Alex Grey. ROA : New Works by ROA : White Walls SF. Robert Williams Official Site. Revok. Art Crimes - The Writing on the Wall - graffiti art worldwide. FECAL FACE DOT COM. Last Gasp 40th Anniversary Lowbrow Art Show | Neon Monster Blog. How are Last Gasp and Earth Day connected? Glad you asked. Legendary local purveyors of underground books and comics, Last Gasp, published its premiere comic, Slow Death Funnies #1, on the first Earth Day: April 15, 1970. This year, they celebrate their 40th anniversary with a showcase of “the haut monde of lowbrow” at 111 Minna Gallery . Naturally, we checked it out. If you’re not familiar with Last Gasp, chew on this: Once upon a time at a Christmas or New Year’s party in the Berkeley hills almost thirty years ago, someone handed a very stoned graduate psychology student a copy of ZAP™ Comix and rekindled a forgotten love of comic books.
That was the beginning of Last Gasp (read the rest of the origin story here ), and 40 years later, they’re still going strong. It’s pretty humbling to be in a room with so much talent and art and history. Each of the paintings featured in this post is by an artist who has also made a toy. THEPIZZ.COM. Famous Monsters. Hype and street art. Welcome to the Lowbrow Artworld Website! JIM KOCH. The Art of Alex Gross. The Official Rat Fink Webring. Calandra Studio. Motorsports Illustrated Homepage. Graphic Design & Illustration by Christopher Davis. IN L.A.: Sage Vaughn Envelope Paintings | Features. I recently had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with Los Angeles-based artist Sage Vaughn as he is preparing for his solo exhibition this upcoming May at Lazarides Gallery in London. Among the many things that Vaughn shared with me during our visit were his envelope paintings/collages.
I instantly fell in love with these pieces. These are small paintings and collages on manila envelopes that are basically studies and/or inspiration for larger pieces of work. Studies, sketchbooks, and the like are some of my favorite works, because I feel like they are so personal, impulsive, like little secrets not usually intended to be seen by anyone other than the artist, or as Vaughn put it “much closer to the original impulse”. Following are a few images of the hundreds of envelope paintings he has produced throughout the years. Amy Duran Sage Vaughn Envelope Paintings. Dutch Courage Graffix; illustration and design by Ger Peters; portfolio. Juxtapoz Magazine. The Lowbrow Art of Ger Peters; links.