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  • Shawn Barber “Tattooed Portraits: Chronicle” @ Joshua Liner Gallery

    Opening up this Saturday, April 24th at the Joshua Liner Gallery is the latest solo show from Shawn Barber. Entitled “Tattooed Portraits: Chronicle”, this will be Shawn’s first solo exhibition in New York. The show features 30 new paintings, 8 of which are Watercolor paintings of figure studies and tattoo machines. I was hoping to see some of his watercolor works at his last solo show at the Shooting Gallery (reviewed), so I am happy to see that he has a good amount for this show. Looking at all of the works at once, with the help of the Liner Galleries new website features, you can see that this is a very strong and cohesive show. Not only do we get watercolor pieces, but also paintings of tattoo equipment, studio spaces, arm portraits, and even a series of hand self portraits.
    There is some really outstanding works this time, such as the Portrait of Marisa Kakoulas (shown first), the twin painting of James and Tim Kern, and two paintings of Bob Tyrell. A monochromatic, multiple head study, and a color portrait of Bob screaming. There is also the head study of Jo Harrison, that I mentioned during the Shooting Gallery review; I was wondering when this painting would pop up.

    Take a look at the preview works, and if your lucky enough to be in the area, make sure you stop by. The show is up until May 22nd.
    Shawn Barber @ Joshua Liner Gallery




  • Photos: “The Red Light Exhibit” @ The Dirty Show

    This past February 12th, the “The Red Light Exhibit” curated by Genevive Zacconi and present by The Dirty Show along with Last Rites Gallery opened. The show had works by Paul Booth, Scott G Brooks, Shawn Barber, Vincent Castiglio, Colin Christian, Brian Viveros, Dan Quintana, Camilla d’Errico, David Stoupakis, Michael Hussar and many more. Genevive was nice enough to send over some photos of the reception night, some shots of the works and the festivities that also took place. Some of the photos are NSFW, just wanted to state that so no one got mad at me.


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  • “The Red Light Exhibit” @ The Dirty Show

    Coming this Friday, February 12th from Genevive Zacconi and Last Rites Gallery is “The Red Light District” at the Dirty Show Detroit. Curated by Genevive, the show will feature erotic inspired works by Paul Booth, Scott G Brooks, Shawn Barber, Vincent Castiglio, Colin Christian, Brian Viveros, Dan Quintana, Camilla d’Errico, David Stoupakis, Michael Hussar and more. There is some really amazing work in this, and if you are lucky enough to be in the area, make sure to make it for the reception night. Take a look at the preview images, and then head on over to the full preview.

    “The Red Light Exhibit” @ The Dirty Show Preview



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  • Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine Auction

    Juxtapoz i Magazine is currently having an auction, in which all of the proceeds will go to benefit the Power House Project of Detroit. There are over 100 artists involved in this action, and you can find originals from such artists as: Robert Williams, Josh Keyes, Ed Roth, Chris Mars, Brandi Milne, Shawn Barber, Chet Zar, Joshua Petker, David MacDowell, Paul Chatem, Sarah Joncas, Kelly Vivanco and many more. It looks like the auctions close November 20th. Upper Playground in Los Angeles will have an exhibitions with the work on November 14th.

    Head on over and see all the work: Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine Auction

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  • Review: Shawn Barber “Tattooed Portraits” @ Shooting Gallery

    Right after seeing the Moki exhibition I swung by the Shooting Gallery to check out Shawn Barber’s “Tattooed Portraits” series. His last solo show was the “Tattooed Portraits: “Los Angeles” at the Billy Shire Fine Arts over a year ago. In that show he had a few watercolor paintings of artists hands, I was looking forward to seeing some of those here, but regardless I was happy to see these new works.

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  • Interview: Shawn Barber @ Shooting Gallery News

    Coming this August 15th, Shawn Barber has a new solo show that will take place at the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco. “Tattooed Portraits – Snapshots” is a whole new body of work by Shawn “Contrasting between realistic figurative painting, art history and tattoo culture, this exhibit showcases Barber’s signature brush work”. Right after the Paul Chatem/Mike Maxwell show, Shooting Gallery gives us another amazing exhibition.

    Shawn Barber is not only an extremely talented painter, but a teacher as well. A certain private college I was interested in had him listed on the site as one of the current professors, and when it turned out he was no longer teaching there I was at least able to learn some tricks from the Massive Black released “Foundation Painting with Shawn Barber” dvd, which I highly recommend.

    Shooting Gallery News has just posted an interview with Shawn, so make sure you check it out. Shawn Barber interview @ Shooting Gallery News

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  • Shows this weekend: Sarah Joncas, Kelly Vivanco & Flesh to Canvas

    Here is the rundown of exhibitions opening this weekend. Ton of excellent shows.

    Friday:
    CAVE Gallery will be opening “Curious Oddities” with new work from Josh Taylor, Paul Chatem, Amy Botello, Apricot Mantle, Matthew Ryan Sharp and more.

    Thinkspace Gallery has three big shows taking place. “Beneath The Seams” by Sarah Joncas, “The Conservatory” by Kelly Vivanco and in the project room “Portraits Of The Unknown” by Tran Nguyen. The shows are online and look fantastic.

    Strychnin Gallery will be opening “Midsummer Nights Madness”, with new work from Brian Horton, Leslie Ditto, Edith Lebeau, Angie Mason, Kristen Ferrell, Oksana Badrak and many more

    Roq la Rue will have “Best Loved Tales of Misery and Woe” by Travis Lampe and “About:Face” by Chris Crites

    Saturday:
    Exhibit A Gallery is opening “The Detournements of Wynn Miller”, in which the artists photos are reinterpreted by Shepard Fairey, Shawn Barber, Greg Gossel, Nate Frizzell and more.

    POVEvolving will open “A Touch Of Evil” featuring new works and an installation from Attaboy

    Cerasoli Gallery will host “Out Through The In Door” by Matt Phillips, “Some Are Here and Some Are Missing” by Mario Wagner and “Beyond A Shadow” by Seth Curcio

    Black Maria Gallery has “Nights and Hunters” with new work from Ken Garduno, Jason Hernandez, Michael Hsiung and Sam Saghatelian. And the “Swoon” group show with works from Andrew Bell, Jeremiah Ketner, Julie West and many more

    Billy Shire Fine Arts will be opening “Intemperance” featuring new works by Carrie Anne Baade

    Last Rites Gallery will open “Flesh to Canvas”, a show featuring fine art from “a renowned group of tattoo artists” such as Shawn Barber, Paul Booth, Alex Garcia, Nikko Hurtado, Kim Saigh and many more

    Shooting Gallery will open “Happy Endings” with new works by Greg Gossel. Right next door at White Walls will be “There’s Aliens In Our Midst” with new work from AJ Fosik as well.

  • Photos: “Draw” @ Shooting Gallery SF

    This past weekend the “Draw” exhibition opened at the Shooting Gallery in SF. The show was curated by Erik Foss and Curse Mackey, and contained no less than 360 works of art. It was intense to see that much work dominating the wall space in the gallery. That coupled with the horde of people that stormed into the gallery right when the show started, it was almost too much to handle. They had a pamphlet that had all the works of art listed so it was just a matter or matching up the numbers. I found out about so many new artists, and saw work from some all time favorites like Glenn Barr, Shawn Barber (Shown), Van Arno, Kevin llewellyn, Jonathan Weiner and even from some unexpected ones like Gibby Haynes, David Byrne, HR Giger and Jonathan Levine.

    I took a bunch of pics from the show, but as you can imagine it was hard to grab all of them. So head on over to the Creep Flickr account to see what I was able to grab.
    Draw @ Creep Flickr

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