Editor’s Pick: Best Art Studio
Artist Emiko Wake and Bonesy the cat at Cannery Row Studios. Photo Cannery Row Studios – Cannery Row Studios has long been known as the last bastion of bohemianism in the South Bay, but in truth, it is far more. The ramshackle old building behind the AES power plant in Redondo Beach has had lives as a railroad lumberyard and a fish storage warehouse, but for the last two decades it has lived up to its John Steinbeck-inspired name as home to a knight’s roundtable of scruffily defiant artists intent on creating beauty against all odds. Founder Richard Stephens is one of the beach cities’ true artistic heroes. Stephens is a talented painter in his own right – with work ranging from jangling abstraction to portraiture, landscape, and murals – yet he possesses an even rarer gift: he nurtures fellow artists, and in so doing has built an ever-expanding, thriving creative community. And this is exactly why Cannery Row is more than a last bastion of bohemianism. It’s not some nostalgic relic of a bygone time but rather an ongoing and audacious enterprise. Last year, in a three month span, Cannery Row featured shows by two of the true lions of local arts, Robi Hutas and Wilfred Sarr, who…
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