Comments on: A young artist self-destructs

By: william hessian

william hessian — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:17:51 +0000

it seems the only people who read what art critics say are artists themselves.

i appreciate Gabe’s attack of the art world, ebay, craigslist, etsy (even though no work remains on etsy). i also really like Gabe’s work on its own merits.

i also think the Juxtapoz movement is an extremely important art movement, although i think its dissapating from niche and bleeding into main stream visual art. i toss away my art in america and my art news to read Juxtapoz. It is much more inspiring to me, and has more fresh ideas and visual imagery that speaks to me far more effectively then most of the stuck up high end art that critics typically like to drool over.

i am interested in this article. and will be reading the next installment.

william hessian (www.williamhessian.com)

By: Gabe Combs

Gabe Combs — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:15:04 +0000

ebay is linked in the right hand column of the blog.

By: Alex Ness

Alex Ness — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:14:20 +0000

I mean I very much LIKE the movement not AM like the movement.
shit.

By: Alex Ness

Alex Ness — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:12:25 +0000

I love Gabriel Combs work and I am very much like the Juxtapoz low brow movement.

I also like tons of other movements and artists, but art is art, it rocks.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:26:38 +0000

I thought you had stopped drinking… But sure, next beer’s on me.
As for slams, I don’t mean what I say to be criticism. While I’m not a Juxtapoz fan, there’s much in your work that I do like, and I admire your artistic quest. I just think people should know what’s going on–no punches pulled. This post was meant just to set up some background.
I stand corrected on the pass-around incident.
As for your other comment, I was intending to post that information in a follow-up post, so I’ll save it till then…

By: Chris Rywalt

Chris Rywalt — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:02:02 +0000

Combs is doing a brisk business selling his paintings on eBay. Although he’s not quite savvy enough to actually link to his eBay sales from his blog. Clearly he won’t get rich any time soon but he’s sold over $200 this March so far — not bad and way better than I ever did (it took me two years to sell two hundred drawings on eBay). He’s got plenty of bidders, too. Very impressive.

By: Gabe Combs

Gabe Combs — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:05:13 +0000

bwah hahaha… you owe me a pitcher of beer at the next artistic drink off…

looking back, i suppose i cannot complain about your slams… and the drawing at that bar was passed around by sam, to whom i’d just sold it to. i would’nt have had the gumption at that point to pass around anything to the previous generation of artists/critics being glenn, ann, and yourself. in fact, i was embarassed to have it go around. i still have two weeks until evict, not having paid rent since nov. are we even yet?