Jeff Mcmillan
Jeff McMillan was born in October of 1977 in San Jose, CA where he spent a good portion of his life, and it was during the first few years of Jeff’s existence that he started trying his hand at art at the young age of 3. McMillan’s influences lie heavily in 80’s pop culture. The artist proclaims that the decade boasted the best television programming, cartoons, toys, and movies. It was a decade of imagination and creativity during a time when the world was changing so drastically on all levels. As he continued to make use of the right side of his brain, it eventually became time for McMillan to begin the final stages of schooling. He attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco from 1999 to 2001 until he made the big move to Southern California, where he continued his schooling at the prestigious Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, CA from 2001 to 2004. He studied illustration at both schools until he graduated from the Art Center with honors. He now lives and works in Long Beach with his wonderful wife, Liv and a disobedient Siamese cat.
Website — http://www.jeffmcmillan.com/
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Tessar Lo at LeBasse Projects
April 23rd 09, 12:16
I recently saw Tessar Lo in Downtown L.A a week or so before his show at LeBasse Projects. I met Tessar not too long ago, I think it was a opening at Corey Helford. I’ve been a fan of his work for a while now, so I was excited to see a brand new body of work from him. Tessar is a cool dude and a very talented artist. I’d like to work with him one of these days. Maybe a collab down the line, hmm?
I borrowed this press release from LeBasse Projects-
LeBasse Projects hosted Future Perfect, Tessar Lo’s first solo exhibition
Lo developed his first solo show around the idea that the future is completely unforeseeable. Only in our dreams
can the future be a utopia, and while anything is ultimately possible, the reality is we do not know where we will find
ourselves.
Lo’s paintings often depict these ideas and emotions he cannot easily express in words. While on the surface Lo’s
work often has the feel of an intimate storybook, upon closer inspection we see a deep sense of vulnerability and
loneliness. The paintings for his solo exhibition continue to develop these feelings as he states his desire to be an
island – alone, not needing to rely or respond to anyone but himself. The series of paintings are also larger in scale
than anything Lo has worked on before, partly directed from his fear of being a merely decorative artist and partly
from his increased confidence in his craft.
The unique emotion and techniques that make up Lo’s work have turned him into one of the most buzz-worthy
emerging artists working today. With shows booked into 2010 from London to Los Angeles and appearances at Art
Basel Miami and in NY on the horizon expect Lo’s first solo exhibition to be a significant step in what will undoubtedly
by a significant career.
About Tessar Lo
Tessar Lo is a graduate of Toronto’s Sheridan Institute with a BAA in Illustration. Post graduation Lo moved to Los
Angeles to begin work as a full time artist. With several successful gallery shows and several commercial illustration
jobs under his belt, Lo is now focused on developing his career as a full time artist.you can see more of Tessar’s work on his website
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B. Monroe by Brendan Monroe
April 23rd 09, 0:56
Brendan Monroe has a new book available through Park Life and his website, I’ve known Brendan for a while now, we met at Art Center back in 2001. He’s a talented guy and a good friend. Since graduating from the Art Center in Pasdadena, Brendan Monroe has been painting, drawing, and sculpting a mythical world that is inhabited by blobbish, oozy, paint-chip, trash-laden life-forms interspersed with human figures. Loosely based on the notion that studying smaller enviroments can help us understand the greater world around us. Although he has self-published a wonderful run of miniature artist-books, this is the first inclusive monograph of Monroe’s work including over 70 paintings, 15 sculptures, and installation shots.
This volume represents the artist’s progression as well as his most current body of work and it includes an interview with the artist conducted by Dr. Simon Park. Shana Nys Dambrot created an index of terms related to viewing and experiencing Brendan Monroe’s work.
Book Specs:
7.25″ x 9.5″, 176 pages, Soft Cover, French Fold Dust Jacket
Released March 2009, Limited to 2000 copies
Here’s a couple of my favorite pieces-
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“Draw” Arrives in S.F @ The Shooting Gallery
April 10th 09, 9:43
“Draw” Tour
Fuse Gallery, NYC – October 28 through December 2, 2006
Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX – March 9 through March 31, 2007
Stolen Space Gallery, London, England – March 7 – March 30, 2008Current: Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
April 11 through May 7, 2009Click here to view the work.
If you have questions, or are interested in acquiring any of these works, please contact us.click image to view the show as installed in Stolen Space Gallery
On exhibit at:
SHOOTING GALLERY
839 Larkin St
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 931-8035
www.shootinggallerysf.comAPRIL 11th – MAY 7th 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11th, 2009 7-11pmDRAW is a must-see art exhibition featuring original drawings by over 300 artists in the skateboard, music, urban, tattoo, literature, design, illustration, animation, psychedelic and new contemporary art worlds. The show is a tribute to the often underrated but
fundamental building block of visual and graphic art: the drawing.DRAW is the largest contemporary drawing exhibition to emerge out of New York City. Most recently, the exhibit drew over 2000 people to its London debut at StolenSpace, East London’s Leading Contemporary Urban Art Gallery. The exhibit debuted in October
of 2006 at NYC’s Fuse Gallery to phenomenal response from audience and press alike. It had an equally impressive showing during the SXSW 2007 Music and Interactive-Film Festival in Austin, Texas. DRAW is currently on a six-country world tour that includes
future showings in Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Berlin.Artists whose original works are in the show include: Alex Grey, HR Giger, Clive Barker, Richard Serra, David Byrne, Dalek, Gibby Haynes of Butthole Surfers, psychedelic legend Rick Griffin, Ron English, Neck Face, skate legend Mark Gonzales, Ed Templeton, Jack Rudy, Sorayama, Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance), WK Interact, Camille Rose Garcia, Tim Biskup, Benjamin Cho, Jeff McMillan, Mark Bode, Kevin Llewellyn, Michael Hussar, Eric White, Rich Jacobs, Shawn Barber, Mike Giant, DAZE, Derek Hess, Mark Dean Veca, Brian Degraw, Nate Loman, Brendan Fowler, Aurel Schmidt, Gary Baseman, Shepard Fairey, Tara McPherson, Mars-One, Hank Williams III, and many, many more.
DRAW is curated by Erik Foss and Curse Mackey with guest curators Justin Giarla, Rich Jacobs, Jamie O’Shea, Tim Barber, Damian Weinkratz, Les Barany, Brendan Fowler, Mike Aho, Sto, Lisa Lebofsky and D* Face.
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Zuben Rat Salad & Friends @ Dirty Pilot
March 16th 09, 12:12
I have a new Show at an online gallery called Dirty Pilot that opened today.
There’s 16 new paintings and a limited edition print available
here’s some images from the show-
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Mark Allen Miller
March 15th 09, 10:40
My good friend Mark Miller just revamped his website with some new work. He has a pretty solid style, his work can be seen all over the editorial world of print. Metropolis Magazine, New York Times, Mother Jones, Organic Magazine, Walrus Magazine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, just to name a few
You can check out his stuff here-
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“Sins of Atticus Finch” by Dave MacDowell
March 14th 09, 10:47
I took the night off and decided to be social, I went to Dave MacDowell’s opening last night at Thinkspace.
“The Sins of Atticus Finch”
It was great meeting Dave, we have emailed, facebooked, and have had phone conversations, we had a chance to meet each other and talk in person. He’s a good dude.
His work is awesome and to me it looks like he must paint lightening speed to get all that stuff into one piece. The paintings look fresh and they look like it was all done in one sitting.
There’s all kinds of pop culture references in them, some obvious and some discreet.
Here’s what i saw-
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Another Awesome Thing, Kaiju!
February 11th 09, 11:54
I wanted to mention that I’m starting a Kaiju collection with the help of my friend James B. Levy seen below with his awesome Kaiju Collection that was on display at Art Basel this past December. It was pretty impressive to see in person. Before I was in the “Kaiju Monster Invasion” show, i had no idea how in depth and how many monsters there were in the Kaiju Index, and I can can understand how this can be addicting.
James picked out several key figures to give me a great head start on my kaiju collection, very much appreciated! And I’m happy and honored to say that he is the new owner of the “Off Shore Sea Quarrel” piece seen below-
here’s a link to Kaiju Show at Basel and some other stuff that went on in Miami click here
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The Gate
February 11th 09, 11:04
Hey there, I haven’t posted anything for a little bit, but there’s there’s some stuff coming up in the works very soon. Here’s something i think is pretty cool, i got to do a piece for RVCA that references the classic 1987 horror flick called “The Gate”
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Mike Tyson Portrait!
January 16th 09, 12:06
Hey there, I wanted to let everyone know that the Mike Tyson (the official) site went live yesterday, Here's a link to it you can see the portrait I did on the front page. I'm pretty excited about this one, I also put the original painting up here too. http://www.officialmiketyson.com/
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New Old Pieces
January 5th 09, 14:32
Happy New Year
I just finally scanned these in, i finished these pieces at the last minute, took them to the framer and then sent them off to the suru show, so now i finally documented the whole thing.
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