Another group show I was involved in was "Girl's Vs. Boys". The show was split between two galleries, 1975 (boys) and The Yards (girls). As a group we tried to recapture the times of yesteryear where the days were long and boys were well...boys. I did a series of cardboard cut outs and a cardboard sculptures of the old gun caps. Oh, each piece had to be at least 50% cardboard. Here's some of the images:

This guy was displayed in the bathroom. This is the second time I shown in the bathroom. Guess my career's in the toilet...ba da dum tish!

Been busy lately but I recently had 2 group shows I participated in. The first was entitled Heroes and Villains. The show is currently up at the Record Archive. It opened to a ton of good art and a ton of good people coming out to check it. There's an art group I'm involved in called "Dude's Night Out" that is filled with just talented individuals. It makes us all step up our game. Here's one of the paintings I did for the show entitled "Hulk Smash!"

Commission

The fine people over at Wolf's Brigade Gym commissioned me to do a painting for their fearless leader Greg Walsh for their X-mas Party. Now Greg and I go way back and he owns a bunch of my work, all monster related. Pat and Heather from WBG wanted a werewolf to add to his collection, plus the gym logo is a pretty sweet looking werewolf. This is the result of our discussion...

and a little detail...

latest work

Here are some paintings that were recently finished

This was called "A 'Little" Haunted". It was for the 1975 is Haunted show. The idea here was if anything would haunt the new 1975 space, it would be the previous owner of the little bakery.

 This was for the same show entitled "It appeared in a wolf's form". Kind of based off of the Goddess Pele from Hawaii.

This was for an art show at the Gallery Salon. Titled "Sellout". All images are acrylic on wood.

Well, yes it's been a while. This is a new painting currently up at 1975. They finally have a home base and have currently retired from being a nomadic gallery. I was truly honored to be asked to participate in the opening exhibit entitled "Home is where the Art is". I sent in this one and my portrait of Grandmaster Flash. The work was to be something current, but most of my stuff is gone so I had to crank this out. Largest work I've done in a while...32"x48". Fun but took some getting used to. I've worked on such a small scale over the last few years that all my larger brushes are just beat. Definitely will push to try bigger stuff down the road. Hope you enjoy, thanks for taking a look.
-Johnny

Get A Grip 3

Is this really the 3rd fundraiser for our skatepark?! Give us the money already. Rottenchester, you want something that will actually get used, put your money here. It might be a nice deviation from that god forsaken hole in the middle of downtown. Well anywho... here's my donation, acrylic on grip tape entitled "What you looking at sucka!". The show opens Friday March 2nd at the Yards. I'll be stopping by, hope to see some of you out there.

Just finished up some skateboards for a friend. The portrait is Danny Trejo as Machete.

New Work currently at Crewest Gallery in L.A. Check them out @ www.crewest.com

This is a portrait of Grandmaster Flash.

Hey new stuff coming soon...

I submitted two new paintings for 1975 Gallery's show "By The Pale Moonlight". Great new space with absolutely killer art that made me more of a fan than just a participant. Along with all the 2d stuff there are some dynamite sculptures including an amazing scarecrow head light. Do yourself a favor and go see this show...you will not be disappointed! Here are some shots of my submissions. The first is called "Thirsty" for obvious reasons. The second is titled "Grimely Fiendish" which came about with a little help from Erich Lehman. It's the title of an old tune by the Damned. Seemed fitting, so there it is. This piece is actually mounted behind an old window so it looks as if he's looking in on the viewer. I have some other stuff to crank out so I'll update this as I turn them out. Thanks for checking in...

I was invited by the wonderful people at Plastic to do a custom Munny. This was my first attempt at vinyl and also my first intro to super sculpey. 6 other artists created some dynamite customs including Bill Hand. Of course this was last minute because that's when inspiration truly happens so I never took any photos. This one was provided to me by Deana, Plastics owner. Friend them on Facebook or check out www.plasticgrrl.com.

This was new but it is now in the hands of someone else...

Had a show in May at the Gallery Salon with Paul Schramm and Cortney Konecny. Made a few new ones, sold some old ones. Here's one of the new ones...never sold, e-mail me if interested.

Sorry it's been a while...a lot going on around here. Finally able to get painting again. This is for the upcoming show with Spoke Art titled Quentin vs. Coen show in NYC. A little progress shot up top so you can see it come together. This is Leonard Smalls from Raising Arizona. Had a blast doing this one...enjoy!

A poster for my buddy Brenden from Hunger Anthem...go see them!

Painting 2 for the Cinemonstum Show at 1975 Gallery

Brains 24"x 24" acrylic on canvas

Painting one for the Cinemonstrum Show at 1975 Gallery

Dr. Death 12x20 acrylic on canvas

Finished...

Artwork for the deck I'm doing for "Get a Grip 2". In progress...should finish tonight.

Grip tape art for "Get A Grip 2"