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From One Ethos to the Next and the Box Fish Inspiration in Between: an Interview with Dark Surrealist Brad Gray

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Here We Go Round The Pentagram English Artist Brad Gray creates a world of haunting and horrifying narratives dripping in satire and symbolism to provoke the audience to explore the deeper, darker themes of human existence. Found online operating under the moniker of Drabnail, his work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at Copro Gallery in Santa Monica as a part of the Dark Art Society Group show curated by Chet Zar, Wowxwow's Microvisions 2 show exhibiting online, and "Within the Garden of Earthly Delights" at Outre Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. His incredible techniques harken back to the masters of yesteryear,...

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From Ash to Flames: Interview with Dan Bones

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This weekend we head over to the West Coast for Midnite Collective's Midnite Communion in Los Angeles' Los Globos November 17th. It's been a pleasure to partner with Midnite Collective to do our first art installation in compliment one of our other passions: music. You can still buy tickets - click here to snag yours. We have one more artist feature before we leave the landlocked Ohio for Los Angeles - illustrator and tattoo artist Dan Bones took some time to answer some brief questions about his work and his recent move from New York to Los Angeles. 

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From Ash to Flames: Exhibiting Artist Josh McAlear Interview

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Dark Art and Craft invades the West Coast in but sixteen days with an art exhibition for the fifth-ever Midnite Communion. The one-day event is packed with music, vendors and an art installation featuring dark artists from all over the world. One of which is New England painter, illustrator, and tattooer Josh McAlear. He humored us with some responses to some questions about his work, horror movies, metal, and the changing digital landscape and its impact on both tattooing and illustration. 

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From the Depths: An Interview with Lucas Ruggieri

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As part of our series of interviews with artists in our upcoming show, "From the Depths: Scenes from Below" at Ars Memoria, we had the opportunity to interview the talented Brooklyn-based illustrator Lucas Ruggieri about his work and upcoming projects. What does dark art mean to you? For me, dark art can be a huge variety of things, whether its an artifact thats function was malevolent or a painting that just makes you feel scared or anxious for no explainable reason. It can be very rare that I have a negative or dark emotional reaction to a work of art...

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