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Keith Wigdor

Keith Wigdor, Surrealist, Artist, Gallery Manager and Art Collector

About Me

I am a Surrealist, Artist, Gallery Manager and Art Collector. I have been appointed by fellow surrealist artists and comrades as "The Leader of the International Surrealist Movement" for which I am eternally grateful. My art has been featured in magazines, online zines, and in underground and independent publications, and all over the Internet. I am the Creative Director on the American Branch of the Committee of The Society for the Art of the Imagination, www.artofimagination.org of which I am also a member. I run the Official Website of Surrealism and all its Affinities, SURREALISM NOW! www.surrealismnow.com Please come on by to exhibit! You can always reach me by E-mail 24/7 at [email protected]

My Interests

Surrealism, Horror, Bizarro, Literature, Cinema, Art, Culture, Anarchist Theory, Electronics and Computers, Artificial Intelligence, Science, Philosophy and Music, Poetry, Automatism, The Occult, Black Cats, anything related to Monster and Horror Comics from the 50's to 70's!!!! THE MONSTER TIMES! I am a HUGE comic book collector since I was five years old!!!!!! I am also an Art Collector. Many of my artist friends are the most brilliant and talented artists in the world and legends in Surrealism, Fantastic Realism and Visionary Art!Favorite Artists are SALVADOR DALI, HR GIGER, KD MATHESON, VINCENT CASTIGLIA, SHAHLA ROSA, CARRIE ANN BAADE, ROBERT VENOSA, HANNAH HOCH, MAX ERNST, YVES TANGUY, CLAUDE CAHUN, RICHARD POWERS, DAVID SINGER, PETER LEWIS, WINSTON SMITH, DAVID ANTHONY MAGITIS, and also YOU!

I'd like to meet:

I am the Gallery Manager and Owner of SURREALISM NOW! www.surrealismnow.com The Official Website of Surrealism and The International Surrealist Movement in the 21st Century and all its affinities, so if you are an artist and want to exhibit on the site, I want to meet YOU! Also other surrealist and surreal artists, fantastic and visionary artists, macabre and horror artists and also dark surreal artists, anarchist and underground artists, and any artists in general, musicians, publishers, and all creative people are welcome to come on board!

Music:

60's Psychedelia, 70's and 80's Punk Rock, Avant Garde, Electronic Music, any Blues, any Jazz (Miles Davis, etc.) and any Hardcore, Trash, Underground, etc. Favorite Bands are Skinny Puppy, Hole, Danielle Dax, Velvet Underground, Iggy and the Stooges, Roky Erickson, L7, Jesus and Mary Chain, Rollins Band, Black Flag, Diamanda Galas, Tangerine Dream, anything Post Modern (remember Dave Kendall MTV VJ? He was great!) and anything weird. Favorite new band: PORNORPHANS!

Movies:

All genres of Cinema, any Movies really. Horror and Cult especially, TETSUO:THE IRON MAN, HELLRAISER, ERASERHEAD, BLUE VELVET, EASY RIDER, ALTERED STATES, CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE GROOVE TUBE, DARK CITY, LORD OF ILLUSION, NATURAL BORN KILLERS, THE EXORCIST, THE TRIP, THE DEVIL's RAIN, HELTER SKELTER, PERFORMANCE, EL TOPO, 12 MONKEYS, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD, anything by JOHN WATERS, TERRY GILLIAM, and DAVID LYNCH, etc. I am a huge movie collector!!! My favorite film directors can be found on MASTERS OF HORROR, also a personal fav is Dario Argento and Clive Barker. Favorite Actor is Keifer Sutherland, his role in THE LOST BOYS was classic as anything he does, also Brad Pitt's role in KALIFORNIA, a classic!!! Favorite Actress is Olivia de Havilland in THE SNAKE PIT!

Television:

Any Science Fiction television: classic to modern sci-fi, I also love vintage TV shows too! THE X-FILES, STAR TREK (60's original Shatner years), THE OUTER LIMITS (60's and 90's), THE TWILIGHT ZONE, TALES FROM THE CRYPT, and not forgetting MASTERS OF HORROR, the best show to ever grace SHOWTIME! Oh, not forgetting, "WHEN ANIMALS ATTACK" the greatest TV reality show where humans get attacked by animals that is all caught on video, though I loathe reality shows, this one from the early 1990's is a classic, plus its hysterically funny! Oh, and not forgetting THE PRISONER and also PRISONER CELL BLOCK H, a great show from the late 1970's! I grew up on CREATURE FEATURES, SOUL TRAIN, CHILLER, FRIGHT NIGHT, and the Vietnam War and the Manson Family in my living room when I was 5 years old! I crave those days!!!!!!!!!!!!

Books:

Authors I love: Albert Camus, Andre Breton, Clark Ashton Smith, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Karl Marx, Rudy Rucker, William Gibson, and any authors from Raw Dog Screaming Press and plenty of underground literature too!!!!! I collect books too. FAVORITE BOOK: FERAL (a book about killer cats from the 1970's which I highly recommend)

Heroes:

GODZILLA: King of the Monsters, HEGEL, FREUD, MARX, CHOMSKY and YOU! and the working man and woman who fuel the energy to run this world with their labor power! Anyone who takes a stand and questions all authority!

My Blog

KEITH WIGDOR TELEVISION! www.mogulus.com/keithwigdor

http://www.mogulus.com/keithwigdor The Official Television Studio for Keith Wigdor and SURREALISM NOW! 24/7 of Rare Art, Film, TV, ALL THAT IS SURREALISM!!!!!!...
Posted by Keith Wigdor on Sun, 25 May 2008 01:27:00 PST

INTERNATIONAL SURREALIST SHOW 2008 on SURREALISM NOW!

INTERNATIONAL SURREALIST SHOW 2008 on SURREALISM NOW! coming soon. Please go to: www.surrealismnow.com for details...
Posted by Keith Wigdor on Sun, 18 May 2008 10:58:00 PST

SURREALISM NOW! FORUM BACK ONLINE!

http://kwigdor.proboards51.com/ PLEASE JOIN THE NEW FORUM!!!
Posted by Keith Wigdor on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:41:00 PST

THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY by Keith Wigdor August 31, 2007


Posted by Keith Wigdor on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:26:00 PST