Halogen Gallery has paired up with The Greenwood Collective and Urban Light Studios to put together this really fun toy and paintingfinstallation show featuring some notable locals and non-locals. The show, entitled Thought Processor, is a rotating show. Here’s the Seattle round-up:
Untitled by Aaron Jasinki
Untitled by Augie Pagan
Now through March 4th, 2010!
It’s easy for artists to be really sketched out about sending around 300dpi images of their works, because 300dpi is print quality; anyone who gets their hands on a 300dpi image can print a copy of an artist’s work.
Luckily for art lovers, Christopher Davison is not too concerned with this issue. In fact, he welcomes it. As of yesterday, he made this particular piece from his Disasters Are People Too series. Check it:
Sculpture Garden (Study Alone) — DOWNLOAD HERE
And here is an older piece:
Christ’s Descent Into Hell — DOWNLOAD HERE
Davison has 18 new pieces available on his website as well, if you’re down to take a look!
Ah, Valentine’s Day — a dreaded holiday for some and the ultimate heart-warming day for others. In either situation, though, viewing some diverse art is a good remedy. Here are some good shows taking place on Friday the 12th, in Portland and Seattle. They’re group shows that show that it’s not just about selfish relationships on Valentine’s Day! Community love’s worth something, too.
Yet another event from Seattle art collective Artifakt
Damager by Grym.
Terror by BeeryMethod.
Lutjanus campechanus by Crystal Barbre. Oil on canvas. 42″ x 72″.
Matroyshka Dolls by iamintricate.
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For the fifth year in a row, the Portland Love Show will be taking place this year at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center (107 SE Washington St.) from 7:00pm to 12:00am.
Here are just some of our favorite pieces showing this year.
Inevitable by BMAC. 16″ x 20″, $100.
Love and Lust Contemplating Their Predicament by Chuck E. Bloom. 14″ x 18″, $950.
Tied by Kindra Crick. Encaustic mixed media. 10″ x 8″, $180.
last of the famous international playboys by John Gajowski. 17″ x 22″, $250.
A diptych by Levan Kakabadze
Hydrogen, by Schühle Lewis, which Lewis says is good for Physicists and Scientists and bad for Creationists. The image is based off of a quote by Edward R. Harrison, which can be found here.
Artist Morgan Blair is all about bright colors and abstract shapes. Her website is dizzying, but a lot of her pieces intersperse geometric shapes with well-drawn figures, and it is these that are most interesting. See below.
Recoat’s Good Wives And Warriors.
Caitlin Hackett combines beauty with decay in this amazingly illustrated Vulpes Masquerade.
Digital collage by Katty Bouthier that is simple but otherworldly.
A drawing by Chris Scarborough that turns this deer into quite a mound of shapes.
Starting yesterday, Jason Limon posted a huge slew of works online in an online gallery that will remain up until the end of February. These small creature paintings with gloss finishes are generally under $200, with some even under $50. A good portion of them have been sold, but if you go quick, you might be able to gather up a couple works for cheap. Click here to view the show.
What happens when New Age themes mix with surrealism and whimsy? Inka Essenhigh’s work! This New York artist has exhibited her oil paintings throughout the United States and Europe, and she now has an exhibit on display at 303 Gallery in New York City through February 20th. Here’s just an itty-bitty taste of what’s on display there.
Snowflake (Pink), oil on canvas, 64 x 72 inches
Green Goddess II, oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches
Fog, Moss, Lichen, oil on canvas, 64 x 72 inches
Last year, I stumbled across Gabriel Mark’s work in a Portland art gallery and was extremely shocked that he was in the back of the gallery, working on a piece for all to see. Furthermore, despite the fact that his price point is probably higher than the average REDEFINE reader is used to, Mark is a genuinely nice guy; he was more than ready to field questions and more than gracious to answer them.
What stuck out in my head instantly is that Mark has traveled the world gathering arts training, whether it be in the form of a more formal education or simply living and learning. And with his diverse variations on oil paintings, he seems to be absolutely at home in the medium. Below are just some of Mark’s works, and I suggest you visit his website to see much more.
Dionysus And Ariadine from his Urban Legend series.
Balance Of Power from his National Cowboy series (giclee print available).
Suzy And Badda from his Cookietown series.
Mark also teaches painting workshops in Oregon certain parts of the year, and his work is currently on display in Jacksonville, Oregon, Ashland, Oregon, and Nashville, Tennessee. See his website for details.
Just as Seattle artist Robert Hardgrave changed his website URL from the playful farmerbobsfarm.com to a more responsible roberthardgrave.com, he’s stepping it up with his artwork. Last night’s show at Joshua Liner Gallery proved it. A classy gallery with a reknowned reputation, Joshua Liner Gallery has a show tonight that will bring in talent from all over.
Here’s just a few more of the things you’ll see if you go visit the gallery before February 6th, 2010:
Tomokazu Matsuyama’s Runnin’ Further Deep Study #3
Mars-1’s Further
Damon Soule’s Decadedense 2
Nome Edonna’s Inside Out
TONIGHT, Andy Haynes has his first show of 2010. He will be showing his works at the The Hive Gallery in Culver City, California. It will be a multimedia event featuring live bands and performances, and will run from 8:00pm to 1:00am. Make it out if you can. The show will feature an installation of 45 new pieces by Haynes right near the entrance of the gallery. If that flyer isn’t enticing enough, you’re just crazy. 
Painting realistic oil paintings requires a ridiculous amount of talent. Greg Haynes certainly knows how to do it right. The paintings might look like the real thing, but the truth is, they often look even more enticing than the real thing.
