this happened

i put a version of this (with the other gam tacked on) in the installation gallery. consider it a tribute to grant senior and bruce smith. and yes, i'm playing the leg guitar.

news!

first i'm in a group show up at the alphonse berber gallery in berkeley. steve kim, also straight outta cgu, will be in the show (that's his nice piece on the card). if you are in the bay area you should go- but seriously! the space is really interesting and the show will be even more-so. grant and i had such a chillaxed weekend with the winkles and miss hilary last weekend when we dropped off my work. you know if great people like that are congregating in one area, it's the place to be.

second, my friend jon troutman is making me a website! he is really talented and totally hooking me up with a cool site.

plus i'm showing something in the installation gallery. it may or may not blow your minds. and next weekend is open studios. a lot of my work is upstate so i'm cranking away on new pieces.

so more blogging to follow.

we could be anything but ourselves

for those of you who missed it, here are the installation shots of my mfa show. i'm anxious to get my website going, but i decided i shouldn't hold out on you any longer.

entrance


joanie
west is best

barbara jean filled the world
earthquake baby
it goes so fast it talks (robert g.)
the heart on his sleeve
nefertiti

the update

the show went really well. thanks to everyone who came! i got back my photos last week, but i'm in the process of making a website. to be continued.

yep. this is it.

we could be anything but ourselves
mfa thesis exhibition
feb 16-20
reception on feb 17 6-9pm

don't be shy (2nd yr mfa show)

this is my piece. i told you i was going more abstract. it's a portrait of my friend jacob-titled "sandwich" it's 51" x 42" with watercolor and acrylic on yupo. the nice looking pink sculpture, the one that looks like a yo gabba gabba doll, is a piece by ryan schwartzkopf, the dude i'll be showing with come february. it should be a good mix.

hold on to your butts

my thesis show, drawn by lottery, is scheduled for february 16-20. the reception will most likely be the 17th. consider me officially insane until president's day. my apologies.

monthly blogger

i lied. i'm crap at blogging. but here is the beginnings of a project i've started. a bunch of my friends at cgu are going to make masks, which they will wear when i paint their portraits. this painting is not finished but i want to do more. the next versions will get less literal and hopefully more colorful. it's a halfie- part acrylic and part watercolor. i'm not sure about it, but what else is new.

tangents

i'm guilty of so many detours this semester. supposedly that's what the first year is for- hairbrain ideas that may or (most likely) may not work. i got straight up bored with collaging different elements (representational/ abstract, symbolic/ arbitrary, personal/ universal, funny/ pretty/ ugly) in my hodgepodgey watercolors that i wanted to try to make one iconic image that qualified for all of those things. and i was done done done with heads during this period. so i made these fluid acrylic paintings on 5ft yupo; they're solitary fleshy pods, knubs, grafts, etc. the response i got was mixed. one dude said the claims of my work being whimsical and illustrative must have gotten under my skin because i went from fantasy to cold hard boring facts. like him, most people just yearned for the days of my watercolors, but there were few supporters. now i'm hoping to reconcile my tangents because it's high time i get down to bizness.