Dave McKean “New Works Inspired by Early Cinema”In Gallery II:

Feb. 9, 2010

Type: event
Location: Los Angeles
Starts: Feb 13 2010 at 12:00AM
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Dave McKean
“New Works Inspired by Early Cinema”
In Gallery II: "Nitrate and Kinogeists: Rare Silent Film Posters"

February 13, 2010 - March 6, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13th, 7-10 pm

BILLY SHIRE FINE ARTS
5790 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
phone: 323-297-0600
fax: 323-297-0601
www.billyshirefinearts.com
[email protected]

online press release with additional images:
http:///leejosephpublicity.com/show/bsfafeb10

Century Guild brings legendary multi-media artist Dave McKean to America for an extremely special and extremely limited engagement, presented at Billy Shire Fine Arts in Culver City. "New Works Inspired by Early Cinema" displays McKean's latest paintings from his haunting current body of work "Nitrate" inspired by the silent era of cinema. "Nitrate and Kinogeists" will display both Century Guild's inventory of historically significant and undeniably beautiful silent film posters, most of which have been lost and unseen by the public before now.

Dave McKean lives and works in Kent, England. His style has become inescapable to anyone cognizant of pop culture: he has illustrated and designed covers for the most respected comics of the late 20th century (The Sandman, Arkham Asylum) designed, illustrated, and photographed over 150 CD covers (The Rolling Stones, Tori Amos, Alice Cooper) and created imagery and designs for ad campaigns (Nike, Kodak, BMW) and magazines (The New Yorker, Mojo, Playboy). He has illustrated children’s books written by acclaimed writer Neil Gaiman (Coraline, The Graveyard Book), has worked on film and book projects with John Cale, Jonathan Carroll and Stephen King. He was a conceptual artist on the “Harry Potter” films, and developed and directed the film MirrorMask for the Jim Henson Company.

Century Guild, established in 1999 by art historians Thomas Negovan and Stuart Tomc, specializes in brokering Art Nouveau and Symbolist art and objects 1880-1920 to museum collections. The Chicago Tribune listed them as “one of the must-see exhibits in Artropolis 2009.”

Please join us on Saturday, February 13, 2010 for this must-see event! The artist will be present at the opening, from 7-10 pm.

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For more information, hi res images or to set up an interview with the artists contact: Lee Joseph Publicity, p 818-848-2698 f 818-848-2699, [email protected]