Juxtapoz Art Charity Auction

Mega Thanks to my Thinkspace possie for hooking me up into this kick ass event!Theres My Thing hanging 2 pieces away from a massive Robert Williams piece?! Awesome.

Flying While Intoxicated

New 24 x 36 Acrylic On Canvas, for MModern Gallery's "The Broken Promise Of The Flying Car" show opening November 21st:)

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried

Did the Front and Back Cover, and I believe I have my own chapter! This Drops Febuary 9th!
You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried by Susannah Gora - Hardcover - Random House

SMart : A SMOD Art Show= G1988

Here are a few pics of whats going down with The Kevin Smith SModcast art show coming up at Gallery 1988 on October 23rd! All of the pieces are based on key funny/weird moments from Kevin Smith/ Scott Mosier's gut busting podcast, which is free to download over on iTunes.My Super multi-talented friend/Hollywood Artist Apricot Mantle constructed this super kick ass 3-D custom frame out of acrylic polymer, and WOW!..he made an awesome painting AWESOMER!?!
HERE'S THE FULL SHOW:) ONLINE!
More funky fun to come in the future: with various collaborations and about 6 super cool art shows coming up before the holidays:) Talk soon!~Dave

"When Yoko Ate Ringo"

18 x 24 Acrylic on Canvas. Yet another Ryden parody-This time it's "Girl Eaten By Tree". This'll be at the "Monsters Of Pop" show at G1988LA opening August 11th. Good Times:)

"Ridin' The Zeppelin"

18 x 24 Acrylic on Canvas. Mash-up of Ryden's "The Four Seasons" and I made the theme rock by making it all about Led Zeppelin. Why Led Zeppelin= I dunno=But it seemed to make a subtle statement about if someones going to be influenced by/ trace from/rip off Ryden=Then they should at least make it Rock;P

"Show Postcards"

Coming soon to G1988LA=following up "Crazy 4 Cult 3"! I'm one of the Four Pop Monsters;D
Alcove Gallery we're currently tearing it up Lynch style..!

"Appetite For Veruca"

24 x 36 Acrylic on Canvas. This suckers on its way to G1988 as we speak, for this years Crazy4Cult 3-D on July 16th. Mucho thanks to Jensen for his patience= This piece took awhile but, Hey=Worked out pretty great actually. Emulating someones style and brushstrokes is pretty easy when the person that youre emulating freaking rawks! When I did the norman rockwell/ringwald piece I couldnt pull off a rockwell technique that wasnt actually from the reference=it all wound up looking like me, and I seriously would like to return to studying his style.

"New Stuff"

Hey-Just filling in whats been going on=The next one will be a nod/parody/satire/homage to this awesome painting by Robert Williams. I've always loved this as one of my fave paintings ever, and have had it taped to my wall the past 2 months, staring at it and wondering how I could do it justice without losing its thunder. Im just going to make it a willy wonka themed thing and just have fun painting it! Wish me luck:)

"Bad Motha' Eraserhead"

18 x 24 Acrylic on Canvas. I did this for a David Lynch Tribute show{The Big Tuna I think its called}-coming up at The Alcove Gallery in Decatur GA and Did another for Distinction Gallery show in Aug.. I did this one using only black,white and violet..Came out cool in the end and maybe I should do more monochromatic stuff, for It was pretty fun and time-wise= it was a breeze. I've wanted to illustrate this image for over a year now, but Travis Louie did an eraserhead painting at RoqLaRue and it totally blew me away= so I was gun shy to do it..But aw hell..I did it anyway{as usual;P}

"The Little Prince"

18 x 18 acrylic on gesso board. A definite nod to Ryden's "Little Boy Blue". Came out pretty cool but my whole intention from the beginning was to add a few drops of {purple} rain coming down=but then ultimately chimped out thinking that it would obscure the cloud/light composition going on in the background there.

"Breakfast Hawks"

14 x 18 Acrylic on Canvas. Not too totally earth-shattering but it is what it is, I guess. Someone will like it;P

"Pretty In Pink"

24 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas. I want to keep doing Breakfast Club mash-up's with old classic paintings, but theyre totally time consuming trying to emulate the painters palate's/styles. Next is maybe "Nighthawks"/Breakfast Club but Im not sure. Whenever I research paintings on the net I always run across that Ron English usually did it first and usually better..Thats why I've only visited the mans website maybe 3 times in my life, because he's already done alot of ideas that Ive been contemplating and I could never top his stuff, so why even try. I know he's done a "Nighthawks" parody {like a billion others have} and he did it with the diner filled with sharks as if it were a gigantic fishtank..Genius! How could I top that?

Thinkspace Gallery/Culver City Invasion Art Party!

"The Princess"

24 x 36 Acrylic on Gesso Board..

"Canceptual [v.3] at Crewest Gallery LA May 2nd to the 30th: Show Piece"

18 x 24 Acrylic on Gesso Board=The can is made of cardboard-{I cut a shipping tube in half;)}, canvas and foam. 

Upcoming May Magazine and Show Flyers..

Heres the new cover for ABORT MAGAZINE -a metal/rap music publication out of Ontario, which I've been doing the covers for for over a year..The original painting featured here is available at Thinkspace Gallery..;)
2 Shows coming up=Stoked Sessions-A charity event at the Upper Playground LA and ....another awesome show coming up is "CANCEPTUAL [v.3]" at Crewest in LA..
..I'm a big fan of Apricot Mantle and Jason Jacenko so its just all around an awesome thing;)

"Mad Magazine Tribute Show"

20 x 24 Acrylic on Canvas, for "The MAD Generation" at The Gallery At East Atlanta. The Dude on the magazine is Dirk-The gallery owner/Director..

"Sour Milk Sea"

Here's the latest Commission piece="Sour Milk Sea" 24 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas..

Random Goodness..

Diary Of A Drooling Awestruck Thinkspace Artist

Some of The Featured art..








My reminiscence="After the jump" ;P




Flew back from LA yesterday-Everything is a Success. The show went over extremely well in every way possible. Massive humble "Thank You's" to all who came and all who will come.. and all who gave props and showed interest, and to all of the kindness from people that I've been doing business with, yet never "met". Wow. Thanks to my Thinkspace peeps, we banged out about 20 gallerys in 11hrs on Saturday, and I got to finally see all of the painters work LIVE= that Ive been worshipping for the longest=McMillan-Hardgrave-May-Limon-Barr-Joncas-Cooper-Dobb-Vivanco-Spoor-Araujo-English-Louie and a brain melting magnitude of more..I've been so inspired that I bought like $300 in oil paints today to see what realms they might open. If anything, just to expand some horizons, because change is good! Here's some pic's from the Thinkspace show that's up until April 3rd I believe;)

New Works Premiering at Thinkspace

Here we Have "The Samuel Jackson 5"  20 x 24 Acrylic on Canvas, and ..Here's "The Enchanted Mental Hospital":) 18 x 24 Acrylic on Canvas.