Matt Haber has a show opening at LeBasse Projects in Chinatown.  The opening reception is Saturday, November 19th, 7-10pm and it will be showing November 19th – December 10th, 2011.

To see previous works, click onward, past the fold.

That Was Then, This Is Now is the first major collaborative exhibition by Kelly Graval and Nathan Ota, aka Risk and COOZ. The traveling exhibition reunites these artists whose friendship began before they would respectfully become graffiti legends in the streets and revered artists in galleries and museums internationally.

Risk and Nathan Ota collaborated together over 25 years ago when they were classmates in high school. After high school, they went their separate ways but reconnected once again through their mutual friends in the artist community. Two friends with similar beginnings have taken two very different paths are now back together again with new skill, understanding and maturity as artists.

That Was Then, This Is Now opens at LeBasse Projects in Culver City on August 20, 2011. The exhibition will run through September 3, 2011.

LeBasse Projects
6023 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

On July 15, 2011 LeBasse Projects will unveil the first major solo exhibition from Australian artist Melissa Haslam. Haslam, who has shown in group shows throughout the United States, will share paintings exploring her fascination with the Kigurumi seen. Participants in Kigurumi fashion themselves as living stuffed animals, wearing what they call “disguised pajamas.” Haslam, employing oil, presents young women dressed in full costume with great delicacy and an intimacy that proves her interest in the subculture includes some reverence as well.

LeBasse Projects :: Chinatown
932 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

From July 16, 2011, LeBasse Projects will share the work of Art Center College of Design graduate Andrew Hem. Hem’s latest paintings explore isolation, presenting figures in lush, rugged landscapes. With elements that suggest anticipation, Hem’s work is a departure from a 2010 series focused on his Cambodian heritage. Here his clouds feature, if you will, a silver lining. It is work with occasional dark edges, but ultimately a happy thrust.

The paintings will be on view in Culver City, CA through August 13, 2011.

LeBasse Projects
6023 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

This weekend, Shark Toof hits Culver City for his first major solo showing. “Nature Will Always Win” finds the artist refining his street-born style. LeBasse Projects touts the work as being of finer technical acumen, and one thing is clear – Shark Toof certainly understands how to compose dense narrative. The new work questions what pleasures people suppress for the sake of appearance. The paintings also acknowledge inner voice.

On view from June 18 to July 9, 2011.

LeBasse Projects
Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA

Full preview follows after the jump.

Written and illustrated by Ken Tanaka, Everybody Dies uses colorful illustrations to help grown-ups come to terms with the unavoidable fate that awaits them. Although meant for adults, ‘Everybody Dies’ may be most effective when read to frightened parents by their children.

Ken Tanaka was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Shimane, Japan. In 2007 he returned to Los Angeles and began making YouTube videos about his search for Jonathan and Linda Smith. Ken Tanaka’s work has appeared in books by Sanrio and Mark Batty Publisher.

The exhibition opens on June 10, 2011 and runs to July 9, 2011. at LeBasse Projects.

LBP Chinatown
932 Chung King Rd.,
Los Angeles CA, 90012

Outside/In opens at LeBasse Projects Culver City Gallery on April 23, 2011 and features a group of internationally-known contemporary street artists. The exhibition runs in conjunction with the Portsmouth Museum of Art in New Hampshire. After the LA opening the exhibition will continue to New Hampshire where the artists will showcase a separate series of paintings and will be traveling to paint a selection of walls throughout the city.

The international group includes Herakut (Germany), Case (Germany), Hush (UK), Alexandros Vasmoulakis (Greece), SharkToof (USA) and Bumblebee (USA).

Outside/In closes in LA on May 28, 2011.

LeBasse Projects
6023 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232

LeBasse Projects is excited to announce expansion through the opening of a new gallery in LA’s Chinatown.

The first exhibition, Momentum, in Chinatown will be at the curatorial direction of LeBasse Projects co-owner Christine LeBasse. The Inaugural exhibition will feature over a dozen female artists – focusing the spotlight on a group of bright talents that have a different take on typical feminine art. Each of the artists invited to participate in the exhibition brings a unique voice and distinct style to the walls of Chinatown.

LeBasse Projects :: Chinatown
932 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA 90022

Opens on April 9, 2011. Closes on April 30, 2011.

Full preview after the jump.

SugiPOP!: The Influence of Anime and Manga on Contemporary Art opened in Fall 2010 at the Portsmouth Museum of Art. Elements of the exhibition now come to LA to be seen at LeBasse Projects. Sugi, the Japanese word for ‘too much,’ represents the extreme characteristics of Japanese manga and anime, which have merged with the American phenomenon of Pop, to become SugiPOP – a blend of Japanese and American contemporary art shaped and defined by over-the-top pop.

International artists contributing to the exhibit include Gary Baseman, Simone Legno, Yumiko Kayukawa, Seonna Hong, Audrey Kawasaki, Hush, Morgan Slade, Edwin Ushiro, Matt Haber, James Roper, Andrew Hem, Mike Shinoda, SharkToof, Yoskay Yamamoto and more.

The exhibition opens on March 19 and runs to April 9, 2011.

LeBasse Projects
6023 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

A quick follow up from LeBasse Projects latest exhibition featuring German duo Herakut. Photos from Brandon Shigeta. “Hope’s Reply” runs to October 30, 2010.

LeBasse Projects
6023 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232

More images follow.