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.

Joshuaclayart.com

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.

Last Rites Gallery

Not only has Joshua Clay updated the look or his website, but he also added three new limited edition prints as well, “Tereis the Piercer”, “Masami the Beautiful Delight” & “Hisepga Chief of the Bears”. The new website looks great, it’s easy to move around in and the thumbnails in the gallery are excellent. As for the prints, each one is 9″ x 21″ with a 1″ bleed, signed and numbered in editions of 90 for only $50 each. If you are looking to get all three, you can get $25 off.

Joshua Clay Online Shop

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

Friday:
Grass Hut Corp will be opening “The Squirrels Made Me Do It”, a group show featuring work by Anna Chambers, Joe Ledbetter, Michelle Valigura & Amanda Visell.

T&P Fine Arts is opening the group show “The Kids Are Alright”. This show is curated by Beau Basse and will feature work by Nimit Malavia, Yuta Onoda, Danni Shinya Luo, Jeremy Lynch, Eric Davison and many more.

Ad Hoc Art will be hosting new works from Ekundayo and Joshua Clay in the main room, and TheDirtyFabulous in the project room.

Saturday:
Rivet Art will be showing new works from Annie Owens ans Laurie Lipton.

Gallery 1988 SF will open a dual show of Dan McCarthy and Daniel Danger. There will be some prints released at the reception.

Copro Gallery will have three killer shows opening up. First Hi-Fructose brings us “Overdose” with work from Alex Pardee, Andrew Hem, Bob Dob, Anthony Ausgang, Brandi Milne, Brandt Peters, Brendan Danielsson, Chris Owens, Chris Peters, Chet Zar, Chris Berens, Craola, Dan May, Dan Quintana, Ekundayo, Erik Fortune, Femke Hiemstra, Glenn Barr, Gris Grimly, Jason D’Aquino, Joe Vaux, Josh Keyes, Kathie Olivas, KMNDZ, Kris Kuksi, Kukula, Lola, Luke Chueh, Mars-1, Martin Wittfooth, McBess, Mia, Michael Page, Naoto Hattori, Nathan Spoor, Robert Hardgrave, Scott Musgrove, Shag, Skot Olsen, Thomas Han, Tin, Tom Haubrick, Travis Louie, Viktor Safonkin, Vince Cacciotti, Yoskay Yamamoto, Yosuke Ueno, Yoko D’holbachie and more.
Then there will also be “Nightlight” by Kieth Weesner in gallery 2 and “The Herrings Hairdo” by Femke Hiemstra in gallery 3.

How is that for a group show?

This Summer is a coming out to be a great time to score some artwork. Joshua Taylor is having a “Super Summer Pen and Ink Sale”, so it’s a good opportunity to snag some original work from this very killer artist.

He will be selling a huge amount of pen and ink drawings, all of which seem to be on 5″ x 7″ watercolor paper. Each piece is only $50, so for a very affordable price you can have an original Joshua Taylor work, and frame it to add some life to walls of your home.

Head on over to the page he created to show off this work, and keep and eye on it as he will be releasing more work in the coming weeks,
Joshua Taylor Summer Sale

Joshua Clay has a solo show called “Midnight Parade” at the Distinction Gallery in Escondido. The work is up for viewing and it all looks amazing. There are also two prints available, “Love and Lust” and “Fresh Beats”. Both prints are limited to 50, signed and numbered.
Check out the show Here.

At the Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica three artists will have work shown, Naoto Hattori, Keith Weesner & Christopher Polentz. All the pieces are up for preview and it looks like Naoto’s show is almost sold out. Check out the show here.

Opening the 7th at La Luz De Jesus gallery will be “Everything But The Kitschen Sync”, a no themed huge group show. There is a lot of work to be seen here, most notably is some pieces by Stephen Blickenstaff. He was one of the first artists that I really got into, I have yet to see his work in person. Check out the show Here.

“kaleidoscope” opens the 8th at the Project Gallery in LA and features work by: Jen Corace, Rebecca Artemisa Urias,
Katy Horan, Allison Cole and Dan-ah Kim. Check out the show Here.

Create:Fixate has a pretty huge group show going on, featuring work by Brady Redman, Paul Torres, Shannon Keller and many others. Check it out Here.

Finally the “Balls” Out” group show opens the 7th at the Grass Hut Gallery in Portland. The show features work by Bwana Spoons, Jeff Soto, James Jean, Reuben Rude, Deth P Sun, Ryan Bubnis, Chris Ryniak, Amanda Visell, Scott Saw and many others. Looks like it’s going to be a very exciting show. Some really great artists there. Check out the show Here.