Cool Stuff: Pop Culture Crime Stories Get An LA Art Show

Some of our greatest art has to do with crime. People who commit it, people who fight it, people who study it, these are stories that very easily provide gripping emotion. Innumerable classic movies, music, television and more are based on crime and a new gallery exhibit celebrates it all.

The Hero Complex Gallery in Los Angeles presents an exhibit called I Am The Law/A Life of Crime opening Friday August 15. Dozens of artists from all over the world have dramatized their favorite movies and television shows where someone either breaks the laws or enforces them. That opens up a pretty wide spectrum, from Sherlock, The Wire, The Blues Brothers, Luther and Hannibal on TV to RoboCop, Lethal Weapon, The Killer, The Godfather, Se7en and Die Hard at the movies. They all are represented plus many more. Below, see just a tiny selection of art from I Am The Law/A Life of Crime.

I Am The Law/A Life of Crime opens from 7-10 p.m. August 15, at the Hero Complex Gallery, 2020 South Robertson Blvd., Studio D, Los Angeles, CA. It'll remain on display through the end of August on Thursdays through Sundays at 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Anything that doesn't sell out during the show will be on sale Saturday August 16 around 1 p.m. PST at this link.

Here's a very small sampling of the work in the show

Again, I Am The Law/A Life of Crime will open at 7-10 p.m. August 15, at the Hero Complex Gallery, 2020 South Robertson Blvd., Studio D, Los Angeles, CA. It'll remain on display through the end of August on Thursdays through Sundays at 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Anything that doesn't sell out during the show will be on sale Saturday August 16 around 1 p.m. PST at this link. For more on the show and the art in it, head to the Facebook event page.