"The Grotesque Menageries of Greg Simkins"

By Nancy Hightower:

Monsters are tricky things. We love them, fear them, need them, despise them when they invade our dreams a little too often. Their ubiquitous and yet marginalized presence in our lives rests on the contradictory emotions elicited by such creatures. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen writes “The monster’s body quite literally incorporates fear, desire, anxiety and fantasy (ataractic or incendiary), giving them life and uncanny independence” (4).  This “uncanny independence” means that we are not as in control of the monster as we would like to be, that often they can crawl, jump, or slither through the linguistic fence of Otherness and into our world.  Cohen states that “[t]hrough the body of the monster fantasies of aggression, domination, and inversion are allowed safe expression in a clearly delimited and permanently liminal space.  Read more....

South Bay Customs

So while at South Bay Customs this weekend, I was introduced to an awesome artist. Robbin Holden assembles some beautiful and amazing pieces of art. here are a couple examples:

 

Click HERE to see more.

Michael has put together a great shop, so if you are into Art and motorcycles and are in the area, definitely check it out

Wall Time with Werk

So it isn't often that I get to paint walls these days, and even more rare that I get to hang out with my good friend Werk. So when the opportunity presented itself to paint at South Bay Customs this last weekend, I had to take them up on it. South Bay customs by the way is an amazing shop, do yourselves a favor and  check it out HERE. My good buddy Kingston put this video together for me to highlight the day, so a big thanks to him for his time and hard work. Check his photography out HERE.
Thanks to Juxtapoz for posting this too.

American Art Collector

 

I just wanted to thank Josh Rose and the people at American Art Collector for including this teaser interview in this months issue for my show "Cloud Theory" happening this April 21st at Merry Karnowsky Gallery. An even better reason to come out to the show is that my friend Johnny KMNDZ Rodriguez will also be unveiling his new Solo Show. click the link and check out his amazing work.

 

A big thanks goes out to my friend Birdman for allowing me to use this great photo he had taken at my studio for American Art Collector Magazine. Birdman has been putting in tons of footwork making the rounds and becoming one of the most prolific and stand out art photographers around. He has covered everything from graffiti to street art to fine art and has been able to capture the attitude and personalities of the artists who make masterpieces we all enjoy. So my hat is off to this guy for all his hard work and his generous giving of himself and his time and even putting himself in harms way to document this moment in time.

CRAOLA Gelaskin Pre-order + DISCOUNT CODE!

Use the discount code CRAOLAFAN upon checkout at Laminate to get a discount on this Greg 'CRAOLA' Simkins Gelaskin. Orders must be received by March 31st.

CRAOLA x Laminate Series Badge

Craola x LAMINATE Kulture artist collaboration

45mm, Supersafe badge - Child Proof

£5.00

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Greg "Craola" Simkins - Most Wanted 3 Cover

Most Wanted Creative Issue Vol. 3. "Creative Scape"
Interviews + Art features.

Pre-Order your copy by March 31st and get an exclusive iPhone GelaSkin of your choice here. Use the discount code CRAOLAFAN upon checkout for a discount!

Publication ships end of April.

GREG 'CRAOLA' SIMKINS Gelaskin

"Acrylic Painting Techniques" Seminar

Join Greg as he shares various technical tips for painting with acrylics: prepping, under painting, glazing and washes in this creative painting seminar.  Please bring your notepads and questions as Greg shares his techniques that he has been honing over the years as an artist. For many of us, there's nothing more fulfilling than taking that initial spark of creativity that comes out of a sketch and reworking it into a finished piece of art..

Sunday, May 6th: 4-7pm 

Hell City Tattoo Fest 2012 

Hyatt Regency Downtown

Located in the downtown Arts District

350 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43215

BOOK A ROOM


(General admission into Hell City also required and is NOT included in seminar price)   

Click here to purchase pre-sale tickets into Hell City

REGISTER FOR SEMINAR NOW

(Paypal, Credit & Debit Cards accepted)
Course length: 3 hours

Cost: $175  

IMPORTANT:

• You must pay general admission to take any seminars. Attendees will be checked for official HC wrist bands prior to taking seminar. Click here to purchase pre-sale tickets for Hell City.
• Due to limited space available, there are NO REFUNDS for seminar registration.
• Registration is required to guarantee your space in the seminar.
• Your payment confirmation/receipt for registration will serve as your ticket - please bring it with you for entrance into the seminar.

"Feeder" Print NOW AVAILABLE for Pre-order

Feeders 

Giclee on Elegance 320g Cotton Rag 

30 x 15 in. (paper size) / 27 x 12 in. (image size) 

Hand signed & numbered  

Edition of 50

$150 (plus shipping & tax)

*Artist & Publisher Proofs (Edition of 5 APs & 5 PPs) 

$175 (plus shipping & tax)

PRE-ORDER NOW

  

 *Artist & Publisher proofs are original proofs from the edition. They are very rare, making them extremely valuable to collectors, art historians and curators.    

ORDERS SHIP APRIL 2nd, 2012

"FEEDERS" PRINT RELEASE RESCHEDULED

Thank you for your patience while we continue restore our server for our online store to get it up and running again.

The "Feeders" print release has been rescheduled for 
Monday, March 12th at noon (PST) 

• A NEW LINK to purchase will be posted here and emailed (if you are subscribed to our email list) at this new time
• The new purchase link must be used to process the order
• No orders will be processed prior to rescheduled release (regardless if server is restored beforehand) 

We apologize for this inconvenience and sincerely appreciate your support and understanding.

Feeders
Giclee on Elegance 320g Cotton Rag 

30 x 15 in. (paper size) / 27 x 12 in. (image size) 

Hand signed & numbered

"Feeders" print release will be rescheduled

Due to the high volume of traffic to IMSCARED.COM for the "Feeders" print release, we are currently experiencing server issues and our team is working diligently to get the online store up and running again. Once everything is fixed, we will announce a new release time for the print at least 24 hours prior. ALL "Feeders" prints will be available during the new release time. To receive an email update about the new release time, subscribe to our "Feeders" Print Release emai list here.

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Feeders
Limited Edition of 50  

Giclee on Elegance 320g Cotton Rag 

30 x 15 in. (paper size) / 27 x 12 (image size) 

Hand signed & numbered

Empt Kingdom Interview

New interview up at Empty Kingdom - thanks for a fun interview guys!

Greg Simkins everybody!  That’s right, GREG SIMKINS.  His thoughts.  His words.  Hiiiiiiis other stuff.  Like the army of mechanized G.I. Joebots that Greg has in the cellar of his house.  They’re painstakingly crafted to fit in with other G.I. Joes so the regular Joes won’t recognize them until it’s too late and Greg has taken over the world by subverting the minds of our children.  In like 30 years.  Read on my friends.