LA LUZ de JESUS GALLERY

presents

DAVE McKEAN

Signing his many books and films, in anticipation of his new art exhibit:
New Works Inspired by Early Cinema on display with Nitrate and Kinogeists

Friday, February 12th, 2010
6 - 9 PM
at La Luz de Jesus Gallery

"I don't think there's anything Dave McKean cannot do as an artist.." - Neil Gaiman

Century Guild brings legendary multi-media artist Dave McKean to America for an extremely special and extremely limited engagement, presented first at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Silverlake, then at Billy Shire Fine Arts in Culver City.

First, on Friday, February 12th, Dave will be signing books, publications, CD & Album covers and DVDs from 6-9 PM at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, 4633 Hollywood Blvd., LA, CA 90046. (323) 666-7667.
For each item purchased at Soap Plant/Wacko/La Luz de Jesus, Dave will sign one additional item. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Then on Saturday, February 13th, Dave will appear in person to unveil his latest exhibition of fine art at BSFA, 5790 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232. (323) 297-0600.
The reception opens at 7 PM, and ends at 10 PM. The exhibit runs through March 6th.

"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 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 Friday, February 12, and Saturday February 13, for this must-see event!