Exhibit will continue through March.

 August 5th | 6:00pm- 10:00pm

The Joseph Watson Collection presents the works of Joseph Watson, Sharktoof and Lucky Bunny.  These prominent artists will feature a wide range of works to choose from.

Featuring the works of

Joseph Watson |  SharkToof | Lucky Bunny

Originals, recycled prints and limited edition prints will be available.

Joseph’s latest “Neighborhood Watch” Tshirt design will be available.

Also make sure to see the works of:

Karen Jaikowski / James Henninger / Angu Walters

Go, Go, Greta

The Go, Go Greta books will be available for purchase.

Stop by the gallery tonight and get your artist and author autographed copies.

The Joseph Watson Collection of art consists of two styles of fine art. The first is the sophisticated décor style. This is his commercially accepted art. It involved subject matter such as ocean life to delicious seafood dishes to African influenced imagery. The surface is swirled with gesso, and then painted with acrylics. The result is a rich balanced piece that would be welcome in any well-designed interior.

The second style is more “street.” This style targets the younger market and creates imagery ranging from busy, urban flea market scenes to uncomfortable bus rides. This method is usually a mix between tight pencil sketching combined with the latest digital painting techniques to create some of the most striking scenes.

The viewer of the DVD can then apply our method to their imagination. This product is created for the artist by the artist. Not only do we teach the method of painting, but we also instruct the art of the concept and the process of thumbnail sketches, surface prep, etc. We currently have two DVD lessons. These are a lesson in acrylic painting, and painting a figurative landscape. Future lessons will include portraits, the human figure, man made objects, sketching presentation and selling your art.

Education is expensive, especially in this economy, our art training DVDs provide a solution to this problem.

People will be inspired, educated and ready to show the world what they created.

Purchase the Technique CD Today for only $20.00

Torn, disused billboards, distressed industrial objects, street posters, and everyday uses of graphics, logos, and letterforms fuel constant idea generation for Rich DeSimone. Ideas come 24-7. They roll around in his mind, combine, and are tossed out and re-imagined. A few percolate to the outside where they become art prints, works on panel, and posters. Middle-class Italian altar boys from Boston donít usually see a clear-cut path to creative freedom. Rich’s upbringing, typically strict for the area, saw him looking more deeply into simple objects than other kids did. Church was a drag sometimes, but he found some interesting images there, from little dove drawings and typography on the psalm book to the priests’ robes and the graphic power of the cross. It wasn’t zealousness he found in Catholicism, but a first inkling that he would make art.

After not quite graduating from the Art Institute of Boston, Rich took a spin through the advertising world, where he created icons to assist a religion of a very different kind. Turns in Atlanta and Minneapolis, and always back to Boston in between, gave him insight into the ad world. From huge, stifling agencies to smaller, edgier ones. Wherever he was, the ad business was full of egotism and limitation, though, and Rich wanted to realize his ideas without having them diluted.

Today, he’s shaken free of the ad race and runs his own art and screen printing business, Lucky Bunny Visual Communications, out of Los Angeles, California. In his workspace he gets complete control over the process, and the satisfaction of a hands-on craft. His work is often simple and purely graphic, with a tongue-in-cheek slyness that belies a deeper conceptual background. The idea of duplicity and expendability of printing multiples that end up scattered and potentially thrown aways key. It’s branding, only with cleaner goals. There’s no smoke and mirrors, no smug secret, to what Rich does: it’s just a million ideas, combined, altered, thrown out, and executed with a little humor and cunning.

The Lucky Bunny name, by the way, comes from his pet rabbit, who coincidentally is adorable yet destructive, smart and sensitive.

He is currently working on a historic mural commissioned by the City of San Francisco that dates from 1906 to the present. In the past he has been commissioned by the Clark County Cultural Affairs Department and the City of Las Vegas Leisure Services on several significant public art projects throughout the city of Las Vegas. Through 2004-2006 he served on the First Friday Advisory Committee, a 15 member board that plans and implements First Friday, downtown Las Vegas’ monthly event that draws as many as 10,000 visitors at a time to the Arts District.