SPINN LIKE FINN!

Satirical Illustration in Response to privatization of Memphis Sanitation

This was done in response to  efforts by Kemp Conrad and Reid Hedgepeth to Privatize Memphis Sanitation and disregard the struggles that took place here in 1968.

© Paul Garner 2011

Phone Banking For H.O.P.E. Initiative Starts tonite! Volunteers Needed!

Just a reminder to folks, Phone Banking around the initiative to end homelessness begins tonight at 630 pm  @ the Mid-South Peace & Justice Center, We will begin to call most likely voters across the city to place calls of support of funding this plan to end homelessness to their elected officials. YOU CAN HELP-PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!


More info: Contact Brad Watkins, coordinator at MSPJC (901) 725-4990 or by email at brad@midsouthpeace.org

PERSONAL POLITIKS: Artwork by Sally Caraway & Paul Garner

Sat April 30, the Dairy House in Memphis will host a one night exhibition of work by local artists, Sally Caraway and Paul Garner. Both are Louisiana natives and make work that deal with social, political, and environmental issues. The showing begins at 7 pm and is scheduled to end at 9 pm.

BFA PAINTING:

(Photos thanks to Live from Memphis!)

 CAIRO 2 MEMPHIS

Brochure Art for Nashville Rally, March 15

artbutcher: From Cairo 2 Memphis

artbutcher: From Cairo 2 Memphis

Viva Louisiana! "Oil Spilz/Money Kilz"

From Cairo to Egypt...

a flyer i  created for a note-worthyMemphis event...

the past year (2010)

heres just a few things that I completed in the last year...more to come!

 virtual reality

 home-less

window to the world

Leadbelly

a couple portraits of my home town hero, i've done many...

DONT FORGET YOUR DINOSAUR

Heres some work I' ve been doing for a Shreveport-based band......

DONT FORGET YOUR DINOSAUR!

check em' out...

DFYD

Heres some pictures of a house I covered in paintings in an condemned memphis neighborhood...

This house and the surrounding neighborhood have since been bulldozed to the ground...

Older work...

guess im gonna try and start this page off with some of my work from the past few years and just add from there, so, enjoy....

Heres just a few things from 2006, my freshman year in art skool...

These are some of my first real "paintings" from 2007 i think. they're poster size and painted using various materials on some newsprint i found in a dumpster by my old apartment in Shreveport, Louisiana...

 

and heres some fotos from afew more of my pieces from this time period...

moving a little closer to the present...

A guitar I designed and painted for guitarist, Konnor Davis...

Randomness= from the past three years...

 

xmas...

 A few samples of some recent street art...

More to cum...