The opening reception for The Art Dorks Collective Group Exhibition at THINKSPACE in LA which included Shawn Barber’s work was a great success. The reception was podcast live via the TSG webcam and covered by VIMBY and the NEW ANGELES MONTHLY. It was also covered on BoingBoing. The webcam is online at Thinkspace Gallery along with the entire show. Check out the installation created by David Chung, Jeremy Pruitt, Joseph Daniel Fiedler, Robert Hardgrave, Kim Scott, Kristian Olson and Justin deGarmo.
The show runs through July 7th, 2007.

THINKSPACE Gallery
4210 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029Â (323) 913-3375

Shawn Barber is exhibiting in the The Art Dorks Collective Group Exhibition at THINKSPACE Gallery from June 9th to July 7th, 2007. Each ‘dork’ has painted a version of ‘dork-face’ logo for the show.

The show also features new work from Robert Hardgrave, Travis Louie, Brendan Danielsson, Chris Ryniak, Meagan Ridley, Kate Ridley, Dave Chung, Anthony Pontius, Kim Scott, Jeremy Pruitt, Gregory Jacobsen, Chris Mostyn, Matthew Pasquarello, Justin DeGarmo, Mark Elliott, Heiko Mueller, Jason Murphy, Mike Burnett, Johnny Yanok, and Jad Fair.

The opening reception is this Friday, June 8th from 7-11 pm.

THINKSPACE Gallery
4210 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029Â (323) 913-3375

Shawn Barber, Red Nose Studio and Emiliano Ponzi have been recognized by Communication Arts 48. Shawn and Emiliano each had one piece selected, while Red Nose Studio had two- including “Bill the Monster,” which was entered by the kind people at Reader’s Digest. Thanks, guys! The winning pieces will appear in the July 2007 issue of Communication Arts magazine. Congratulations everyone!

Hunger, The National Labor Federation

Born On A Blue Day, The Week

Bill the Monster, Reader’s Digest

Scare Up Some Fun, Pepsi

This Saturday, June 2nd from 7pm - 11pm is the closing party of Shawn’s current solo show Tattoed Portraits 2 at the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco. It should be quite a party — the producers of Kat von D’s new Discovery Channel show LA Ink will be doing a casting call for anyone interested in getting tattooed on the new series which starts airing August 2007.
LA Ink

Shawn Barber, Painted Dean ML Electric Guitar, oil on Wood. This is the “F*****g Hostile” Guitar. Featuring a deep red wash behind a well-defined skeletal torso and skull this guitar screams Pantera. San Francisco based artist Shawn Barber is blowing up. His paintings reside in the collections of Rolling Stone founder Jane Wenner, Van Morrison and Christian Slater.

Proceeds from the auction of this guitar go to support LITTLE KIDS ROCK, one of the most exciting music education programs available to public schools in America. This guitar is one of over sixty pieces created for Six-String Masterpieces: The Dimebag Darrell Art Tribute
Live Auctioneers

We are proud to spread the word on Shawn Barber’s solo show- Tattooed Portraits 2 opening tomorrow night at The Shooting Gallery in San Francisco. The show, which runs through June 2, 2007, is a follow-up to the highly successful ‘Tattooed Portraits’ show last year.

Many of the artists that were painted for this show will be at the opening, including: Chuck Eldridge, Kat Von D, Chantal Menard, Michael Hussar, Julie Becker, Alison Casson, Kevin Llewellyn, Norm, Amandalynn, Craig Driscoll and maybe Mr. Todd Noble…. Also available is a limited edition print run of the Kat Von D painting - pricing and details are on the site- only 100 are available, signed by both Kat Von D and Shawn. Once they are gone, that’s it…

Try to make it to the opening - the paintings are best seen in-person as a majority of the figures are life size or larger.
Opening Reception: May 5th, 2007

The Shooting Gallery
839 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 931-8035
info@shootinggallerysf.com

http://www.shootinggallerysf.com
http://sdbarber.com/shooting07.html

We always knew Shawn was a star but now it’s official. This Tuesday night, April 24th, Shawn Barber will appear on the hit TLC series Miami Ink.

Among other topics the episode features a segment on Shawn’s staggeringly beautiful portrait of prominent tattoo artist, celebrity and series regular Kat von D (who purchased the portrait for her private collection). While we have not seen an edit of the episode, we understand that they are focusing on the process involved in making the piece as well as its exhibition in the Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 show We’ll Make A Lover Of You curated by Francesco LoCastro and Juxtapoz.

Tune in this coming Tuesday night to see for yourself. TLC runs two one-hour episodes back to back and we don’t know which Shawn will appear in so you’d better watch both!

Kat Von d

Miami Ink

http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/ca/cc/ss/

Kat Von D

Nate Williams and Shawn Barber can both be seen in the latest issue of art and culture magazine Juxtapoz April 2007. Nate is featured in the Profile section with a write-up on his work and a recent mixed media piece titled Run For Your Life Here Comes Democracy.

Shawn’s spread appears in the Showstoppers section which reviews the gallery scene nationwide. The solo show, Somber Beginnings, at the Lineage Gallery in Philadelphia runs March 2nd - April 8th and is made up of Barber’s allegorical doll characters.

Lineage Gallery
21 N 2nd St
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(215) 928-0980

Canvases from Shawn Barber’s show 

Cover

Nate Williams Profile

Shawn Barber Showstopper

Shawn Barber Showstopper

Eight large scale paintings assigned to Shawn Barber by prominent Toronto ad agency TBWA Toronto now represent the agency as corporate branding imagery. The paintings of traditional native animals reminiscent of vintage Canadiana art from the sixties and seventies are getting a lot of local attention featured in larger than life window displays at the downtown Toronto headquarters.

The work also appears on the agency home page and in an article (in French and English) about the window displays themselves.

Shawn Barber’s work will be exhibited alongside a number of other names you’ll recognize in the We’ll Make A Lover Of You Exhibition curated by Francesco LoCastro and presented at Art Basel Miami Beach 2006. The exhibition explores the avant-garde urban contemporary and pop surrealism characteristic of the Lowbrow movement. Forty internationally renowned artists will show their paintings, installations and sculptures at the ACSF Gallery from November 25, 2006 to January 21, 2007.

R. Grimes and Francesco LoCastro are collaborating to create a large-scale mural as the backdrop for the show. A deviation from the white walls traditionally seen in galleries, this colored canvas will connect the hanging pieces, the installations and the physical space. ArtCenter Gallery will be transformed into a venue to be admired as a whole in addition to the individual works within.

• Exhibiting artists include Van Arno, Anthony Ausgang, Gary Baseman, Shawn Barber, Tim Biskup, Andrew Brandou, Ray Caesar, Colin Christian, Sas Christian, Richard Coleman, Dave Cooper, Curve, Dalek, Mike Davis, Cardiac Design, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Doze Green, R. Grimes of FACTION, Alex Gross, Thomas Han, Jim Houser, Yumiko Kayukawa, David “LEBO” Lebatard, Kris Lewis, Travis Louie, Mars 1, Chris Mars, Scott Musgrove, Niagara, Anne Faith Nicholls, Kevin Peterson, Chris Ryniak, Todd Schorr, Nathan Spoor, Jeff Soto, Miss Van, Jonathan Weiner, Robert Williams and Francesco LoCastro.

“Lowbrow is beginning to enter the realm of the highbrow art world and is quickly becoming the voice of our society – a unique phenomenon which has not been documented within the constructs of past movements” says LoCastro, We’ll Make A Lover Of You curator and artist. “The goal of this show is to add a new facet to Art Basel and to introduce South Florida, as well as the international art community, to a fresh era in art.”

Opening Reception: Friday, December 8, 2006 7 pm to 11 pm.
@ Art Center/South Florida Gallery
800 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Ph: 305-674-8278

http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/ca/cc/ss/

After-Party & Silk Screening Session:
R. Grimes of FACTION will be silk-screening live on Friday, December 8, 2006 at the We’ll Make A Lover of You after-party at The Catalina Hotel (1732 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach). The silk-screening session will take place from 11:00pm to 1:00 a.m. and the party will continue throughout the night. R. Grimes will be working on shirts provided by Alternative Apparel.

Book Signing:
On Saturday, December 9, 2006 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, ACSF will be hosting a book-signing event at the 800 Lincoln Road Gallery. Several We’ll Make A Lover Of You artists including Sas Christian, Gary Baseman, Niagara, Shawn Barber, Yumiko Kayukawa, Jonathan Weiner, Richard Coleman, Jeff Soto, LEBO, Ron English, and Dave Cooper have published their own books and will be present to discuss and sign copies. T-shirts, prints and memorabilia will be on sale in the merchant area of the front gallery space.

Produced association with:
The Art Center/ South Florida, Miami Beach
Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles
Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York City
The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco
Juxtapoz Magazine