Little Utopias

Little Utopias

December 16, 2017 — January 14, 2018

Talon Gallery in Portland, Oregon presents “Little Utopias”, a group exhibition inspired by the writings of Margaret Atwood. Participating artists: Roos Van Der Vliet, Susannah Kelly, Annie Owens, Scott Listfield, Alayna Coverly, Maia Boakye, Maryanna Hoggatt, Neil M. Perry, Kelsey Beckett, Alpay Efe, Brin Levinson, Jody Craddock, Rebecca Mason Adams, Jennifer Parks, Adam Caldwell, Natalie Erickson, Josie Morway, John Casey, Sean Mahan, Ruth Speer, Meredith Marsone, and Brian Donnelly.

Talon Gallery
1100 SE Division Street (enter on SE 11th)
Portland, OR 97202

Don’t Wake Daddy XII

Don’t Wake Daddy XII
Curated by Heiko Müller and Ralf Kruger

Hamburg, Germany
December 2 – 22, 2017

Participating artists:
Aeron Alfrey, Alex Diamond, Allison Sommers, Aniela Sobieski, Anthony Pontius, Barbara Ludde, Bene Rohlmann, Björn Holzweg, Brad Gray, Brian Serway, Caitlin McCormack, Craig La Rotonda, Dan Barry, El Gato Chimney, Elmar Lause, Fred Stonehouse, Gregory Hergert, Heiko Müller, Husni Lagot, Jason Limon, John Casey, Jon MacNair, Marc Burckhardt, Marcus Schäfer, Mark Elliott, Matthew Dutton, moki, Nick Sheehy, Patrick Henne, Patrick Selleman, Paul Chatem, Ray Caesar, Tanja Hirschfeld and Travis lamp

Feinkunst Krüger
Kohlhöfen 8
20355 Hamburg
Germany
Phone: +49 40 31792158

Tricky Treats at JackKnife Gallery

JackKnife Gallery in Oakland, CA features a show titled “Tricky Treats” which includes scary work from Niki Banffy-Nesbitt, Linda Braz, Jon Carling, John Casey, Daniel Crowe, Dave Higgins, Gina Jacupke, Andrew Kjera, Julianna Fecskes Phillips, Aubie Schmidt, Kevin Shaw, Jason Silverio, Paul Taylor, and Lexa Walsh.

October 28 – November 9, 2017

Creature Feature at Red Truck Gallery

Red Truck Gallery in New Orleans, LA is proud to present “Creature Feature,” a group show featuring over three dozen artists creating monster themed smaller works, just in time for Halloween and the Day of the Dead!! Participating artists include, Jessica Addams, Andy Herod, Glenn Barr, Jeremy Hush, Gary Baseman, Bunny Lane, John Casey, Gretchen Lewis, Paul Chatem, Molly McGwire, James Concannon, Dennis McNett, Dave Correia, Crystal Morey, Bryan Cunningham, Lori Nelson, Jeanne D’angelo, Terry Owens, Amy Earles, Rob Reger, Mike Egan, Mark Rogers, Natalia Fabia, Cher Shaffer, Nick Gazin, Gabriel Shaffer, Penelope Gazin, Mike Shine, VHS Girl, Fred Stonehouse, Alli Good, John Whipple, Justin Hager, Lauren YS, Caitlin Hackett, and Sean Yseult. I will have the sculptures above in the show.

October 27 – November 19, 2017

Tekelili Show

I’m participating in the show TEKELILI, a Faultline Gallery x Los Tres Amigos group art show dedicated to the macabre & horror masters Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft.

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 7, 2017, 6PM – 10PM

Show Duration: October 6 – November 9, 2017

5th Annual Coaster Show

I have some coaster drawings in this epic show of over 100 artists working on beer mats, aka coasters. So many good pieces in this show.

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone: (323) 666-7667
Email: info@laluzdejesus.com

September 1 – October 1, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 1st, 8-11 PM

Sweet n Low: An International Juried Show of Cute

Sweet n Low features artwork from over 130 local, national, and international artists who extend the genre of cute from cuddly and precious to creepy and ironic. From kitsch and Margaret Keane’s Big Eyes, to Japanese anime and contemporary Pop Art, we’re unleashing the roly-poly, goofily-gamboling, saccharine-honeyed creatures on this earth and beyond! Sweet n Low is part invitational and part juried exhibition, juried by Evan Pricco of Juxtapoz magazine and Antler Gallery, Portland, OR.

June 22 – August 27, 2017

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 22, 6:00-8:00pm

BEDFORD gallery
Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Dr. Walnut Creek, CA 94596
925/295-1417
galleryinfo@bedfordgallery.org

Participating Artists:
Elizabeth Abaravich, Matt Adrian, Kathy Aoki, Alyssa Arney, Jackie Avery, Aleksander Balos, Cori Bartz, Skye Becker-Yamakawa, Heidi Bekebrede, Laura Berger, Nicki Bernacchi, Timothy Berry, Joy Bertinuson, Elisa Bolanos, Robert Bowen, Lisa Britton, Jane Yuen Corich and Lisa Bryant, Buff Monster, Les Caison III, John Casey, Aaron Choate, Jihoon Choi, Natalie Ciccoricco, Lynn Coleman, J. M. Culver, Cullen Curtis, Jens Dåversjö, Eliane Davidovich, Dana DeKalb, Gianna DiBartolomeo, Shi Dong, Melissa Eder, Erin Elizabeth, Ipek Ergen, Angel Estacio, Rosario Estrella, Fausta Facciponte, Megan Farmer, Ilena Finocchi, Jane Fisher, Raul Alan Velazquez Garcia, Ron Geibel, Germs, Katie Jean Gilmour, Lisa Glicksman, Iris Gonzalez, Yesenia Gonzalez, Julie Goonan, Katelyn Greenberg, Tinna Guo, Nancy Hall, Channah Harris, Chihiro Hashimoto, Angel Hawari, Terry Hoff, Anna Hrachovec, Martin Hsu, Hsun-yuan Hsu, Imi Hwangbo, Tomoyo Ito, Margaret Keane, Tracy Kerdman, Charmaine Koh, Diana Krevsky, Charlottte Kruk, Judith Kunzle, Lisa Kurt, Elizabeth LaBarge, Andras Ladai, Marcos LaFarga, Kirstin Lamb, Katie Lane, Lori Larusso, Gracelee Lawrence, Ivory Yeunmi Lee, Sarah Lee, So Youn Lee, Kiera Lofgreen, Alexis Lopez, Stacy Lovejoy, Brie Macgill, Scott MacLeod, Sean Mahan, Liz Mamorsky, Gwen Manfrin, Nixon Mark, Michael McConnell, Lisa McElroy, Megan McGrain, Christine Meuris, Meghan Michaels, Tim Mitoma, Mimolette Monster, Morgan Gesell Mudryk, Kat Mulkey, Paul Nitsche, Nicole OLoughlin, Joon-Hee Park, Stan Peterson, Victoria Pittman, Leah Preiss, Adrienne Ramey, Bunny Reiss, David Reyes, Adrienne Rogers, Joshua Roman, Jenny Rosenberg, Kurt Salinas, Sita Saxe, Colleen Sidey, David Michael Smith, Cat Sommer, Tony Speirs, Melissa Stanley, Shannon Taylor, Michele Theberge, Margaret Timbrell, Frank Trankina, Tara Tucker, Kelly Tunstall, Marie Van Elder, Jessica Vorheis, Kellesimone Waits, Julia Watada, Jane Way, Ingrid Wells, Leslie Westphal, Janet Yano, Jamie Yu, Angela Zocco Sturr

Tondo at Spoke Art in SF

Tondo Group Show at Spoke SF

Reception Saturday, 5/6/17, 6-9pm

Show runs 5/6/17 — 5/22/17

Facebook invite here.

Hey art pals! I have two pieces in this upcoming show at Spoke Art in San Francisco, CA. Spoke SF has challenged over 50 artists to create new works for this format driven show. Tondo is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art, either painting or sculpture, deriving from the Italian rotondo or round. Each artist was given only one stipulation — the work must be round, everything else is up to the artist. “Eye” chose to make a pair of Eyeballer eyes which can be purchased separately. Although I will not be attending the opening, I highly endorse this fun show!

Participating Artists:
Peter Adamyan, Bagger43, Jonathan Bergeron, Robert Bowen, Brandon Boyd, Stephanie Brown, Bumblebee, Adam Caldwell, Sandi Calistro, John Casey, Peter Chan, Damian Chavez, Nomi Chi, Dan Christofferson, Charles Clary, Cannon Dill, Dulk, Jason Edmiston, Jayde Fish, Jeremy Fish, Greg Gandy, Sergio Garcia, Frank Gonzales, Greg Gossel, Serge Gay Jr., Happy D, Evan B Harris, Brandon Holt, Christine Hostetler, Zoe Keller, Caia Koopman, Alex Louisa, Cathy Lu, Ryan Malley, Jen Mann, Jeremy Mann, Caitlin McCormack, Meggs, Jose Mertz, Nadezda, Joanne Nam, Reuben Negron, Nicomi Nix Turner, Chelsea O’Byrne, Meryl Pataky, Daryll Peirce, Relm, Matt Ritchie, Jessica So Ren Tang, Amy Sol, Kevin Earl Taylor, Henrik Uldalen, Roos Vandervliet, Wiley Wallace, Helice Wen, Alex Yanes, Lauren YS, Kate Zambrano

Email Spoke SF for inquiries

SPOKE SF
816 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 796-3774
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John Casey X Cleophus Quealy

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T-shirt Release and Art Exhibit 2/13/17, 6-9pm

Show runs 2/13 – 3/12

Facebook invite here.

Map to Cleophus Quealy.

Hey art pals! I have designed a new California Quail t-shirt for tasty craft brewers Cleophus Quealy in San Leandro, CA for SF Beer Week. In conjunction with this tee release, I will also be showing 35+ smallish hand-painted cutouts. The opening is Monday eve, 2/13/17, 6pm-9pm. Dogs, children, and well-behaved adults are all welcome. I hope to see you there!

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From the CQ press release: Oakland artist John Casey is taking over the Cleophus Quealy tasting room on Monday, February 13th from 6-9pm with his cadre of complex characters, infused with dark magical surrealism. Enjoy some small bites from our food truck and a pint of our special SF Beer Week release of barrel-aged Cherry Red while taking in Casey’s custom multi-media work, specifically catered to our space. This will be your chance to get your hands on an exclusive SFBW collaborative tee, designed by Casey just for us!

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“Familiar” show at Talon in PDX

The founders of Antler are thrilled to announce the opening of their second space Talon Gallery! With Talon the curators aim to lean the focus toward the darker end of the Antler Gallery spectrum. We’ll be maintaining elements of the nature-inspired themes and high levels of technical skill but also expanding toward some more folkloric narratives and figurative works.

We will open on Saturday, January 14th with our inaugural group show, ‘Familiar”. The title bears reference to the fact that while this new gallery may carry some resemblance to Antler it is an entirely different entity with a life and personality of its own. We love how this can be compared to the daemon spirits that are companions to witches and other individuals across numerous mythologies. Please keep your eyes peeled for some special surprises and giveaways to celebrate the opening.

me/you exhibit at c2c/wc

c2c project space is pleased to announce the upcoming c2c/wc annex exhibition, “me/you”. This show will feature figurative work and portraiture by artists who subvert these traditional approaches through a redirection of focus that uses their depictions of the “other” to provide glimpses of whom they, the artists, are themselves. This is achieved be a variety of means. Style, perspective, the color or tone of the work, and the choice of a subject are all employed as devices to create subtle, self-referential elements within the group of work that function to expose self-revelations, which grow in clarity as viewers discover them.

As this show will run concurrently with project 12 in the main gallery, a unique three-person installation that will challenge notions and perceptions of the space, we thought it also appropriate to push the spatial parameters of the c2c/wc exhibition space by welcoming a whopping 13 artists into this show. The techniques presented will range from realistic rendering to abstraction and the collection of work is displayed in a way that is intended to transcend the presence of the individual and exude a crowd-like energy. The 13 featured artists are, in no specific order, Aaron Poser, Elise Siegel, Adam Novak, Sarah Thibault, Jenny Ottinger, Grace Rosario Perkins, Amanda Church, Tebby George, David Lasley, Bill Samios, Yuki Maruyama, Matt Smith Chavez-Delgado, and John Casey.

The show opens Saturday, January 7, 2017 with a reception from 6-9pm and continues through February 5 with gallery hours on Sundays, Noon-5pm.

Hi-Fructose Feature

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I am quite stoked! Thank you Hi-Fructose Magazine for my cool feature! Thanks to my thoughtful interviewer Liz Ohanesian. Thank you Ransom & Mitchell for the killer promo shots! Volume 41 is officially out! Be sure to grab a copy! This issue features a special 16-page glossy insert section of cover artist Greg “Craola” Simkins! Also featured is the art and soft sculptures of John Casey, the gigantic drawings of Sergio Barrale, the cinematic photography of Gregory Crewdson, the sculptures of Crystal Morey, the other-worldly paintings of Smithe, the installations of Crystal Wagner, the dream-like paintings of Shang Chengxiang, the beautiful sculptures of Gosia. Plus, multi-page reviews on Marion Pecks’s career-spanning monograph, and the pin-hole photography of Bethany De Dorest.

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How to Get a Head

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Reception: Saturday, October 8, 1 – 4 PM

October 7-28, 2016

4 solos at NIAD Art Center: Karen May, Saul Alegria, Erik Friedman, John Casey

Oakland artist John Casey is a natural character creator. Often his paintings and drawings include invented people with detailed clothing, sometimes backgrounds, and occasionally several folks interacting. In “How to Get a Head,” Casey narrows his focus to just head portraits: cut out head shapes from plywood, painted. These wall pieces are not pre-planned. Instead, he draws a variety of head shapes; some simple, some more elaborate, without a finished image in mind and then Casey loosely paints in the features in and let the portraits emerge through play.

NIAD Art Center
551 23rd Street
Richmond, CA 94804
gallery@niadart.org

Drawn Together Fundraiser

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Drawn Together at Children’s Fairyland

September 30, 6:00 – 9:00 PM

Children’s Fairyland in Oakland present the fourth annual Drawn Together, an adults-only evening (21 and over) of live art-making, fixed-price art sale, music, food, and magical fun at Children’s Fairyland. More than 50 exciting artists from Oakland and the Bay Area, including myself, will create over 100 pieces of original Fairyland-inspired art that will be sold for $40 per piece; proceeds will help Fairyland keep admissions low for all and free for those most in need, as well as funding park restoration. Complimentary beer and wine; food available for purchase. Space is limited, so get your tickets early and support a great cause! $18 until Sept. 13, $22 afterward. Thanks to FLAX art & design for in-kind support of this event!

Children’s Fairyland
699 Bellevue Ave
Oakland, CA 94610

stARTup Art Fair Chicago

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General Admission Public Hours
Friday, September 23: Noon – 6:00 PM
Saturday, September 24: Noon – 9:00 PM
Sunday, September 25: Noon – 7:00 PM

Opening Celebration: Friday, September 23: 7:00 – 10:00 PM

Hey art pals, I will be participating in the stARTup Art Fair, in Chicago this year at the MileNorth Hotel. Each artist will be exhibiting their work in one of the hotel rooms. You can view the full list here. I will be exhibiting in room 405. Tickets are available on the stARTup Art Fair website. This is an event not to be missed!

If you are planning on attending the fair, please contact me and I will send you info for some free passes.

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I will have drawings, sculptures, and a number of new soft-sculpture pillow-heads available for sale. I will also have some of my fun enamel pins ($10 each). I hope to see you at the MileNorth Hotel Chicago!

stARTup Art Fair Chicago
MileNorth Hotel
166 East Superior Street
Floors 4 – 5 – 6
Chicago, IL
September 23 – 25, 2016
Get tix on the stARTup Art Fair website.

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