Two new pieces

These both have several layers of polymer (gloss) medium over them, with a final topcoat of matte medium to give them a beeswax-y/encaustic look:


Tesseract, 24"x24"


Observation, 12"x12"

chirp 107 (nessun dorma)
chirp 100

my 2 biggest watercolors.
30 x 44 ish
just wanted to post again
and see them together and get some feedback.
hope all is well with you peeps

JOY SHIT

JOY SHIT (Brilliant Blue with Naphthol Red Center), 2010




JOY SHIT (White with Lime Green Center), 2010




JOY SHIT (Naphthol Red), 2010




JOY SHIT (Brilliant Blue), 2010

JOY

Joy (Naphthol Red), 2010
acrylic paint & liquid gesso poured into molds
4.5"x6.5"x.25"




JOY (Brilliant Blue), 2010
acrylic paint & liquid gesso poured into molds
4.5"x6.5"x.25"

Simple and fun. I used black metal clips to hang Bum and Dope. These molds, and the circular ones that will follow, are bigger, and heavier. They look interesting sitting on the top of a white pedestal, or on the floor...

New Painting

The Painting Will Tell You When & How to Quit (The Beautiful Game), 2010
acrylic on masonite
24"x24"

Revisiting a theme that isn't quite that old yet. This is a painting that took me where it wanted to go...

These are some new paintings that I made. I've been doing furniture with plants.

chirp 92

thanks for posting guys,
you inspire me
so,
this is my newest bird chirp 92
i got super detailed with this one,
it might be driving me a little nuts
so im starting the "new matters" soon
which will be an exploration of abstraction and realism within a new format
like boxes/ triptychs/diptychs and on
i hope to have something tangable
but the idea is still birthing
i want to get back to my roots of creating visual disorientation
electric rods and cones

JOY N SHIT (No. 3), 2010

JOY N SHIT (No. 3), 2010
mixed media on found images on masonite
24"x24"

And so the JOY N SHIT series moves on. I am so fond of this image of the soccer player created from the source material of a photo of my daughter playing soccer. But I am just as fond of the image of the star...the numbers bar is from a board game, and I've been holding on to it for probably over five years. Not sure if it really adds to the painting, but there it is...feedback welcomed.

fantasy

im starting a fantasy art series for myself
here is the first
elf 1
not unlike my other work
but i would like to merge other aspects of my work into this approach
like taking fantasy to a more abstracted style
to see if i can mate it with high art
excited to get this bird book done
so i can move on to the new project!

The Joy N Shit series

Joy N Shit (Plaid Flowers), 2010
mixed media on canvas
8"x8"




Joy N Shit (Lint White Line), 2010
mixed media including dryer lint on canvas
8"x8"

Manchester United Seat or Foot Rest Series continued, 2010

This Is How We Do It in Lansing Even Tho This Photo Was Taken in East Lansing (Featuring Jonathan Ryan & Dylan Rogers of The Continental Things), 2010

digital photo





This Is How We Do It in Lansing Even Tho This Photo Was Taken in East Lansing (Featuring Jonathan Ryan of The Continental Things), 2010

digital photo

Manchester United Seat or Foot Rest Series, 2010

Manchester United Seat or Foot Rest, 2010
copy machine, milk crate, duct tape
15"x17"x14"
$1000

Prints also available




Midwestern Metrosexual Soccer Coach, 2010
digital photo
dimensions vary

Prints available



Midwestern Metrosexual Soccer Coach, 2010
digital photo
dimensions vary

Prints available

Dope

Same deal as Bum.

Bum

Bum, 2010
acrylic paint object
5"x5"

This was just something fun to do, but I like the result. Aaron showed me how to do this. I made this by simply pouring acrylic paint solutions onto a Tupperware tray and letting them dry before adding stenciled text. The end project is this brittle, yet rubbery, poured acrylic painting/object.

A couple new works

The first image, "Here To There," was my warm-up painting for 2010, I finished it and the bottom painting "Arboreum" around January 4th. Finally got a sunny day to photograph them! The middle piece is called "Transaxis" and I finished it about two days ago. It's a continuation of my cubes/rectangles geometric exploration. "Arboreum" is the largest painting from a series I've been at work on for about a year, mostly smaller works on paper thus far. I hope to paint 20 or so more, pick the 8-10 best ones, and show them all together somewhere.

Sarah Lucas, Damien Hurst, Angus Fairhurst

Currently looking at work by Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst. Sarah Lucas could be one of my new fav artists. I've been reading and looking at work in a book called In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, published by Tate. It features a show that Angus Fairhust, Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas put together in 2004. The show might reinforce a notion I've had that similar artists, working separately though in proximity, create a charged body of work when they are working toward a singular show. The energy created when artists are keeping close tabs on each other and are in and out of each other's studios, while working toward a show together, seems to generate good art across the board. This is just a thought, or, something I'd like to believe. I am not even sure that the above artists actually worked that way, though the show seems to have created a fairly unified body of work, or work that complements each other. Maybe they were just similar artists that a good curator pulled together for a show. I don't know. The link I'm providing doesn't provide a great gallery of images. There might be better ones out there...

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/inagaddadavida/gallery.htm

New Painting

Entering the Mainstream, 2010
mixed media on found masonite with pre-existing images
24"x24"

Okay, so I'm done with this idea of stars and soccer players, etc., on the found masonite for now. I felt the need to make something; the needs been satisfied. I'm happy with this trio, but they don't really WOW me in any major way.

Would like to take the images that I've been digitally manipulating and project them on the wall in large, medium and small dimensions. Does anyone have ten thousand bucks I can have?

The three new paintings are priced at $5,000 apiece, or all three for $10,000.

I've been very dissatisfied with painting. There's so much out there; I guess I've really lost interest in painting for the moment and feel the need to explore other possibilities.

I've turned to videos/short short films for the moment. I'm also working on some ideas for sound/screenplay installations. Aaron and I made a film yesterday called Changing Coats that no one, except my family, will probably ever see...

some stuff i've been lookin at

i've been interested lately in different ways to map information/aesthetics of info. i'm very jealous of sites like these:

http://www.visualcomplexity.com

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

daniel

i met Daniel in my shop
hes an architect by trade and a graduate of an art school somewhere down the line
he started creating this work recently , i think to get back into art
i enjoyed looking at his work. so i hope you get something out of it

what we're lookin' at

Travis recently mentioned that it might be worthwhile to occasionally upload pics of artwork we've been inspired by or interested in, and I agreed.

I'm posting a couple images of digital collages, created by MSU BFA student Erica Birkhold, that are currently showing at scene. These are large prints, roughly 36x52, displayed like unframed posters. I first saw Erica's work in the fall. I was attracted to the color, the embracing of fashion and media culture. In short, I thought they were bright and hip. They're "me" collages in a sense that the subject matter reflects things that interest or reflect Erica: she's a young woman, she likes fashion, she likes nature, and she likes color. There are four posters in the gallery in all, and they've garnered a lot of attention. They've been featured in two different feature articles in two local publications...I've overheard one artist reflect that they'd be cooler if they were paintings, that they lack surface quality, but I think this misses the point and is completely off the mark.

I've received permission from the artist to post these, and I've supplied her with the link and explained our format. Thus, comments are welcomed.