gRAPHICaNATOMY

Rembrandt, or the people who bought his work?

VanGogh or the rich idiots who failed to buy his work?

~ Blake Gopnik

Labels: aesthetics, art

An Artist who has a lot of integrity about their work is one to be watched, rather than one intent in making a reputation overnight.

Labels: art

A constant flow of new work. More added everyday.
The eternal beauty of the human figure.
An affordable investment.

http://stores.ebay.com/graphicanatomy/

Labels: art, drawing, figure

I'll be displaying several works of art and giving out free stickers, thanks to the Queer Cultural Center.

Each year, QCC organizes a large-scale month-long exhibition of cutting-edge queer art at SomArts Cultural Center Gallery in San Francisco that serves as the National Queer Arts Festival’s kick-off event. This annual exhibition is the largest and oldest forum for queer visual art in the U.S. For the past 17 years, the exhibition has featured 30 to 60 emerging and mid-career Queer artists’ work. These works are documented on QCC website, which provides a visual history of queer art making in the U.S. and provides curators and activists with a valuable resource for contemporary queer visual culture.

The exhibition will explore the idea of physical, social, political, affective and historical connections. For those who have been denied acceptance into existing social models and access to traditional political means, or for those who voluntarily reject these structures, queers have created alternative social connections as sites of political transformation or contestation.

Historically, LGBTQ people have made connections with each other across racial, geographic, gender, ability, age, class and cultural borders. These connections have built a strong LGBT community, generated new concepts of queer families, developed innovative health and social service models and made long lasting alliances with other disenfranchised communities and social change movements – interweaving social justice issues into our daily lives.

For the past 40 years LGBT people have constantly forged new ways to connect within and outside of our perceived communities: body-building magazines, lesbian pulp fiction, want ads in straight publications and other 1960s practices gave way to gay newspapers, bars, sex clubs, churches and political organizations in the 1970s. In the 1990s the increasing use of digital technology proliferated the ways LGBT people could communicate and connect. With this rise of technology, we are called upon to respond to a new and increasingly rapid proliferation of political and visual culture and an array of urgent social issues that this technology makes increasingly visible.

http://www.graphicanatomy.com/#15glitter

Labels: art, california, exhibition, lgbtq, queer, queer culture, san Francisco

Labels: art, art car, bay area, Los Angeles, maker faire, most wanted, pgh art unblurred, san Francisco

The true artist- real artists whose sole mission is to create and disseminate art, regardless of outcome. - No clawing for fame and fortune, no playing the gallery game, no calculated agendas, no working the crowds, no kiss- ass, no investment in critical opinion, no impenetrable cabals or elitist cliques, just plain adherence to their principles and dedicating their lives to making art. 

Labels: art

MWFA has been invited to present the Pittsburgh Art Car at the prestigious Downtown LA Artwalk and the Bay Area Maker Faire in May. Since the car must be driven cross-country MWFA plans on taking seven artists total on the adventure.

Details and donation link here.

Thank you for your support. 

Labels: art, art car, most wanted, mwfa

LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails)
Once again presents:

Come see work created by local Pittsburgh talent and enjoy LUPEC's feminist inspired cocktails. 
The show is scheduled for Saturday, 3/21, from 6 pm to 10 pm. 
The gallery is Monk's Place at 3634 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh PA. 
All work will be for sale, all proceeds will go to the artist.

Labels: art, feminism, pgh. lupec

In December of 2009 at Fast Forward gallery the first 12x12 show brought together a group of young artists who for the most part were just starting out in their art careers. That show was an introduction to the emerging and vibrant art scene in Pittsburgh at that time and now it's time for round two. 12x12 Rewind, curated by Craig Freeman and Ron Copeland, is an homage to the show that originally brought us together and at the same time will be an introduction to a whole new group of prolific and skilled artists living and working in present day Pittsburgh.

Modern Formations 4919 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa 15224

Labels: art, exhibition, exhibitions, fine art, pittsburgh, unblurred

Labels: art, art shows, caldwell, exhibition, figurative, fine art, lgbtq, mwfa, pgh art, pgh art unblurred, unblurred

The place was packed. The crowds arrived before the event started. At the peak it was impossible to move. Clearly, there is an audience for adult, sophisticated Erotic art.
Trundle Manor was an excellent host as usual. But maybe it's time to look for a bigger venue. Include more artists....? 

"Boss" Acrylic. 24x48" by Sam Thorp

"BBWbeauty" Acrylic. 11x14" by Sam Thorp

Russ Wayne rope tying demo.

They came from all over to Trundle Manor view the show.

"Put a Ring on it" Acrylic 11x14" by Sam Thorp

The human holiday cookie tray.

"Wolf" Acrylic 20x20" by Sam Thorp

Many pieces sold. But some are still available. Keep an eye open for the closing show announcement.

Labels: art, erotic art., exhibition, lgbtq, nude, nude male, pgh, pgh art, Trundle Manor

Labels: art, art show, art shows, exhibition, exhibitions, feminism, figurative, figure drawing, fine art, free, nude male, nudes, pgh. lupec, pittsburgh, Trundle Manor

Traveled with the Most Wanted Fine Art crew up to Queens NYC for the Maker Faire event.
By supplying the Life Size Mouse Trap event with an Art Car to smash, we got to paint live in front of the public.

I painted live almost all day Saturday and most of Sunday before it began to rain. Got a lot of attention, and a sale.
It was interesting. We weren't the only PGH crew up there.
I was impressed by many of the other exhibits especially the 3D printing.

Labels: art

Penn Avenue Eyewear and Most Wanted Fine Art are teaming up to support the eye health of local artists by bringing you #ArtisticVisionPGH , a collection of art and sunglasses made by local artists in trade for glasses. SEPT 12 AT 5430 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 (FORMER QUIET STORM). Penn Avenue Eyewear is an independent Pittsburgh based retailer committed to designing stylish prescription glasses and non-prescription sunglasses. Most Wanted Fine Art is a community service organization disguised as an art gallery.

Together PAE and MWFA present an exhibit highlighting the works of 32 established artists that includes 15 pairs of hand customized artistic wooden sunglass frames. The frames will only be available through silent auction on Sept 12, 2014. All sales benefit the charities “Healthy Artists” and “Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation”. In addition all the participating artists have been provided either a pair of PAE prescription glasses or sunglasses.

The event is Hosted by Comedian Davon Magwood with musical performances by, female Hip Hop artist Holly Hood, Classic songstress Anqwenique Wingfield and Joe Sheehan on the piano, and Ricardo Iamurri who will be presenting, Mars is Underwater; A silent film he directed with a live score performance by Ricardo.

Artists include: Joe Wos, Gabriel Felice, Darrell Kinsel, Sam Thorp, Macabre Noir, Njaimeh Njie, Brian Cottington, Jason Sauer, Nina Sauer, Sue Kerr, Nick Noir, Kai Devenitch , Richard Jackley, Dante Lombardi, Dale Capellanio, Nicole Conniff, Heather Froman, Zena Ruiz, Donald Toomer, Jason Angst, Danielle Robinson and more!

Penn Ave Eyewear Art Exhibit Opening Details:
Friday September 12, 2014 6pm-10pm

Presented by
Most Wanted Fine Art

one night only event at
5430 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
(FORMER QUIET STORM)

Exhibit Opening and Custom Sunglass Auction
Live Music and Free handcrafted locally brewed beer provided by RockBottom Brewery.
While supplies for 21+ with valid ID.

To further support this project Penn Ave Eyewear is donating a percentage of all their website purchases to charity! When customers check out of the Penn Ave Eyewear website they can simply choose the MWFA supported charity from the list below and enter the corresponding code. Penn Avenue Eyewear will donate 10% of the total purchase to the selected charity.

BLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION CODE: BGC10
HEALTHY ARTISTS CODE: HEALTHY10
More info can be found here: http://pennavenueeyewear.com/giving-back


My Submission: You can win these works at the event.


Also :
My Questionnaire Here

Labels: art, comics, mwfa, pgh art unblurred

"The twenty-somethings who insist on putting thousand plus price tags on student grade work because they are so favored and desirable,  socially. 
Yet, all I see is they become totally moody and stand in line for free drinks like jerks over and over again; collecting some number from some dope and pretending he's a big art collector dude. 
It's annoying, but if they are extremely promising and talented;  what I do is drag them along."

Labels: art, fine art, galleries

"Artists are either shoved to the edge, or they seek it out deliberately. It is a space of unsettled morals, questioning and often... controversy."
~Salman Rushdie

Labels: art, art fear

Genevieve at the AP Collection interviewed me about the next show.

BTW, the next show is this Friday, at Remedy. All New Stuff.

Anyway, you can listen to the podcast here:

Labels: art, comics, figure, figure drawing, lawrenceville, pittsburgh, remedy

Pittsburgh's annual festival supporting the ever- expanding Queer arts scene.
Something about this reminded me of my days at the Pa Governor's School for the Arts. ... which is a good thing. It was great to be a part of it.

Irma Freeman Center for the Imagination

My Artwork at the bottom

part of the Rainbow in the Dark tour

janet Granet

Bekezela & Joy KMT

Labels: art, pgh art, queer, queer culture

Trundle Manor was kind enough to host the artwork that other galleries would turn away.
Artwork by Sam Thorp. Photos by Mia Donna. Everything else by Trundle Manor.















The show is up till July 25. Some artwork still available for sale. There will be a closing party with Phat Man Dee.

Labels: art, censorship, collecting, drawings, erotic art., exhibition, pgh, pgh art, Trundle Manor

Once again team MWFA traveled to Cleveland to represent the Pittsburgh Arts scene. The festival has definitely been growing. In the battle between Pittsburgh a\artists vs. Cleveland artists, Pittsburgh has won 3 straight years now.

Labels: art, art battle, cleveland, exhibition, pgh, pgh art