Icons and Tangles

These are fun times with Aki. He's babbling up a storm, he's eating everything in sight, and a couple of weeks ago, he took his first steps by the beach in Malibu during Sasha's birthday party at the newly opened Annenberg Community Center.

This past weekend, he even got gussied up and hit the town for his first art opening at the L'KEG Gallery on Glendale Blvd. downtown. Yuri's good friend Carrie was responsible for half the show, aptly called Icons and Tangles -- a playful, poppy, colorful exploration of interlaced or pixellated celebrity imagery, with chops and structural prowess to spare.

Aki had his favorites, including a thickly layered, bright orange canvas with the smirking mugs of Brad and Angelina, Colin Powell, Danny DeVito, and the President and First Lady.

We liked them all, and were glad the little guy was such a good sport about hitting the art scene on a Saturday night.

Icons and Tangles runs through October 17th at L'KEG. We highly recommend it (and there's a decent taco stand just a couple of blocks away, where Chris hung out with Michael for his "Man Baby Shower"). Congratulations, Carrie!

From September 2009