My very first gif. Yesterday I had a ton of projects I should have worked on, and friends invited me over for dinner. I blew off both and stayed up until 6 a.m. making this like a total party animal.
Pin-up packaging.
Pin Up Girls handkerchiefs/pocket squares are finally available! (One step closer to large silk scarves, which will be for sale with plenty of time to get them for the holidays.)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/113537681/pin-up-girls-handkerchiefpocket-square
Painting 100 eyes for the Argus scarf (inspired by Greek mythology). Soon you’ll be able to wrap yourselves in the protective gaze of 50 mid-century hotties!
(I guess I shouldn’t say soon since I’ve been working on the pin-up scarf since the start of the summer.)
My cousin’s wedding is in a couple weeks, and since I can’t make it there I’m sending her a little painting. I don’t know her well, but I do know she loves hummingbirds and has been collecting them.
I made pin-up girls for my relatives on the west coast, but it didn’t seem appropriate for my mid-west family, so instead my aunt is getting her favorite bird, the black-capped chickadee. I sent her a print of my bigfoot woodcut for Christmas, and she specifically requested that the bird be the right size to perch on his shoulder.
Concept art for a friend’s short movie, “Good October.”
Painted so much jasmine for the pin-ups that it had to do double-duty.
Finally finishing up family thank-you cards, months overdue.
(This means I can finally stop painting pin-ups for a while!)
Commission for someone who wanted my piece from the One Hundred Dollars show (but didn’t act fast enough!)
Last night was the opening for one of the group shows I’m in, Permanent Collection, at the Nancy Margolis Gallery.
My piece, The Augur, is a cover/interpretation of John Currin’s The Clairvoyant from MoMA’s permanent collection.
In Greek mythology, augury is a kind of fortune-telling where insight into the will of the gods comes from studying the type, flight and behavior of birds. I always thought augurs could tell the future from the entrails of birds, but that’s either extispicy, hieroscopy, or haruspication.
Because there were 130 artists in the show, the opening was an absolute mob-scene and the main gallery was solid with people, wall to wall (and spilling out into the street). The AC was out, except in the small project room, and it felt like a sweat lodge inside the gallery. The beer and wine ran out within an hour. It was spectacular.
The other group show I have a piece in, One Hundred Dollars, opens tomorrow night at Littlefield in Gowanus, Brooklyn.. Curated by Andy Smenos and Sergio Barrale, the only real requirement was that each piece be two dimensional and use a dollar bill as its canvas. Each piece is for sale for $100.
(Her hand is not affixed to the dollar, and painted on tracing paper so she waves in a slight breeze).
We also got a great little preview write-up in the Huffington Post today, and my piece is in the slide show!
Opening reception is Saturday July 14th, at
Littlefield
622 Degraw St., Brooklyn, NY
6 pm – 9 pm.
Click to enlarge and get rid of those strange compression stripes…
Yesterday I spent 12 hours designing repeat textile patterns, and then I watched the same movie twice in a row and had nightmares about repetition. This is the best variant. (Shower curtains will be available soon.)
(Also scarves and handkerchiefs, but those are different designs).
The Augur, painting for “Permanent Collection” group show curated by Jordin Isip and Eddie del Rosario, opening in July. The Augur is a cover/interpretation of John Currin’s The Clairvoyant from MoMA’s permanent collection.
In Greek mythology, augury is a kind of fortune-telling where insight into the will of the gods comes from studying the type, flight and behavior of birds. I always thought augurs could tell the future from the entrails of birds, but that’s either extispicy, hieroscopy, or haruspication.
Some of the new girls I’m working on to flesh out the textile design I’m working on!
I mean sure, okay, the final edit of my literature thesis is important and all, but having a good cover image for it is crucial…
I wish I could have been in the Philippines this weekend, but at least I can see some pictures of the opening!
I love the way they framed the small pieces–they look amazing from across the room, which is remarkable since they’re so teeny.
And look at that! A wall-a Paula!
(All photos are via the show’s co-curator Louie Cordero’s facebook.)
I just got the e-vite for the group show that includes my Perils of Places set. All that work was created between January and February of this year, specifically for this show co-curated by Jordin Isip.
The show also includes my friends Rob Leecock and Paula Searing, as well as artists Matt Leines, Hiro Kurata, Vic Balanon, Robert Gutierrez (invite image), Jacob Lindo, Patrick Cruz, and Yuji Maruyama.
The opening night is March 24th at 6 p.m., and runs until April 14th. Of course, it’s in Mandalyuong, Philippines…so I won’t be there.
Many months ago, my friend Paula Searing invited pretty much everyone she knows to contribute “characters” to populate a toy theater set she was making for OUTPOST, a mail art exhibition, in Philadelphia. The only stipulation was that these characters had to be mailed to her by the end of the week.
For more images of Paula’s toy theater, click here.
For the Philippines.
Lower Quinton, one of my pieces for a group show in the Philippines opening in March.