Just this past weekend, June 26th, Jeff Soto’s latest solo show “Lifecycle” and Dave Cooper’s show “Mangle” opened up at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York. Jeff’s work is now a little bit more detailed and intense this round. His last solo show was “The Inland Empire” at Stolenspace, and while that was a great show the work in “Lifecycle” seems a little bit more jarring, and more richly conveys the fear and environmental issues his work often holds. Much of the icons were are used to seeing in Soto’s paintings are here, but some new ones have entered and others have been re-imagined.

Next door in Gallery II is Dave Cooper’s “Mangle”, featuring “new drawings and paintings of twisted ladies”. The color palette is a darker than his latest works have been, and the feel of Dave’s work is a nice compliment to Soto’s. I would like to see the two shows in person, but I can imagine that the feel the patrons had was pretty intense.

Check out the preview images, and then the full show. Jonathan Levine Gallery

Mondotees has finally released info about a new series of prints they will be releasing. In conjunction with LucasFilm Ltd, The Alamo Drafthouse will be randomly releasing prints that are dedicated to the original Star Wars movies. The first one is Jeff Soto’s “Scrap Yard Power Droid”, and is a 24″ x 36″ screen-print by the folks at D&L Screen Printing, each one is hand signed and numbered in an edition of 50 for $50 each. Limit 1 per customer. This is an amazing looking print, and I don’t imagine it will last long. There is also some process shots over at the Mondoblog.

Get em here: Jeff Soto @ Mondotees

About 2 years ago, the very first Brush Project was started. The idea was that artists would send in used brushes, sign them and then the fans could score a great collectible while helping out a charity. It’s now time for Bush Project 2, this time hosted by Rotofugi, the charity is Gigi’s Playhouse, a Down syndrome awareness center. The auction is now in full swing, and will go until this Thursday, October 6th. The brushes will be on display until October 11th and then shipped to the new owner.

There is a great list of artists participating this year, Tara McPherson (shown), Bob, Dob, Chris Mars, Dan May, Jeff Soto, Jason Limon, Jeremiah Ketner, Lori Early, Travis Lampe and many more. For the full list, and to bid head on over to the online auctions.
Brush Project 2 Auctions

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

Friday:
Swarm Gallery will host an exhibition of new works by Josh Keyes.

Perihilion Arts will open “Black Eyed Mouseketeers”, a new series of paintings by Bob Dob. The show is online and looks great.

Cave Gallery will open “Outside my Window”, a group show featuring art by Liz Brizzi, Adam Flores, Max Kauffman and more.

La Luz de Jesus is opening its four shows, as mentioned in an earlier post, with new art from Scott Holloway, Jessica Dalva, Misato Otake & Jasmine Worth.

Varnish Art will be having its last show at the current location, and will end it all with a new solo show entitled “ThankYouGoodbye” with works from Michael Page.

Strychnin Gallery will host “The Red Thread”, which features work by Jennybird Alcantra, Bethany Marchman and Edith Lebeau, who was a featured artist on the Creep Machine. Congrats Edith!

Saturday:
Copro Gallery will open “The Blab! Show” featuring new paintings by Joe Sorren, Andy Kehoe, Alex Gross, Jeff Soto, Femke Hiemstra, Shag, Kris Kuksi, Ryan Heshka, Martin Wittfooth, XNO, Travis Lampe, Owen Smith, Kathleen Lolley, Natalia Fabia, Andrew Brandou, Gary Taxali and more

Disctinction Art will open “Scientific Evolution”, with new artwork from Dan Lyderson, Sean Christopher, Jasmine Worth, Gene Guynn, Christian Van Minnen, Dave MacDowell and more. 10% of proceeds to benefit stem cell research.

This Tuesday, July 7th at 7:30pm EST Tony Showcase will release a new print from Jeff Soto. Most of the prints that end up on Tiny Showcase sell out pretty fast, I have a feeling this is going to be a record. Not only are the prints small and affordable, but often help out charities such as the Sea Shepard Conservation Society where a portion of the sales of thee prints will go. The prints will be 5″ x 5″ limited to 200 for $20.
Be ready!

Edit: ok the image is updated, and the prints sold out as fast as you would figure.

Tinyshowcase.com

Jeff Soto has two new prints that will be available this Wednesday June 24th from his online shop, Potatostamp. Apparanltly the prints will first be offered to those who have bought prints from the shop before, and then whatever is leftover will go in the shop. So if your looking to score one of these, let’s hope there is some left.

Potatostamp.com

“Grasshoppers”
23″ x 27″ Giclee, Edition of 10 for $300

“Nature’s Wrath”
14″ x 14″ Giclee, Edition of 50 for $150

via: Omgposters.com

Looks like the Jonathan Levine Gallery has had a facelift, the site is much more streamlined now and looks great. It’s not a far departure from the last site, but a welcomed update. Along with the new site, the gallery is also having a sale. For the next week, until June 16th gte 20% off all items such as books, toys and prints. There is a huge amount of books to choose from: Chris Mars, Jeff Soto, Barry McGee, Blek le Rat, David Choe, Dave Cooper and more. The sale would surely help for prints like “The Parade of the Damned” by Todd Schorr (shown)

Jonathan Levine Gallery

Here is the rundown of events for this weekend.

Friday:
Richard Heller Gallery is opening a group show with art from Derek Albeck, Mars-1 and more

Poketo Studios Is hosting “F*ck Cancer – We Love Justin” a benefit show for artist/designer Justin Van Hoy, with work by Tim Biskup, Shepard Fairey, Jordan Isip, Amanda Visell and many more

T&P Fine Art will open “Advertisements for Myself”, a group show featuring work by 2Cents, Branded, Nose, and El Toro.

La Luz de Jesus will open a show featuring works by Krystopher Sapp, Daniel Elson, Mark Bryan & Magda Trzaski. The Mark Bryan paintings look amazing.

Circle Culture Gallery is opening “Self Portraits”, with work by D-Face, Jeff Soto, Kill Pixie, Wordtomother and more.

Saturday:
Chango will have “Nuovo Mundus” featuring new works by Paul Torres

The Push SF presents Roberto Venosa

Kinsey/Desforges will have new works from Cole Sternberg

Corey Helford Gallery will have a signing with Coop featuring his books ‘The Big Fat One’ and ‘The Devil’s Advocate’ as well as a chance to pre-order his new “Lil’ Mort” figure.

Bear & Bird Gallery will open “Made in Mexico”, a group show featuring work by artists that are located in Mexico.

Rivet Art is hosting “The Study” featuring the work of Doktor A, Steve Cvinar, Dave Pressler, and Johnny Yanok.

Copro Gallery will have “Death and Taxes by Joe Ledbetter, “The Glass Menagerie” by Nathan Spoor and “Immortality” by Vincent Caccioti. Joe ledbetter will also be signing “Creatures of Habit”, there is also some Prints and Toys available at the gallery

Gallery Nucleus is having a show featuring “The Art Of Bob Peak”

Chet Zar has a new interview up over at SUBvert Magazine. Chet just opened his duo show with his father at L’Imagerie Gallery, and this interview has some shots of the show. It’s a great interview, and if you look around the site you will also see an interview with Jeff Soto.

Chet Zar Interview @ SUBvert Mag

Just this past Thursday, May 14th, Jeff Soto’s latest solo show opened at the StolenSpace Gallery in London. This new show features over twenty new paintings as well as the release of a new limited edition screen print(shown). The print is a 5 color hand pulled print, roughly 22″ x 30″, signed and numbered in an edition of 65. As of writing this there are only 8 prints left.

Head on over and take a look at the all the works in the show, they look amazing. You can also order signed copies of Jeff’s “Storm Clouds” book as well.

Jeff Soto @ StolenSpace Gallery