Freelance Illustrator

The Art Coalition
Strange and in the Street
by Anthony McBride

Amy Davis Roth of the Art Coalition in NoHo is at it yet again, and thankfully, she's not showing any signs of ever stopping. Every second Saturday of the month, the Roth puts on a street fair in NoHo that is all about art, music and counter-culture.
At the February 8th street fair, the NoHo experience was in full throttle with an array of artists exhibiting work on the sidewalk outside the Art Coailition and in an adjacent alley (blocked off thanks to the support of councilman Tom LaBonge's office). Different bands played live music. DJs spun street sounds and electronic dance music. And there was a fashion show inside and out of sexy clothing store Vavoom that shop owner Dave Dion is known for.
But all this excitement wasn't the only highlight; painter Adam Strange was the featured artist. His work is so dead-on with today's current state of pre-war and pseudo-terrorism and change. The Grand Inevitable Series, as his latest collection of paintings are called, has chaotic and futuristic themes very reminiscent of German painter Paul Wunderlich, with a real urban quality and youthfulness. They combine fantasy and reality in ever-new variations so that from them he creates a fantastic reality. Strange is also a filmmaker, and I can only imagine how relevant his films are. This is a true artist with vision and fortitude. I expect to see exciting things from the strangeness that is Adam