An artist from Melbourne Australia, Mark creates drawings paintings and sculpture. On display at Mark's website are scenes of incredibly detailed nightmares brought to life through grotesque diorama sculptures. I'm unaware of the specific mediums used but he's made great use of organic resembling materials, perhaps wax? Along with amazingly textured surfaces for the walls and other objects.  The scenes almost resemble something you'd find in a Brothers Quay or Jan Svankmajer animated film. These would be amazing to see brought to life through that style of stop motion animation.  You can view these horrifying and fascinatingly detailed dioramas at Mark Powell's website and see additional works at Mark's flickr gallery.

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Suzanne G's site Wurzeltod is a fantastic resource for artists and features artwork by Ray Caesar.

Wurzeltod's "Taxidermy and Grotesk" section has a comprehensive list of over 60 taxidermy, cryptozoology and animal curiosa artists including Jessica Joslin, Jane Alexander, Sarina Brewer (right), Hyungkoo Lee, Cai Guo-Qiang and Mike Libby with samples of each artist's work.

Wurzeltod will be thoroughly enjoyed by those with exquisitely bad taste.

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News from Delvin Solkinson:

"Dream and Destiny:
Spirit Forging in the Future Culture

"Our cusp culture is borne into an age of deep transformation, ripe with new avenues for expression and artistic evolution. Fueled by the worldwideweb and vast evolutions in the quality of communications technologies, artists everywhere are being empowered to share their work with an increasingly global audience. Nodes, collectives, forums and galleries are emerging to represent countries, continents and even newly globalized art culture movements. It is a time potentized with the possibility of a civilization reconnected with its imaginal roots in the dreamy expanses of the limitless human imagination. Art culture represents a return to a resacrelized, respiritualized and revitalized future in which the engines of technoindustrial materialism redirect its energies from plastic toys and thing fetishism to immersive multimedia environments and a reconnection with the natural world.

"The entheo art microgallery is a glinting reflection of the emerging planetary art culture. This microgallery and its unfolding galactik trading card oracle complex is a celebration of the inspired spirit of the creative imagination, a collective expression of spirit art at the cusp of culture.

 
"For seven years this non-profit project has grown slowly and with great intention. Each year it has been completely redesigned and expanded. Small print runs which have been hand cut with a razor blade brings a DIY sensibility to the creation of ritual art objects.  Last autumn 200 sets of the seventh edition galactik trading card decks were published, half being given away and half being sold to repay no-interest loans to cover printing and design costs. Now the final 32 decks and 20 booster sets from this edition are being released into the world, seeking homes in the four directions. The project also seeks R&D support in the form of no-interest loans to continue its evolution.

 "There is a new web platform hosting the fleet. 
Decks and Booster packs can be purchased direct at the elfintome website.

a song of life

Delvin Solkinson"

The Galactik Trading Card Decks include artwork by Fred Weidmann, Robert Venosa, Andrew Gonzalez, Martina Hoffmann, Kris Kuksi, De Es Schwertberger and Alex Grey.

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News from Daniela & Vladimir Ovtcharov:

Vladimir Ovtcharov's painting "Dedicated to Lewis Carroll" (right), has been published in
"Spectrum 14, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art".
 
Both Vladimir and Daniela Ovtcharov have been
published in Volume 14 of "Direct Art".

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News from Elizabeth McGrath:

The Incurable Disorder
New Works by Elizabeth McGrath

December 15, 2007 – January 5, 2008
Opening Reception December 15 7pm-10pm

at
Billy Shire Fine Arts
5790 Washington Blvd.
Culver City CA 90232

Celebrate a 'Sinister Christmas' with Liz McGrath! The opening reception for The Incurable Disorder will be arhinestone-razorblade and candy-cane-kisses affair. Arrive early and receive special XXXmas goodies from old Saint Nick!

The new 3-D music video for the song "Black Tears" by Liz McGrath's band Miss Derringer will be screened at the opening gala.

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News from Revelation Studios:

Brown Paper Press has published a 10-year retrospective of the individual and collaborative works of Revelation Studios entitled 'Mysterium Magnum'.

The book “reveals a unique vision of mystical creatures, sideshow freaks, religious relics, deviants, and misfits—all imbued thoughtfully with a veneer of time”.

Revelation Studios is a fine art and commercial illustration studio run by artists Kim Maria and Craig LaRotonda.

‘Mysterium Magnum’ is full color and will be available soon on paperback.

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Jake Baddeley will be exhibiting from the 8th of December 2007 until the 27th of January 2008 at Smelik & Stokking's Rotterdam Gallery at the Van Vollenhovenstraat 15 (Westelijk Handelsterrein).   

There will also be limited edition (of 150), signed giclée prints available at the exhibition. You can view or order prints through Threshold Editions.

Jake Baddeley is one of fifty artists featured in 'Metamorphosis'. 

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As part of this year's Miami Art Basel, over 25 prolific contemporary, pop and graffiti artists will participate in the F.A.M.E. Collective group show. New unreleased work from some of the world’s most influential artists will be included in the exhibition.

The show begins with the opening reception on Tuesday December 4, 2007, and runs through to Saturday December 8th, 2007.

Artists in the F.A.M.E. Collective include Chris Mars, Kris Kuksi, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Shawn Barber, Koralie, Dave White, Ron English, Futura, Greg ‘Craola’ Simkins, MARS-1 (Mario Martinez), Jeremy Fish, Kenji Hirata, Michael Hussar ("Daddy's Girl", right), Glenn Barr, Amy Sol, Chris Garver (Miami Ink), Francois Frossard, Sam Flores, Blaine Fontana, Sean Christopher, Damon Soule, Chris Nunez (Miami Ink), Mark Dean Veca, Ben Tour, Pat Rocha, Kenji Hirata, Aiko Nakagawa, Mike Ming, Christian Mendoza, Stash and Crash One.

This exhibition will take place in the F.A.M.E. Collective’s four-story gallery, 2228 Park Avenue, Miami Beach.

Attendance is by invitation or appointment only.

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It was a very full moon on a Friday night in London. There was a certain something special in the air that comes with such nights, but on this night, October 26th the was something more. Tucked away in side street off the famous Brick Lane in the east of London, Strychnin Gallery had opened its doors to it's London presence.

To celebrate this special event, Strychnin put on display many of the artists they represent. Not to be left out of the party many of said artists flew in from the United States.

The gallery proved popular as ever with patrons. Later into the evening the sizable crowd was spilling onto the lane with a feverish hubbub of energy and discussion. Guests would have been very happy to stay on and party to the wee hours of the night, but a weary although very happy Strychnin team had to send people on their way and close their doors before midnight
and be ready again for their first open day.

Strychnin's new London gallery is located in the famous Brick Lane district, a hub of alternative culture. The same area has a more nefarious history as the haunt of the Jack the Ripper. This has not stopped the multitudes that flock to the area for the weekend markets or one of the 70 plus curry houses that jostle with each other.

The gallery is well placed to participate and contribute to this vibrant and historical corner of London.

Strychnin's London adress is:

Strychnin Gallery London
65 Hanbury Street
London E1 5JP

www.strychnin.com

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There are sixteen new paintings available for viewing on Karl Persson's website.

For updates on paintings, prints and exhibitions you can subscribe to Karl's myspace blog.

Karl Persson is one of fifty artists featured in 'Metamorphosis'.

Image: Dawn, 2007, Oil on Canvas, 75 x 100 cm

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