PICK UP THE PIECES Online Art Sale

To wrap up this year and support my relocation to L.A., I'm holding an online art sale, called "PICK UP THE PIECES." The sale offers a variety of art from 2010, 2009 and 2008, with drawings and paintings from previous gallery exhibits, including my solo San Francisco exhibit, "Undefeated," and the ever popular "I AM 8-BIT" video game themed art shows.

The title and pertinent info for each piece is listed below its image. An * indicates that the work is framed. To make a purchase, please contact me at hiredmeat@gmail.com for the price list. Serious inquiries only, please. Shipping rates will be determined on a per-purchase basis, due to the variety of size and weight of the works.

“Those Things’ll Kill Ya” / 4” x 6” / mixed media on watercolor paper *

“Stone Faced” / 4” x 6” / mixed media on watercolor paper *

“Grimace and Bear It” / 4” x 6” / mixed media on watercolor paper *

“Devil Exhale” / 4” x 6” / mixed media on watercolor paper *

“Box” / 5” x 8.5” / mixed media on paper

“Experience” / 5" x 8.5" / mixed media on paper

"Caffeine McQueen” / 4" x 6" / collage & mixed media on canvas

“Blues Man Greene” / 6” x 6” / collage & mixed media on canvas SOLD

Captain America” / 9” x 12” / mixed media on bristol

“Destroy #2” / 9” x 12” / mixed media on cardboard

“Attack!” / 12” x 14” / mixed media on watercolor paper

“Morning Study Tina” / 8” x 14” / mixed media on watercolor paper *

“Bedlam & Blade” / 8” x 14” / mixed media on watercolor paper * SOLD

”Dead Bloom” / 14” x 18” / acrylics on illustration board *

“Animal Attraction / 14” x 18” / acrylics on illustration board *

“Super” / 12” x 12” / collage & mixed media on canvas

“Kong” / 12” x 12” / collage & mixed media on canvas

“Busines As Usual” / 9” x 12” / collage & mixed media on wood

“Urban Flight” / 9” x 12” / collage & mixed media on wood

“Holy Haymaker” / 16” x 20” / mixed media on wood panel *

“Brute Breath” / 16” x 20” / mixed media on wood panel *

The Unavoidable Conflict of Plus Versus Minus" / 9" x 12" / collage & mixed media on wood *

Come one and come all, o' ye collectors of art.
I look forward to hearing from you.

- Dave Crosland, aka King Gum.

At last, UNDEFEATED Artwork and Photos!

Hey-hey-hello! At long last, I've uploaded photos and shots of the artwork for my current solo exhibition, UNDEFEATED. Sorry this was so long in coming for all you fine peoples who aren't able to see the show in person. My life took a fairly extreme flip the week the opening. Since then, I've been in the process of moving The Bunker to a new location, and terribly preoccupied with all the wonderful details that go into apartment/studio hunting in a big city. But, ultimately, the show must go on! So enjoy the photos below.


The guys at D-Structure were great, and let me just fill up the space however I saw fit. I'd created these large wooden-cut-out characters, and gotten them mounted on a few walls. And while I was locked in for an all-nighter before the day of the opening, it dawned on me to rock this mural over the paintings, from the front of the store to the back. It really helped tie everything together.

"Undefeated"
house paint on wood

"Title Bout"
house paint on wood

The Angel & The Brute going head-to-head!

"Victory"
house paint on wood

The Angel marches ahead, to do battle with The Brute
and his horde of mutated pugilists.

Winged children -- the followers of The Angel

Warped & Twisted Adults -- subjects/victims of The Brute
*** It's about here that I actually fell off of the ladder
I was working atop of. Luckily (fueled by coffee, Red Bull and
Pop Tarts) I landed on my feet like a kitty cat!***


The Brute & His Horde

For this exhibit, I really wanted to break out of my regular "illustration mold" and challenge myself as a painter. I feel like I learned a lot making this much work, and on such a variety of scale & style. And I'm already starting to implement those lessons in pieces for a charity show in SF this September, a group show in LA in January, and a new body of work that will take me well into 2010. So below, for your viewing pleasure, is the first step in an exciting new direction for my fine arts, illustration and painted works.

"A World Without Good"
oil, acrylic, and collage on canvas

"Bookie By The Bay"
oil and acrylic on canvas

"Bring It"
oil, acrylic, and collage on canvas

"The Unavoidable Conflict of
Plus Versus Minus"
oil, acrylic, and collage on wood

"Awakening"
mixed media on illustration board

"Call To Arms"
oil and acrylic on wood
SOLD

"For Love Or The Gun"
acrylic on retired silkscreen

"Booty & The Beast"
acrylic and collage on wood

Hope you enjoyed this little virtual tour of my show. Please feel free to comment and let me know what you think. My imagination is already rolling and tumbling like a monster-sized cement mixer for the next exhibit... cooking up something even bigger and wilder than UNDEFEATED. So, as always, stay tuned to this blog and hiredmeat.com for more updates, sneak peeks, and hooty-hoos!

In the meantime....

BUNKER OUT!

Sketch 72: Undefeated

I spent Tuesday afternoon working on the back patio of D-Structure. That's the shop/gallery space where my San Francisco solo show is hanging, in August. This is a preliminary sketch for one of my 4 installation pieces, titled "Undefeated." While the final piece will be painted on wood (then screwed into the walls), I did this giant sketch (1o x 1o foot sheet of paper, ya'll!) to give myself a sort of road map. Now, when I move on to the final art, I know how large the piece will be, approximately how long it'll take me to work on it, and how strenuous it will be to create. Also, there are little tweeks (the position of his head, arms, etc) that I know to make, when I'm drawing out the final.

It was fantastic fun, working this large. I haven't drawn anything this big since Mahfood and I rocked a mural at Meltdown Comics, last year. I'd forgotten how physical it is! I was bent over, working on this Jackson Pollock-style. Next time, I gotta remember to stretch first. I'm sore like a mofo!

- Bunker, oversized and out!