New Coil paintings

1. Coil XVI
2. Coil XVIII
3. Coil XIII
4. Coil XXI
5. Coil XXII
6. Coil XXIII


I'm happy to say that some of these originals will soon be for sale on Mammoth & Co.

Now that these paintings are finished I'm going to dive back into some new mixed media pieces for a show at Gallery 360 in March.

This morning...

...I woke up with a vivid dream and these words in my head:

The dream cracked open and both halves rolled away from me.

P.S. Luis took this photo

Pomegranates with Luis and Bubba
A table full of prints
Birthday Succulents

This is a drawing from a project I'm working on that combines my writing and drawing. 

It's a story, or a poem, really, about how falling in love changed me. 

This is just one page... it's a big project and I still have a lot of work to do. 

A dissonance in my memory I carry around

mixed media

30" x 40"

This original is currently up and for sale at Gallery 360. 

But you can buy prints of it here.

My hands hurt. I have cuts that are healing and drying and cracking back open. Bending my fingers feels like grinding my teeth. I never want to live in Miami again. Time and distance has strengthened my assurance. I have all of these words knocking together inside of me and there is water in the streets of New York City. It crashes against the buildings. How many great storms will it take? Restless. Running makes me feel strong. Pounding, pushing myself back down into my body. Why am I always leaving when it feels so good to be right here in this very moment? Blue and black ink. Lines. Lots of space to fill. Hours and hours and hours. Work. More hand aches. Body aches. The cold gets in between my bones. Hardens my muscles. Piano keys in my ears. Bheetoven... Beethoven... how the hell do you spell his name? Moonlight Sonata grabs these pieces inside of me and pulls on them. That matters more than spelling. More than words and names and order. I am shuffled into place sometimes.

Drawing in progress

I'm working on a large vertical drawing for Gallery 360. This one combines my drawing with color and I'm pretty excited about it.

Coil XIX / Coil XX

Finished up these two. Sending both along with four others to Berkeley for a show in November. 

Time to draw now. 

Commission work for The James Hotel on South Beach

Earlier this year I completed a commission project for The James Hotel which is opening up on South Beach in Miami. These two above were my favorites of the bunch.

Writing sketches:
When I walk there is a tunnel above me.
It spirals up off of my shoulders.
I cannot pass through it.
I stop and look up,
the day drying out my open mouth.
I wonder at its purpose
beckoning me up, up!

These images are detail shots of my work that's still currently up at the Miami International Airport.

It has been a great week so far. I received the booklets for my group show at the Miami International Airport in the mail (thank you Carrie for sending them to me!). I'm finishing up my paintings for my show at The Collector in Berkeley. And today I dropped off five of my drawings at Gallery 360.

I'm pushing forward toward a new body of work, one that combines my drawing and painting. I've attempted this in the past and it has been difficult, but this week something finally clicked and I'm excited to move forward.

Works in progress and dreaming work

I'm working on finishing this batch of twelve Coil paintings which are going out to a show in California next month.

Also...

I notice that when I'm working on art I am able to remember my dreams more clearly. It makes me think that art-making uses the brain and the body in the same way that dreaming does. Some kind of doorway to the unconscious is there. Important and difficult magic making work.

I found these photos of our Miami to Minneapolis trip while organizing computer files. I didn't take many photos on the trip, mostly because of how stressful the driving was. Granted I wasn't driving, I was navigating, but extra large U-hauls are not the most relaxing vehicles to make cross country moves in. 

You can see from the third photo that there were two cats at my feet, a dog to my right, and there is actually one more cat in a box on the dashboard. Anyone want a cat?