Photos: SXSW Art Scene
South by Southwest (SXSW), Austin, TX’s annual music festival, focuses on promoting musicians, filmmakers, and interactive tech subdivisions. The exciting, high energy scene makes a natural location for muralists and installation artists who display visual art throughout the SXSW festival. SXSW is currently ranked as the largest music festival in the world, with more than 2,200…
Photos, Interview: Dennis McNett’s “Temple of Wolfbat” at Known Gallery
The four-legged, six-legged and winged creatures depicted in Dennis McNett’s painted wood sculptures seem so alive that looking into their carefully notched and painted eyes from different angles can give the effect of different expressions. Even though these pieces don’t move–the stares are as solid as the wood into which they are carved–at “Temple of…
Dennis McNett “Temple of Wolfbat” at Known Gallery
Known Gallery presents “Temple of Wolfbat,” an installation, collection and retrospective of Dennis McNett’s work, sponsored by Vans. Sculpture, leather etching, collage painting, and wood carving all play roles in the Temple, as Brooklyn-based McNett enfolds his animalistic storytelling journey, based in part on the Norse myth of Fenris wolf, and according Known Gallery’s press…
Photos, Interviews: “Boxes of Death Four” at AR4T Gallery
The brilliant pairing of the two terms “Electric” and “Coffin” creates a high-watt kinetic introduction every time this Seattle team produces a project, an installation, an assemblage, or a show. In their annual Boxes of Death group exhibition, which features the work of fifty artists, they tap into a larger store of amplified energy. It’s…
“Boxes of Death 4” Opening at AR4T Gallery
“Boxes of Death 4” is a large traveling group show of coffin art that has been making its way closer and closer to southern California since April. On Aug. 17, 2013 its final resting place (couldn’t resist!) is AR4T Gallery in Laguna Beach, California. The show opens with a party on Aug. 17 from 6…
Dennis McNett’s Solo Show and the Importance of Making Art with Kids
Making and sharing art with the next generation of artists is important to Brooklyn printmaker/ woodcarver Dennis McNett, which is why, when he spent a week in Laguna Beach for his solo show this month–which opened July 6, 2013 at AR4T Gallery — he took a break from making art to hold a workshop at…