Special Rusty Nails to Cara G. and friend for taking the pics.Monday, May 12, 2008
Part 2: Pics From Monster Island @ MOCAD
Special Rusty Nails to Cara G. and friend for taking the pics.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Children of Mu
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Review Of "3 The Hard Way" @ thedetroiter.com
http://thedetroiter.com/b2evoArt/blogs/index.php?blog=2&title=three_the_hard_way_new_work_by_thomas_ca&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Friday, February 22, 2008
New Drawings Winter 2008
God's Little Children, 24"x20", 2008
Both images are watercolor and ink on paper.
New Paintings Winter 2008
Hang On To Your Ego, 40"x30", 2008
Eye 94, 40"x30", 2008
Shaman's Journey, 20"x24", 2008
LSD March, 24"x26", 2008
Mummy's Ghost, 30"x22", 2008Saturday, February 09, 2008
3 The Hard Way Opening Reminder
Don't Forget!!!
3 The Hard Way,
New Work By Tom Carey, Topher Crowder, And Dennis Jones Opens At Zeitgeist Gallery,
Saturday February 16, 7pm to Midnight.
Performances By Monster Island (Destruction of Mu Shadow Play)
And UVU (HoneyMoon Killers Psych Unit With Live Video Art Feed)
Aktions Starting At 9 pm. Be There or Be Square!!!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Destruction of Mu Flyer
"Destruction of Mu", a live shadow play by Monster Island
With psych honeymoon killers, UVU
www.zeitgeistdetroit.org
Tom Carey, Topher Crowder, and Dennis Jones
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Opening/Performance at the Zeitgeist Gallery
"Destruction of Mu", a shadow play by Monster Island will be performed during the opening of "3 the Hard Way", new art work by Tom Carey, Topher Crowder and Dennis Jones.
At the Zeitgeist Gallery, 2661 Michigan Avenue, 313-965-9192, www.zeitgeistdetroit.org
The reception for the artists will run from 7 pm to midnight, with music around 9pm. There will also be music and visuals by psych freaks UVU.
Photos by Monster Island vocalist Lee Ambrozy
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Upcoming Exhibition at Zeitgeist Gallery in Detroit
February 16, 2008:"3 THE HARD WAY"
Featuring new work by Tom Carey, Topher Crowder, and Dennis Jones.
Tom Carey is a painter and printmaker who creates absurd imagery in an expressionist vocabulary. He was born and raised in Detroit, MI. Tom showed an early interest in drawing, especially monsters and robots, although his mother preferred that he focused on portraits of the Christ and Roman Catholic saints. Despite this difference in aesthetic opinion, Tom's family encouraged his artistic endeavors. Tom attended Wayne State University, where he received his BFA in 1996. After tiring of the Cass Corridor Artist lifestyle, Tom moved to Philadelphia in 1998. While living in Philadelphia, he completed an MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, showed his work at Spector and other local galleries, and had one of his hand-made books purchased by the Print Collection of the New York Public Library. Although he had contemplated the idea of becoming an academic painter in the Wyeths/Brandywine Valley School mold, Tom returned to his childhood love of drawing monsters and robots, focusing increasingly on relief prints. Back in Michigan since 2003, Tom continues to produce paintings, prints, and drawings of the creatures residing in the squishy fields of his sub-conscious.
Featuring new work by Tom Carey, Topher Crowder, and Dennis Jones.
Tom Carey is a painter and printmaker who creates absurd imagery in an expressionist vocabulary. He was born and raised in Detroit, MI. Tom showed an early interest in drawing, especially monsters and robots, although his mother preferred that he focused on portraits of the Christ and Roman Catholic saints. Despite this difference in aesthetic opinion, Tom's family encouraged his artistic endeavors. Tom attended Wayne State University, where he received his BFA in 1996. After tiring of the Cass Corridor Artist lifestyle, Tom moved to Philadelphia in 1998. While living in Philadelphia, he completed an MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, showed his work at Spector and other local galleries, and had one of his hand-made books purchased by the Print Collection of the New York Public Library. Although he had contemplated the idea of becoming an academic painter in the Wyeths/Brandywine Valley School mold, Tom returned to his childhood love of drawing monsters and robots, focusing increasingly on relief prints. Back in Michigan since 2003, Tom continues to produce paintings, prints, and drawings of the creatures residing in the squishy fields of his sub-conscious.
ChrisTopher Crowder puts it this way: “I have always loved the concept of storytelling through images and have found inspiration in the animated Saturday morning cartoons from my childhood, vintage postcards, comic books of the 1960s and 1970s, and roadside billboards. I have chosen to capturing a collection of daily emotions and cryptic memories from my childhood, around the early 1970s, of giant illuminated beer-bottle billboards served up electric brews, smelling the pungent odor of grease paint and alcohol while being entertained by clowns in the front row at a Shriner’s Circus, Saturday mornings spent with H.R. Pufnstuf, and the televised pictures of the Vietnam War. My method, inspired by a Saturday-morning cartoon edited for commercials, a postcard received from a foreign location, a comic book with more than a few pages torn out, or a partial, high-speed glimpse at a roadside billboard, reveals my childhood memories and everyday emotions.
Dennis Michael Jones' "...work expresses a sense of play, wonder, delight and discovery. These thoughts and emotions are directly expressed with the varied presence of a child-like everyman. The figures suggest an innocence and hopefulness of childhood—they are my progeny—a metaphor for the creation and realization of ideas—and avatar for the artist as a perpetual child. I think of this body of work as a kind of memorial to these sentiments. With the realization the figures are also toys to be manipulated, or puppets to be controlled, an undercurrent of irony surfaces as the installation comments on the formation of identity and a creative process that has become corrupted, where innocence and naiveté are doubtful possibilities.
This show runs through March 22, 2008.
Opening night entertainment with Monster Island and UVU
www.zeitgeistdetroit.org
Monday, January 07, 2008
Rehearsal For The Destruction of Mu
I made and manipulated shadow puppets for a performance by Monster Island at the UFO Factory, Saturday January 5, 2008. Lo-fi photography courtesy of the love of my life, Mary Benjamins.
Rusty Nails to Cary Loren, Matthew Smith, Davin, Lee and Alicia, and the UFO Factory Crew.
Buy the Children of Mu Double LP! http://www.thebookbeat.com/
Monster Island: www.myspace.com/monsterisland13
UFO Factory: http://www.ufofactory.com/
Rusty Nails to Cary Loren, Matthew Smith, Davin, Lee and Alicia, and the UFO Factory Crew.
Buy the Children of Mu Double LP! http://www.thebookbeat.com/
Monster Island: www.myspace.com/monsterisland13
UFO Factory: http://www.ufofactory.com/
Monday, December 31, 2007
Monster Island/Children of Mu Shadow Show
I am helping out with the visuals for this show, If you are in/around Detroit, come check it out.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Article About Solo Show at University Liggett
from the Grosse Pointe News, November 29, 2007.
Twisted, subversive and flat-out brilliant. That's how the work of artist Tom Carey has been described. His art is something everyone should see, nobody understands…yet everybody wants. Tom Carey was born and raised in Detroit. He showed an early interest in drawing, and was especially fond of creating monsters and robots. "I wanted to be a superhero when I was five," Carey said, "But when I realized that it was not an easily attainable career goal, I choose the much more practical, and economically rewarding, vocation of visual artist." Carey attended Wayne State University, receiving his Bachlor of Fine Arts in 1996. After graduation, he began showing his artwork at the Willis Gallery and the Weber Building in Detroit. He moved to Philadelphia in 1998 and completed a Master's of Fine Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. In 2002, he had an artist's book purchased by the Print Collection at the New York Public Library. He returned to Michigan in 2003 and continues to produce paintings, prints, drawings and ceramics. Carey's inspiration's for his works include Mayan hieroglyphics, Silver Age Comic Books (especially the work of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee), and '70s black and white horror magazines. His quirky style elicits a variety of responses, including harsh criticism. "I take it with a grain of salt," Carey said. "I incorporate criticism, good and bad, from my peers into my own interior critique of my work." Carey explains that his favorite work is, "whichever piece is currently sitting on my easel or drawing table, unfinished." He believes that his greatest accomplishment in art is teaching his daughter how to draw, and learning from her at the same time. His pieces from 2000 to the present can be viewed at University Liggett School, 1045 Cook, Grosse Pointe Woods. The show will run through Dec. 21. The gallery is open during normal school hours, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., or on evenings when there is a scheduled school function.
By Luke Eckstein, ULS Sophomore
Monday, November 05, 2007
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