go fuck yourself - the update.

had a break from the rain and had lots of paint drying, so i went for a drive...





maybe you've already found one and have absconded with it, kudos.

the rest of you better get busy as i waited a few days before posting.


'pier hugger'

'burbank 60 mi.'  ...figure it out smart-asses.

'notre
spassing'  easy one, probably gone already. :)

'HEY! go fuck yourself.'

'paddles are for ping pong' easy one.

'this one time, at surf camp'

'go fuck yourself'  hahahahaha.

ditto

'spicoli don't surf'

 go outside folks, do something today.

Holy crap, I've been busy.

no joke.

i finished working again and with a short break, i've been painting.   lots.




blah blah, here you go:
this one is good.  i got to working on this one and it ended up having this big mass of trees with no branches (my process is fun) and then this awesome big space in the middle.  my life as an artist seems like a series of one liners sometimes, so i roll with it...

i bet if Raymond Pettibon saw this he'd like it or want to fight me.  it's a really good painting.

'you should have been here yesterday'

the deets. pretty, no?

hahahahaha, jerkface.

'garden variety'  i'm pretty sure these will be popping up some more, they're kinda fun to make.

 if you are lucky enough to have one of the 'five summer stories' paintings, this one feel like those to me.

ahhh, hahahahaha - as long as i'm laughing i don't give a fuck.
this one is my favorite this week.  every time i see it in the studio, i start laughing.
watch this to see what i mean: pit me, bro.

'drink the koolaid' bitches.

as always i take shitty pictures.  this isn't a catalogue, it's my shitty blog - get over it.


I'll have another blog of the 'go fuck yourself project.' project up very shortly.  it has pictures too!

exclusive view.

I'm going to start posting these one at a time so it looks like I do a lot of shit.

Try and keep up?



This one has a title...

exclusive view.
roughly 13" X 4"
house paint, spray paint,
enamel, ink on panel.

I've been painting lots of trees recently... It seems really easy for me to tie them in with the lines I make for representations of water.  They also fit within the physical format and have a nice fit aesthetically with 'beachy scenes.'  They're a good tool for my work .






cheers.

driftwood wave

Some folks have been asking for more photos and back story behind the driftwood wave I built for five months in 2006.

In the same way I use repeated brush strokes in my paintings as a way to re-present representation, I used driftwood as the empty signifier.  That is to say that something so culturally loaded as a piece of driftwood is able to lose some or all of it's cultural significance with a change in context.  The driftwood sort of becomes brush strokes in a giant three-dimensional painting that is about other people's paintings. 

It's also really pretty and used to smell nice.

I started by building twenty modular forms or tables. 

I then bolted them all together and started building a wire-frame for the basic structure.

After the wire-frame was complete, I cut all the pieces back apart and moved the entire assembly to it's exhibition space. Where I bolted it back together. Again.

After I had it all reassembled I began skinning the surface.  This was probably the hardest part of the whole project.  I spent a LOT of time bent over picking up driftwood and fastening each piece with bailing wire.  There was a good photo of me working on it taken by Ari Marcopoulos but I've gone and lost it...

...anyway, my hands and back were beat to shit and I was also living off of energy drinks and In-n-out, and sleeping in my studio at school - I wouldn't take it back for anything.

all done!

photo courtesy of K. Acconci :)

and then I moved the whole thing once more to it's current (and final) home in Palos Verdes, but I don't have any photos of that for you...

three more little paintings of paintings of water.

here's a few I forgot to put up from mid December.

All: 'Untitled ', house paint, spray paint, acrylic, ink, enamel on panel.
and they're all small in size (roughly 4" X 13" or so).

I'll likely be doing many of these smaller works (or portions of them) as larger paintings in the near future.  I'll also be using many of these for another super top secret project that someone else has been patiently waiting on...





enjoy.

more tiny paintings - and, a very short story.

ALL THREE:

untitled

house paint, spray paint, acrylic, enamel, ink on wood.

 

I've been kinda busy with other shit recently, so I haven't been making work.  I HAVE found some time for these sweet little guys.  They're all around 4" X 13" 

I had originally planned on using these as studies for larger works (and for use in print media) but they're so much fun to make I can't stop.  I started several more than what's pictured and until I can actually carry large works around the studio again, these are what I ignore my family over...

and now, a very short story:

When I was around six years old, our family was on one of MANY road trips (seems like we were always in the back of some car) and I, being six (or near there) of course had to pee.

My dad pulls the car over and I find a nice bush to piss on... upon my return to the car, one of the parental units asked if "everything came out OK" - we're also a family of bad jokes - to which I replied "high and far."  As in my little urine stream had traveled high, and far on it's way to that bush.

The whole family got a great laugh out of it, I've spent YEARS hearing "high and far" at any and every opportunity.  We're a strange bunch, but I wouldn't trade it.

until next time - 

HIGH AND FAR!

too much blue...

there is a series of long-standing debates between one CRB and myself...  One of which holds relevance to this particular blog:

For years now, every art object I make that gets seen by CRB is immediately placed into the "too much blue" category.  even if there's no blue in aforementioned objects.  I decided to finish one of my new small-scale paintings as a birthday gift... I made sure to put a lot of blue in it; it goes well with pickles and conveyor belts.


Why yes, that IS a nickle from Canadia.

detail.

good start for a future painting, no?