James Jean has just released a new print to his online shop. “Tango” was originally from a painting that was shown at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. The print is a generous 28″ x 44″ on Hahnemühle Fine Art Paper, signed, numbered, and embossed in an edition of 50. I don’t imagine these will be around for long.
Get it here: James Jean Store
Coming this Saturday, September 25th, to the Corey Helford Gallery is a show featuring new works by Korin Faught, Krista Huot, and Mia. Three very exciting artists each with a unique style, this should be a great show. Mia recently added some of the drawings that she will be showing over at her blog. The drawings range from 6.5″ x 6.5″ up to 29.25” x 22”. I like how you can see her drawing style tighten and loosen up in different areas of the drawings, but either way she has a very elegant style. Make sure to check out Mia’s blog to see more works, keep up to date with shows, and even see some sketches.
Dirty Pilot has just released a new print by Dave MacDowell. This one is of the very popular, “Bad Mutha Wizard” painting. The print is 22″ x 17″ on 300gms art paper, signed and numbered in an edition of 49. That a pretty big for under $100.
Get it here: Dave MacDowell @ Dirty Pilot
Glenn Barr has added four new limited edition prints to his online shop, “Prehistoric Blues”, “BOA”, “Oceanah”, and “Spark”. Each print is 9″ x 12″ on 80lb cover stock, signed and numbered in an edition of 50 for $40 each. I’m glad that Glenn is starting to make smaller, limited edition prints.
Get em here: Glenn Barr Store
Zerofriends recently opened a pop up shop in San Francisco, 248 Fillmore Street right next to Upper Playground, and have been having some artists come by the shop to do some signings. Coming this Saturday, September 25th, from 6-7pm Tara will be at the store to sign three new prints that are being released by Zerofriends. “Lilitu” which is 17″ x 22″ on velvet cotton rag paper, signed and numbered in an edition of 100. The other two, “The Handler” and “The Healer” are both 8″ x 10″, signed open edition prints for only $25 each.
If your going to go the signing this Saturday, make sure to get there early as the line will fill up fast. Otherwise you can grab the prints from the Zerofriends online shop.
Get em here: Tara McPherson @ Zerofriends
Poster Child Prints in Los Angeles, has just released a new print from Joshua Petker. You might remember the “Sugarwater” print they released a while back from Petker, and now they have chosen one of the paintings he has done in a series of “Head Wounds”. The print is a 4 color screenprint on 100% cotton paper with deckled edges, embossed with PCP seal, signed and numbered in an edition of 50. Each print also comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Get it here: Joshua Petker @ Poster Child Prints
This past weekend, Mike Shine’s highly anticipated solo show “Flotsam’s Wonder World” opened at the new 941 Geary gallery in San Francisco. The reception opened at 7pm, and for whatever reason I decided to take my time getting there and successfully missed the live music and performance that was put on. By the time missus creep and myself made it to the gallery, around 8:30pm, the gallery was already packed. I should have known better and made sure we got there quicker.
The gallery space is very large, so I was curious as to how the artist would use the space. I did hear a bit of how there would be some big installation pieces in the show, but I had no idea it would be like this. What Shine did was actually create another world that opened up once you walked in the gallery. A carnival full of color, nostalgia, and mythology was there before your eyes. It was a lot to take in, with the amount of people there along with the staggering amount of artwork to be seen.
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The author of the book “Weirdo Deluxe”, is back with a new book talking the gothic and dark art scene. The book is 9″ x 9″, 192 pages and features work from more than 20 artists such as Attaboy, Ana Bagayan, Glenn Barr, Jonathan Bergeron, Ray Ceasar, Jason d’Aquino, Bob Dob, Alex Gross, Sarah Joncas, Annette Hassell, Fred Harper, Dan Kennedy, Laurie Lipton, Travis Louie, Tara McPherson, Skot Olsen, Nathan Ota, Annie Owens, Anthony Pontius, Isabel Samaras, Shag, Dani Tull, Brian Viveros, and Edward Walton Wilcox.
I enjoyed Weirdo Deluxe quite a bit, and this book seems like a good followup. I’m not sure if I agree about the “noir”, or as stated in the description “artists who have embraced the dark side, employing gothic themes in their art.” There are a few artists in that list that have dark works for sure, but maybe I just have a different definition of “dark and gothic”.
Get it here: Chronicle Books, or cheaper at Amazon
Shirts and Destroy has just released a new giclee print by Ryan Begley. The art was originally used for the Howl “Full of Hell” album cover, but is now available as a 12″ x 24″ print. The prints are signed and numbered in an edition of 100. Thanks to Omgposters.com for the heads up.
The Beinart Blog has just published a new interview with Buddy Nestor. Lana Gentry was able to get Buddy Nestor to talk about his artwork, and how he developed his unique style. Head on over and check it out.
Craola has just added some new stuff to his online shop, such as three new limited edition prints. “The Hunter” is a giclee on canvas, 14″ x 11″, signed and numbered in an edition of 25. Each print is already stretched and ready to hang. Next is “Anti-Venom” a print that was released at Dragon Con 2010. The print is 20″ x 16″ on fine art paper, signed/numbered in an edition of 25. Finally, “Dogtapus”, a print on acrylic (face mounted) 14″ x 11″, signed and numbered in an edition of 20. Each of these prints also come with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Get em here: Craola Online Shop
The Beinart Surreal Collective, has just sent a new book to the publishers to be released this coming December. A new book on the works of Kris Kuksi entitled “Divination and Delusion”. The book was to be released this September, but 40 extra pages were added so the book as been pushed back, but with the extra pages the wait will be well worth it. The work of Kuksi is absolutely mind-blowing; to see these works in person is really something special. While a book is rarely a good replacement for seeing the art in person, this book allows one to not only add a great to book to their collection, but to really delve into the intricacies of Kuksi’s work. Each assemblage is so hyper-detailed, its often hard in a gallery setting to really see everything in each work displayed. The book is in pre-order, so head on over and make sure you get a copy.
Kris Kuksi – Divination and Delusion Pre-Order
