art contemporary la 2013 dibbly rundown

this post is dibbly shameless self promotion and not much else

 

the acme booth right by the entrance

 new painting

elsewhere a lovely roy dowell collage

and an installation of josh abelow paintings

...and also some installs from ACME....

This show is also in it's last week, they both are open through Saturday here in LA.

some DC SMMOA install shots finally....

Now that my show's in the last week of it's run I've at last got some install shots for you guys.

Thanks to the museum's photographer Monica Orozco for these great pics!

yellow dart

might as well get in on the post-o-rama this evening



26x22, ink, watercolor, and acrylic on canvas. not a great photo.

dappled

It turns out I did actually get decent images of these two, which are the latest things I've done. They are both 16x12, acrylic, sumi, and watercolor monotype on panel.

I too saw an opening

So I went to an opening this weekend as well, here in Chi-city, of the work of Jonas Wood at Shane Campbell's gallery. Lots of nice paintings of nifty topics. Apologies in advance for shitty photos, I was rockin the iphone.



Had the pleasure of talking with the artist, the galler-ist, and most interestingly, the artist's Dad. Poppa Wood is an architect, and also let me in on the details about where some of the paintings are set, as the scenes depicted take place in his house! Unfortunately I didn't get a picture, but he was wearing this sweet yellow striped tie, and I mentioned it could fit into the picture above and he said that was intentional because he got it to match the paint in that room - goldenrod something or other.





These two were facing each other across the gallery, which was a very nice touch. Good lookin show.

WET PAINT 2 - PREVIEW

A teaser for the show up at Steve Turner Contemporary now.
The entire show is up on their website as well....

WET PAINT: TEN YOUNG LA PAINTERS

Hello friends, I'm in this show opening shortly!

WET PAINT: TEN YOUNG LA PAINTERS

August 22 - August 29, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 6 - 10PM

Steve Turner Contemporary presents WET PAINT: Ten Young LA Painters, an eight day exhibition showcasing works created during the past few months by ten talented local artists:

Daniel Cummings, Michael Dopp, Greg Kozaki, Anne McCaddon, Caitlin Lonegan, RJ Messineo, Michael Rey, Ana Rodriguez, Conrad Ruiz and Rowan Wood.

Opening night taco truck schedule:

6 - 8PM Kogi Korean BBQ
8 - 10PM Don Chow Mexican Chinese Fusion

WET PAINT is now up. Visitors welcome between 11 - 6 on Tuesday
through Friday, August 18 - 21.

From August 22 through August 29, 2009, the gallery will be open every day from 11 AM to 9 PM. Each evening from 6 PM to 9 PM, at least two of the painters will be at the gallery to discuss his or her work.

Nickels and Pennies

I first previewed some of this work here over 6 months ago and now the show is here.
Please check out Nickels and Pennies at Light & Wire's page and there are zines for sale and if you bug me I'll send you a poster...
More news soon!!!
Been missing ya'll

Chef's Theory Opening @ 533

Here's some pics from the opening of "The Chef's Theory" curated by Maha Saab at FiveThirtyThree last Saturday.




The show is up till June 26th in Los Angeles, so get em while they're hot!

I will post some more installs -people when I get them soon!!!

Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children

Hello friends, I'm in this group show...

The Green Gallery East presents:

Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children curated by Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster

Opening Reception: May 9th 2009 4-10 PM

On May 9th, 2009 Milwaukee will be given the opportunity to survey a sampling of the LA contemporary art scene. Seventy-eight

paintings, 11 x 11 inches and under, by seventy-eight different artists, will be brought from Los Angeles via bag check and carry-on by

LA based artists Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster. The artists differ in their aesthetics, their styles, as well as, their stages of

development and exposure but they will all be converging from May 9th until June 6th in Milwaukee's Green Gallery East.

Brian Cooper	Doug Harvey	Jacob Stewart-Halevy
Laurie Nye	Frank Ryan	Christopher Pate
Daniel Cummings	Rowan Wood	Nikko Mueller
Heather Brown	Suzanne Falk	Eamon Ore-Giron
Angie Lacerenza	Stas Orlovsky	Linda Day
Lily Simonson	Karin Gulbran	Mark Dutcher
Brett Cody Rogers	Mimi Lauter	Mari Eastman
Karen Liebowitz	Ami Tallman	Susan Logoreci
Nina Bovasso	Theodora Allen	Salomon Huerta
Mary Weatherford	Tony Beauvy	Greta Waller
Lauren Lavitt	Nathan Danilovicz	Joshua Aster
Don Suggs	Karley Sullivan	Sarah Cromarty
Annie Lapin	Jon Pestoni	Brad Eberhard
David D’andrade	Holly Topping	Kent Familton
John Kilduff	Bart Exposito	Andrew Hahn
Benjamin Britton	Mark Licari	Robert Olsen
Caitlin Lonegan	Elana Sherr	Roger Herman
Andrea Shear	Gerald Davis	Analia Saban
Charles Karubian	Antonio Puleo	Maha Saab
Spencer Lewis	Sandeep Mukherjee	Kristin Calabrese
Kenny Scharf	Rebecca Morris	Claire Baker
Charles Irvin	Dino Rasmussen	Jodie Mohr
Steven Hull	Tami Demaree	Iva Gueorguieva
Susanna Maing	Liat Yossifor	Allyson Spellacy
Ian Hokin	Amir H. Fallah	Dee Dee Cheriel
Sarah Lowing	Lisa Adams	Stephen Westfall

Opening Reception: May 9th from 4 to 10 PM

The Green Gallery East Gallery Hours:

1500 N Farwell Ave Th: 4-8 PM

Milwaukee, WI 53202 Fr Sa & Su: 2-6 PM

phone: 414.226.1978 www.thegreengallery.biz

This is my painting in the exhibit.
Inner City Heart, 2009, Oil on Canvas, 10" x 10"

Pricasso The Worlds Greatest Penile Art Painter

some more interesting alternative painting techniques

promises

I figured I talk so much shit I better pay up.
Here's a new painting, a wee little 'feller.
"Captain" Oil on Canvas, 6" x 8" 2009.

Big ups to Eli KILLING IT!

check out this shit

mo' blinds?

not sure what to call this really, I'll think of something when it isn't 2am. ink and acrylic on panel, 18x12"

samespitdifferntday

ink, acrylic and newsprint transfer on panel, 16x12"

Not many posts of new art recently because I was back working at the museum, deinstalling the International (note: not as much fun as installing the International). However, they've cut me loose as of last Friday, so I've got more time and will be posting more things soon.

Oh, I also heard from a grad school - got into the San Francisco Art Institute. Woooo! At least I know I'll be somewhere come September.

new paintings

Here's a couple of new small paintings from the past couple of weeks. These are oil on canvas 18" x 24". The colors on the first one are not too accurate as it's a very dark painting.

Will be previewing some new coin pieces from an upcoming show I'm having that I will fill you all in on soon when everything's confirmed date wise....

more coinage

Eat 'Em Up-Beat 'Em Up, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 20"

crazy architecture

check out where my painting was in "HEAVY Corner", the most recent exhibit at CAA curated by the lovely Kristin Calabrese.the gallery space is in the 2nd floor lounge. those stairs were fun with a 12ft painting above your head...
the painting is actually hung flush with the edge of the wall "transit", 9' x 12', oil on canvas
these were my other 8 pieces in the back room of the show. all oil on canvas and around 2ft max

Ding!

So I've been fairly delinquent on the blog front lately, but I have a good excuse - I've worked over 60 hours this week on the International, and when I'm done each day its usually difficult to focus on anything art related. Couple that with the fact that the Pittsburgh Penguins are tearing through the Stanley Cup playoffs, which also provides ample distraction, and its easy to understand why.

However, I had a decent group of people stop by on Friday (by which I mean an exemplary group of people, of decent size...not the people, the group) and in addition to eating some delicious BBQ-ed victuals cooked by the one and only Dani Simmons, they checked out a few of the paintings I've been working on recently, and were caught off guard by how small they are. Thats right, 5x7 actually means 5 inches by 7 inches. Its not that I don't have an aversion to working on a bigger scale, but I enjoy the intimacy of a smaller piece, and its just difficult for me to find the time to do larger pieces and not get derailed by constantly being interrupted by unimportant things, like work. Interestingly enough, after having a (short, slightly drunken, and hilarious) conversation with my guests about these pieces, what do I find when I wake up Saturday but an article in the New York Times by Roberta Smith about small paintings. Its a fairly interesting article, and I definitely found some commonality in a few of the reasons she suggests, particularly the bit about small works sharing an affinity with the printed page, among other things. However, the article also annoyed me at the same time with lots of generalizing about "art today," particularly her complaint about the "mind-boggling degree of spectacle that afflicts so much art today." I've now been working on the Carnegie International in some capacity for over four months, and for the past two months I've been involved in a very hands on way: installing the show. The International is very much a view of art today, and the spectacle that she complains about, from what I've seen, isn't so much about the art as about all the bullshit around the art, especially the various art fairs. Enough of that for now.

Anyways, no mind-boggling spectacle here, this is another small work, 5x7, that I did several days ago and am only now managing to upload on here.

I am planning to start working on some larger things soon, although they'll probably remain mostly in the planning phase until after the International opens May 2.