Van Gough at Macabre Gallery

Other than a few small un-notable shows over a decade ago, I’ve not really had much opportunity to have my work exhibited in my home country. Which is why it is an absolute honor to announce, that I shall be working with London based and aptly titled Macabre gallery, who will be representing my Art alongside a pantheon that includes Saturno Butto, Tomasz Alan Kopera, Michael Hutter and a host of others.

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The Devil Tarot

“He has poisoned our water forever”

Hunter S Thompson

36″ x 48″
Oil on canvas

Here it is-the completed commission for the 78 Tarot project-Lucifer rising from the primeval, evil pool of mankind that spawned him.  Principally, it takes the elemental subtext of that card , the representation of sinister external forces, the illusionary deception of fear, the physical bondage of materialism, and places it amongst the unraveling detritus that followed George Bush’s pronouncement of Mission Accomplished on board the Lincoln on in 03 May 1- or May day, a sacred Beltane date in the Illuminati calendar and the date that the Gulf oil spill and the death of Bin Laden occurred. Also coincidentally, the date that I put the last finishing touches to the piece. Such dark arcs aren’t lost on me.

I could have comfortably kneeled at it’s dark altar for six months, but the deadline eclipsed any such ambition.

We’re all still kneeling anyway.

Poetic Photography Magazine cover and interview

" 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.

 

loBURN magazine Interview with David Van Gough

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

Putrefying Venus by David Van Gough

Recently, I've been graced with the kind of commissions that stray right up my dark and twisted alleyway. This one being for a forthcoming comprehensive journal entitled "Necrophilia-a Global Perspective" by Lee Mellor. 

Lee of course interviewed me about my Art for his really excellent magazine-Serial Killer Quarterly, but what the book promises is a serious and varied psychological assessment of historical and forensic case studies. Plus there's a short article about the painting by me. 

It should make compulsive beach reading.

Release details to follow.

San Diego State University Screening Serial Killer Culture

My Man/son showcase is already three years young-hard to believe really.
That it continues to be my most popular and well known series, says something about the public's continuing fascination with the subject, and the none too paltry power of Netflix instant play.
Which is why I shall be honored to be attending a screening and subsequent panel for Serial Killer Culture, at San Diego State University on the 10th of April, alongside director John Borowski, Artist and publisher Hart Fisher, Criminologist Dr. Thomas Gitchoff, Head of SDSU Special Collections Robert Ray, and Federal Bureau of Prisons Retiree Joel Goodman.

Screening starts at 6:00pm at SDSU's Little Theater 161- $3 Students $5 Public.

There will also be an additional night to see the screening on the 11th of April, please note that I shall be unable to attend due to a former commitment

RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/SerialKillerCultureScreening 

The Devil Tarot

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.