I’ve been working with Substance booking group for a while, specifically on RAN ART, an art contest/exhibition/event sponsored by Rainforest Action Network as part of their campaign concerning palm oil production. Kill the Vultures is headlining the show with Bouncer Fighter and the magnificent Phantom Tails. May 1st, 7pm at Tarnish&Gold Gallery in northeast Minneapolis. My artist collective Rogue Citizen is a co-sponsor of this event.

I’m working on finishing artwork for Disasteratti’s new album coming out on Learning Curve Records, and starting work on a concept album for emerging metal act We Are Legion due out in late summer.

Later on.. May 7, 7pm: Rogue Citizen is painting live and exhibiting new work at Altered Esthetics Gallery, northeast Minneapolis, as part of F.R.E.S.H., a show celebrating hip hop and urban art

May 14-16: Rogue Citizen is throwing up a mural on the side of Shuga Records, northeast Minneapolis, during Art-A-Whirl. It will be most killer. 70 bands in 3 days, and you can drink cold brews and hang out with us while we paint.

A recent poster/tshirt design for the Oklahoma Horror Film Festival

Rogue Citizen was invited last week to participate in Gimme Shelter: A Benefit Concert for Haiti, sponsored by City Pages and Gimme Noise, featuring Mark Mallman and Solid Gold; other artists included DWITT, Chuck U and Anthem Heart. Proceeds went to the Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund, and Architecture for Humanity. We painted live for the duration of the show, and in the end Evolution and Empire was auctioned for a lot more than we could have contributed ourselves.

Look for Rogue Citizen’s piece in Foot in the Door 4 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

An ambitious collaboration is under way between myself and Pramila Vasudevan of Aniccha Arts, dramatically expanding the concept and scale of the media/performance piece “Words to Dead Lips” shown last November at Pillsbury House Theater in Minneapolis. Aniccha Arts’ website currently features a segment of that piece via youtube.

Happy Christmahannakwaanzadon! Thanks for visiting us at the Holiday Art Show at Carleton Lofts in St Paul. Diverse artists, a little difficult to locate for some, but a rowdy bunch we are.

It’s almost 2010.

January 1: Public Consumption is going down in Minneapolis. I don’t know if you’re ready for it. Over forty paintings are deposited all over the city. If you find one of these, look on the back of the piece for the “Public Consumption” logo, and contact Rogue Citizen with comments, photos, video, and critiques concerning where you found it, what happened to it; what you did with it. All of this information will go in to a short documentary by Sam Thompson to be presented at the next FEAST grant event in February. Check out the trailer for it, set to a killer tune from Phantom Tails…

January 8: Living Painting with Phantom Tails! The Nomad World Pub is going to host a night of great bands with the wonderfully psychotic Phantom Tails capping it off. Rogue Citizen artists will be painting on a 5×5ft canvas live all evening (for sale via silent auction), and a collection of our work will be on the walls there for the month. This event requires your attendance. It is not optional. Come at 7pm for the art opening, stay until your socks are rocked.

January 9: Galactic Pizza on Lyndale Avenue, everyone’s favorite local/organic high-flying superhero establishment, will be hosting an opening for an exhibition of my work there, Precious Bodily Fluids. Show up at 9pm for a dollar off brews!

Keep an eye out during the year for another Rogue Citizen project… Exquisite Robot.

If you are interested in commissioning illustration or design work, or custom paintings, please use the contact page on this site, or email lizardmanart@gmail.com, and feel free to give me a ring.

Cheers,
Matt