Greetings from Hyperspace!
If you are on the West Coast or Las Vegas, drop by and enjoy both events that we're participating in this coming weekend. This includes Visionary Art Los Angeles on July 18th, a live painting performance and discussion/presentation featuring
Alex and
Allyson Grey,
Chet Zar,
Saber,
Jarrett DeMartino and
Wendy Klein along with Guy Aitchison and Michele Wortman. This will be an expanded version of the
HyperCoSMic Painting Jam that we were part of this past January, and promises to be a colorful and memorable evening. For those who cannot attend in person, we will be hosting a
live webcast of the entire evening, including video, sound and still image feeds.
Visionary Art Los Angeles will be a breakthrough event, whether you can be there in person or as a virtual presence.
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Also, don't miss the
Scratch Art exhibition coming July 19 at the Canvas LA gallery in Los Angeles (
www.canvasla.com). This show features the scratchboard work of over 200 of the tattoo industry's finest talents, and must be seen to be believed.
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Scratchboard is not a medium that most artists think about much. Many of us played around with crude scratchboards in grade school and never picked up the medium again. However, it turns out to be a versatile fine art medium that has a number of interesting parallels with tattooing, including the need for planning and the lack of any way of erasing. In the new book
Scratch Art(Proton Press, $40) this medium is explored in depth by around 200 tattoo artists, using tools ranging from steel wool to tattoo needles. The rules: None. Any style, any subject. The result is a 272 page powerhouse of amazing art by a long list of today's leading tattoo visionaries including
Aaron Cain,
Bob Tyrrell,
Nick Baxter,
Jon Clue,
Filip Leu,
Timothy Hoyer,
Michele Wortman,
Guy Aitchison and many others. This book is a perfect addition to your home or studio art collection; with its pages representing over 2000 hours of work, it's a book worth picking up and flipping open again and again. For more information about the book, go to
www.hyperspacestudios.com.
However, nothing beats seeing the pieces in person. We expect a good crowd including many of the participating artists. Don't miss this landmark gallery exhibition!
Thanks, and we hope to see you there-
Guy & Michele