This Friday, December 9th, Spoke Art will be releasing two new prints by Tim Doyle. The great thing about these prints is that they are screen-prints on wood panel, so I imagine you can just hang them up with no worries about framing. The first print is entitled Got to be Kind and is inspired by Kurt Vonnegut. The image was first made for the Adaptation Author’s show at Benjamin Benjamin Gallery in Portland. The print is 16″ x 20″, serigraph on wood, signed and numbered in an edition of 15. The next print is He is the Zissou and is based on Bill Murray’s character from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. This print comes in two versions, one on wood and one on paper. Both prints are 16″ x 20″, signed and numbered in editions of 75 for paper, and 10 for wood. The wood prints are limited one per customer.
Get em here: Tim Doyle @ Spoke Art
The end of the year is drawing near, and I wanted to get one more featured artist of the month in and help get that section rolling again. I want to thank the many artists featured in October’s Halloween feature, and also welcome this months artist Edward Cao. We have a short interview with Edward and a 25 images. Click here or the image below to check out the feature.
On November 12th at the Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, a solo exhibition by Sandra Yagi opened entitled Primal Renderings. The show featured oil paintings from a few series of works the artist has been working on. Mythology and Religion, Anatomical Paintings, and Skeletal inspired works. One of the main elements of this show that really interested me was the anatomical works, I have always been a fan of anatomy in art, and it’s always impressive to see an accurately rendered musculatory or skeletal system.
Edith Lebeau currently has a new series of works on view at the Trifecta Gallery for their “minUMENTAL invitational 2011″. Each of the paintings below I imagine is no larger than 8″ x 8″, acrylic on wood panel. I love the idea that Edith created some smaller paintings, something that fans of smaller art can collect. I also like how the color palette is very congruous, and the position of each the figures also helps to make this a very strong series. I hope we see more tiny series like this from Edith in the future. Head on over to the gallery to check out the full show, and if you are interested in one of the paintings Edith created, message the gallery.
An artist working out of Mill Vally, CA, Steven Russell Black is “completely in love with making images”, and one look at the skill and beauty of his work and there’s a good chance you’ll fall in love with his images as well. Along with working in oils, Steven also creates with the use of graphite and prismacolor pencils — as seen in his latest ongoing series “100 Souls”. He states that “eyes are the windows to the soul”, and this series is about presenting 100 of them. The great thing about this series, aside from how outstanding they look, is the variety in what you see. Faces from different angles, sometimes bordering abstract, eyes that are from animals, skulls, or even made up creatures, and the idea that even though the viewer is really only seeing small portion of the face, the images allow us to infer our own idea of the mood and character of the figure we are looking at. You can keep up with this ongoing series by following Steven on Flickr, his blog, and even pick one of these drawings up over on his Etsy shop.
Kevin Llewellyn recently finished a new painting entitled “Love Never Dies”, a new addition to the foetal skull series, and now the image is available as a limited edition print. The print is 17″ x 13″, signed and numbered in red pencil in an edition of 25. Fans also have the option to purchase the print along with the first 2 foetal prints, although there are very few of those left.
Get it here: Kevin Llewellyn Shop
To continue the conversation that Josh started in his earlier post on Shepard Fairey’s “Occupy Hope”, I thought I’d let you know about the art-minded support Molly Crabapple has been lending to Occupy Wall Street in New York City since the movement began. Many of the sketches she has been doing have been available for free for protesters to print out for use in the crowds. She has also been donating a portion of the money from the sales of prints of these artworks to the Occupy Wall Street cause. Check out her website, mollycrabapple.com, for recent information on the prints below (some are no longer available – they go fast).
The image below can be purchased through Occuprint.org where many other Occupy artworks are available:
Tara McPherson’s Cotton Candy Machine in New York will now be making limited edition giclee prints for the artists there. To help celebrate this announcement, this Friday December 2nd the gallery will open the Holiday Giclée Show Extraordinaire, with some small and large format prints from Paul Pope, Esao Andrews, Travis Louie, Jeremy Hush, and Tara McPherson. All of the artists will be in attendance, and the first 20 purchases will receive a mini print (in store only). One of the prints by Travis Louie, Claire and her Forest Schnook, is based on one of the paintings from his most recent show. So this is a great opportunity to get a print from this new series of works.
Take a look: Cotton Candy Machine
As the end of the year draws near, galleries and print shops are releasing some amazing work. One such example is the new show opening at Last Rites Gallery this weekend, December 3rd. Scott G Brooks will unveil his new series of paintings The Luckiest Widow In The World & Other Tales Of Misfortune, and Fred Harper will unleash 5 new paintings and 3 drawings in a show entitled Head Spin. This is bound to be a great show, both artists are very skilled with oils, and Scott G Brooks has some very large paintings and many of them have sold already. Take a look at the preview images and then keep your eyes on the site.
Chet Zar has just added a couple of new prints to his online shop, one of which is his American Gothic inspired painting Post American Gothic. The print is 11″ x 14″ on gallery wrapped canvas, signed and numbered in an edition of 100. The regular price is $125 but the print is on sale right now for $115. Love that idea that the print comes gallery wrapped alway, so all you have to do it pop it up on the wall no worries about framing.
Get it here: Chet Zar Store
Opening this Saturday, December 3rd, at the Articulated Gallery in San Francisco is a duo show with Dan Harding and Joanne Augustine entitled I See You See. The show is an exploration of inspiration, as Joanne’s photographs were taken by Dan and used as the basis for a new series of paintings. I have always been interested in the way that artists find inspiration, what draws them to create and what pushes them ever forward, and the idea that one artist was influenced by what another artist was influenced by is an amazing idea. The reception starts at 8 PM and will run until 11 PM, both artists have also flown out to San Francisco to be in person. This is a great opportunity to see some beautiful photography and painting in one place. Take a look at the preview images below, and then be there or wait it to show up online.
New York artist David Hochbaum‘s alchemical works, based around his personal twists of antique myths, are simultaneously unsettling and consoling. David’s photo collages are rife with repeating symbols that are weighty, almost anthropomorphic with personalities of their own, and arranged with highly skilled stagecraft. They are deceivingly easy to lock onto; to sympathize with what story unfolds on his picture-planes.
David recently began offering a limited edition book set that showcases three seperate bodies of his recent photo collage work: Creatures of the Sea and Sky, Kaiden Shu, and Large Format Polaroids. In addition to images of his artworks, these precious 5″x7″ books each contain one limited edition, 5″ x 7″ silkscreen mystery print on watercolor paper, all contained within a numbered, handmade, custom-printed sleeve.
These sets are available only through the artist directly. You can find more information about David’s artwork and the box set on his website. To inquire about purchasing, you can email him directly.
