Art Basel Miami will be the talk of the art world all next week, and today we have a few preview images of Corey Helford Gallery At SCOPE Miami. This will be the inagural showing of Corey Helford at SCOPE, and they are pulling out some stops with Ron English, Sylvia Ji, Chloe Early, Joshua Petker, and Korin Faught, among others. Pictures after the jump . . .

David Stoupakis’ works are macabre in nature, partly due to his troubles with complications at birth and learning disabilities. What some considered a hindrance, opened a space for Stoupakis to develop a distinctive artistic style.

Check out the beautiful freakishness that is the work of Chet Zar. For the Juxtapoz 15th Anniversary Art Auction, he donated the piece Sad Little Monkey.

Master of the macabre, Chet Zar, has a new and very unique show coming Saturday, may 16th, 2009 titled When Worlds Collide. Unique because, “it will feature new works by myself and my pops (James Zar),” Chet explains. “It should be a wild show since his visionary/fantasy works are pretty much the opposite of my gloom and doom stuff! Anyway, I am super excited about showing with my dad and the new pieces I am working on are definitely my strongest and most detailed paintings to date.” Looks like talent runs in the family. More info on When Worlds Collide at limageriegallery.com

Chet Zar is one of the foremost artists in the Dark Arts sphere. Here, Chet gets deep in a long video interview where he discusses everything from his fine art, special effects work on films, the politics of art, and what he tries to say with his imagery.

These Predicaments by pop surrealist David Stoupakis recently opened at Los Angeles' Corey Helford Gallery. For his second solo exhibition at the Gallery, Stoupakis parlays his talent for the supernatural and macabre into dramatic narratives that reveal symbolic turning points and unexpected dilemmas. C'mon, getting stuck in a house definitely counts as an unexpected dilemma, no? A delicate balance of childhood innocence and haunting imagery, the series of oil-on-panel paintings and graphite drawings recounts grim fairytales of the decadent and demure. This new series marks a new direction for the artist, as Stoupakis employs a brighter color palette than before and unveiled his largest piece to date at the exhibition, which attracted a wealth of fans to its reception. Couldn't make it out? No worries, we've got your opening night photos right over here...  

These Predicaments by pop surrealist David Stoupakis is the next showstopper to hit Corey Helford Gallery. For his second solo exhibition at the Gallery, Stoupakis parlays his talent for the supernatural and macabre into dramatic narratives that reveal symbolic turning points and unexpected dilemmas. A delicate balance of childhood innocence and haunting imagery, the series of oil-on-panel paintings and graphite drawings recounts grim fairytales of the decadent and demure. These Predicaments opens next Saturday, December 13 and will remain on display until December 31, 2008. More on These Predicaments by David Stoupakis here.

Macabre genius Chet Zar recently upgraded to a larger format printer, allowing him to finally create larger prints of some of his popular pieces, Black Magick (which you can see at In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor) and I Want You. Zar also included new pieces from a couple of his most recent shows, We Are The Shadows and Ugly American. These are the first prints issued from these shows. “I am really proud of these prints,” Zar told Juxtapoz. “They just look really sharp due to some new printing techniques I have picked up as well as a higher quality paper.” Grab your new Chet Zar print now at chetzar.com

Chet Zar’s catalog from his show Ugly American is now available for purchase! Okay, “catalog” may be what we’re supposed ot call it, but it’s areally more of a book. At 64 pages in 4/4 color, Zar’s Ugly American catalog-book-thing features all of the work from his stunning Ugly American show, as well as some past works. Also included is a foreword from Adam Jones of Tool. Grab your copy at chetzar.com

The fantastically gruesome Chet Zar (okay, only his artwork is gruesome, he’s actually quite nice) let Juxtapoz in on a wonderful event going down in LA called Art Visionary Los Angeles at Club 740 on Friday, July 18th. Painting live at Art Visionary Los Angeles will be: Chet Zar, Alex and Allyson Grey, Guy Aitchison, Michelle Wortman, legendary graffiti master Saber, Wendy Klein, Jarrett DeMartino, and more. Art Visionary Los Angeles will also include a number of presentations and panel discussions before the main live painting performance, video art, music, and dance. If you know what’s good for you, you’ll jump on this rare opportunity to see some of the greatest contemporary artists of our time working their magic right before your eyes. Details and advance tickets at cosm.org