Saatchi art palette lands in Santa Monica, Day 2

2025 The Other Art Show – September 25–28, 2025, at Barker Hangar. Step onto the magic art carpet where The Big Lebowski’s iconic Gutterballs sequence was filmed, and let your imagination roll through fantastical visions, like the “Dude,” (Jeff Bridges) had. Over 150 U.S. and international artists transform dreams into reality—paintings, sculptures, collages, and wearable art that demand your attention. Attendance soared 15% over last year. Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA. Covered by LaArtTV.com.
Sui Generis Segment: Experiences Unrivaled. Interviews. The Hidden Self, Framed:© Which part of you deserves its own frame? The art crowd opens up—each eager to be interviewed. They reveal their best human quality, that secret spark an artist might choose to immortalize. Would it appear on canvas, or emerge through a sensuous, erotic touch in Chavant clay for your sculpture?

The reaction was electric—one of the strongest LaArtTV has seen in a decade of our: Art Flavor Question of the day © conversation piece encounters for you to talk about. To be asked was to be seen; to answer was to reveal. That is why people wished they had been there—the moment became both an exhibition and a mirror of your confidentiality. The frame for the hidden self. (John Smith, AP, NYC.)

November 2025

Elmer Guevara’s echoes Aristotle in “art imitates life” Sensational Vernissage. “Yesterday like today/ Ayer cómo hoy” at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles.
10. 25. 2025. For LaArtTV by Joan Gartley, curator Berlin.
 
Artist Elmer Guevara, born in Los Angeles, 1990, to parents who emigrated from El Salvador to escape violence.
 

Large canvas “The Get Down” dominates the wall, instantly drawing the viewer in. This pivotal work reflects humanity’s fascination with chaos and social unrest, echoing the 1992 Rodney King Los Angeles riots, which the artist documents through his intense, evocative vision. The painting’s colors play like a symphony, recalling Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite—rising in tension, then dropping into eerie quiet. Colors of fear and desperation mix with bursts of bright pigment, signaling hope. Fernando Valenzuela in #34 brings a cloud of optimism. Figures clash in a life-or-death struggle, only to be interrupted by a Good Samaritan, breaking the fight.

Cats and snakes move with the enduring instinct to survive. A tower of TVs stands blank, as in The Truman Show (1998), leaving the world blank, staring into silence. A little girl, surrounded by life’s horrors, writes of hope and fear like Anne Frank during WWII. A coyote, like DeLillo’s in Underworld, prowls the wasteland. Echoing Orpheus, human skeletons phone heaven pleading to return—yet God replies, “You are not Orpheus’ slaves.” A haunting image for reflecting on the paradox of human life.

In an on-camera interview, Mr. Guevara personally comments on a painting showing his father reading the newspaper announcing Rodney King’s beating.


The place was buzzing, with visitors venturing into the art dungeon downstairs. A woman checked her high heel, while others in the crowd looked impeccably styled. Friends of the artist praised Elmer Guevara’s work, and lively conversations about his art filled the room—you could feel the excitement and wish you were there. His paintings are priced in the low five figures—contact the gallery.
 
Education: In 2017, Mr. Guevara earned a BFA in Painting from CSU Long Beach, CA, and in 2022, an art degree from Hunter College, New York. He exhibits internationally.
 
Exhibition Dates: October 25 – December 6, 2025, at: 969 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012

HAUSER & WIRTH BRINGS COLORS OF OUR LIFES TO LOS ANGELES.


Presenting “Bacchanalia” art show created by artist Flora Yukhnovich from London, UK.
 
Voice of the art crowd © series, by Andrea Roulnard artist, poet, writer. The current Art show at Hauser @ Wirth in Los Angels has so many reasons to attend. Standing front of a large, dreamy canvas by artist Flora Yukhnovich. Here LA Art tv met Laura who came to the Flora’s show Bacchanalia for the third time.
She works in wealth management. Saying. The colors draw you in—slow, magnetic, impossible to resist. They spark a quiet urge for meditation, making you pause and breathe. In the gallery’s hush, the painting becomes an encounter a confident woman meets as she moves through her life. Laura continuing to talk about the art. “The large paintings radiate into your eyes with sweeping color—meditatively intrusive—until you’re no longer just viewing the work but inside it, held by it, unwilling to be anywhere else. I only wish for a few comfortable museum benches to sit and take in this astonishing show. “My name is Andrea Roulnard artist, poet, writer, visiting the show as an observer for LaArtTV. As a poet, artist, and writer, I saw in the painting Luncheon vast pillow-colored clouds—its own rare chromatic signature, something of Arcadia. I imagined it like Fragonard’s The Swing—both figures drifting in and out of the canvas, with her lover on a second swing and a third, hidden swing for the incognito listener slipping into their romantic air.”

Luncheon

2025 Oil on linen Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

Seeing Ping Elephants

2025 Oil on linen Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

Tonight’s art-gallery moment—the one you’ll be talking about tomorrow as a truly unique experience.

“Today’s Question of Art & Desire” ©

“Which color for a ‘sleeps-two’ pillow from Yukhnovich’s Luncheon would you carry to paradise—and who would you take with you to softly tantalize?”
Many of us, just before sleep, find ourselves almost instinctively speaking to our pillow—an intimate little ritual. We whisper, ‘Bring me good dreams tonight.’ It’s a quiet hope we send into the dark, a wish for something beautiful to meet us on the other side of sleep.

“Imagine a thirty-woman L.A. progressive soirée gathered for a LaArtTV Art performance titled Floating in Chromatic Clouds. A Meditation. It unfolds in three acts at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles. Flora Yukhnovich, flying in on British Airways, serves as master of ceremonies. The gallery is dark except for her work, Luncheon, lit by AKZU Tracron M3L track lights. The women sit on comfortable designer benches facing the north wall, where Flora’s painting hangs.
Before the session begins, meditation guru Bob Roth steps in briefly to offer a simple guide to slip them into the moment—hinting that something remarkable is about to unfold.”

“Thirty feet from the performance crowd, a stairway piano hosts a woman pianist from The Colburn School, dressed in a sensuous Elie Saab gown in a hue that complements the painting. The lights dim. As she begins Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9, a Fresnel spotlight illuminates her, amplifying the romance woven into every note. The performance with a meditation on Flora Yukhnovich’s Luncheon lasts about 18 minutes as the lights rise.
Act Two: Women passionately gesture and converse about their impressions, connecting the meditation to their life’s eagerness, all set to Chopin’s music. They sip LaArtTV’s artful wine blend—Merlot, Shiraz, Cabernet Franc, branded Bedroom Red©—served by white-gloved male art students from Otis College.”

The third act: “The third act brings another unexpected moment, surprising the art-crowd women with a fresh, spontaneous gathering.” as the benches are turned 180 degrees toward the east gallery wall. There a plain canvas size hanging same size as the Luncheon, painting.

“The women settle into their seats as the artist, Ms. Flora Yukhnovich, steps before the crowd and invites them to sing together. A karaoke-style projection shimmers across the canvas. When Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah begins, the women join in, feeling an unexpected openness as the shared meditation on the painting merges with the song—a private ache made safe in the collective moment.” The slow tempo and sacred tone allow people to pause self-defense mechanisms — they feel rather than think, naturally dissolving social barriers and creating a moment of collective vulnerability.” It’s popular because it transforms pain into beauty. The evenings art performance grand finale of an art performance. Now the artist invites the women crowd into the south corner of the gallery. There is an anticipation of a surprise quickly arise in the air. Women flock to follow Flora. She stops front of a mountain covered with a crushed Pantene brown color of the year paper as she pulled the paper down you can observe a one-of-a-kind color of a pillows in the same colors as her paintings. Saying This pillow size is sleep two for you and your lovers. As she walks toward her next art project, she says, “Thank you for coming. Have passionate dreams and a prosperous life,” and as she turns around, the turquoise Alexander McQueen dress flows into the artist’s dreams as she walks out.

Hauser & Wirth art gallery at 901-909 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90013. From 30 October 2025 till 18 January 2026.