After months of work, years of big talk, and my assistant Melissa’s poor metacarpals, we’ve finally launched the brand new DrSketchy.com, v2.0! Each one of our 100+ Dr. Sketchy’s branches (from Akron to Zagreb) has a profile on our site, … Continue reading
Photo by Zoetica Ebb I love going big. At Lost Circus, thrown by Brooklyn’s mistress of decadence, Larisa Fuchs of Gemini and Scorpio, I’m creating giant photo booth installations of my art. You can truely step inside my paintings. Come … Continue reading
On July 23rd, the Pornsaints Exhibition opens at the Museum of Porn in Art in Zurich. Who Needs Eve When You Have Venus?, my portrait of April Flores, is included in the show and the catalog. You can pick up … Continue reading
Back in Mid June, I was lucky enough to design windows for my launch party at Atrium Boutique in Noho. It was a mad, glue fumed, 16 hour day kind of time, accomplished only with the whip cracking of one … Continue reading
+ My portrait of Amber Ray is in Jason D’Aquino’s group show, Lead Poisoning, at Last Rites Gallery. It opens this Saturday in NYC + New article on Chinashop, “Confessions of a Yarn Bomber”, about a fascinating street artist I … Continue reading
On July 4th, I’m going to be drawing for my favorite free speech crusaders, The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at Red, White and Brews. I also painted on some nifty Etnies sneakers (see half-done one above), which will be … Continue reading
On Saturday, I’m thrilled to be taking part in the Urban Arts Festival in Amsterdam! I’ll be doing a mini Dr. Sketchy’s at the Treehouse (1-2 pm), signing Scarlett Takes Manhattan (3:30 pm) and creating an installation of frolicking girlthings … Continue reading
My t-shirt line for Dirtee Hollywood is finally launching in my hometown! Friends, fashionistas, glittering girls, please join me at what is sure to be an epic party this Thursday. And compliment the window displays me, Melissa and Foley broke … Continue reading
Beautiful chanteuse and dear friend Kim Boekbinder is playing her last New York show, and I’ll be drawing squidbeasts there. — The third and final of a three month residency at Goodbye Blue Monday! Come see why hearts and minds … Continue reading
I’m too tired for copywriting more elegant than this, but the biggest Dr. Sketchy’s event ever is tomorrow, and we’d really like you there. Cause…
Join us for our biggest, most elaborate Dr. Sketchy’s event ever as we present… The Art Monkey’s Ball In the 1920′s, Parisian art students and models overtook the streets in the Bal des Qua’t’z’Arts It was a riotous, costumed end-of-the-semester … Continue reading
On May 12th, me and John Leavitt are launching The Puppet Makers, a rococo murder mystery, on DC’s Zuda imprint. To celebrate our major label debut, my friend and promo-juggernaut Jeff Newelt organized a party! On May 6, 7-10pm, please … Continue reading
For the last few months, me and Kim Boekbinder have been collaberating with fabulous Aussie animator Jim Batt to make an animated music video for Kim’s song “The Organ Donor’s March.” Tomorrow, we’re letting you guys peek in on our … Continue reading
If you weren’t able to see me speak about social media at SMartCAMP, beloved video gods Panman Productions got some video. Click hear me talk about Kickstarter, Amanda Palmer, and “annoying people constantly” Click to Play
DIY Days from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo. On April 3rd, I’m going to be speaking at DIY Days, a free, roving conference for those who create. DIY DAYS – fund :: create :: distribute :: sustain How do we sustain … Continue reading
Last week, upon realizing that I could no longer close my flat files because of surplus art, I had an open studio. My friends and twitter followers drank aviation cocktails and got to buy inky goodness. Cameo dress generously gifted … Continue reading
I’m thrilled to be exhibiting two small acrylic paintings at Giant Robot Gallery’s Small Favors Show in NYC. It’s opening on Saturday, and hope to catch some of you there post-Dr. Sketchy’s! Here’s Millie!
For the last few months, I’ve been working on my own t-shirt line with the rockstars at Dirtee Hollywood, and next week we’re finally welcoming my babies into the world. Thursday, March 18, 2010 Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm Location: Fred … Continue reading
Dear Comrades, As I type this, I’m sitting in La Guardia airport waiting to fly down to Austin for the tech-orgy of SXSWi. Here are my plans. —- Pasties and Pastries! Join Dr. Sketchy from 10:30pm to Midnight this Friday … Continue reading
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. Called "An emblem of the way art can break out of the gilded gallery" by the New Republic, she has drawn in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Dhabi's migrant labor
camps, and with rebels in Syria. Crabapple is a columnist for VICE, and has written for publications including The New York Times, Paris Review, and Vanity Fair. Her illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood, will be published by Harper Collins in 2015. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
