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December 26 --
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-- -- Last year's Christmas card from JSH is featured in a Courier-Journal article in the December 25 issue, all about artists who send out unique and homemade holiday cards. Ironically, this year JSH mailed out no cards, only an e-mail greeting which apologized for its own existence while also plugging the in-progress Panola book.
December 6 --
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-- -- The Cinderblock Gallery now has a collection of photos (taken by Alan Evil) of the recent Twenty Dollar Art Fair. This pic is of JSH's wall space, where he had two boxes of handmade art cards, copies of the Crapcolux Smell of Sharpies book, leftover Retrocognition postcards, and his Sock Monkey fine-art t-shirts.
November 27 --
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-- -- Well, it's been over a month since we've heard any new JSH news, so we went straight to the source and asked what's up: check out his reply here.
October 24 --
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-- -- Today we received a copy of The Smell of Sharpies, an ultra-limited edition miniature art book of images from JSH's art cards series. The book is published by something called Crapcolux which, judging by the Louisiana postmark, we're assuming is a spinoff of Moist Doorknob. No contact address or ordering information came with the item.
October 21 --
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-- -- According to jeffreyscottholland.com, the name of the upcoming 2006 performance art tour is Dark Observatory, and the title of the March exhibition in Lexington is Acrylic and Ectoplasm. We had to Google it to learn that ectoplasm is a theoretical substance said to be a residue of manifestation of ghosts.
October 14 --
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-- -- On March 17, 2006, JSH's first solo exhibit in Lexington, KY since 2003's Desperate Telegrams will open at the Limelight Gallery. No other details yet, not even the name of the exhibit.
October 13 --
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-- -- On Tuesday, October 18th, JSH will be interviewed on Lexington's Z-Rock 103 FM morning show, sometime during the 8:00 hour.
October 10 --
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-- -- Exclusive! During the recent St.James Art Fair in Louisville (and The St.James Un-Fair, its outsider neighbor), JSH roamed the sidewalks hawking primitive handmade postcards, of which we have a gallery of images here!
October 5 --
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-- -- JSH now has two pieces in Modern Monster, a group exhibition from the Blah Blah Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Other name artists include Lisa Petrucci, Sharon Leong, Richard Mullins and Gus Fink.
October 4 --
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-- -- The latest issue of the Louisville Guide has a great article on JSH, and he's already got images of it up on his website here.
September 27 --
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-- -- Images of ten selected works from the Retrocognition show can now be found on jeffreyscottholland.com.
September 23 --
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-- -- Retrocognition opens tonight at the Gish! The doors open at 6pm and close at 10, with after-party action said to be happening at both Seidenfaden's and the Red Lounge.
September 19 --
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-- -- A sneak preview of a previously unseen painting, Bringing the Country to the City: Portrait of Ron and Sarah Whitehead, can be seen on tappingmyownphone.com.
September 16 --
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-- -- The long-overdue new issue of Bejeezus magazine is finally out, and well worth the wait. It includes a nice interview with JSH..... we have an image of it here.
September 11 --
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-- -- JSH's website has been updated with a new area devoted to the Retrocognition show, and the "Coming soon" link now points to a teaser page for the nude photography exhibit Jefferson County Confidential.
September 9 --
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-- -- The new issue of LEO has an article on JSH, focusing mostly on Window Comics. You can view it on JSH's site here.
August 31 --
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-- -- JSH's Sock Monkey t-shirts are now also carried by Cherry Bomb, 1371 Bardstown Road in Louisville, and will soon also be available at the Jigsaw Gallery in NYC.
August 17 --
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-- -- The new promotional postcard for Retrocognition is out... we have a pic of the front and back here.
August 13 --
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-- -- The latest issue of the Louisville Guide is now out, with the latest installment of JSH's Unusual Kentucky column.
August 9 --
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-- -- JSH has been commissioned to do the cover artwork for David Mark Dannov's upcoming chapbook There Are Poets Who Live Amongst The Dead on Black Joke Press in Long Beach, California. We don't have a release date yet.
August 5 --
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-- -- The new JSH shirts are currently part of Kopilot's window display. We have pics here and here, thanks to Priscilla Summers. Did anyone take pics of the JSH organ performance at Cinderblock last night? And tonight's the opening of the Gish group show Worst Day on Earth!
August 4 --
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-- -- The first in an ongoing line of JSH clothing from Superfrothco has arrived! Two different versions of a shirt based on JSH's Sock Monkey painting are now available for 15.00 plus shipping. Check out the shirts at JSH's new gift shop page.
August 3 --
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-- -- The Stuckism/Remodernism show, also known as Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs, opens tonight at CBGB's 313 Gallery in NYC.
August 1 --
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-- -- We have pics here and here of JSH's performance with Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead earlier this evening at the Rudyard Kipling.
July 30 --
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-- -- JSH will be performing organ music at the Cinderblock Gallery again on Thursday, August 4th, as part of their "Cinderblock Drive-In Theater" event. JSH's live music will also be broadcast live on the gallery's low-power radio station.
July 22 --
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-- -- Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead's new CD When the Redbuds Bloom, featuring JSH as a guest musician, is now out and available in stores.
July 15 --
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-- -- A new interview with JSH will be published in the next issue of Bejeezus magazine, scheduled for release in about two weeks.
July 10 --
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-- -- According to gishart.org, in addition to his Retrocognition solo show at Gish Art, JSH will also be taking part in a group show there entitled Worst Day on Earth, which opens August 5th.
July 8 --
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-- -- The new Retrocognition show will open at the Gish Art gallery, 1121 E. Kentucky Street, on Friday, September 23. More details as they become known!
July 6 --
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-- -- We just noticed two new Artist's Statements on JSH's website. Our favorite part is where he describes his work as "Iconic imagery that personifies the mysteries of nature and life that probably can only be fully understood by those of us who entered puberty surrounded by haunted wilderness".
July 2 --
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-- -- JSH will be taking part in the group show Clair-Obscur this December at the L'Atrium de Chaville in France. JSH exhibited several paintings in this venue last summer in the We Are All Handicapped traveling exhibit.
June 28 --
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-- -- On August 1, 2005, JSH will be performing on guitar with Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead for her When the Redbuds Bloom CD release party. Also in the band will be bluesman Tyrone Cotton and bagpiper Karen McKenzie. The show starts at 9pm at the Rudyard Kipling in Louisville.
June 25 --
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-- -- The long-rumored Hasil Adkins album Night Life, produced by JSH, is finally due to be released soon.... we received an advance CD today and the track listing is: Night Life/Hunchin' The Town/Go Go Go/Take a Walk with Me/KFC/So Blue/C'mon Back Baby/Walkin' in the Garden with Amy/Raw Meat/Hills of West Virginia/Look What You Done/Alien Talk/Come to Me/Night Life Hunch/The Moon. Hasil is backed by JSH on organ, J.Todd Dockery on drums, and Brian Manley on mandolin and guitar.
June 21 --
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-- -- JSH has instituted Window Comics, an ongoing public art installation in which his hastily-drawn minimalist comics will be displayed in the window of his Louisville studio (1661 Story Avenue). The comics will be updated every Sunday, so keep an eye out if you happen to be walking by!
June 1 --
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-- -- The new issue of Mungbeing is out, with an article on JSH's Spunt paintings of Hasil Adkins. Also in this issue are Billy Childish, Gus Fink and Ella Guru.
May 31 --
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-- -- jeffreyscottholland.com reports that the ambitious Invisible Topography show, set inside an enormous wooden labyrinth, has been postponed until next summer. In its place, a new Louisville exhibit entitled Retrocognition will be announced soon.
May 23 --
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-- -- JSH will soon be the subject of a PBS mini-documentary segment. Filming will take place at his Butchertown art studio in a couple of weeks. More details as we learn them!
May 22 --
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-- -- The first installment of JSH's "Unusual Kentucky" column appears in the new issue of the Louisville Guide this week. Unfortunately, no online edition, but we hope to start an archive of scans here soon.
May 17 --
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-- -- You can now send e-cards with JSH artwork....... Click here! Currently available are Conversation with a Television, Bad Egg, Sock Monkey #1, Night Boat, and Clown Call.
May 8 --
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-- -- We have pics and set list from JSH's performance at the Cinderblock Gallery on May 6th.... click here.
April 28 --
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-- -- JSH's website has a special tribute page up for rockabilly wildman Hasil Adkins, who passed away a few days ago.
April 25 --
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-- -- JSH is now writing a monthly column in the Louisville Guide arts magazine. The column will deal with all the usual type of Kentucky-centric weirdness found on his Unusual Kentucky website, with an additional slant towards the arts. In addition to the column, he'll also be doing various other articles and reporting for the magazine.
April 22 --
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-- -- JSH will be a guest musician on Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead's next CD, scheduled for a summer release. Sherry Deatrick sent us this pic and this pic from rehearsals tonight at Sarah Elizabeth's home in the Highlands of Louisville. Scott Scarboro is on drums and percussion.
April 16 --
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-- -- The JSH Combo will be performing at the Cinderblock Gallery's 3rd Annual Rock Art show, opening on Friday, May 6th at 6pm. No word yet what the lineup will be. JSH took part in last year's show by exhibiting Devil Chef and Clown Eating Fried Chicken. We have pics of last year's opening archived here.
April 2 --
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-- -- The current issue of Louisville's The Guide arts magazine has an article about the Pulidora-Polishing Machine performance with Cynthia Norton.
April 1 --
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-- -- This week we received the first installment of Superfrothco's ongoing e-mail newsletter, which included a link to pics of the Clowns in Love opening reception in NYC.
March 27 --
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-- -- Just noticed a new feature on jeffreyscottholland.com called "Scrumbles", a page which highlights assorted sketches, scraps, doodles, unfinished works and other interesting junk laying around JSH's studio.
March 25 --
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-- -- Kew & Kew, a blog from Spain, gives props to JSH in yesterday's entry. Roughly translated: "Jeffrey Scott Holland paints clowns who smile with moon teeth, switchman ghosts hopping the train of the stragglers, Tom Waits imagining the music of the bones against the meat, Jack Kerouac placed before a cactus with such rigidity of expression that one does not know who is the writer, the cactus or the man. I admire he who knows how to draw, to grant music the power of speech, and the push of intuition."
March 22 --
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-- -- JSH will not be taking part in the Trainside Gallery's Red Show exhibit as originally announced. The piece intended for the show, Pondering the Angles, ended up being sold at the Clowns in Love show in NYC last month.
March 16 --
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-- -- Reportedly, some JSH artwork will be published this summer in Hopital Brut, the arts journal of Le Dernier Cri in France.
March 13 --
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-- -- Louisiana's Moist Doorknob Comics has announced that the next issue of Moist Doorknob Presents will be an all-JSH issue entitled "Existentialist Clown Comics", due out in April.
March 7 --
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-- -- On the evening of Wednesday the 9th, JSH will be appearing at a special Louisville open mic poetry reading with Ron & Sarah Whitehead, in tribute to Hunter S.Thompson, who grew up in the Highlands of Louisville. The event takes place at 7pm, The Rudyard Kipling, 422 West Oak Street.
March 6 --
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-- -- JSH's website now has a page about this Summer's Stuckism group show at the 313 Gallery in NYC's historic CBGB's. The show opens August 3rd.
February 22 --
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-- -- Today's edition of Columbia University's prestigious journal, the Spectator, features a review of the Clowns in Love exhibition. The online version is here.
February 20 --
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-- -- JSH has posted some pics of the Pulidora-Polishing Machine event on his own site. These pics, taken by graphic designer Nico Jorcino, can be found here.
February 19 --
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-- -- We have a few pictures here of last night's Cynthia Norton performance-art piece Pulidora-Polishing Machine, featuring JSH on guitar.
February 17 --
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-- -- British company Candyspace now offers Jeffrey Scott Holland artwork to be downloaded to your mobile phone or device! JSH is featured on the front page currently, but can always be found by perusing the site's "contributors" link. Check it out!
February 15 --
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-- -- Now there's even a web page devoted to his cat! Visit the Krampus the Cat page and learn all about this cute critter.
February 13 --
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-- -- According to Jigsaw Gallery curator Ben Jones, someone at the Clowns in Love show indicated that they saw a piece about the exhibition on television. Unfortunately, they left before Jones had a chance to get more information. Can anyone out there tell us which NYC television station aired the piece, and what was in it?
February 12 --
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-- -- JSH has dragged his website over to its own server and domain, so change your bookmarks to jeffreyscottholland.com.... things have been greatly expanded, but unfortunately the coverage there is still very limited, focusing primarily on his painting and not his many other creative pursuits. But we here at the Unofficial JSH website will continue to cover all JSH-related news, no matter how trivial!
February 11 --
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-- -- The Clowns in Love solo show opens tonight! It's at the Jigsaw Gallery, 526 E. 11th Street in NYC's East Village. World-infamous performance artist Grillo the Clown will be in attendance delivering Grillo-Grams, and Jay Leibowitz's short film Coulrophobia will be played on a computer monitor. This morning JSH's website has added a new artist's statement for the show, plus a page of selected images of some of the works with commentary. These pages will also be displayed on a computer monitor at the exhibition.
February 9 --
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-- -- JSH's Witch Sisters painting will be included in the group art exhibition Three Sisters, taking place at the Ch�teau de St. Fargeau just outside of Paris, France. The event takes place in May.
February 4 --
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-- -- Jeffrey Scott Holland will be performing guitar onstage with Cynthia Norton as part of her Pulidora-Polishing Machine performance art piece at the Louisville Visual Art Association's Watertower. The event is Friday, February 18 at 7pm and is free to the public.
January 29 --
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-- -- The Courier-Journal has a large feature on JSH and Unusual Kentucky in today's issue. Their online version is here.
January 28 --
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-- -- JSH is the guest on tonight's episode of My Poignant Moment, a Louisville public access TV program. It airs at 11:30pm on Insight Channel 98 and will be repeated in a couple of weeks.
January 23 --
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-- -- JSH will be participating in The Red Show, a group exhibit of works painted entirely in shades of red. The show will be at Trainside Gallery, 62 Wingate Street, Haverhill, MA, throughout April 2005.
January 17 --
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-- -- A press release for the upcoming Clowns in Love exhibit in New York City has been posted on JSH's website.
January 16 --
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-- -- The Deatrick Gallery website now has pics up of artwork from the Abandoned Art show, with snarky commentary by JSH that doesn't show up when viewed in Netscape for some reason.
January 14 --
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-- -- We just received some pics of the art hanging at JSH's Fragments of the 20th Century show in Somerville, MA.... they're posted here.
January 13 --
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-- -- JSH was interviewed intermittently for two hours this morning on WAVE-TV's "Sunrise" program. Topics discussed include his upcoming Invisible Topography show, local street performers Retrovirus & Opportunistic Infection, and the recent Abandoned Art show at Deatrick Gallery. We also got to see a brand new, just-finished JSH painting of a blue girl holding a voodoo doll.
January 11 --
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-- -- On Thursday morning, January 13, JSH will be a guest on Louisville's WAVE-TV "Sunrise" morning show.
January 10 --
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-- -- JSH has reached a deal with Frothco Vending for stickers, tattoos, and even miniature original art to be sold in vending machines in the KY/IN/OH area. The JSH vending machines will be lauched this Spring, and we soon hope to have a complete list of where they are!
January 3 --
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-- -- Two more lost SPUNT paintings have resurfaced! Dean Martin in Hell has been hanging for years in a beauty salon in California, and Portrait of the Clash hangs in the office of a Clear Channel executive! Says JSH: "I have no memory whatsoever of painting the Clash one, and am pleasantly surprised to see it. I was very depressed during that time", and regarding Dean: "As a private joke to myself, I painted Dean so he looked more like Joe Mantegna's portrayal of him in the Rat Pack movie".
January 2, 2005 --
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-- -- Today's edition of the Louisville Courier-Journal has a huge article about the Deatrick Gallery's upcoming Abandoned Art exhibit. JSH, who is curating the show, is interviewed. See the C-J's online version here. |
