For those of you in the LA area, Giant Robot is curating a show at the Scion Installation LA in Culver City. The show, titled “To the Masses” features the work of Caroline Hwang, Ben Woodward (his piece, “Heart Out,” is pictured above), Feric, Dan-ah Kim, Brian Ralph, Eishi Takaoka, Kohei Yamashita, Olaf Ladousse and French. “To the Masses” runs from August 25th through September 8th, with a reception on the 25th from 7 to 10 PM. The gallery is located at 3521 Helms Ave. (at National) in Culver City, CA.

Since I like it when people send me free stuff, especially cool free stuff, I’d like to extend thanks to Boost Mobile who sent along a copy of Saber’s Mad Society, a book collecting the LA-based artists graffiti and more conventional oil paintings. Printed on slick paper, this 168-page soft-bound book is packed full of big colorful images.

Saber: Mad Society is a part of Boost Mobile’s Boosted Artist Content Collaboration, which also features MadSteez, Revok, Retna and Claw Money. Boosted, their “new directional lifestyle brand” (if someone out there works in marketing, I require a translation) will be on preview at the Spring 2008 MAGIC Trade Show in Vegas.

About a year ago, I happened upon Audrey Kawasaki’s work while doing research for an interview on another talented LA artist Blaine Fontana. I’ve been a fan ever since. Today, I got my first print of her work in the mail (pictured above), and I’m pretty much stoked on life. You can check out more of her work here or if you’re the buddy-buddy type, look her up on MySpace.