James Jean’s first Los Angeles solo show “Rebus” opened this past weekend on March 12th at the Martha Otero Gallery in West Hollywood. The show features new paintings, sculptures, limited edition scarves, drawings, and sketchbook layouts. If your a fan of James’ work you have no doubt been following the stream of teaser images that have been popping up on various sites while this show drew closer. I often wish I was able to visit every show that caught my eye, but this has to be one of the shows I am truly going to regret not seeing in person. I cannot rave enough about how exciting his work has become in the past few years. The scale, color palettes, and the brushwork of these paintings just keep getting better and better. Giant Robot and Brandon Shigeta have photos from the reception, which really help to see the scale of some of the works.
Author: Creep
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Ken Keirns “Alone With Ghosts” @ Gallery 1988
The past weekend some really great shows opened up, with Craola’s “INLE” group exhibition opening at Gallery 1988, and Ken Keirns latest solo show at the Venice gallery. This latest show from Keirns is entitled “Alone with Ghosts” and features 14 new oil paintings. Ken has such an amazing style, the figures in his work are becoming more intense. Compared to his early works, these latest paintings have this “smokey” or Sfumato look to them. Make sure to check out the full show.
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Kenichi Hoshine Japan Disaster Relief Sale
Kenichi Hoshine has listed a couple of original works up for auction, with 100% of the proceeds going to Red Cross in order to aid Japan during this growing disaster. Every hour it seems like the news just keeps getting worse and worse. I am happy to see artists like Kenichi donate art in order to help, and while posts on social networking sites with people sharing art and videos are great for keeping moral up, the best thing you can do is donate. I hope to see other artists do the same.
Check out the auction here: Kenichi Hoshine Disaster Relief Sale
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New work by John John Jesse
John John Jesse, Punk Painter, recently released a new painting to his Facebook fan page. The painting is entitled “The Story of My Life”, and like all of the artists work is mixed media on wood. Throughout his career, John John Jesse has drew inspiration from his life, and many familiar elements seen in previous works is present in this new painting, however the inclusion of his band name Nausea, as seen on the right figure, is not something that surfaces in his work often.
CHeck out his fan page here: John John Jesse Facebook
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New work by Steve Kim
Steve Kim was one of the featured artists here on the site back when the Creep Machine was only a few months old (here). I am very happy to see that he is still going strong, and has some new work on his site. He also recently had work in a two man show at the ADC Contemporary Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA on March 5th, and will be in the Incognito show at the Santa Monica Museum on April 30th. If you head over to his site to see the new work, make sure you check out his blog and social network profiles to keep up with news.
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New prints by Jason Levesque
Jason Levesque, aka Stuntkid, has just released two new prints. “Dye Job” and “Penny” are both 12″ x 18″ on heavy watercolor paper, signed and numbered in editions of 50.
Get em here: Stuntkid Shop
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The Art of Marie Sena
Marie Sena earned her Master’s Degree in Medical Illustration from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas back in 2007, while attending school she was an apprentice at a tattoo shop. She now lives and works in New Mexico, creating fine art as well as working at Stay Gold Tattoo, in Albuquerque. Marie’s training in medical illustration, added with her training in tattoo art, shows in the line-work, color, and detail each one of her paintings is filled with. The type of training she has had is one of those things you don’t hear often, but when you do it makes perfect sense, as they compliment each other very well. Take a look at the preview images and then check out her site for more.
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“The Pillars of the Earth: A Tribute to the Masters” @ Distinction Art
If there is one theme a group show can have that will consistently reel me in, it’s a show in which the artists are drawing inspiration from earlier periods of art. The last how like this was “The Idol Hours” that took place last November at London Miles (featured). Distinction Art is all set up to open another show with this theme entitled ” The Pillars of the Earth: A Tribute to the Masters” on march 12th, and will continue until April 2nd. There is some great work in this show, and I am glad that a majority of these artists tackled paintings that aren’t often reinterpreted. The list of participating artists is Sean Chappell, Jeff Christensen, Nathaniel Clark, Jon Jaylo, Jason John, Dan Lydersen, Macsorro, Pedro Matos, Joey Remmers, Ivan Unwin, Timothy Vermeulen, Beau White, and Pamela Wilson. Take a look at the preview, and then keep your eye on the site for the full preview.
