Thoughts

I finally finished up all the pieces for the Finegood Gallery show. I took crappy pictures of them and posted them here. The light was all fucked up, but at least they’re documented. I drop those off and install them on the 21st and the show opens on the 27th of December.

I just sent out a Newsletter with all my little shows and holidays special goings on, so if you are interested in receiving that, get signed up! The only thing I’ll mention here is the new little 16 Dans print. The rest of it will have to stay a mystery sandwich, unless you sign up to get the emails. I don’t send them out but 4 times a year, so don’t think I’m a heavy spammer or anything.

Now I’m working on those illustrations for my book of poems for Bottle of Smoke Press. I am nearly done and I’m happy with how they are turning out. I won’t be showing them until after the book release in early 2011, and not all of them either, just a peak.

Last night I went to the Soft opening and it’s a great little show. Lots of really cool work. I almost bight something from Charlene Roth that I absolutely loved, but I can’t spend anything right now. I am so bummed. The curator, Edith Abeyta has a lot of pictures of the work on her Flickr page. The show is up until December 30th at Future Studio in Highland Park.

Some good news is that my solo show got recommended in the December issue of ArtScene by Jody Zellen. I am hoping that will bring some new lookers in. If you haven’t seen my show yet, it’s up until the end of the year, but the gallery is only open by appointment only after December 23rd.

My sleep times are all off these days. I don’t blame the recent daylight savings thing though. Honestly, I’ve been sick on and off since right before my show, or rather, under the weather. The worse it gets is a slight fever and crazy exhaustion, and some days it’s a stuffy head, runny nose and nausea. It’s a bug that won’t really hit full force, but won’t really dissipate either, so it’s really getting on my nerves!

I haven’t been getting all that much accomplished. I am jotting down ideas and prepping some pieces for a couple group shows for December, while I get my head on straight for the book drawings for Bottle of Smoke Press.

I should mention that I got a GREAT review by A. Moret in WhiteHot Magazine, so I am very thankful for that.

The drawings I’m doing for the Finegood Gallery show are like brothers and sisters for this piece I did a few years back. It’s titled Forgiveness on my Sleeve. It’s on a sleeve pattern and the smaller clothing patterns are arranged to spell sloch in Hebrew, which means “forgive.” So I am going to do a few other pieces like this one on different garment pieces that read in Hebrew.

For the Soft show, I am going to show piece(s) from my Ethereal Research Labs project.

Luckily, some of the work from my current show at George Billis will be in Miami during the weekend of fairs at the Red Dot Fair at his booth. I hope there is a good response, since he is bringing some very good pieces (I think). He will have both the Calvin Doll and the Mom doll, and a couple of Dan paintings too.

Today I woke up at 7:30 and took a nap around 5 after I watched Some Like it Hot (1959). I woke up again at 9:30 and now I am wondering when I will go back to sleep. I am just happy I can breathe out of both nostrils right now.

Now that I’m kinda done with this particular post — oh I was going to talk a little bit about some of my ideas for a drawing I have in mind for my book of poems. I had this idea to do some little watercolor and ink drawings of small items from my childhood: just random “things.” As I was falling asleep the other night I had a good 20 items that seemed perfect, but when I woke up I could only remember 2 of them. Before my nap today, I remembered about 6 more and scribbled them down. I’m still on the quest to remember them all. So far I have:

a cigarette burning in an ashtray
a tricycle
Wheel-o
a fire engine pedal car
a fish with a knife in it
slinky
a swingset
cereal

It was beautiful! We saw the Cumberland River. We went to the Hatch Show Print! and took a walk down lower Broadway. What a great town – in case you didn’t know, there is music – everywhere! Oy! Enough with the music already! Music music music! Come on now…who doesn’t like music? Luckily, the only kind of music I didn’t hear there was POP music. It’s a great town for bluegrass though, and I do so like bluegrass.

Tinney Contemporary is by far the best gallery in town, hands down! I am one lucky little duck. Beautiful gallery space and amazing staff!

I have to admit I am really high right now. I’ve been high for a couple days. I was high when I got on the plane to get back, and I’m high today because I just had a bunch of dental work done on the left side on my mouth. The Novocaine part is starting to wear off and I’m starting to feel the tooth pain and I’m about to get really screamy, so I’ll make this here real quick like.

Here is a little blurb about the show in Nashville. It’s part of the highlights of their art crawl. And I put together a few pictures here. Don’t laugh at how fat I am. You’ll win a prize if you don’t think bad thoughts about me. My friend Kyla made that hat.

I was very very pleased with the show. So many people came. My little speech to the Vanderbilt alumni went pretty darn well, and so many people were very interested in my work and wanted to speak with me. I felt very important all evening and it was because everyone in Nashville is so incredibly nice!

Okay, time for another pain pill!