"Cut & Run" 22x24 in Acrylic on wood panel

After an outpouring of work pretty much nonstop from Feb - May the prospect of a whole month without doing something with my busy fingers was just TOO scary! And so "Cut & Run" was born. It's not my most favoritest piece but I learned a lot while making it and got to explore some new techniques and color combinations. So while they can't all be hits - they all have relevance. And so I share it with you! To see more details view the album on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdenato/sets/72157627178835756/

"16 paintings continued... The 12 painting set" - StrangerFactory

"16 paintings continued... The 12 painting set"

This is a continuation of the 16 Paintings Series that was a part of Too Art for TV 5 in March. I've taken the remaining 7 pieces from that event and added 5 new pieces that both continue and alter the color and mood of the set..

These paintings plus the original 7 are all available NOW via The Stranger Factory Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico strangerfactory.com/exhibitions-view/39

To see the whole set visit the flickr album here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdenato/sets/72157626673640311/

"16 Paintings" TooArt4TV5 March 25 - April 23

16 Small Paintings done for the 5th annual Too Art For TV exhibit. Each piece is anywhere from 3 x 3in - 5 x 7 in acrylic on wood panel. The show was a fantastic success - tons of terrific artists/artwork, intensely crowded opening, and I sold over half my pieces YAY!

Here's a couple of the paintings from the set. For the whole set of paintings visit my flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdenato/sets/72157626043888657/

Soft* Exhibit at MyPlasticHeart

So yay! These are images are of my pieces from the plush exhibit at My Plastic Heart. Lots of other great artists involved too ( see http://www.myplasticheartnyc.com/soft_031811/preview/soft_031811_preview.html ) Here's a few examples and here's the flickr set for more images
MPH soft Flickr set

"Games We Play" Exhibit @ the Nieto Gallery in SF

"Games We Play" Exhibit @ the Nieto Gallery in SF presented by Present Creative, a video gaming company located in the Mission area of San Francisco. These are my contributions! I've started with the original sketches and then the finished pieces (22 x 26 in Acrylic on Wood panel) For more images and details of the paintings visit my flickr set

January 2010 InStyle Magazine (since i missed it last Jan)

Well since I forgot to post this really cool project I was involved in last January I'ma post it in THIS January post :) This projects was for an interactive magazine for InStyle (project curators were Dorian Orange) My role was to storyboard the model's path and gestures for our shoot on a tiny treadmill (poor girls) and in front of a green screen which would later be filled in virtually with my illustrations and made "3D" by DO's brilliant animators and programmers. I'm posting two examples of what the end result was and a few images of the BETA of what the actual interactive magazine would look like!

Holiday PopUp Shops! Dec 2010

A bunch of plush toys, home goods, and accessories that were for sale for the holidays! A little indoor market organized by the ladies from YOUNITY. Lots of good people and cute stuff :) A few examples below... ( Ps you can see a bunch more of these items on my flickr AND I have an etsy shop but currently nothing's up on there - check back though!)

Sketchbot II Custom Show @ Munkyking LA Nov 2010

I participated in the Sketchbot II Custom Show @ Munkyking LA Nov 2010 (Thanks to Steve Talkowski for the inclusion in the show and to Kieth at Munkyking for hosting the show) Here's a few snaps of my custom - weee!

American Eagle Kids Animations - October 2010

Again working through Dorian Orange for American Eagle Outfitters kids. This time working on some adorable Yeti character animations as well as our old friend the little Blue Bird. It's a snowboarding/snowball fighting/hat sharing ad for an AE Kids Winter Sale. My role was to do a redesign of the AE Yeti character and a new treatment of the Blue Bird to fit the paper cut out style of this particular ad. I also completed a list of gesture animations of both the bird and the Yeti. The awesome animators at Dorian compiled my bits and created the rest of the ad.

American Eagle Kids Animations - September 2010

I was working for a spot called Dorian Orange. This job for them was for American Eagle Outfitters Kids in conjunction with some sort of literacy campaign. I did several spot animations of the little bluebird logo which were to be compiled and shown on one of the megatron screens in Times Square. Sadly I don't have the compiled animation nor do I have the video of the ad playing in Times Square (FAIL!) I'd love to share the animations with you but Blogger is being a bugger. I'll try again later...

Pulpo Exhibit @ the Tulum Gallery

"Pinkies Out" - 20 x 20 in Acrylic on Wood Panel *SOLD*

"Shipwrecked" - 20 x 24 in Acrylic on Wood Panel *SOLD*

"Split Ends" - 20 x 24 in Acrylic on Wood Panel

Untitled sculpture - 10 x 7 x 8 in Sculpy, Oil Primer, Gold Leaf

PulpO! Opening August 6th 2010

PulpO
Eight-person exhibition

Opening reception - Friday, August 6th 2010, 6pm-9:30pm

RUNS: August 6th through August 30th, 2010

at Tulum Gallery, 244 North 6th St., Williamsburg, NY 11211


[Tulum Gallery - Williamsburg, NY]
Tulum Gallery is proud to present PulpO, an eight-person group show of new drawings and paintings by New York-based artists in animation, illustration, and the fine arts. Showing together in a variety of styles and media, these eight artists draw from their backgrounds as representational artists to cultivate narratives influenced by pulp and comic-art traditions. Themes like science fiction, war, horror, the occult, exploitative stories, sensational iconography, and adventure are interpreted by this group with surreal, whimsical, and abstract flourishes.

The manic and comically apocalyptic drawings of Christy Karacas, co-creator of Adult Swim’s Superjail!, will be featured for the first time on a smaller scale in PulpO. Devin Clark, the creator of Comedy Central’s Ugly Americans, will showcase his obsessive and tangled “hair” paintings. PulpO will also feature the painted pop culture musings of Jackson Publick, creator of Adult Swim’s Venture Bros., the sinister characters of illustration painter Kelly Denato’s storybook-acrylics, the playful “multiplane” objects of animation designer Chris George, and more.

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:
Liz Artinian
Robert Bohn
Devin Clark
Jared Deal
Kelly Denato
Chris George
Christy Karacas
Jackson Publick

Curated by Liz Artinian

Pillow Monsters! (Yes they need a new name)

Just uploaded these bad boys to Flickr and thought I'd post a couple here too :) Go HERE to see the lot!

NEW DATE for PulpO SHOW!

PulpO
Eight-person exhibition

Opening reception - Friday, August 6th 2010, 6pm-9:30pm

RUNS: August 6th, 2010 through August 30th, 2010

at Tulum Gallery, 244 N6th St. Williamsburg, NY 11211


[Tulum Gallery - Williamsburg, NY]
The Tulum Gallery is proud to present PulpO, an eight-person exhibition of new drawings and paintings by New York based artists in animation, illustration, and the fine arts. Showing together in a variety of styles and media, these seven artists draw from their backgrounds as representational artists to cultivate narratives influenced by pulp and comic-art traditions. Themes like science fiction, war, horror, the occult, exploitative stories, sensational iconography, and adventure are interpreted by this group with surreal, whimsical, and abstract flourishes.


CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:
Liz Artinian
Robert Bohn
Devin Clark
Jared Deal
Kelly Denato
Chris George
Christy Karacas
Jackson Publick

Curated by Liz Artinian

ThoughtProcessor - Go get your FREE Thought Processor NY Series PDFs for a ltd time only! http://www.phoneticontrol.com Yay!

PHONETICONTROL customs show at My Plastic Heart - Friday May 21

This Friday May 21st @ My Plastic Heart NYC - come in and check it out