Here is the official invite for the next Sketchy Neighbors Show. We are having a Creature Feature Print Show and you are all invited. All prints are for sale and should be deliciously haunting, creepy or generally weird. So, if you are in need of a little extra imagination that weekend, stop by Isma Estudio in Winter Street on the 24th of July. All the sketchies are participating and will have prints for sale, including; dry point, lino cut and more. We also have a guest artist for the show, Armando Rodriguez Robles who is one of the resident artists of Isma Estudio.

Creature Feature
Saturday, July 24th 2010
Isma Estudio inside Winter Street Studios
6-9 pm.
Location info, click here.

Creature Feature Print Show, July 24th 2010, Isma Estudio @ Winter Street. Merpup by Anne Byrd

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The Sketchy Neighbors will be participating on Wednesday, June 23 in an event with Spacetaker ARC and NANOFiction. Artists and Poets will take to the stage for improv writing and sketching based on 5-word emailed requests. To add to the excitement the event will be timed. Featured poets include; Andrew Kozma, Glenn Shaheen, Hannah Gamble and Becca Wadlinger.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Spacetaker ARC at Winter Street Studios
Street: 2101 Winter Street, Houston, TX 77007
Map: click here
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.

For more information about this event click here!

Doodle Collage by Ryan Terry

Want to attend? RSVP for this event on Facebook click here!

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Marisa Avelar joined the Sketchy Neighbors this year and will making her Sketchy debut at the Accerlerando Nonsense show on May 8th, at Record Ranch Gallery, inside Cactus Music.

Here are some images of Marisa in her studio, preparing for the upcoming show.

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Marisa working in the studio

Marisa works involve both collage, painting and three dimensional objects

On the Easel, collage/painting in progress by Marissa Avelar

Artist Bio
Marisa Avelar is a graphic designer, painter and mixed media artist born and raised in Houston. After beginning with traditional oil works,she ventured into mixed media pieces combining paint, found objects,fabric and her own photography. As a fine artist, her influences include the magic realism of her Latin American culture and the art of the dadaists. Her work often attempts to capture moments and memories, and evoke the sense of wonder and magic in life that we often forget. As a graphic designer, she loves the play of type and vintage advertising as well as the clean beautiful work of the modernists.Whether working in design or fine art, she is inspired by the words of Paul Rand: “Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.”

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MAKING ART OUT OF NONSENSE WITH SKETCHY NEIGHBORS

Art Exhibit and Auction Showcases Musically-themed Pieces Saturday, May 8 at Record Ranch Gallery

HOUSTON, TEXAS… It will be a fast-paced night when Houston’s Sketchy Neighbors present their first show of the year, “Accelerando Nonsense: Musically Themed Artwork, Silent Art Auction, Beer & Nonsense.” Opening Saturday, May 8 at the Record Ranch Gallery located inside Cactus Music, “Accelerando Nonsense” will feature musically-themed art by Sketchy Neighbor members Marisa Avelar, Anthony Butkovich, Anne Byrd, Brenda Cruz, Kelley Devine, Carlos Hernandez, Katsola, Devon Moore, Robert Tatum, Chris Thompson, and Jeff Whiteley, as well as guest artist Sean Flournoy. The show will be held from 7-10 p.m. with the silent auction ending at 9:30 p.m. Bidding for the art will begin at $29.95. In addition to the art, one-of-a-kind t-shirts designed by each artist will be for sale at the event.

Sponsors include 29.95.com, Record Ranch Gallery, Throttle Tee’s, and Sketchy Neighbors.

On a fateful night in February 2009, local artists Katsola and Carlos Hernandez gathered a random collection of fellow local artists they didn’t know and hadn’t ever worked with. The goal – to start a sketch group. Exactly 39 minutes and 42 seconds into the casual meet and greet, that arbitrary congregation of artists became…the Sketchy Neighbors. They had a mission…to do what no group had done before. Their art would consist of a theme and media/material pulled from suggestions put int a hat. This work would culminate in an annual fall show.

For more information on the show, contact Record Ranch Gallery at (713) 526-9272. To learn more about Sketchy Neighbors, visit www.sketchyneighbors.com.

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Calling all Sketchy Fans! The first Sketchy Neighbors show of the year will be held at the Record Ranch again. The show is entitled “Accelerando Nonsense- Musically Themed Artwork, Silent Art Auction, Beer & Nonsense” and is already proving to be spectacular. Once again 29.95.com is one of our sponsors. And of course we could not do it without the fabulous Quinn, owner of the Record Ranch located inside Cactus Music, he provides excellent tunes and hospitality. This year we are doing something a little differently, we are having a silent auction, still starting at $29.95, but we thought we’d let you all duke it out for the art you want this year. The Show will be held on Saturday May, 8th at 7-10 p.m. with the silent auction ending at 9:30 p.m. Again, a the end of the night with payment you will be able to take the work with you that night. Since this is a one night event, it is important that you be present at the end of the auction to pay for your purchase. More to come…

On that fateful February 19, 2009, Katsola and Carlos Hernandez sent out a call to a random collection of local artists they didn’t know and hadn’t ever worked with. “Meet up with us tonight—we’re starting a sketch group!” They gathered at Big Star Bar that night. Red Neck Mother played in the background, Diablo took a crap on the wall, and Carlos bought the first round of Lone Stars and whiskey.

Exactly 39 minutes and 42 seconds into the casual meet and greet, that arbitrary congregation of artists became…the Sketchy Neighbors. And they had a mission.

They wanted to do what no group had done before. They would meet twice a month over the year. At their first meeting of every month, everyone would put their suggestions for a theme and media/material into The Hat—whatever was pulled from The Hat would be what each artist would work on that month. The second meeting would be a Show & Tell—they’d present their sketches or piece and critique each other’s work. And at the end of all this hard work, they would have a big show.

Josie the bartender did the honors for the first round: Life is…on underwear.

This. Was going to be. Fun.

11 Artists
1 Photographer
A Scribe
And their scrappy mascot
Lucky number 13.

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