Curated by Jan Corey Helford, this past May 15th marked the opening of the “Art From the New World” group exhibition at the Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery. This show will run until August 22nd, but for those of us that aren’t able to see it in person, we now have some images of the art and even behind the scenes photos of the preparation and build up to opening day (see here).

Last year the Bristol City Museum featured the works of Banksy, and during the course of the exhibition over 300,000 visited the museum. Now for the “Art From the New World” show, there have been over 5,000 visitors in the first 6 days of the opening. This is not only a very exciting show, but an important one for the future of the art we love so much. Originally referred to as a scene filled with “illustrators”, this art is now gaining more momentum than ever. Museums are taking notice, and the fan-base is becoming larger than ever. There is some amazing work in this show, from artists such as Kent Williams, David Stoupakis, Joe Sorren, Brandi Milne, Buff Monster, Camille Rose Garcia, Dave Kinsey, Travis Louie, Mercedes Helnwein, Ray Ceasar, Sas Christian, Melissa Forman, Jason Shawn Alexander, Dave Cooper, Liz McGrath, Mike Stilkey, Gary Baseman, Craola, Luke Chueh, Coop, Natalia Fabia, Chris Anthony, AJ Fosik, Joe Ledbetter, Todd Schorr, Van Arno, Martin Wittfooth, Josh Agle, Lola, Sylvia Ji, Marion Peck, Mark Ryden and many more. How is that for a lineup? I really wish this show was going to travel and come to some museums here in the states. Take a look at the preview images here, and then head over for the full preview.

Art From the New World: Here and Here

This past Saturday, December 12th at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City the “Multi-Plane” group show opened up. For the past few weeks I have been seeing some previews of some of the pieces in the show, one of the great reasons to check out artists blogs now and again. The idea of the show is that “Each of these paintings is an original work created on two layers of glass and a masonite panel background, emulating the multi-plane process developed by animators in the 1930’s to create depth in animated features. Each surface is separated by 3/8 of an inch and the entire painting is housed in a custom-made frame.”

Click the read more to see more images and short review of the show. After that head over to the site and check out the rest of the show:
Multi-Plane @ Corey Helford

Pressure Printing has been a little quiet lately, but now have a new print that coincides Todd Schorr’s first museum exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art (as seen on Arrested Motion). This intaglio print is 3.75″ x 5.25″ on Rives Heavyweight printmaking paper with Charbonell inks. It is hand stained with ink and gauche, and comes framed in a resin hand-antiqued frame with curved glass. The print is signed and numbered in an edition of 100 for $395. There is also a custom designed certificate of authenticity. Once again Pressure Printing released another stunning print.

Todd Schorr @ Pressure Printing

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

Todd Schorr’s latest solo show “The World We Live In” opened up this past weekend, and from the looks of it was an amazing reception. Red Carpet treatment, paparazzi, celebrities and press only policy when it came to taking pictures. Lucky for all of us fans that couldn’t make it, the folks over at Arrested Motion were there and took a whole mess of photos.

No word yet on the work being on view at the galleries website. There were also some prints at the show, I hope they pop up online somewhere if they were not sold out at the show.

Todd Schorr @ Arrested Motion

Not too many shows opening up this weekend, and they all seem to be on Saturday. So here goes:

Saturday:
Gallery Nucleus: The Society of Illustrators Los Angeles Illustration West 47 Exhibition will be up until April 3rd.

Corey Helford Gallery: will open Chris Anthony’s new show “Venice” at their “Special Event Location: 6086 Comey Street (off Venice / near LaBrea) / 310.287.2340″

Merry Karnowsky Gallery: will open “The World We Live In”, the latest solo show from the amazing Todd Schorr.