 Artist Geoffrey Chadsey is exhibiting four new large-scale drawings titled Jam: New Work on Paper with the James Harris Gallery in Seattle. The NYC based artist creates narrative drawings with watercolor pencil that are both seductively executed and repulsively absurd. The artist states "either I am gaying up straight images, or I am straightening gay ones." Chadsey received his MFA in photography and drawing from the California College of the Arts in Oakland. In December, the Contemporary Museum Honolulu will feature a survey of Chadsey's work titled Boys in the Band: Geoffrey Chadsey Drawings 1998-2006. | |||
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 Bristol born L.A. based artist Nick Lowe creates obsessive drawings that are dense with information covering almost every square inch of the surface. The image above is titled "Microphone Fiend" and is drawn with pencil on 13 1/2" x 18 1/4" paper. Lowe received a BFA from the University of California in 2002, and has had solo exhibitions at Black Dragon Society in L.A., and at John Connelly Presents in NYC. | |||
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 The photography of English artist Idris Khan often uses architectural structures exposed in layers that fracture a concrete definition of time and space. Khan's work is exhibited both by the Saatchi Gallery and Victoria-Miro Gallery in London. You can also read a brief article about Khan and his photographic contemporaries at findarticles.com | |||
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 This month at the Black Market Gallery in L.A. artist Tiffany Bozic exhibits new works on canvas and paper, and a mixed media installation. Bozic's paintings utilize images from nature that reference fairytales and the artist's own mythology. LA Times reviewed the exhibit, and in 2005 the artist was featured in and illustrated the cover for Flaunt Magazine. | |||
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 Tattooed Portraits are a recent series of paintings by Shawn Barber. Each portrait is of a fellow artist and their tattoos. Barber currently lives and works in San Francisco and teaches at California College of Art, and the Academy of Art University. Tattooed Portraits will be published as an art book with 9mm Books, and will be exhibited for the first time at the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco next March. | |||
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 Pepe Mar is an artist living and working in Miami, FL who creates hybrid collaged creatures in 3D. Mar is represented by the David Castillo Gallery and has exhibited at Locust Projects in Miami. You can read a review of Mar's August exhibition with Freight + Volume in NYC in the NY Times interview with Ken Johnson. | |||
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 Loretta Lux is a German photographer who creates her compositions using a combination of photography, painting and digital manipulation. Lux was trained as a painter at the Munich Academy, and in 2005 received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography. This May she exhibited with Yossi Milo Gallery in NYC, and continues to be exhibited extensively abroad. | |||
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 Death From Below is the title of a new show by Toronto based artist Nicholas Di Genova. Fredericks & Freiser in NYC will be exhibiting 23 new ink paintings on mylar through Oct. 14th. The artist creates hybrid creatures that seem to rely heavily on a language of graphics and graffiti. Nicholas Di Genova graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design and you can read more directly from the artist in an interview with Susurrus Magazine. | |||
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 Philadelphia based artist Talia Greene creates work that investigates elements of nature. She often uses imagery that references both the human body and insects through drawing, digital prints, and installations. Greene has recently exhibited at the Redux Contemporary Art Center, International Print Center New York, and will be featured next year at the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL. | |||
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 Scott Fife is a Seattle-based artist who is currently creating larger-than-life-sized busts of current social figures out of cut-and-painted cardboard. Recent busts include Kurt Cobain, Lily St. Cyr, Che Guevara, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe and Geronimo. These works are currently on view at the Chicago gallery Body Builder and Sportsman. Accompanying the sculptures are large ink wash drawings of each figure on pink watercolor paper. You can also read a fairly new interview with fife provided by Platform Gallery. | |||
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 Kent Henricksen alters patterned fabrics by embroidering them with hooded figures that seem to reference images of terrorists or the KKK. The figures in his work engage in deviant acts of behavior as they occupy the pre-existing patterns surrounding them. Henricksen is currently represented by John Connelly Presents in NYC, and you can read more about his work in the recent issue of Beautiful Decay. | |||
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 Dave Cooper is a cartoonist/illustrator turned fine artist. He recently had some of his images on Futurama and released two graphic novels Ripple, Crumple, and Suckle. He also created a line of deluxe toys with the firm Critterbox Toys. | |||
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