Creep Machine Magazine – Contemporary Art & Culture

Author: Creep

  • aotd: “Downslide”

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    Today’s piece is from Jeremy Harker, otherwise known as Melocopter, very cool nickname as well.
    The painting is done in oil and is on a 20×16″ panel.

    This specific piece is called “Downslide” and is from his “Disorders” series. The whole series has about five paintings in it, and it’s very solid. I love the colors that he uses, and he has a great style of drawing figures.

    The piece kind of hit me, not only because it talks about depression, but because I love winter and I seem to get depressed in the summer(backwards of me eh?). But this doesn’t change the power of the imagery, the look on the kids face is one I have seen many times. It’s very effective in letting you know whats going on.

    Make sure you check out the rest of Jeremy’s work, and the Disorders series that is right there on the front page. Let him know the Creep sent you.

    Jeremy Harker Homepage
    J. Harker profile

  • Alex Pardee’s “Chadam”, animated?


    “Chadam” the insanely popular character created by Alex Pardee, looks like it’s going to made into a 3-d animated episodic movie.

    Studio 2.0, a wing of Warner Bros. is going to be doing some new shorts, and one of them will be based on Alex’s character. The animation will run on the Unreal Engine 3. I all Looks very slick, I can’t wait to see this in action.

    Check out the full release here: Alex Pardee Blogspot

  • Jeff Soto Storm Clouds show online

    Jeff Soto’s latest solo show at the Jonathan Levine gallery is now online, for you viewing pleasure.

    There is quite a large amount of pieces, acrylic, some ink on paper, and even a wall installation.
    The theme of this show, as written on the gallery page, just to sum up “explores his predominant fears and anxieties over his daughter’s future, the civil war in Iraq, and the United States policies on environmental conservation”. I can see this in some of the images, especially the ones that have some murky staining in the background. It kind of pollutes the landscapes that he paints in the, making the scene far more sinister. A great example of this is “Snake Trap” & “Fire”. They look so murky, and polluted, that umber he must be using really makes the whole scene look kind of the skyline where I live.

    But there is positivity, such as in the piece “We Can Chang Everything”. We are still given the murky effects at the top, but as you can see hands holding a rainbow and a spade. It’s quite simple to fix all that we have done, we just have to get started.

    Wonderful show, and yet another one that I really wish I could see in person. The images on the site are nice and big, but it still would be great to see the pieces close up.

    Jeff Soto, Storm Clouds

  • aotd: “Accretion”

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    It’s been a while since I showed some photography, so here is a piece from Matthew Xavier.

    This image is very striking, I love how it borders on being sinister and elegant at the same time.
    It must be the eye area, plus that red plume of color shooting out of the figures mouth. I know that must be a shirt over the face there, but it really make this whole image so surreal, while the color scheme gives it this nice aged, nostalgic look to it.

    A very smooth image, there is another like it, without the face covering. You can find that image, plus many other amazing photos in this artists gallery here:
    Matthew Xavier profile

  • Roq La Rue: Sol, Hultberg & Badrak


    Opening tonight at the Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle, Amy Sol, Stella Im Hultberg & Oksana Badrak are having a very sweet show.
    It looks like many of the works have been bought up already, but if your close by you can still see them in person.

    I really like the new work coming from Stella Im Hultberg, the new work clearly retains her style but you can see the images getting deeper, contrast and even textures. Much like the piece that she did for the Crazy4Cult show, “The Big Tourist”. I love that piece, I really hope they make this one into a print.

    Anyway, the Roq La Rue page has the pics of the event up so that you can see the peices:
    Amy Sol, Stella Im Hultberg & Oksana Badrak

  • Jeff Soto Solo show Sept. 8th.


    Jeff Soto has a solo show called “Storm Clouds” at the Jonathan Levine Gallery. The show opens September 8th and ends October 6th.

    I love Jeff Soto’s style, his style is very unique and the colors he uses really pop out at you.
    I really like that he adds a bit of nature imagery with each piece, you don’t see much of that right now. I think the thing that I dig the most is how his style is consistent, but in no way repetitive. I still enjoy looking at new works, it’s like he has themes to his work and that make the new pieces more interesting. He is one of the few artists that I would really love to own an original work from, but for now prints will have to do.

    Here is Jeff’s site and the gallery:
    Jeff Soto homepage
    Jonathan Levine gallery

  • First Thursday in San Francisco Tonight.

    If your in the Bay Area tonight, there will be a lot of killer shows happening.

    “Fighting 4 Dreams And Blcktop” will be one night only and will show work from Jeff Soto, Regino Gonzales, OG Abel and others. There will also be live music. At 111 Minna Gallery

    Todd Bratrud will have a show opening as well as Maya Hayuk at Fifty24 in SF

    And best of all is “Salad Days”, a group show over at Gallery 1988 which will show works from Mark Bodnar, Nathan Stapley & Jesse Ledoux. The work from the show looks amazing, and i’m a big fan of Mark Bodnar. Gallery 1988 SF

    You can also head over and catch the last days of Yumiko Kaykawa’s show over at the Shooting Gallery, here.

  • Hollywood Zombies original art.


    The original artwork from the new Topps Hollywood Zombies card set is now being auctioned off. There is a pretty big amount of work to be sold, and they all seem to be framed as well.

    While I’m not super hip into these cards, there is some cool work. Especially from John Cebollero (work shown above). I think he has the coolest style. I would rather be scoring some original Garbage Pail Kids art, but these are at least cool to look at.

    Head on over and see what’s being sold:
    Hollywood Zombies art sale