Abandoned on the steps of a Baptist Church in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, Gin Stevens Art career was born. Gin has been influenced by the deep southern culture that had surrounded him at an early age. Upon turning seventeen he took the Greyhound north for Chicago carrying with him dreams of enrolling at The Art Institute of Chicago. Where he soon found out that school was not for him and opted for the punk rock theory of doing it yourself.
His work has echoes of certain literary and musical archetypes: the visionaries and hucksters that populate Flannery O’ Connor’s Gothic southern landscape or the fevered imaginations that drive Faulkner’s characters, along with the songs of early Delta Blues musicians such as Charley Patton or Son House. The work is done all on scratchboard a primitive style of etching. Here he captures the mood of the dark and mysterious history of the south with haunting beauty.
Gin now resides in Los Angeles where he has been creating work for private commission, album covers, and rock posters on top of also showing his art over the past several years at galleries such as the world famous La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, Californa.
PAST EXIBITIONS
September 2006 "The Igloo Tornado" Black Maria Gallery,Atwater,Ca(Group Show)
June 2006 "666 Beat the Devil Group Show" La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
June 2006 "The Devil Made me Do It" BaseWerks Gallery, Culver City, CA
March 2006 "Survival of the Fittest" Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
March 2006 "Everything but the Kitchin Sink"La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
December 2005 "Murder Ballads" La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ( two person w/ Alan Forbes)
October 2005 " The Coffin Show" Black Maria Gallery,Atwater,Ca(Group Show)
July 2005 "Macho Bullshit" Black Maria Gallery,Atwater,Ca(Group Show)
June 2005 "Bergamont Invasion" Copro Nason Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca(Group Show)
May 2005 "Hobo" Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles, CA(Two Person Show)
March 2005 "Everything but the Kitchin Sink"La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
April 2004 “Lay Me Low” Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo show)
March 2004 “ Everything but the Kitschen Sync” La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
August 2003 “ Two Man Show with Alan Forbes” Thee Parkside San Francisco, CA (two person show)
July 2003 “ Blessing of the Cars” Los Angeles (Car show/Group show)
March 2003 “Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artist” La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
Febuary 2003 “ African American Folktales” Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo show)
March 2002 “ Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artist” La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
Febuary 2002 “Cars, Guitars, and Lowbrow Art” Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL (group show)
January 2002 “ Wise Blood” Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo show)
July 2001 “Metacarpal Blues” La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (two person show)
March 2001 “Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artist” La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
May 2000 “Burning Brush Art Auction ..3” The Bigfoot Lodge, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
March 2000 “ Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artist” La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
October 2000 “Burning Brush Art auction 3000” The Bigfoot Lodge, Los Angeles, Ca (group show)
September 1999 “ Burning Brush 1” The Bigfoot Lodge, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
August 1999 “ Four Man Show” La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (four man show)
March 1999 “ Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artist” La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
Febuary 1999 “730 Day Blues” Galaxy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo show)
June1998 “Going Home” Benway Records, Las Vegas, NV (solo show)
January 1998 “ From The Cradle to the Grave” Lulu’s Beehive, Studio City, CA (solo show)
Benefit Shows: No red ribbons 2001,2002,2003 La Luz De Jesus Gallery Freelance: Soda and his million piece band, John “Juke” Logan, AFI, Mars Volta, Mainstream Records, Windswept, Rockland, Virgin Records, Lift Ticket,