Natalia Fabia’s New Girls Girls Girls in Glitter

Last we heard of young oil painter Natalia Fabia, she was into Kawaii hookers. For her New York debut, there’s been research, mainly photo-ops of glitter-smothered burlesque-ish dolls enjoying themselves around Manhattan and Brooklyn and having a festive, “dirty and rough” time until their showers felt like sparkles and rainbows came through their window, we presume. Fabia’s going for a bit of a “punk” theme, but girly-girlier. So if you’re into the whole party with your leopard pant-clad crotch in confetti thing, this is your thing:  “Punk Rock Rainbow Sparkle,” Natalia Fabia, Jan 14 – Feb 11, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NYC

Daffy Dementia: Face-Melting Cartoon Paintings by Sam Gibbons

Baltimore-based artist Sam Gibbons unleashes a hellish toon trip onto his custom-cut acrylic panels. Watch the tangle of limbs weave through jigsawed, cannibalistic orgies and loop in and out of disintegrating facial orifices of classic animation’s heroes. Gibbons’ latest series of psychedelic Roschach pieces reference the early work of Bob Clampett (Porky Pig, etc.), Tex Avery (Daffy Duck, etc.) and Charles Manson (Sharon Tate, etc.). “Directed by Kilroy,” Sam Gibbons, Dec 10 – Jan 7, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York

The Modern American Tomb of Brand Bling and Kitsch

At first, this chest of fancy Apocalypse “prepper” gear and a skeleton “burried” with Coca-cola, Jack Daniels, Marlboros, Adidas, a Leica, a Fender, a Rolex, a Colt 45 and the Bible seem… ostentatiously cynical about branding fetishism. Yet, since their maker, Jersey-dwelling Dylan Egon, is comfortably employed in design and luxury photography, I’m not sure why he’s wallowing in the excess of this imagery. Self-satisfaction? Self-loathing? See it up close at “Home of the Brave,” Dylan Egon, Sep 10 – Oct 8, Jonathan LeVine Gallery I, NYC

The long-awaited new “royal” models of the Seattle-based artist Mike Leavitt’s Art Army have arrived and they’re very a-HA!-worthy. The lil Ai Weiwei wielding a cellular dick, the orange Christo mutant with a teeny Jeanne-Claude peaking out of his chest, the Barbara Kruger with the Kim-Kardashian-a-la-Barbara Krugered body… Brilliant. Peruse! Read more »

Dan Witz Mosh Pits and Cell-Lit Portraits at Jonathan Levine

Brooklyn-based artist Dan Witz’s new show opened last night, so you can go and get a close up gander at those hyperreal paintings of mosh pits, yuppie swarms and rat herds. Also on view: new trompe l’oeil portraits of friends – gagged, masked and cellphone screen illuminated chiaroscuro-style. Read more »

Gary Baseman’s Lil Miss Boo and Giant Heart Worship

Meet Lil Miss Boo. She’s a little girl in a ghost costume. For the first time ever, Gary Baseman comes out as a collector of vintage photos (represent!) and incorporates his favorite visuals into this work. He’s packing 2000 olde pics. The artist’s latest show is all about “breaking through imposed limitations” and bringing mud monsters to life… and little golden details. “Walking Through Walls,” Gary Baseman, Mar 5 – Apr 3, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NYC

Ray Caesar’s Gentle Cruelty and Child Huntresses

For years – until a photograph of a murdered child made him quit – Ray Caesar worked in the photo department of the Hospital for Sick Children, documenting injuries and signs of abuse. The bruised muses come back as vengeful huntresses with teeth and tentacles in Caesar’s exquisite paintings… and Precious is not masturbating; she’s pretending to give birth, as artists do. “A Gentle Kind of Cruelty,” Ray Caesar, Jan 22 – Feb 19, Jonathan Levine Gallery, NYC

Jonathan Levine Gallery presents: Spray-painted cardboard cities by EVOL, fluorescent faces by Judith Supine, peculiar little girls from self-taught surrealist Lola, and other new work from thirteen emerging artists. Gander at digital dreams, neon explosions and dandelion Lilliputians in the preview below. Read more »

Dave Cooper Likes His Ladies Blobby, Veiny and Violent

Jonathan LeVine Gallery presents: new works by Ottawa-based artist Dave Cooper. His twisted, gelatinous, dimply females and landscapes are a result of careful layering of sheer color and fine glaze and the artist’s doting fetishism for lady blob. Read more »

Cali-based artist Jeff Soto’s gets autobiographical for his third solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, with a site-specific mural in the city and canvases full of colorful industrial desolation and sky-boat monster escapes. Also: the fuzziest car crash you’ve ever seen. Check out a few works below. Read more »