Sneak Peak-Comics!

A super top secret project that I am collaborating on with writer Katy Resch. Here are a few panels in random secret order.

Dog

Aaron Gallery Opening

Thanks Tin for the shot, I stole it from you!

Group Show in Washington D.C. November 6th, 2009

Join the gallery for this exhibition on Friday, November 6th.

Opening reception 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

Aaron Gallery
1717 Connecticut Avenue, NW

Washington DC

Dupont Circle

The exhibit will be on display through November 30th, 2009.

Contact info@aarongallerydc.com for further details.

Hope to see you there!

Pollution Makes Pretty Sunsets

Group Exhibition This Saturday

Hello Friends, if you happen to be in the area please stop on by.

Josh George

ENTRO
TERRA

Associazione Culturale per la promozione dell'arte figurativa contemporanea
Con il patrocinio della Provincia di Milano e della Regione Lombardia

Presenta

EROS A FIOR DI PELLE

Opere di

Cristina Iotti, David Dalla Venezia,
Josh George, Lani Irwin, Marco Manzella,
Mathieu Weemaels, Elena Mutinelli

Inaugurazione: 26 settembre 2009 h. 17:30
Date Mostra: dal 26 settembre al 8 gennaio 2010

Spazio Espositivo: Via Borgo Pietro Wuhrer, 43 – ed. 13- Brescia
Orari di visita: dal giovedì al venerdì 15:00-19:00; Sabato 11:00 -19:00

Website: www.entroterra.it
Contacts: info@entroterra.it; press@entroterra.it

Dopo 5 anni di attività Entroterra ritorna alle sue radici (a quell’entroterra pieno
di energie che l’ha generata) e trasferisce la sua sede espositiva a Brescia, presso
i suggestivi spazi di Borgo Wuhrer. Sabato 26 settembre 2009 alle ore 17:30
presso il nuovo spazio si inaugura la collettiva “Eros a fior di pelle”.
La mostra apre la nuova stagione di Entroterra nei locali della vecchia birreria
Wuhrer con l’intenzione di proporre all’interno dello spazio del Borgo una
presenza artistica qualificata ed una proposta culturale che affianchi i già
conosciuti posti di ritrovo della zona.
Giuliana Mazzola è lo spirito animatore delle attività dell’Associazione: “Come
sempre ci piace accostare a nomi più noti del panorama italiano alcuni degli artisti
stranieri con cui da anni ormai collaboriamo e presenteremo una piccola selezione
di loro opere dedicate al tema dell’erotismo. A fior di pelle sarà il filo conduttore
delle opere esposte, dove la sensualità non ha bisogno di essere urlata ma si
affida alla sensibilità tecnica dell’artista per essere manifestata, e all’occhio dello
spettatore che la interpreta.”
In mostra saranno presenti le opere di alcuni artisti che hanno partecipato al
progetto figurativo di Entroterra fin dagli inizi ( Irwin, George e Manzella)
mentre alcuni si sono avvicinati negli ultimi tempi (Dalla Venezia, Iotti e
Weemaels).
Anche in questa mostra l’unicità del filo conduttore è “la figura”, che si esprime
con coerenza sia nella molteplicità delle tecniche – olio, pastello, tempera,
collages, disegno - sia nei temi rappresentati, continuando anche sotto la luce
dell’Eros la riflessione sulla nuova figurazione contemporanea.

Opening Night Photos NYC

A huge thank you to everyone for coming out, it was a lovely night for friends and art. Special thanks to Sam Chadwick for the photos. www.samchadwickphoto.com

Bennyfit For Hospice

I donated a big painting to this event. There will be art, music, fun. It is your chance to own a Josh George original for whatever bid you put in. It is for an important cause.
"Tempstuous Shift to Train" 36"x48"

From Style Weekly...

article by

by Brent Baldwin

Benny’s was a legendary, if short-lived, punk-rock club from the early ’80s across from Monroe Park near Virginia Commonwealth University — famously known for a late-night party featuring Iggy Pop, fresh from his Mosque riot.

In recent years the former owner of the club, Benny Waldbauer, had grown tired of people asking him to throw a reunion party. But when Facebook exploded, the calls became difficult to ignore. Waldbauer, 55, didn’t want to make money on the event — or lose money, for that matter — so a couple of months ago he devised a BennyFit show with several beloved old-school Richmond bands. Proceeds from tickets and an art auction would go to a grassroots effort he cares deeply about: bringing hospice care for the terminally ill and their families to the Richmond area.

“It’s crazy that we don’t have one in Richmond,” says the upbeat Waldbauer, a nurse who’s worked for Bon Secours Hospice for the last decade.

Most hospice care occurs in residential settings, but Waldbauer says he’d love to see a community hospice house serving Richmonders. He went to Bon Secours for guidance and was told it was in the early stages of deciding whether to build a new hospice house. Together they agreed that BennyFit proceeds would go toward a communal, meditation rock garden for the new hospice — a place where, Waldbauer says, “the families of patients can come meditate and hopefully musicians can set up and play for them.”

Terry Mohr, chief executive of Bon Secours Richmond Foundation, says that a freestanding hospice house has been a dream of their donors for 20 years and finally started gaining traction about a year ago.

“We should know by the end of the calendar year whether it’s feasible or can be supported in the area,” Mohr says, adding that if a hospice doesn’t wind up being built, Benny’s earmarked funds will be applied within the Bon Secours system.

So far, the Sept. 12 benefit has sold more than 300 tickets and received a wide array of art and memorabilia for auction (such wide-ranging items as guitars, original art, posters and fliers, and black and white photos by Bobby Grossman, Cindy Hicks and Thurston Howes). The silent auction is viewable online (www.bennys-richmond.com/auction) and items will be available the night of the show.

Ron Smith, also known as Cuz’n Wildweed, is stage manager for the event and one of the many volunteers for the effort. “A lot of us are at that age where we’ve had a parent or loved one deal with hospice,” Smith says. “And we’ll be there one day ourselves. I can’t think of anyone who needs this kind of support more than poor, starving musicians.”

Waldbauer is quick to add the connection he sees: “The attitude about rock ’n’ roll and hospice is the same: It’s about living right now!”

Smith also says there will be a special, final surprise guest that night “known for their raw power and lust for life.” Could it be the tribute act of the year, or something more? It’s a little dicey to speculate. But we do know the event will be emceed by two former local celebs, Chuck “Rockin’ Daddy” Wrenn and Barry “Maddog” Gottlieb (now of San Francisco) — guys that used to run a call-in hotline for concert listings, preInternet days. Local DJ, columnist and promoter Chris Bopst also will be on hand.

BennyFit for Hospice will be held on Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Playing Field at 7801 W. Broad St. Tickets are $10 and available at Plan 9 Music and http://www.browpapertickets.com/. The show begins at 7 p.m. and dress code is checkbook casual.

Lined Up

The bands performing at the benefit include:

White Cross: Yes, that White Cross, the legendary local hardcore band that was mentioned in the documentary “American Hardcore.” WC played with Minor Threat back in the day.

The Ortho-Tonics: More of an avant-garde, art fusion band with members who include Phil

Trumbo, a Grammy winner behind Pee Wee Herman’s TV show, who will be flying in from Seattle for the event.

Beex: One of the longest running rock bands in Richmond, still kicking ass and taking names 30 years later despite the loss of longtime vocalist, the late Christine Gibson. Her husband, Tom Applegate, proudly carries the flag.

The Good Guys: Popular local band remembered for its dance heavy mix of ska with British invasion rock.

The Diversions: One of D.C.’s top rockabilly bands — “drummer Ralph Segal is the traffic copter guy at the top FM station in D.C.,” Smith says.

Dirty Secrets: Local legend, WRIR DJ and Plan 9 hall of famer, Buzzy Lawler brings his Stonesy-British rock to the stage where it belongs.

New York Exhibition

New York Exhibition September 10th-October 17, 2009.

Opening reception Thursday, September 10, 6-8 pm.

Tria:The Suchman-Bart-Metheny Gallery

531 West 25th Street

Ground Floor

New York, NY 10001

212-695-0021

www.triagallerynyc.com

The city has a wealth of information to process: screeching subway cars, unexpected silences, sunlight hitting a hotdog cart or a brickwall or a beveled window, throngs of people in the crosswalks...the stimuli is at once overwhelming and inspiring. As a painter, I enjoy the challenge of observing these chaotic elements and deciding which details need to be amplified—or muted—in order to create an experience of our urbanity. Working in the studio, I look at each painting the same way I look at the city: initially, the surface is chaotic, a wonderful mess of colors and textures (specifically, layers of collage and paint) that I need to consider and assess, then shape into something I and the viewer, each in our own ways, can enter and investigate.

Hope to see you there.

Big Head Easter Egg

24" x 36"

Bleaching Out

36" x 48"

The Low Contrast Search

First work in my new studio space. Might still need a little finessing, got to look at it for a few days. 36" x 48"

Summer Pre-College at Pratt

Some of my best students yet. These high school kids gave up their summer before senior year to come make art. They exceeded all of my expectations, made me proud.