The Play Enterprise and Warhol Museum asked over 20 artist to reinterpret the classic bunny imagery. The show as first shown at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, but has been given a second go round at the Rotofugi Gallery. The participating list of artists is amazing: Jennybird Alcantara, Glenn Barr, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Brian Ewing, Jeremy Fish, Mike Giant, Ken Keirns, Jeremiah Ketner, Frank Kozik, Travis Lampe, Tara McPherson, Lisa Petrucci, Bonni Reid, Isabel Samaras, Andrew Schoultz, Jeremy Tinder, and many more. Many of the paintings look pretty spectacular, and fit the Playboy theme very well. I especially like Glenn Barr’s, Jeremy Fish, Tara McPherson, Keith Weesner, Ken Keirns, and Isabel Samaras all of which are shown below. After you take a look at these, keep your eye on the galleries site for the full show to surface.

Rotofugi Gallery

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.

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

Opening tonight at the Alternative Cafe in Seaside, CA is the latest Creep Machine curated exhibition. “Fables and Follies” is a group show that will feature work by Wesley Burt, John Cebollero, Dan Harding, Dave MacDowell, Jason Levesque, Jessica Ward, Apricot Mantle, Ken Keirns, Joseph Larkin, Arabella Proffer, Celene Petrulak, and more.
The reception starts at 7 pm, and for those that can’t make the show, the works are not on the galleries website.

Take a look at these preview images and then head on over to see the full show.
Fables and Follies @ Alternative Cafe

Tortoise At the Hare by Dan Harding

Pursuit of Love by John Cebollero

Vernor Tweakman by Joseph Larkin

Coming from Ken Keirns solo show “Dream Burn Down” at Rotofugi, a new print has been released. The print comes from his painting “Isolation”, and is 9″ x 12″, signed and numbered in an edition of 25. There is a limit of one per customer.

Get it here: Ken Keirns Isolation @ Rotofugi

Hi Fructose have just released the news about the second installment in the “Hi Fructose Collected” box sets. This 300+page hardcover book will feature the best work from issues 5-8. There is a special intro by Long Gone John, interviews and more. The deluxe version of the set will include “A Special 2’x2’ Fold-Out Poster by Jason Freeny, Specially Designed Sticker Pages from Travis Lampe, Gary Baseman, & Ferris Plock. 5 Special Edition Prints from: Travis Louie, Audrey Kawasaki, Edwin Ushiro, Mars-1 and Yoko d’Holbachie packaged in a beautiful print portfolio with vellum artist and title pages between each print.” All this will be placed into a ribbon tied hard case.
The set will be available on June 1st, so don’t wait the last one sold out pretty fast.

Check the site for the full preview: “Hi-Fructose Collected 2″ Box Set

Opening this Friday, April 30th at the Rotofugi Gallery in Chicago is a dual show featuring new works from Ken Keirns and Jimmy Pickering. “Dream Burn Down” by Ken Keirns will have 14 new paintings on show, and “Beautiful Miasma” from Jimmy Pickering will have 40 new works, many of which are these great little 4″ x 6″ drawings called “Little Miasma”. If your in the area make sure to stop by, its going to be an amazing show. It runs until May 16th.

Check it out here: Rotofugi Gallery

Gallery 1988 SF has released a new print by Ken Keirns. The image comes from a painting Ken had in his latest solo show at the gallery. “Band Aid” is 12″ x 16″ giclee on Epson Ultrasmooth Fine Art paper, signed and numbered in an edition of 50 for $65 each. To order one of these prints contact the gallery @ (415) 409-1376 / gallery1988sf@gmail.com

Ken Keirns is an artist based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been exhibiting his work in galleries for the better part of a decade – recently at Rotofugi Gallery (Chicago), T&P Fine Art (Philadelphia), and Dorothy Circus Gallery (Rome, Italy).  In the world that Ken depicts you’ll find a few monkeys. The archetypal alter ego? A noble way of acknowledging the common traits between man and the other species we share our world with? You’ll also find lots of women, and a bit of commentary on gender relations that occasionally strays to the dark side of the aisle: Where cautionary tales of Love Gone Wrong dwell. We set out to uncover a few answers about the man responsible for Hot Babes in Toyland, hitman chimps, and Common Nonsense. 

The Creep Machine had some help from Joe Almeida, an art collector out of Southern California who was nice enough to work up some questions for Ken.

This is yet another weekend with some really amazing shows opening up.

Friday:
Schmancy Toys/Gallery ha s anew solo show from Parskid. The reception is from 6-9pm, and the artists will be in attendance. The work is online and not only is it affordable, but looks excellent.

Eclectix Gallery will host “Eat It”, a group show featuring work by R.S. Connett, Andy B Clarkson, Rudy Fig and many more. There is also works by Mary Patterson on show.

Halogen Gallery formerly known as the Suite 100 Gallery, has a group show with work from Dave Crosland, Phoneticontrol, Matt Linares, Ryan De La Hoz and more.

Thinkspace Gallery has two solo shows opening, “Untitled (New Works)” from Matthew Feyld and “The Sins Of Atticus Finch” from Dave MacDowell.

Roq La Rue Gallery is opening “Neo Grotesque” by Christian van Minnen and new works by Yoko d’Holbachie. The reception is from 6-9pm, and the show runs until April 4th.

Saturday:
Black Maria Gallery will host Ken Garduno’s latest solo show “Channels”. All of the work looks amazing, I love how is he putting small amount of color in each one. A large majority of the work is already sold. The reception is from 7-10:30pm

Distinction Art Gallery is opening “He Said, She Said”, a group show featuring works by Lyle Motley, Ahren Hertel and Ken Keirns. There will also be various work on display throughout the galleries. Ahren has gone a new direction with these new works, I like them a lot and can’t wait to see more of these.

Shooting Gallery SF is hosting “Water Lilies” a new solo show of Joshua Petker. While you there you skip next door to White Walls and see the new works from Alex Lukas.

Billy Shire Fine Arts is opening “Orphan”, new works from Ana Bagayan. The new paintings look amazing, and if you look around a bit you will be able to find videos of Ana painting these works.