BLACK LAB

Opening reception: Friday, August 13, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Performance night: Friday, August 20, 8:00 - 11:00 p.m.
Dark Wave night: Saturday, August 21, 9:00 - midnight
Exhibition runs through Saturday, August 28
Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
FREE admission

Featuring:

Vincent Como with Reuben Lorch Miller, Eric Larson, Rachel Dawson, Josh Hagler, Faye Kendall, Kara Joslyn, Erik Madsen, Malcolm Smith, lourdes of the flies, Michael Campbell, Caitlin Denny and Marcella Faustini, Terrance Graven, Ben Venom, Ryan De La Hoz, Group Rhoda, Amir Coyle, Gerritt Wittmer and Paul Knowles, and No Peace at the Gates.

I have three pieces in this group show curated by Serena Cole at Oxen Rose salon on Grove btwn laguna and Gough in Hayes Valley San Francisco - will be up for the month of August.

Works by
Michelle Blade
Mark Benson
Serena Cole
Rachel Foster
Kara Joslyn
Sean Leake
Justin Olerud
Catherine Ryan
Tracy Timmins
Chris Russell
Sarah Thibault
Sam Handleman
Ashlee Ferlito
Ross Jones
Tahiti Pehrson

I had a studio visit with curator, Obi Kaufmann and interview for his website (see below link).
I will have art in an upcoming show at Obi's space, the Sweet Art Drawing Gallery located inside The Compound, on 65th at San Pablo in Oakland.
The show, "This Invented Earth" opens May 29th.
Interview and studio visit are on the website.
Check it out!

I'm in this amazing group show in Chicago that opens this Friday! Please check it out if you're in the area!

Midnite Snacks exhibited at Ghost Print Gallery in Richmond, VA and No Globe Gallery in Brooklyn, NY in 2009. Plans to extend the show to Milwaukee, WI and a museum in Newport News, VA are in development.

Curated by Brian Hubble, Amie Cunat, Travis Wyche

1366 Space Chicago, IL 3/12/10 - 4/9/10 opening reception 3/12/10 6-9 pm

I participated in this year's monster drawing rally - check here for photos!

LOOK
co-curated by Kara Joslyn, Justin Olerud and Ariel Roman
Thanks for coming out to 4707 Telegraph for the opening for Babylon!
Check out more here: http://4707telegraph.wordpress

I was interviewed by this great artists website based in Arizona.
http://www.sprayblog.net/2009/

Oakland Art Murmur, First Friday, December 4th 2009
http://4707telegraph.wordpress

We will be hosting an opening at 4707 Telegraph Avenue in Which Myself, Ariel Roman and justin Olerud will be showing some work we've been plugging away at in our studio. We will also have holiday tid-bits for sale, and Several other artists will be participating in our open house. Please stop by - we will be open starting at seven. Also, check out Smokey's Tangle next door, Slate Gallery across the street and new spot , Royal None Such Gallery on Telegraph at 43rd.

I have just returned to Oakland after three months away. I spent two of those months doing a residency at the "Zen Chalet," painting and drawing on a mountain in Southern Humboldt County where I was about an hour from civilization.
I spent a lot of time with myself, southern views, trees, and various stimuli that had a profound effect on me. I watched the Joseph Campbell series "Power of Myth" and listened to some Alan Watts lectures while in the studio. He begins the lecture "Myth of Myself" with the thesis, "The most important question any of us can ask is - who am I?"
After totaling my car with nary a scratch on me in Sept. I ended up meeting an amazing Energy worker and Healer named Sage Hayes - she gave me a copy of an audiobook of "A New Earth" by Eckart Tolle. I was also reading "Dune" and "Through the Flower," Judy Chicago's autobiography. I feel like looking back on this list of stimulus, the drawings and paintings I came to be working on makes more sense.
I have yet to wrap up all the paintings I was working on, but I consider them to be a direct product of these experiences... a cross between landscape paintings and self-portraits from the inside, looking out instead of looking in the mirror. I feel I am continuing my on-going project of examining the inside/outside tension of...uh....what's the word...existence? Giving myself permission to examine my self and give importance to my experience is a great catalyst in my work and life. Cheers!
xo