A Cry for Help

‘A Cry For Help' @ Thinkspace
A benefit show for the endangered species of the world presented by Born Free USA & the Animal Protection Institute

Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 8th 7-11PM
On View: Jan. 8th, 2009 – Feb. 5th, 2010
20% of all proceeds will be donated to Born Free USA

This special exhibit will feature an installation from Bumblebee as well as a group show featuring the works of over 100 artists (full list is below).

(Los Angeles, CA) Thinkspace is proud to present "A Cry For Help," a benefit exhibition with the goal of raising awareness about the plight of animals in our modern world. Featuring more than 100 artists who represent every branch of the new contemporary scene, this show has been curated with an eye to representing the unique and innovative attributes of a select group of seasoned veterans and fresh-eyed newcomers from five continents. In keeping with the benefit's mission, each artist will explore different facets of our complicated relationship with the creatures with whom we share this planet.

Though we live in the city, animals exist all around us – they sleep in our beds, creep past our windows at night and visit us in our dreams. Symbolizing all that is free, unspoiled and elemental in the world, they also comfort us with guileless affection, amuse us with their playful abandon, and represent us metaphorically in a million works of art and literature. In every niche of the new contemporary scene, artists have employed animals to envisage concepts ranging from the wonder of childhood to the death of nature, while exploiting an ever-widening array of aesthetics, from surreal naturalism to street fables, apocalyptic visions to modern mythology, uncanny allegories to sylvan dreamscapes.

In celebration of the magnificent creatures with whom we share the planet, Thinkspace will donate 20% of the sale price of each piece of art to Born Free USA and the Animal Protection Institute, which operate jointly as a non-profit organization that advocates worldwide for the ethical treatment and protection of animals, and also maintains a large sanctuary for rescued primates. Throughout the month, the gallery will host pet adoptions, slide shows, lectures and more. The world can indeed be changed through random individual acts of kindness, so please don't miss this opportunity to kick off the New Year with a good deed, as well as a great piece of art.

ARTISTS TAKING PART INCLUDE:

Acorn http://www.flickr.com/photos/acornsgrow/
Allison Sommers http://allisonsommers.typepad.com/
Amy Sol http://www.amysol.com
Andrea Offermann http://www.andreaoffermann.com/
Andrew Hem http://www.andrewhem.com/
Angry Woebots http://www.armyofsnipers.com/
Anthony Clarkson http://www.anthonyclarksonart.com/
Anthony Ausgang http://www.ausgangart.com/
Apak http://apakstudio.com/apak/
Ashira Siegel http://www.redridinghoodproductions.com/
Ben Strawn http://benstrawn.carbonmade.com/
Bradley Delay http://www.delayart.com/
Buff Monster http://www.buffmonster.com
Bumblebee http://www.flickr.com/photos/theuglyyou
Catherine Brooks http://thearborgeistproject.tumblr.com/
Charlie Immer http://www.charlieimmer.com/
Chet Zar http://www.chetzar.com/
Chris Murray http://www.chrisbmurray.com/
Craig "Skibs" Barker http://www.skibsart.com/
Dabs Myla http://www.dabsmyla.com
Dan May http://dan-may.com/
Dan Quintana http://www.myspace.com/artslinger
Dan-ah Kim http://www.dkim-art.com/
David MacDowell http://www.macdowellstudio.com/
Dennis Hayes IV http://www.dennishayesiv.com/
Derek Ihnat http://www.myspace.com/visual_feast
Dolan Geiman http://www.dolangeiman.com/
Edwin Ushiro http://www.mrushiro.com/
Ekundayo http://www.ekunday.com
ELBOW-TOE http://www.elbow-toe.com/
Elisabeth Timpone http://listimpone.blogspot.com/
Eric Nyquist http://www.ericnyquist.com/
Erik Siador http://www.eriksiador.com/
Faith 47 http://www.faith47.com/
Gaia http://gaiastreetart.com/
Genevivie Zacconi http://www.genevive.com/
Germs http://www.germs4u.com/
Ghostpatrol http://ghostpatrol.net/
Guy McKinley http://www.flickr.com/photos/guymckinley
Heiko Mueller http://www.heikomueller.de/
Imminent Disaster http://www.flickr.com/photos/disasterstrikes/
J. Shea (#9) http://jshea9blog.blogspot.com/
Jacub Gagnon http://www.jacubgagnon.com/
Janet Grey
Jason Limon http://www.limon-art.com/
Jason Thielke http://www.jasonthielke.com/
Jen Lobo http://jenlobo.com/
Jennybird Alcantara http://www.jennybirdart.com/
Jesse Hotchkiss http://www.jessehotchkiss.com/
Jim Darling http://www.jimdarling.com/?id=206
Joao Ruas http://souvlaki.jp-ar.org/
John Park
Johnny 'KMNDZ' Rodriguez http://www.kmndz.com/
Joseph McSween (aka 2H) http://www.myspace.com/2hatred
Joshua Mays http://soldren.com/content/
Josie Morway http://www.josiemorway.com/
Justin Gibbens http://www.justingibbens.com/
Katelyn Alain http://www.katelynalain.com/
Kathleen Lolley http://www.lolleyland.com/
Kelly McKernan http://kellymckernan.com/
Kelly Vivanco http://www.kellyvivanco.com/
Kevin Earl Taylor http://www.kevinearltaylor.com/
Kevin Titzer http://www.kevintitzer.com/
Kris Lewis http://www.krislewisart.com/
Leontine Greenberg http://leontinemay.com/
Lesley Reppeteaux http://www.reppeteaux.com/
Liz Brizzi http://www.lizbrizzi.com/
Liz McGrath http://www.elizabethmcgrath.com/
Luke Kopycinski http://koppa.carbonmade.com/
Mari Inukai http://www.mariinukai.com/
Martin Wittfooth http://www.martinwittfooth.com/
Mear One http://www.mearone.com/
Michael Pukac http://www.michaelpukac.com/
Mike Brown http://www.myspace.com/funpig
Moki http://www.mioke.de/
Molly Crabapple http://www.mollycrabapple.com/
Nathan DeYoung http://www.nathandeyoung.com/
Nimit Malavia http://www.nimitmalavia.com/
Nouar http://www.noirnouar.com/
Paul Barnes http://www.paul-barnes.com/
Peter Taylor http://www.handmadefeat.com/
Raquel Aparicio http://www.raquelissima.com/
Rebecca Hahn http://rebeccahahn.com/
Renee French http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/
Rob Sato http://www.robsato.com/index.html
Rory Kurtz http://www.rorykurtzillustration.com/
Sarah Joncas http://www.teapartylove.digitalinkz.com/
Scott Belcastro http://www.scottbelcastro.com/
Scott G. Brooks http://www.scottgbrooks.com/
Scott Radke http://www.scottradke.com/
Tadaomi Shibuya http://www.tadaomishibuya.com/
Tessar Lo http://www.tessarlo.com/
Timothy Karpinski http://timothykarpinski.com/
Tina Darling http://tinadarling.com/?id=206
Tran Nguyen http://www.trannguyen.org/
Travis Louie http://www.travislouie.com/
Van Arno http://www.vanarno.com/
Wesley Burt http://www.wesleyburt.com/
Yoskay Yamamoto http://yoskay.com/
Yosuke Ueno http://www.spaceegg77.com/

La Ronde

La Ronde, 2009

Cut paper on birch panel

16 x 24 inches

I just delivered the collage La Ronde to Marc and Sara of Wooster Collective. After I showed them the piece they asked me to do a brief explanation of the work.

It's All About the Details

Busy in the studio will cut paper pieces again. I am working on some large scale hand-colored drawings for the spring. Above is a detail.

Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
21 x 31 5/8 inches

Hand-pulled silkscreen on 250 grams Stonehenge Natural White moulde-made paper.

Edition limited to 50.

This print will be available via Black Rat Projects.

Black Rat Projects is delighted to invite you to the opening of London’s most unusual bookshop which takes place on 2nd December 2009.

The pop-up antiquarian bookshop is also rumoured to be haunted and is built inside our railway arch gallery.

The bookshop will be filled with an unusual selection of books from major and independent book publishers. A large selection of second hand books and artist made fanzines, counter cultural manuals and films will be available. Artwork by Swoon, Grayson Perry, Giles Walker, Matt Small and Lucas Price will also be on display. Reports have already been received of eerie incidents and strange happenings, with books magically flying off shelves, and lights switching themselves on and off. Halloween may have been and gone but the real ghosts and ghouls work all year round. In addition to this we will be releasing a new edition by ELBOW-TOE.

The idea of creating the bookshop came when we slept in the gallery one evening and were woken by the toilet flushing and books falling from the office bookshelves. Thinking we were being burgled, we turned the lights on only to find the gallery empty. Asking around, a local landlord mentioned that the gallery had been used to store the stock of legendary Victorian book dealer F. J. Williams who disappeared in 1903 and is rumoured to haunt various pubs and houses around the East End.

Black Dog Books promises to be one of the year’s most interesting art and book events. Working with support from publishers including the Tate, Thames and Hudson and Drago, the project promises to not only provide a unique experience, but also a great place to do a little alternative Christmas shopping.

Black Dog Books is a fully functional bookshop complete with customer assistant, working antique till and books available to buy. The book shop has been designed by Will Randall and Giles Walker and can accommodate up to 10 people at a time. Invites to the launch will be sent out in the next few days.

Black Dog Books

Black Rat Press: The pop-up antiquarian bookshop is also rumoured to be haunted and is built inside our railway arch gallery. The bookshop will be filled with an unusual selection of books from major and independent book publishers. A large selection of second hand books and artist made fanzines, counter cultural manuals and films will be available. Artwork by Swoon, Grayson Perry, Giles Walker, Matt Small and Lucas Price will also be on display. Reports have already been received of eerie incidents and strange happenings, with books magically flying off shelves, and lights switching themselves on and off. Halloween may have been and gone but the real ghosts and ghouls work all year round. In addition to this we will be releasing a new edition by Brian Douglas (ELBOW-TOE).

The bookstore opens 12.02.09 at 6:30 pm.

Lost in thought

I experienced a most unique moment today. I was sitting on my back porch having lunch. The sky was intensely clear and rich in it's blue hue. It was cold and warm at the same time, the sun, extra bright from the depth of color in the sky. I began to think about being older in my house. And then I started thinking about the fact that I could see myself living someday downstairs. Then suddenly I was the me downstairs as an old man, and I was looking back at myself at this day at this time and thinking how it was an extremely memorable day in my life. That things are were really pretty good, that I had made the right choices, as best as I could blindly not knowing any repercussions. Time and space felt extremely fluid. I was experiencing my present moment with all the nostalgia I hold for the memorable times of my childhood.

One Last Reminder

Just a reminder I am participating in A.G.A.S.T (Annual Gowanus Artist Studio Tour) this Saturday and Sunday, October 17 & 18 from 1 - 6 pm.

At this event, you will have the unique opportunity to get small (Recession Sized) versions of ELBOW-TOE pieces at extremely friendly (Recession Priced) prices. I will be selling 10 different prints from my latest street work as well as some oldies but goodies. These works are single color silk screens reduced to sizes ranging from 5x8 inches up to 12x10 inches and will be sold for approximately $30 a piece + shipping and handling if I need to mail them. They will be limited to editions of 30.
There will be a 10% discount if you buy the entire folio.

I will be setting up an ETSY store to make the ease of purchasing them more convenient for you. Once that is established I will have links from a shop section on my website.

Also if you are interested in acquiring these images in their actual size, hand colored and mounted on my traditional wood sculpture format please contact Mike Snelle at Black Rat Press. His email is mike@blackratpress.com .

My studio is located at 94 9th Street 4th floor studio 23, Brooklyn NY 11215.

Due to bad planning on the part of the MTA Smith/ 9th Street station is closed on the F and G trains. They will be offering a free shuttle from Jay St Borough hall to Smith Street. The quicker method for getting here if you are taking a train is to take the N train to 4th Ave/9th street in Park slope and walk down 2 blocks to the studio along 9th street. The R train is the usual local on that line but this weekend the N train is running local.

Grand Opening. Grand Closing.

Techtonic Perspective Shifts.

The fall air has really kicked in. For the first time this morning I could see my breath. I am at the point of switching gears for a while, a lot of work to do collaging for a solo show in London next year. It has been a very interesting summer into fall.

Given the Boot

There Was an Old Woman
Who Lived in a Shoe,
But She Got an Adjustable Rate Mortgage
and Couldn't Make Her Payments

Recession Sized Prints and ELBOW-TOE at A.G.A.S.T

Just a reminder I am participating in A.G.A.S.T (Annual Gowanus Artist Studio Tour).

At this event, you will have the unique opportunity to get small (Recession Sized) versions of ELBOW-TOE pieces at extremely friendly (Recession Priced) prices. I will be selling 10 different prints from my latest street work as well as some oldies but goodies. These works are single color silk screens reduced to sizes ranging from 5x8 inches up to 12x10 inches and will be sold for approximately $30 a piece + shipping and handling if I need to mail them. They will be limited to editions of 30.
There will be a 10% discount if you buy the entire folio.

I will be setting up an ETSY store to make the ease of purchasing them more convenient for you. Once that is established I will have links from a shop section on my website.

Also if you are interested in acquiring these images in their actual size, hand colored and mounted on my traditional wood sculpture format please contact Mike Snelle at Black Rat Press. His email is mike@blackratpress.com .

The Rise and Fall of Icarus. An Interview with MTV

MTV Brasil has finally posted an interview I did with them earlier this year. I feel like I am in the middle of a fashion sandwich.

And Now for Something a Little Different

I am about to jump back in full force to collaging. Here is a recent piece and an older piece, both recently pasted.

A little back story on the older piece(the one of the woman amongst the ruins.

In my show with Armsrock last year, at one point we were going to draw upon the writings of Eduardo Galeano. This was the first image that I made for that show. Both of our images turned away from that initial inception, and I have been weighing whether to sell the image for the better part of a year now. I decided the other day, as I worked on another drawing that it would be nice to set her free. I will put up the passage that this is based on a little later.

From the Streets to the Studio//ELBOW-TOE and A.G.A.S.T.

On Saturday and Sunday October 17 - 18 2009 from 1-6 pm, Brian Adam Douglas (A K A ELBOW-TOE) will be participating in the Annual Gowanus Artist Studio Tour.

Brian Adam Douglas/ ELBOW-TOE is a Brooklyn based artist that has been a predominant force in the New York street art scene creating introspective urban art for several years. His artwork for the streets is grounded in myth, symbolism and poetry and is primarily executed in woodcut, stencil or large-scale charcoal drawings. His current body of work can be divided into two main camps. His figurative work is an exploration of gesture as a means for communication. With these works he is particularly interested in the effects of environmental forces outside his control to create a timeless quality to the work thereby allowing it to feel as if it has been memory and is part of the collective unconscious. His most recent body of work has been focusing on the mythology of children's literature as a catalyst. By using well known stories that allow for instant recognition, he is able to layer upon his own message that creates a subversive re-contextualization.

His gallery work focuses on portraiture and abstracted narrative and is primarily executed in collage. These intricate collages at first glance might be mistaken for paintings given that they have a fluidity rarely seen in collages. Whilst his work has a very unique style it draws on a rich history of figurative painting and has qualities reminiscent of Freud, Bacon and Soutine.

Brian / ELBOW-TOE was the focus of a documentary on the global phenomenon of streetart by the BBC world service in November of 2008. The documentary can be downloaded at http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2008/11/081103_street_art_one.shtml

For other interviews of note please check out http://www.myloveforyou.typepad.com/my_love_for_you/2008/06/qa-w-elbowtoe.html and http://arrestedmotion.com/2009/07/interview-elbow-toe-hits-up-streets-of-london/

To coincide with the Annual Gowanus Artist Studio Tour, Brian is creating silkscreens of his most recent street art, that can be purchased either at his studio or online via http://www.elbow-toe.com. Check his website periodically as a shop section will be added to the website prior to the open studio tour.

For more information on the open studio tour please visit http://www.gowanusartists.com/ where you can download a pdf map for the entire 2 day event.

The studio is located at 94 9th street, 4th floor #23. For easiest access, take the F/G train to Smith/9th Street.

Thanks so much and hope to see you there!

Pirate Truck

Was out doing my thing this morning and came across this wonderful Katsu.

Watch Your Step

Some new street art. 2 color stencil on sidewalk. Keep your eyes peeled, they are scattered around.

Starting to gear up for my next series of collages so the street art will be a little fewer and far between, in terms of new pieces.

Divine Hammer

Some new street work. Just a couple of breeders.

The subject and composition is derived from Rembrandt's Monk in the Cornfields.

We Are All Just Players

Some new street work. When I showed this to my wife she immediately thought the structure that the image is on looked like a coffin. The works have gotten smaller this year, due to time constraints and my budget; in return I am aiming to lift the level of quality and subject matter up ten fold.

When He Made It To the West Coast He Found a Home

This just blows me away. The wonderful family that acquired Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? from my show Mostly Memory at Thinkspace has built a small HOUSE to contain the piece. I am floored.

The Turn Around in the Return

The Turn Around in the Return 2009

18 x 28 inches.
Cut paper on birch panel.

ELBOW-TOE's Bunions

These guys are the greatest. It's been a real pleasure working with them.

Beach Blanket Bingo, A Summer Mixer

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin - Squirrel NUT-KIN 2009

Hand-colored linocut mounted on reclaimed lumber on a birch support.
22.25 x 25.5 inches

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin - Old Brown 2009

Hand-colored linocut mounted on reclaimed lumber on a birch support.
24.5 x 39.5 inches

These works will be included in Beach Blanket Bingo, A Summer Mixer at Jonathan LeVine Gallery.

Artists include: Ana Bagayan, Glenn Barr, Ray Caesar, Dave Cooper, Xiaoqing Ding, Meredith Dittmar, David Ellis, Ron English, Natalia Fabia, Korin Faught, AJ Fosik, Andrew Foster, Rick Froberg, Matt Haber, Logan Hicks, Seonna Hong, Alex Hornest (Onesto), Rich Jabocs, Anthony Lister, Jack Long, Cleon Paterson, Scott Radke, Erik Mark Sandberg, SKINNER, ELBOW-TOE, TURF ONE, Nicola Verlato, Adam Wallacavge, Martin Wittfooth, Dan Witz

ELBOW-TOE.COM Is Live

Elbow-toe.com launched this evening. I would encourage you to check out the site and please pass it on to your friends.

Thanks so much!

Catch Up

I am back from London, it was an amazing experience, I was fortunate to meet many wonderful people. The show looked amazing, it was a truly spectacular combination of aesthetics.

I woke this morning to see that an interview that I gave with Arrested Motion is up.

Off to clean studio and get back at it.

Ways of Seeing at BRP

Swoon

Matt Small

Brian Adam Douglas

Ways Of Seeing – An exhibition featuring Swoon, Brian Adam Douglas and Matt Small. Thursday 2nd July – 23rd July 2009

Black Rat Press is delighted to invite you to our next exhibition ‘Ways of Seeing’. The show features works by Swoon, Matt Small and Brian Adam Douglas and explores the different approaches of these three contemporaries to figurative mark making.

Brian Adam Douglas is a Brooklyn based artist who for the past five years has been pasting up his distinctive woodcuts in cities all over the world under the name Elbow-Toe. His work is often grounded in myth, symbolism and poetry and his distinctive style has gained him an avid following of enthusiasts both within street art and the wider art world. Douglas is one of a group of classically trained New York based artists who have chosen the street as the primary place to exhibit their work, finding the immediacy of doing so more liberating than the confines of the traditional gallery system. For ‘Ways of Seeing’ Douglas has created a series of collages portraits. These intricate collages at first glance might be mistaken for paintings given that they have a fluidity rarely seen in collages. Whilst his work has a very definitely unique style it draws on a rich history of figurative painting and has qualities reminiscent of Freud and Bacon.

Swoon is a Brooklyn based artist whose life sized woodcuts can be found on walls in various states of beautiful decay in cities around the world. The scope, variety and ambition of Swoons projects in hugely impressive. Recent projects have involved ‘Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea’, her second solo show with Deitch Projects in New York and her ongoing work with the Braddock Active Arts Project. The Swimming Cities project included seven boats designed and built by Swoon and her crew from discarded materials found in New York dumpsters and then sailed down the Hudson river for 3 weeks stopping along the way to give performances at various locations. The Braddock project is an experiment in inclusive living in the town of Braddock where through creativity and community projects a group of artists led by Swoon hope to revitalize a town struggling with the issues left by the failure of local industry. Swoons gallery installations in which she creates imaginary cityscapes from discarded materials which are inhabited by her life sized figurative wood block prints have gained critical acclaim. Her work is in the permanent collections of a number of public institutions including MOMA, the Brooklyn Museum and the Tate.

Matt Small is an artist whose painting is best understood as an extension of his beliefs and world view. Matt is a passionate believer in social inclusion and that, given the opportunities to be heard and respected, all individuals have something of value to contribute to society. The subject matter of Matts portraits tends to be the marginalized and voiceless in society, those who are socially excluded and often viewed as statistics or pawns in a wider political game as opposed to individuals with the latent potential to contribute and enrich society if only given the opportunity to be heard. By painting portraits of individuals on the outskirts of society, often young black men, Matt encourages us to spend time with people who we may chose to overlook in our daily lives and in doing so forces us to challenge our prejudices and recognize our shared humanity Not content with dealing with such issues only on a conceptual level through his painting, Matt is actively involved in working with the socially excluded. His most recent project ‘Hope in Life’ involved running a series of workshops where mentally ill, homeless and educationally excluded young people came together on a weekly basis alongside established artists to express themselves through painting and music. The project was a huge success culminating in an exhibition at Black Rat Press. The money raised at the show will help make ‘Hope in Life’ an annual project. Matt Small graduated from the Royal College of Art and his unique style of portraiture has gained him a huge following and widespread critical acclaim. He was runner up in the BP portrait award and his work is in numerous collections worldwide including the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Ways of Seeing opens on the evening of July 2nd and invites will be sent out via email to those on the mailing list.

Oedipus copy

elbowtoe
Originally uploaded by jesse_moy

I came across this on flickr this evening. 

This is not a urinal.

Text and photocopy pasted on wall by street artist ELBOW-TOE.

A little explanation of the piece for those that are curious. There is a guy in this neighborhood that goes around with chalk marking spots not as urinals of critiquing graffiti. 

It got me thinking.

This piece is basically a mashup of Duchamp's Fountain and Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe, two pieces that question the relation of signs to their designata. 

Processed

I am busy working on a collage, and as is usually the case my mind is very active as I build layer upon layer of paper very patiently.

As I worked today a conversation I had with another artist in my building kept circulating in my head. The artist mentioned something regarding "now that you have a formula it is pretty much an issue of cranking them out."

This is certainly not the case with these works. I approach every piece as a new challenge, of refinement, expression, of understanding the individual in that moment of time. The actual process of applying the paper is rather straight forward, but every mark is made as though it is the exact mark that is meant to be there, in terms of color, value and the description of its shape. I view these works as operating as both representational works and abstractions. As there is no blending per se, the marks move in and around the forms creating a lattice work of levels, at moments in the process the open areas of color read like precise versions of a Pollock gestural work, and over time develop into forms that on the proper distance congeal to create an arm, a cheekbone, an eye.

The collage works are as much about the process as they are about the finished product. Every mark is a comment on the emotional presence of the model, descriptive as well as gestural.

Transition

This blog is about things that feed my gallery and street art, and this cat has been a major player in my life. 

My wife and I put him to sleep today. 

Thank you Fozzy, you have made my life more full.

Rest in peace.

Indexing Reference

So I apologize to you all for not keeping this blog up to date. I am burning the oil overtime. 

Artwork:

I have a large series of street based prints that are in the process of being carved, and them come the multi-layer wood color layers. 

I am very busy with the collages as well. Finished what I feel is the most intricate one I have ever executed, and am working on a companion piece for it currently.

Reading:

Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire(Genesis)

Sharon Old's One Secret Thing

Listening to:

Sigor Ros' Med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust

William S. Burroughs read Naked Lunch

Want to see the Francis Bacon Exhibit at the Met.

But for now, going home to have a glass of port and hit the hay.

  

Leftover Beef

O Elbow Toe wherefore art thou
Originally uploaded by nolionsinengland

To Fall From Grace

I was fortunate enough to recently be interviewed for a Brazilian show dealing with the New York art scene. As part of the interview they wanted to go with me as I installed a piece. I visited a spot that I have been thinking about for quite some time, years in fact where I used to ride my bike and rollerblade. What was particularly meaningful about this location was that it fit the needs exactly for a more developed installation of work that I created over the past year. In particular there was a security light that I have been looking for for a while to install the Icarus piece against. The install went quite well, and I was very happy with the overall composition. We went and had lunch, toasted with a beer and came back only to witness the death of the installation. 

I have never had the opportunity to be witness to the demise of one of my works. I found it quite breathtaking. I can not say I was bummed, the wall was very nice and clean, and I had the feeling it would not last long. But it was just wild to see the entire life cycle compressed in such a short time. The best part is that the folks interviewing me went up to the maintainence guy and began to start questioning his actions. 

 

The Wall Flower

YOUR FRAIL NECK

APPEARS TO LACK

THE STRENGTH TO HOLD 

YOUR NERVOUS,

RED RACOON EYES.

RED AND WHITE SKIN

BOBBING

WITH SO MUCH 

SURFACE TENSION.

- ELBOWTOE

Mustachioed

elbow toe
Originally uploaded by ADHocism

How strangely apropos. I have recently grown a mustache, and then I see this.

Ode to Redon

I was on the train tonight coming back from a nice evening with family and friends and I saw this on the floor of a subway station that was being renovated. It reminded me quite a bit of work by Odilon Redon.

Palette

Working hard in the studio on collages. For those curious after seeing the piece posted recently on Wooster Collective, here is a shot of the palette.

Late Nights

I am.
Originally uploaded by christheobscure

Time Beaten Couple

Time Beaten Couple
Originally uploaded by samideluxe

Red, White and Ochre.

I will post a panorama of this later, but I was absolutely blown away by this mound of garbage. There is something so beautiful about the intersection and distribution of repeated shapes and densities of material against the walls whose repeating bricks provide a structure for it all to sit against. The photo does not really capture the scale, but it had a quality almost approaching a Richard Serra.

Within the Quiet There is a Scream

Within the Quiet There is a Scream.
Originally uploaded by jschumacher