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Jeremyville

Published by Matt Gondek December 13th, 2007 in Art, culture, marketing, Design, gallery, Artist and books. 5 Comments

Jeremyville’s work is instantly recognizable. He’s the kind of artist whose work is easily marketable too. Writing about him makes me use words that I’m not sure I’m spelling right. Words like recognizable and marketable. Words w/ “able” at the end always confused me.

His work has been used by pretty much everyone at some point, and he also sells his fair share of toys, books, paintings, bags, pins, hats, and other stuff. He is the KISS of the art world.

You can spend a good deal of time at his site www.jeremyville.com looking at all his comics and blogs and stuff. He has alot of good ideas in his brain that you should check out!

Chris Ryniak

Published by Matt Gondek November 29th, 2007 in Art, culture, Design, gallery and Artist. 1 Comment

http://www.bigistudio.com/

Check out Chris’s work. It’s really amazing!

In other news, yesterday my E-mail was down, so I contacted my blog’s Hosting Company, www.pagewaiter.com. I told him what was wrong, and he fixed it all quick like and even sent me test e-mails to make sure it was working. Pagewaiter.com is amazing and I highly recomend it if you’re hunting for mega cheap awesome hosting.

How to win friends and influence people

Published by Matt Gondek November 13th, 2007 in Art, Fun, culture, street art, Advertising, Design, gallery, Underground, Artist, future and books. 1 Comment

My roommate has a computer printer just sitting in the hallway for quite some time so I decided to put it to use. Using Photoshop, I constructed a little 12 page book of artwork and made ten of them. Then using some gold paint I signed and numbered each one.

After all that, I stapled them together, and sent out a bulliten on myspace letting everyone know I have limited edition DIY art books and they’re free. One comes with each piece of artwork or print bought off my myspace or website. I was suprised at how high the demand was for these things. I recieve alot of messages about them, and already sent three off this morning.

I still have 6 left (I kept one for myself), so yea… www.myspace.com/huskydiver or www.mattgondek.com

whoo

Make Money Online with my Friday Update$!

Published by Matt Gondek November 9th, 2007 in Art, culture, exhibits, Community, technology, Design, gallery and Artist. 1 Comment

It’s Friday and that means I’m pilling up all the ideas I had for posts over the last week that didn’t flesh out! Enjoy

Check out the new Academy of Sciences building!
This $484 million dollar museum in California looks amazing. It opens up next fall, but until then, check out these photos and read about how great this place sounds.

Mark Jenkins - check out his work here www.xmarkjenkinsx.com

The Arrival - A painting David Choquette. This thing is just creepy!

Here’s a story about how a teenage girl run up a $10,000 phone bill for text messaging! She was texting a 1-900 number where you could text chat back and forth with “cool guys”.

Halloween Party at the Creative Treehouse

Published by Matt Gondek November 2nd, 2007 in Art, Pittsburgh, culture, street art, Community, Advertising, Design, gallery, Bellevue, Creative Treehouse and Photography. 1 Comment

Tomorrow night at 7:00 PM is yet another amazing event at the Creative Treehouse in Bellevue. The Halloween Party.

There will be artists (including me, and my new work “Husky McNuggula”), 3 bands (including my band “Doughnuts in November”), and a pumkin carving contest.

Also, you can get in cheaper if you dress up… being a Halloween show at all.

B.Y.O.B. is in full effect which means with every sip the music sounds better, the art looks cooler, and I become more handsome.

For more details, as well as the Address of the location, go here

Just Britney <3

Published by Matt Gondek October 3rd, 2007 in Uncategorized, Art, culture, exhibits, Redneck, Design, gallery and Genre. 0 Comments

(Taken from Juxtapoz.com)
If you’re living in or loving LA and really want to take a dip into the Hollywood fishbowl in which she swims, pop into the World of Wonder Gallery for the “Just Britney” art opening, where Britney Spears-inspired work from more than 30 artists is on display. Included will be YouTube’s number one Britster fanatic, Chris Crocker, whose piece depicts Mr. Crocker himself perched seductively atop his memorabilia collection of The Brit. The show runs for two weeks, and yeah, it’s so over the top you’ve just gotta see it firsthand. www.myspace.com/just_britneyartshow

The Adventures of Matt Gondek, Freelance Artist II

Published by Matt Gondek October 1st, 2007 in Uncategorized, Art, Cartoons, culture, exhibits, street art, graffiti, Community, Design, gallery, Underground, Artist and Creative Treehouse. 7 Comments

This weekend I found myself once again at the Creative Treehouse for their second “24 Hour Creative Marathon”. A two day event in which artist’s have 24 hours (starting Friday night at 8PM) to create a piece to be shown and sold the following evening.

The theme this time, was lost and found. I opted to paint some monsters… shown below.

“They Don’t Make Ice Cream This Big”

Keeping with the theme of the show, I lost my duct tape, when someone stole it while I went to get something to eat. I also lost a dollar when the gyro shop ripped me off by overcharging me for one of their specials.

I did however find an amazing cheese tray which kept me happy during most of the event.

Low Ballin’…

Published by Matt Gondek September 28th, 2007 in Art, culture, marketing, Community, Hillbillies, Design, gallery, Underground and Artist. 0 Comments

Today I got an e-mail from another Pittsburgh artist talking about collecting as many Pgh artists as possible and amassing their information on one site. Not a bad idea at all. One site with everyone’s contact information as well as samples of work seems like a good idea. I was excited to jump on board. Until I got to the guideline portion on the e-mail.

There was your standard rules, but one in particular stood out. It stated that “This site will not list artists who lowball their prices in order to sell in
volume, hobbyists, or those who do not know how to value their work, all of
which hurts the art community in general”.

When people write things like that, it makes me mad. I know that this sentence isn’t directed at me, but in a way, I feel that it is. I definately don’t charge alot for my work. I would make rather have my work in someone’s house, on their shirt, or in a shop than sitting in my house where no one is seeing it. How many times did you see a certain piece of art you really liked, only to get discouraged at it’s $500 price tag? Another reason I charge low is because, like 99% of the art world NO ONE KNOWS WHO I AM. I am not famous in any way. I can see jacking up the price on a piece by Crayola or Alex Pardee because they are amazing at what they do, and the demand for their work is high.

Listen. You want to know what hurts the art world? High priced, no name artwork. If EVERYONE didn’t charge so much, then ALOT more people would have artwork in their homes, where it could be appreciated. Not sitting in a closet of the artist’s home, waiting for the day when some asshole is going to pay 2 grand for a 6” by 6” piece of wood with some acrylic paint on it.

I get alot of freelance work. ALOT. And with each piece I make sure I’m not ripping them off. I do it for as low a price as possible, because I know they will tell their friends, who will also want something done. It’s called MARKETING. I can see where you get the argument of “well, people will pay high price for an original piece”. Maybe if those artists had more creativity, EVERY piece would be original.

I have no problem with big name artists w/ high prices, but c’mon people, don’t try to be something your not.

24 Hour Creative Marathon

Published by Jackie Vesci September 24th, 2007 in Art, Fun, Gondek, Pittsburgh, Community, Design, gallery, Artist, Bellevue and Creative Treehouse. 2 Comments

This weekend, September 28-29, check out the 24 Hour Creative Marathon. Artists can register for FREE online by following the link provided or on Friday at the door (maximum 150 artists) to create a work of art around-the-clock following the theme “Lost and Found.” A gallery show will then start at 8:00pm Saturday to showcase and sell the artwork.

All artists including painters, illustrators, cartoonists and sculptors - from amateurs to professionals - basically, if you create art in Pittsburgh, we encourage you to register for this event!

For art admirers, there will be artwork, food, drinks, and live music to enjoy at the gallery show Saturday night. And your chance to purchase an original piece created by Matt Gondek!

All the fun can and will be had at the Creative Treehouse in Bellevue.

Address: 517 Lincoln Ave., 2nd Floor, Bellevue, PA 15202

Any questions? Contact Josh Sager at creative.marathon@gmail.com
See you there!

Doughnuts and Art 2.0: The Darling of Pittsburgh?

Published by Matt Gondek August 23rd, 2007 in Art, Fun, Pittsburgh, culture, exhibits, street art, Community, Design, gallery, Artist, Bellevue and Doughnuts and Art. 0 Comments

The Pittsbugh Post Gazette has declared Doughtnuts and Art 2.0 as one of the “Hot Things To Do This Weekend”, and quite frankly, I can’t blame them.

Sorry I have been talking about this event so much, but you know how you babble on and on about someone who you just fall in love with? It’s like that for me. Who needs a girl, when you got an EVENT.

Here’s the link to a Blurb in the Post Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/events/default.asp?mode=8&id=25741

We’re also on the calendar of events in the City Paper as well. It seems no matter what paper you read in this city, you’re about to get a Doughnut wake up call right in your face!

See you all Saturday <3

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