A few things...

This is part of an upcoming watercolor series which was recently posted on meathaus.com. The show should be in the next few months and will consist of portraits, scenes and compositional pattern studies



Also some more things on the doodle blog Margin Detail:




-J

Scary Season

Getting in the mood in my sketchbook...

Happy Halloween!

-J

Strip for Lumpen Magazine

Lumpen magazine asked me to contribute to and edit the comics section of their newly redesigned publication. Here's my strip:



Thanks to Kyle Harter, Andy Burkholder, and Eric Ellis for contributing as well. If you would like to contribute comics for future issues please send some stuff to look at to joe.tallarico@gmail.com.

JT

Abrupt Spectral Displacement

New painting for the "My kinda town" Show @ rotofugi. Opened last friday, September 25th and will be there for a few weeks so drop by if you get a chance.


JT

Rock Mix!

If you know me personally then you probably know that i love collecting records and music, and that is something that I use to influence my art making. Well, My good pal Chris Devlin asked me to make a mix for his blog fully fitted. You can listen to what I put together here.

-J

See my doodles on margindetail.com

here's a couple doodles I recently posted on margindetail.com, a blog about doodles. Check there regularly for more by me and some other amazingly talented artists.

The Contemporary Dynamic

For the great Pittsburgh jazz musician and good friend Tony DePaolis. Ill re-post on where to get one when the album drops. From what I've heard so far it is groundbreakingly awesome.

-J

New Sketchbook

Got a new sketchbook that Im diggin on. Here's a taste:

A couple drawings from the hobo digest...

Just got back from vacation. More of these can be seen @ hobodigest.com as well as paintings up here soon.

-Joe

Out of Order

Here's a flyer I recently completed for Out of order, A Dj thing at the darkroom. Well, they asked me to do the flyer and here it is. Look for the details on their website.

Also, I have recently been appointed the position of art director, as well as contributing art to HoboDigest.com. A blog about all things Hobo. Look for daily writings and illustrations as well as art from other contributing artists.

Here's a taste:





-Joe

Painting for Simple Gallery Benefit

(you really gotta click it to make it bigger, blogspot makes terrible thumbnails)

This painting is called Melty Mondale III and will be auctioned off this saturday to benefit the Simple Gallery. The opening is at the Post Family space. Here is the info:

www.simplegallery.blogspot.com/

February 7th, 2009 Simple Gallery is hosting a benefit at The Post Family
at 1821 W. Hubbard Street Suite #202 in Chicago.
There will be an art auction with work by Amanda Browder, Jeffrey Brown, Eric May Brandon Heuser, Josh Howard, Tom Smith, Leslie Carlson, Jeremy Tubbs, Joe Tallarico. A musical performance by The Blue Ribbon Glee Club and video work by Adebukola Bodunrin, Jodie Mack, Camela Jean Christopher, Sara Jean Cough, Graham Calcagni and Emily Kuehn.
There will be some drinks and food and some special gifts! Come join us for a fabulous evening of art, friends and other great things!

If you are interested in bidding and cannot make it to the event, Please contact me directly and we will work something out.

Also, I am just going by Joe Tallarico now so deal with it. JT is fine.

Cartel Podcast on Nerdcityonline.com

Happy 2009! Been taking it easy over the holidays but working on some things again finally! Here's a podcast recorded a week ago featuring The Cartel, of which I am a member.

Here's a link to the audio!

Hilarity ensues guaranteed. Nerdcity is a cool website that you should look at everyday too.

So what I'm working on now is a painting for a benefit show for Simple gallery on Feb. 7th. Simple gallery will be my friend Dee Clement's new project and is really exciting, there will be lots of great art at the show and proceeds will go to finding the gallery a home. Check back here for more details and pictures of the painting soon.

-J