Kill Screen Painting video

My buddy Jordan came by and filmed a day at the studio, and a little progress on my piece for Gallery 1988's Edgar Wright show. Check it out!

http://vimeo.com/72752676

Golden Ticket Giveaway

Giveaway ends 4/2/13 at midnight, available here

"Savages"

Savages

24 x 36 inches

Acrylic on Wood

This new painting by Graham Curran is available for purchase here

Mini Trashcan for Art Basel

Was able to participate with Global Inheritance again, great people. This painting is of a lemon shark escorting a young lady around in the hot tub located in his fin. Clothing optional. This will be a part of their show in Miami during Art Basel.

New Ink Drawings Series 1, Set 1

This is the first set in my "Collective of Animal Sounds" series.

Two new paintings were recently finished, one being for Crazy4Cult (top) titled Mad World. The other being inspired by my trash bin for Coachella, titled Troubled Joe.

Coachella recyle bin

 

 Coachella bin is finally all ready to go, on display tonight at LAB art gallery in Los Angeles and then off to the festival where it will be on display for both weekends.

Coachella Art bin

This Saturday my Coachella bin will be on display at LAB ART Gallery (see flyer below)

My two bins are called The Ghost of Troubled Joe. 

One is on a full size trash bin in which I painted on using Acrylics and the other is a small mini trash bin in which I decided to sculpt on, which you can see a teaser of in the photo above.

The event is one night only and the only time to see all of the bins in one space, then they will be off to Coachella! Where I will be during the second weekend.  

 

As 2011 finishes

As this year comes to an end I'd like to share a few things that kept me busy over the final two month's. One was this honey badger design that I also made in to a T-Shirt

Then there were these two pieces from my group show at Tiny Stage gallery.

Two Lover's Entwined

Distraction II

As far as next year goes I plan on doing a lot more of the same, this includes finishing the Distraction series. I also plan on doing a few more sculpture's. I had a great year as far as meeting a lot of new people, doing art is not always an easy path but it is often a rewarding one. I look forward to next year and what things I will get myself into.

 So I finally got back to some good ol' inkin'. This one is for my buddy John Lopez's EP coming out soon. I always thought Krang was very creepy when I was younger so it was fun to reinvent him in sort of the way I saw him as a kid.

Art Walk live painting

This Thursday I got to paint live with my buddy/artist Alex Gardner, at Artwalk in downtown Los Angeles. It was great to have to think on the spot, and combine different styles in only two hours, a big change from the long, non-collaborative direction my paintings usually take. 

I think there will definitely be a full, extensive piece involving both of us in the future. But for now we will be collaborating in a different way. We are both involved in a small group show at tinyStage gallery in Culver City, opening November 5th, titled 'Local Color'. Facebook Event page.

Don Draper Munny

So I recently finished up my first Munny sculpture. It was a tough process but I owe a lot of the tips I received to the amazing Kevin Gosselin. I can not wait to do more of these after I get a few painting's done. If interested inquire at GrayCurran[at]gmail.com.

Crazy4Cult 5

Crazy4Cult 5 is now viewable online

Punxsutawney Murray
Acrylic on canvas. 18 x 24 inches.

Crazy4Cult 5 will remain up until July 30th, 2011.

Punxsutawney Murray
Acrylic. 18 x 24 inches

Next week is Crazy4cult 5! Above is my piece for the show inspired by Groundhog Day, one of my favorite films.

Crazy4Cult 5 opens July 8th at 7pm. See you there!

Prints are 12x16 inches on fine art paper.
Edition of 25. $20/each

Available here

Father's day commission.

I just finished a commissioned piece for Father's Day; in it is their two young daughter's who are obsessed with mermaids. I just delivered it this morning and it couldn't have gone to a better home. I also met the girls, I got a little confused when they didn't actually have mermaid tails, but then again I did just spend a run of 10 hour days in the studio.

Below are a few close ups.

A very busy and very fun weekend...

Back Street Boy's pose at Raw's Interactive. courtesy of
www.benmillerphoto.com

On Thursday night I was in downtown Los Angeles for Raw's show "Interactive" at the Elevate lounge. the place was amazing and I had a great time. I met a lot of nice people and everyone involved in putting on the event couldn't have been more kind to me. Below is a little video after I had set up, a few hours before the door's opened.



On Friday was the Wet Hot American Summer tribute show at Gallery 1988, Venice. It was my first time showing and visiting that location and I have to say they are in an awesome spot, right in between a record store and a 24 hour coffee shop. But beside the great location, the event was amazing. David Wain, Joe lo Truglio and Ken Marino were all in attendance. Although I didn't get to meet them I heard from a friend that they both enjoyed my depiction of their characters from the film. I couldn't have been happier to hear that since I am a huge fan of those dudes. A big thanks to Jensen Karp, Katie and all the Gallery1988 crew for including me in, and putting on such a great show.

My piece from the show:
"You're ok by me"
Acrylic. 11 x 14 inches

I am also extremely excited to announce that I will be in Crazy4cult 5 at Gallery1988 in July. I remember dreaming about being in this show since I started going to it a few years ago. My piece will be a Bill Murray tribute, because if you get a chance to paint Bill Murray living the same day over and over, you take it.