Eric Valdez

First of all: I have a bunch of new vinyl pieces going up for about a month at GCS Clothing‘s gallery in Santa Ana starting tomorrow (6/5/10). Speaking of tomorrow: It’s the Santa Ana Art Walk in the Santa Ana Arts District. I’ll be there to scope that scene out.

GCS Santa Ana
209 North Broadway, Santa Ana

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Secondly: I broke my ankle (because I suck at walking) on May 2nd so I have a lot of time on my hands since I’m now temporarily house-bound. Now there isn’t an excuse for me not to update this thing on a regular basis. I have tons of images of new pieces that I need to upload onto this site so the updates will be coming VERY SOON!

I don’t currently have internet access at home so I haven’t been updating much. My bad. I’m participating in a few holiday shows and whatnot so here’s the low-down:

Cactus Gallery’s 4th Annual Tiny Treasures show is going on right now. It’s the perfect place to holiday shop for affordable original art.

This Friday (12/18) The Hear Gallery & Automatico are having their HOLIDAY HEROES food and toy drive at Senor Fish in Little Tokyo. I don’t know which other artists are participating, but I expect to see a lot of good stuff there. I’m updating from work and Facebook so blocked so I can’t get to a flyer, but I’ll post a flyer ASAP!

The event that I’m most excited about is the NYE shin dig that Hear Gallery, Automatico and Blow Up LA are putting together.

Peep this shit:

RSVP here

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m going to be doing something incredibly fun on Saturday night…and early Sunday morning. I’ll be showing some new pieces at this amazing event, but I’d be there even if I didn’t have some stuff up on the wall. Seriously. That’s how rad these Hear Gallery and Hang The DJs co-productions are.

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First of all, thanks to all of you who stopped by Geeks for my show’s opening reception. It was a lot of fun and I hope everyone that attended had a good time.

Secondly, on August 29th I’ll be participating in a really cool event at Mi Vida, a boutique in South Pasadena that is a great supporter of local art.

The Hear Gallery is putting on another event this Saturday which means I’ll be participating in 3 art shows on Saturday instead of 2.

I’ll say “yes” to participating in any art-related event, even if it means that I’ll be double-booked. Something like that isn’t a big deal because it usually means that I have two openings or whatever to hit in the same night instead of just one event. This time I’ll be at the opening of my show at Geeks, a shop in Uptown Whittier that specializes in graphic novels, action figures and role playing games while some older pieces are on display at  Al Borde‘s Acoustic sessions.  I probably shouldn’t have committed to spreading myself so thing on the same night that I’m likely to be stressed out to-the-max, but my homie Chatismo has been curating the art portion of the Al Borde shows and I’ve wanted to be involved since he started a few months ago. Fortunately, the Al Borde event is a two-part event so I’ll be able to hang out at part one before heading over to Geeks. Of course, I highy reccommend going to both my show and the Al Borde show.

It looks like Saturday is going to be a pretty crazy day for me. I forgot to mention that I’m going to be participating in the Downtown El Monte Art Walk in addition to Summer Voyage. Come by and take a look at what some talented local artists are currently up to.

Hopefully I’ll have some time to take a nap between events so I can recharge a little.

The Hear Gallery and Hang The DJ’s have another event in the works and I’m stoked about participating. I’m glad the Hear Gallery crew keeps asking me to be involved in the crazy shit that they put together because I was going to their events before I ever started painting.

The art portion of the event will be a robot art show. I don’t have any new robot pieces so I have a lot of work to do this weekend. Yikes!

It should be a fun night.

The Masquerade Ball was crazy! The Hear Gallery crew always puts on great events. Speaking of The Hear Gallery and their great events, I’m going to be involved in something else that they’re putting together. Peep the info below.
The HEAR Gallery LA!
Apr 6, 2009 9:35 PM
Art Walk This Thursday!!!

The Hear Gallery Presents:
After Walk – April 9, 2009
A Great After-Party for the Downtown LA Art Walk!
Every SECOND THURSDAY of the month.

Here’s what’s going on this month…

BANDS:
(9pm) Vice (u.k.
)
(10pm) The Press Fire
(11pm) James Yuill (u.k.
)
(12mid) The Health Club
(1am) Chaplain

FEATURED ARTIST:
Eric Valdez
Ron Outlaw

DJ’S:
Ned Hepburn (The Hear Gallery)
Dario (Audiocide)

ROAMING PHOTOS BY:
Shotgun Mary (GlamScene Entertainment)
Matador Y Toros

SPONSORS:
The Hear Gallery
GlamScene Entertainment
Shotgun Mary
The Five Star Bar

Start Time: Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 8:00pm
End Time: Friday, April 10, 2009 at 2:00am
Door: $5
Location: The Five-Star Bar
Street: 267 S. Main St.
(on the corner of Main & 3rd)
City/Town: Los Angeles, CA 90012

This Saturday I’ll also be returning to Casita del Pueblo to take part in their student group show. No flyer for that yet, but I’m sure it’ll be awesome.

Saturday, April 11th

6:00pm-10:00PM

Casita del Pueblo

6738 Greenleaf Ave., Whittier, CA 90601 562.693.2844

I had an amazing time at The Hear Gallery‘s last event which is why I was extremely happy to be added to the next one that they’re putting together. I’m sure this will be even crazier than Lovers and Strangers.

If you haven’t attended something that these fine people have put together, then do yourself a favor and make sure you head out to this one. It’s gonna be ILL! There’s also a good chance that I’ll finally have some new pieces for the show…maybe.