" Finding a style is like blindly fumbling in the dark, and tripping over furniture"
'Rise' made it to the cover of Poetic Photography magazine, which accompany's a six page interior spread and interview with your's truly. Available for Ipad users on ITunes newsstand only, I'm posting the screen caps for those of us who didn't get one in their Christmas stocking.
So I can't tell you how very happy I am to announce that I am included in a ten page feature in this months loBURN magazine-you'll just have to trust me, but what it is, is the best in cutting edge interviews with a pantheon of artists that includes, Christopher Ulrich (on the cover and interviewed by David Herrle no less), Scott Holloway, Cam Rackam, Vincent Castiglia & Daniel Martin Diaz-buy, beg or borrow a copy now.
loBURN VOLUME 5
Currently on my easel, is a commissioned work that will eventually be part of a Tarot deck, comprising 78 artists from around the globe.
It's their second such deck-this time with a nautical theme, and for whatever reason, they thought I'd be a good fit for El Diablo himself, so armed and mustered and stoked with fire, brimstone,shock and awe, here for your viewing pleasure is a sneak peak of me in Satan's service.
I look like I have a tail in this picture.
The superlative Italian online mag-Taz (short for the Art Zine) has included me amongst their six question coterie of artists. Anyway, its a splendid honor, and you can read my pithy elucidations here:
TAZ DAVID VAN GOUGH INTERVIEW
I shall be premiering a new work for a superlative group show at Bash this coming Valentines day-which shall be a rather nice counterpoint I think to all the candy coated hearts and flowers.
Exploring a 'seedbed of possibilities from a contemporary perspective.' and 'the mystical and the consequences brought by evil while good seeks to prevail,' my piece-"Begat the Great Death and Resurrection Show", invokes the triumvirate spirit of Messianic entity, as a mere anecdote for premature existence.
The show opens February 14th at 5pm and runs through March 14th and includes members of the Copycat Violence: An Artist Collective along Sandra
Sandy Yagi, Christopher Ulrich, David Van Gough, Jeff Christensen
Artwork, Paolo Petrangelli, Hannah Yata, Julianna Menna, Mab Graves and
Jean Pierre Arboleda. Contact info@bashcontemporary.com for enquiries.
The first week at Studio V.
In which, reflecting the current climate of media hyper tension, filtered through something that could be an outtake from the last show, and fueled by the best taco shops around, here then, are the beginnings of a new work using grisaille under painting technique.
That's the babe Achilles, hanging by the heel like the Tarot, waiting to be baptized by the searing stream.
I guess we are all Achilles.
In the coming weekends, there will be three consecutive shows at La Bodega, culminating in the almighty Day of the Dead, so show dates and jive to follow.
Better get my draw on then.
In the meantime, here are my open to the public hours, so local folks please do drop in.
Wed to Friday 10am-4.30pm
All other times by appointment only. Message me for private viewings.
Here it is-11 of the projected 24 pieces for my show- Purgatorium - opening at
Bash Contemporary September 5th-October 5th, Artist reception 6th 6pm -
9pm-all inquiries to info@bashcontemporary.com, 
(415) 926-8573 www.bashcontemporary.com
Good Wombs Have Borne Bad Sons-oil on canvas
-48"x36" $3500
What's Past is Prologue-oil on canvas-48"x36" $4000
A Thousand Furlongs of Sea, For an Acre of Barren Land-oil on canvas-48"x36" $3500
The Dark and Backwards Abysm of Time- oil on canvas-48"x36" $4000
Brave New World-oil on canvas-48"x36" $3500
Misery acquaints man with strange bedfellows-oil on canvas-48"x36" $4500
So Lie There, My Art-oil on canvas-48"x36" $3000
Poor Worm, Thou Art Infected-oil on canvas-48"x36" $4000
Night Kept Chained Below-oil on canvas-48"x36" $4500
Space Have I to Lie in Such a Prison-oil on canvas
-48"x36" $4000
He That Dies Pays All Debts-oil on canvas
-48"x36" $5000
Purgatorium
"Hell is Empty and all the Devils are here"
The Tempest-William Shakespeare
In his forty-fifth Year, David Van Gough embarked upon a series which
would finally confront the daunting shadow cast by his most famous
ancestor, and the inevitable connotations of that surname.
Adopting the characterization of Vincent Van Gogh as martyr– and
recapitulating stanzas from Shakespeare's Tempest recast as themes of
life's metaphorical exile – Purgatorium (Latin for “the place in
between”) sets a chronological backdrop of re-imagined personal
biography from the desolate mire of his Liverpudlian upbringing to
imagined death and the shadowed here-after.
The series is Van
Gough's manifestation of the artist-as-alchemist via an exorcism of our
contemporary society that suppresses arcane secrets, the ancient craft,
the magical depths. The result is an epic parable of traumatic
realization and purification."
Dropped today, the latest trailer for John Borowski's Serial Killer Culture-the documentary I was interviewed for about my Man/son showcase. Featuring as it does, Joe Coleman, the Crawlspace Brothers, Hart Fisher, Matthew Aarronn, Macabre and a host of others, I appear briefly at around the 1.15 mark.
No word on a release date, but I have it on good authority that it should be available at select screenings soon, as well as on general release through Netflix streaming in the new year.
It's the weekend of Comic Con here in my adopted home town, San Diego's Convention center-no doubt-groaning beneath the collective weight of junkets for what will almost certainly be creatively bankrupt, forthcoming movie releases.
Something you won't see there this weekend is any of my work, but in the spirit of exclusives, I've decided to do a little video release of my own-a trailer if you will for one of the paintings from my upcoming series-"Purgatorium".
Workingly titled-"The Exile of Sisyphus", the video is a little subdued to counter point the weight of visuals, so you may have to crank the volume a little. Enjoy.
I realize its adding little to the burgeoning mire of Instagram style selfies- another not particular flattering shot of the artist in situ (et al)-but it's that time of year again, paint smeared, war torn and in the flesh as it were, a proverbial art warrior, somewhere between battling the heatwave and burning the midnight oil on canvas.
I make it sound more romantic than it is certainly.
Still you can sort of make out what I've been working on in the background-the ongoing Purgatorium duties-a sneak peak whilst you wait.
