Fifteen minutes from St. Louis’s Gateway Arch, just across the Mississippi River in Cahokia, Illinois, the Los Angeles artist Eric Wesley has been tinkering in the shell of a former Taco Bell…
On an outward-facing wall at the Bortolami booth, two works by Eric Wesley—DPS #36 North American Center (Notes from my Mother) and DPS #34 This is not Trash…well you know what I…
The first real crossover art celebrity to come out of Los Angeles’s Chinatown was Eric Wesley, who showed at China Art Objects. The gallery’s owner, Giovanni Intra, was selling Wesley’s…
This is the second part in a recurring column. You can read part one here.
Giovanni Intra started China Art Objects in 1998 with Steve Hanson, who still runs the gallery, now in Culver…