Black Rat Press will be hosting a show for The Big Issue Foundationig Issue Foundation, a special charity group that helps the homeless. This special benefit show will be happening August 9th, which is this Saturday. The show that will feature art work by many artists including: D*Face, Ron English, Pure Evil (his…

  Here is a great short film, entitle ‘The Cool School’ documenting some of the renegade artists that set Los Angeles alight in the post war era. Inspired by the ugly boulevards, the automobile graveyards and the flashy billboards then moving onto pop art. Names like Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, John Baldessari amongst others expressed…

It was a great pleasure to be able to interview Michael Mararian, an artist I have admired for possessing a poetic propensity for taking traditionally cheerful images and concepts and turning them into frightening, yet humorous, tableaus. His unique rearranged dark work he aptly call M. Mararian’s Inky Dreadfuls has a tendency to uncover innocence…