We will be exhibiting at the LA Zine Fest next Sunday 2/19/2012, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the second floor of the Spring Arts Tower (453 S. Spring Street)– just upstairs from The Last Bookstore.. There will be panels and workshops. Admission is FREE!
New textile prints on Little Paper Planes
Little Paper Planes is now selling a set of prints showing the front and back of the Hidden Industry embroidery.
http://www.littlepaperplanes.com/product/3601-textile-print-set
I wrote this description for the work:
For Hidden Industry I utilized some of the decorative conventions typically found in embroidery to portray my own shifting impressions of a desert landscape. The process is laborious and in order to stay engaged with the work I have to start with a loose intention and let ideas build up incrementally. I use both color and stitch work to show transition, working mostly with tight cross stitch and free-form styles of embroidery. For this piece I was particularly interested in the dual-sidedness of the fabric and how it can convey movement between obverse and reverse features of the same topography. Thus the two prints represent a sort of cause and effect; chaos in one for the sake of order in the other.
Category: Embroidery, Merchandise, Textile
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Porous Earth
acrylic ink and charcoal.
The drawing is large, 26.5″ x 14.5″, with mostly detail work. This is only a small portion of the piece. Come to the Endanger show, starting this Friday to see the rest!
Category: Drawings, Finished Work
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EnDanger
I recently completed a drawing for the group show, Endanger. It is in my hometown of San Jose… Well actually Campbell, but close enough. Here is the info:
Endanger Art Show
Opening Reception: January 27, 2012
7pm-11pm
On the Corner Music
530 E Campbell Ave.
Campbell, CA
The show will feature work by two of my favorite ladies from the South Bay, the curator and artist Kim Christman and the all-around talented and creative individual, Ally Karn. At the opening there will be live DJ’s and the venue is also a great local record store. So you can see art and pick up some tunes too.
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Lake Merritt signage
This month a series of interpretive signage has been installed around Lake Merritt. I worked with the artist Scott Oliver on the info-graphics that highlight how the lake and its surrounding network of underground storm drains and culverts provide a watershed for 50,000 Oakland residents.
This is part of the Once Upon A Time, Happily Ever After project that has slowly been unfolding over the last two years. The signs should remain up for all of 2012 and sixty-two storm drain outlet markers will be there indefinitely.
For more images go here.
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East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair : Dec. 10th
We will be tabling at the East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair. We’re excited to share the space with a talented group of local artists and book makers.
The event will take place on Saturday, December 10th in downtown
Berkeley at Berkeley City College (one block from Downtown Berkeley
BART) from 10 am – 4 pm.
Stop by and pick up some pictorial literature for the holidays, or for general life enrichment.
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San Diego
Happy Halloween. Last week, while down in San Diego, I visited Double Break, a gallery and book/ephemera shop that was recently opened by Matt Coors and Louis M. Schmidt (got the above photo from The Citrus Report). Since opening about four months ago they’ve been busy putting together a variety of exhibitions, screenings and readings. Their shop, needless to say, is an exciting addition to the San Diego community.
I am proud to note that Scaffold is now included in their selection of self-published comics. And on the topic of retail availability, Scaffold can also be found in SF at Needles & Pens and in Chicago at Quimby’s.
The visit to SD also reminded me of a Zine I picked up at SF Zine Fest this past September called Zine Diego. David Barclay compiled photographs he’d taken of local businesses whose signage included the word “diego” in the title (“Fan Diego”, “Zen Diego”, “Diego Dawgs”, etc…). It sounds maybe at first like just a cute idea, but it turns out to be a pretty interesting and surprisingly thorough sampling of the city’s cultural landscape.
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Alternative Press Expo 2011
We will be at the Alternative Press Expo this weekend. Please stop by and say hello!! Our table # is 261.
It is also the last Sunday to see the Experimental Notations show at MacArthur B arthur. Here is a review of our piece in the Oakland Art Beat.
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Making One’s Way Through Climate X
Above is a snap shot of our contribution to the Experimental Notations show.
“In order to design a form of notation that could both symbolize and
directly accompany an auditory simulation of wilderness, the artists
thought it would make sense to be as literal as possible. This way the
score could resemble a geographic map providing the listener with a
visual sense of progress while also enhancing the imagined setting
with scale and texture. Graham started the process by carving
notational tiles and stamping out a landscape rife with environmental
impediments. Then, Eisenhower composed a soundtrack to carry the
listener through Graham’s foreboding world inspirited with a dogged,
quest-like determination.”
Category: Finished Work
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