Posts Tagged art
Living Proof Mag – Adam Wallacavge interview
I’ve been collaborating with Living Proof Magazine as of late. My interview with four sides of Adam Wallacavage just went up on the site. Check it out, and try and find the free magazine at your local boutiques. –> Living Proof Issue 4: Adam Wallacavage
InLiquid 10×10 benefit
On October 1st InLiquid will have it’s 10th anniversary benefit party. There will be over 260 works for sale, including one of mine, shown below. Support your local art scene –> InLiquid 10×10
Hand Did group show
Come on out and see Hand Did, a group show that I’ve curated at Mew Gallery. The show features Amy S. Kauffman, Kris Chau, Tim Gough and Damian Weinkrantz. Everything looks pretty sweet so far so come on out Saturday for the opening, 5-9 PM. The show runs through June 18th.
New Years Road Trip: New Orleans, LA
Amy and I finally decided to take a real vacation. The plan came together very quickly and a destination was set. New Orleans, LA. The reasons were three fold. First, it is warm there. Most days the temp was around 68 degrees. Secondly, we wanted to go away, not somewhere just around the corner. Third, we wanted to be someplace new and interesting. Amy had never been to New Orleans, and I haven’t been in about 10 years.
I like to drive at night so we left late and made it through Baltimore, DC and Virginia in that first long drive. We ended up in Asheville, NC around breakfast time and found ourselves near the Biltmore Estate. The tour of the estate was too expensive for us, so we settled for the world’s nicest McDonalds, which is right outside the gates. This Mickey D’s had a fireplace, tin ceilings and a baby grand player piano (playing christmas music, of course).
Our next stop was just outside Nashville, Tennessee. We had driven quite a ways and needed a good nights rest. The next day we continued west towards Memphis. On the way Amy noticed signs for Loretta Lynn’s dude ranch. We took the excursion and explored the home of the famous country star. She had quite a spread, complete with a motocross course and much more.
We made it to Memphis around 11PM on Sunday night. This was poor planning on my part and the city was shutting down. The BBQ we wanted was closed, so we headed downtown to Beale Street. It was kind of quiet, and after a quick look around we decided to head south towards New Orleans.
The following day we rolled into New Orleans. The weather was amazing and after checking in to our hotel we started exploring. The made our way into the French Quarter for Cafe Du Monde and some beignets. A lot of walking took place. It’s just a fun city to walk and see. The architecture is unique (for the US at least) and a new place to be always feels good. The next day we got tickets for the Hornets vs. Wizards basketball game. We ate more good food, Cochon was a standout favorite. We learned out the biennial art expo Prospect 1, and just kept on going.
New Years eve was great. The city was filling up with party people and football folks in town for the Sugar Bowl. Bourbon Street was nuts. We watched the fireworks from the root of our hotel. There were fireworks in every direction, all around the city.
The next day we headed out of town. Before leaving we decided to drive to the 9th ward to see the state of things post Katrina. You hear a lot of stories about rebuilding, about Brad Pitt and Oprah but it’s hard to know what’s real. The reality is this – the 9th ward is still to this day a mess. Yes, there are some new houses and some recovery. Most of what you see is destruction and poverty. I immediately felt like someone who slows down on the highway when they see a car crash. My wife wanted to see the scope of the situation, and after some coaxing I agreed. It’s so much more complex when you see what’s really going on.
We took a slightly different route home, passing through Mississippi, Alabama, back to Nashville, and then home through Virginia. We headed straight to Lancaster county, where our hairy kids, Snoop Dogg and Punkass were staying. We really started to miss them on the journey. After picking up the boys we headed home for a 36 hour rest before I had to get back to work. This trip was much needed for Amy and I. I honestly feel very rested. Driving is a great peaceful time for me. I can’t check email, play web games, check Facebook, twitter, and check email again while driving. It gives me much needed time to think – and also, much needed time to not think.
The route, see my google map
The photos, Amy took almost 900 pictures – here is a small sample.
One video, Amy shot this at Cafe Du Monde – workers making beignets.
Happy Holidays
This is a painting, that I now call ‘Christmas Skulls’, which I painted about 10 years ago. That tells you how my fast my hard drive clean up process is going. I threw this painting in the garbage on my move from the warehouse in Chinatown. I’m pretty sure it was taken from the trash before the truck came. I wonder if it’s in someone’s home, or if it was turned back into a christmas table cloth. Happy holidays and a happy new year.
222gallery Groupshow, opening
The opening on Friday was packed. We stayed long enough to get these photos.
Rich Jacobs’ Move 15
Posted by jfx in art, show, skateboarding, zines on December 18th, 2008
Rich Jacobs is an old friend and an amazingly active guy. A long way back he asked me to send him some old skate zines and I did. Time passed and in an odd coincidence I ran into him at Printed Matter during his recent trip to new York to take down his 15th Move Show titled “There is Xerox on the insides of your eyelids”. To my happy surprise, some of my work was in this show along side some of the masters of the form. The show has been traveling around and will go to Holland next, so I’m told. Thanks Rich for including me.
Groupshow @ 222gallery
222gallery is hosting Groupshow this coming Friday, December 19th, 2008 at 6PM. Amy S. Kauffman and I will be in the show, along with many of our good friends such as Nicky Santore and Chris Sembrot.
From the 222gallery press release:
This exhibition plays off the pretentious nature of the group show, which over time has grown to be ubiquitous, all encompassing, prolific, and aspiring to be bigger and better with every manifestation. By exaggerating the title, and striving to showcase the variety of talent within our company’s expanding, bi-coastal network (primarily the talent present in Philadelphia), GROUP SHOW will overwhelm the visitor through walls packed with art in the salon-style, showing up to 3 works from established and emerging artists, including Ryan Beck, Maureen Duffy, David Ellis, Emily Erb, John Freeborn, Futura, Ryan McGinness, Diana Meaker, Todd St. John, Jeffrey Stockbridge, Tra Sipple, and many more.
Lasers!!!
I love the internet. Nothing like uploading a few files and getting laser cut plastic in the mail – this internet thing might just stick. I used ponoko.com, it’s a really great tool and super easy to use. Look for some of this in the near future on my etsy store, or in my online store.
Big Kids/Little Kids: Raleigh
The last of the Big Kids/Little Kids shows is up in Raleigh, North Carolina at Lump Gallery. It’s been a long ten months with this show and I’m happy with this final show.
