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Stephen Eric Berry
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Husband of Diane Aronoff, writer, musician, Jean Cocteau enthusiast.

To see our latest film "The Children's Holiday," go to: https://vimeo.com/807495629

Banner image by Detroit-area artist John Elkerr. Please visit: https://www.johnelkerr.com/
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November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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John Elkerr
"Minotaur Cabaret"
30" x 22"
Quill and ink on paper

To see more of John Elkerr’s work, please visit: JohnElkerr.com

#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Full image and three details from John Elkerr’s “Love the Monster, Feed the Monster.”

This piece intrigues me, stitched together with the flailing of a vulva-eared horse. A multi-headed grim reaper shakes a tambourine. A cute monster on a bike races forward. A penis is about to flood the zone.
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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John Elkerr
“Love the Monster, Feed the Monster"
30" x 22"
Quill and ink on paper

Please visit: johnelkerr.com

#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This is John Elkerr. John is holding a quill and ink drawing that we will explore this week.

To see more of Detroit-area artist John Elkerr’s work, go to: JohnElkerr.com

#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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John Elkerr
“When Pasiphae Dreams”
12” x 18”
Ink on paper

To see more of Detroit-area artist John Elkerr’s work, go to: JohnElkerr.com

#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Death may answer many questions. But whatever the answers may be, only a monstrous universe, one ruled by devils, would allow torturers to be absolved of their crimes. Dick Cheney died today. It is time to remember what America remains desperate to forget: the acts committed in his name.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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John Elkerr
“Hooded Man, Leashed Man - Abu Ghraib Study No. 2"
9.5" x 7.5"
Colored ink on cardboard meatbox

#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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John Elkerr
"Torture By Any Other Name - Abu Ghraib Torture Study No. 1"
9.5" x 7.5"
Colored ink on cardboard meatbox

#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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John Elkerr
"Meet Me At Temple Bar"
26" x 22"
Colored ink on paper

To see more of Detroit-area artist John Elkerr’s work, go to: JohnElkerr.com

#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
This striking piece depicts a Dionysian night of dancing at Temple Bar, a beloved all-inclusive LGBTQ nightspot in the Cass Corridor neighborhood of Detroit, MI.
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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John Elkerr
“Capture of the Minotaur”
30” x 40”
Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas

To see more of Detroit-area artist John Elkerr’s work, go to: JohnElkerr.com

#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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John Elkerr
“The World Is an Asylum with Guns”
8.25” x 11.25”
Collage with ink on paper

To see more of Detroit-area artist John Elkerr’s work, go to: JohnElkerr.com

#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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John Elkerr
“Circe’s Cabaret”
19” x 24”
Colored ink and graphite lighter burns on paper

A jitterbugging enchantress snaps her partner into an animal. Blue tears. A spasm of joy.

Please visit: johnelkerr.com

#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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John Elkerr
“Medusa”
7.75” x 10”
Ink on ruled paper

With phalluses for hair, this Gorgon reminds us of the addicting fluid secreted by Burroughs’ Mugwumps in “Naked Lunch” (1959).

Please visit: JohnElkerr.com

#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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We just saw Hadestown on YouTube. Superb musical! Couldn’t resist picking up one of their t-shirts.

You can literally sit in the audience with this link:

youtu.be/Jk7BCMZ_C2g?...
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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John Elkerr
“Phoenix Draws Mars Into the Habitable Zone”
5.5” x 6”
Colored ink on paper

Here’s another piece demonstrating the comic genius of Elkerr.

Please visit: JohnElkerr.com

#ArtistonBluesky #SurrealArt #FineArt #SurrealismToday #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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John Elkerr
“Epiphany of the Minotaur”
19”x24”
Quill, ink and graphite on paper

To see a short film exploring the Minotaur in the work of John Elkerr, go to: vimeo.com/596984370?sh...

#art #surrealism #drawing #surreal #ArtistonBluesky #SurrealArt #FineArt #SurrealismToday #drawing
October 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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John Elkerr
“My Days Are Wind”
8”x10”
Quill and colored ink on cardboard meatbox

For more information about Detroit-area artist John Elkerr and his work, go to: johnelkerr.com

#art
#surrealism
#drawing
#surreal
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October 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Quill and ink drawing by Detroit-area artist John Elkerr. To see more of John’s work, go to: JohnElkerr.com

#artbrut
#outsiderart
#Detroitartists
#surrealism
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Love our fall tradition of making Sugarless Peach Ice Cream. This batch has background notes of orange, lemon, and caramel from roasting our peaches into powder. This may seem sacrilegious to some of you, but this dessert is richer and creamier than anything that rolls out of Haagen-Dazs.
September 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Tonight at midnight we will be lighting this Yahrzeit for Paul Celan (23 November 1920 - 20 April 1970).
Yahrzeit candle ready to be lit for Paul Celan. The candle sits alongside three essential books by or about the poet: Threadsuns, Under the Dome, and Lightduress.
April 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Yesterday, I studied Dali's "Feminine Nude" (1928) and tried an exercise "copying" elements of the work on 11" x 14" watercolor paper -- for example, the distressed ivory and blue-tinged background and the variously translucent-to-opaque black and gray shadows. My shadows need work.
Dali's 1928 painting "Feminine Nude" showing stark and surreal shadows around what appears to be two pink-tinged surfaces of rock fitted into one another and pitted with holes. A drawing of a cholla skeleton with various shadows around it. The main shadow on the left appears to outline a human face looking skyward.
March 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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In November, I fell under the spell of this haunting book by Fritzche. This book is a wormhole of slow thunder, jackboots on cobblestones, candle-lit brews of marching faces...a haunting and eerily familiar blueprint to the most popular dictatorship of the 20th century.
A massive arena of Nazi's saluting Adolf Hitler.
February 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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In Dec. I finished Plotkin's unforgettable portraits of the lives of Berliners (circa 1933) amid the cudgel of Hitlerfaschismus. Plotkin suggests a vocabulary for the future: Casernas (detention barracks outside the control of the army or the police) and Beseitzung (occupations of bldgs) we see now.
Photograph of Berlin in the 1930s.
February 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM