This painting "Rat Face" was featured at an exhibition at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery

 This painting "Rat Face" was featured at an exhibition at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery

About La Luz de Jesus Gallery

Established in 1986 La Luz de Jesus Gallery is the brainchild of entrepreneur and art collector Billy Shire, considered primarily responsible for fostering a new school of California art and prompting JUXTAPOZ Magazine to dub him “the Peggy Guggenheim of Lowbrow.”

Showcasing mainly figurative, narrative paintings and unusual sculpture, the exhibitions are post-pop with content ranging from folk to outsider to religious to sexually deviant. The gallery’s objective is to bring underground art and counter-culture to the masses. Past shows have been groundbreaking, exhibiting artists, such as Manuel Ocampo, Joe Coleman, and Robert Williams.

Whether you’re a private collector, museum curator, set decorator, interior designer, or seeking art for a corporate or professional setting, La Luz de Jesus Gallery can find you exactly what you want. With La Luz de Jesus Gallery's worldwide network of contacts, we can locate and acquire work from the world’s most sought-after contemporary artists via our Art Advisor Service.

Here's one of my paintings from 2014.  "Rat Face" was inspired by classic cartoons and rubber hose era animation. I love the old Betty Boop and Fleischer Brothers animation style. Warner Brothers and Ub Iwerks also had a great style in the 1920s and 1930s. Even the comics and newspaper strips had this look and feel. They are very fun and playful but also have a very creepy feel as well.

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Frank Forte Bio

Frank Forte is an accomplished designer, storyboard artist and comic book artist. Frank’s film and TV credits include:Lovecraft Country, Fantasy Island, Solar Opposites, Dreamwork’s 3Below, Bob’s Burgers, Insidious 4, Lego: Guardians of the Galaxy, Despicable Me 2, Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out, The Super Hero Squad Show, Marvel Heroes 4D, and Lego Hero Factory. Frank’s comic book credits include: Heavy Metal Magazine, Bob’s Burgers, Warlash, DTOX, Zombie Terrors and Chicken Soup For Satan among others.

In Frank’s spare time he paints.  Influenced by classic cartoons and comic books, Frank’s paintings are an assemblage of inspiration from what he grew up watching on TV and reading in comic books. Trying to capture the feeling and emotion of a moving cartoon on a flat canvas, Frank’s work incorporates horrific and twisted subjects in disturbingly bizarre situations.  His work has been exhibited at the La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Copro Gallery, Corey Helford Gallery, CASS Contemporary, Dark Art Emporium, Arch Enemy Arts, Phone Booth Gallery, Night Gallery Fine Arts, Cannibal Flower, LTD. Gallery and Hyaena Gallery.

Frank is also the publisher at Asylum Press (www.asylumpress.com), an indy graphic novel and comic book publisher. Asylum Press is a publishing company that produces premium comic books and graphic novels within the horror, science fiction, and action genres.

CUPHEAD in THE DEATH OF CUPHEAD "CUP CREATURE'" Humor Comedy Animation Parody Funny

CUPHEAD in THE DEATH OF CUPHEAD "CUP CREATURE'" Humor Comedy Animation Parody Funny #BettyBoop #Cuphead #Parody BETTY BOOP & CUPHEAD have an animated cartoon adventure in FUNLAND-and it doesn't end well. Enjoy our fun misadventures of CUPHEAD and the MANY DEATHS OF CUPHEAD Directed by Max Iwerks Animation by Nudders Backgrounds by Fritz Crandall Cuphead: Jack Beauchamp CHECK OUT OUR OTHER ORIGINAL CARTOONS: Check out our ALL NEW ORIGINAL CARTOON The Very Short career of Mr. Piggie Von Pigglesworth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC4oh... Check out our BRAND NEW original Cartoon- COSMIC KANDI's Like TOTAL EDM VLOG! Ep.3 "Club Aquarius" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz4wh... NEW VIDEO UPLOADED-ANIME ANIME-KILL LA KILL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vz7C... Cuphead in "NERVOUS" a new Parody Vintage Cartoon Humor Comedy Animation Funny Video Game Gamer Cuphead is a 2017 run and gun video game developed and published by StudioMDHR. The game was inspired by the rubber hose style of animation used in cartoons of the 1930s, such as the work of Fleischer Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios, and sought to emulate their subversive and surrealist qualities. Cuphead features one or two players taking control of animated characters Cuphead and his brother Mugman to fight through several levels that culminate in boss fights, in order to repay their debt to the devil. The game was praised for its art style and noted for its challenging difficulty. It was both a critical and commercial success, winning several awards and selling over five million copies within two years. An animated series based on the game is in production by Netflix. Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising. A caricature of a Jazz Age flapper, Betty Boop was described in a 1934 court case as: "combin[ing] in appearance the childish with the sophisticated—a large round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button, framed in a somewhat careful coiffure, with a very small body of which perhaps the leading characteristic is the most self-confident little bust imaginable". Despite having been toned down in the mid-1930s as a result of the Hays Code to appear more demure, she became one of the best-known and popular cartoon characters in the world. _______

 

new painting--Crazy Face and the Brain Popper

New painting for La Luz de Jesus Aug. 2014 show

Frank Forte – Crazy Face and the Brain Popper

Frank Forte – Crazy Face and the Brain Popper

Frank Forte – Crazy Face and the Brain Popper

Frank Forte – Crazy Face and the Brain Popper

Frank Forte – Crazy Face and the Brain Popper

Frank Forte – Crazy Face and the Brain Popper, Acrylic and ink on board 2014, 9.5 x 12 in. (11.5 x 14 in. framed), $500.00

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