The Dark Art Society Podcast with Chet Zar

This week's podcast is just me talking about a big life change for me- I'm slowing down! The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Soc...

This week I interview Nick Sullo of the husband and wife digital art team Xsullo. We talk about his childhood artwork, getting into visual effects, dark art, getting into fine art, working on films, freelancing, NFTs, his unusual digital art technique, his wife's art direction and input, and tons more! Nick is a super nice guy and super talented artist who is helping to push art into the future! W...

This week I speak to digital 3D artist from Dennis Sibeijn who also goes by the name of DAMNENGINE. We discuss his growing up in the Netherlands drawing as a child, learning on a computer from a young age and eventually creating 3D animated loops to use for his job as a VJ, interning and getting a job as a motion graphics designer, freelancing, the dark art community on Twitter, creating dark art...

This week I interview Australian artist Ben Conallin. Ben is a newer artist on the scene. Despite having only been digitally painting for the last 3 1/2 years he has been creating some truly unique dark art. We talk about his early life and later start becoming an artist, his family art history, practicing relentlessly to teach himself how to digitally paint in a relatively short period, his artis...

This week I chat with artist Adi Granov. We talk about his childhood growing up during the Bosnian war, being forced to flee to America, going to art school, getting his first job for Nintendo, working at Marvel comics, helping to revive the Iron Man series, subsequently working on the Iron Man film, Working with TOOL and much more! It's an incredible artist with an incredible life story. Also: A...

This week I speak to an old artist friend, Jon Beinart. Jon is a successful artist and gallery owner and has been on the podcast once before (Ep. 117) but he wanted to come on to speak about the NFT world. His NFT project "Toddlerpillars" has been hugely successful, and Jon has a lot of experience with NFTs. Worth a listen whether you are interested in NFTs or not! This was a great and interesting...

This week I interview my old pal Bruce Mitchell. Bruce is an artist in the field of makeup effects and has also carved out a niche for himself in the fine art/dark art world with his intricately detailed functional " art masks". We discuss his childhood in northern California, interning to get his foot in the door of the film industry, his specialty career in makeup effect, his fine art masks and...

This week I catch up with the incredible dark artist/DAS member Jamie Wells! We talk about being a super shy kid growing up and how art helped her cope, choosing an artistic path, becoming a successful Twitch streamer, our mutual love of bugs, getting into NFTs and tons more! Another great conversation with a great artist! Jamies links: NFT Twitter: https://twitter.com/visiblejamie Insta: https://...

This week I speak with dark art painter and tattooer Dan Fisher. We have a great conversation about his art beginnings, from drawing as a kid, his tattoo apprenticeship and employment in the tattoo industry, his love of tattooing, his unusual fine art painting technique, the unique "entities" he paints and tons more! Dan is a great dude and super fun to talk to. I know you will enjoy this one! www...

Happy New Year! We start off 2022 with an AMAZING interview with artist Steven Zapata. Lots of shop talk in the first half....and then it goes DEEP!!! Definitely one of the most insightful interviews we have had in quite a while. We go into the weeds about the spiritual and magickal nature of art! Steven is an incredible artist and extremely articulate and offers a ton of valuable info that I know...

This week we try something new for the last episode of the year- the first ever Dark Art Society Group Chat! We discussed too many things to name here but it was a really fun conversation worth listening to. The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Soc...

This week I do another solo episode discussing ideas for the future, NFTs, building the DAS YouTube channel, getting back into digital art as well as some ranting. This is my 2nd solo podcast. I think it came out okay considering I'm not much of a talker. Chet's social media links: Website: www.chetzar.com Youtube: @chetzar Instagram: @chetzar Twitter: @chetzar Patreon: @chetzar The Dark Art Socie...

Friend of the show Gabe Leonard stopped by this episode to help me test out my new video set up and talked about what we have both been going through: trying to new things and getting outside of our comfort zones. This is a pretty loosey goosey episode with talk about NFTs, blockchain, becoming a YouTube content creator, creating multiple revenue streams for the artist, and lots more! Gabe is alwa...

This week I interview creature/character designer Bobby Chiu! We talk about his move from Taiwan to Canada at 2 years old, growing up as an art kid, going to business college and then art college, building his character design studio and getting his big lucky break in the film industry, starting Schoolism….as well as some esoteric topics like communicating with the dead in dreams, reincarnation, p...

This week I interview Swedish realist painter Linnea Strid! We talk about how her parents were supportive of her artistic inclinations, her bad experience with art school, her subsequent success in the REAL art world (where it matters!), her unusual painting techniques, how she creates her paintings and tons more! Another fun and great conversation with a super talented painter! Also- a quick art...

This week I interview creator and owner of The Dark Art Emporium, Jeremy Schott! We learn about Jeremy's background in film, music and starting his Long Beach dark art gallery. Another great and fun interview! Also- an art life update Jeremy's Dark Art Emporium Links: www.darkartemporium.com https://www.the4thhorsemanlbc.com www.carsexlbc.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. B...

This week I interview Copro gallery owner Gary Pressman. We talk his early days of art collecting, coming up in the early LA punk scene, working at the original Copro Gallery location, moving Copro to Bergamot Station, the Copro art community, advice for artists and tons more! Another great interview! Also- an art life update and the synesthesia word of the week. Copro Links: Website: www.coprogal...

This week I interview Canadian dark artist Kamila Mlynarczyk (aka woodedwoods on Instagram). We discuss her early childhood in Poland, emigrating to Canada, drawing monsters from a young age, her disappointment in art school, creating her amazing dark art dolls and the switch to drawing as a fine artist, her new book on Kickstarter "I can be myself when everyone I know is dead..." (https://www.kic...

This week I try something different- just me on the mic. I talk about the "Chaos" show experience and offer some extremely positive reflections on the Dark Art movement. The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkarts...

This week's guest is art dealer, collector, author, musician, book publisher, art historian, film maker (among other things), Thomas Negovan of Century Guild. We discuss his career trajectory from his lower middle class background in Chicago to antique dealer to art dealer and now book publisher, the 20 year journey of researching and creating his latest book "Le Pater- Alphonse Mucha's Symbolist...

This week's guest is multi disciplinary Dark Artist, Spinestealer (aka: Johnny Weiss aka: Spooky Jack)! We discuss her time in high school as the weird goth kid scaring the teachers, spending all of her time in art class, growing up catholic, fully embracing the Dark Artist moniker, weird art projects like giving people flowers on a unicycle, developing a career in fine art, the inspired creation...

This week I interview non-binary artist Rachel Britton (twin sibling of K. Britton, last week's guest). Rachel is a super talented, creative and digital photographer with a super dark twist! We discuss gender identity, drag, going to college, mathematics, dysmorphia, BDSM, twin telepathy and much more! A super interesting and fun interview Also a quick art life update, and synesthesia word of the...

This week I interview non-binary artist K. Britton (and their sibling, Rachel Britton, for a couple minutes in the beginning. Rachel is next week's DAS podcast guest). K. is an extremely talented fine artist, drag artist, illustrator and overall super creative person! We discuss their love of drag, being a non-binary artist, leaving their day job for a full time art career, expressing gender ident...

This week I interview artist and musician Wendy Gadzuk. We talk about about her young life as a creator, living in Joshue Tree, curating shows and helping run a gallery, being a musician and playing in bands, her creative process, her oracle deck and upcoming book and tons more! This is a long one! Wendy is a great artist and active member and contributor to the Dark Art Society community and supe...

This week I interview awesome dark artist Eric Messinger. We discuss his fascination with monsters and how he creates them, how his monsters "visit" him during the creative process, having great art teachers, the mysterious nature of art making, working in graphic design, flying under the radar, the madness of growing up in the 70's and tons more! Lots of reminiscing about the old days in this epi...