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Nov 6, 2009
7:00 pm until 11:00 pm
WHERE?
Mad Art Gallery
2727 S. 12th St.
St. Louis, MO
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Famous Fictional VILLAINS! Portraits from Literature & Film
Famous Fictional VILLAINS! Portraits from Literature & Film Friday, November 6, 2009 7 pm to 11 pm Mad Art Gallery is proud to present the third installment of the annual Famous Fictional art show, in which characters will be ripped from the headlines of ancient texts, traditional folk tales, and modern films to be depicted by an exciting group of St. Louis-based painters, illustrators, cartoonists, printmakers and designers. This year the characters will be more infamous than famous, as Mad Art will be turned into a Rogue's Gallery of fiction's greatest villains, bad-guys, enemies, vengeful lovers, miscreants, monsters, and more. Invading the gallery will be everyone from Medusa and Frankenstein to Ming the Merciless and Godzilla, from the Headless Horseman and MacBeth's three Witches to the shark from Jaws and the "Facehugger" from Aliens. The exhibit opens on November 6, 2009 and runs through November 30, 2009. Famous Fictional VILLAINS! includes work from John Hendrix, Anchovy, Kevin Huizenga, Jessica Russo, Jeff Worm, Katie Frisbee-O'malley, Jenny Cimino, Max Vento, Brian Yap, DB Dowd, Mardou, Scott Matthews, Ron Weaver, DB Dowd, Thomas Plunk, Jerome Gaynor, Dan Zettwoch and more. This exhibit assembles an accomplished group of artists. John Hendrix (www.johnhendrix.com/), Linda Solovic (www.lindasolovic.com), and DB Dowd (dbdowd.com/) are renowned illustrators and teach at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Ted May (www.usscatastrophe.com/itlives/) and Mardou (www.mardouville.com/) make some of the most exciting indie comics around, and Kevin Huizenga (www.usscatastrophe.com/kh/) and Max Vento (maxvento.blogspot.com/) are international award-winning graphic novelists. Katie Frisbee-O'malley (katielouiseomalley.blogspot.com/) and Jenny Cimino (jennycimino.blogspot.com/) are illustrators turned crafters turned fine artists, and Jeff Wilson (www.wormcomix.com/) and Jerome Gaynor have enough punk-rock art credentials to make your head spin. And that's just the beginning. The show is being curated by the dastardly Dan Zettwoch (www.danzettwoch.com), who promises to put together an array of villainous art that is as rich in narrative as it is in eyeball-candy. A free, opening reception will be held on Friday, November 6, 2009, from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. Cash bar available.
For more information:
Telephone: 314-771-8230
Website: http://www.madart.com
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