Thursday, April 2, 2009

What I'm Doing Now - Being excited about my first solo show tomorrow!


Everything is hung at the CAE with care
In hopes that someone will brave the weather and be there :)

Monday, March 30, 2009

What I'm Doing Now - Painting the couch (Part Deux)


Finished (?) "Couch". Might have to dip back into this one....we're still coming to terms. Be sure and check it out in person at the Contemporary Arts Exchange on April 3 (First Friday). See you there!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

What I'm Doing Now - Painting the couch


Mock-up final


Wax base


First stencil


Well, painting a couch, anyway. This is going to be the last piece I finish before my solo show at the Contemporary Arts Exchange. Oh, I didn't mention that? Yeah, I've got a solo show. No big deal. Just kidding, it's a big fucking deal and I'm stoked. Thanks to Craig Burkhalter and the folks at CAE for the opportunity. I won't hold it against you that I didn't get the studio space (I swear I wouldn't have burned the place to the ground, though).

For those interested in seeing my stuff in person, please come out to the CAE on First Friday in April. The gallery is on the corner of Mulberry and 2nd in downtown Macon (above Michael's). It's free and there may be a beer in it for you.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

What I'm Doing Now - Loving Reinterpretation

I'm always a fan of reinterpretation, but this one (thanks CAH for pointing it out) just fits well with this particular hung-over, rainy Georgia Sunday:

Monday, February 16, 2009

What I'm Doing Now - Killing time on you3b.com



You3b.com....check it out. This site allows you to run a tryptich of youtube videos of your choice simultaneously. The results are pretty interesting...kind of like that time when you and your friends got stoned and watched Alice In Wonderland to that Pink Floyd record. But with three movies....and up to 3 records. Hmmm.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

What I'm Doing Now - Checking out an online jewel



ArtOnAir.org

I just stumbled across a website you should check out. That's the link up there ^^^. Here's the description in the website's "About" section:

Art International Radio (AIR) is an Internet art radio station created to provide art talk programs, experimental music and other music surveys and DJ sets, historic recordings and interviews, public programs from cultural institutions and partners around the world, poetry, radio theater, audio art, and other sonic surprises.

I just ran across it, so I'll update this post with anything specifically cool I may run across. Happy hunting!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

What I'm Doing Now - Priscilla said "Go paint something", so I am





So I'm done with the first phase of my homage to the Capitol Theatre. Here's the before and eventual after. This is presuming that the painting cooperates, of course, but I think we've come to an understanding.



Updated 2-25-09: Finished work above.

Monday, February 9, 2009

What I'm Doing Now - Macon: It do what it do


So Macon has become my new favorite town of the moment. In a nod to all the cool Maconites(?) and Macon spots, I'm working on a series that celebrates them. This is the first piece, and I was recently able to show it at the Massee Art Show in Macon. It got a really good response so I'm looking forward to the next in the series.

"Wow," you say, "this is so cool and would look great above my toilet!" Great! It's for sale! Here's the link to my Myspace "For Sale" folder: Art For Sale

Just send me a message. And remember, every piece you buy keeps me out of a real job for at least a week longer.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

What I'm doing now - Hating the workplace and vodka


So I just got back from a ridiculous interview for a life insurance sales job. What a bunch of fucking clowns. Upon my complaint that I had to go out and find a job recently, the Craig Hamilton told me that I already had a job and that I just needed to get to work. Props to that. Now if I can just figure out how to make my work pay so I can stroke a check to these assholes that keep sending me bills in the mail everyday.

On another note, I was drinking vodka and reading Nietzsche last night (no shit, the combination makes for a knife-in-the-eye hangover, I promise)and I mentioned to my wife that I didn't have the gift for straight-faced pseudo-philosophical melancholy like I did when I was a manic 22-yr-old. "Wife", I said, "if I could find that angsty place again, I bet my art would be super. I think I may need to leave you and the kid and go live by a river for a while." She told me to lay off the vodka and asked what my problem was and why it required that it keep her awake (she has a job).

I told her that my lack of insight kept me from knowing what subject matter I should pursue in my painting. I admitted red-faced that I kept feeling the urge to paint based on ideas in the books I read nightly. "Husband", she said, "you are a painter, not a writer. It's your job to take in information, observe, and reproduce it in a visual way that speaks to people. It's not your job (I think she smirked a little at job but I was seeing two of her by now and I can't swear to it)...It's not your job to invent the things you observe. That could be considered self-absorbed (I know she smirked at this point)."

Considering that she makes a good point even now that I'm painfully sober, be on the look-out for Nietzsche and Kafka inspired work. Also be aware that there may be significantly less work inspired by vodka.

Monday, January 26, 2009

What I'm doing now - Back to the drawing board


I think I may have been overthinking my work recently. I started drawing again (which I haven't done for some time) and I find that the drawing style I have works well with the spraypaint on wax technique I've been working with for the last several months.

Something makes be a little uncomfortable with doing figures and busts, though. They are kind of the first subject matter that a fledgling artist often goes after and I feel like I should be doing something more narrative. Maybe, though, this subject matter speaks to people on a basic level and attracts artistic exploration. My gut tells me, though, that this whole spraypaint/stencil/urban/figurative subject might be dead. Food for thought.

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