To know the art scene in Los Angeles calls on a lifetime of cruising its streets, storefronts, museums, galleries and riverbanks. All are stages for creative expression, every neighbourhood is fair game for pop-up display, and now that LA artists are drawing world attention, nowhere is it clearer that there is art and there is Art
Painter Ken Gun Min, who mixes oil painting and Korean pigments with collected beads and vintage crystal on raw canvas, reckons with cultural assimilation and identity in L.A.