Art Featured Gallery Art in the Flesh: Dr Sketchy’s L.A.

January 5, 2012 - 12:09 pm

A few years back, a Brooklyn artist who goes by the moniker Molly Crabapple, decided art school was not cool and dropped out. And lucky for us she did. Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this article and dammit I wouldn’t have had the chance to shoot Samion, le nude muse for this installment of the Los Angeles chapter’s Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. Fittingly, this kickoff for a new year of the bi-monthly pop-up figure-drawing cabaret for artists and art lovers was held at the Titmouse Inc. animation compound in Hollywood, home to all things awesome and strange.

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Art Artstar: Paige Pumphrey

December 7, 2011 - 10:10 am

Paige Pumphrey is an artist based in New York City.

You seem very influenced by scenes like roller derby, burlesque, and rockabilly. How does subculture influence your art?

Paige: Growing up in the suburbs of Maryland in that dark time before the internet, I desperately wanted to be cool. I’ve always skipped around subcultures dipping my toe in various scenes all through adolescence in an attempt to find myself. But I’ve always been first and foremost a big ol’ nerd with a wicked case of OCD when it comes to my obsessions, so I always treated each different subculture that I monkey-barred to and from as almost like a costume of different characters I was trying to be.

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Music ChinaShop Presents ROCK at the Viper Room Nov 18th

November 15, 2011 - 4:01 pm

Every now and again an idea comes along that is so outstanding that you have to say to yourself… OF COURSE that’s BRILLIANT! We have had such an idea…

ChinaShop presents ROCK at The Viper Room this coming Friday Nov 18th. We have partnered with the infamous establishment to host a variety of seriously good rock bands. Every other month in 2012 we are going to take over a night and have our way with it. And Friday is NOT to be missed…

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Art Featured Gallery Molly Crabapple Is My New Hero

August 8, 2011 - 11:59 am

Molly Crabapple is my new hero. When I emailed her to set up some time for me to meet her and watch her in action, she replied, “I’m pretty much ALWAYS working.” It’s true. You’d need to hire an assistant just to keep up with this girl. With this much success at age 27, its hard not to wonder how she got to this point.

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Art Artstar: Colleen Doran

June 13, 2011 - 10:12 am

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Legendary comics creator Colleen Doran has worked with everyone from Ann Rice to Neil Gaiman, all while spending decades on A Distant Soil, a massive space opera epic that she started drawing when she was 15.  Here, me and Colleen talk about makeup, the web, murderous witches, and the value of speaking up.

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