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Preview: “Big Tuna” David Lynch Tribute @ Alcove Arts

by josh on Jul 9, 2009 • 1 Comment

Coming this Friday July 10th at the Alcove Gallery in Decatur, GA is a group show featuring work inspired by David Lynch films. The lineup of the show is pretty impressive with paintings from such artists as : David MacDowell, Amy Botello, Lesli Ditto, Apricot Mantle, Dan May, Chet Zar and many more. I personally am a fan of themed shows. I know that is makes it difficult sometimes for some artists to fit in, but I think it is often a good example of how an artists style can be pushed to present unique ideas. Some great works that are unexpected also come from themed shows, just look at the art in this preview. I love what David MacDowell submitted as well as Apricot Mantle and another unique handmade frame made out of 1600 black and white pencil erasers!

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Shows this weekend: Sarah Joncas, Kelly Vivanco & Flesh to Canvas

by josh on Jun 12, 2009 • 1 Comment

Here is the rundown of exhibitions opening this weekend. Ton of excellent shows.

Friday:
CAVE Gallery will be opening “Curious Oddities” with new work from Josh Taylor, Paul Chatem, Amy Botello, Apricot Mantle, Matthew Ryan Sharp and more.

Thinkspace Gallery has three big shows taking place. “Beneath The Seams” by Sarah Joncas, “The Conservatory” by Kelly Vivanco and in the project room “Portraits Of The Unknown” by Tran Nguyen. The shows are online and look fantastic.

Strychnin Gallery will be opening “Midsummer Nights Madness”, with new work from Brian Horton, Leslie Ditto, Edith Lebeau, Angie Mason, Kristen Ferrell, Oksana Badrak and many more

Roq la Rue will have “Best Loved Tales of Misery and Woe” by Travis Lampe and “About:Face” by Chris Crites

Saturday:
Exhibit A Gallery is opening “The Detournements of Wynn Miller”, in which the artists photos are reinterpreted by Shepard Fairey, Shawn Barber, Greg Gossel, Nate Frizzell and more.

POVEvolving will open “A Touch Of Evil” featuring new works and an installation from Attaboy

Cerasoli Gallery will host “Out Through The In Door” by Matt Phillips, “Some Are Here and Some Are Missing” by Mario Wagner and “Beyond A Shadow” by Seth Curcio

Black Maria Gallery has “Nights and Hunters” with new work from Ken Garduno, Jason Hernandez, Michael Hsiung and Sam Saghatelian. And the “Swoon” group show with works from Andrew Bell, Jeremiah Ketner, Julie West and many more

Billy Shire Fine Arts will be opening “Intemperance” featuring new works by Carrie Anne Baade

Last Rites Gallery will open “Flesh to Canvas”, a show featuring fine art from “a renowned group of tattoo artists” such as Shawn Barber, Paul Booth, Alex Garcia, Nikko Hurtado, Kim Saigh and many more

Shooting Gallery will open “Happy Endings” with new works by Greg Gossel. Right next door at White Walls will be “There’s Aliens In Our Midst” with new work from AJ Fosik as well.

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Photos: Canceptual V3 @ Crewest Gallery

by josh on May 20, 2009 • No Comments

The folks over at Graffhead.com have added some pics of the “Canceptual v3″ show that went down at the Crewest Gallery this past month. There is some pretty amazing work in the show. I especially like the cans that Jessica Ward made, you can some better shots of the artwork on her site here. The show also featured some work by Apricot Mantle as well as Dave MacDowell, with his can/painting.

Canceptual v3 @ Graffhead.com

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Photos: Everything but the Kitschen Sink @ La Luz de Jesus

by josh on Mar 12, 2009 • No Comments

The “Everything but the Kitschen Sink” Show opened this last weekend. One of the artists in the show and previously featured artists here on the Creep, Apricot Mantle, took some pics of the show and now has them up on his site to check out. The show looks amazing, I really wish I was able to have been there during the reception. Or just to see it in person even.

Head on over and take a look. While your there you can also see some new art Apricot Mantle is working on.
Everything but the Kitschen Sink photos at ApricotMantle.com

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Shows this weekend: Super School, Sweet Surrender & This is the End

by josh on Mar 6, 2009 • No Comments

Here is the rundown of the shows that will be opening this weekend.

Friday:
The Alternative Cafe is hosting “This is the End”. Curated by the Creep Machine and featuring work by 25 artists from all over the world. It’s going to be a truly exciting show. Check the work out, it is now online to view. If you can make it the reception is from 7-9pm.

Gallery 1988 SF will open “Sweet Surrender”, a group show featuring work by Krista Huot, Camilla d’Errico, Jennifer Tong and Allison Torneros. The show will be online at noon this Friday.

Definition Gallery has “Melancholy”, featuring new works by Bethany Marchman, Nicholas Harper and Brandon Maldonado

Joshua Liner Gallery has a solo exhibition from Tomokazu Matsuyama entitled “Glancing at the Twin Peak”. The work is online and looks great.

La Luz de Jesus opens “Everything But The Kitschen Sync” 12h annual group show. Some of the artists in this show are: Dave MacDowell, Apricot Mantle, Bob Dob, Nathan Ota, Chris Peters, Sean Stepanoff, Heather Watts, Paul Torres and many more.


Saturday:
Copro Gallery has two shows opening: “Natural Beauties”, Lola’s solo show and “SuperSchool” featuring work by Scott Musgrove, Travis Louie, Gary Baseman, Sas Christian, Chet Zar, Heiko Mueller, Dan May, Martin Wittfooth, Chris Ryniak, Nathan Spoor, Kris Lewis, Carrie Ann Baade, Michael Page, Ana Bagayan, Kevin Peterson, Naoto Hattori, Amy Sol, Francesco LoCastro, Reinier Gamboa, Mia, Brian Viveros, Dan Quintana , Tin and more. Much of the work is online to view, both shows are very strong.

Gallery Nucleus is opening “Home Slice”, a new solo show of Scott Campbell. He has such an amazing style, I can’t wait to see the new works, all of which should be up this weekend.

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“Death of Bella” new work and process by Apricot Mantle

by josh on Jan 27, 2009 • No Comments

The artist known as Apricot Mantle has just finished a new piece that he was working on. He also created a process page so you can see the whole journey it took to make this new drawing. This new drawing is 18″ x 24″ prismacolor on board and was made to commemorate the loss of a friends bike.

It’s a great looking piece, much like the Lady Enmity piece of his I showed a while back, this one looks like its glowing. He really knows how to use those prismacolors.
Head on over to check out his gallery as well as the newly update process page.

Apricot Mantle Homepage

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The Lowbrow Art Sale: October 21st

by josh on Oct 21, 2008 • No Comments

This week features prints by Amy Sol, Vincent Castiglia, Brian Despain, Mike Dringenberg and Apricot Mantle. Check it out Here

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Apricot Mantle with a newly launched website

by josh on Oct 9, 2008 • 1 Comment

I featured the work of this amazing artist just a while back with his “Grudge” inspired piece, “Lady Emnity”.
Well, he just launched his homepage and now you can head on over and check out all of his work, as well as stay current with what the artist will be doing in the future.

If you take a look at his gallery, you can see that not only are his pieces amazing in color and design, but the frames are a work of art in themselves. I think a frame often has the ability to really compliment the work, and it can quite often hinder the work if not chosen correctly. Well in this case you are seeing frames specifically designed for each piece, and a continuation of the work as well. The piece featured below, “Brookhaven Nurse” is inspired by the Silent Hill video games, and if you view the work on his site you can see the amazing frame he made for it. Just click “view larger” on each one of the pieces to see the works all framed up.

Apricot Mantle Homepage

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aotd: “Lady Emnity” by Apricot Mantle

by josh on Aug 27, 2008 • 5 Comments

Aint it Cool News had a contest a little while before the Crazy4Cult 2 show, and the winner of the contest would be able to have his/her work in the show. This was done also with the I Am 8 Bit show and some really great work came out it. The same was true with this contest. One of my favorite pieces was from a Los Angeles based artist that goes by the name Apricot Mantle.

It looks like all of his works are colored pencil on toned paper. Not only are the layout and poses dynamic, such as this one shown, but the colors are unreal. This piece looks so amazing. I look forward to seeing more work from this artist, and will surely have his work on the site here many more times.
He has no homepage as of yet, but you can head over to his profile to check out the rest of his work.
Apricot Mantle Profile

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