i will be live painting with a bunch of other great artists this saturday, june 10th at the max group art show:
for more info:
update:: may 15th, 2006
so much news, so little time.......
no new pics to post, but there will be soon. june 9th is my next big show at the thinkspace gallery in l.a. with fellow underground artist lola gil and i have a whole bunch of new pieces for that.
the show is entitled "ODD", and it will feature new works, a collaborative painting and a collaborative installation piece. i am also gonna exhibit my first sculpture piece since 'softspot'- a limited edition gasmask!
there is also gonna be a group portion of the show, and lola and i got to curate it. artists include:
Fritz Aragon. Eduardo Benedetto. Nathan Cartwright. Sean Christopher. Cam de leon. Lori Early. J.P. Elliot. Craig La Rotonda. Gabe Leonard. Jose Lopez. Angie Mason. Scott Musgrove. James Naccarato. Richard Olmstead. Christopher Owen. Kevin Peterson. Nathan Spoor.
click here for the web flyer
in the chetzar.com webstore are some new limited edition prints, 'wannabe' (from the chubby bunny show), and 'black nerve administrator', an older painting i have gotten a lot of requests for. but i am really excited about the new chetzar.com glow in the dark gasmask t-shirts! check em all out here.
stay tuned for new paintings and prints.....up next, the 'black magic' limited edition print!
cz
update:: feb 1st, 2006
hi
here are 2 new group shows i will be in this saturday, february 4th:
Nostradamus - Three Waves to the Apocalypse
Where: Copro/Nason Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave. T5, Santa Monica , CA 90404
Ph: 310-829-2156
E-Mail: CoproNason@msn.com OR www.CoproNason.com
What: Nostradamus, Three waves to the Apocalypse
Date: February 4 through March 4 , 2006
Artist reception: Saturday February 4, 8:00-11:30 p.m.
Contact: Gary Pressman, Gallery Director Copro/Nason Gallery
CoproNason Gallery presents a group art exhibition of work honoring the most widely read seer of the Renaissance, Nostradamus. Michel de Nostredame, more commonly known as Nostradamus, has intrigued the world for five centuries, considered by many to be the greatest prophet who has ever lived. While most prophets recorded vague visions of future events, Nostradamus pinpointed his predictions using specific dates, astrological configurations, climatic events and anagrams naming the villains hundreds of years before they appeared.His prophetic writings were known as Centuries which contained one hundred prophetic verses of four lines each known as quatrains mostly dealing with disasters of various sorts and predictions of an Apocalypse in the beginning of the next millennium. It is believed he conjured his visions by staring into a mirror until it became cloudy and visions of the future appeared.Artists depictions of prophesies and apocalypse will include: Amanda Visell, Anthony Ausgang, Brian Viveros, Charles Manson, Charles Wish, Chet Zar, Dan Quintana, David Lynch, Esao Andrews, Gidget Gein, Isabel Samaras Joe Ledbetter, Joe Vaux, Joey Remmers, John John Jesse, Kevin Peterson, KRK Ryden, Luke Chueh, Michael Leavitt, Naoto Hattori, Pamela Jaeger, Pooch, Robert Craig, Ron English, Sas Christian, Shag, Shepard Fairey, Stone Thomas Han, Ver Mar & many more!! There will also be Live music from ROSEMARY'S BILLYGOAT
The Mash Up
(i did a collaboration piece with my friend and fellow artist, ed benedetto for this one.)
Over 50 Los Angeles artists get together in pairs or triples to make collaborative art pieces.
Date & Time: Saturday, February 4, 2006 8:00 PM
The Hive Gallery and Studios Group Show
February 4th from 8-1AM- $5 Suggested Donation
729 S. Spring St. LA, CA 90014 btw. 7th and 8th st.
$5 parking at American parking (1st lot on left past 7th st.)
update:: January 20th, 2006
update:: December 30th, 2006
hi there
i have just posted 3 new prints in the buy section of the site: 'dunce', 'he makes us dream' and 'interloper 2', all from my oval portrait series. each print is 11"x 14" (fits standard frame) and is limited to an edition of 50. the oval portraits have been some of my best selling paintings, so i thought y'all might like 'em in print form. there will be more of these to come. go here to buy 'em.
i also posted images in the gallery of the paintings from my 'new blood' show. you can find them here.
i will post photos from the show when i find them (somewhere in my vast expanse of disorganized hard drives).
czzzzzzzzzzzzz
update:: November 13, 2005
yo yo yo
first: 2 new images in the gallery, 'spook' and 'mouf'. i am also offering them both as prints, with a limited edition of only 50 each ('mourner', another print edition of only 50 is almost sold out). one of the nice things about these 2 new prints is that they fit a standard 9x12 frame, so no need for custom framing.
i will be offering some other limited edition prints from my oval portrait series soon.
so anyway, the New Blood show went very well. the artwork was nothing short of spectacular and it was indeed an honor to be included. you can see (and buy) artwork from the show at the copronason website. hereis a separate link to see my stuff from the show. i will have it in the gallery in the next update, along with some pictures from the show (i didn't get too many). the show is up until the 26th, so go see it if you get the chance! thank you all who showed, all who came and all who bought!
i also have the 'spook' and 'mouf' originals in the L Salon 2 show:
and finally this, to brighten up your day.
late
chet
update:: November 11, 2005
hello once again-
i know it's been a while since my last update. it has been an extremely hectic couple of months. i won't bore you with the details. rather, let me take this time to tell you about my BIG show coming up at the copronason gallery. it is entitled "New Blood". it is a three person show featuring myself, and two other newer painters in the underground art scene, Pooch and Dan Quintanas (sorry, i don't think they have websites). they are both really talented and i look forward to showing with them. anyway, i will have a bunch of new paintings i have created just for this show. i hope you can come by and say hello, or maybe even buy something. click here for the eflyer.
here is the relevant info:
New Blood
The Art of
Chet Zar
Pooch
Dan Quintana
Artist reception
Saturday November 5th 8:00 pm-11:30 pm
Show runs until November 26th
CoproNason Gallery
New Location
Bergemont Station
2525 Michigan Ave. T5
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-829-2156
hope to see you there. i will post an update after the show, with photos and such. now, back to painting...
chet
update:: August 7, 2005
GRETCHEN WEBER
1933-2005
we will never forget you
rest in peace
update: july 31st, 2005
hi
first, thanks to everyone who has donated to the chris ayres leukemia fund. the response has been truly overwhelming. go hereto read a note from chris to all of you who helped out. there is also a note posted there telling about his progress. thanks again for all of your support (financial and otherwise). you guys never cease to amaze me.
sorry for the lack of news updates. i have been busy getting ready for a big show i am having at the copronason gallery (www.copronason.com) in november. i am going to try to have 15 new paintings for it, so that is keeping my plate more than full. i will keep you posted on that.
i will also be offering a new limited edition print of "it's all good" through the copronasongallery soon. this will be a fairly low numbered edition high quality giclee print, so if you are interested in getting one early before they are sold out, you can email copronason's curator, gary.
other than that, i have been getting a lot of positive response on myspace.com. if you don't have an account, you should get one. it is the most active web community i have ever seen, and there are hundreds, if not thousands (the total number of registered users is 20 + million right now!) of people with similar interests as us there. a warning though: fox just bought it for 580 million bucks, so it may get spoiled by corporate interests soon. at this point, though, it's still a really cool thing.
until we meet again
chet
