The Anti-Art

It has been two months since I've updated this thing. In that time I've struck back out on my own and found some temporary forever internet to leech off of until is disappears and I have to pay for it again. In that time I've been doing some seeing, reflecting, professional and personal artistic development and reflection etc. etc. Nothing too profound.

Anyway in my travels I went to a gallery in Akron that featured some "Anti-Art". which was a room full of alternative/abstract/and somewhat disturbing art. Really cool stuff. A few weeks later I was invited to a gallery opening that was displaying the work of a couple friends of mine. Remember the Rustbelt Rebirth stuff I made a number of posts back? Probably definitely not, but it's totally there if you look. Anyway while there I inquired about the idea of putting some of my work up. Truthfully it's been bouncing around in my head for about a year now... but no gallery wants to put up "commercial art". And this gallery was no exception.

Nevertheless I set out to make some more "traditional" art... but traditional is BORING. The idea of "Anti-Art" intrigues me and that's the route I'm going to take. I'm setting out to do ten pieces, each more abstract and disgusting than the last. Some of the art I've already done that I'm updating with digital paint... and others are brand new. I want every piece to evoke the same adverse feeling visually that most extreme metal evokes audibly. It's a niche market I'm sure, but I'm having a lot of fun with this so I don't care.

In fact this is the 4th one I've completed the line-art for and the 5th in terms of the order of which they came to me. It's going to be colored so it's not done, but I'd like to get it up anyway.