The Blab Show!

This is a show I'm in this month, opening is tomorrow night (August 8th). Been a fan of BLAB for a long time, good to finally be a part of it! Some nice work (Joe Sorren above).

Copro Gallery and Monte Beauchamp proudly present "THE BLAB! SHOW," the fifth Group Art Exhibition featuring original paintings and illustrations from the forthcoming issue of BLAB! magazine - Monte Beauchamp's periodic anthology of sequential and comic art, illustration, painting, and printmaking.

Artists include: JOE SORREN, ALEX GROSS, MARK RYDEN, SHAG, JEFF SOTO, RYAN HESHKA, FEMKE HEIMSTRA, GARY BASEMAN, GEORGANNE DEEN, KRIS KUKSI, GARY TAXALI, ANDY KEHOE, TRAVIS LAMPE, JEAN-PIERRE ROY, SPAIN, XNO, JOHN POUND, FRED STONEHOUSE, MARC BURCKHARDT, DAVIS SANDLIN, KATHLEEN LOLLY, ANDREW BRANDOU, CALEF BROWN, SOFIA ARNOLD, MARK TODD. DHOLBACHIE-YOKO, KEVIN SCALZO, LARRY DAY, MARK GARRO, MICHAEL NOLAND, ANDREA DEZSO AND TERESA JAMES.

The show continues until August 29th.

COPRO GALLERY (at Bergamot Station)
2525 Michigan Ave #T5, Santa Monica, CA 90404

Watercolor and ink fun

Some more of the small and fun experiments I've been making. I'll have some for sale at the Comicon... these are 7.5" square...

Comicon

Comicon this weekend and a bunch of shows and parties (check previous entries or look around online). Here's my piece for Mark Murphy's Scribble 08 film screening and exhibit for Thursday night...
"Seekers" 20" x 18", acrylic on wood, 2009.

The Seeker

Introducing "The Seeker". I have been working on several top secret projects with Bigshot Toyworks the past couple months and this is the first of the large vinyl toys we have in the works. I'm super excited about my jump back into toys and Klim and Scott at Bigshot have been awesome.

We will have something to see at Comicon, come see us at booth #4833 for more info.

Events in July...

Some shows and events to check out:

In Los Angeles- Clayton Brothers have a show July 18th at Patrick Painter Gallery. Not to be missed!



In New York- Dime Bag 3 (curated by Jordin Isip and Roger Stevens) on July 18th at Giant Robot NY. I have a couple of tiny pieces in this show.



In Montreal- My man Chris Ryniak has a show on Wednesday, July 29th, at Yves Laroche gallery.



In San Diego- Comicon 2009!! July 23-26. I will be there sharing a booth with Mark Murphy- #4833 I believe. I'll have prints, some original drawings and possibly some small paintings available, and Mark will have books, zines and originals. Not sure what days I will be there, but come by and say hi.

Also in San Diego during Comicon- Scribble08 film premier and art show. Thursday, July 23, 6:30PM – 11:30pm. Scribble08 is Mark Murphy's art documentary featuring Joe Sorren, Martha Rich, Jeff Soto, Camille Rose Garcia, Tim Biskup and Rob and Christian Clayton. There's also an exhibit the same night featuring 25 artists. Wonderhaus 1441 L Street San Diego, CA 92101

The following night (Friday the 24th), Mark is hosting the Planet Illogica Extravaganza and Art Exhibition, same location, 6:30PM – 12:30AM. More info here: Mark's blog.

Finally, one more event is going down, my homie Dulok Shaman's album just dropped and he'll be playing in San Diego Thursday night July 23rd! Check his myspace for more info- Dulok.. I did the artwork for his album Fighting 4 Dreams.. check it out..

Tiny Showcase- "Self Destructive" print

Thanks to all who purchased my print yesterday from Tiny Showcase. Apparently, it was a record breaking night at TS and my print sold out in minutes! I guess it made some problems too...

I was told it lagged their server pretty bad and there was a problem with Paypal- from what I understand the print isn't reduced from the total edition until the transaction is complete, so sometimes with a fast selling print, people will add the last print at the same time and then they can ALL buy the last print, as they are all doing it at the same time. Basically what happened is the print somehow oversold by 100 in the one or two minutes it was available. They are not sure if it was a glitch in the Paypal system or what, but there were 300 sold plus or minus a few.

So I had to make a tough decision- have TS refund payment to 100 of my fans, or make the print an edition of 300 to ensure everyone gets one? I thought about it all night, and I think the best thing to do is make it a larger edition ensuring no one's disappointed. To those who are bummed about buying a larger edition, let TS know and they can refund your money- there are still many who did not get one. I'd like to do another print with Tiny Showcase, and we will come up with a better system to keep the numbers accurate from the get go.

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the support, I feel the love from you guys. Sorry for the glitch, and let me know your thoughts...

WHAMMY! show at RVCA

Some awesome artists and all around great people in this show. Check it out in SF, Thursday night. I am bummed I can't make it up there for the opening! Here's what I put in... continuation of exploring and playing with inks and watercolors...

Tiny Showcase print

I have a secret print coming out this Tuesday the 7th of July, it will launch at 7:30pm EDT on Tiny Showcase.

Tiny Showcase keeps the image secret, but I can say the print is small in size, has an edition of 200, and priced at $20. A percentage of the money from each print sold will be donated to Sea Shepherd. Good luck!

Go to www.tinyshowcase.com for more info...

London/Stolenspace Part 2

Day 5
I got up the next morning and decided to walk to St. Paul's Cathedral. On my way I found "The Monument" which is a huge column commemorating the Great Fire of 1666 that wiped out most of London. This city has been through a lot over the years! Plagues, bombings, fires...


Got to St. Paul's. It was pretty impressive from all angles but inside there were no photos allowed. I did sneak one photo of the inside dome which looked to be under construction.


The Gherkin is a great landmark, it really helped me find my way without a map. Yeah, it's more than a little phallic, still, it looks pretty rad against the older London architecture.


Got to meet Ian from Wallkandy.


Ate some more candy (we have Nutrageous in the states but never seen Twirl)


In the afternoon I resumed painting the two walls I'd started previously. The big white wall took me another couple hours...


Then I tried to finish the metal doors. It started raining so I had to cut things short, I had bigger plans for you, metal doors! This was an interesting place to paint. A small mob of local kids were trying to pick pocket me- kinda crowding around me a little too close and going behind me (luckily I always carry wallet in front pocket while traveling), but they ended up running off with some of my paint. Actually it was D*face's paint.... I owe you a can D! There was also what I think was a prostitute asking me to let her write her name on the wall (you can see her on the left in the next picture). And tagger kids coming by to see what was going on. It was fun but the rain started coming down good and I got soaked. You can see the water was making my paint run which I think added to the eyes.. I did have more planned but I think the weather had other plans.


Finished and dragged my art supplies home exhausted and very damp. Got more candy to try. Never heard of a Milky bar but apparently it's an old staple of British candy. It was white chocolate, kinda thin, and pretty good. By chance on this same night there was a show on TV about classic British commercials, and the Milky Bar Kid has been around for 40 years. And the Flake girl is super famous there too. Pretty funny commercials.


Day 6
My last day here, I decided to see some art galleries and just walk around. Got the highly recommended bacon/cream cheese/honey/cucumber bagel for brunch. It was good.

Took some better pics of my own art:


Then walked north from Bricklane and looked for anything that caught my eye...


I found an old cemetery near Old Street and City Road called Bunhill Cemetery. The name comes from what they used to call the place, "Bone Hill" because so many people have been buried here. I always enjoy exploring the old ones...

Went by White Cube, but it was closed.


Got to hang out with Word To Mother for a while, we traded some art and had a good time. The dude is awesome! Check out his July show at Upper Playground..

After painting a small piece I felt like leaving one more little token of thanks for the city of London. So grabbed my green bag o' paintrollers and brushes and found a quiet wall.


Thanks London!

Next morning I was packed and ready to fly home to my girls! Thanks to Stolenspace and Jonathan Levine for making this happen, and thanks to all the new friends I met out in the UK. Can't wait to come back...


I realized I never posted images of the work in the show... That will be the next post...
-Jeff