Bruce Eichelberger: Jack of All Trades Master of None | Krystopher Sapp & Christopher Bales: Brothers in Assemblage
4633 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Tomorrow, April 4 at 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Ends Apr 27, 2025
Bruce Eichelberger: Born and raised in San Diego by his adopted parents, Bruce Eichelberger was an avid skater and surfer. Struggling with drugs and the law caused him to go in and out of prison, then seeing and experiencing the many facets of inequalities and antagonisms within our society.
As a child he always had a love for art of all sorts. He was always drawn to many mediums; tattooing, drawing, painting, sculpting , silver-smithing, taxidermy, pyro-graphy, woodcarving etc. For many years is wasn’t enough to keep him out of trouble, but the roads he would have to walk down made him create his own style.
Christopher Bales: Christopher Bales is often mistaken for creating “steampunk” artwork, but his work is much more timeless than a funky era of fashion birthed out of Renaissance Faires and that one animated movie Atlantis. Christopher Bales makes alter-like displays of antiqued wood-works, brass-works, and paintings in which the stories played out are ones of the intersection of science and religion. These are themes are that are intersectional with industrialization but continue to supersede within pop-culture. Bales questions authority through juxtapositions of morality and scientific pursuits and juxtapositions of religious institutions and imperialism.
Krystopher Sapp: Inspired by his worst nightmares, Krystopher Sapp crafts narrative sculptures out of found objects that shows his fascination with man-made atrocities. His themes range from post-apocalypse, genocide, prison-industrial complexes and their surrealist disillusions. Sapp has been known to use real-antiqued weapons, real teeth, and real animals in his work. Breathing in new life to objects that once were used for greed, hate and vanity into objects stripped of their once sinister past. These artworks are now exhibited to showcase an honest light and truth of a dark and fucked-up world.