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Just messing around with the various photo apps on my Ipod. I Might make small prints of these. All of these images were shot in Chelsea, more specifically 20th street between 8th and 9th.

BWAC Convergence

Hey, Sorry it's been so long, I've been busy with interning and real life (and Reel Life) but I'm back with some fresh work.

This year's first BWAC show is Convergence, up until June 12th. I didn't follow the theme this time'round but I did put up some cute little cyanotypes. I loved the blue color against the raw wood of the frames I chose. The objects I chose were mostly little cocktail stirrer/garnish things that I've been collecting for years. Some of the other objects I used were little metal knights, a wooden "C" from when I was a kid, and a broken shell. I actually sold the one with the knights! Here are some pics.

Also I'm super psyched to announce that I'm going to Barcelona in August with my BF, be prepared for a slew of new photography (and maybe some sketches) after I get back!

Blue Flamingo

Tree Monkey

Mermaid

Dragon

The whole panel (#112)

San Francisco

So I'm back from my mini-break in San Francisco, which was incredible. It was probably the best weekend I've ever had. The first full day we were there we drove up to Wine Country-- Napa Valley and we went to two wineries. the first an ultra-modern and chic winery, Artesa, which was actually built into he side of a hill. they had a terrace with breath taking views and excellent wine. The second winery was modeled on a medieval castle/Italian Villa, Castello di Amorosa was so much fun to explore. Unfortunately we didn't get to see the torture chamber they had because we didn't have time to take the tour. We couldn't have had better weather, mid sixties for the end of January was pretty amazing especially since NY was getting inundated with yet more snow. On the way back we took the very circuitous but gorgeous Route 1 and it took about 3 hours longer than expected, but I got some amazing photos.

That night we went to the Edwardian Ball & Faire, a kind of elegant steampunk tribute to author/illustrator Edward Gorey. Everyone was decked out in turn of the century regalia with a futuristic punky twist. It was incredible, I really wish I had brought my camera.

The next day we just drove around the city and explored different neighborhoods. Driving down Lombard street was a little scary and we had a blast. Here are some of my favorite images I shot during the trip.

New electronics and fun art stuff

Hey so I got some mega cool xmas gifts. A new digital SLR and a nifty scanner. Now I can make new things and takes images of them!! Today I've been playing with my new toys, here's some older work that I've scanned.

Also later this week I'll be going on a mini break to San Fransisco and I plan on taking a on of pics with my new camera, so watch out for new material!

I also plan on scanning a bunch of my negatives (as soon as I find them) an uploading some more of my photo work to this blog.

"Venice" Mezzotint using aquatint process. Done in my semester abroad in Florence

Pencil sketch done at the Musee d'Orsay

Model sketch. Red conte crayon

Scene from the Canterbury Tales. Pen on paper

Scene from the Canterbury Tales. Pen on paper

Halloweeeen

Hello, here are this year's pumpkins:

Alfred Hitchcock and Dexter Morgan!

and me as Indiana Jones working in the store Halloween night

New Layout!

Hey, I see you've noticed the new layout for my blog. I think it looks pretty spiffy if I do say so myself!

Also, check out this review of my work at BWAC's Lineage show on this blog THE ARTPOINT. It also reviews Scott's work.

Here's a poster I designed for my Bond party back in August, it was hand drawn and cleaned up and colored in photoshop. If anyone wants a print of it let me know, I have a few 11x 17ish prints and I'll let them go at the low low price of $7 each. I also have a version without the party info on it.

BWAC's "Lineage" Opening

Thanks to all who came out to the Lineage opening this afternoon! It was a lot of fun. For those who didn't make it today, the show will be up until October 31st but only on Saturdays and Sundays. Here are some images from the show.

me in front of my work

Scott and I in front of his work

Scott and I in front of my work

me in front of my work

Quick note about Lineage

Hey all, sorry for the long absence. I totally flaked out and missed the "Red Hooked" show, mostly because it was too expensive to print the photographs and I didn't have time to comparison shop. However, I am definitely doing the "Lineage" show at BWAC along with my friend Scott, whose blog http://scotty106.blogspot.com/ looks eerily similar to mine.

For "Lineage" I'm exhibiting my Preservation of Heritage series, and am now rooting through some of my mother's family photos. Here are some gems I found, ones that I might use in future work.

Tank

"Russell paid us a surprise visit"


Yes, that's a flamethrower.

"Judy watching T.V."

Yes, that's my Pop Pop smoking a cigarette and shaking hands with Darth Vader

BWAC success and Euro Adventure

The BWAC show nailed comes to a close this weekend. I had a lot of and I think it was a huge success. I didn't sell any work but my one piece in the auction was bid on, so I'm happy. I'm really looking forward to to the summer and fall shows, "Red Hooked" and "Lineage" respectively. For "Red Hooked" I think I'm going to print out a couple of didital images I've taken in Red Hook and frame them. And for the "Lineage" I will definitely exhibit my Family series.

Here are a couple of images I'm thinking of printing for "Red Hooked"

I just got back from an awesome Euro adventure but I haven't developed any film yet or sorted through the various digital images I took. I did sketch a bit too and I'll scan some of the sketches in the near future. I went to a ton of museums while I was there, in Brussels I went to the Musées Royaux des Beaux, which includes the Historical Art Museum, The Modern Art Museum and The Magritte Museum. The Magritte Museum was amazing but I really liked the Historical Art Museum which housed an amazing collection from Northern Renaissance painters like Steen, Bosch, Hals, Rubens and many more. The Modern Art Museum was severly disappointing, it was in the basement and was laid out strangely. The colloection wasn't all that impressive except for the works by Ensor.

In Paris I went back to the Musee d'Orsay. A lot of the museum is under construction and some key pieces are not on display. However it made up for it with the insanly awesome exhibit "Crime and Punishment." the exhibit had paintings depicting various crimes (ie. the Death of Marat), an actual guillitine, paintings by prisoners in jail, drawings and plans of the Panopticon jail preposed by Breton. Crime scene photographs, death masks of criminals, penny dreadfuls and posters and newspapers including woodcuts of horrible headlines. It was morbid and awesome, extremely powerful and kind of gross all at once. I definitely reccomment paying the extra euro or two to go see it if you're in Paris.

Amsterdam had the most museums I wanted to go to, The Van Gogh Museum, the Rembrandt House and Museum and the Rijksmuseum. All were amazing I mean the Rijksmuseum had a ton of Rembrandts including the Night Watch, Vermeer, Hals and other Dutch masters. The Van Gogh museum was great, as expected but the Rembranthouse was a lot of fun. It was pretty cool to see his studio and his bed and everything, they also have galleries. They had a great show on early Dutch photography and they had a room with a selection of Rembrant's prints.

Bruges was really beautiful and ridiculously picturesque. I feel like nobody actually lives in Bruges except fairies and unicorns. Bruges had the Groeninge Museum, interesting colloction of local medieval artists and even Belgian modern artists. The Memling Museum in the Hospital of Saint John completely blew me away. The paintinfs and various artefacts from its days as a hospital were fascinating, the Memling museum was amazing, and they had on loan from the Groeninge Museum one of Bosh's famous altarpieces. all of this in a church-like setting, for kids they had medieval coloring books set up on drawing horses with colored pencils. The were scenes from the bible and scenes from the hospital, it was kind of great coloring in Nuns taking care of maimed people. In the upstairs there was this very powerful exhibition by an artist in residence on the "foundlings" since St. Johns was also a foundling hospital.

All in all the museums in Belguim, Amsterdam and Paris were a ton of fun, I prpbably spent 70 euros in postcards and another 40 in Museum entrance fees but it was well worth it!

New Work! Continuing on the Labors

I'm finally finished with The Labors of Hercules Series! YAY!!! Now here comes the important part YOU ALL have to come join me for the "Nailed" opening at BWAC this Saturday (May 8th) at 1pm. 499 Van Brunt Street (right near Fairway by the Water Taxi in Redhook Bklyn)

You'll get to see the Labors Series, some black and white photographs as well as some other works on wood that were hand picked by the BWAC curators. I was initially only supposed to get one panel but they liked my work so much they asked me to bring in a variety of other work and now I definitely have 3 panels and possibly one more.

I'm really excited, and I worked my butt of the past couple of weeks preparing for it, so without delay here's a preview of the new works that'll be up in BWAC's "Nailed" show:

This is titled "The Return of Persephone: The Advent of Spring" This is not a Labor of Hercules but is in the same vein as the Labors series as well as the "Fall of Icarus," being that this too is a Greco-Roman myth. Oil an Shellac on Wood, 4x4.

"The Girdle of Hippolyta" The ninth Labor. Gesso and Oil on Wood, 4x6.

"The Nemean Lion II" The first Labor. Oil and Shellac on Wood, 8x10.

"The Cattle of Geryon" The tenth Labor. Oil and Shellac on Panel, 5x5

The whole wall, 2nd floor on the right hand side.