Malleus has been hard work on their latest poster. 8 colors with an edition of only 80 this is one killer poster. They are getting ready to print the Malleus edition next. On sale soon.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Justin Santora show at My Addiction Gallery and Print Release
My Addiction Gallery presents Justin Santora’s “Expeditions For Momentum“ . The opening reception is November 6, 2010 from 6-10PM!
Justin is a freelance illustrator, studio artist, and screen printer from the Chicago area. His work focuses on themes of construction and disassembly. Through his works, the artist focuses on relating his pursuit for security and his desire for autonomy. Santora’s work captures the simple beauty in a complex world. He creates an atmosphere of reality that engages the viewer to become a part of his work. “This work is largely about making something of one’s own, whatever that something happens to be”. An amazingly captivating artist that cannot be missed!
A limited edition print only available from the gallery will be in their webstore November 7 at 12PM EST.
The show runs until November 30.
My Addiction Gallery is Tucson’s first gallery to specialize in street and urban contemporary art. Each month a new artist from around the world is exhibited. We are also the home of Tucson’s Art-o-mat!
Check out www.myaddictiongallery.com for the store and more info
Handiedan: Habba Habba - Opening Reception
Phone Booth Gallery is pleased to present it’s third exhibition by Dutch artist Handiedan, an intricate opus of new mixed media work that expands the artist’s exploration of bodies, sensuality and iconography. The exhibition opens with a reception on November 6th from 7-10pm. The all ages event is located at Phone Booth Gallery’s exhibition space, 2533 East Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90803. After opening night, the work will be available through December 18, 2010 at the exhibition space, as well as www.phoneboothgallery.com.
Handiedan’s collage work, now even more layered and labyrinthine than in the past, feeds on the tainted history of pin-up girl posters, using torn, aged surfaces to subvert sexiness. At first glance, the images have a nostalgic feeling, fueled by their ornate details and seemingly straightforward compositions, but a closer look quickly reveals their brutality.
Handiedan’s work is neither clear-cut nor gentle. Limbs tangle with each other, eyes, or even whole swaths of figures’ faces, have been scratched out or blurred to the point of obscurity; texts and flourishes from antique ads become almost sinister as environments for these nearly dismembered figures; tattoos and hidden patterns etched into the images add to the density; and gilt frames emphasize an already over stimulating effect.
Like her equally obsessively predecessors Joseph Cornell and Hans Bellmer, Handiedan acts as a collector of the mundane and eccentric, telling visual stories that are familiar but far from linear. In this exhibition, her interest in Victorian erotica and burlesque meshes with Eastern influences—barely clad girls begin to resemble Hindu goddesses, with multiple limbs and towering headdresses. As divergent icons and eras merge, women become symbols of power as much as desire, yet it’s not clear which, or if either, is better.
Though her current work tends toward multi-faceted, multi-hued theatricality, it also embraces an element of noir-inspired starkness. For the first time, Handiedan has experimented with black and white imagery, and to haunting effect. In “Valkyries No. 2,” a cool white skull becomes a habitat for two grayish, ghostly bodies and, in “Thats a damn fine coat your wearing No. 2,” two gun-wielding women embrace each other with suaveness worthy of Bogart and Bacall.
Ultimately, Handiedan presents a new history by repurposing an old one. Posters, icons, typography, constructs, and decorations of earlier eras are toggled together in a way that scratches away at the past’s objectification while celebrating its glamour.
Kings of Atlantis wave 2 from Argonaut Resins on sale today
Wave 2 of the Kings of Atlantis series will be dropping today at 3PM EST. in the Argonaut Resins online store HERE. Each King resin skull will come with hand made custom packaging, a signed and numbered Certificate of Authenticity AND a blind boxed Talisman resin skull magnet. The first wave dropped with The Cookies-N-Cream crew and so will wave 3 - watch for it! There are full images of these new King skulls loaded into the online store so go check them out.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
New Dan McCarthy Elder Days Art Print on sale today
Here is Dan's print of the month for November, called Elder Days. 4 Colors and 18 x 24 inches
On sale at 2pm EST. DanMcCarthy.org
Aaron Horkey & Jay Ryan collaboration print #2
This is so cool to see Aaron and Jay at work again on another print. The first one was fantastic to watch as it came together and then as they printed it. Jay intends to start printing it today. Follow the fun over at Gigposters.com
Rene Gagnon Garanimal Cruelty Art Print on sale
Rene has released a great new print titled Garanimal Cruelty. 2 color silk screen on 250gsm Stonehendge paper (2 deckled edges). Signed, dated, embossed with COA with an edition of only 60.
Buy it at ReneGagnonFineArt.com
New Derek Hess Art Print Wounded on sale
Derek Hess has created a little something new. Called Wounded, it's 4 color serigraph, edition of 100, 20" x 17" - background of this piece is bombed out buildings from World War II.
Buy it HERE
New Missum Art Print Stole My Brothers T-Shirt on sale today
Missum who is half of the Miss Bugs team has been busy away from home working solo under the name "Missum" - she got sick of hanging out here! So she got her water colours out and started some new work! When she announced her departure it sounded like she was off to paint fishing boats and seascapes in Cornwall; but, thankfully not! Although there is the odd duck!
She also has a print available online today - Thursday 4th Nov 1PM GMT
Stole My Brothers T-Shirt
Water Colour and Dry Point Etching Monoprint.
Each piece is unique and will vary slightly from the piece on screen, as each one is etched and hand painted.
Edition 20
Price £190 (postage included)
Checkout her work and the forthcoming print here.... www.missum.co.uk
Ritzy Periwinkle's "Santa Muerte" and "Dr. D. Beaux"
So did you miss the 'Little Monsters' show on Halloween last weekend, well so did I but you can snag the fantastic pieces up from the show online HERE, just like these two awesome pieces from Ritzy Periwinkle titled "Santa Muerte" and "Dr. D. Beaux" which are 4" x 6" acrylic on wood. These two pieces show off Ritzy's skills as a fine artist and to own an OG piece of artwork for only $100 is a steal. Head on over HERE now and pick one up for yourself!
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