"Return of the Great Showdowns" by Scott C. at G1988

"Return of the Great Showdowns" by Scott C.

Scott Campbell, known professionally as Scott C. is an American born artist and Production Designer, best known for his work with LucasArts and Double Fine Productions. He recently teamed up with G1988 an contemporary, pop & street art gallery, with two locations in Venice and one on Melrose in Hollywood. 

During the dates of September 21st to October 13th, 2012, Scott C. and the Melrose edition of G1988 bring us "Return of the Great Showdowns". "Return of the Great Showdowns" is a follow up to Scott C.'s "Great Showdowns". "Showdowns" chronics the epic struggle between protagonists and antagonists in today's cinema films and movies of past and present. Scott C. showcases his "Showdowns" in a simple, fun, cheerful and instant recognizable contexts. Everybody loves movies and pretty much every great cinema classic is represented in such fashion. Whether the confrontation is Good vs. Evil or Friend vs. Foe, I am sure you will enjoy these works as much as I did. In addition to this exhibit, Scott C. and G1988 released a book entitled "Return of the Great Showdowns" to coincide with each other. The book features many favorites of this past exhibit. The art work in the book is not titled and provides a little fun and mystery trying figure out each movie. The book is generously priced at only $14.95 and is available from Amazon. Books, prints and coaster sets are available from the websites of Scott C. and G1988 with the links below. The vast majority of these works are 3 1/2"  x 3 1/2" framed with a few being over-sized and all are water color on paper. Most were sold out by the second day of the exhibit.

Below are selected shots of "Return of the Great Showdowns" during the exhibit:

 Return of the Great Showdowns

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

 "The Shining"

 "The Outsiders"

 "Wild Style"

The Karate Kid"

 "Gleaming the Cube"

 "Full Metal Jacket"

 "Gummo"

 "Enter the Dragon"

 "Smokey and the Bandit"

"The Road Warrior"

G1988

 "National Lampoon's Vacation"

 "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"

 "Disney's Robin Hood"

 "A Fish Called Wanda"

"Lost in Translation"

 "Inception"

 "The Untouchables" 

 "High Fidelity"

"V for Vendetta"

 "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial"

 "Ed Wood"

 "Suburbia"

 "Mulholland Drive"

 "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

 "The Jerk"

"Breakin'"

"Red Dawn"

"Return of the Great Showdowns" by Scott C.

To learn more about Scott C., his works and upcoming exhibits, please visit:

www.pyramidcar.com

and

http://greatshowdowns.com

To learn more about G1988 (Melrose & Venice), featured artists and upcoming exhibits, please visit:

http://nineteeneightyeight.com 

RETNA - New Paintings and Works on Paper

RETNA - New Paintings and Works on Paper

Michael Korn Gallery located Los Angeles dedicated it's entire space to bring us new works by legendary street artist RETNA. From September 15th, ongoing now till October 27th, 2012. Retna and Michael Korn Gallery join forces and offer a tour de force with this current solo show that includes new works on paper and various paintings.

Retna aka Marquis Lewis, has a particular interest in the visual writings of ancient cultures, from Arabic and Persian to Hebrew and Native American. Both hieroglyphics and the graceful tradition of ink calligraphy inform his paintbrush while the angles and curves of his improvised alphabet echo the architecture of a mosque or Asian temple. Equally evident in Retna's nuanced script is the artist's interest in Modernist abstraction.

Retna's works are informed by contemporary artistic precedents that include Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Glenn Ligon—all artists using text and image to expand the boundaries of painting and confound visual interpretation. Retna's works are simultaneously conceptual, literal and abstract. The artist is able to synthesize all of these precedents and influences into a seamless and elegant abstract painting.

The artist adopted the alias Retna from the Wu Tang Clan track Heaterz: "Kinetic globes light will then shine, burns your retina." He typically paints to music and allows the rhythmic beat and flow to partly guide his intuitive and emotive script. Beyond the fluidity of music, Retna's work contains imagery and histories that are vast and diverse. The symbols and pictographs of his signature script are inlaid with his multicultural background of El Salvadorian, Cherokee, Spaniard, Pipil and African-American lineage.

Below are selected shots of RETNA's new solo show at Michael Korn Gallery

 "Ya Es La Ultimate Vez"
Enamel, acrylic and crystalina on canvas 

96 x 84 inches

 "Sentence me to standards"  

Enamel, acrylic and crystalina on canvas

96 x 103 inches

"Optic Nerve"
Enamel, acrylic on canvas
84 x 276 inches

"Standed Hands"
Enamel, acrylic and crystalina on canvas
96 x 64 inches

"Song of the Opera"
Enamel, acrylic on canvas
96 x 72 inches

"Eastern Realm"
Enamel, acrylic on canvas
96 x 72 inches

 "I strike with words that will pierce through your heart" 

Enamel, acrylic and crystalina on canvas
96 x 72 inches

Outer walls of Michael Korn Gallery

In 2009, Retna was featured in an episode of Ovation TV's American Revolutionaries, a series profiling innovative and impactful artists. Most recently, Retna embarked on his Hallelujah World Tour in 2011, which made exhibition stops in New York and London. Retna's work can be found here in Los Angeles in a permanent large-scale mural at the West Hollywood Library alongside the work of Shepard Fairey and Kenny Scharf in addition to other street side murals and various billboards throughout Los Angeles.

To learn more about Retna, his works and upcoming exhibits, please visit:

www.digitalretna.com

To learn more about Michel Korn Gallery, featured artists and upcoming exhibits, please visit:

www.kohngallery.com 

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