This Friday I’ll be tabling at the Broken Panels Comic Book Creator Showcase at Lifted Spirits Distillery as part of the First Friday art event in the Crossroads district of Kansas City. The info’s on this flyer by the curator and local KC cartoonist, Shane Audley:
You can also see all the event info on Facebook.
Sorry I didn’t have a blog post for y’all this past Tuesday, I was sick.
Star Gods Press has posted some photos from the Sammiches Launch + Exhibition this past Friday in Vancouver. Here are some highlights:
A Sammiches book with a dude for comparison.
A sammich on TV.
A strip of Sammiches original art.
Since I drew my sammich on my computer, I sent them a digital print. It’s the one with a light blue background in this photo:
You can see more photos from the opening on the Star Gods Press Flickr stream.
You can order Sammiches on the Star Gods Press site.
I’ve got some paintings and drawings in Surreal Landscapes, a show curated by my friend Cari Palazzolo. There’s a bunch of other awesome Austin artists in it also. There’s a reception this upcoming Thursday. Here’s the flyer:
Flyer by Cari.
The flyer samples this watercolor I finished recently, “Landscape with Reptoid Skull”:
9 x 12″ watercolor.
I’ve also been working on a large acrylic painting:
30 x 48″ sketch and first color for “Petrified Forest Spirits Dancing Beneath the Crescent Nightmare World”.
You can see more process and preview shots in posts tagged “Surreal Landscapes” on my Tumblr.
The opening reception for Dispersal/Return will be this Friday (9/25) at the University of New Mexico Art Museum in Albuquerque from 5 to 7 pm. If any of y’all will be in the area, be sure to check it out – it’ll feature a special performance of “America’s Big” by my two good friends the Dirty Monke (AKA Jonathan Loth) and Li’l Bunny Krunk (AKA Gabriel Romero). You can also view my installation, Cryptostructure, alongside many other thought provoking works by Land Arts of the American West alumni.
Smudge Studio recently reblogged my post about my installation, and you can scroll down and view the work of the other artists in the show here.
I spent a lot of time working on different animations for that installation, and I’ve collected together some of the remnants into a new video animated GIF, check it out:
7/12/22 update: I replaced the old video, embedded from Flickr, with an animated GIF hosted on my site. Same content as before, but now it seemlessly loops!
The floating, segmented being with yellow eyes that you see in the beginning contains the longest bits of hand-drawn animation that I’ve done to date. This is definitely something that I plan to do more of, as I find the time in between comics and drawing projects.
As I’ve mentioned, I was in Albuquerque this past week was to install a sculpture for Dispersal/Return, a curated show of Land Arts of the American West alumni at the University of New Mexico Art Museum. Albuquerque is a pretty weird place: as my friend Ryan Henel put it, the city is the Baltimore of the southwest. I gotta say, I dig both places. Fortunately the University Art Museum is across historic Route 66 from the Frontier, a five-roomed New Mexican cuisine emporium. I feasted on fat breakfast burritos stuffed with green chilis. Glade and I brought a jar of chilis and a bag of Albuquerque tortillas back and had breakfest burritos yesterday morning, mmm hmm. Anyway, here’s a shot of the installation of the Cryptostructure in progress:
The sculpture is a pedestal with two TVs and PVC pipe on top that’s all wrapped in a blue tarp. Here’s the animation that’s playing on the TVs:
I bought a red light to shine on the Cryptostructure so that it’ll look more like my installation at MASS (see my previous post on this subject) but I won’t know if the curators decide to use it unless I go to the reception, which will be on September 24th. I don’t know for sure if I’ll be able to make it, but my fellow Landartians Li’l Bunny Krunk and the Dirty Monke will be performing there and then hosting their variety show Sunday School at the Petting Zoo in Albuquerque that Sunday. If I go, I’ll be sure to document and then share with y’all.
This week I’m in Albuquerque installing a Cryptostructure in the University of New Mexico Art Museum for Dispersal/Return, an exhibition that’s part of the LAND/ART symposium.
A Cryptostructure, from my installation Cryptostructures of the Urscape at MASS gallery back in 12/2008.
A little history: back in the Fall of 2004, I participated in Land Arts of the American West, a study-abroad program that (at that time) was between the University of New Mexico and the University of Texas. It was a six-week journey through the Southwest where we investigated the various ways that humans use and respond to the extremes of the landscape and made art that engaged with what we learned. The program continues to create opportunities like this for its alumni. I’ll have some photos to share with y’all when I get back.
Thanks to everyone who came out for the opening! It was as cold as Hoth out there but I think we all had a gud thyme. I’m going to have gallery hours from 7-9 pm on Wednesday 12/10 and 12/17, and from 12-5 pm on Saturday 12/13 and 12/20, if any of y’all wanna stop by. Here’s some images from the opening:
The Miizzzard has (as some of you may be aware)
been lost in the swamp for several months now.
At 7:11 p.m. on November 7th, 2007, the Miizzzard will make his triumphant return to the A7X! Be there* by 7 p.m. to witness this event, for he will return precisely at 7:11 p.m.!
*The Miizzzard will roll into Austin at 7:11 p.m. on Alexander St., between MLK & Manor (this street connects to the Creative Research Lab / Flatbed Press parking lot on its east side) and will emerge from his quasi-space vehicle at the southern end of the street, where there will be a sign proclaiming “The Miizzzard Returns!” This event is in no way affiliated with the Creative Research Lab or Flatbed Press.
