Old Triptych - finally scanned
This is a super early version of the 'rooms' I found in my flatfiles recently - maybe from 2003? These bastards are 30" wide - so I never scanned them in because piecing them together is a pain (and I'm lazy). But I just discovered an action on Photoshop 3 that does it automagically. I (heart) Photoshop. They were selected by curator Silke Opitz to be part of a show touring Germany this fall.
As part of this project - anyone can download and print these hi-res images. The link is here.
Dieu Donne Donation
Dieu Donne asked me to donate a drawing on their handmade paper for an upcoming silent auction benefit in October.
Group Show - Adam Baumgold Gallery
My gallery of 8 years - Adam Baumgold Gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan is relocating to two spaces and I'll be in a group show in one of them. The title is "Precision," and this is the drawing I'll have on view:
The show has a few of my favorite artists, including Marc Bell, Charles Burns, Adam Dant, Elvis Studio, Renée French, Alex Katz, Ruth Marten, Saul Steinberg, Chris Ware, Tom Otterness and Anton van Dalen. The show will run from July 14 - August 14, 2009 at the 60 East 66th St., New York, Ny 10065; Phone: 212-861-7338.
DiverseWorks donation
this is a drawing I donated for DiverseWorks (Houston, TX) Luck of the Draw 8 : When Art Attacks! benefit sale that took place July 1, 2009.
Re-Draw
In 1995 my friend Shon Schooler wrote a poem-like-thing titled 10 Reasons to Save a Drowning Fish (written 10 years before Amy Tan's "Saving A Fish From Drowning" was published), which I illustrated (as best as I could at the time) and we made 20 hand sewn copies. Now that I have a kid I thought I'd redraw them. Here's a sketch for the cover of the new one.
Alphabet Letterpress edition update
I just got word that Mark Wagner over at Bird Brain Press will be finished with the printing part of my alphabet letterpress edition. We will have 26 hand bound books available (online at x-ing books) - 26 pages (one page for each letter), in addition to individual prints of each letter. The editions for each letter are different - according to a crazy formula Mark devised involving doubling the letters included in Scrabble and a bunch of other stuff nutty stuff. Sizes vary from of 41 (X's) up to of 50 (M's). If you're interested in learning more when they are finished - please sign up for my mailing list.
Please note - that the prints will be two color - not watercolor like the image above. The (remaining) watercolor originals are available at Adam Baumgold Gallery.
GOOD NEWS show in Madison, WI
I'll be in a group show of UW-Madison alums at the Memorial Union Gallery opening on June 5. I think the Capitol Times is going to use my piece for an article (review? listing? not sure) this week.
Weekly Sketch is back!
I'm feeling bad for not posting a weekly sketch after 10 years of doing so. Since I started a book project I have been under contract with McSweeney's to keep the images under wraps until the book comes out (I think in May 2010). So I broke out the old sketchbook this weekend and started doodling. Here's the first in what I hope to be a weekly thing again.
Okay - it was a different wave drawing
they actually used a different one of my drawings. Makes sense because this one is in ink, opposed to the graphite one, below. Buy it here.
McSweeney's 31 cover
I just found out that McSweeney's issue 31 used this image (foil stamped, I think) for their cover. Should be out in about a month. Amazon link here.
Crash at Sunset 15 in. x 18 in.
Watercolor on paper. I used Lanaquarelle (instead of my favorite, Fabriano) this time and it was weird. It's much softer and requires more brushy-brushing to get the liquid into the crevasses. But I think the end result is nice - the edges are a bit softer. I initially intended to make this really red - but somehow peach won out. This is for a group show at Adam Baumgold Gallery in NYC called Story Lines which opens in May.
Press-ready
I went over the final specs for the small edition of my alphabet book today at Bird Brain Press in Brooklyn. Printing will begin next week. Here's the press, ready to go:
When finished - both single prints (edition number will be determined according to Scrabble set letter counts) and handboud books will be available online via x-ing books.
Slow Down
I'm working on a children's book with McSweeney's right now - so I won't be posting much new stuff on the blog for a while. I'll likely scan in the occasional random sketch or something - but I'm not supposed to show the drawings for the book until it's published (hopefully this fall).
