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4/26: Scott Hove Explains Cakeland at La Luz de Jesus


Scott Hove Explains Cakeland
and Pussy Jihad Exhibition Closing Party
Sunday, April 26th, 3-6pm

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com

Scott Hove Explains CakelandScott Hove is a primarily self-taught, San Francisco born artist living in Los Angeles. His ‘Cakeland’ sculptures integrate dualistic themes in a highly theatrical manner, using traditional cake decorating techniques in sculptures and installations to describe a world of implied comfort and threat. His work has been featured on the Food Network and on several travel and gourmet programs. His current exhibition at La Luz de Jesus gallery, Pussy Jihad, features a gigantic walk-in cake, an S&M themed carnival ride, and the sweetest cruel shoes you’ve ever seen. He’ll be here in person to discuss the featured work, his methods of creativity, and to guide a few tours of the interior of the show’s centerpiece.

Scott’s works encompasses a broad variety of media, from sculptural installations to painting, but the cakes are formed using carvable polyurethane foam and plywood. They are frosted with a variety of acrylic media and accessorized with fake fruit and other objects found in stores or on the street. The materials and techniques borrow from traditional and decorative arts and craft to render the oftentimes jarring objects and fantasy installations. The archways here at Littletopia were created on site, specifically for this space.

Hove’s co-opting of kitsch is elevated through satire, allowing him to integrate topical political and social issues as textual messages in a thought-provoking rather than offensive manner.

The show is highly instagramable, so we encourage you to take a lot of pictures so long as you tag the artist and the gallery.

Click here to view the exhibition online.

Custom pieces can be commissioned, so contact the gallery director for purchase information.
(323)666-7667 or info@laluzdejesus.com

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Scott Hove “Pussy Jihad” Install and Gallery Preview

Opening tonight -8-11 PM at La Luz de Jesus – Scott Hove “Pussy Jihad” – have a look at the show going up and gallery install….

 

Wait till you see what’s inside….

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4/3: Scott Hove “Pussy Jihad” Studio Visit and Preview

Studio Visit and Preview
Scott Hove – “Pussy Jihad”
Also showing – Dr. Paul Koudonaris “Memento Mori”
April 3 – 26, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, April 3rd, 8-11 PM

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com

840Scott Hove moved to Los Angeles from Oakland in August. “I came to LA to make my biggest art dreams happen” says the artist – he currently resides and works out of a very large warehouse space on the edge of Downtown Los Angeles with his dog Kona, his bunny Bugsy, and cat, Lil’ Squeak.

Scott Hove is a primarily self-taught artist. His ‘Cakeland’ sculptures integrate dualistic themes in a highly theatrical manner, using traditional cake decorating techniques in sculptures and installations to describe a world of implied comfort and threat. His work has been featured on the Food Network and on several travel and gourmet programs.

Scott’s works encompasses a broad variety of media, from sculptural installations to painting, but the cakes are formed using carvable polyurethane foam and plywood. They are frosted with a variety of acrylic media and accessorized with fake fruit and other objects found in stores or on the street. The materials and techniques borrow from traditional and decorative arts and craft to render the oftentimes jarring objects and fantasy installations.

Hove’s co-opting of kitsch is elevated through satire, allowing him to integrate topical political and social issues as textual messages in a thought-provoking rather than offensive manner.

 

“Pussy Jihad” statement
In popular straight male culture, to be labeled with the misogynist term ‘Pussy’ is one of the ultimate emasculating insults a man can receive. In religious fundamentalist culture, Pussy must be marginalized, shamed, circumcised, hidden, and minimalized under the threat of death. The term ‘Pussy’ in the title of this show is used both literally and as metaphor. ‘Pussy’ in this context will represent the peak positive expressions of the feminine… kindness, lush beauty, intimate pleasure, the promise of the everlasting.

The title of the show ‘Pussy Jihad’ points out the ultimately cowardly ethos behind the religious fundamentalist position, using Pussy as an explosive weapon. Those who destroy lives, culture, and nature behind the moral facade of religion are pussies. This unforgiving and sad morality must be destroyed via Pussy Jihad.

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La Luz de Jesus Gallery at The LA Art Show – Littletopia


La Luz de Jesus Gallery at The LA Art Show’s Littletopia

The Littletopia section, Noah Antieau, which debuted The LA Art Show last year received accolades from national and regional media outlets including: the LA Times, Huffington Post, Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, KCET, Los Angeles Magazine, LA Daily News, LA Weekly and the Art Newspaper is described as, “a super cool section at the LA Art Show that is casual, inviting, and full of sexy, disturbing, dark, playful art. Expect plenty of pleasant surprises from this explosive, innovative group of galleries.”

The LA Art Show takes place from January 15 – 18, 2015 concurrently with the Los Angeles Jewelry, Antique & Design Show at the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall 1201 Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015. www.laartshow.com

Featured in the La Luz de Jesus Booth are

Scott Hove
Scott Hove’s sculptures are showcased throughout Littletopia at the 2015 LA Art Show. Hove’s Cakeland creations have been featured on the Food Network and in museums worldwide. His next solo exhibition opens in April 2015 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery.

José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros
José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros’ drunken Snow White image was at the center of a major celebrity beef when Liberty Ross tweeted it to Kristen Stewart upon discovering the affair between the ingenue actress and Ross’ director husband, Rupert Sanders.

Damien Echols
Damien Echols was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1994. He and his co-defendants, known collectively as the West Memphis Three, were the subject of several award-winning documentaries and spent almost 20 years in prison, until their release in 2011.

Hudson Marquez
Hudson Marquez is a co-founder TVTV and the Ant Farm Collective, and creator of Cadillac Ranch, the first, modern, outdoor art installation. His Rhythm & Shoes exhibition is currently hanging at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, where he’ll be lecturing this Sunday at 2PM.

Christine Wu
Christine Wu’s paintings capture motion and emotional dichotomy. Her work has been featured in multiple museum exhibitions, including ¡Orale! at the Harwood Museum, recently selected by Art News Daily as one of the year’s 20 best exhibitions worldwide.

Shaun Berke
Shaun Berke’s Sacrosanct exhibition at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in November drew praise from many contemporary critics and colleagues, including Odd Nerdrum who hosted Berke for the recent New Year celebration in Norway.

Annie Murphy-Robinson
This isn’t a photograph. This is a charcoal drawing by the mediums greatest living practitioner, Annie Murphy-Robinson. Her next solo exhibition opens in May 2015 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery.

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