Automagical Realism

I think he’s kinda cute… (Taken with instagram)

Crazy collage creature (Taken with instagram)

19 Mar

Come join us for the Art On First Friday featuring the art of Clay Newton! I’ll exhibiting a new series of pictures I’ve been working on, and The Deadlies will be performing!

I’m naming the series of work I’ve done for this show after this blog, Automagical Realism. The stuff I have been posting & reblogging is really the content that has been shaping the way I think about aesthetics and culture lately. It’s been exciting to draw from this crazy well of content.

Here’s my statement for the show:

The imagery that fills my life is transient, yet steeped with concrete meaning. I create images daily which convey concepts and information in the most crisp, objective fashion. In design, the friction of information transfer is a risk. These are off-ramps: points where people can abandon your message.

This friction is an agent of entropy.

In my recent prints, I have sought to exploit and enhance this friction.

I’m focused on repurposing imagery to riff on their symbology. The source materials I work with are both obvious & obscure. Using recycled paper, spray paint and stencils, I draw from the economy, abstraction and style of street art to provoke new meaning with each viewing of these pictures.

Come join us for the Art On First Friday featuring the art of Clay Newton! I’ll exhibiting a new series of pictures I’ve been working on, and The Deadlies will be performing!
I’m naming the series of work I’ve done for this show after this blog, Automagical Realism. The stuff I have been posting & reblogging is really the content that has been shaping the way I think about aesthetics and culture lately. It’s been exciting to draw from this crazy well of content.
Here’s my statement for the show:

The imagery that fills my life is transient, yet steeped with concrete meaning. I create images daily which convey concepts and information in the most crisp, objective fashion. In design, the friction of information transfer is a risk. These are off-ramps: points where people can abandon your message.
This friction is an agent of entropy.
In my recent prints, I have sought to exploit and enhance this friction.
I’m focused on repurposing imagery to riff on their symbology. The source materials I work with are both obvious & obscure. Using recycled paper, spray paint and stencils, I draw from the economy, abstraction and style of street art to provoke new meaning with each viewing of these pictures.

Made this with WURM and then worked it over in Snapseed. I see rocks.

Darko inspired (Taken with Instagram at La Salle Animal Park)

I did this piece in collaboration with ZZ.

I love this wonderful image my wife created with WURM. I dropped it into Snapseed and did a couple of tweaks and it suddenly had this rad retro look.

It’s bunny time (Taken with Instagram at La Salle Animal Park)

Finally figured out the fastest way to cut stencils super fast and still have sufficient rigidity: 3M90 a printout on a shopping bag. Way better than the bullshit I was doing previously, cutting through dense cardboard.