May 4th, 2013. GCS was proud to host “F Words” art show presented by Fresh Force. For those of you that are not familiar with FF, these guys have been part of our gallery shows for quite some time now. Graff, photography, sculpture, illustration and fine art painting, these guys can do it all. Members include 3rdi, APE, Aseph, BIELS, HURL, GUTS, SWAG and VGML. Look out for more from these cats.
June 10th, 2013. Remember that time that Aliso Black filmed his music video “Bellicose” in our art gallery? Well, we do and this is what it looked like.
July 6th, 2013. “Treads of Life” art show curated by Jonathan Martinez. Art of the Endangered curated this exposition which included Bill Hayner and Jess Johnson.
Aug. 3rd, 2013. Today we look back at the art show we had the pleasure of hosting back in August of 2013. Affectionately called “Summer Slam”, this show featured the work of Dino Perez, Deity, Kasey Mahoney, Joe Ded, RASK, AR and Hannah Webb. 
March 7th, 2015. GCS has always strived to bring out the best artists and the best art to Santa Ana. This month, we were proud to host CODAK for a solo art exhibit that included a tee shirt release and mural installation. The dtsa was jumping with the beat swapmeet going on a few steps away from our shop and other various art show and music events scattered throughout the area. If you didn’t know, now you know…. CODAK don’t play. Look out for a lot more from this artist.
Continue reading CODAK SMITH art show at GCS Santa Ana MARCH 7, 2015
September 7th, 2013. This month was a collection of artists that we have always loved to show. Included in the night’s festivities was AR, Free Humanity, Jay Open, Liz Killz, Moeeglee, Pernille Damgaard, Germizm, Sick Dot One and Nick Macaulay. Joe Ded set up shop in our front windows for some live painting. Another successful artwalk! Thank you Santa Ana. 
Continue reading Art Walk at GCS Santa Ana September 7, 2013
April 5th, 2014. This art walk marked GCS Clothing Store’s 5th year in the city of Santa Ana. It was hard to believe that it was april of 2009 when GCS opened it’s doors in DTSA. To help us celebrate the date, we had the pleasure of hosting a solo art show by Jonathan Martinez entitled “Rise of the Endangered”. Original acrylic on canvas and ink on paper pieces filled the gallery. Two lucky recipients won the raffle and walked away with an original J. Martinez. And as Always, GCS is honored and happy to have had 5 years of bringing quality art, artists and events to the people of central orange county. 
Continue reading Rise of the Endangered by Jonathan Martinez April 5, 2014
April 16th, 2014. A very rare wednesday art show in our gallery brought us Liz Covarrubias a.k.a. Liz Killz’s “The Missing Cards” photographic art show. The theme of the show was to update the traditional ‘loteria’ game pieces with symbols and icons that are a little more relatable to today’s audiences. Look out for more from this OC based photographer.
Continue reading “The Missing Cards” art show by Liz Killz April, 2014
May 3, 2014. Heres a look back at our May 2014 art walk. A collection of GCS veterans. This exposition brought together pieces from 4 or 5 different previous art shows here in our gallery. How many can you name? 
Take a look at the last time that GCS hosted Sick Jacken, Cynic and DJ FM, collectively known as The Psycho Realm, for a meet and greet in our art gallery. This time they were joined by 2Mex. As you can see, there was a good amount of fans that came out to see these artists. The event was scheduled to push the Psycho de Mayo concert at The Yost. GCS is always honored and appreciative to be able to host the type of events that bring artists closer to the people that support them.
March 1st, 2015. In preparation for his solo art exhibit this Saturday March 7th, Codak Smith painted his latest piece entitled “Inherent Laker” on the electrical box outside our gallery. Come and take a closer look at it for yourself. Art show is during the first saturday art walk here in Downtown Santa Ana from 7pm until 11pm. Its free and all ages. He will have new works available at the show. 
Continue reading introducing… CODAK SMITH’s “Inherent Laker” art piece
March 1st, 2015 GCS Santa Ana was proud to host ENDZ from Locally Grown Collective for his “Live Free” album release show. Also on the night’s line up was Severe the MC, Sage One and Dj Lala, and Vel The Wonder. Great night, the room was packed and everyone was treated to a hell of a show. GCS would like to congratulate ENDZ once again on his album release (and birthday!). Look out for more from ENDZ and LGCLTV.
Continue reading “Live Free” by ENDZ – album release in-store MAR 1st, 2015
Today we look at one of our favorites here in the shop. Zombie Bart by the Kidrobot x The Simpsons collaboration. Its from a few years back, might not be too many of these floating around out there.
No introductions needed, but we’re going to say it anyway. MTN colors has returned to the new GCS clothing store location in Santa Ana… come in and get yours today.
Today we look at the night GCS clothing store came back from the dead and returned to Downtown Santa Ana. NOV 1st, 2014, in conjunction with the first saturday art walk, GCS opened it’s new doors to the world and hosted the show “Return to Tell the Tale”, a solo art show by Ivan “3rdi” Vega. How fitting it was to have this great artist commemorate our re-grand opening, we have had the honor of showing this guy for a few years now and we had to have him return to GCS and bless the new space and get us going on the right foot.
If you have not looked into this artist by now, well what are you waiting for. Check his site out here and look for more works from 3rdi at GCS in the near future.
Continue reading “Return to Tell the Tale”… a solo art show by 3rdi NOV 1, 2014
Today we take a stroll down memory lane to the time when we hosted LTS KOG art show during the art walk at our Broadway location. As you can see from the photos, it was a packed house.
We were very happy to get the street artist Tommy Face in our gallery for FEB’s art show. He brought some handmade art on spray cans. And for only $20 each. Get yours today… 
One of the benefits of the new location is that we get to curate the art on the electrical box outside our doors. Our plan is to use them as a canvas to showcase the artists that are contained within. 3rdi was the first to renovate the front side of the box but our great friend Jonathan Martinez took over the side facing our front door. Here is a series of shots that show the work in progress. 
Dec. 6th, 2014. GCS clothing store and art gallery presents a little show we like to call GCS All Stars. NO theme, just a show made up of artists that are familiar to our gallery walls. Artists included in this show were Free Humanity, Nick Macaulay, DES, Jess Johnson, Jordan Yescas, Edgar Zamorano, Marcos Camacho a.k.a Nerd Bird, Andre Sandoval, Steady Jenny, GERMIZM, Dino Perez and the works of Ivan Vega a.k.a 3rdi that were still available from the NOV art show. We’re still getting used to our new space and the crowds are steadily finding us in our new place.
LGCLTV presents ENDZ live at GCS Santa Ana MARCH 1st, 2015. Join us on a sunday afternoon as ENDZ from Locally Grown Collective joins us to celebrate the release of his album “Live Free”. As special guests for the event, the line up includes Vel The Wonder, Severe, Sage One and a DJ Set by INDJNOUS. It’s an early event, running from 5pm until 8pm. Don’t sleep on this!
remember that day when Kool Keith played at The Observatory for $5. Yeah, so do we.., and here are the photos to prove it. Great show put on by Burgerama Records… look out for their “Burgerama fest” coming to The Observatory in march. 
Continue reading flashback… Kool Keith in Santa Ana JAN 17th, 2015
Coming MARCH 14, 2015. GCS is proud to announce that the SPACESHIP TOUR will make a stop at GCS santa ana. Headlining the tour is Gremlin with Hands. Also on the tour is Asem Pria and Rock-Oh!. Looks like the special guests for this show are Modern Day Soulja, Esko, Adon, RX, Vibes and Koncept714. We can’t wait for some great music! As always, the show here is all ages and free. 6 pm until 9pm.
Hip Hop group CLDMKRS has merch in our shop now. A collection of MC’s, music producers and artists that have jumped on the scene and made waves in the industry. Stay on the lookout for their music.
We’d like to introduce you to a new brand that is now available at our store. Growing Gardens, a lifestyle brand out of Los Angeles. We are looking for a lot of great stuff from these guys…
FEB 7th, 2015… GCS was happy to host the second edition of the “All Our Love” art show that takes place during february’s art walk. This specially selected group of artists represented some of what GCS loves and holds most dear. We thank all the artists that were involved in the show as well as the crowds that came in though out the night. Big thanks to Scarub from Living Legends for his in store performance, which we covered in a previous post. DJ’s Real and AB were on the decks all night long. DJ AB had a HUG STATION out in front of the shop for the night promoting peace in the hood. And DEITY and Kimberly Duran finished up their latest pieces steps away from our front door.
Continue reading “All Our Love 2” art show photo re-cap FEB 7th, 2015