'Dark Art 3' brings the art stars to Fort Myers

COURTESY IMAGES Jesse Pepper, Old lady of the pit , Chester Bennington, Skull Stencil, crayon on electric guitar, Clive Barker, Untitled, charcoal on paper. For the third consecutive year, the Dark Art Exhibit will descend upon

Fort Myers to bring shivers, chills and artistic awe to the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center.

Opening Oct. 2, "Dark Art 3" takes its previous incarnations to a supernatural and international level. This year, event hostess Janet "Planit" DeMarco, along with sponsor Terry Tincher of Space 39 Gallery, has engaged the talents of Curse Mackey to act as guest curator for "Dark Art 3." The wellknown industrial music rock star and art curator, who lives in Tampa, has produced exhibits from L.A. to New York City to London and Japan.

Sure to be a frightful delight for patrons of Art Walk, "Dark Art 3" will present works by international artists such as famed horror writer/filmmaker Clive Barker,

shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, Academy-award winning Swiss Surrealist HR Giger, Goth music legend/comic book artist Voltaire, David Stoupakis, Erik Foss of Fuse Gallery NYC, world-famous tattoo artist Bob Tyrrell, MTV award-winning video director Dean Karr, and Chester Bennington, lead singer of multi-platinum rock band Linkin Park.

Also featured will be local favorites David Hatchett, Kyle Jackson, Piper Ruddich, Todd Baab, Leo Johnston and more than 30 other artists from New York City, L.A., Tampa and the Fort Myers area.

The "Dark Art 3" opening on Oct. 2 will be fantasmagoric and the closing on Oct. 17 as part of Zombicon is a definite "to die for" event.