All Turns to Brilliance

 Just got back from the Great Pacific Northwest had a trip full of art openings, bourbon, wine, fried olives, spicy meatballs, wings and chicken liver. Well, only one art opening, but a plenitude of the other things... and I didn't cry once or get into any dancing knife fights. Which is a good change of pace from most of the trips I take. Maybe it was because I didn't wear my sleeveless jean jacket vest this time around. That thing always gets me into trouble.
The opening was awesome and got to meet some new folks and catch up with others. Charlie Immer's work was wild and wonderful and I wish he could've been there. Hi-Fructose was there and had a nice post of the show on their site.
http://www.hifructose.com/the-blog/1843-andy-kehoe-and-charlie-immer-at-roq-la-rue.html

I was going to make a post on the blog about a new print release, but one of those prints already sold out. I released All Turns to Brilliance and On the Banks of Broken Worlds on Thursday and the All Turns to Brilliance Print is already sold out. Crazy! Fastest I've ever sold out of a print. I've got some AP's of the print though and I'll post those soon.
UPDATE: APs sold out as well.

I'm going to post another print, Lord of Ghouls, on Tuesday to take it's place.

On the Banks of Broken Worlds

Lord of Ghouls - Arise Feral Night, Roq La Rue

Only a week before I'll be shipping all my work off to Roq La Rue Gallery. The house and studio always seem so empty after a whole body of work is carefully and obsessively packed into huge boxes and shipped across the country. Travel well my children. Almost all the painting is done and I'm very pleased with the work. Between this show and the LeVine show in March, this is shaping up to be my favorite year of art making ever. Woo! Ouch, just kicked my printer over. Got so excited. Yeah!!

In preparation for the labor and expenses of getting a whole body of work across the beautiful expanse of these United States, I'm posting a special and very limited edition print, "Great Heights of the Young Dreamer" to my Etsy store. The prints are 8" x 10" with a 1" white border and I'm selling them for just $25.

Great Heights of the Young Dreamer

And so has Fall which is kind of appropriate. Jonathan LeVine Gallery released 2 of my prints and as you can tell from the photo, they are grand in scale and beauty and aroma. I requested it be sprayed with a lacquer that smells like fist fights and cowboy boots. Please visit their online shop if you are interested in procuring one of these.

http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/cfwebstore/index.cfm?category=50

Learned some good things this week. Some of which I can share and some of which are, as of now, classified... of which some of which is of a dangerous and slightly nefarious nature... of which you would be in grave danger if even a smidgen of a pinch of eave is dropped into your ear... of which I should stop talking about right now lest my lips get loose and sink any ships kind enough to dock in the harbor of this here blog. Speaking of, I'll get to the point of this particular blog post which is... hmmmm. Let me backtrack... Oh yes!

My next print with Tiny Showcase is tonight at 7:30 Eastern Time. If you are a Tiny Showcase lover as I am, be sure to check it out. My last few Tiny Showcase prints have sold out very quickly so we're doubling the edition from 100 to 200. Huzzah!

I also learned that I'll be showing with Charlie Immer at my show at Roq La Rue in October. He was originally scheduled for September, and I remember thinking, "Damn. Wish he would get pushed back a month so I could show with him." And here we are. So either it's either very fortunate, or I get any wish granted to me if I say, "Damn" in front of it. I better be careful. Anyhow, I'm super excited to show with him and to see his work in person. Here's a sample and check out his work on his site.
Charlie Immer Art

The best way to write a blog is with a glass of bourbon, a tobacco pipe, a rifle, a sleeping dog and a general sense of manliness. Incidentally, I have all those things at this very moment so this is shaping up to be a good blog post. A lot has happened since my last blog post. Kind of an overwhelming amount of stuff actually. Bourbon sip. Quick overview.

-Winter was relatively mild. I'm realizing that scheduling big shows for Spring is awesome because I just stay in and work all winter and it just flies on by.
-Having a two-wheel, rear-wheel drive truck in the winter leads to a lot of fish-tailing and anxiety-riddled dreams/nightmares.
-Drove out to Michael Hsiung's opening in Philly and then brought him back to Pittsburgh to eat hoagies and play Mortal Kombat.
-Took an amazing trip to Mexico with my girlfriend, Ash, and spent a week on the beach and in the pool deciding what to drink next.
-I don't know if I got Montezuma's Revenge, but it was at least one of his cousins.

As for these days, I'm still plugging away at the Roq La Rue show. I've also got a piece in the upcoming Blab! Show also at Roq La Rue. It's based around the infamous child whipper, Krampus. The show opens August 12th. More info here:
Blab! Show 2011

 

Mysterious Attraction of the Unseen

Revel in the Wild Joy

My show in New York at Jonathan LeVine Gallery was a smashing good time. Thanks to everyone that came out! I was in a little pain at the opening due to the previous night's activities. Anyone ever heard of a pickle back? It's when you take a shot of whiskey followed by a shot of pickle juice. Sounds weird but it's delicious and smooth... too smooth. You lose track after a while. Anyways, I've posted all the new work to my Flickr account so check it out. I have to say, it's my favorite collection of paintings yet.

Now I'm going to do nothing for a few days then get back to work. I have my Roq La Rue show coming up in October. May as well get busy now to reduce the pain of the panic-riddled later months.

Jonathan LeVine Gallery will be making prints of two of my pieces from the show. "Hail the Dark Wonder" and "Revel in the Wild Joy." We're just getting started on it so more updates to come.

Hail the Dark Wonder

In the meantime, I just released some new prints from the show including "Under the Gaze of the Glorious." Check out my Etsy for more info.

Under the Gaze of the Glorious

I finished my last painting for the show on Saturday. Feels good. Real good. My brain is completely spent though so I'll have to deprive you of my normal bad jokes and just give the show info. I hope you can live with that. If not, I'll be at the opening so you'll have an opportunity to bring it to my face.
I'll be heading out to New York soon to drop off the rest of the work and to arrange paintings in a pleasing fashion. I hope to see many of you at the opening.

 

I just found out recently that Black Maria Gallery in LA closed it's doors and one of my paintings was lost in the shuffle. After some investigating and some major help from the awesome Michael Hsiung, the piece was recovered and it's on it's way back to Pittsburgh. It's already pretty well known but Michael Hsiung is the man. In honor of his actions, I give these words:

Just like a knight in shining armor
From a long time ago
Just in time Mike will save the day
Take you to his castle far away

...Hsiung is the man who will fight for your honor
He'll be the hero that you're dreaming of
We're gonna live forever
Knowing together that we
Did it all for the glory of love

Thank you Michael.
And thank you Karate Kid 2.

Mayor Crow's Escape from Calamity

Winter has rolled in and Fall is but a cold, orange mush-ball. If I didn't live in a quiet, residential neighborhood, I would blow this pumpkin up with some M-80's to send Autumn out in style. Instead, I struggled to get this blob off my porch because it was frozen solid to this mantle. I eventually landed a solid rage-chop to it and it broke off and rolled into someone else's yard. Their problem now.

2011 is here. Woo hoo! I'm actually super excited for this year. I have my Jonathan LeVine Gallery show coming up in March. Gaahhh! Whew... got a little pang of panic there. Lots to do still. The last couple months of a solo show are always a blur. Mostly because of tears of every assortment. Frustration, accomplishment, panic, revelation, fear, joy, anxiety, inspiration, hunger... I always forget to eat in the scramble mode. If anyone is ever in the Pittsburgh area, bring me food.
I'm calling the show, "Strange Wanderings." The show is mostly inspired by my cross country move from Portland to Pittsburgh. I saw sights that equally inspired and intimidated the hell out of me along the way. So there's definitely a pinch of grandness and awe in each piece. I've finished two of my larger pieces and I'm super excited about them. I've got a bunch more in the works in varying stages of completion that should mostly be finished by the end of the month. All in all, things are going pretty awesome. Can't wait to show these babies off!

I've also locked up a date for Roq La Rue in Seattle for October of this year. Can't say how excited I am about this. I've been a big fan of that gallery for some time and it's amazing I get the opportunity to show there. And an added bonus is that the show is in October which is prime Kehoe season.

Parting the Darkness

I also just posted a commission I had been working on since last summer. It's called "Parting the Darkness" for a fine chap in Australia named Karl Hill. I also made some prints out of this piece so check it out in my Etsy shop. In other Etsy news, I added 3 prints from the series I did for Sebastian Foster. I got to keep 10 prints of the edition for myself, so I decided to throw some of them up in Etsy.

Walking with Wisdom

Happy New Year Everyone!

As I sip on my delicious pumpkin ale, feel the cool welcome of Autumn in the air, and breathe deep the smells of fallen leaves and wood fires that are meandering into my nose holes, I say, Welcome Fall! You are a brief but glorious lover that is kind enough to make sweet, beautiful love to each and every one of my senses once a year.... before leaving me twisting in the dark coldness of winter. I love you. Please don't leave me!!

Yes, Fall has just begun and I'm happy to be back home in Pittsburgh to enjoy it. Pennsylvania is an amazing place for all things Fall and I'll be looking to enjoy as much as I can. Fall camping is definitely happening in the next couple weeks. Yes!
I survived the cross country tour of America and spectated the shit out of some beautiful land. Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Devil's Tower and the Badlands were all on display for the Kehoe caravan. I took over 800 pictures and would love to share them, but I took so many that it's overwhelming me. Damn this digital age of frivolous and unfettered picture taking.

Now that I'm back, I'm full speed ahead on my next show at Jonathan LeVine in March. More on that to come.
I have few new pieces and prints available at Sebastian Foster. It's a great crew of artists and I'm excited to be on board. There's a really awesome aesthetic going on here with the other artists that I really connect to... might buy some prints of my own. Check it out!
Sebastian Foster

Conversation Amongst the Innocent

I've also just released a new print of one of my pieces from the recent Blab Show, Onward Again My Friend. I decided to shrink it down to 18" x 18" with a 1" border so the print comes out to 20" x 20" This is much easier and more affordable to frame since it's a pretty standard size. Those custom framing jobs add up and I'm trying not to add to the pain. It's a limited edition of 40 and is available at my Etsy store.

Onward Again My Friend