of the Big Blue Building of the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, showcases a variety of different galleries It recently celebrated the new year with a public reception for new galleries with art and design exhibits. Opening night was Friday evening, Jan. 27 with exhibits on the 2nd floor and lobby.

There was a special performance on the Melrose front entrance from graffiti artist Kelly “Risk” Graval. This performance was presented live for the Sur le Mur Gallery opening curated by Megan Philips. Risk spray painted graffiti art on a colorful vinyl wrapped four-door vintage Rolls Royce. The Silver Shadow vintage Rolls was donated by Agapiou LTD of West Hollywood. Megan Philips of Sur le Mur and Agapiou LTD sponsored the Rolls Royce presentation.

The current variety of artists participating in the designLAb Opening show will have their works exhibited now until various closing dates, most until mid-March. Check with the Pacific Design Center for more information to each individual gallery! Enjoy the art and the scene!

At Industry Gallery, Artist Shplinton showed some of his abstract oil on canvas work as well as custom painted jean jackets. And from the franklin Louvre Studios, “nohandsbitch” showed his crude colors visual photo exhibit. He had requested visitors to wear all white to be part of his visual display.

Varola presented the first U.S. exhibition by French-Vietmanese artist Truc-Anh. Pictured here are large, moveable mobiles and collage of portraits of oil pastels.

Boite Noire gallery presented “MythoErotics” by artists Diane and Theodore which explored the relationship between erotism and mythology. Some panels measured almost 7 x 10 feet. Pictured are also a collage of working sketches of ink and pencil on variety of paper textures.

Artist Richard Ransier (far left) with Karen Bystedt, an American visual artist and photographer (far right) with paintings from Ransier’s “Guns For Art” series and one of his recycled machine metal light sculpture.

Graffiti artist Kelly “Risk” Graval’s colorful painted Rolls Royce was the show’s special performance installation presented by Sur le Mur Gallery.

Sur le Mur’s gallery owner Megan Phillips (pictured), with her group art show “Street Meets Chic” was a crowd pleaser. Some of the many Art lover’s in Philip’s gallery reception.