What doesn’t kill you
10″ x 12″-Oil on panel Given that this is my umpteenth work this year to feature some sort of death motif, ought to give you an indication of how I’m feeling about everything. This one particularly is...
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Bad table manners at Djinner time 11″ x 14″ | Oil on canvas For the uninitiated, Alessandro Cagliastro (also known as Joseph Balsamo) was a self styled occultist from the 1800’s who developed the...
View ArticleHell is truth seen too late.
What a week ,eh? A week in which it seems the world has gone utterly barking mad. In the proliferation of editorials and post-mortems it’s hard not to cast this period as America’s final obituary....
View ArticleAll the Devils are here.
36″ x 48″ Oil on canvas Painted this, one-month last year. Here’s the obligatory wank I wrote at the time: “If the inherent meanings attributed with the up-right turn of the Devil tarot, are those of...
View ArticleDark Realism/Dark Surrealism at Gregorio Escalante Gallery
Exhibition: November 26 through December 23, 2016 Further to my previous post, here are the details for what promises to be the most exciting and stellar plethora of art in L.A. My good friend...
View ArticleFlogging a dead horse
It’s winter on the mountain, so colder than a witches tit , as my fingers numb painting progeny from some region of Hades. I’m tempted to liken it all to Munch in his open-air studio, or Brueghel...
View ArticleDark Realism/Dark Surrealism Opening
So two weekends, Gregorio Escalante gallery, an artistic pantheon presenting the absolute pinnacle of dark Art. I mean what more can you ask for? My gracious thanks and gratitude to Greg Escalante,...
View ArticleMMXVI-little omens.
7″ X 5″ | Oil on canvas panel “February through December We have such a tragic year As separate as the fingers Suddenly, as one, as the hand” David Byrne – The Man Who Loved Beer It could be that its...
View ArticleUnderstanding Necrophilia
…the history of art is littered with a necrophilic undercurrent, and sex and death it seems is a constant, irresistible theme: from Carravagio’s use of drowned corpses as models for the holy virgin, to...
View ArticleArt and Cake Review
“In Van Gough’s vision, the devil is not in the details but in the distractions” There’s a rather grand review of the recent Dark Realism/ Dark surrealism show at Gregorio Escalante gallery, up on Art...
View ArticleMourning Star
“Hallelujah noel be it heaven or hell The christmas we get we deserve” Greg Lake-I believe in Father Christmas 9″ x 14″ | Biro on paper It’s that time again, my annual antidote to the Hallmark season...
View ArticleYears End 2016
“Here comes the fire Our funeral pyre, baby” Neil Hannon with the Divine Comedy-Here Comes the Flood So 2016-the year of the reaper, the year the world lost its collective Reality TV-addled mind and...
View ArticleConjoined 7 at Copro
In which a selection of dark, underworld beasts, demonic progeny, and feral fiends shall assemble before a hypnotized throng. No I’m not talking about the inauguration, but Chet Zar’s annual Conjoined...
View ArticleLeviathan
Oil on canvas-42″ x 80″ “And because the constitution of a mans Body, is in continuall mutation; it is impossible that all the same things should alwayes cause in him the same Appetites, and aversions;...
View ArticleGeorge and the Dragon
12″ x 14″-Graphite on paper With its theme of internal conflict and given that the countdown for the end times began today, I decided to knock this one out as a sort of modern renaissance motif for the...
View ArticleThe blind patriot will eat himself
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” ― George Orwell, 1984 9″x 14″-ink on paper I say this with full knowledge that I could grab bag from a fistful of ominous...
View ArticleConjoined 7
So on the day millions of women from around the world took to the streets against the new dark ages and muddy California Skys cascaded a tumult in accord, a little corner of Bergamont station was...
View ArticleThe Tower
Oil on canvas-20″ x 24″, $1,500 And now for something completely different. Commissioned as part of an Astral themed 78 Tarot project, this one was something of a fun diversion, combining all the...
View ArticleFake News Schism
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World 6.5″ x 8″-Mixed Media on Ingres paper Its just a sketch...
View ArticleIllusion Magazine article
“His paintings are complex, for where there is kitsch and playfulness, there is also discomfort and violence, together gesturing towards an inevitable end for the bodies and cultural eras they depict.”...
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