1.14.12 / 6pm / Bottlecraft: Yeller Studio and Bottlecraft Beer Shop are ringing in the new year by bringing you the second installment of the resident artist series. This time around we proudly present – Under Pressure: The works of Christy Pepper Dawson. RSVP on the Facebook event page and find out more after the jump.
The Artist: Christy Pepper originally hails from a small town in Nova Scotia, where she grew up as an only child, communing with insects and imaginary creatures. Drawing from her past, Christy creates a macabre world of misfits and outcasts, coating them in a sticky layer of molasses and gumdrops.

The Show: For the past few months Christy has been obsessively drawing portraits. Spurred by a growing curiosity of what each portrait can reveal about a person or even what hidden torments they may possess. Her portraits say everything and nothing at all, needless to say we are obsessed with seeing what she has in store. Get weird with us next Saturday, January 14th, 6pm at Bottlecraft Beer Shop.

Tag-team duo Jolby, Josh Kenyon and Colby Kichols, are back at Subtext for yet another stellar mix of paintings, drawings, wood-cuts and much more. Join the artists and friends this Friday from 6-10pm.

The pieces are amazing executed and priced to sell, get on the preview as it looks like they are going fast. Preview the show from Subtext here.

MIHO will be in the back serving delicious morsels at 8pm. See you dudes there.

Yeller and Bottlecraft Beer Shop have teamed up to bring you the first in a series of residency artist installations. We’re starting things off with a bang, featuring new works by San Diego institution; director, designer and photographer Charles Bergquist. Enjoy some great beer and the company of good friends at our opening reception, Saturday, November 19th, 2011. RSVP on the Facebook event page and preview the show after the jump.

Charles’ etherial works mix landscapes and textures from the natural world to create surreal compositions that feel simultaneously foreign and familiar. His professional career has reached clients both big and small; including video and photo work for Pitchfork, Ghostly, Matthew Dear, Qualcomm, Sezio, Shilo, Bebe, Oakley, and Fuel TV to name a few.

Charles will be including a few surprises during the opening reception, including a video installation and works from his everyday series, should be loads of fun!

A big shout goes to Brian Jensen for opening his doors and walls to good, local artists and craftsmen. Go here bottlecraftbeer.com or like him here: facebook.com/Bottlecraft as any decent beer lover or human being would do.

Rediscovered graphite for this particular piece. I was heavily inspired by Stephen Gammell’s illustrations for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series, which some of  you may remember from your childhood.

We all got together at Yeller headquarters and made a huge mess the other night. Out of the wreckage was born the most heinous of all hydra-esque monsters. We all had a pretty good time watching this thing quickly and horrifyingly snowball out of control.  We each made a head, one way or another, and a body roughly modeled after my own, and we lost any self control we were grasping onto shortly after that… Take a peek past the break there and you can see some heads.

We are headed out to the desert this weekend for some last minute monster inspiration.

Heads…

& feet.

One of several slimy, sweating beasts I’ve created.