Eduardo Benedeto,
Colin Burns,
Daniel Edwards,
Steve Ellis,
Johnny Fenix,
Steven Gagnon,
Jason Douglas Griffin,
David Hochbaum,
Justin Kirchoff,
Martina Kubinyi,
Travis Lindquist,
Brian Leo
GoldMine ShitHouse,
David Stoupakis,
David Tree,
Kevin Willis
CKFA pours Kelso of Brooklyn Nut Brown Ale
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Sunset & St. Marks
The finest upcoming artists from Los Angeles, Miami, Boston and New York City.
July 15 - July 23 Opening night with the artists: Saturday, July 14th 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Jonny Fenix
Jonny Fenix was born Jonathan Smith in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1973, and lives in Los Angeles. He walks with his daughter and wife on Skid Row where they live and wonder why mankind isn’t. Why is man’s push to extinguish rudely everything natural?
Perhaps it
is imaginary but he doesn’t fit in. Uncomfortable when there are
others around. Parking garages are torture, he prefers to eat cake in
bed and lie awake dreaming. His painted imagery to him is the truth. This
sea’s not full of fish, but trash.
In the world
he is living in this time, there are religious leaders fucking children.
The poor fighting rich wars. Big trucks being driven by small minds. Mouths
flapping saying nothing. People shitting on curbs, dying in the street
and long glossy legs leading nowhere. Musicians elected from fat couches.
To him the cricket in the kitchen is far more admirable.
Maybe he’s
always been this way. Quietly screaming. From neither school nor the streets,
he spent his boyhood in the desserts of Arizona thinking to himself, “this
looks like the bottom of the ocean”. Researching everywhere, he
attempts to create what his mind sees. Artwork, furniture, sculpture,
letters to friends, they are the same and loaded. Soft but Sharp. Pretty
and Painful. To say nothing is not possible.
His work has
shown in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and New York. There were ants in
each of these cities busy.
