August 1, 2009 – August 29, 2009 Opening Reception: Saturday, August 1, from 7pm-11pm
1408 Locust Street - Des Moines, IA
Come view the latest works from local, national and international artists:
Rudy Fig
Jeremiah Ketner
Chris Brett
John Stuart Berger
Sam Ramos
Jorsh Peña
Jen Lobo
MAC IX
Netherland
Vanja Borcic
Anna CF
Paul Chatem
Kettle
Josh Bowers
Jason Scott Hoffman
Michelle Holley
Van Holmgren
Jamie Fales
M@R$H, BOSkO, Hasan Tosunbegovic, Rachel Buse and more!
Body Painting: Body By Svec
Music by Deep Sleep Waltzing
Rudy Figis a Minneapolis based artist and toy enthusiast. With toy designers for parents, she grew up in a very creative enviroment. After flunking out of art college, she ended up working at a bakery where she found lots of inspiration. Rudy's Paintings feature babes, toys, and candy coated madness in macabre, whimsical worlds. Today, at 20, her paintings are shown in galleries across the US.
Jeremiah Ketner paints a world to which fairytales long to belong. With candy-floss landscapes and vivid imaginary images, his work enraptures and transports one into the world ethereal and the life celestial. He has the inimitable ability to transform the natural into the sublime, terra firma into terra ephemera, the defined figure into the delicate, exquisite figurative. Renowned throughout the US and internationally, Ketner attributes his influence to Art Nouveau, Japanese Aesthetics and Magna. He resides and creates from his home and studio in Chicago, IL, USA.
Chris Brett is a mixed media artist based out of the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. His work is a mix of the bright, delicious, dark & disgusting sides of being alive. A cartoon wasteland of playful imagery & psychotic allegory.
John Stuart Berger is a Northern California artist who passes time by rendering, manipulating and mutating various forms of the natural world. He is intrigued by organisms that tend to slither, crawl, ooze, fly, strike and usually bite!
Jorsh Peña is an illustrator and artist based in Mexicali, Mexico. His work is a mix of surrealist pop and monochrome old cartoon styles. He is influenced and inspired by the old fashioned styles of Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones and Craig McKracken.
Jamie Falesis an artist and freelance illustrator born and raised in New York. She received her BFA in 2003 and since then has been creating her own sweet, but despondent world of animals and girls. Her work, which is both cute and melancholic, and occasionally humorous, has been featured in various publications and shows across the United States.
Kettle's work can be found in galleries and private collections through-out the US ranging from the Whitney Museum of Art in New York to the Monkeyhouse Gallery in Los Angeles.
Jen Lobo has great affinity for all things feathered and furry, avian and aquatic, he work is a testament to that love for the natural world and with a blend of human themes of love, loss, tragedy and triumph. Jen currently resides in Pasadena, California.
Location : Instinct Gallery - Des Moines, IA Contact : Michelle Holley
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