Controversial Italian Surrealist painter Saturno Buttò returns to Los Angeles with his solo exhibition “Silent Opera” at the Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery in West Hollywood, California on Saturday, June 2, 2007. A reception with the artist and performances by opera sopranos will commence at 5:00 p.m.



Buttò is known for creating lush, photorealistic paintings that resemble High Renaissance sacred paintings, but are concerned with subversive subject matter. Several of the paintings in the exhibition were inspired by the work of the notorious French body artist Gina Pane and the writings of the American feminist scholar Camille Paglia.



“I am Italian and Italians are divided people,” states Buttò. “Camille Paglia wrote that civilized society is constantly at war with the forces in human nature that create sex, power, and control. Italian Catholicism attempted to tame these forces, but did so by appealing to pagan visual needs. Italian sacred painting, while attempting to exalt the spiritual, became the most saturated, sensual, decadent, and pagan artwork in history.”



Since completing his formal training at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts in 1980, Buttò has exhibited in several dozen gallery and museum shows throughout Europe. His work created a sensation in European art markets and was met with controversy wherever exhibited.



I first came across Saturno's work by pure chance at the New York Art Expo in 1999. He immediately became one of my biggest inspirations and later, a friend. I'm honored to mention that there are new drawings of me at in this show, in addition to his many astounding oils. If you're near LA on Saturday, don't miss this chance to see Saturno Butto's brilliant work in person.

Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery is located at 414 N. Robertson Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90048.

Last Sunday, while languidly drawing at Doctor Sketchy, I had the pleasure of boozing up with one Curse Mackey.

Curse, you see, plays in Pigface and is the creative director of Action Arts Agency. It seems he's put together a rather interesting-sounding art exhibit, Six-String Masterpieces, which debuts this Friday at La Luz De Jesus in Los Angeles.

If you're near LA this weekend and enjoy things like art and RAWK, you must check this out. I know I'll be there.

And, of course, i wouldn't leave you without just a few samples of what you'll see at the show, my lovely picture-hungry vultures.

Bob Tyrell


Mark Ryden


Rob Zombie


Daniel Martin Diaz


Paul Booth



Zoetica Ebb is a painter, SG style technician, make up artist, alt. model, photgrapher & occasional cosmonomad. For further details, visit Zoetica's member page, or her portfolio website, BioRequiem.

The Jail Gallery presents a collection of art from seven fascinating young women. Loosely focused around the number 7, playful madness, sexuality and dreams, the works are as diverse and unique as the artists themselves.

Jennybird Alcantra's unhinged fairy tale works have been likened to those of Salvador Dali.


Award-winning neo-victorian illustrator Molly Crabapple founded Doctor Sketchy's Anti-Art School in New York.


Naomi Nowak was born in Stockholm, and creates phantasmagoric creatures and dreamscapes in her paintings and comic books.


Genevive Zacconi specializes in meticulously styled macabre oils and runs the Trinity Gallery in Philadelphia.


In addition to her intricate & eerie art, Kansas-born Kristen Ferrell has a darkly whimsical fashion line.


Camilla Taylor, whom you know as Roethke here on SG, makes perversely odd dolls and prints that embrace dissatisfaction with adulthood, and has a line of vegan erotic fashion.


I'm thrilled to be curating and showing my work. My paintings are best descibed as otherworldly, and could be glimpsed here.


The concept: "Once upon a time, seven maidens were locked in a turn-of-the-century jail. They were daughters of nobles, kidnapped by henchmen of a wealthy sheik. He hoped to take them back to his far-away palaces as wives, but first they had to be 'purified' in the jail's asylum. They endured captivity and savage electro-shock therapy, both meant to cure them of their deviant artistic inclinations. It was no use - fueled by electricity and suffering, our madness prevailed, and now the Jail opens its doors as a glorious monument to the work we've created."

Jail Gallery was founded in 2006 by Lisa Nardoni (Maria Mars).
It's a brand-new space downtown LA specializing in current voices of contemporary art.

The opening reception for Seven Brides Electrified will be held this Saturday April 7th, 2007 at 7pm, and is sure to be a sensational affair!

213.621.9567 --- thejailgallery.com
Jail Gallery
965 North Vignes Street Suite 5a
Los Angeles, CA 9001

Zoetica Ebb is a painter, SG style technician, alt. model, photgrapher & occasional cosmonomad. For further details, visit Zoetica's member page, or her portfolio website, BioRequiem.

Diagrams and maps are, by nature, kinda boring visually. However, Aaron Meshon is a contemporary illustrator and painter who adds spark and innovation into all of his work, particularly those handling geograpic subject matter.


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Using his charming painting style and playful perspective, he picks the key quirks and details of a region and whips them into his unique map illustrations.


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From The New York Daily News:
The Neue Galerie on Fifth Ave in NYC, a museum dedicated to German and Austrian art, acquired an original Klimt painting recently for $135 million, "the highest price ever paid for any work of art."

The Neue Galerie planned to offer those with disposable income a private glimpse for $50 but has since scrapped those plans. Thanks to SG news reader PointBlank for the update.


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The portrait is from 1907 and is a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of one of Gustav Klimt's patrons.