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  • Shows this weekend: Van Arno, James Jean & Family First

    Aside from the Ron English, Alex Pardee and Beastie Boys tribute show I mentioned earlier, there are some more killer shows opening up this weeked.

    “From the Streets of Brooklyn” at Thinkspace Gallery opened.
    The show features work from 50 Brooklyn artists, with a few installations as well.
    Thinkspacegallery.com

    Esther Pearl Watson & Jessica Joslin both have solo shows at Billy Shire Fine Arts.
    The shows are both online to view.
    Billyshirefinearts.com

    “The Boogie Disease”, featuring new works from Van Arno opens at Shooting Gallery SF.
    The show is online and looks amazing. I will have pics from this show after the weekend.
    Shootinggallerysf.com

    “Family First” opens next door at the White Walls Gallery.
    The show features work by gallery favorites, Ian Francis, Shepard Fairey, Mike Giant, Shawn Barber, Sylvia Ji and many more. The show online as well.
    The work by Ian Francis looks amazing.
    Whitewallssf.com

    “Kindling”, James Jean’s solo show at the Jonathan Levine Gallery opens Saturday as well.
    The preview from the show look great, and if that isn’t enough Keniche Hoshine has his show “The Night Before” in the project room.
    JonathanLevineGallery.com

  • Under the Influence: Beastie Boys show now online

    The Beastie Boys theme art show “Under the Influence” opens at the Gallery 1988 in LA tonight. The show features a whole mess of artists creating art inspired by the band. The show is now online to view, or order art if you wish. Along with original art there is also a good amount of limited edition prints made for the show.

    There are some really great artists in the show such as: Ken Garduno, Tom Haubrick, Matt Dangler, Aaron Jasinksi, Andrew Hem, Michael Page, Alex Pardee and the three shown below, Dave Macdowell, Casey Weldon and Chris Murray. Dave’s painting is of course amazing as usual, the colors and textures in Chris’s and Casey’s Biz Markie with the Ted Nugent shirt and energy beam shooting mouth is too much.

    Check out the show here: Beastie Boys Show

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    cweldon_bizvsbeastie

  • Ron English and Alex Pardee at Fifty24 SF

    Tonight at Fifty24 in San Francisco, Ron English’s solo show “Mythographic Vicissitudes” opens in the lower level of the gallery, and Alex Pardee’s “Letters From Digested Children” opens on the upper level of the gallery. Both are amazing artists and being able to see both shows in the same gallery is too good to be true.

    Arrested Motion has a preview of Ron English’s show Here. Io9.com has a preview of Alex’s show, and it looks like it’s going to be killer. I love the idea of the video installation that he has in the show, I wish this was seen in more shows. Check it out Here

    I’ll be seeing the show in Saturday and will no doubt have many pics to share. For now head over to Fifty24sf.com

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  • “Cult Series” prints by Alex Pardee now available

    Alex Pardee’s series of Cult icons for the Crazy 4 Cult 2 show are now available as limited edition prints. There is 6 different prints, each one 8″ x 10″ signed and numbered in an edition of 50. You can pick up each print for $40, or grab the whole set for $200 over at Gallery 1988 LA.

    I think he picked some really great characters for this series, Baseball Furie #1, Edward Scissorhands, Slot, Johnny Eck (Freaks, 1932), Cop #4 and my personal favorite Ash.

    Alex Pardee Cult Series at Gallery 1988

  • Alex Pardee’s “Bunnywith” now a daily webcomic

    One of Alex’s most memorable creations has to be “Bunnywith”. There have been comics, plush toys, and vinyl toys. Alex stated that “”Bunnywith”, and his adorable smile, allows me to be the asshole I wish I was 98% of my life.” So for those out there that love Alex’s work, as well as this character, we now get even more. The new incarnation of “Bunnywith” is a daily updated web-comic, well almost daily.

    One of the things about looking for new art by your favorite artists, is that it takes time to create. So with web-comics you get something new everyday. Something that can make you laugh, think or just give your day a pick-up. I have a list of web-comics that I read everyday and am very happy to add this one to the line-up.

    Bunnywith Web-comic


  • Alternative Press Expo all this weekend

    All weekend long, if you are in San Francisco you might want to stop over to the Concourse and check out the Alternative Press Expo. It will be filled with all sorts of indie comics, and there will of course be the original art and prints that many of these artists will no doubt have with them.

    I love indie, self published comics, but it is really the art/prints that I am going to see. So I have put together a little list of some of the artists that you will be able to check out at the show. I am told it is not very big, nothing like SDCC, so finding some of these artists shouldn’t be too hard in case I wasn’t able to get the table number they are at.

    – Food One, Dave Crosland & Scott Morse will be at #314, and then later that night at the Space Gallery on Polk for a live art with screen printing on an item you bring.
    – Tom Haubs and Ken Garduno will be there, with some original works and a new zine.
    – Hi Fructose will be there at #350-351, make sure you stop by to pick up some back issues.
    – Lesley Reppeteaux & Daryll Peirce will be at table #119
    – Alex Pardee will be there with ZeroFriends at #150. Bunnywith 2 will be sold, and a new 8″ x 10″ print that looks amazing.
    – Ben Walker will be at table #446
    – Camilla d’Errico will be at table #272, with some prints, keychains and books.
    – David Choong Lee will be at #254-255
    – IDW Publishing will be at booth #331-332, and I think Ben Templesmith will be signing.
    – Jim Mahfood will be at table #314
    – Jeremy Tinder will be at #349 with his new “Papercutter” book
    – Tom Neely will be at #360-361 with some books

    Along with the A.P.E there is also two shows opening that go along with the Expo.
    At Varnish Art, the group show “Crom” opens. It’s all work inspired by the Conan movies from the artists that are there for APE. The show opens at 7pm and will have work from N8 Van Dyke, Jon Wayshak, Alex Pardee and many more. Check it out

    Also, Panelists IV opens at Giant Robot SF at 6:30pm – 10pm. The show will feature work from such comic artists as: Allison Cole, Matt Furie, David Horvath, Mats!?, Tom Neely, Jeremy Tinder and many others. Check it out Here

  • “Awful | Homesick” The Art of Alex Pardee, now available

    If you head on over to Zerofriends, you can snag up the new artbook released by Alex Pardee.
    This is a hardcover book with 96-pages of Alex’s favorite works from 2005 to present.

    The book is in full color, and from the images on the site it looks amazing. Next to prints I think art books are the next best thing to get if you can’t get the originals. It’s always great to work up a nice library filled with art books.

    The best thing is this book is only $20. That is a major steal. Head on over and pick one up.
    Zerofreinds.com



  • San Diego Comic Con!, artists and events

    Well the San Diego Comic Con is upon us once again. I planned on making it out there this year, as I have never been there yet, but I will make it next year. There is some really killer artists making it out there this year. Here is a breakdown of just some of the stuff you should check out.

    Food One is at table #EE-05 in the Artists Alley. He has some prints, drawings and shirt available.

    Tom Haubrick, Ken Garduno & Eric Davison will be at table #f1

    David Mack will be doing signings from Weds to Sun at the Image booth #2729,

    Gris Grimly will be at the Mad Creator Productions booth #509, with some new shorts, a belt buckle and so on.

    In the small press area, Ben Walker will be at booth O-6, stop buy and say hi maybe grab one of his killer prints.

    Last Gasp Publishing will be at booth #1616 with some new releases, Scott Saw will be right across the way at booth #1621 with some new prints for sale.

    Scott Campbell will be at booth #1228 and the Munky King booth #4539 with Iam8bit and nerdcore.

    Tara Mcpherson will be at booth #4922 and the Dark Horse booth #2615 along with Bernie Wrightson, Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Bruce Campbell on Saturday and many others.

    Ben Templesmith will be at the IDW Booth #1705, along with Ashley Wood and his new robot toys.

    Finally, well not finally but all I care to write, Hi-Fructose will be there at booth #4938 with some artists to sign some swag for you. Kukula, Alex Pardee, Ashley Wood, Attaboy, Travis Louie and others. Check out the mainpage for times Hi-Fructose