Saturday, May 17, 2008
I took the train out to the opening at the Claremont Grad. School yesterday. I got there just at the end- but it was really nice, probably my favorite show I've been in- and I took awful photos (!) It was hung super minimally. I really like the amount of space everything had.
I met some of the students there (two I knew-accd classmates) and got a tour of the studios. It just made me want to go to grad school a lot. I love the idea of being around that many people working all the time.
I got a kick out of Christina Pierson who showed us her studio. She works with super simple material- and then tracks the light that hits them, or reflects it or...
After messing around with vinyl lettering this week I keep thinking I should try new materials.
So here are some photos of the show. Thanks to everyone who so kindly showed me around and fed me cupcakes and beer.
(the pinkish piece in the corner is mine)
I met some of the students there (two I knew-accd classmates) and got a tour of the studios. It just made me want to go to grad school a lot. I love the idea of being around that many people working all the time.
I got a kick out of Christina Pierson who showed us her studio. She works with super simple material- and then tracks the light that hits them, or reflects it or...
After messing around with vinyl lettering this week I keep thinking I should try new materials.
So here are some photos of the show. Thanks to everyone who so kindly showed me around and fed me cupcakes and beer.
(the pinkish piece in the corner is mine)
On the subway home this morning there was a group of about 8 kids (10-12?) years old all with skateboards. They ran up the escalator at civic center before I could get a great picture. I envied them so much- that was exactly what I would have been wanting to do at their age: riding the subway downtown, no adults and fours wheels.
Monday, May 12, 2008
hello...this has been such a busy time. I am posting this in hopes of keeping in touch with all the people I have been wanting to call... so catching up.
I just finished a bookcover for Mcsweeny's and a couple pieces for an upcoming show. I guess I'll wait till the book comes out to post the final pics. But here is the info on the shows this weekend.
East and Peggy Phelps Galleries at Claremont Graduate University, 51 East Tenth Street, in Claremont, California in between the 210 and the 10 freeways. For general gallery information please call (909) 607-3631 or visit www.cgu.edu. Claremont Graduate University presents under current, an exhibition that examines a collective anxiety and the ways that contemporary artists engage with this experience. The exhibition brings together works by twelve emerging artists from the U.S. and Europe working in various mediums. It opens on May 16, 5 - 9pm with a free reception open to the public and runs through May 30, 2008.
This one is the third time they've done it in S.F. It is usually pretty great. How can trees be bad? I'll post mine tomorrow...
I hope everyone is well. As soon as I unpack I promise I will call.
Also a good friend, Drew Beckmeyer is showing at tinlark this weekend. I'll be there, will you?
In the last three months I got a job at Gemini, moved into an apartment in West Hollywood and became a pro at figuring out a good part of the L.A. transit system. Very very eventful.
Here are some photos...
My boss calls this "my new digs". I think that means my new place. (Part of why I like my job is because I like my boss (83) so much. Is that weird?)
Up until I moved I was spending about five hours a day riding the trains and buses back and forth from WeHo to Pomona. This was a daily odyssey that literally scrambled me. I don't know how to explain it- but around the same time a friend lent me a Japanese novel about a man who is struggling each day to move a sand dune away from a house he is trapped in. I couldn't think of a better comparison.Here are some photos...
My boss calls this "my new digs". I think that means my new place. (Part of why I like my job is because I like my boss (83) so much. Is that weird?)I just finished a bookcover for Mcsweeny's and a couple pieces for an upcoming show. I guess I'll wait till the book comes out to post the final pics. But here is the info on the shows this weekend.
East and Peggy Phelps Galleries at Claremont Graduate University, 51 East Tenth Street, in Claremont, California in between the 210 and the 10 freeways. For general gallery information please call (909) 607-3631 or visit www.cgu.edu. Claremont Graduate University presents under current, an exhibition that examines a collective anxiety and the ways that contemporary artists engage with this experience. The exhibition brings together works by twelve emerging artists from the U.S. and Europe working in various mediums. It opens on May 16, 5 - 9pm with a free reception open to the public and runs through May 30, 2008.
This one is the third time they've done it in S.F. It is usually pretty great. How can trees be bad? I'll post mine tomorrow...
I hope everyone is well. As soon as I unpack I promise I will call.
Also a good friend, Drew Beckmeyer is showing at tinlark this weekend. I'll be there, will you?