Russian Red

During the October Revolution the Winter Palace was raided of its wine cellars and made much of the Petrograd population quite drunk. It got to the point that a decree was issued that any stock of wine found would be blown up with dynamite... To celebrate the wine pogrom issued by the Regimental Committee, Lenin, and Trotsky, I give you Russian Red... almost good enough to be straight from the cellar of the Winter Palace.

Whole Lotta Rosas

Artwork done for the "Whole Lotta Rosas" show this past Friday at the Camp in Costa Mesa (photos of the event coming soon). The second photo is 15 parts that comprise the piece "Soldiers! Workers! Citizens!" There are still a few left if anyone wants them...

A Glimpse

Here is a few of the 15 individual parts that comprise the piece "Solders! Workers! Citizens!" that will be on display this Friday. Though it is one piece, I will be selling off the individual 'parts' starting at $20 each.

"A Whole Lotta Rosas" Group art show
at Ecco at the Camp in Costa Mesa
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The March to Tashkent

Here is another piece from my show at the Rothick Arthaus. Entitled The March to Tashkent, it is based on a time when Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, while still serving time in the labor camps (gulags), had to go to a hospital in Tashkent because of a tumor. His tumor was removed, but the cancer was not diagnosed for a few more years, almost killing him (I know what that feels like). This hospital in Tashkent was the inspiration for his novel Cancer Ward, a story where he used tumors as a metaphor for  the problems in Russia. The novel is also the basis for most of my artwork in this show.

The March to Tashkent is ink, acrylic, and newspaper on wood panel. 24" x 32"

Torn Apart

This series will be going to Amsterdam on Monday. It is now in the hands of two art collectors from that city. They are really cool guys that come out every year for Coachellafest and I couldnt be happier that they were the ones to get it.

I cant say it was really easy for me to part from this series, as I created it shortly after going in to remission from cancer. It is the first of my artwork to get in a gallery and it is also my first 'real' sale (see the original post here). On Thursday I got to pack it all up and ready it for the flight to its new home. The photo below includes one of the guys, Robert, and I in front of my series...

Torn Apart is a 9 panel series. Each panel is ink, acrylic, and newspaper on wood. 12" x 18"

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Art4aCure

I just finished this piece for Art4aCure. They are a non-profit organization that sells donated artwork to raise funds for stage one cancer research. This is the cutting edge research that explores new ways to fight cancer with less harm to the patient. It is a great NPO and I wanted to contribute something to them for a while. A lot of the artwork gets hung up in Premiere Oncology, an infusion room in Los Angeles.

I designed this piece specifically to be hung up there and used cool, calming colors for it. The meaning of flower itself is calming and relaxing and you are supposed to send it to people you admire. The white spatters project purity and cleanliness (from cancer), and encourages us to clear obstacles. The blue background invokes rest and serenity. The newsprint that is barely visible stands for all the things that gets put on a back burner while one fights through this life threatening disease (at least thats how it was for me).

Quite an explanation, but hopefully this helps some of the cancer patients who go to Premiere Oncology for chemo infusion...

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Mt. Hood

This piece was painted after a picture of Mt. Hood and was commissioned by Alana Mayer for her husband Jason. He had loved the piece I had done earlier entitled Life is Beautiful, so we decided to base it off of that. Though in the same style, the mountain is all acrylic paint (no inks). You may also recognize the mountain from an earlier piece painted from the same picture (as seen in this post: Mountains). I also built the framing around it using good ol' fashioned wood and nails. Acrylic and Oil on Newspaper. 24" x 30"

And if your in the mood to do a little shopping, Alana has started her own clothing store entitled The Retreat.

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First Gallery Showing!!

The IncredibleArtist.Com Gallery Proudly Presents:

“Torn Apart” by Danny Schutt

Danny Schutt is a talented young artist and cancer survivor. His first major work is “Torn Apart”, a powerful nine-panel sequence on Life. Come see it this weekend (Sat. April 25 7-10pm)! We are very pleased to display this incredible work in the Gallery, and to welcome a new emerging artist to the IncredibleArtist.Com family.
Learn more about Danny on our website: http://incredibleartist.com/artists/danny-schutt/
The original is available for sale, and will shortly be available as fine art giclées.

This is a series I created that follows a character's life from the moment he was born to his untimely end (reads like a book). I wanted to create it in a way that would make people think. I didnt want this series to be spelled out, instead I tried to really stretch the visual representation as far from the original meaning as possible without losing it completely...

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