Friday, April 13, 2012

Win a set of brushes

Win a set of Greg Simkins Trekell Brushes! @trekellbrushes http://artattacksonline.com/contest.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Sneak Peak: Greg “Craola” Simkins – “Cloud Theory” @ Merry Karnowsky

Special thanks to Arrested Motion for this post:

With only 10 days remaining before the opening of Cloud Theory at the Merry Karnowsky, Greg Simkins (featured) is heading down the home stretch on what appears to be a stellar new body of work. Read more...


Monday, April 9, 2012

"GATHER AROUND" : "CLOUD THEORY"

Here is a speed painting of "Gather Around" for my upcoming exhibit "Cloud Theory" at Merry Karnowsky Gallery, April 21st . Hope to see you there.

Thanks to Birdman for taking these photos of this piece as it came together:











Sunday, April 8, 2012

Happy Easter!

A couple of podcasts explaining why we celebrate today:
Wherever you fall on it, I think it is a topic worth thinking about, and understand that there are opposing viewpoints to mine which I respect:

 opposing viewponts
 have a Happy Easter
Gregola 

Friday, March 30, 2012

"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....

Thursday, March 29, 2012

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