Muse Special Offers

Muse Special Offers

 Join or renew LACMA Muse and receive a complementary limited-edition kite designed by one of four artists: Gary Baseman, Jonny Fenix, Jacob Escobedo, or Brandon Boyd! For just $50 on top of any level of LACMA membership, Muse members enjoy over 25+ exclusive events annually including private curator-lead tours of exhibitions at LACMA, complimentary guided visits to other LA museums, film screenings, concerts, and dicsounts Muse’s four major annual events. To ensure you receive the kite of your choice when you join or renew an already exisiting Muse membership, click here and enter BASEMAN, BOYD, ESCOBEDO, or FENIX as the promo code to receive the correlating kite. Purchases can also be made by calling 323 857-6151 or at LACMA’s on-site membership tables.

Gary Baseman

Gary Baseman. Pervasive Artist. Painter. TV/Movie Producer. Toy Designer. Curator. The LA Times calls his art "adorable perverse." Born and rasied right down the street from LACMA in the Fairfax district, Mr. Baseman is one of the leaders of the Los Angeles underground art movement. His work blurs the line between toy culture and fine art with his strong iconic images, both playful and dark, childlike and adult, id driven and thought-provoking. Mr. Baseman's work is surreal. Innocent. Lustful. Honest. Dripping with Desire. Creaky. Gooey. Everywhere.

Jonny Fenix

Jonny Fenix is an American painter living in Portland, Oregon by way of Nacogdoches, Texas and Los Angeles' Skid Row. Situated within the realm of Pop Surrealism, his work emerges from a long line of cultural activism in contemporary art. Fenix engages the icons of mass culture and consumerism to disturb traditional and status quo cultural narratives of apathy, celebrity, religion, globalization, colonization and economics. The affecting visual style of shiny, glossy, bright images, are often aptly juxtaposed by the authentic sadness, hypocrisy, and outrage of their accounts. Within this complex body of work, there lies a genuine and simple thread of honesty, hope, nostalgia and rebellion.

Jacob Escobedo

Jacob Escobedo grew up in Pioche, Nevada, a small desert town three hours north of Las Vegas, surrounded by his father's hoarded collections of oddities, old medical books and encyclopedias. His work, which combines organic elements with the psychedelic, recalls the complexity of nineteenth century etchings. Jacob is the creative director for the Cartoon Network's adult-block of programming, Adult Swim. He is also responsible for the artwork on many album covers including: Broken Bells, Gnarls Barkley, Dark Night of the Soul, and T-Pain's THR33 RINGZ.

Brandon Boyd

Brandon Boyd is the lead singer and lyricist of the California-based band Incubus. While never formally trained in the arts, he has been scribbling and sketching in notepads since he can remember, a practice ever present throughout his life. He debuted his first solo show of visual works in 2008 entitled Ectoplasm and thousands of people from all over the world attended. He is the author of two collections of sketches, journals, artwork and other musings: White Fluffy Clouds and From The Murks of the Sultry Abyss.

Special thanks to our kite collaborator: Art Duet
Art Duet is an artist representation and event company based in Los Angeles. Owner Jen DiSisto imagined the idea of creating fine art kites based on a love of flying kites as a child and a current commitment to presenting art to the world in unconventional ways. Partnering with LACMA Muse on the project was a natural fit to showcase a range of contemporary artists in a slightly non-traditional way.