Enter the downtown L.A. loft of painter Carlos Almaraz in the 1980s, and you’d first notice the artist himself, warm and charismatic, in black beard and paint-spattered overalls. Then you’d see ...

The amazing thing about the bursting-with-energy paintings by famous Los Angeles artist Carlos Almaraz is that you can swear the oil paint has still not completely dried there. And nothing stands ...

Carlos Almaraz (1941-1989) painted murals and giant oils, works that burst with color and images of Echo Park, car crashes, and other aspects of life in LA. Most of these original works are out of ...

Through drawings, sketches, and paintings, Evolution of Form will trace how Almaraz evolved from conceptualism and minimalism (during his years in New York, in the 1960s) to bright, figurative work ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

The late L.A. artist Carlos Almaráz is the subject of a new exhibition at the L.A. County Museum of Art; filmmaker Gregory Monro spotlights Jerry Lewis' directing career in "The Man Behind the Clown;" ...

At the time, they were Eddie and Charles. It was the mid-1950s in East L.A. Dan Guerrero was named after both his grandfather, Eduardo, and his famous father, Eduardo “Lalo” Guerrero, considered an ...

Flames leaping from a car on a freeway against backdrop of sunsets and palm trees is an image that encapsulates LA’s Arcadian dystopia. It is a picture specifically associated with the art of Carlos ...

Actor, comedian and art collector Cheech Marin calls Carlos Almaráz the John Coltrane of Chicano art. Like Coltrane, Almaráz’s life was cut short by illness before he was able to reach his full ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though he passed away three decades ago, Carlos Almaraz’s reputation as a major American painter — which was just getting started ...

In a number of presumed self-portraits, Carlos Almaraz paints himself as a sort of half-man, half-jaguar figure. It's an icon straight out of Mesoamerican mythology, explains Howard Fox, who has spent ...

Can an art museum tell a non-linear version of art history and still be legible to its visitors? That’s the question guiding the David Geffen Galleries, the new building for the Los Angeles County ...