Food Truck / Art Truck

First of all, let me say, this event was awesome. Emily and I put in so much work and we were thrilled with how it came together. We had heard of art shows in Uhaul trucks and wanted to put together a show like this on our own. I've always fancied combining as many things that I love into one entity, so for this art show I really wanted to combine the concept of art in a truck with food in a truck, and music on the street. Art forms became mobile! You can put your art, food, or music anywhere you want!


The set up was done the morning and early afternoon before the actual show. We only had the truck for 24 hours, so we had to cram it all into one day,


But I think it turned out pretty cool. Emily's work hung on one side of the truck,


and mine hung on the other.


And the music was great. This is [Sparrow].


And Saxsquatch!
We hope to plan more events like this in the future. Who knows what could happen.


I wanna give credit to everyone involved:

Emily May for being a great collaborator, partner, and artist

Daniel Bo James Tyler for taking great photos of the event

Megan Mclean for helping install the show and being great support

Gorilla Gourmet for letting us use the parking lot, providing electricity, collaborating on the event, and making great food

[Sparrow] for blowing our minds with space funk explosions

Saxsquatch for the jazzy ass music and good times

Why I've been away

I really haven't posted anything here in a really long time. Sorry for anyone who's following it. Anyway, I HAVE been active, but just not here. I've been making work and organizing an event with my co-worker, Emily May. It's called Food Truck / Art Truck, and you can find all the information about it here. I've been so busy I can't see straight, but it's been good. So when it's all over, I will have lots of stuff to share.

YeeaaaUUUHHHH!

First encaustic oil painting done!

As usual, I feel self conscious showing these, because I feel like my camera distorts the proportions, but here you go.

The color of this one is a little warmer, because I took this right after I finished it, which was after the sun went down and I had to turn on artificial lights.

Encaustic!!

The new encaustic painting. So far there's an ink jet print, some clear and some transparent blue wax, and a drawing of myself in oil pastel. I think I'm going to draw a squirrel in there, and then a paint a self portrait of my face all super pale and scary, with all cool colors and tons of white.

2011 Thesis Exhibition

I'm finally done with school, and this was what I had to show for it. It felt so good to finish, but I'm not sure it has set in yet. I'm anxious for what's to come, and I feel like I need to stay busy. I am planning on entering Art Prize this year, so wish me luck on that.

This is the Gallery space I got to show in. Since I was the recipient of the 2011 Studio Excellence Award in Painting, I got this really nice gallery space to show in by myself as opposed to the classroom converted into gallery space with the other students.


This is the other room where the other Thesis students exhibited. Susan Dennison's work right here. She is awesome. She was working with dance and movement. All her work was based on actual dances that she translated into 2-D paintings/drawings/cut paper.


Kalee Fix's work here. Her paintings are portraits of people and their totems are painted into their portraits in subtle ways. The painting closest to the camera is of a woman who's totem is a salmon, so her slip is painted with the iridescent scale patterns of a salmon. She too is awesome!


To the right (sorry I don't have a more close up picture) is Adam Wolgamott. He paints oil paintings with encaustic frames of animals, focusing on the ways in which they've evolved to fit their environments. He has such a detailed and sensitive approach to paintings animals that you can't help but be seduced by their forms and their evolved abilities.


I wish I had more photos, but I really didn't have the attention to photograph everything really well. There were lots of people, and as usual, I was anxious the entire time. It was good though, and I'm so glad I had the opportunity to do it.

Even though I'm graduated I think I have lots of plans for the summer. Today, Josh and I are going out to paint in the park. Tonight, or tomorrow night I'm going to work on entering Art Prize. For June's Art Hop I will be showing some work at Gazelle Sportswear. Also, in August, I will be showing in an Exquisite Corpse and alumni show at Midtown Gallery. All the while I will be working more on this idea I explored during the last year and a half of my BFA. I hope to continue working in this method on this scale, but in the immediate future I'm going to try my hand at doing some smaller scale encaustic and oil paintings. Still layering, still working with internal thought processes, and still trying to find the sweet intimate subtleties of the human portrait.

Last one, continued

The next stage....

The last painting for Thesis, and for my BFA

This is the current stage. There is still a lot of work to be done on it.


This is the detail,
and this is the whole composition.


This is the stage before that,


and the stage before that.



And this is the print before there was any paint.

The New One

So here's my current project so far. The composition kinda sucks. I got too far into it when I realized the figure is kinda too centralized. But I intend to fix that with the other stuff I put in later. Hopefully I can save it so I don't have to be mad!

Otherwise I really like how this painting is going. I'm really attached to it.

The 4th finalized

This is the middle stage of the latest painting. I've added some cognitive images,


This is the finished version, with more color and opacity in the cognitive images.

The newest painting in progress