My work at Evergreen Cafe

If you are local, please check out my work at Evergreen Cafe which will be up from February 28th-March 27th!

501 W Cold Spring Ln
Baltimore, MD 21210

http://evergreenart.blogspot.com/

I finally put up my show at Evergreen Cafe last night. I had a lot of much needed help with the installation of it, and with four people it still took several hours. A lot of time was carefully spent deciding where everything should go. Miraculously, all 26 pieces were included in the show, which I wasn't expecting. I thought I'd have to leave out probably five or six works, but we squeezed them all in somehow. I'm hoping someone will see something that they feel compelled to buy.







If you see the show, don't forget to leave some comments in this book.








Not hung as crooked as it looks. The wires make the frames bow out sideways a little.








Here's a cheesy picture of me post installation.


Below are some pictures of all the work laid out in the studio.

Off to L.A.!

Just sent these three pieces off to La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles the other day. I hope they make in there in a timely manner. It will be my first time showing work in California. I've actually never been there myself, but one day that will happen. The work is for their annual "Everything but the Kitschen Sync" group show that will be going on from March 6th-29th. Hopefully I can find some pictures of the event!



Here's the info for it:

“Everything But the Kitschen Sync” 12th annual juried group show.

March 6 – March 29, 2009
Reception for the artists: Friday, March 6, 2009 8 pm - 11 pm

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles,
CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com

La Luz De Jesus Gallery proudly presents its 12th annual juried group exhibition, "Everything But the Kitschen Sync". This gigantic, no-theme exhibition will feature work from what we feel are some of the most relevant artists working today. We have invited commercial illustrators, tattooists, scenic painters, students, and animators to submit work of a more personal nature. The show includes artists we have previously exhibited, who consistently produce some of the most interesting paintings and sculptures in town. The show also includes a large selection of work from a brand new batch of undiscovered, underground talent. This is a wonderful forum for us and for our audience to check out the latest art trends and get the first glimpse of tomorrow's stars. It is also an incredible opportunity for art collectors to peruse more than 150 pieces of juried artwork by over 100 artists all in one viewing, and obtain undiscovered art at recession busting prices. Please join us this March in supporting the latest and most original efforts from the nation's alternative art scene, bring friends and family, everbody is welcome, please share widely, thanks :) See You There.

Participating artists: RON ADKINS ADAM ALANIZ DAVID AMOROSO LEA BAROZZI STEVE BARTLETT LUKE BERLING LISA BRAWN SCOTT G. BROOKS DAN BROWN MICHEAL BROWN MARK BRYAN CHRISTOPHER BUZELLI TRENT CALL SEAN CHRISTOPHER MELISSA CONTRERAS JESSICA COOPER JEREMY CROSS BRYAN CUNNINGHAM GLEN C. DAVIES SKINNER DAVIS RICHARD DAY ALEX DELEON MARTI JONES DIXON EBEN DODD YVETTE DUDIOT DAVE DZIEMIAN BRUCE EICHELBERGER DANIEL ELSON PATRICK FALICIA BARRY FITZGERALD MARY FLEENER YANA FRANK MARK GLEASON BRAD GREENWELL MAX GRUNDY TAMARA GUION CONRAD HABERLAND GALE HART DANNY HELLER SCOTT HOLLOWAY JACK HOWE BREEHRANEK CHARLIE IMMER JENNIFER JELENSKI KRISTINE KADLEC AYAMI KAWASHIMI MARAM KIM MICAEL KOEHLER NORBERT H. KOX DENNIS LARKINS CRAIG LAROTUNDA CARL LOZADA CHRISTOPHER LYLES DAVE MACDOWELL DION MACELLARI TIM MACLEAN JON MACNAIR LIZ MAMORKSY APRICOT MANTLE SARA ANTIONETTE MARTIN JEFF MCMILLAN PAUL NAGEL NIKKI NASH HADLEY NORTHROP RICHARD OLIVER CHASE OSBOURNE MISATO OTAKE KATERINA PERDUE CHRIS PETERS BRIAN POOR JENN PORRECA MICHAEL PUKAC DONNA THASDAO PUNGPRECHAWAT LINDA QUAKENBUSH BONNI REID ALLISON REIMOLD DAVE RICHARD SAMVEL SAGHATELYAN MARIA SANA RUSTY SCHERELL KIM SCOTT PATRICK SEGUI MARIE SENA DALE SIZER BRANDON STEEN SEAN STEPENOFF ADAM STRANGE JASON SYNDER JARED THARP PAUL TORRES MAGDA TRZASKI POL TURGEN MARLANA VASSAR ANDREW VERHOECKX HEATHER WATTS JASMINE WORTH CRAZY AL EUNAYA MORGAN RUBENIMICHI STAR27

I got mail!

I rarely get mail so I was ridiculously excited when I got a package from A5 magazine the other day, all the way from Israel. I love the way they packaged it as postcards, double-sided with text in two languages. It was especially interesting to see where all the participants were from.






Below is my submission:

Pittsburgh City Paper Winter Guide

I'm finally posting the illustrations for the Pittsburgh City Paper Winter guide, and here they are.


Here's the cover


Here's the inside


and here are the three spots






Here are the original digital files. Colors always look a little washed out on newspaper print so I thought I'd post this too.


And here are the sketches I gave them

Pocketful Magazine

Just found out my submission is part of the new issue of Pocketful Magazine! The theme was "O Brave New World."

Here is some info about Pocketful taken from their website:

"Pocketful is an illustration magazine which is issued two times a year and is printed on demand (POD). What we have in mind is simple. There are a great number of illustrations out there on the internet. People-like us- from different corners of the world put their works online, just to share them with others. But those works don’t appear that often on the illustration magazines we read. So we basically thought having a new illustration magazine which aims to put together and print those illustrations would be a good idea."

You can get it on Amazon HERE!

This is their website!

Interview on The Mongrel!

Check out this interview I was asked to do by Michael Hsiung. It's on a cool blog called THE MONGREL!

Postcards from the Edge (update)

Since I didn't get to attend the 'Postcards from the Edge' event that I had participated in, I decided to scan flickr to see if anyone had posted pictures of the show. After a little sleuthing I found a picture that had my postcard in it.

Tonight I found out that my work sold!

Photos are courtesy of John Hanning. Thanks John!

can you spot my entry on the bottom row?


my postcard is on the left

Here is some info VISUAL AIDS sent out to participating artists:

"1,656 artists from around the world donated work that was viewed by over 1,300 guests. The event was the most wildly successful PFTE yet, cumulatively raising an extraordinary $75,000 for Visual AIDS's work between art and AIDS."

A5 Magazine

The drawing I submitted to A5 Magazine was accepted and is going to be printed in their next issue! The theme was "childhood". The issue will be printed at the beginning of February and I can't wait to get my copy! I will post pictures when I receive it.

As with ANTI magazine, this was my second time submitting work to the publication and my first time being accepted. I guess second time is the charm.



the issue will be printed in grayscale.

ANTI Magazine

My image, "Some Sort of Mystical Explanation", was chosen to be part of Issue 8 of ANTI magazine which "aims to showcase outstanding visual content as an online magazine and also through future exhibitions all around the world." ANTI is an online PDF publication.

The theme was "GLASSES, EYES, LOOK"


This was my second time submitting and my first time being accepted.

You can see the issue HERE.

Baltimore Magazine January Issue

As promised, I am posting my Edgar Allan Poe illustration that I did for Baltimore magazine. Here it is:


Here is the printed version:


and the contributors page:


Also, you can read the article online HERE

I hope everyone has a Happy New Year!

They're out there

So I decided to google myself (because I do that periodically) to see what comes up and found that my work has appeared on quite a few blogs. As a maker of art, you always wonder if people are actually looking at things that you make available online and who these people are. Pretty much until now I have never noticed my work appearing on other peoples blogs. I found several:

http://www.phantasmaphile.com/2008/12/jon-macnair.html
This one is on a blog called "Phantasmaphile" and they write:
"Jon MacNair's pictures of monstrous beings have a certain joy to them which I find surprising and appealing. They feel like the sort of creatures one might find doodled in a school notebook, but then enhanced via an adult eye."

http://alter-native-vision.nnm.ru/jon_macnair_south_korea
This one is one a site that I think is written in Russian. They posted quite a lot of my images and there are some comments in Russian(?) down at the bottom. I used a translation site to decode and I think one person said "lovely" and another said "BOMB!"

This one is written in Italian
http://www.artsblog.it/post/2617/le-visioni-mistiche-di-jon-macnair
Badly translated it reads:
"The mystical visions of Jon Macnair"
"Jon Macnair is an artist and illustrator who lives in Baltimore. his drawings represent creatures monstrous, mystical visions, between Bosch and Lovecraft. Some of the figures are telling applicants and seem single Secret History of the world and humanity. Other images conclusions may be drawn from the page on flickr and blog of McNair. The bug is, always careful finegarten. 2d of Jon Macnair"

This one took me a while to figure out that the language is Romanian
http://www.chestionabil.ro/comments~archive~jonmacnair~11~2008~2191.html
One person commented on my image by writing "what is beautiful and God loves"

Here's a blog in english called "Monster Brains"
http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2008/11/jon-macnair-flying-over-mountains-of.html

my link is posted on this site:
http://coolamerica.blogspot.com/2008/12/good-art.html

Postcards from the Edge

http://www.thebody.com/visualaids/current/postcards2008.html

I am participating in this show. If you're in NYC check it out! Here's the info:



Start the New Year off right -- over 1,600 postcards unveiled at Metro Pictures

The Benefit Sale -- ONE DAY ONLY!
Saturday, January 10, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Over 1,600 original postcard-sized works of art. $75 EACH. Buy four, get one free! Works are signed on the back and displayed anonymously. Artists' name revealed only after purchase. First-come, first served
$5 suggested admission

The Preview Party
Friday, January 9, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
$75 admission* includes one raffle ticket. Additional raffle tickets $20. Your only chance to get a sneak peek at the entire show! No sales, but one lucky raffle winner selects the first postcard. More prizes: Keith Haring the new 10lb $100 Rizzoli catalog & artist multiples from ARTWARE editions and Tulip Enterprises. Special hosts: The Imperial Court of New York. Plus a silent art auction. Wine courtesy of Wine & Spirits Magazine. *Participating artists attend free.

Questions?
Visit http://www.thebody.com/visualaids/current/postcards2008_faqs.html or call Visual AIDS at 212-627-9855

Another Blog Interview

This month I was asked to do a interview by Claudio Parentela in Italy who came across my work online. If you'd like to read it, you can go HERE.

Happy New Year everyone!

Could Be Me

I just participated in a project that I invited to do by Paul Paper. Basically, artists are invited to create a work of art and that includes/interprets the sentence "It could be me but it's actually Paul Paper." A lot of cool artists are part of this so go to the website and check it out. Right now the project is web-based but it could become something more later on.



Could Be Me

F.U.E.L. Grand Small Works Show

I have this piece in the show in Philadelphia this month. I hope it sells.






here's a picture I took from F.U.E.L.'s flickr page just to show you what the space looks like.

Philadelphia wants Poe

Over Thanksgiving break I completed my third assignment for Baltimore Magazine. It was for the "up front metro" section which is the same section I have done twice before, so I was familiar with the specifications. The illustrations for that page are always small, so that wasn't a surprise. The article was about Edgar Allen Poe and how Philadelphia feels he should be dug up and reburied in their city because he has more of a legacy there than in Baltimore. Actually, it was a Poe scholar who was arguing this, not necessarily the whole city of Philadelphia. The Poe scholar here in Baltimore who runs the Poe House is going to be having a debate with this scholar next month to argue his point. So the illustration had to show the struggle between these two men/cities wanting to have Poe. The idea I ending up doing was a variation on the one the art director had supplied me with, and I was fairly happy with the result. I had done a portrait of Poe before and I really wanted to draw him again, but the final illustration didn't really require that, so it was more focused on his grave, which is actually pretty ornate in itself. I did however get to sneak in a very tiny portrait of him on the gravestone, so I found some satisfaction in that.

The issue comes out in January so I will post it after Christmas.

Also, there will be a picture and blurb about me on the contributors page of the issue.

Buttons!

My Blanket Magazine button (for the travel issue) is now available in their website shop. See November 6th blog entry for the link!

SOLD

I received some good news today. This piece was sold at the Metro Gallery for the show "Bailout."



"An Abrupt Farewell"

Planes and Parachutes

Below is an assignment I did for The Pittsburgh City Paper a while back in early October. It's basically about airlines and union problems. Not exactly the most interesting topic but I am pretty satisfied with the illustration. Lisa (the art director) did the layout and I'm happy to see the image printed so large.