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“VHS Girl” Paints Horror VHS Covers On Wood Blocks

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Video stores may not exist anymore, but “VHS Girl” is making her own.

Based out of Illinois, artist Katie Winchester has dubbed herself “VHS Girl,” and there’s a good reason for that. Winchester’s unique specialty is recreating iconic VHS covers on VHS-sized wood blocks, which she hand-paints to evoke nostalgic memories of the dead-but-not-forgotten home video format.

Winchester’s VHS art is currently on display at art gallery Grease 3 on 3214 Cherokee Street in St. Louis, where the replicated covers are being exhibited as a sort of faux video rental store, organized by genre just like on the shelves of those long-gone mom and pop video shops.

Katie Winchester aka @vhsgirl is a Carbondale, IL based artist who began painting iconic covers onto VHS-sized wood blocks,” Grease 3 advertises on the exhibit’s event page. “Now she has 11.9k Instagram followers, has made an appearance at Art Basel in Miami, and has done custom work for David Arquette!!

They continue, “Winchester employs an unpretentious, purposely crude style in her paintings. She mostly replicates VHS covers, but she usually comes up with her own tagline and makes the faces goofier.”

The show is on display through August 6, and you can view horror highlights below!

 

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.

A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.

Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.

Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”

“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.

“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”

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