BAD ROBOT ART SHOW

This is happening.  Working on my piece now...

APATOW TRIBUTE TONIGHT!

Tonight is G1988's Judd Apatow Tribute group show, hosted by the man himself: Judd Apatow.  It's a great line up, and should be a great show.  Very excited for the opening.

My screenprint "Fogell" has been given a second chance at life and it's all thanks to Jensen and Katie at G1988.  Originally intended for a different (and significantly more disastrous) Apatow tribute show, my Superbad inspired piece will be on display at G1988 tonight and I couldn't be more stoked.

The print pays tribute to the greatest character in what may very well be my favorite Apatow movie of all time.  It is entitled "Fogell", is printed with 3 colors on cool gray Strathmore paper, and is available in an edition of only 20 prints, with the final print in the series for sale in frame.  Printed as always by yours truly, in my lovely garage.

"Fogell"

Edition of 20 prints, inspired by "Superbad"

CENTIPEDE

Here's my piece for the upcoming 'Old School Video Games: Level 2" group show at G1988 Venice. An homage to one of the best/most frustrating games from my youth: Centipede.

Really wanted to participate in this show and nearly ran out of time, but pulled something together yesterday morning at the last minute.  Definitely the quickest piece I've ever done, but pretty satisfied with how it came out.

"Centipede"

8 x 8" 

Watercolor on lanaquarelle paper

Hope to see you at the opening next Friday, Oct 26th at Gallery1988 Venice!

Love the invite image by Scott Scheidly.  So trippy man.

PRESS - Breaking Bad Art Project

The Breaking Bad Art Project is on display for one more week at Gallery 1988 Melrose in LA.  The online response to this show has been absolutely insane and I am so thrilled to have been a part of it.  Check out some of the coverage below!

A great little video made by AMC about the show

Breaking Bad Art Project on E!News

And also a few of the more notable sites that have covered the event:

SoCal Public Radio

Fast Company

LAist

Huffington Post

Flavorwire

Inside the Winnebago

And finally, here is my piece for the Breaking Bad Art Project, commemorating my favorite season of the show, and my absolute favorite meth lab set up thus far, complete with chemistry equipment stolen from J.P. Wynne High School!

"Inside the Winnebago"
Watercolor and gouache on lanaquarelle paper
13 x 19"

*The original painting has been sold, but you can now buy a print of this piece in a size of your choosing through Society 6!

**Also, check out a sweet write-up of the show with pictures of some of the works including mine via LAist!

Breaking Bad Art Project Opening Reception

Still somewhat in shock over how awesome last night was...

Me and RJ Mitte in front of my painting.  He was an incredibly nice guy.

Got to give my Walter White portrait to the man himself!

Also got Bryan to autograph the rubber gloves I used for my painting!

Me and Emily with show creator Vince Gilligan, also a really nice dude!

Gallery 1988 pulled out all the stops and absolutely KILLED it with this show.  So appreciative to those guys for the chance to participate in this show and attend the opening.  

Breaking Bad is one of my all-time favorite shows and I am so incredibly grateful and honored to have had the opportunity to contribute to its history in some small way.  So damn cool, and can't wait for the new episode tonight!

BB preview

Here's a small section of my piece for the Breaking Bad Art Project group show opening next week at G1988!

Respect the Heisenberg.

THE BREAKING BAD ART PROJECT

This is probably the most exciting thing ever.  Still not quite sure how I managed to weasel my way into this show, but Breaking Bad is my absolute favorite series and I couldn't be more stoked on this.

  The culmination of G1988's BreakingGifs campaign, The Breaking Bad Art Project group show will showcase all of the original posters from the viral campaign as well as a handful of new artwork from new artists including yours truly.  

If you've followed the campaign at all you've seen some of the amazing things that have been created in the name of Breaking Bad.  This is going to be absolutely epic. Can't wait to show you what I painted for this one.

CRAZY 4 CULT

CRAZY 4 CULT opens tomorrow night!  Very proud to be a part of this awesome show.  In keeping with their plan of global art domination, this year Gallery 1988 has moved one of their biggest annual exhibitions to NYC.  The gallery space is an impressive two floors and the show boasts some of the best work from over 200 artists.  

Previews of people's work have been popping up all over the place and everything looks incredible so far.  **Check out a sweet write up on the show and some images from Thrillist, including a sneaky appearance from my Eraserhead piece (image #10).  

If you are a New York friend (you know who you are!) please go check out the show and support G1988!  Address and details below:

My painting for the show is admittedly weird, but perhaps not even quite as strange as the movie that inspired it.  After watching David Lynch's 'Eraserhead', I was disturbed and intrigued and knew I wanted to create a piece around it.  The movie has a lot of spermatozoa floating around in it, so I focused on the sperm image as a symbol for life and death and got real weird with it.  Hope you like the painting!

"The Endosperm"

Watercolor on Lanaquarelle paper, 16 x 20"

"The Endosperm" (close-up)

AVENGERS ART

Here's my piece for "Assemble", Gallery 1988's tribute art show for Marvels Avenger's movie (in theaters this Friday).

"Assemble" opens tomorrow at G1988's new Melrose location!

"Sad Iron Man"
Watercolor and gouache on Lanaquarelle paper, 8 x 10".

BUY as a PRINT here!  Contact G1988 to purchase original.


Also, "MEMES" opens this Friday, hope to see you at both shows!!

ASSEMBLE

This one is gonna be freakin' epic.  So honored to be included amongst these extremely talented art makers.

 I will post my painting very soon, for now here is a sneak peek:

MEMES

As a celebration of Gallery 1988's eight year anniversary, an incredible show based on Memes (Appropriately titled, "Memes") will take place at their Melrose gallery location on Friday, May 4th!  If you don't know what a meme is, you probably also still have a car phone and think frosted tips are cool, so lets get you up to speed here.

"ADVICE ANIMALS"
watercolor and gouache on Lanaquarelle paper
11 x 14"

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THIS PAINTING AS A PRINT!

If you aren't familiar with the "advice animals" genre of memes, this page explains everything.

I am also very excited to post a second painting that I just finished, but the show is still under wraps, so stay tuned!!

Thanks for reading!

A frog from the future

Hey check out this sweet frog... from the future.

Stoked to reveal the full piece in a couple weeks.

SOCIETY 6 PRINTS

Recently, I have had a few people ask me to buy prints of some of my recent paintings for G1988.  I do not have the resources to make my own high quality giclee prints, but Society 6 does!

I am proud to announce that all of my most recent gallery pieces as well as a couple others are now available for purchase as affordable prints in various sizes through Society 6! 

Check out my store HERE.

Me & Al

Here is a lovely picture of me and Weird Al, at the opening of "Is This Thing On 2" at Gallery 1988 a couple weeks ago.   He was such a nice guy in person, and took the time to meet all of his fans that came to the show.  He was also familiar with my painting on the wall and knew all the references which was really cool. Weird Al was probably the first person I ever idolized, and meeting him was really awesome.  When I told him this, he responded with a somewhat puzzled, "But you're such a great artist!"  What a humble, rad dude.

This Friday: Is This Thing On 2

IS THIS THING ON 2 opens this Friday at G1988 Melrose!!

A couple websites including FunnyorDie.com have posted a sneak preview of the show.  Check out my Larry David piece among some other amazing works included in this Friday's lineup below!

FUNNY or DIE

LAUGHING SQUID

MONSTER FRESH

Also thanks to everyone who has reblogged my piece on tumblr!  It's been getting a lot of attention and I really appreciate it!

g1988 TUMBLR

Xombie DIRGE


PEACE YA'LL!

"Offering" (For Larry David)/IS THIS THING ON? 2

I'm really excited about the upcoming show at Gallery 1988 Melrose; firstly, because I got to pay tribute to a brilliant comedian whose work I am very fond of, and secondly, because the opening reception is going to be hosted by one of my childhood idols, Weird Al Yankovich!  The show is called "Is This Thing On" 2: The Weird Year, and it opens Friday, March 9th at 7 PM.  As always, it's got lots of great artists in it and you should definitely go check it out if you can.  You can read more about the show HERE.

I received a long list of great comedians to choose to depict for this show, and I quickly singled out Larry David, as 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is one of my absolute favorite shows.  If you are a die-hard fan of the show like I am, you should be able to identify quite a fair amount of jokes from the show in there.  Everyone else,  I really have no idea what you'll make of this...


Stoked to show this piece to the world next friday, and to show it to you, right here, right now:

(Click the picture to view BIG.)

"The Offering"

Watercolor, pen, pencil on strathmore

16 x 20"

Hope to see you next friday.

PopCurious

Thanks to the folks over at PopCurious for posting my ATHF piece along with some of the other great pieces from G1988's Adult Swim show last month.

Check it out here.

Working hard on a painting for my next group show, but I'm going to keep it a secret until the show opens.  I will post teaser pics in the near future.  Very excited about this one.