Recently Imagine magazine did an article on what I do (art), but that’s probobly because Imagine is about art and creativity. This is a well crafted and cool publication that also features many great artists such as Dark Vomit, Tim McCormick, Emma Mount, Jason Jacenko and many more follow the attached link and enjoy!
June is going to be a slightly more of a quiet month than May , which allows me a little time to regroup and think about some new work and do a little chillaxin and hangout with family and friends. I would like to extend a big thank you to Upper Playground/Sacramento, AutoBody Fine Art, my wife Laura and all of the people who have come out to support the shows and have given me encouragement, y’all made May a great month. In the upcoming month I will be involved in the following group shows: Crocker Art Museum , A Small Works show and the Art Auction,  June 6th from 5-11p.m. @ the CalExpo Fine Arts Exhibition Hall, the next two shows open on second Saturday June 12th from 6-9p.m., Sideshow Studios ,the Bringing Urban In show, 5635 Freeport Blvd, Sacramento, Gale Hart and Bichin’ Space, sponsored by Scion the Make Art or Die! show @ 2114 19th Street Sacramento
More links:Â Sideshow MySpace Crocker Art Auction
Sacramento Bee/Sideshow Studios   SN&R/Bichin’ Space      Bichin Space/Sideshow Photos
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STUDIO X @ SURREALESTATES
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2320 Cantalier Street
Sacramento 94115
btw del paso blvd & arden way
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SUMMER 2009 EVERY SATURDAY EVENT from 4pm to 10pm
opening events every 3rd Saturday, closing events every 2nd Saturday Saturday June 20 through Saturday October 10, 2009
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Opening Reception
SATURDAY JUNE 20, 2009
Closing Reception
SATURDAY JULY 11, 2009
Studio X Installed Visual Art Show
featured artist:
DAVE MEEKER
(kinetic art)
www.davemeekerart.com
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opening July 18 VALENTINO FERNANDEZ, JULIE MADDEN, KIM SCOTT
(ceramic, painting and sculpture)
opening August 15 MARSHALL BAILEY, RIK MAVERIK, GERARD MACKINNON
(photography, sculpture and video installation)
opening September 19 TOYROOM GALLERY ARTISTS
feat. JOHN STUART BERGER
(painting, posters and graphic media)
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Toyroom Gallery installed artÂ
vinyl & speciality toys, posters & books
one-of-a-kind art prints (Shepard Fairey, David Kinsey, David Choe)
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Short Center North Students and Staff
(ceramics, dolls, quilts, stained glass, paintings)
www.ddso.org
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Kim Scott open studio from 9pm www.feedyoureye.com
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Surrealestates Resident Artists
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Kenny Beasley (vocals, guitar)
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DJ Rik Maverik featuring Spoken-Word-Performance
(rare soul groove, 80’s brit-electro-pop, dance-mashups)
www.surrealestates.org
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contact email: rikmaverik@yahoo.com tel: 916.730.2288
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AUTOBODY – Fine Arts
1517 Park Street
Alameda, CA
March 7th – April 12th, 2009
Opening Reception March 7th from 6pm-11pm
Featuring new works by:
I will also be having a body of work @ Formoli’s @ 33rd and J Street in Sacramento
This Saturday (7/26/2008) from 3pm-6pm Java Lounge will be graciously hosting a show to benefit for the family and friends of Paige Harris . Paige who recently passed on was a student of the Short Center North and the money raised at the event will help the family in their time of need. The show will feature a silent auction with an awesome array of artists: Skinner , Nate Cordero, Ben Walker, Kim Scott, Stephanie Skalisky , Val Fernandez, Justin Lovato, Melanie Bown, Mike Rodriguez, Olivia Coelho, Zack Hill and many more. There will also be a ton of great live music: Flower Vatto-Art Lessing, Kenny Beesley, Neil Haydon and many more . So come check it out Java Lounge is located at 2416 16th street.
Press
“Curious Band of Artists”
36th & Broadway, Sacramento, CA
6-9pm
“Artists That I Know”
Studio X Surrealestates
2320 Cantalier Street, Sacramento,
Brick House press
Here’s a couple of Art Now S.F. shows in the near future I’ll be involved in:
December 16, 2007- Thread Show, San Francisco Galleria
January 12, 2008 – Veni Vedi Veci, Club 6,  San Francisco
The painting I chose was “An Edible Deity” I was inspired to use this painting because it accomplished two objectives: the first was a color issue the second was content.
On the issue of color , I wanted to excecute a painting that appeared as if it was being veiwed through a colored lens. Everything in this painting is a modified monochromatic pallete of red and it makes the painting appear as though it is glowing and very vibrant. On the issue of content, the subject matter in this painting is a paradox. The snakes in this painting are worshiping (the mouse), which is the very thing they consume and destroy. This is something that we as humans are faced with everyday when dealing with our envroment rescources etc. I think it’s a good illustration of this without (hopefully) getting to preachy. I enjoy using animals to demonstrate the human shortcomings in a manner simular Aesops fables or Orwells “Animal Farm”. Using animals pictorially to illustrate the inherent flaws of humanity allows me to emphasize my point free from confrontation.
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By Michael Leaverton
It’s nice to see an art exhibit with an over-the-top title, such as “Uplifting Vengeance World Tour,” and overblown press notes ? “an ongoing, all-out battle for human consciousness” ? actually back that shit up. One look at the work on the walls and you forget about words, because there be monsters. And sharp teeth. And genetically fractured, nightmarish beings that you’d kill to have on a T-shirt. The work in this group show tends toward the wildly colorful cartoon fright-fest aesthetic, particularly in the paintings of Skinner. His dense, collagelike portraits of all things scary, tightly grouped on a wall that features a huge caped creature with its head aflame, give you plenty to marvel over ? his work is like a study of things that go bump in the night before they rip your head off. Similarly intriguing are John Stuart Berger’s cuddly-no-more animals (a frog gone insane, a sharp-toothed Moby Dick with a stomach wound, a black-eyed bunny with a horrific overbite) and Robert Bowen’s surreal, drippy blobs of animallike flesh (enlivened here and there with a creepy Mickey Mouse). “Uplifting Vengeance” also features work by Mike Rodriguez, Kim Scott, Aaron Winters, Ashley Harris, Dan Herrera, and Kevin Price.
Date/Time: Reveiw in SF Weekly Aug. 27-Sept. 2
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