The always impressive Thinkspace Gallery will open it’s 5 Year Anniversary Show this Saturday, November 6th from 7-10pm. The exhibition will be on view up to November 27th and will feature work by Aaron Nagel, Amy Sol, Allison Sommers, Ana Bagayan, Andrew Offerman, Andrew Hem, Andy Kehoe, Anthony Clarkson, Audrey Kawasaki, Brett Amory, Brian Viveros, Caia Koopman, Camilla d’Errico, Chet Zar, Craig “Skibs” Barker, Dabs Myla, David Bray, David MacDowell, Derek Gores, Ekundayo, Emma Tooth, Esao Andrews, Fernando Chamarelli, Gaia, Jacub Gagnon, Jeff Ramirez, Jen Lobo, Joao Ruas, Johnny “KMNDZ” Rodriguez, Joshua Petker, Kelly Vivanco, Kevin Titzer, KuKula, Lindsey Carr ,Linnea Strid, Liz Brizzi, Natalia Fabia, Nathan DeYoung, Pakayla Rae Biehn, Pedro Matos, Sarah Joncas, Scott Radke, Stella Im Hultberg, Sylvia Ji, Timothy Karpinski, Tony Philippou, Tran Nguyen, Yosuke Ueno, and an an installation by Johnny “KMNDZ” Rodriguez. For the past week the Thinkspace Blog, Sour Harvest, has been posting some mini interviews with some of the artists in this show. The show is online now to view, and is every bit as impressive as an anniversary show should be.
Review: Horrorwood @ WWA Gallery
Featured just under a week ago, the Horrorwood group show at the WWA Gallery opened up. Apricot Mantle had some work in the show, and once again I was able to have him review the show and share some photos of the reception.
Nothing beats Halloween…Unless it’s a Halloween spirit embodying art show called HORRORWOOD! The WWA Gallery in Los Angeles really put on a good show this month with 55 artists from all over the place giving their artistic takes on classic Hollywood horror. The Blob, The Wolfman, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Birds, Dracula, Rosemary’s Baby, and Metropolis were some of the choices made by the artists in the show. The variety of styles and techniques was wonderful and inspiring to anyone to walk into the place.
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“Horrorwood” group show @ WWA Gallery
Opening tonight at the WWA Gallery in Culver City, the group show entitled Horrorwood opens at 7pm. Work from Dave Chung, Julian Callos, JAW Cooper, Dave Correia, Jeremy Cross, James “Jimbot” Demski, Charlie Immer, Ben Kehoe, David Ball, David MacDowell, Jon MacNair, Apricot Mantle, Lily Mae Martin, Annie Owens, KRK Ryden,Dylan Sisson, MomTried Myles Smutney, Jessica Ward, and many more will be on display. Apricot Mantle has brought another one of his painstakingly-created, custom framed paintings.
Check out the show here: WWA Gallery
Dark Pop 2.0 @ Last Rites Gallery
Opening this Saturday Night, January 9th at the Last Rites Gallery in New York is the second installment of the Dark Pop group show. The shows will feature artists that don’t necessarily always create dark art but will do so for this show. Some of the artists are mainly “dark” in all of their works, so it should be a good mix of ideas. The artists that will be participating are: Esao Andrews, John Cebollero (Interviewed), Joshua Clay, Molly Crabapple, Amy Crehore, Yoko d’Holbachie, Leslie Ditto, Eric Fortune, GAIA, Stella Im Hultberg, Sarah Joncas (Interviewed), Danni Shinya Luo, David MacDowell, Mike Maxwell, Tara McPherson, Michael Page, Leslie Reppeteaux, Mijn Schatje and more.
Take a look at the preview pics and then make sure you keep on eye on the site for the full show.
Preview: “A Cry For Help” Benefit Show @Thinkspace Gallery
Thinkspace Gallery will open “A Cry For Help” benefit show this coming Friday, January 8th. The show is presented by Born Free USA, whom along with the Animal Protection Institute helped Thinkspace with the “Fight For Flight” exhibition back in 2008. The theme for this years show is animals, endangered as well as thriving species, and supporting the ethical treatment of animals and making sure current and future generations understand about habitat loss and how important animals are for all of us.
20% of the proceeds of the sales will go to Born Free and A.P.I, as well as 100% of the proceeds from the limited editions that will be released the night of the reception. A great cause with some amazing art. What a perfect way to start out 2010. The list of participating artists is nothing short of spectacular. Paintings from such artists as Allison Sommers, Amy Sol, Andrew Hem, Andy Kehoe, Buff Monster, Catherine Brooks (Featured), Charlie Immer, Chet Zar (Interviewed, 2), Dan May, David MacDowell, Fred Harper, Heiko Müller, Jennybird Alcantara, Joao Ruas, Kelly Vivanco (Interviewed), Luke Kopycinski (Featured), Martin Wittfooth, Nimit Malavia, Rory Kurtz, Sarah Joncas (Interviewed), Scott G. Brooks, Tran Nguyen, Travis Louie, Van Arno and many more will be on view. If you are in the area there is no reason to miss this show, there is just too much good work to pass up seeing it all in person. Here is a small preview of works, keep your eyes open for the full list of art to show up on the galleries site.
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Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine Auction
Juxtapoz i Magazine is currently having an auction, in which all of the proceeds will go to benefit the Power House Project of Detroit. There are over 100 artists involved in this action, and you can find originals from such artists as: Robert Williams, Josh Keyes, Ed Roth, Chris Mars, Brandi Milne, Shawn Barber, Chet Zar, Joshua Petker, David MacDowell, Paul Chatem, Sarah Joncas, Kelly Vivanco and many more. It looks like the auctions close November 20th. Upper Playground in Los Angeles will have an exhibitions with the work on November 14th.
Head on over and see all the work: Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine Auction
Preview: “Big Tuna” David Lynch Tribute @ Alcove Arts
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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Crazy 4 Cult 2 reception photos
Well the reception for the latest Crazy 4 Cult 2 show is now over. There was a huge amount of killer work from this show. I love the fact that there was a bit more work inspired by horror movies this time around. I really hope we see some prints of the Naoto Hattori and Chet Zar pieces.
Oldmanmusings.com has some photos of the show over on his Flickr account, one the photos is the one shown here. Wil Wheaton posing next to David Macdowell’s “Stand by Snootch” piece. How cool is that? When David showed me the sketch of the piece, I knew it would be a hit. C’mon, it says “Leech Balls” on Wil’s shirt.
Crazy4Cult2 show pics
New Works by David MacDowell at Thinkspace Gallery
David MacDowell has some new paintings available at the ThinkSpace Gallery. Four of them to be precise. “All of them Witches” has been there for a little bit, but there is now three new paintings. “Night of the Hunter”, “Welcome to the Terrordome” (shown) and the very cool “Oompa Loompacino”.
His work is getting more and more sought after, so I was pretty lucky to have two works of his in the B Movie Show. His paintings are really quite amazing to look at in person. Not only does he paint quick, but they are very clean and the colors are amazing. I don’t think pictures on the web will ever show how spectacular most of the work we see really is, and I know first hand that they don’t show how vibrant David’s works are.
If you look in the piece shown above, you will see a small version of the “Queen of the Deep” in it. His work is always a blast to look at, and I am getting quite anxious to see a solo show of his work.
Head over to pick up one of these pieces, or just to gawk at them: David MacDowell originals
Creep Machine Store open, B Movie Show Inside!
The Creep Machine store is no officially open, and as you can see it is filled with art from the “Attack of the B Movie Art Show”.
Just head over to the store link you can see at the top, or use the banner on the bottom there. Thanks to David MacDowell for making the banner for the store.
So check out the work and message me if you want any. I encourage anyone who can make it, to go the reception this Friday night at the Space Gallery in San Francisco.
See you there!
