Artist and curator Jeremy Cross‘ fourth solo exhibit is now on display at the Hyaena Gallery in Los Angeles until the end of the month! With thirty plus works in the house, Cross examines the human condition and its relationship with faith, by placing religious symbols and iconography alongside human body parts. The above piece, It Swallows You, features mixed media and pyrography, the art of decorating wood with the controlled application of a heated object.

www.myspace.com/botchedcross
www.hyaenagallery.com

A documentary started by artist and art promoter Mark Murphy of Murphy Design, Scribble.08 follows the Los Angeles art scene by honing in on the works of artists like the Clayton Brothers, Camille Rose Garcia, Jeff Soto, Kevin Christy, Martha Rich, Tim Biskup, and Joe Sorren (pictured above). Newly edited and reworked, the film features interviews and takes a look into the creative process of these individuals. You can read more about the documentary on Murphy Design’s Blog.

www.murphydesign.com
www.claytonbrothers.com
www.camillerosegarcia.com
www.jeffsoto.com
www.kevinsayshi.com
www.martharich.com
www.timbiskup.com
www.joesorren.com
murphydesign1.blogspot.com

TONIGHT at The Together Gallery in Portland, Oregon: the decorative mixed media works of Evan B. Harris are on display for what will no doubt be an extremely impressive solo show. Utilizing broken boards, oil paints, acrylic paints, charcoal pastels, resin, wax, and many more mediums, Harris creates textured works that recall Victorian eras and ornamental wallpapers. Portland musicians Horse Feathers will also be playing a show on the back patio, to complete the aural/visual picture!

www.togethergallery.com
www.evanbharris.com
www.myspace.com/horsefeathersmusic

Greg Ferris is inspired by machines, architecture, and perhaps the mystical. Combine those things, and you get a shiny new .gif-fy take on what all those things might look like when worked together. Here’s what Ferris had to say about this piece:

“This particular work sprouted out of conversations with a local sea-faring veteran I often encounter during my daily routine. I’m a young man, and he has more than a few lifetimes on me… perhaps save this insight as the foundation for visual dialogue.

All the elements are piled about my studio: the wood blocks photocopied, angular rainbow cut outs, white-out, and the final collage hangs. I put it into the computer, then realized how much more it would convey as a 2 frame .gif animation. Like a circulating perspective, through the sextant? Macro/micro conditions? Not the most conventional medium, but undeniable I think.”

gregferris.info

From now until September 5th, the Distinction Gallery in Escondido, California has an extremely exciting group show that shows off what our world might look like if the mystical was paired with the scientific. Floating objects defying gravity, bodies contorting into miscellaneous shapes, and human limbs that look more like jello are all present in full force.

The lineup includes Sean Chappell (with Renewal 1, above), whose time and space-traversing works are modern surrealism at its best. Also on display are pieces by the whimsical Gene Guynn (with Revolution, left), the charmingly unpolished Joseph Borzotta (with Bittersweet Fruit of Knowledge, bottom left), the conceptually-amazing Andy Haynes (with Overhead the Albatross Hangs Motionless Upon the Air, bottom right), and the pop-surreal Joka (with Do Humans Dream of Organic Peace, below).

But seriously, as if these pieces aren’t exciting enough, there are more amazing pieces by similarly-themed individuals such as the amazing work of Christian Rex Van Minnen (see previous blog post here and twisted story book art of Mark Bryan.

This lineup is definitely ridiculous and shouldn’t be missed if you like the surreal at all. So go check out the Distinction Gallery, NOW!

www.distinctionart.com
www.seanchappell.com
www.geneguynn.com
www.josephborzotta.com
www.andyhaynesart.com
www.myspace.com/joka444
www.seevanminnen.com
www.artofmarkbryan.com