Hey, remember that IDN book I was talking about? My pal Nick Zegel scanned my spread, and now I shall post it for you! click it for high res. If you wanna see all the other talent this book stores, you can buy it here.

Some scenes and sounds from a resent Rhode Island art show for Impose Magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

In these trying economic times, continuity often demands a hit to ones pride, or a duck from moral standards. BEG BORROW STEAL assembles the work of a variety of emerging artists who embrace theft and appropriation as key elements in their creative process.

BEG BORROW STEAL is a group show of 35 young artists, juried and curated by Aaron M. Segal, a MassART graduate. Aaron is currently the art preparator of the LaMontagne Gallery. His objective for the show was to organize a group of peers, who may at this point in their careers still have limited access to commercial galleries, and give them the opportunity to show in one of Boston’s best. In the spirit of the show, the LaMontagne Gallery has been begged borrowed and stolen while Russell LaMontagne is on vacation, hopefully he won’t mind.

Contributing Artists:
Aimee Belanger, Octavia Bennet, Brian Butler, Michelle Carter, Cydney Cnossen, Corey Corcoran, Ryan Crowley, Alexander DeMaria, Hilary Doyle, Terrence Gaidamovcio, GJYD, Jes Hughes, Vanessa Irzyk, Victoria Jacob, Alex Jacobson, Ian Jeffrey, Michelle Livingston, Melissa McGorty, Matthew Mosher, Monica Nydam, Destiny Palmer, Chloe Reison, Jeremy Roby, Rachel Salamone, Camden Segal, John Skibo, Catherine Stack, Wayne Stoke, Noelle Teague, Jena Thomas, Christopher Wawrinofsky, Alison Wilder, Brian Wilmont, Amy Yoshitsu, Michael Zachary

BEG BORROW STEAL
An Unauthorized Use of the LaMontagne Gallery

On View: August 15th – 29th
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 15th, 6 -8 PM

LaMontagne Gallery
555 East 2nd Street
South Boston, MA

I can’t tell you which one is mine, but I’ve contributed work to the “Outside the Box” fundraiser auction, to benefit the The North River Arts Society of Marshfield. All artists were given an 8″ square of gator-board to customize. The work is unlabeled, and the artists will be reviled after the bidding has closed in September. The highlight for me is that my work is being displayed alongside Steve Carell. Read the rest of this entry »

I got interviewed on Fuel TV as part of their Boston coverage for the Dew Underground Tour. I learned that it is better to ask for forgiveness than for permission while shooting.

Thanks to Drew and Jeff for putting up with my weird requests…
Also, to clarify, there is some work included in the video made by other artists. This is to illustrate some the awesome Ice Cream People renditions people have contributed. At 12 seconds in they flash a drawing made by Travis Millard, then at 1:07 they include works by Mymo, Joe Keinberger, Eduardo Sarmiento, Travis Lampe, HorseBites, Patt Kelley, Joseph Game, Gemma Correll, Bruno Monteiro, Tom Gauld, and Frank Magnotta.
Also Also that rad shirt is from Kaiju Big Battle.

The moment I discovered Covered Blog, I instantly wanted to “cover” something of Sam Keith’s. Dude’s work had a big impact on me. What could possibly more impressive to a teenager than a violently scribbled comic about an Amazon social worker and her purple-clad anti-hero with “middle finger claws”.

I am featured in the premier idN Extra: Cut&Paste book! This $25 publication is worth it’s weight in gold. United by the 2007 Cut&Paste competitions, this book is filled to the brim with process work from emerging artists and designers from all over the globe. They also gave me a little profile on IDN World as well.

Meighan O’Toole of my love for you is a stampede of horses has begun contributing to the Juxtapoz website, and fortunately for me, she laced her first post with my “wicked Boston aht”! The duo pictured above are from the Oh Nancy exhibition at Gallery Diet in Miami last month.

Friday, June 26
7-10pm
LAB Boston
113 Brighton Ave Allston, MA 02134

LAB Boston is proud to present “Bare Knuckle Brawlers”, the poster show for “Died Young, Stayed Pretty”. The opening of the show will be tomorrow, June 26th from 7-10pm and will feature the following artists: James Quigley, Jesse Ledoux, Jeff Kleinsmith, theMiracle5, Dan McCarthy, Nate Duval, Darren Pasemko, Tofu Squirrel, Brian Butler and other local artists.

We have worked closely with Eileen Yaghoobian, Producer/Director and Kristin Groener to showcase artwork in connection with the documentary.
www.diedyoungstayedpretty.com

Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a documentary about the underground poster culture in North America, from the ’60s psychedelic masters, like Victor Moscoso, to the gig poster crew today. The artists represented in the film “push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that?s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape,” says director Eileen Yaghoobian.

Outside of their own subculture these posterists are virtually unknown. “But within their ranks they make up an army of bare-knuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy ’70s porn stars.” They’ve created their own visual language and have created posters that are “strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful.” Yaghoobian’s film is the first (and maybe the last) of its kind.

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