Billy Zinser -a MasterMinds award finalist

Billy Zinser is selected by The Dallas Observer among 9 other finalists in it's first annual MasterMinds award -read the article online here, or, just skip to the good stuff (I am on page 4) and click here .

MACRODONS invade ARTOPIA !!!

need I say more, go on, click it:

http://microapp.dallasobserver.com/artopia/2010/

NEW MACRODON minis @ RED'S

New MACRODONS figures are available @ Red's Pop Shop: MACRODON minis are approx. 1.5 inches tall, and there are 2 different character designs, also, each MACRODON mini is one-of-a-kind as there are no two painted alike.

Fresh batch of MACRODONS cookies + toys @Red's Pop Shop!

Homemade MACRODONS sugar cookies, deftly decorated by my sweet Emily, and delicious too! (see enjoyment below)

MACRODONS+friends @Red's Pop Shop (weekend#1)

The first weekend of Red's Pop Shop has concluded -and it was amazing! If you missed it, you have one more chance -the exhibit is so sharp we'll be cutting faces all weekend (Saturday + Sunday, September 25+26, noon-6pm), so check us out!

Red's Pop Shop, photo by Fur Face Boy (t-shirts pictured, bottom left table)

So first off, a shout to the sharp skills of all the artists/designers/vendors at the show, EVERY ONE OF THEM does spectacular work-

Fur Face Boy did a great recap of the event so I'll simply point you in that direction → above photo by Fur Face Boy, and go to his blog for the breakdown, and below, in front of the Fur Face Boy booth on the right is Fur Face Boy in the new MACRODONS shirt, and yours truly on the left in the dope Fur Face Boy shirt.

MACRODONS display @ Red's Pop Shop -1st weekend

My darling Emily @ the MACRODONS booth during the 1st weekend of Red's Pop Shop

MACRODONS @ Red's Pop Shop

THE DETAILS: For a limited engagement, popping up on Lower Greenville (Saturday & Sunday, September 18 & 19, from noon-6pm + Saturday & Sunday, September 25 & 26, from noon-6pm) in a vacant bar - converted into exhibition space for the event: Red On Greenville presents: "an amalgamation of Dallas' foremost taste-makers, an explosion of culture, a retail experience where art and design get fresh..."

Plenty of new MACRODON swag is being debuted, including t-shirts, buttons, stickers, COOKIES!!! (excellently executed in the visage of my MACRODONS by my lovely Emily) AND new special edition MACRODONminis (one-of-a-kind small $15 versions of these odd creatures -get them while they last!)

Also, our cohorts @ the show are displaying some stellar work, so check us out! [MAP]

Red's Pop Shop

1802-A Greenville Ave.

Dallas, TX 75206

& facebook

EXHIBITION EXTENDED!

EXHIBITION @ THE PUBLIC TRUST EXTENDED!
-NOW ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 11, 2010

JEREMY SMITH + BILLY ZINSER | NEW WORK

*gallery will be open late, 6-9pm, Saturday, September 11

THE PUBLIC TRUST

2929-C Commerce St., Dallas TX 75226

hours: Wednesday-Friday 11-6pm / Saturday 12-6pm

& by appointment

www.trustthepublic.com / P: 214.760.7170

EXHIBITION @ THE PUBLIC TRUST

THE PUBLIC TRUST

JEREMY SMITH + BILLY ZINSER | NEW WORK

JULY17 - SEPTEMBER4, 2010 / Artist Reception: July17, 6-9 PM

2929-C Commerce St., Dallas TX 75226

hours: Wednesday-Friday 11-6pm / Saturday 12-6pm

& by appointment

www.trustthepublic.com / P: 214.760.7170

ANDY WARHOL & BILLY ZINSER @ POP UP 310

(left) Andy Warhol's original 'Diamond Dust Shoes'
(right) Billy Zinser's painting 'THUMP'
@ POP UP 310 -inaugural exhibition, Feb. 13 - 21, 2010 !!!

POP UP 310's inaugural exhibition closes this weekend, so go see it! Gallery hours are Fri. 6-9 / Sat. 12-8 / Sun. 12-5. @ 3699 McKinney Ave #310 [MAP] West Village, Dallas, Texas 75204.

LOOK! A diamond dust Andy Warhol, right next to MY painting 'THUMP'. Pretty bad-ass.

For more Andy Warhol, go to the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth for their exhibition "ANDY WARHOL: THE LAST DECADE".

MACRODONS @ POPUP THREETEN !

Billy Zinser's MACRODONS series 2 figures & oil paintings will be part of the opening exhibition at POP UP 310 -a temporary art exhibition space in Dallas' West Village, run and curated by James Cope of The Goss-Michael Foundation and Brian Gibb of The Public Trust.

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: POP UP 310 is an autonomous curatorial project that will serve as a platform for artists, writers, musicians and all things creative. Housed in what was formerly the Gardens retail space in the West Village, POP UP 310 is in essence a temporary pop up gallery showcasing and exhibiting artwork by emerging and established artists. With the space located in a retail center, the focus of the artwork will be on smaller works, prints and books, creating a gallery experience which is accessible to a broader range of art patrons. This model will also create opportunities for artists to experiment with ideas and materials that may not necessarily be shown in a commercial environment. At its core POP UP 310 is a work in progress, an ongoing project to be considered as an art installation it self.


POP UP 310
3699 McKinney Ave #310 [MAP]
West Village, Dallas, Texas 75204

OPENING RECEPTION:
Sat. Feb. 13th 6-10PM

hours: Fri. 6-9 / Sat. 12-8 / Sun. 12-5

POP UP 310 on facebook

POP UP 310 blog

www.popup310.com

EXHIBITION @ 500X - Dallas, TX

500X EXPO 2010 - January 16th - 31st, 2010
Reception: Saturday, January 16th, 7–10 pm

BILLY ZINSER THUMP 2010 acrylic, oil, enamel on panel, 24 x 24 inches

My work is defined by a cartoonish approach to non-objective abstract painting intended to address color, line, and shape as the subject matter of the work, through simple gestures and automatic mark making.

In my paintings I combine these effects with a variety of qualities inherent to the medium of paint and painting, primarily the physicality of the medium and the mark-making of the brushstroke (be that with or without a brush). At times the paint is delivered straight-out-of-the-tube, or manipulated with a utensil to shape it's texture; when applying brushstrokes, some are very slowly and deliberately applied, making their laziness evident when in proximity to a more frenzied automatic mark-making gesture. The body of the paint is also manipulated dramatically, creating tension between sloppy 'juicy' dribbles, stiff paint with erect peaks, richly textured brush marks, globs easily perceived as mistakes, and 'inproper' layering of mediums resulting in wrinkled prematurely dried sagging and leaking paint skin...


500X Gallery, Texas’ oldest artist–run space, hosts one of North Texas’ most anticipated annual juried competitions. This years jurors include Christina Rees, Curator of the Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, and U.K.-cum-Dallas painter Richard Patterson.

Christina Rees was an editor at The Met and D Magazine, a full-time art and music critic at the Dallas Observer, and has covered art and music for the Village Voice and other publications. She was until recently the owner and director of Road Agent gallery in Dallas. Christina Rees is now the Curator of Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, TCU.

Richard Patterson, Born in Surrey, England 1963, Educated at Watford Boys' Grammar School, Watford College of Art and Goldsmiths' College, London University Exhibitions include, Freeze, Sensation, Ambush, Far from the Madding Crowd, GMF, Wall Rockets. Solo Exhibitions at Anthony d'Offay Gallery,London. James Cohan Gallery, NY. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London. Work in public collections: Tate, Arts Council, British Council, Southampton Gallery, SFMoma, Denver Museum of Art Lives and works happily in Dallas, TX with Christina Rees, Honda and Trixie the Japanese Chins. Drives: 1994 British racing green Jaguar XJS 4.0, Texas. 1969 Slate grey Porsche 912, London

Artists in the EXPO: Adam Palmer, Olagunju Adeniyi Tokunbo, Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Alison Starr, Andrew Douglas Underwood, Billy Zinser, Ashley Milow, Carrie Stout, Chelsey Mulnix, Daniel Birdsong, Danny Haslett, Devon Nowlin, Elizabeth MacDonald, Ignatius Peacher, James Lassen, Jennifer Gooch, John Dickinson, Jonathan Foisset, Kenneth Rajspis, Kerry Pacillo, Kristen Chochran, Leticia Emestina Gomez, Nancy Lamb, Nate Glaspie, Oscar Mejia, Rachel Cox, Rachel Fisher, Ricardo Paniagua Garcia III, Saul F. Waranch, Sibylle Bauer, Timothy Harding, Todd Camplin, Vance Wingate, and Yovanny Canales.


more links: www.macrodons.com www.billyzinser.com www.500x.org

more artspeak: my cv/resume (PDF), artist statement (PDF), essay on 'Death of a Propane Salesman' exhibition curated by Christina Rees, more to come...

photos of MACRODONS @ ARTLAB + more

these are the art objects raffled to benefit CADD at the ARTLAB 'LAUNCH' exhibition. left to right: a print from The Public Trust, MACRODON 6 series 1 (customized, signed and scribbles on box), Rusty Scruby playing card assemblage, and a Susan Barnett drawing.


a better view of Rusty Scruby's piece.


& a pic of the store display at ARTLAB, with my MACRODONS toys and framed painting, among ARTLIES magazies, and Allison V. Smith mini photo viewfinders.

series 1 rare variant

custom drawing for a one-of-a-kind chase variant of MACRODON "4" from series 1:

MACRODONS ARE DISAPPEARING !

MACRODONS ARE DISAPPEARING

MACRODONS series 1 edition is almost gone! Very few MACRODONS remain at THE PUBLIC TRUST, and at the location of the most recent sightings: ART LAB!

Also available online @ ETSY!

Catch these elusive creatures before it is too late!

Original MACRODON paintings also available framed at THE PUBLIC TRUST
& ART LAB.

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these last few drawings appear cropped, or as closeups, unlike most (all?) previous daily sketches...

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another work on paper, in progress... kind of a wierd start

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these sort of wierd gnarly appendages seem to be a reoccuring theme in these past few posts... this is a painting in progress on a 15 x 15 inch piece of rag paper, the wobbly, curly paper can be seen photographed on the hard wood floors of my living room...

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painting in progress (another 12 x 12 inch wood panel) reminiscent of the explosions and smoke monsters previously seen here, another before and after, still in progress...

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Break from the Moleskine sketchbook, this is a painting in progress on a 12 x 12 inch wood panel... still can't seem to break from the black and white... (pictured above a before and after... still more to come)