24-Hour Custom Drawing Experiment
Yesterday, starting at 7:30 am, I conducted an experiment which ended at midnight. I created a form (see below) and did minimal publicity which included emails to a bunch of random people in my address book and a post on facebook. Now it's time to start filling those orders - which I plan on posting here as I send them out. If you would like to know when I post the next round, please sign up for my mailing list.
Some completed images from the experiment have been posted.
Alphabet City
So after many delays - the book and/or individual letter prints (each signed and numbered) will finally be available at the end of November. Please sign up for my mailing list if you would like notification on availability. I'll probably put together some sort of price list email announcement).
Open Studios 2009: October 15-17
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, whose web site I created and maintain, and who gives me my studio in midtown Manhattan, is hosting it's annual Open Studios event in two weeks.
Opening Reception: Thursday, Oct. 15, 6:00-10:00pm
Open Studios: Friday, Oct. 16, 6:00-9:00pm
Open Studios: Saturday, Oct. 17, 1:00-5:00pm
Complications and Delays
Bad news - the elusive Alphabet City book will not be appearing at the Book Art Fair this week. Huge disappointment - I hope to see it soon.
The Book Cover is Complete!
The book will be bound on left, short side - and as you turn each page - the floorplan below will be revealed. 13 floors in all.
Book Progress....
I know it's pretty lame - but I'm not supposed to post any sketches for the upcoming book I'm working on. BUT - I'm very excited because aside from having the meat of the pages all inked and ready for watercolor - the cover design has been (after lots and lots of rejected sketches) decided upon - and I'll begin penciling it tomorrow morning. The book will be called The Clock Without a Face and is being published by McSweeney's in May 2010. The brilliant Mac Barnett wrote the text and Eli Horowitz is our royal editor.
NY Art Book Fair
My new Alphabet City book, published by X-ING BOOKS, will finally debut at the NY Art Book Fair at PS.1 on Oct. 2-4. I'm working on the text for the covers now.
The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling
I've listened to this show on WFMU for almost 10 years now - it's by far my favorite thing to listen to in the studio. I think people call it long-form comedy. I haven't missed a single show since I started listening.
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.
