John Puglisi “The Cold, Hard Ground”
Mitch O’ Connell “Pre-engagement Ring"
October 2 – November 1, 2009
Artist reception: Friday, October 2, 2009 ~ 8 -11PM
LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243
info@laluzdejesus.com
www.laluzdejesus.com
online press release with images:
http://www.leejosephpublicity.com/show/laluzoctober2009
John Puglisi “The Cold, Hard Ground”
The winter is always a time of change, sometimes appearing bleak, but always hopeful for the approaching spring. In “The Cold, Hard Ground,” John Puglisi revisits his favorite subject of growing up in a small town in northern New Jersey. In previous shows, Puglisi’s paintings depicted working life in New Jersey industrial towns and summer vacation down the Jersey Shore. In “The Cold, Hard Ground,” Puglisi explores his memories of New Jersey in the dead of winter. He is inspired by memories such as the frozen tundra of the town cemetery, and the wasteland of classic cars in city junkyards.
In addition to producing fine art, Puglisi has worked as a conceptual illustrator and storyboard artist on animated and live-action films for DreamWorks, Disney, Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, Industrial Light and Magic, and Twentieth-Century Fox. Puglisi currently resides in Los Angeles, California. www.johnpuglisi.com/
Mitch O’ Connell “Pre-engagement Ring"
Mitch O’ Connell’s imaginative, vividly colorful, smart and well executed artwork is undeniably and unabashedly old-school low-brow. As one of Chicago’s most well-known and busiest illustrators, O'Connell’s works have been featured in magazines from Newsweek to Playboy. His tattoo designs are also a fixture on the walls of tattoo shops around the word. His distinctive style fuses cartoony and iconic imagery plus an innate sense of humor to create pop-kitsch masterpieces. www.mitchoconnell.com
International Tattoo Art Magazine’s review of "Mitch O’Connell: Tattoos” book.
