Aqua Art Miami

So all the festivities down south have kicked off with Art Basel, some cccrazzy things going on...just straight up epic! Check out Beau's blog over at 'dailyDuJour', if you would like to check out some of the goods.

'the little things'
20" by 23", graphite on paper

Here's another one of my pieces that I have in the aqua art fair down there. A big thanks to Cerasoli:LeBasse for giving me this opportunity. It sounds like it's going to be absolutely ridiculous! Hope you guys have fun down there...

And remember bros, if you wanna know how old she is, check her elbows. Stay alert, stay safe. :)

Gifted

So Ryan, Mel, and Martha and I were in H&M today, and low and behold what happens to come on....that's right, 'Last Christmas'. I'm not embarrassed to say that I sang it most of the way home. But now I can't get it out of my head...this is a problem.

Anyways, I figure now that we're on the subject of Christmas and gifts, I could share my contribution to Cerasoli:LeBasse's 'Gifted' show coming up on the 12th of December.

'a waking lie'
12" by 12", mixed media on paper

'Dreamworld'
12" by 12", mixed media on neutral grey Stonehenge

I'm pretty happy with how these pieces turned out, and actually had a lot of fun working on them, even though I hated them immediately after they were finished...but that might have been the lack of sleep and cold weather, haha. It felt nice to get back to some loose painting while still trying to keep with the unconscious sensation of drawing.

And with that, I shall leave you with some tender Holiday wishes from GM (cause lord knows I can't get it out of my head)

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

take care folks

Artistaday

I was featured yesterday, November 23 rd, on the fantastic site that is Artistaday.com


I've been getting a ton of really nice emails and comments from people, just wanted to say thank you!

And an especially big thanks to Geoff! Really appreciate it dude!

Deafening Demons

'Deafening Demons'

20" by 23", graphite on paper

It feels like it's been awhile since I've posted a finished piece of work...let alone something I'm proud of, haha. I wanted to explore the nature of victimization with this piece and a lot of the struggles and strife that are associated with it. An idea that I sorted batted around was, that as much as this sort of thing can be born of an external trauma, someone or something making you the victim, it's sort of perpetuated by one's own defeating thoughts about themselves. The piece went through a pretty large evolution from the original concept to visual, in the beginning it was a more 2D concept with the image itself being a huge style jerkoff...but I wanted to push it further, so I could find a better way to marry the image and the idea together. After having a solid chat with Thom about the concept, I was able to develop a much clearer vision of the piece.

This is one of my pieces that I finished for Cerasoli:LeBasse's exhibit over at Art Basel Miami, in December, I'll post the other two images in a little bit. But for now I'm going to enjoy some of that fluffy white stuff on the ground outside.

Take care.