Updatesmania

Needing a new mascot for their summer season, Clubbed Thumb picked me! Here’s the final product.

Many new updates in The Hand collaborative drawing project!

Another finished piece:

Coming soon: New prints, drawings, and some painting updates.

Show at Abigail Cafe.

For 6 weeks this winter/early spring, I showed a collection of 21 pieces at Abigail Cafe in Brooklyn, a young, local eatery right near my apartment that features yummy food and drink, special events, and a nice laid-back atmosphere.

The show is over now, but the memories live on in the form of pictures and actual memories for those who saw the show.  I  was happy to be involved with a new hot-spot in my community, and was rewarded by selling a few pieces.

A small gallery of the show in the cafe is right after the jump…

SFOS2

This weekend was the aforementioned SFOS2, organized and part-hosted by Suzanne Boatenreiter. It was a great time, lots of good artists, music, BBQ, the works. For those of you who missed it, here are a few pictures(there are some on the website as well). Here’s a panoramic shot of the roof I compiled right before sundown. It was a perfect evening(click on the picture for a larger view).

The non-sculpture art was set up in apartments in the 6-story building under the roof-party. It was open-studio style with a few artists in each apartment. I was in this one, it was really nice!

I set up my pieces in a room with a video installation. You may recognize the pieces from other parts of my site here, here, and here.

Until next year, thanks SFOS!

Beer labels for the Rossway wedding.

This weekend past, two of my friends were joined in holy matrimony. For part of the festivities, the groom home-brewed 250 beers and asked me to make some labels. The weekend was a lot of fun, and lots of the other guests helped cut out and apply all the stickers the night before the big day. Congrats to Jon and Charlotte!

The original pics were from a trip they took to Guatemala. The Pale Fire pic is inspired by the Sega game Pitfall. Oh yeah, the beer is also very tasty. Good work brewmaster Jon.

Some Drawings

These pieces are acrylic, latex paint, and ink. Some have mono-printed elements. Two sets of 3 drawings on gessoed watercolor squares, one set of two long drawings on printmaking paper and one mono-print with drawing and painting on top. Enjoy!

set 1

set 2

full size

detail

full piece

detail

New Painting

I just started this new painting. Its starting point is based on a series of graphite sketches. The medium is black and silver acrylic paint on gessoed canvass. Details pending.

Moleskins for Jamie

Jamie stopped by on my birthday and I appreciate that. He had just bought some new moleskins for copious noting and I returned the favor of his visit(and excellent bday gift) by doing some quick decorations

Watch here soon for your chance to get limited-edition, one-of-a-kind sketchbooks hand-decorated by yours-truly!

Drawing in progress 1: 2 Panels

This is a 2-panel piece done in mixed media. It started as a study and expanded. I worked on it before I started tracking the steps of some of the other new pieces. It still needs some work but is pretty close to completion.

Panel 1

Panel 2

The Panels together

The surfaces are two 16 X 24 in. frame-backings. My old house mate, Miles Halpern worked at a frame shop and used to bring home extra materials.

Drawing in progress 1: Dule

This is a drawing I’m currently working on. I started by taping and gessoing two scrap pieces of printmaking paper, then a couple of blue brush strokes, and I keep adding on.

Some of the steps after the jump

Gallery 100 Street Installation Sept. 2005

The summer after I graduated college, I lived in Saratoga Springs, NY. Knowing that I was staying in town for a while, I had been chosen by one of my contemporaries to fill her part-time position as an assistant for Gallery 100, a fine art gallery and dealership in Saratoga. That summer I worked a couple afternoons a week installing shows, updating the website, charming potential art-buyers, the usual gallery stuff. When the fall rolled around, they were having a big opening and we brainstormed a few ideas to draw people into the gallery. I ended up doing an installation painting on the street. I mixed a special paint out of tempera, finger-paint, charcoal powder, and water. It was very watery to get into the texture of the sidewalk, but also had a lot of pigment so I wouldn’t have to do multiple layers. Here are the pictures, the installation took about 10 hours of me crawling on the sidewalk.

more after the jump