Possessed -- Luke Chueh

Corey Helford is the owner and curator of the eclectic, refreshing and mostly geometrically sexual Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) in Culver City, California.

The gallery concentrates (not exclusively) on a palette of upcoming and well-established Los Angeles based artists. With uncanny skill, these bifurcating bastards of art combine death and childhood, horror and fantasy, macabre and sweetness. In sum, they provide exquisitely thought provoking pieces, while also provoking the cock and vagina. The murderous soft toys of Luke Chueh, the morbid photography of Chris Anthony, the sugary ghosts of Buff Monster, and the neo-pop imagery of COOP, among others, coexist peacefully in the tiny gallery.

The rapid turnover of exhibitions, accompanied by the finest specimen of men and women Los Angeles has to offer, establishes the gallery as a great coitalist institution worthy of a regular visit.

It is time, dear reader, to fight the bland army of over-hyped artists currently lurking in the wake of money-fiend Shepard Fairey. FTVS suggests you dive into the brightly dark and deliciously perverted Angelino art underground.

FTVS readers who invest in originals from the aforementioned maestros are guaranteed to enjoy more frequent sexual activity with guests visiting their tastefully decorated living rooms (no rophynol, only art). Simultaneously, dear reader, you will be stimulating the numbest, yet utterly most important part of our flaccid economy.

Currently on view at CHG: SHAG – Autumn’s Come Undone November 21st – December 9th 2009.

Black Balloon -- giclee on canvas panel - 72" X 54"