PACK A WALLOP

at Webb Gallery opens today featuring

Mark Todd, Fred Stonehouse, and Thynon Sykes

 

 

Mark Todd, from Webb Gallery site:
Like many kids raised in the 70's, Mark was influenced at an early age by Star Wars and comic books. Unlike many kids, he grew up just a few miles from the Vegas strip, it's neon and glitz looming over the city. He graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and currently lives and works in the Los Angeles area with his wife, artist Esther Pearl Watson, their daughter Lili and Mr. Pickles, a lovely French Bulldog. He is well known as a teacher, a kickass zine maker, a painter, a illustrator, and all around great guy!!!

 

Mark Todd: Invaders, acrylic on wood, 24x36 and Strange Space, acrylic on wood, 40x60 

Mark Todd: Ghosts, acrylic on wood, 18x12

Mark Todd's work in the main gallery space

Fred Stonehouse.  Has exhibited extensively and ...is a professor of art at Univ of Wisconsin.  He will be in attendance for the opening and spend some time haunting all of the great antique shops and fleas of the area. (Webb Gallery)

Fred Stonehouse works

Mr. Thynon Sykes is 97. He has done just about every occupation including cook and race car driver. These days due to age and health he can't move about and do like he used to; so he started doing drawings to fill his time.  He makes no claims to them being art, but snickers and shines with joy when looking and talking about them.  (Webb Gallery)

Thynon Sykes installation

 

Pack a Wallop

Webb Gallery

209 W. Franklin Street

Waxahachie, TX

April 28 - July 13
opening celebration Sunday, April 28th 4-7pm
with all of the artists and music
by Quintron & Miss Pussycat

 

Hidden Behind the Stars

the first solo exhibition of Esther Pearl Watson's work since earning her MFA at CalArts earlier this year.  "Hidden Behind the Stars" opened Sunday at Webb Gallery in Waxahachie, Texas.  A wonderful exhibition with lots of work that will satisfy.  Although Esther's work is fairly new to me it was refreshing to see the subtle change in the work she is known for and the work since earning her MFA.   

 

Esther Pearl Watson

L to R:  Big Day, Good Times for Girls, Color Blind

Tornado Warning

I Just Got Out of Jail

Webb Gallery

 

 

Take that short trip to Waxahachie and see this exhibition.  If you haven't been to Webb Gallery then you are in for a pleasant surprise. 

 

 

Hidden Behind the StarsEsther Pearl Watson
Webb Gallery
Waxahachie, TX
November 18th - January 20th
webbartgallery.com

Mark Todd at Plush Gallery

Prsents well-known Los Angeles based illustrator and fine artist Mark Todd will open his first solo show at the gallery on Saturday April 16th.  He will be showing a new body of comic book remix paintings and collages, as a prelude to his upcoming summer solo show at La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles.

Raised in Las Vegas in the 1970s, Todd's work makes use of and subverts the pop superficiality of our culture, to address heavier topics such as mortality, remembrance, loss, and the passage from childhood fantasy to adult reality. Works such as "Green Thor" depict upended super-heroes, landscapes populated by disembodied ghosts, and subtle yet biting takes on imagery from his youth.

Todd graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and is an in-demand illustrator for such national publications as Rolling Stone, GQ, Business Week, Los Angeles Times, and Mtv, among many others. He has been featured in numerous group exhibitions nationally, and in solo shows at La Luz de Jesus and Billy Shire Fine Arts in Los Angeles. Todd is currently curating an exhibition at Giant Robot in San Francisco.

Opening concurrently will be Gallery Artists Group Show, featuring work in various media by six Plush artists, including Brandon Behning of Santa Fe, C.J. Davis and Brian Ryden of Dallas, Celia Eberle of Ennis, Texas, and newcomers Daniel Kurt of Commerce, Texas and Ben Utigard of Española, New Mexico.

 
918 Dragon Street • Dallas TX 75207 • info@plushgallery.com • 214-915-0925

gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday 12-5 pm and by appointment

New Mark Todd website

POWER FURY

Mark Todd took his first creative cues from comic books and Star Wars: worlds of inventive fantasy. His work involves intense scrutiny and alteration of classic comic covers from “Fantastic Four”, “X-Men”, “Iron Man”, “Spiderman” and other series, including the work of legendary illustrators like Jack Kirby. “I love the type, the heavy shadows, the colors and the way they seemed to use very inch of the page,” says Todd. “I sit and study them, and my brush reconstructs them.” Todd is referencing the past, waxing nostalgic about it and simultaneously lending his own post-modern sensibility to it, employing a limited palette, repetition, distortion and mixed media materials including spray paint, silkscreen, collage, cel-vinyl, glossy varnishes and dusty stains. The pieces are often rounded at the edges, appearing as prized objects; tablets encoded with civilization’s most iconic collective wisdom.   (Bio from Power Fury)

Egg, c. 2007, 6" x 6", mixed media on paper

Mark Todd's work will be featured in Plush Gallery's next exhibition.  "Mark Todd, Comic Book Paintings" that opens Saturday, April 16th 6-9pm.
 
Plush Gallery
918 Dragon Street • Dallas TX 75207 • info@plushgallery.com • 214-915-0925 • facebook
gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday 12-5 pm and by appointment