A little review:

Warren Ellis gave a good mention.

Creep Machine and, this review.

 Juxtapoz is nice to me too.

meFeedia a little video. I’ll be the first to smash my video interview debut. People actually still talk to me. I have a girlfriend who hasn’t run away from me yet.  There is another interview floating around out there for a documentary. I’m sure that footage is equally scary (at least to me).

If you don’t know what it is, find out! It will really kill the image making field. Fine artists should be as concerned about this as if their career depended on it… because is does! No it might not be obvious how it will affect you at first, but it will. Congress will pass a bill that will pretty much shoot whatever image you make into being an orphan and subject to being used without your knowledge or any compensation. A person who works for any company, be it a restaurant, insurance agency, law firm, whatever, does so with the expectation of being paid a wage for their time and effort. Imagine they didn’t get it. They would quit, or raise hell with their bosses. Artists are stuck. We tend to do what we do even if we aren’t paid. Well some actually use this income we receive to pay our bills and live our lives. Congress is currently trying to FUCK us! Copyrites are fine as they are compared to the bullshit they are trying to pass right now.  So until the bill is passed and I’m forced to pull all my work down so it isn’t used in ways I don’t want it used, I have the start of a painting begun at New York Comic Con this year. The final is on the walls of Last Rites right now.

“Spooky’s Informant” Yes, an X-Files reference.

I posted a sketch from my Moleskine earlier for the red hand. This is only a portion. The bottom part changed a bit from the sketch. The whole thing will be at the show. I need a larger studio. I might not have made all the images I did for this show if I could have had them up on my wall as I worked. Instead, I had them up on the wall in my gallery/office/living-room area of my loft. Upon grouping them all together before the show, I seem to be channeling the X-Files. I’ve always worked late and listened to the late night talk shows. Some of which talk about conspiracies and UFOs etc. One of my favorite shows in the early 90’s was The X-Files. So I sneak things in that you might see as a UFO or shadow creature. The titles of these are, “The Red Right Hand was Left Handed” and “Spooky’s Informant”.

Cyberdine Art Show Explores Boundaries Between Man and Machine
(New York, NY) On May 17th, Last Rites Gallery, New York’s only gallery of dark art, will present Cyberdine, a show of two artists exploring the boundaries between man and machine.

Fred Harper and Christopher Conte are two prolific, artistic virtuosos with a dark, cyberpunk aesthetic which they express in wildly different ways. Born in Norway, Conte’s background is in making prosthetic limbs for amputees.  He now turns his sculptural talents towards mechanized skulls- coils growing like cancer; and predatory, robotic insects poised to strike.   His work has been seen in Wired, Popular Science, Make Magazine, and the Discovery Channel.
Harper, meanwhile, honed his skills as an illustrator and comics artist.  His paintings, alternately moody and violent, are a classically painted savagery of the human form.  Nude sirens with metal and amputated limbs populate a nightmare vision of New York.   Harper’s work has appeared in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Playboy, and Time Magazine, and he’s created the key art for Ozzfest.
Cyberdine’s opening reception will take place on May 17th, 7-10 pm, at Last Rites Gallery, 511 W. 33rd Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues (3 blocks from Penn Station), 3rd floor, New York, NY 10001.  The exhibit runs through June 29th. Visit www.lastritesgallery.com for more information.

About Last Rites Gallery: Last Rites Gallery is New York’s only gallery of dark art.  Founded by legendary painter and tattoo artist Paul Booth, Last Rites opened on April 4th and has received accolades from places as diverse as Inked Magazine, Juxtapoz, and the Channel 11 Morning News.  All shows are curated by gallery director Genevive Zacconi.

Last Rites had their photos, and Dylan Evans just sent me a link to Juxtapoz’s photos from the Last Rites gallery. Hopefully my show with Chris Conte next month will get the same treatment.

I was at the New York Comic Con this weekend. Started a new painting at my table. I’ll have a shot of that one in progress in a few days.

Thanks for the link Dylan!

A follow up from the previous image. Just a detail. I finished this a few days ago for the Cyberdine show coming May 17th. Yeah I know the date is wrong on the right… that will change. May 17th is the correct date.

I decided to explore tattoos and piercings on models. I always wanted to give it a try, but I rarely had models with any tattoos. I like the challenge of drawing another drawing that is on an organic form. I’m working on a painting right now that I plan to put this one on.

I had a blast at the opening Saturday night for Last Rites gallery. I felt naked due to my lack of tattooed sleeves etc. Everyone had these beautiful tattoos all over their arms and legs and necks and faces. They were a really cool and interesting crowd. To top off the evening, my painting sold to a guy named Kevin about 15 minutes before they kicked us all out. I took a few pics…
Chris Conte and Rachael Bess. Chris and I are the next show at Last Rites opening May 17th.
Genevive Zacconi, Michael Hussar, and Molly Crabapple.
Mark Elliot, and Travis Louie next to my painting.

This is cropped. I’ll show the whole painting at my show at Last Rites in May.

Last Rites Gallery has their website up and showing off the group show I have a piece in. I look forward to meeting anyone who has been to this site, at the opening!

Another sketch in my Moleskin while on the train. So far it’s called “It Hovered”.