JOYENGINE: cause sharing is cool

Markham “Shitty Kitten” Maes will be showing a new body of work at The Shoppe during the Super Fresh Block Party!  We’ll try to get a sneak peak of some new paintings before the show!

On July 5th a little block on East Colfax is throwing down for a massive block party. Check out the flyer, there’s all sorts of happening throughout the evening from live painting to fashion shows to live music.  It’ll be a night to remember!

Adam Haynes will be showing at Together Gallery from May 29th – June 22nd. The show is a group exhibition titled “The Secret Handshake” and includes the following artists: Evan B. Harris, Trish Grantham, Matthew Feyld, Ken Garduno, Travis Chatham, Adam Haynes, Ashley Anson, Adam Baz, Mark Warren Jacques, Seth Neefus, Tim Karpinski and David Wien. We got a sneak peak of Adam’s pieces and thought we would share. They’re pretty darn amazing, check ‘em out!

Ghost Ride – 13.5″x 12″ (sold)

Used Cow Lot – 22″x 13″

Waiting For You – 13.5″x 10″

Lisa Solberg will be having her first solo show in California next month: “I SPY YING YANG,” on May 16th in Oceanside, CA at Swiv Tackle Circus. She’s also part of a group show on June 14th: “Veni Vedi Veci”, the Juxtapose Magazine release party, San Francisco, CA. Stay tuned for her upcoming show announcements at Holster Projects in London and at the Kinsey/Desforges gallery in LA!

Mike Graves has been ferociously attacking the progressive art world, having recently shown in SF, with his figurative character work. And it’s both “Legit” and “Awesome.” Hence the title of Mike’s show this Saturday night, April 12th at Dee and Daves’ emporium of wonder, the Plastic Chapel. Legit and Awesome opens Saturday night at 7pm. It’s gonna be rad so go check it out.

John Fellows will be having a solo show, “Birds Beards & Brews” Friday April 4th at Icelantic Gallery and Showroom. We got our mits on a little sneak peak for yall. As always, John’s work is lookin’ amazing and we can’t wait for the show. See you there!

The lovely folks over at Limited Addiction Gallery just put up the pieces for their next show, Grant Barnhart, Saiman Chow and AJ Fosik. I’m personally super stoked to see AJ’s wood cut animal heads. The only other one I’ve seen in person was back in the day at The Friends Show. For those of you who don’t know, AJ’s studio used to be in the basement of Andenken, but he’s since moved on.  You can see the rest of the work here and be sure to check out the opening on Friday the 22nd.

EHF is at again! Mr. Shitty Kitten is curating another show at the D-Note. This time the theme is Night Owls and the artist list is as follows: Josh Wills (Big DUBS!), SBD, Keith Jive, TEEBEE, Sean Gilbert, Voice, Alex Henry, John Fellows, Anthony Salazar and Shitty Kitten himself. Damn! April 10th, 9pm, see you there!

Oh and in typical Shitty form, Mr. Maes threw down for another sick ass flyer!

We stumbled upon a nice little sneak peak of a TADO print. After some investigation we found out it was for the upcoming “Limited Edition” show over there in the UK. The show will be a group exhibition to raise money and awareness for endangered species! The artist list is huge and star studded. You can get the whole low down over at the show’s site. Looks like we’re going on a road trip…

We’re pleased to announce Scot Lefavor’s upcoming show, Lets Ride Bikes! It’s been a bit since Lefavor’s last solo show, we can’t wait to see what he’s been up to. April 11th, 8pm – 12am, Market Central, DJ Japadapta, PBR, bring your bike! Wooooo, art and bikes!

Magic beans are awesome and so was the show! Anthony Salazar, Josh Holland, Mike Gallegos, Mike Graves, Markham Maes, Sean Gilbert and Scot Lefavor produced some awesome work. It was especially great to see Markham and Graves collabing all over the place. We apologize in advance for all the artwork that didn’t get photographed, we had some battery issues. Regardless, all the pieces looked awesome. The show will be running for the rest of the month, so go check it out!

Last Friday Installation Shoe Gallery threw an artsy shindig to celebrate their latest installation. Jon Strieby covered the entire store/gallery with awesome figurative pieces on cut wood panels. We were in and out during the install process and can confidently say that shit came together! Jon’s work is simple yet intriguing and with such a large body there’s plenty to look at. His “hand letters” are excellently executed. We got to see all sorts of local celebrities including our favs of the shoe crew; Big Ant Hull and Seth Bruce, Mr. Vaughn Dice from Milk Baby, Raul always rockin’ the freshest kicks and a whole bunch of others (we even got a real life glimpse of the Satellite + Dekline collab). All in all, the latest installation is a huge hit!