Hey, I just remembered how to update this thing.. look for a big one soon!

again, it's been a while. but here's some new work:

"Mayhem", 48" x 48", Oil on Canvas, Blood, 2010

"Kirche", 38" x 48", Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 2009

"Mod Girl", 24" x 38", Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 2010

"Eye of the Beholder", 48" x 48", Acrylic on Canvas, 2009

"Olivia", 48"x48", Acrylic on Canvas, 2009

"Shelby" 48" x 48", acrylic on canvas, 2009

And now for the big question I know you are all dying to ask: "Where oh where can I purchase these lovely paintings for my personal collection/museum/gallery that I curate?" The answers are as follows: "Mod Girl" is being auctioned off at the Grosse Pointe Academy Action Auction on May 8th, more info here: http://www.academyactionauction.org/

All of the other pieces seen above will be for sale at the upcoming College For Creative Studies end of the year student show, Friday May 14th. I will have quite a bit up seeing as this is my last semester at CCS! My studio is also full to bursting so expect the prices to be within reason ;) More information here: http://www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/seo

It's been fun but I am excited to move on to greener pastures. U of M's School of Art and Design for my MFA? Yale? Chicago Academy of the Arts? Time will tell, o faithful blog viewers..

representation

these photos are from my diverse body of work spanning the last few years as i've progressed as an artist but more importantly a human being, and i think represents a tension in my psyche manifested through my work, which i am more aware of now than i ever have been..

where do you draw the line?

i feel myself constantly torn between the lush visceral attraction of working representationally.. versus the automatic, unbridled expression that celebrates the material for what it is that is embodied in abstraction.. i think i will continue to blur the line as i explore through this life, looking towards gerhard richter and martin kippinberger for mentors..

HELLO INTERTUBES

It has been quite a while since I've posted. I've since finished the painting that was in progress in the last post, as seen above. I've also done a bunch of other work expounding and exploring subjects of voluntary consciousness-alteration. I grew poppies in my studio which were displayed next to the painting, however I never documented it because I am an idiot. I also started and finished this following painting but never got a finished photo before I dismantled the painting to move it:

This painting was about 6 feet by 4 feet, one day I will re-stretch it but my imagination has since drifted to other topics. While I am still enamored and fascinated by brains and the way reality and its perception can be altered voluntarily/unwittingly through chemicals my new work is a little more preoccupied with the nature of the gaze and the act of looking, a time honored concern of Art with a capital A. I will do my best to keep this more up to date from now on! signing out for today, dear internet.

diary

in progress new painting woot woot

old man leaves

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." - bukowski

FEAR @ Work.Detroit ( i am interviewed here, in this clip about a minute into it. i never realized how irritating my voice actually is.) :