new piece and Tammy bomb drop

Tammy said I should limit my pallete and that might help my paintings.

My version of a VC painting and go to the group show at Taylor de Cordoba tomorrow

Karl Benjamen said of his VC series of paintings as his one and only set of political commentary paintings. This was tongue in cheek though and if you've ever seen any of them you'd know why. So this is my war commentary painting for the topsy turvy times we live in. Go Obama, down with oil and all that. Or maybe it's an anti-family feud cry out, purple family feuds. Anyhow it turned into an abstract gun battle complete with wound and blood and silver bullets with gleams and boss systemized under painting.

a couple newbies

So the painting on the left got systematized more and ended up becoming the one next to it.
The next one is a jam on panel. They are all Jesus praise excitement jams.

and I make paintings

Thanks Eric T for turning me on to Olifar Eliasons' new project (holy crap). Yeah those are his waterfalls. Check out the full story at www.nytimes.com (holy crap).

El Capitan balancing and exit from Rodenville

So I have been postless and lifeless for the last month because my j0b has become all consuming and I was working for the Laguna Art Museum with Dan and Dave Kelley installing Meg Linten's crazy huge show so I almost lost my shit since oh yeah I have a wife, a child, and a solo show in December. What am I thinking. So mid install we go to El Cap for fathers day to surf and balance and it was fun. Greg made the fashion section of the New York Times that day for his shop Assembley being rad. That day and again most loudly yesterday I came to the realization that I am going to quit my job and paint full time and rely on God and my cunning to make bills. This will be the ultimate adventure. I'll blog about that plenty in the weeks to come.
I also purchased a one way ticket out of Steve Rodenville. He's a generous dude and would have maybe allowed me to stay beyond my welcome but I realize that I created a false reality where I thought I was only slightly borrowing his early forms of exploration and making my own work, which may be slightly true and is sooo much fun. But I was making Roden's (as a recent curator said at a studio visit of my system, "oh like Steve Roden"). And he makes better Roden's than me by a long shot (i.e. his brain busting show at S.V.P.). So as great a place to explore as Rodenville is I have packed my bags and struck out to new territory and explorations. I have new pics of done pieces that I will post in the next couple of days. Tonight I begin a new adventure.

sunday jamdance and everywhere at the beach smells like jasmine.

I found this on Rad Summer blog which is mostly cool but I was at work and laughed at this enought to want to post it and give credit to it's finder. This is epic and questionable.

New pieces

Here are some pieces that I just finished plus better pictures of the two I posted last week. My process and system of working is really making my head buzz. These are coming out in a way that makes them feel like natural extensions of my self. They are painting themselves and operating in a super meditative way as I have been transcribing themes surrounding the awesome spirit explosions I have been experiences via the Jesus. Also an artist whom I deeply admire turned me on to Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet which has had me on a cloud for the last 2ish weeks (that and an extreme lack of sleep).

Bird went to the LA NHM

Tammy's commitment to making Magnolia a genius has improved since she quit her job. She has begun taking her into LA to various institutions of history and culture. Yes and she wore her tutu. I am hanging others' art at an intensified rate to pay for things like food and rent so I miss out. But today I hung $18 million worth of paint and canvas in the form of a Diebenkorn and a Chagal, and that's pretty fun too.