08-31-04. The GUESTBOOK page is up and running again, after a year or so hiatus. So if you're too chicken to email me and let me know what you think, do it anonymously!

08-19-04. I finished the five drawings for the October "eyewash@Parkers Box" group show titled NEW AMERICAN STORY ART.

07-28-04. I'm pretty sure I will be in a group show this October curated by Larry Wolzak in Williamsberg, Brooklyn. As far as I know, it's a large group show dealing with straght-up narrative (I'll be making 5 new consecutive drawings for it), and it will be held at Parker's Box gallery. Right this moment I'm gearing up for my solo second exhibition with the Adam Baumgold Gallery in Manhattan that opens on Sept. 9. Finally, I have a big shout-out to the GOP. I have to get work for the show to my frame shop peeps a week earlier then I would normally, because the Repubs are taking over the entire Madison Square Garden area for their little convention...which also happens ton be where my framer's shop is located. I'm so glad they are doing it in NYC this year.

07-08-04. The New York Sun today had a nice review of the group show I am in at Adam Baumgold Gallery, "Several drawings by Scott Teplin resemble architectual drawings for Barbie dreamhouses of the Internet age, with oddly juxtaposed rooms." Not a heck of a lot happening otherwise - just for preparation for some shows. My second solo show with the Adam Baumgold Gallery in Manhattan opens on Sept. 9 (and goes though October 16.), so I am trying to finish work for that show. He posted the huge 4' x 4' watercolor on his web site yesterday. I am also preparing new work for a group show at the Univ. at Albany, NY art museum in September.

06-17-04. The show in Houston has generated some press. Just befrore the show opened, the Houston Press did a pre-review. And two weeks in, they did a real review. Good stuff, I'd say.

04-07-04. Shows for this spring and summer: DFN Gallery in lower Manhattan just picked four of my drawings for a show titled, "Watercolor," which will open toward the end of this month (see two images here). The only other artists I know of (of twenty in the show, I think) are Marc Bell and Eric Fischl. Also in April I'm going down to SMU in Dallas to lecture and critique grad/undergrad students' work. Then in May I will be in a show at the University of Albany art museum - possibly with some sort of new wall painting. Also in May I will be in a three-person show in Houston at Mixture Gallery. A bit further down the road is my second solo for the Adam Baumgold Gallery in Manhattan - consisting largely of room-drawings/watercolors. Oh - and a group show in June at Baumgold as well. Finally, I'm working on my first comic book piece for Blood Orange, a new Fantagraphics publication. I'll have four pages in that one (not sure how many artists are involved in it, but I think a lot of then are from France).

03-19-04. Yeah, yeah. So I don't illustrate anymore. But when the op-ed page of the New York Times calls asking for a piece, what am I gonna say, "No."? It actually turned out really well.

02-23-04. The brilliant web designer, Bromwyn Cotton just helped me post a very cool FLASH version of the 28 Rooms project. But make sure you have the latest version of FLASH installed (click here to get it free), or it won't work on your browser (you should see a magnifying glass that you can move around if all goes well).

02-07-04. My parents just emailed me something I wrote when I was six. It's kind of funny. Thank god for spell-check.

01-23-04. Bummer - the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT was scheduled to have a show, Erotic Drawings, including some of my work, opening in May 2004. Unfortunately, I just found out that "Due to changes in the construction schedule, the exhibition Erotic Drawing has been postponed to 2005." The Museum is undergoing a huge expansion project. Oh well, it's still gonna happen, and it's gonna be a great show. Also - I posted What Went On -or- How It Happened finally. I made it in 1999 and it was first exhibited in PS1's Greater New York show, then at the Drawing Center in a Selections exhibition and finally with the Altoids Curiously Strong five-city 2003 tour. After the tour, the book was donated to the New Museum where it currently resides.

12-27-03. Holy MOTHER OF GOD: I finally posted the ELEMENTS books.

12-16-03. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT. just posted a nice paragraph on the show I will participate in from May 2004 – August 2004 called Erotic Drawing. Here's that paragraph: "In recent years, the world has been saturated with explicit photographic images that sell us fantasies of sex both in public and private zones. Concurrent with this explosion of promised flesh is a growing fascination with the traditional aspects of picture making, which has lead to a renaissance in erotic drawing. This exhibition surveys the state of erotic drawing, highlighting the intimacy of drawing itself, which can be by turns titillating, poignant, personal, comic, political, and startling. Co-organized by The Aldrich, DiverseWorks, Houston, and The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon, this exhibition will open at The Aldrich, travel to PICA in September 2004, and to DiverseWorks in 2005." This is some of the work I'm likely to have in the show - follow the links that show the bedsheets.

11-17-03. Just around the corner is the NADA Art Fair, where I will be represented by Houston's Mixture Gallery. It will take place in Miami from Dec. 4 to Dec. 7. AND, I have been working on a new project, "28 Rooms," for a show at Adam Baumgold Gallery in Manhattan opening Sept. 2004.

10-22-03. I recieved the postcards for the opening of the NewMuseum/Altoids CURIOUSLY STRONG collection exhibition in New York City. Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend ((no) thanks to my work schedule), but if you want to go, lookee here. The show will run from Oct. 23 - Nov. 30, 2003.

10-17-03. I will be in a show at The Museum of Arts & Design in Manhattan from Nov. 14, 2003 to June 4, 2004, calleed "Corporal Identity - Body Language." I illustrated a book (a poem by Joel Brower) about the British Lt. who invented shrapnel (which, incidentally, was his name). The book was a very small edition letterpress artist book, published by the venerable Booklyn, which I will scan in and post soon. I think the show is actually traveling from a museum in Frankfurt, Germany, but I am not exactly sure. *** Also, the Altoids Collection is finally on its way to New York - where it will open later this month. Details to come.

10-02-03. EFA Open studios are almost upon us once again, and I'll be participating.

09-25-03. After writing last week's news thing, I realized what a crappy job I did at posting Taught on the site - so it has been re-done so it can be seen better.

09-16-03. A new book was recently published by Keith Smith, the guru of artist books called, "The Structure of the Visual book". It's actually an expanded, updated fouth edition and it includes one of my books, Naught. Taught, the book born from Naught, is a more refined version.

09-10-03. I will be in the Aldrich Museum's first show in their newly constructed building ( in June, 2004 titled (what else?) "Erotic Drawings." Very cool. The show will also travel to Houston's Diverse Works (where I had a show last year) and Portland, Oregon's Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Very cool indeed. Oh - and on the site, there are these that are sorta new too...

08-13-03. I just implemented this new thing that actually emails your message right to my inbox. Give it a try, but if you want a response, be sure to type in your email address because the message I get doesn't have it.

08-5-03. Just because this has been a slow and laaaaazy summer so far, that doesn't mean I haven't chosen my favorite sculpture of the year.

07-29-03. I absolutely couldn't resist - I had to add five more mouths to the list...

07-17-03. Looks like I'll be showing in spring, 2004 at Mixture Gallery in Houston, Texas.

07-09-03. Back by popular demand. Well, by one request actually: I re-posted my current driver's license, just as it appears in my wallet, on the trash/bonus page.

06-29-03. New book project: MANHOLE.

06-24-03. That old Altoids show I have been harping about in this section (see below) is traveling to South Florida soon....

06-05-03. Five more new word-drawings (see below), have been added here.

05-28-03. I compiled several small word-drawings, both old and new right here. Speaking of which, Adam Baumgold Gallery is having a group show called WordWorks in June and I'll have some new work included.

05-15-03. The complete set of 15 mouth images is finally ready for your (dis)approval: RIGHT HERE.

05-10-03. I have been taking my oral fixations to the drawing board lately. Have a look at the all new and inclusive: Mouth page.

05-01-03. The New York Times is running the same "review" they ran last week this week again on Friday, May 2, 2003.

04-25-03. Ken Johnson of the The New York Times listed my MORON show favorably in the paper Friday, April 25, 2003.

04-10-03.My good buddy Kevin Hoth mailed me photos of my work in the Altoids Collection show which was up in Seattle recently. See 10-04-02 for details.

04-09-03. I posted the installation view for my MORON solo show at Jessica Murray Projects in Brooklyn, which opened last weekend.

03-28-03. I posted the six drawings for the group show (see below) in Houston.

03-20-03. I will be in a group show in a Houston gallery called Mixture. The show is called Sweet Tooth and will be on view from April 18 to May 24.

03-07-03.Just posted some of the new drawings for my (sudden) solo show at Jessica Murray Projects in Brooklyn opening April 4th. The show is titled "Moron," after one of the drawings in the exhibition. And the show I might've had at Sakata Gallery in Sacramento is off - maybe another time?

2-25-03. So as things turned out, I will have a solo show on April 4th instead of a dual show. Its at Jessica Murray Projects in Brooklyn and it will include a new animated film (that I shoot tomorrow), called "Sink, It's Butter." Jeff Scher will be showing his brilliant films in the drawing room of the gallery at the same time.

2-13-03. O.K., I have the dates of the Altoids Tour (see below): February 14 - March 23, 2003 at Consolidated Works in Seattle, May 19 - June 19, 2003 at Soo Visual Arts in Minneapolis, July 5 - August 3, 2003 at Art Center/South Florida in Miami Beach, August 18 - September 18, 2003 at Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta and finally, sometime in November/December in my very own New York City. Not sure where that one's gonna be yet - but rumors are it might be in Grand Central Station.

2-4-03. The Altoids Collection (they buy 20 emerging artists' works each year and tour them in a bunch of U.S. cities, and then donate them to the contemporary art museum, the NewMuseum in NYC after the tour is over). The tour is scheduled to start its five-city tour this month, and I have no idea where or exactly when. But I do know that they bought one of my books,and are touring with 3 other newer books (of mine) which they do not own.I suggested they take the other three along for the show, because showing one artist book behind plexi looks sorta lame. That happened when I showed a book (the same one they bought) at PS!'s Greater New York show a couple years ago. No one saw the book in that show (boo-hoo). I think the first Altoids stop is in Seattle somewhere. I'll list the shows here as soon as I find out.

1-18-03. Diverseworks "Lube" show pages now up at none other then teplin.com.

1-13-03. I just returned from Houston, TX. The show at DiverseWorks went very well - and will remain on display until late February. I did several things I had never attempted before and it all seemed to turn out . The DW staff were amazing - I can't say enough nice things about them. They really made the whole experience a pleasure. My only regret is that I didn't leave enough time to check out Houston. Pictures of the show will be posted this week. In other news - the Atloids show will be traveling to 5 cities this year - and I will have 4 artists books in it. The deal is, they buy work from 20 emerging aretists every year and tour the show. This year from me, they bought, "How It Happened - or - What Went On," but because a show with one small artist book isn't much to see, they are including three other books of mine (which they don't own) in the show(s). After the tour (Seattle, Houston, Atlanta, Boston and New York), the work is donated to the New Museum in Manhattan. Also - bread bag!

12-28-02. I can hardly believe it myself, but there appears to be a new chair.

12-17-02. Puddles.

12-10-02. Progressive Insurance in Cleveland, Ohio has a "Curator's Choice" show up in their corporate office and includes a new drawing of mine that they recently purchased. There's a really cool Richard Tutle print in the show.

11-30-02. The show at BAM opens Monday, Dec. 2. Unfortunately the books I made for the show won't be in it, and instead some older, framed drawings will take their place. I started a new "TRASH" archive section and will probably be updating that page on a regular basis, though not as often as the "WEEKLY SKETCH" page. I'm thinking it'll usually show some sort of photo.

11-27-02. I will have my animated film Cracks/Lubes, with sound by Patrick Heilman, included in a show in Berlin this February at Kunst Werke Berlin. The same DVD will be playing as part of a solo show in Houston at DiverseWorks in January.

11-19-02. I put up a temporary page, linked only from here, with five new books meant for the BAM show (see below). As of this writing, the books might not make it in the show, and in their place may be framed drawings instead. The show opens Dec. 3.

11-15-02. Enought with the Chairs the already. I finally installed the Lubricated Wall at Siberia Bar (40th and 9th in Manhattan) yesterday. It looks prety good - but still some technical issues to work out before I install the wall (three times the size of Siberia's, and with better lighting) in Houston in January though....

11-11-02. And again, two more Chairs.

11-08-02. Four new Chairs! More to come...

10-21-02. Open studios is finally over. Whew. 10 hours of people walking into your studio, and usually quickly walking right back out while you pretend to look busy and not care that they don't really look at anything. My favorite are the non-EFA building artists who come in and aggressively ask how YOU got to be in this studio space. I will have a lot of new work at Adam Baumgold Gallery's booth at New York's Affordable Art Fair Thursday, October 31 to Sunday, November 3. And I am going to add a new feature to my front page soon, which will link directly to a page detailing everywhere my work can be (or soon will be) seen, live. Until then - here is a short list: Adam Baumgold Gallery (212) 861-7338 in uptown, Manhattan (plus, at the above mentioned art fair)... Jessica Murray Projects (718) 385-9606 which is in Williamsberg, Brooklyn, has just added viewable flat-files to her space... and also through Jessica Murray Projects, in December at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, I will have five new one-of-a-kind artists books on view.

10-04-02. My favorite dive-bar, Siberia, on 40th and 9th in Manhattan, has agreed to allow me to use an entire wall to practice wall-papering my lube image which is slated to go up at DiverseWorks in January. Siberia has huge walls ready to be lubed, and I just had 1,500 sheets of lube printed. Today I will deliver my piece to the NewMuseum for the Altoids collection. The NewMuseum will be keeping the work in their permenant collection after the show is finished touring the U.S. in 2003.

09-19-02. Chairs. Nothing but sweet, sweet chairs.

08-06-02. Dan Cameron, curator the New Museum of Contemporary Art and creator of the program "Next Next", has chosen a bunch of Brooklyn artists of install work in the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) this fall and winter. The program is designed to get Brooklyn art galleries (I am going though Jessica Murray Projects) to showcase some of their artists in one of the better known cultural institutions of Brooklyn. I will show work with Pierogi2000 artist Dawn Clements, and Roebling Hall artist Debbie Grant in BAM's Natman Lounge in December.

07-24-02. I am not entirely sure what this means yet -but I heard the Altoids Collection voted my work in. I guess currators "in the know" are asked to recommend emerging artists to sell them new work for the Altoids Collection. Then the currators and the artists, together, select works for Altoids to consider buying. This is the 6th year of the selection for collection process. The last two years, Altoids donated the purchased works to the New Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Manhattan, but not before taking the show (of the new work) to exhibit it in several museums throughout the United States. I am pretty sure this piece is what they voted into their collection.

07-12-02. The New York Times reviewed the TENANT show today (Friday). The show comes down tomorrow. And don't forget to vote! Please see 06-23-02 (down two entries).

07-08-02. Looks like New York magazine ran an image from the Baumgold show. Very cool indeed.

06-27-02. New York Magazine (the print version) said they were going to reproduce "S-Butter Haus" in Monday's issue with a nice write-up. Also - The New York Times puts a weekly color multi-page supplement in Le Monde, the leading newspaper in Paris. They asked me for the color cover image (reproduced at a whopping 11.5" long)! Its the pig on top of my NYT illo. page.

06-23-02. Not a single critic has walked though the door to the show at Adam Baumgold yet. I guess I would rather have them see it and ignore it than not even know its there. Sheesh. On the brighter side - I am in a crazy group show in Scotland which opened Saturday. The space is called the Free Gallery and there is an experimental curatorial exhibit going on called "Majority Rules!" where artists send in slides for the first part of the show, and they are all projected while people viewing the slides vote (online or at the gallery, you can click through the images: send votes to vote{at}lethaprojects.com) on five that they like. The finalists show the real pieces in the gallery after the first part of the exhibit (the voting part) is over. Not to influence your vote or anything - but I am in slide carousel #1 (actually the 4th one in the line of 5) and my slide is #19. To see a better scan of the image in question - look here. I have to admit it takes a bit of time to go through all those slides - but its kind of fun to look at new work really fast-like.

06-06-02. I'm kind of going nuts these days without my sketchbook. I put it in the TENANT show at Adam Baumgold Gallery which opened last Friday as part of the exhibit. The opening was great, despite the 4,5,6 trains giving just about everyone who needed them to get there (75% of the attendees) lots of trouble. The show was listed in New York magazine this week with a red recommendation star next to it, which is nice. I guess they decided to do that based solely on the web images and postcard, because I know that they have not been to see the NON-virtual show yet.

05-17-02. I just confirmed that I will have a show at DiverseWorks, in January 2003. Very cool indeed. DiverseWorks, in Houston, TX, is a non-profit art center dedicated to presenting new visual, performing, and literary art....."DiverseWorks Vision: DiverseWorks is one of the leading contemporary art center in the United States. Known for its groundbreaking artistic education programs and distinguished by its financial stability, DiverseWorks serves as an open venue for artists, a training ground for future arts administrators and a model for arts centers across the country. DiverseWorks remains notable for its commitment to artists who are exploring inventive and successful earned-income ventures. DiverseWorks serves as a crucible for artistic exploration and audience development. DiverseWorks' activities are supported by an active Board of Directors and Artist Board and an involved corps of members, audience supporters, students and volunteers."

05-09-02. Just posted 100 (or so) drawings for a wall installation at the upcoming TENANT show at at Adam Baumgold. The gallery also posted an exhibition preview on his site, but because of "frames' or whatever they are - I can't link to that part directly. Just click on "Upcoming Exhibitions". Things are all framed and ready to rock for the show which opens May 31. Somehow I got off from work a bit before, and during that weekend so installation won't be completely (utterly) insane.