Events

Leviathan for #twitterartexhibit

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I’m happy to say that everything worked out and my special #twitterartexhibit one-off painting featuring my linoleum-block print Leviathan is safely in New York, NY, at the Trygve Lie Gallery where it will be sold for charity!

This year, the myriad and wonderful postcard-art show will benefit Foster Pride and the money will be used to provide art education and opportunities to children in foster care! I am proud and blessed to be part of this amazing show with talented artists from all over the world.

The art this year (and in past years) is phenomenal. You can browse the rich variety of pieces on any of these pages:

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/twitterartexhibit
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twitrartexhibit
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/twitterartexhibit

Below are some shots of the piece as I worked on it. You may or may not be able to tell, but there are shimmering silver planes in the water that actually shine when you move the painting.

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Inaugural Haynie’s Corner First Fridays coming up this Friday March 6th!

Art Music and Wine at Haynie's Corner Arts District in Evansville, IN
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As usual, because I never sleep, Sandpaperdaisy Art WILL BE THERE.

I’m slated to appear at Curvo Labs at 58 Adams Ave on Friday March 6th from 6pm-9pm, for the very first First Fridays event at Haynie’s Corner Art District in Evansville, IN! From the businesses to the artists to the art groups involved, all of us are really excited to be a part of this. Below is the press release for the event!

 

 

Contact: Reva Bourgasser            First Fridays Logo
Phone: (812) 422-2111
Reva.bourgasser@artswin.org

Business/Artist/Performer Applications:
318 Main Street Suite 101
Evansville, IN 47708
http://www.artswin.org

Information about First Fridays Series:
http://www.hayniescornerartdistrict.com

Press Release
Haynie’s Corner Art District to begin First Fridays Series on March 6th

For Immediate Release
Evansville, IN: Haynie’s Corner Art District First Fridays are a collaborative effort between local businesses, neighborhood representatives, and the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana. It is a self-guided tour of indoor and outdoor art exhibits and performers designed to highlight local artists and the businesses hosting them on every First Friday of the month.

The festivities will kick-off in Haynie’s Corner Art District on March 6th from 6:00pm – 9:00pm with the heart of the events being located near the fountain beside The Alhambra Theatre. Local businesses and a variety of artists will be participating including Sauced, The Dapper Pig, Patchwork Central, Soap Solutions, Penny Lane Coffee House, Stef L’s Amour, The Beauty Room, 22 Jefferson Art Studios & Gallery, Heather Landry, D’Alto Studios, Jenna Citrus, Matt Fitzgerald, Keith Boyd, Emily Gartner and more! For the full list of businesses and artists participating and to see upcoming events in the area, visit hayniescorner.com.

Amy Rivers-Word, newcomer to Haynies Corner Art District with The Dapper Pig, but a known figure on West Franklin said, “It is great to see the type of community development and energy that has been so prevalent on Franklin Street exploding over into other districts! The Dapper Pig is simply thrilled to be a part of this very vital and vibrant neighborhood, and we can’t wait to see the outcome of this this first collaborative event, First Fridays!”

The First Friday Series will run through October 2015. Art District businesses and local artists are encouraged fill out applications to participate in the regularly scheduled events. It is free to participate. Applications can be found at artswin.org. Interested parties in sponsoring the event may call (812) 422-2111 to learn how to support this programming.

Attached documents: First Fridays Logo, First Friday March map
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Emerging: Featured Artist at the Bower-Suhrheinrich Gallery, January

Solo show at the Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery, Evansville IN
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Yep! I’m happy to say that I’ll be the featured artist in the window of the Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery from January 9 to February 4 (or possibly 5). I’m quite grateful to be given this awesome chance to show off my recent work, as well as a couple of pieces I just finished last night.

(Or this morning at 3am, depending on how accurate you wish to be!)

Wired Holiday Fair!!!

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Yeah, I’m completely floored, but the fact is that this year I will be a part of this amazing experience. This art/craft show is filled to the brim with some of the best artists and crafters in the area, and I’ll be there with them. I can’t overstate how happy I am.

Here’s the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/752170168174181/

The basics, this is a big art and jewelry/craft sale on December 13th, going on from 10am to 4pm at the Wired Coffee House, RAIN OR SHINE. There’s going to be an immense amount of talent here and I will be bringing my best game, including some new art.

This is a fantastic opportunity to pick up one-of-a-kind, thoughtful, and most of all FREAKIN’ AWESOME presents for pretty much anyone in your life. The prices are always nuts too (me and a lot of my buds here practically give our art away, it’s crazy) so this is a holiday shopping event not to be missed on any level.

Oh, happiness! New shirts up at Threaded Canvas and an announcement

Art shirts by Heather Landry featuring horror art about Lilith, Adam, Cthulhu, Darkness by Byron and a faceless crowd.
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Yeah, I just happened to see that my new shirts are up at Threaded Canvas!!

(I’ve been kinda busy)

Anyway, I’m especially happy to see my Darkness linoleum block print on there because I will be launching into a NEW series about the poem after finishing up some jobs…AND IT IS NOW A CONFIRMED SOLO EXHIBITION FOR SUMMER-FALL 2015 WITH A VENUE. I’m going all out on this one. For those of you who haven’t read my earlier posts, I did a series of traditional prints to illustrate Byron’s poem back in 2001.

Now, 14 years later, I want to show myself and one very special fan how far I’ve come.

Melissa Erwin’s The Mother Load

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Today I want to show you some of the crazy-awesome pieces from TACODoom artist Melissa Erwin‘s newest show, The Mother Load down at PG Gallery. As you can see below, these incredibly rich and detailed pieces are lavish with color, texture, and unexpected associations. They’re made even better by being gorgeously printed on canvas and mounted onto interesting and varied surfaces including leather and reeds. (Of some sort, I’m not a reed/tatami/bamboo sort of expert even though I adore it.) As usual, I took pictures of a few but not all of the wonderful pieces in the show. Feast your eyes on this!!

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So where did all these crazy ideas and textures come from? I’ll let the artist herself explain in her own words. From Erwin’s facebook event page:

Sometimes after suffering some severe frustrations my brain will vomit out a large quantity of questionable imagery. Then I need to do something about it more constructive than a stabbing spree.

This would be that.
A series of digital illustrations based on scribblings in my trusty sketch pad.
Fair warning, I’m not responsible for any weird feelings or nightmares resulting from them.
After all, I don’t sleep at night, why should you?

I have to warn you, I saw a lot of “sold” stickers already, which did not surprise me in the least considering the amazing artwork and the unreal prices (I’m talking $35, $65…it’s nuts!!). The show’s up until the 17th~18th so be sure to check it out before then before everything sells.

digital mixed media pieces exploring a variety of bizarre themes and subject matter

Incidentally, keep your eyes peeled for more posts about Erwin’s art. I’m planning “A Look Back At…” series of posts featuring other amazing art shows I wasn’t able to document at the time, including Erwin’s Grenade Pin Girls series, her It Can’t Happen Here show and her Benign Acquiescence show. I’ll also be featuring Amy Wilke‘s awesome show Still Lives: Wunderkabinett, Space Madness II, some past shows of mine, and other shows and events that were too good to miss.

Here’s some of what was at Night Gallery!

works by Ryan McKain Damon Murray and Megan Black
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Would you know it, my phone died while I was setting up. No event photos for me! Fortunately for you all, I went and grabbed a lot of art for myself. So I can at least show you pics of what I bought. If I get permission, I’ll also feature some other pieces of art I admired that I know people took pictures of, so stay tuned for a possible update.

First off, the featured image above is a painting on poster-board by Ryan McCain, who somehow manages to be an amazing artist and a heck of a nice guy as well!! He has a huge body of work and he’s done mural work too…I’m a new huge fan. The second image of a creepy and fascinating guy is by Ryan too:

painting on posterboard
painting on posterboard

Below, I also snatched up a gorgeous little wire and bead tree on driftwood by Damon Murray. Next year this sculpture artist will have an even more amazing array of art, which will be hard considering how beautiful all of his trees and other small wire sculptures are. But he’s experimenting with MAGNETS now!! Our fellow artist Megan Black showed me an amazing little spider he made that actually moves and dances because of magnets. It was awesome…

wire, bead and driftwood small sculpture of a purple tree
wire, bead and driftwood small sculpture of a purple tree

Speaking of Megan Black! Check this out: this year she premiers her new loveable and intricate Voodoo Babiez styles!! Each one of these individual dolls is painstakingly and lovingly crafted with Meghan’s love rather than with bad juujuu, and I GOT ONE. Not only one, a PINK BUNNY ONE. …yeah my excitement pretty much knew no bounds when I took this little lady home…

adorable hand-stitched felt voodoo dolls crafted with love
adorable hand-stitched felt voodoo dolls crafted with love
adorable hand-stitched felt voodoo dolls crafted with love

Lastly, I grabbed an amazing Monster Pin-Up Calender by Christy Jochum!

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I also admired everyone else’s stuff including all the amazing vintage paintings and drawings by Lisa Herzog.

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It was a fantastic event and a great night all around, I can’t wait to see who will be there next year!

Night Gallery is tomorrow!

Gorgeous morbic handmade jewelry by Silent Salvation Jewelry
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Come on down to the Ahh Spa, 600 North Weinbach, tomorrow October 4rth from 6pm to 9pm to snap up some fantastic scary and morbid art, jewelry and other treats and goodies! At least 20% of all sales go to benefit PAAWS Animal Rescue, and some artists do more! The lovely piece above is by Jamie Gish-Bates of Silent Salvation Jewelry and Watches.

Here’s the Night Gallery event page where you can see awesome art and cute Voodoo Babiez plushies that people will be bringing, and more! I’ll be bringing a fistful of new morbid and creepy art prints, so be warned.

A couple of more previews of Nomadic Views art!

images from the upcoming October 4rth 2014 art opening at Corvidae Collective in Nashville
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Check them out, don’t they look awesome?? This from Corvidae Collective’s facebook page. I’m also blown away that DIVE is honored to appear next to these awesome pieces. I just know that the overall show is going to be phenomenal. I can tell that the leftmost image is another one by Karen Short, but I’ll have to find out who did the middle one (which I also adore) so I can point you toward their page.

I did discover another awesome artist named Dolly Gode through this art show though. She’s freaking awesome!! I don’t know if she did the middle image or not, but I like her work a lot.

Nomadic Views at Corvidae Collective, Nashville opens October 4

Stardust by Karen Short for Nomadic Views at Corvidae collective, Nashville
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Coming from the amazing Corvidae Collective Gallery and Boutique in Nashville, TN is its latest show, Nomadic Views! Featuring “fantastical views from this world and Beyond,” it promises to be fantastic. I am very honored to have two pieces included in this show. Also, I’m sorry I couldn’t find a bigger image of “Stardust” by Karen Short for the feature image, I just used the one from the show description below. Looks freaking awesome though.

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The exhibit they’re currently showing, LIT, featuring artwork inspired by banned and challenged classics, is amazing too. My favorite is the Catcher in the Rye piece but they’re all great.

Night Gallery 2014 coming up October 4

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I’ve done Night Gallery for the past two years now and I’m coming back a third time for this awesome and creepy horror-themed art show! Not only is it dripping with fantastic macabre art of all types, kinds and prices, as well as tasty Halloween Treats, a minimum of 20% of all art sales goes to benefit PAAWS Animal Rescue!!

Night Gallery will take place from 6pm-9pm on Saturday, October 4 at the Ahh Spa in Evansville. See you there!

The Facebook events page is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/332689243579497/ and the awesome cover art (pictured above) is by Christy Jochum, from her insanely awesome “Beauty and Brains” zombie pin-up series!

TALES FROM THE CLARKSIDE ALBUM WEBSITE IS LIVE!!!

carl clark's jazz comic tribute to comic artists with art by paul gulacy and heather landry
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Yes it’s totally live and oh my lord it is GORGEOUS!! You can hear samples, read about the full story behind this creative and deeply involved tribute to comic artists, even get your own copy of the album or the album + the comic!! Run, don’t walk to http://talesfromtheclarkside.com/!

And yes that’s my Amp Head gif, I’m incredibly proud of this simple animation I managed to pull out after taking more and a decade off from doing animations.

Amp Head hero from the Tales from the Clarkside comic and album by Carl Clark, illustration by Heather Landry

Ain’t he cute?

I did two more simple animations which I will post tomorrow and Friday, the first day of our appearance at Cincy Comicon!!

More sample music from Tales from the Clarkside!

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You’ll be hearing about this all week from me no doubt…these are samples from the amazing sintrumental jazz album “Tales from the Clarkside” that my friend Carl Clark is premiering at Cincy Comicon this upcoming Sept. 5-7!! You get more of a feel for the sheer variety and talent of his songs here…as before, accompanied by visuals from the comic I illustrated to accompany the album. He’s used the same pages as his backdrop for this video, so he may not be planning to show new art before our release at Cincy. We’ll see!

Preview from “Tales from the Clarkside” premiering at Cincy Comicon!!

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That’s right guys, that’s my art with Carl Clark’s fantastic jazz music! We’ll be at Cincy Comicon, Sep. 5-7 in the Artist Alley, with the comic/album set as well as tons more art and comics, including The killing of Dreams and Dog Street: Part 1! Come see us there!

Carl says this song was directly inspired by my piece “Atomic Jazz” and the story behind the picture. I couldn’t be more proud to have inspired such gorgeous tunes! I’ve heard most of the album, it’s mindblowing. Every song is different and they all highlight a different wonderful artist. You don’t want to miss this! If he releases any more music I’ll share it here, I promise. It’s awesome.

SPACE MADNESS 2: THERE IS NO CURE!!!! TONIGHT!

sci-fi space themed group show by the arts council of doom at angel mounds august 2014
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That’s right, The Art Council of Doom’s second Sci-Fi themed show opening is TONIGHT!!! As you can imagine, it’s all space-themed art including Star Trek and Star Wars stuff. In my case I have archival prints of Yggdrasil and a new piece, Nebula for sale! I’ll post Nebula for you all sometime after the opening.

See you there! =D

Show runs through the end of August at Angel Mounds State Historic Site, here is the Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/557546804350064/

Our upcoming July 12 Hand Prints show featured in this Sunday’s paper!

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The Sunday paper today (Evansville Courier and Press) featured a beautiful spread with our art for the upcoming July 12 “Hand Prints” show at Wessleman’s Nature Center, as you can see. The online article is here: http://www.courierpress.com/news/2014/jul/05/arts-beat-printmakers-step-out-of-the-shadows-in/

Thanks to Stephanie Osbourne of littlelemonpress for her awesome snapshot of our article. The prints shown are two lovely block prints by Stephanie: “Zinnias” and “Life and Death,” and my very own Tentacle Raccoon at the far right.

21st Annual Working Together Exhibition

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Yesiree Bob (and everyone else besides Bob) I’m gonna have one of my pieces in Working Together 2014! I’ve been wanting to get into this show for over ten years now, so I’m even more thrilled than usual. This year, I finally got in with one of my Chordata pieces, the snake skeletons!

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two snake skeletons created with paper decoupaged onto wood and acrylic

It’s funny, I was so proud of these babies when I finally finished them (THEY TOOK FOREVER) and then I virtually forgot about them after Patchwork Dragon, the solo show where they debuted. Thank goodness I thought of them when the call for entries came!!

The opening reception is Saturday July 12th from 6pm to 8pm at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, feel free to come check it out! I saw some of the entries this year and there were some really cool things, I’m really interested and curious to see this year’s featured artists.