#6

Deletion, addition. I put in the little o.k.'s to match the big o.k.'s. I'm digging the f-ed up color structure.

#5

Bye bye figuration, hello okko. I was getting out of hand with following those figures around the painting.

#4

Whoa, Billy Graham & Dave Chapelle as Rick James praise chorus with clapping hands.

#3

Figures creep in with voice blastees and I flipped the symetry becuase I didn't like the mirror from top to bottom. Side to side offers more fun possiblities.

#2

anatomy and structure and layer of a painting #1

I am going to document a few paintings all the way through the process. I really like to see the layers and history. This painting is going surprisingly fluid so I am going to try this on a few pieces. This is a fun illustration of how I build a picture. This painting is based entirely on a system derived from the phrase "it's o.k." being translated into Morse Code and then being structured out according to the 6 dots and 6 dashes in that phrase.

The SIte Is Up!!!

Our new site for our gallery Raid Projects is up. www.raidprojects.com is afoot. We have a lot of awesome stuff on the calender including Gustavo Herrera and Spencer Douglas opening on November 7th, our Pink Flamingo Art Fair on Dec. 5th, projects in the works with Ryan Wallace, Chris Duncan, and a dual space month of shows with the fellas at Work Space gallery. YES!!

New Raid blog

Jason Ramos, artist, resident, lover, and now blogger on behalf of Raid Projects. Check out the Raid blog at http://www.raidprojects.blogspot.com/ which will be hooked on to our soon to be launched wesite. Thanks Jason!!!

Grizzly Bear "While You Wait For The Others" Radio premier

Good tune...

Orphan Kittites at L.A.C.E.

Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster curated this show and let me tell you, it is the ultimate LA contemporary painter lineup (and I'm not just saying that because I was included). They did a killer job of putting this together. Thanks guys. Here's the skinny on the show from the press release:

"Everybody loves LACE! Hey, so maybe you heard about "Lovable like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children" that was shown at the Green Gallery in Milwaukee? The show will be making a one afternoon appearance as part of the 2009 Out of Bounds annual Lace 10k. We will be stationed with all 80 cute little paintings at Circus of Books in Silverlake, 4001 Sunset Blvd., 90029.

The show is happening on Saturday, September 26th from 1 - 6pm. Come by Circus of Books, maybe buy some porn or a soda pop and see the lovelies!!

You won't believe your eyes!!To whet your appetite, here is the list of the people who made the paintings (in no particular order):

Nihura Montiel

Ryan Callis

Krysten Cunningham

Nicholas Frank

Santiago Cucullu

Tyson Reeder

Peter Barrickman

Steve Wetzel

Steven Burnham

Doug Harvey

Jacob Stewart-Halevy

Laurie Nye

Frank Ryan

Christopher Pate

Dan 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

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

Iva Gueorguieva

Susanna Maing

Liat Yossifor

Allyson Spellacy

Ian Hokin

Amir H. Fallah

Dee Dee Cheriel

Sarah Lowing

Lisa Adams

Stephen Westfallps.

Lace wants you to sign up for a membership and go on the whole art walk. You can find more details at http://www.artleak.org/ We love LACE!!

all the best,Kristin and Josh

Some new paintings for your face

With Raid Projects now in full swing and the Rant show up and running (see below posts for context) my blog will now return to it's original archival purposes. I have been painting a lot even though gallery/curatorial/museum stuff has been occupying a lot of time. Here are some recently finished pieces that I had neglected to post. I like my new system as it allows me to be able to meditate on the subject matter, but I can walk away from it, come back the next day, and know where I left off. It keeps the studio fun.

Here are some shirt designs I threw at Ryan for this Shelter event a few weeks ago. I have not been posting in weeks due to craziness so I'm back in the sattle playing catch up. Delve continues to do awesome things so this is partially a plug for Delve clothing which you can keep up with by visiting http://thedelvemademedoit.blogspot.com/. I think Ryan only used the wave design that day for live screenprinting at Shelter.

I guess I design t's too much like a painter/picture maker but I was stoked on them at pictures so I guess that's 1/2 the battle, but I don't think the shirt selling 1/2.

I like the "weekend delvers" shirt becuase that day I had seen this big black dude on a big ass bike hauling down the freeway and he was listinging to some super cheese tunes. So I liked the idea of a tough guy, macho, weekend biker listening to Fine Young Cannibals while he rides.