Helter Shelter opening 2

Jen, Josef & Pam

Carla, Jakub & Phoebe

Jen & Susan

Carla

Lise & Susan

Helter Shelter opening 1

Gallery co-owner Eve Mendelson has done a great job on the snack table. The bouquets are from my mom & my aunt.

Co-owners Eve & Lisa Mendelson & me

INAUGURATION DAY

An 8.5" x 8.5" painting on matboard that I made for Strange Hope, coming up at Galeria de la Raza.

Sweets

After Dinner Mint

Marshmallow On Stick

Lauren's Igloo

Lauren Davies bought this from me the other day. She has a keen interest in abject & imperfect attempts to represent the real world, especially the "exotic," the "foreign" and the "other."

Cargo

Island Life

Boating

Revered

Small white & black cabin on green

Good-Bye Skull

Threat

Bare Tree

Red Pikachu Waves Goodbye

I'm making a crapload of small paintings of various sorts of Americana, mostly. One series is about shelter & cabins and is for an exhibition idea I have. Another series is holiday themed in hopes of making some seasonal sales. Another series looks at icons culled from my own cultural pedagogical experience; I think this series is called What We Want. Then there are some pretty random paintings, just things that come up as I work. I work on a dozen or more paintings at one time, so there's a kind of routine & tedium & conflation that goes on that promotes the kind of subconcious reverie that allows certain types of things to sort of create themselves. That and the toluene & xylol. Anyway this one is pretty random. It breaks my heart kind of.

New Work

I've also been making a bunch of new small paintings, the first of which are pictured below. They are just a couple inches square & are painted on ultralight mdf, mostly. One of my favorites is "Moose in a Bathtub with a Budweiser" shown above.

The caption under the skull with a Santa hat reads "Nothing Stirring." I also made a chess set out of scraps of 13-ply maple plywood: