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  Last Rites Gallery 5th Anniversary Show.

  Posted: 4-April-2013, 10:09pm EDT by Corinne Faith Leita

  Last Rites Gallery is pleased to announce its 5 Year Anniversary Show that will feature over forty works of art by a selection of its acclaimed roster of artists. April 13?May 18, 2013. Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13, 7pm - 12am Continue reading →
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  Xue Wang / Leslie Ditto @ Copro Gallery

  Posted: 23-February-2013, 6:07am EST by CoproGallery

  XUE WANG "Time Off For Good Behaviour" / Leslie Ditto "Humanity Lost" Saturday, February 23, 8:00 - 11:30 PM Copro Gallery presents artist, Leslie Ditto's exhibit titled "Humanity Lost". This body of work focuses on mankinds' attempt to control nature with Leslie's stylized, anthropomorphic depictions of animals in captivity. Xue Wang's "Time Off For Good Behaviour" concerns Crimes both heinous and petty & Criminals legendary and laughable; here is a shadow world filled with the extremities of the human zoo. Continue reading →
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  Strange Birdhouse Collective Launch

  Posted: 19-February-2013, 6:22am EST by beinArt

  Strange Birdhouse Collective Launch at Castlemaine Fringe Festival - Botanical Gardens Tearooms at 6pm on Sunday, March 17th. Continue reading →
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  La Luz de Jesus? Annual Laluzapalooza Artists Announced

  Posted: 19-February-2013, 9:00am EST by leejoseph

  After publicly extending their annual Laluzapalooza juried group show submission deadline an extra month, La Luz de Jesus Gallery's Billy Shire and Matt Kennedy sorted through over 15,000 images to select over 220 paintings, drawings, sculptures, assemblages, and photographs to be included in their biggest show of the year Continue reading →
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  ?Anomalies? ? sneak peek and online preview.

  Posted: 12-October-2012, 2:29am EDT by Corinne Faith Leita

  The web preview for ‘Anomalies’, the upcoming beinArt Collective show at Copro Gallery, is now online! Check out the full preview here.

  Keep scrolling for a sneak peek of some of the amazing work below.

  The show opens this Saturday the 13th of October at 8pm – 11pm and runs until November 3rd.

  

  Scott G. Brooks

  

  Jessica Joslin

  

  Pamela Wilson

  

  Esao Andrews

  

  Naoto Hattori

  

  Santiago Caruso

  “Anomalies” will be the third beinArt Collective group show at Copro Gallery, curated by Jon Beinart. The participating artists have been hand picked for their natural disposition towards the strange and deranged. This exhibition will showcase over 50 artists’ interpretations of “Anomalies” and sideshow/carny culture. There will be paintings, drawings and sculptures of subjects that will deviate, distort and mystify. Human oddities, anatomical wonders, freaks, geeks & gaffs. Step right up and peek inside the beinArt Collective’s cabinet of curiosities!

   

   

   

   

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  Jury now open for LALUZAPALOOZA 2013 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery!

  Posted: 27-October-2012, 7:05am EDT by Corinne Faith Leita

  “LALUZAPALOOZA” (Exhibiting March 2013)

  THE JURY IS OPENED!

  We’ll be accepting submissions VIA EMAIL ONLY for next year’s jury from October 1 through December 31, 2012.

  All work submitted must be: less than one year old – never have prior exhibited – available for sale. Artists may submit 1-5 low resolution (72 dpi, 1000 pixels high), unzipped jpegs. File names must be saved in this format: LastName_LG_Title-of-Piece.jpg (the “LG” is a filing aid, so leave it in there!)

  Indicate within the body of the email (NOT AS AN ATTACHMENT) the following for each: Your Name – “The Title” – Medium (Oil on canvas, etc) – Dimension, Width” x Height” (x Depth” – if applicable) – Framed dimension, Width” x Height” (x Depth” – if applicable) – $ Retail price.

  Also include your complete contact information: Your name – Mailing address – Phone number – Email and website address.

  We are not accepting submissions that would require returning artwork to an address outside the continental USA. E-mail jpegs to us at info@laluzdejesus.com with the subject heading “Group Show Submission”

  Submissions that do not follow this format will not be reviewed. Do not submit work that is for sale elsewhere or otherwise likely to be unavailable for sale in this show. If you are accepted and any of the pieces you’ve submitted are not available, you will be disqualified. We will not put any of your work in the show, and you will not be invited back. It is not necessary to send a follow up email. If your work is accepted, we will get in touch with you by the second week of February 2012. If your work is accepted, it is expected to be display ready, meaning that paintings must be wired for hanging, and sculptures must be free-standing or pedestaled. We showcase mainly figurative, narrative paintings and unusual sculpture. Our focus is not abstract expressionism and we are not accepting photography, video or digital art, edition prints or environmental installations. Please also bear in mind that wall space is limited, so we are imposing a limit of 24″ on the largest side, and strongly encourage much smaller work.

  The annual group show has gone by different names over the years: “Noncommercial Art by Commercial Artists,” “Everything But the Kitschen Sync,” and now, “Laluzapalooza.” It is a gigantic, no-theme exhibition that consistently features work from the freshest and most relevant artists working today. We invite commercial illustrators, graphic designers, tattooists, scenic painters, students, and animators to submit, and sorted through tens of thousands of submissions before finalizing the contributor list. The show is open to all artists we have previously exhibited, as well as to brand-new, undiscovered, and underground talent.

  Since opening our doors in 1986, the focus has always been to grant exposure to emerging talent while continuing to showcase our established stars. This important annual exhibition is a wonderful forum for reaching our extensive list of collectors and patrons, and establishing a fan base beyond your circle of regular buyers. Previous shows have featured the biggest names in post-pop contemporary art. This show launches careers, solidifies reputations and has previewed work by artists showcased in the Whitney Biennial. We welcome you to extend this invitation to friends and colleagues. We look forward to your submissions, and wish you all the best of luck.

  Sincerely,

  Matt Kennedy, Gallery Director

  La Luz de Jesus Gallery

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  Christian Rex van Minnen / Adam Miller / Billy Norrby

  Posted: 10-November-2012, 9:04am EST by CoproGallery

  Copro Gallery presents three exhibitions opening, Saturday, November 10 – December 1.   Christian Rex van Minnen has been heralded as the modern Giuseppe Arcimboldo, making his way into the art world armed with old world execution,  warm
  colors of bittersweet chocolate and burgundy velvet. Composition and color serve only as thin veils which barely distract from the dripping hordes of redundant flesh and undecipherable realms of deformation. Neo-Grotesquism springs forth with a fiery vengeance, offering beautiful  reconstructions of hideous fungus, tumor-like protrusions, and flora and fauna, all married into modern yet simultaneously archaic portraiture. Enter a world where ugliness and beauty merge as one, challenging the narrow definitions of both.
  (credit Lana Gentry)

  Adam Miller’s “Among the Ruins”
  For this exhibition Adam has been on a year long painting odyssey moving into mostly larger format paintings, all  inspired by the scale and narrative of Renaissance painting and the scale of  New York City. Adam’s paintings explore the intersection between mythology, ecology and humanism. Visually inspired by baroque and Hellenistic narrative painting they take a polytheistic approach to contemporary folklore, questions of progress and the experience of human narrative in the face of technological change and the
  struggle to find meaning in a world poised between expansion and decay.

  Billy Norrby “DISTANT SHORE”

  The characters of Distant Shore find themselves in a state of transition. Longing and unspoken ambition places their core elsewhere, at odds with their familiar surroundings.
  At the border of the known and the beyond, they stop and contemplate an uncertain future.
  Billy Norrby is a New York based artist. After graduating from SVA, Billy Norrby’s artwork has been featured in a multitude of galleries across the states and Europe. His work has also been seen in several Illustration annuals such as Spectrum, 3×3 and at the  Society of Illustrators.

  Copro Gallery – Bergamot Station
  2525 Michigan Ave , Unit T5, Santa Monica , CA 90404 Ph: 310/829-2156 E-Mail: CoproGallery@live.com Web-site www.CoproGallery.com
  Adam Miller “Among the Ruins” web-preview
  Christian Rex van Minnen “FEVER DREAM ” web-preview
  Billy Norrby “Distant Shore” web-preview 

  Copro Gallery NOVEMBER PRESS RELEASE

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  Chet Zar Book Release and Signing Party at La Luz de Jesus.

  Posted: 21-November-2012, 6:06pm EST by Corinne Faith Leita

   

  Order now from Last Gasp

  Black Magick?The Art of Chet Zar presents, for the very first time, a chronicle of Chet Zar’s eclectic career. From his beginnings in the Hollywood special-effects industry to his establishment as a widely respected fine artist, Chet’s unique world of monsters has fascinated and influenced those in fields as varied as tattooing, music and art academia. Now, through this publication, Chet gives us unprecedented access to his story. In addition to Chet’s own reminiscences, this book offers contributions from creative forces who run the retrospective gamut of Chet’s career, including Paul Booth (renowned tattooist), Jovanka Vuckovic (award winning author, filmmaker and former editor of Rue Morguemagazine) and Guillermo del Toro (film director).

  Featuring over 150 full-color images of his paintings, sculptures and sketches, plus behind-the-scenes images from his time in the special-effects industry, Black Magick?The Art of Chet Zar is a must-have for anyone who has ever been curious about monsters? or the man behind them.

  Born on November 12th, 1967, in the harbor town of San Pedro, CA, Chet Zar’s interest in art began at an early age. His combined interest in horror films and art eventually culminated into a career as a special effects make up artist, designer and sculptor for the motion picture industry, designing and creating creatures and make up effects effects for such films as, “The Ring”, “Hellboy I & II”, “Planet of the Apes” and the critically acclaimed music videos for the art metal band Tool. Zar also embraced the digital side of special effects as well, utitlizing the computer to translate his dark vision with 3D animation for Tool’s live shows and subsequently releasing many of them on his own DVD of dark 3D animation, “Disturb the Normal”.

  His artistic influences include painter James Zar (his stepfather and artistic mentor), Beksinski, H.R. Giger, Frank Frazetta, M.C. Escher, Bosch, John Singer Sargent and Norman Rockwell just to name a few.

  “Chet’s art is beautiful & scary. His style has a modern twist crashing into a classical approach. I think Chet is a master painter on his way to making a great mark in our little world. Wanna do something smart with your money? Invest in a Chet Zar painting.” ? Adam Jones (TOOL).

  11″ x 9.3″ x .8″
  2.6 Lbs.
  Hardcover
  176 pages
  $45.00

  Published by beinArt Publishing. Distributed by Last Gasp.

  Chet Zar Book Release and Signing Party at La Luz de Jesus - Monday, December 10th, 2012.

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  Christopher Ulrich?s ?The Reckoning? at La Luz de Jesus

  Posted: 2-December-2012, 5:27am EST by Corinne Faith Leita

  Following on from “Demoneater” in 2010 and “Illuminator” in 2011, this exhibition marks the final chapter in the Christ Chronocrator Cycle.
  “The Reckoning” will open December 7, 2012 8pm to 11pm at La Luz de Jesus Gallery.

  Christopher Ulrich is perpetually creating a personal mythology that involves the lives of all creatures he has come into contact with. Illuminating this journey with his skill, heart and determination he strives to create honest works of depth and character.

  Christopher exhibited a painting in March of 2005, (the Demoneater prototype) for the Alex Grey Chapel of Sacred Mirrors benefit at the Hollywood Athletic Club in California. Soon after this, Christopher began to work on his major Demoneater series which is the first of three. This Demoneater series has been made into a book. He completed Illuminator, which exhibited in 2011 and is preparing to exhibit the third and final installment in the Christ Chronocrator cycle in late 2012.

  “The Reckoning” – La Luz de Jesus Gallery
  December 7th thru December 30th, 2012

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  Black Magick ? The Art of Chet Zar now available for purchase!

  Posted: 13-December-2012, 6:01am EST by Corinne Faith Leita

  beinArt Publishing is very excited to announce the release of Chet Zar’s long-awaited art book, “Black Magick – The Art of Chet Zar”.

  Black Magick – The Art of Chet Zar is now available for purchase online via our distributor, Last Gasp.

  A chronicle of Chet Zar?s eclectic career. From his beginnings in the Hollywood special-effects industry to his establishment as a widely respected fine artist, Chet?s unique world of monsters has fascinated and influenced those in fields as varied as tattooing, music and art academia.

  Now, through this publication, Chet gives us unprecedented access to his story. In addition to Chet?s own reminiscences, this book offers contributions from creative forces who run the retrospective gamut of Chet?s career, including:

  ? renowned tattooist Paul Booth

  ? award-winning author, filmmaker and former editor of Rue Morgue magazine Jovanka Vuckovic

  ? film director Guillermo del Toro

  Featuring over 150 full-color images of his paintings, sculptures and sketches, plus behind-the-scenes images from his time in the special-effects industry, Black Magick: The Art of Chet Zar is a must-have for anyone who has ever been curious about monsters?or the man behind them.