The Creep Machine was lucky to get one of the participants of the Crazy 4 Cult 4 show, Apricot Mantle, to not only take some photos of the event for us, but write a review as well. Hit the link to see the rest of the photos and the review. Hopefully we can talk Apricot into doing this more often.
Joshua Clay has said he was always anti-digital, and has stuck to using traditional mediums for his work. He recently entered a contest to make a propaganda poster for the new Starcraft 2 game, and turned his pencil sketch into a digital piece. If this truly is his first digital work, I can’t wait to see what it will look like when he really gets into the medium. To see the full digitally colored poster, and to even vote for the piece and show Joshua how much his work rules, head on over to his site.
The group show Crazy 4 Cult is now back again for the fourth installment. The full title “Crazy 4 Cult 4: The Case of the Redundant Number”, will feature work inspired by cult movies from a wide range of amazing artists. Just a few of those participating are: Allison Sommers, Anne-Julie Aubrey, Apricot Mantle, Casey Weldon, Chet Zar, Chris Murray, Dan May, Dave MacDowell, Ewelina Ferruso, Gene Guynn, Joe Scarano, Ken Garduno, Ken Keirns, N.C. Winter, Rich Pellegrino, Scott Campbell, Stella Im Hultberg, Tom Haubrick, and many more. Some are veterans of the group show, and many are new. The past three shows seemed to have been dominated by just a handful of movies, Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, Edward Scissorhands, and Willy Wonka. There are so many amazing cult movies, I do hope some of them are given the same treatment some of the repeat titles have. Here is a short preview of some of the works that have been posted around the web, or graciously shared with the Creep Machine. Hit the jump-link to see the full preview.
Breakfast Fight Club by Dave MacDowell
This is the Last Time I Saw You by Ken Keirns
Continuing on with the Star Wars series, Alamo Drafthouse is ready to drop the next print in the series, this new one is by Dave Kisney. “Raider” is a 24″ x 26″ screen-print, signed and numbered in an edition of 350 for $50. This print will show up sometime today, July 8th, on the Mondotees website so keep your eyes open.
Get it here: Mondotees.com
Previously featured artist here in the Creep Machine, Iain Macarthur has a new print being released by Danger Press. “Rawr!” is a 23″ x 35″ single color screen-print on 100# cover stock, signed and numbered in an edition of 90 for $40 each. This is an amazing looking print, I think Iain’s style translates flawlessly to prints such as these.
Lindsey Carr, otherwise known as Little Robot, has a new print available over at Paper Tiger. The print is 12″ x 16.5″ on archival textured fine art paper, signed and numbered in an edition of 25. Lindsey has an amazing style, and this print is a great example of the type of vibe her work can create.
Get it here: Lindsey Carr @ Paper Tiger
Tessar Lo has just released a new print entitled “If I could Fly”. The print is based off of a painting Tessar did after a busy year of flying. The print is 12″ x 12″ on hahnemühle bamboo fine art inkjet paper, signed and numbered. The first 10 orders of the print have the option of having it hand-embellished.
Get it here: “If I Could Fly” print by Tessar Lo
Glenn Barr will have a solo show entitled “Small Epic” at Roq La Rue this Friday, July 9th. Along with this new series of works, Glenn has also redesigned his homepage. His previous site was flash based, and while it looked snazzy it was not as clean and easy to use as this new design. The graphics of the page look as though they were plucked right out of Glenn’s sketchbook, and the store now gives you the ability to zoom in on the prints and see all the details. Head on over and check out Glenn’s new website, and keep your eye open for the gallery post his new works.
After his long run of figurative works, Shepard Fairey will be releasing a new print this coming Thursday, July 8th. “America’s Favorite” is in response to America’s dependance on oil, and a tribute of sorts to artist Ed Ruscha and his “Standard Station” series of works. Although this print was made before the BP oil disaster, the print is a perfect visual reminder that the days of oil should be on the way out. There are two variants of the print, red and silver, each 18″ x 24″ print is limited to an edition of 400 and goes for $50 each.
Get em here: Obey Online Store
San Francisco based artist Robert Bowen, has just added a new print to his online shop. “Saint Elmo’s Fire” is 11″ x 14″ on acid free velvet cotton paper, signed and numbered in an edition of 50 for $25 each. The pose of the figure and the inclusion of the bird reminds me of many paintings of Saint Francis of Assisi, especially those paintings showing him receiving the stigmata.
Get the print here: Robert Bowen Online Shop
Strangeco is now taking pre-orders for Shepard Fairey’s “Mr Spray” vinyl figure, a character created in 2004 and was based on a 1950′s advertising design. Mr. Spray is a rotocast vinyl figure, is 11″ tall and has 4 points of articulation. It comes in an illustrated box, and comes with a mini Obey stencil. There is 4 color versions of Mr. Spray, Black (shown) limited to 350 pieces, Red limited to 350, Gold limited to 200, and Silver limited to 100. Black and red are available for pre-order on Strangco’s site, Gold will be available at the San Diego Comic Con, and Silver’s release information will be coming soon.
Letter Pressed has just released the 6th and final print is the Candykiller series of prints. “Bumtown Brusier” is 8″ x 10″ two color inked letterpress on Somerset off-white 300 gm art paper, signed and numbered in an edition of 90 for $35 each.
Get em here: Letter Pressed Online Shop
