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  • David Hochbaum @ Corey Helford Gallery, Sept 15th


    David Hochbaum, a seriously cool mixed media artist will have a solo show at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City this Saturday, September 15th. This new show will “feature a sculpture installation created from hundreds of ladders and faux birds, completing the theme of nomadic displacement.” Sounds great, I can’t wait to see the new works.

    I recently got into this artist and have really been drawn in by his style, two of my favorite forms of art, photography and painting, and he mixes them so well. I would really love to know how he gets the photos to set into the paint and mix in so seamlessly. I’ve seen mixed media before where the photo looks clearly “slapped” in, whereas his looks like it supposed to be there. Yet again, more work I need to see in person.

    David Hochbaum
    Corey Helford Gallery

  • Art shows this weekend

    There are some really killer art shows opening up this weekend, here is just a little taste of what will be going on. Make sure to check out the pages of the galleries as well, I’m sure most of them will be adding pics of the shows.

    “Strange Brew” group show of Canadian artists, such as the amazing Ben Tour. BLVD Gallery in Seattle, WA.

    “So Many Selves..” group show, featuring many artists like Josh Taylor and Ken Garduno @ Carmichael Gallery in West Hollywood, CA.

    “Global Storming” featuring Dennis Hayes IV, Erik Able and 2h. The show is @ the Thinkspace Gallery, pics are now online.

    Shepard Fairey’s show “One Man Army” will have it’s reception on the 14th and the 15th at the Toyroom Gallery in Sacramento.

    I’ll be heading over to the second reception on the Shepard Fairey, and this time I’m coming back with photos to open up the gallery area in the site.

  • Scott Campbell’s Showdowns Series 2, Crazy4Cult prints

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    If you missed on the first series of Scott Campbell’s “Showdowns” prints, you won’t want to miss Series 2. This next series has scenes from 2001, Predator, The Exorcist, Fistfull of Dollars & the Goonies. Sloth even has a little Baby Ruth, how cool is that?

    You can get this print directly from the Crazy4Cult page, they will go on sale September 20th, and I’m sure they won’t last long. Here’s the info:

    Each set has 5 prints, the sets are limited to 35. Each print is hand-signed and numbered, 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches each. These are Giclee prints on archival paper, and are only $60 for the whole set. Here’s a close-up of the Sloth print, so you can see how amazing these prints are: Goonies close-up

    Remember, they go on sale September 20th at Crazy4cult

  • 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