Cliver Barker will be exhibiting his conceptual drawings for his upcoming film The Midnight Meat Train in the project room of Sloan Fine Art in New York from April 17 – May 10, 2008. These works are a rare glimpse at the Barker’s process and the birth of many of the ideas and characters included in the finished film.

Although best known as a successful novelist and filmmaker, Clive Barker has been creating and exhibiting his paintings and drawings for almost twenty years. In his deeply expressive paintings, Barker brings to life the landscapes and figures that inhabit his mind. His colors are bold, paint application thickly layered, and surfaces often scratched or sanded. The result is moody works that capture the emotion and mystery of Barker’s writing with color, texture and light.

Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England in 1952 and now lives in Los Angeles. When asked by an interviewer what he wanted (besides his name) on his tombstone, Clive Barker replied simply “Imaginer” as imagination is the force that brings his work into being, and the fuel that sustains his process.

The reception will be held on Wednesday, April 16th from 7 to 9 pm at Sloan Fine Art, 128 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002. For more information, call (212) 477-1140.

The artwork of Alex McVey is now available in the Horror Mall. You can buy McVey originals and prints. Alex McVey will be adding new prints and originals, so check his shop often to find that one of a kid original painting or affordable print to adorn your walls …

Check out the current artwork here: Alex McVey

Horror Mall has a cool piece of art that you can pick up for only $19.00. It’s a 13″x19″ Photo Archival print. Limited edition (limitation 500 copies). Deeper is copyrighted ©2006 by Alan M. Clark and can currently be seen as the cover art for James A. Moore’s Deeper, published by Necessary Evil Press. To learn more or pick up your own copy: Deeper

Alan Clark has painted the cover for Ken Rand’s upcoming novel, Pax Dakota (Five Star, May, 2008). Description: The Six Tribes beat the US Army and won their own nation — the Dakota — in the northern great plains of America’s Old West. The Pax Dakota has maintained peace between the USA and Dakota for 24 years, but as the 20th century dawns, that peace is about to shatter. Ancient spirit Old Enemy has escaped his medicine bundle prison. His relentless quest to return to the spirit world that cast him out in the Long Ago Time is renewed. Only Watcher, the spirit the First People created as Old Enemy’s jailer, can stop him. But Watcher can’t remember how to do it. Meanwhile, on the border between their nations, young runaway prostitute Etta Mae Dooley meets Joseph Thorn, a Dakota boy wracked with doubt and spiritual emptiness. As spirits watch and scheme, with the extinction of mankind at stake, the pair find themselves pawns in a deadly game they cannot win.

You can view Alan Clark’s cover art here: Pax Dakota

On Friday August 3rd at 7:00p.m. Dark Delicacies will hold a signing for Horror Artist Basil Gogos. Basil will be selling prints plus promoting his new T-shirt Phantom of the Opera full-color from the cover of his book. He will also be selling his hardback art book Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil Gogos

Dark Delicacies is located at 4213 West Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505 and can be reached for further information at (818) 556-6660 or via e-mail at Dark Delicacies

Centipede Press is now accepting pre-orders for Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, a unique art book available in a cloth slipcase edition and leather deluxe edition. This huge tome features over forty artists including JK Potter, HR Giger, Raymond Bayless, Ian Miller, Virgil Finlay, Lee Brown Coye, Rowena Morrill, Bob Eggleton, Allen Koszowski, Mike Mignola, Howard V. Brown, Michael Whelan, Tim White, John Coulthart, John Holmes, Harry O. Morris, Murray Tinkelman, Gabriel, Don Punchatz, Helmut Wenske, John Stewart, and dozens of others.

The field has never seen an art book like this – indeed, it is an art anthology unlike anything ever published before. Many of these works have never before seen publication. Many are printed as special multi-page fold-outs, and several have detail views. The book is filled with four color artwork throughout, all of it printed full page on rich black backgrounds. A special thumbnail gallery allows you to overview the entire contents of this 400-page book at a glance, with notations on artist, work title, publication information, size, and location, when known.

Cloth edition in slipcase: $395. Leather edition in traycase: $2,000. To pre-order: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft

On Saturday April 7th at 2 p.m. Dark Delicacies will host a signing for Artist/Photographer Jeffrey Scott signing his new art book Visions From Within the Mechanism: The Industrial Realism of Jeffrey Scott.

Joining him will be Author Dan Madigan signing his nonfiction book on Mexican wrestling entitled Mondo Lucha A Go-Go. Plus Rafael Navarro signing his book Lucha Noir.

Dark Delicacies is located at 4213 West Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505 and can be reached for further information at Dark Delicacies