German artist Florian Sussmayr began his artistic career by exclusively creating portraits. Sussmayr’s new work depicts emotions often excluded from civilized daily life, such as ecstatic excitement, intoxication, and the lack of sexual boundaries. The subjects are taken from puck and rock social scenes, and act as an investigation of the personal attributes of that society. The artist is represented by Gallerie Rudiger Schottle, and[…..]

This April, Peres Projects in L.A. will present Mathew Greene in the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery since 2003. Green creates large drawings and paintings that contain images of pornography, horticulture, horror films, and overall debauchery in an apocalyptic post 9/11 aesthetic. Greene has seen much success recently with a feature in Artforum (January 2004), and in Vitamin D, a new survey of[…..]

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[…..]

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[…..]