CarnEvil Show Opening Reception at The EVE Gallery During Pomona Art Walk
CarnEvil Show Opening Reception at The EVE Gallery During Pomona Art Walk
POMONA, Calif — On October 8, 2011 The EVE Gallery will be celebrating its first year anniversary with the opening reception of its latest exhibit CarnEvil during the Pomona Art Walk.
The EVE Gallery is an art space located inside well established Futures Collide vintage furniture store in the Arts Colony neighborhood of Pomona. EVEry month, the gallery proudly plays host to all types of eclectic and diverse art events.
“We are interested in showing art by artists from all walks of life, disciplines and experience levels that will not only appeal to the greater art appreciating community,” says gallery co-owner Eddie Gee, “but will help build and strengthen the life of the existing arts community.”
The Pomona Arts Colony hosts a monthly Second Saturday and Last Saturday Art walk, an easy walking tour. It is home to almost 40 art venues and many resident artists live/work studios with several restaurants and music venues all within a five block area.
In the month of October The EVE Gallery will be hosting the CarnEvil art show which will be a mix of circus and carnival themed art. There will be over 25 artists who will be showing their work.
The Carnevil Show will run through October and ending on October 31st.
Featured artists include:
Wes Huffor
Southern California artist is best known for visceral, seductive and pathological crime and horror storytelling.
Huffor who has an international stable of fans was honored in 2011, by having one of his original illustrations chosen to be added to the Edgar Allen Poe cottage in the Bronx, NY by the Historic House Trust of New York.
A protected historic monument, which has been recently restored with the addition of a contemporary museum. Wes Huffor’s illustration remains there as a permanent feature in the wall of Poe’s NY home.
Wes Huffor is currently working with noted Director/Producers Darin Scott and Ed Polgarty on a Horror comic book series entitled The Wrath. The series is planned for US release in early 2012.
Phillip Graffham
For three decades, Phillip Graffham has studied the poetic arrangement of objects into art, creating hundreds of intricate assemblage art works combining found objects, beads, buttons, bones, hair, tiny toys and charms.
Graffham is a co-founder of the Pomona Arts Colony in Los Angeles County where during its formative years he owned and operated an art shop called Pipperdoodles.
He was represented by Billy Shire’s La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Hollywood for many years where he exhibited and sold hundreds of trendsetting art objects and jewelry designs.
Jaime F. Jimenez
Jaime Fortunato Jimenez aka (Psycho James), was born in Colima, Mexico and migrated to in La Puente, CA, where he grew up.
He has been displaying his artwork for more than 20 years in art galleries, records stores, coffee and book cafes, hip hop shops, animation studios and beach board walks throughout California.
As an artist, he does not wish to limit his art by simply sticking to one medium or style.
“I think I must push what I already know and experiment with that which I don’t, so I can uncover a new level of artistry and communication,” Jimenez said.
Shelli Weldon
Shelli Weldon was born and raised in and around Claremont, California.
Her Mother was an artist too and she passed on her love of art and the belief in its positive impact on society. Joanie, Shelli’s mother, made an indelible impression on her at a very early age.
Shelli especially enjoys making art from found objects and what most might consider as “trash”. The process is simple, she lays out the “packaging” on the floor, isolates the graphics visually, and then creates the image in her mind completely.
She then moves on to the construction. The more complicated the design is, the more relaxed she becomes.
Also presenting work in the CarnEvil Exhibit:
Michael Severin
Cherie Savoie
Richard E. Nunez
Aubrey Miranda
Nikki Owens
Monica Orozco
Randolph Murray
Joan Whitmore
Dee Marcellus Cole
Christopharo
Johnnie Dominguez
Simon Garcia
Sergio Patron
Grasiela Rodriguez
Rose Tursi
Sherrie Crevoisier
Edan Curtis
Navia Alejandro
Meezy Perez
Joe Ded
Leigh McCleary
Opening reception of the CarnEvil show will be on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 3pm to 9pm. The EVE Gallery is located inside Futures Collide vintage furniture store 280 W. 2nd St., Pomona CA 91766.
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