6's and 12's, 6's and 12's. Parameters make for good times (whoa, what a metaphor). But that's my own trip, trippers.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
New Jams......
6's and 12's, 6's and 12's. Parameters make for good times (whoa, what a metaphor). But that's my own trip, trippers.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Hunches

So luckily I've become re-interested in "hunches". A huge part of my practice is based on trying to use my intuition for choices. Trusting my eye/brain in a way that is beyond reason. "It just works" is what I try to achieve. Ol' Fred Hammersley's work and practice of hunches turned me on to the idea.
So I have re-started my ritual of working on little hunches while I'm at home with the girls. Just practice, like simple brushtrokes, collages, etc. and seeing where they go. The above is todays and yesterdays has turned into a larger piece. It's been fun and I like what has come out thus far.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
After Work
The shack and a few trees
float in the blowing fog
I pull out your blouse,
warm my cold hands
on your breasts.
you laugh and shudder
peeling garlic by the
hot iron stove.
bring in the axe, the rake,
the wood
we'll lean on the wall
against each other
stew simmering on the fire
as it grows dark
drinking wine.
Gary Snyder
Monday, March 8, 2010

I was driving on Saturday night and Henry Rollins' show was on and he played a whole live record through the duration of the show by Trouble Funk, who sort of blew my mind. They were the dad's of this sub genre of DC funk called "Go Go" which also gets me fired up. The live record he played was amazing and is re-issued by Rollins' defunct label Infinite Zero, and is expensive, but out there. He said him and Ian Mackaye were driving when they first heard this record on the radio in '80 and literally had to pull over and just listen. Hence the mutant bill in the poster above. They were hooked.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Delveness....




Delve Clothing did a few shirts with my designs for Shelter surf shop in Long Beach and for the museum store at the Laguna Art Museum where I am in a show at the moment. We also did a sweet sign to direct people as to what to drop $20 on for the store. Thanks Ryan Bryant, as you are awesome. I endorse him as a fine t-shirt maker, beardo, and casual (in a Ray Barbee way) styled surfer I know. Buy some Delve shirts.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
New gospel songs...
Monday, March 1, 2010
The Choir hits the 'Ho pt. 1

The students at NNU were amazing and did so much of the work. I brought the original drawings (view previous posts) which I turned into transperancies. I literaly brought 6 drawings and the below happened. It was magic. These kids went nuts. Monday and Tues. were spent finishing my "templates" which was basically filling in the pictures to the point that I had furthest conceptualized them, and then we all collaborated for 2 more days, which both went into the morning, to finish them out. New Grizzly Bear, Beach House, Atlas Sound, about 40 pots of coffee, and a ton of tacos helped fuel the funk.
The bottom two pictures are of a sub-concious art connection with one of my drawings, which Chris had pointed out, and the bottom picture was post a night of rooftop cigarettes, early morning painting, a couple of hours of sleep, and a snowstorm. It was an unforgettable time and Andrew, of my hosts, Andrew and Amanda, sent me home with an IPod full of new tunes which made for a killer flight. Woooord.
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Statement...
The work I have been making for the last couple of years is primarily about conceptual and pictoral exploration. Following rabbit holes of ideas, visual stimuli, process, pictoral structure, and what it looks like when I trace my time by having said traced time manifested visually or situationally. My work varies with each new smaller project that I am working on but the above umbrella is how I work. My overall artistic project is less about a rigid research of a few well articulated ideas, and much more about “maybes” and “what ifs”. Theology, philosophy, freedom, and the like, have metaphors that lie dormant waiting to be discovered and brought to light, and art making is where I find these most often.
Resume
I eat, sleep, surf, and make art in Seal Beach CA
MFA Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA 2007
BA Biola University, La Mirada CA, 2002
Select Solo Shows:
2009 Are You Ready To Testify, Taylor De Cordoba, Los
Angeles CA
2007 The Grand Order of the Salt Dippers, MFA thesis show, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA
2006 How It Feels To Be Something On, Taylor De Cordoba, Culver City CA
2004 Do You Hear Me?, Ghetto Gloss, Los Angeles CA
2003 Memoirs For My Wake, Ghetto Gloss, Los Angeles CA
Select Group Shows:
2010 The OsCene, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna CA
2009 ARTRA at the T-Lofts, Santa Monica CA
Orphan Kitties Go To The Circus, LACE, Los Angeles CA
2008 Cover Version, Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles CA
2007 Aqua Art Fair (Taylor De Cordoba), Miami FL
OCMA Benefit Art Auction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Art LA (Taylor De Cordoba), Santa Monica Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
2005 Easy Action, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana CA
Collectors Series, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco CA
2004 Tree Trimmings, Track 16, Santa Monica CA
Paper Works, Mimi Barr Gallery, San Francisco CA
The DL, Star Shoes, Los Angeles CA and traveled to Tokyo
Select Press:
2009 New American Paintings,
Riviera Magazine, 12/09
Los Angeles Times, "Design Loves Art" by Suzanne Muchnic, 9/23/09
2008 New American Paintings
2008 Los Angeles Times, "Cover Version..." by Lynell George, 7/13/08
2007 Los Angeles Times, "45 Painters Under 45" by Christopher Knight, 12/2/07
2006 ArtForum, 3/06
2005 OC Weekly, "Step to the New", 6/9/05
2003 ArtWeek, review by Craig Stevens of Memoirs For My Wake @ Ghetto Gloss, 6/03
Random Other Resume Worthy Things:
2007/2008 I taught two sections of 4D design (new media) at Biola University, La Mirada CA
Paintings Edge Residency, Idywild CA
I did the album art for singer/songwriter supreme Barrett Johnson's new record, In Case I Went Missing and two covers for the band Summer Darling's e.p.'s
2006 I had paintings in 2 movies, Art School Confidencial, and Havoc
I did art for the interior for the awesome shop Scout in LA
2004 I had a painting sell at Christies in NYC for a benefit sale held by Chrylalis Records
I also had a fake solo show at Ghetto Gloss to film the fake reality show about Roseanne Barr. That was weird.
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