SAN DIEGO, CA: Double Break is delighted to announce Digging a Hole, Looking for Something, an exhibition of new work by Michael Krueger and Travis Millard. Coming to us from Lawrence, Kansas and Los Angeles, CA respectively, Krueger and Millard
will bring new drawings, prints, ceramics and more.

Both widely exhibited and admired artists, the two first connected at the University of Kansas and have long drawn inspiration from one other. Both artists explore the figure of the “common man,” displacing the mundane and the mythic from everyday life,weaving threads between past and present. Their search for the sublime in this densely hyper-visual yet vacuous post-industrial age is rife with humor, longing and discovery, as is apparent in this selection of new works on view at Double Break.   In addition to the opening, there will also be a release party for Sink Shower a new zine by Scott McPherson.

***Also Double Break will be launching a webstore on Friday at noon, where all the works in the show will be available in addition to a shirt from both artists!!!***

Digging A Hole, Looking For Something
Artworks by Michael Krueger & Travis Millard
Opening reception May 18 from 6 - 10 PM
Double Break Gallery
1821 5th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
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PARIS, FRANCE: Danielle Rubi & Brachfeld Gallery’s upcoming exhibition “Greetings,” featuring the works of Kyle Field, Alia Shawkat, and Nathaniel Russell opens Thursday, May 24th from 6-10 pm. 

Artist Nathaniel Russell headed down to Noyers, south of Paris, for a week-long residency where he worked one ratings, made some music and basically adventuring.  The show Greetings will feature a limited silkscreen of the Greetings image above in order to help cover travel costs.

• Numbered & signed by all three in an edition of 100
• 18 x 24 in. split fountain printed by Dave Windisch
• $45 + shipping online; $35 at the gallery
• If you order online, they won’t ship till May 28th, but each print will include an original drawing doodle object or some sort of relic from their travels. 

GET ONE HERE!

SAN FRANCISCO, CA:   The PrettyPretty Collective presents I KNOW YOU’RE OUT THERE! new works on paper by artist Mike Giant.  The show opens May 19, 2012 from 8 pm to Midnight.  It’s been a while that I can think of Mr. Giant showing new works, so don’t miss out on checking out and buying some of his works. 

I Know You’re Out There!
New Works on paper by Mike Giant
The Pretty Pretty Collective
May 19, 2012 8-Midnight
3290 22nd Street
San Francisco, CA 

Check out some pictures from Burning Bones Press from the Dennis McNett Mayan Temple Art Car event.  We posted some of the construction photos earlier last week on the blog, so make sure to check ‘em out.  (Images courtesy of Burning Bones Press)

Nice!  They got the cover story for the Houston Chronicle 29-95!

NPR interviewing artist Dennis McNett.  (We’ll try and figure out when that’s going to air)

Media Blitz - French TV crew making a documentary on 4 different Art Car artists … one of them is Dennis McNett!

LOS ANGELES, CA:  We are loving the newest drawings on book pages from artist Jay Howell who recently had a show at Silverlake’s The Secret Headquarters.   If you haven’t had a chance to purchase Jay’s newest Creep Club foldout zine, then you should buy one here. 

(Oxygen by Kelsey Brookes @kelseybrookes )

More new Meditations On Symmetry by artist Kelsey Brookes which are just amazing, and we really can’t get enough of them.  

Rorschach Test … what do you see?

Check out this giant piece by artist Tim Kerr for Artscape 2012 the 19th Annual Art Car Show and Art Car CARavan / Parade in collaboration with the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) curated by C.M. Laster. CM and Grace Kelly Laster. 

(Comic by Artist Travis Millard)

Check out the animation studio behind the Adult Swim hit series Metalocalypse, Superjail!, China, IL, Black Dynamite; Disney’s MotorCity; and a pile of other cartoony-type things, Titmouse Inc. is releasing ”Mook Vol 2.”  The “Mook” anthology is filled of art, comics, and interviews. Printed on fancy paper. The book is available for $19.99 on the Titmouse site. 

Featuring words and pictures born from the brutal minds of classy artist-types from Dave Johnson’s “Flatulene” returns us to the world of sex appeal and gas-destruction; Metalocalypse director, Jon Schnepp, takes another peak into the realm of ultra-jerks; Travis Millard’s “Street Bros” is back for another psychedelic trip through memory-stain; Randy Cunningham art director, Otto Tang, explores lips and pussies; Black Dynamite writer, Brian Ash, takes us through the eyeballs of legendary P. Funk visual artist Overton Loyd; while Richard “DIKO” Mather, Israel Sanchez, Matt Taylor, and other artists made things with their hands and brains for your primate eyeballs. 

Conveniently named Mook Vol 2, the cover is twice as hard, the paper is twice as thick and the art is in double-full color.

 Artists Featured in Mook Vol 2 include:

• Jim Mahfood
• Overton Lyod
• Paul Harmon
• Matt Taylor
• Matt Danner
• Dave Johnson
• David C. Smith
• Richard “DICKO” Mather
• Gabe Swarr
• Vassilis Gogzilas, DJ Kirkbride, & Adam P. Knave
• Songgu Kwon
• Israel Sanchez
• Jon Schnepp
• Otto Tang
• Travis Millard

Artist Russ Pope’s show Tax Included at AR4T Gallery ended last month, but you can still get some of the artworks on Russ’s site.  Email him through the contact button on  www.russpope.com if you’re interested in pricing for, or purchasing any of the work.

Here’s photos from opening night.