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It is that time of year! From the early winter months through the spring season art fairs are popping up everywhere offering up something new and exciting in the world of contemporary art. Last year we attended one of the largest and most iconic of fairs Art Basel Miami, Freeway Editions had several artists in Miami for the event and overall it was a great success. So far in 2015 we have already explored the LA Art Show that just wrapped this weekend and now we are talking...

Alexandre Farto aka Vhils was born in Portugal in 1987. He was raised in Portugal, during a period that was deeply affected by the revolution. The Carnation Revolution of 1974 affected Lisbon and other parts of Portugal. As a youth he witnessed the destruction and results of violence on the walls of the city and recognized how that affected an environment.

He studied at the University of the Arts in London, Central Saint Martins and Byam Shaw Fine Art Skills and Practices. He gained prominence when his work of a...

Freeway Editions has written about the work of Rimi Yang before but only specifically about her prints and small works. Although a talented print artist who straddles borders in contemporary art, Yang’s work is primarily done on canvas therefore today we focus on her talents as an oil painter.

Rimi Yang is a Korean artist who was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. Yang moved to L.A. in the early 90’s to attend school and study art and since has been living and working in Los Angeles ever since.
Yang is known...

Rimi Yang is a Korean artist who was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. Yang moved to L.A. in the early 90’s to attend school and study art and since has been living and working in Los Angeles fostering her artistic voice.

Her work is describe as “Celebrating the chaotic emotional duality that exists in life in her art, she revels in the confusion mankind creates in its attempt to order the un-orderable and to explain the unexplainable. Adhering to Joseph Campbell’s dictum that the best things in life are those you cannot explain her paintings are intuitive,...

Saturday September 13, 2014 marked the monthly Art Walk in the Culver City Arts District. And to start the fall season off with a bang, the Fabien Castanier Gallery has an enticing new exhibit, “Miaz Brothers and the Masters”. The show is a solo exhibition by the Miaz Brothers and their first in the United States. The Italian brothers (yes, they are actually brothers) are a duo who presents a drastic new take on portraiture.
The Miaz Brothers have a very specific approach...