Finally finally finally I'm posting some images from the March opening in Brooklyn NY of my interactive audio installation, Mother May I...? which you helped me take to Brooklyn....where it was awarded best installation by the inimitable Charlotta Kotik, Curator Emerita, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Contemporary Collections. Enjoy the video and photos. Below a young boy explores the installation.   …

  My new catalog is out from my group show at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Ana California which runs until mid June, curated by William Moreno.My painting, Naked Shotgun is in. You can purchase it here: https://www.createspace.com/3858677 Naked Shotgun, 2010, Latex on Canvas. 62 x 50"  Here are some pics of the opening:

“Oh! You’re an artist? (pause) I wonder if you would consider donating one of your pieces to (fill in the blank) charitable organization?” I know artists are one group among many who receive repeated requests for charitable donations. In the past six months, at least in my circles, this discussion has been heated. It can be beneficial for an artist to attend a charity auct…

Me during the talk, I guess I was thinking about how to answer a question. That's Ribs of Disaster Curving Their Assertion Among the Tentative Haunters behind my head. The title is from a line in Adrienne Rich's poem, Diving into the Wreck. Thanks to all the preparatory work I did with Connie from Pivitol Presentation, I was ready for my first artist's talk. And I had fun! Afterwards, my bra…

Daniel HesidenceD'Amelio GalleryBeautiful Dreamer It was thrilling to go to the art fairs while I was in NY, and what great timing for me! Each fair had such a uniquely different vibe from the next. The first one I popped in on was the ADAA (Art Dealers Association of America) That's where I saw Daniel Hesidence's work. He had about 10 small portraits up like this one and while I was there the …

My new work in progress. I will fall in love exactly about a million times and then I will die. 53" x 38" Oil on Canvas, 2012. Here is the link to the painting progression. You Have Astounding Cosmic News Dear sociologists, I have been asking to explain poetry to you. Thus in the offices of dazed lute press the clicking begins. Lately we've been conductiong field experiments into our private t…

It was two years ago that the "Álvaro Noboa" II Guayaquil International Painting Biennial received strong criticsm because both Juan Caguana and Saidel Brito student and teacher at the Itae were declared winners while many considered Kate Vrimjmoet , who won third place , as the rightful winner . Nevertheless the Luis A. Noboa Museum is already undergoing preparations to host a third editio…

Update 2/27: We are now at $4,345 in cash donations and 2,165 in kind for a total of $6,510!!! We did it! Thank you! That was amazing and the show of support was overwhelming and wonderful. I can't begin to express the depth of my gratitude. We'll take photos and keep posting! Here is what the donor sign will say: Mother May I…? was made possible through the generous support of: Reed Ale…

Pacific Coast Issue #97 New American Paintings Now Available! The 2011 Pacific Coast Issue, #97, has hit newsstands across the US. And I'm in it. :o) You can find it in Barnes and Noble, University Bookstore, art stores, and other establishments or order it online or by calling the number below. This is my first professional print magazine publication. The juror for this issue was Anne …

This week I painted Table Saw Accident. It was by far the most involved and committed pose we've done and I want to share with you how much fun we're having in the studio. And I don't mean that tongue-in-cheek. We were laughing so hard we almost couldn't get to the painting. Thomas proposed the idea of Table Saw Accident, citing the old portable table saws that often fell over. I immediatly got …

“Oh! You’re an artist? (pause) I wonder if you would consider donating one of your pieces to (fill in the blank) charitable organization?” I know artists are one group among many who receive repeated requests for charitable donations. In the past six months, at least in my circles, this discussion has been heated. It can be beneficial for an artist to attend a charity auction …

I was much further out than you thought, oil on canvas. SOLD I'm far out, but not this far out! I got an email today, a flattering email from a guest curator at a NY gallery telling me he liked my work and wants to put the above (SOLD, as clearly marked on my website) paiinting in a March show. I just have to pay $1950 to participate! That plus crating and shipping of course, a painting I don't…

Dear Mr. Vidart: In the Summer of 1971 you and I, six and five years old at the time, both resided on Harrison Avenue in Glenside, Pennsylvania. You pulled me aside one afternoon and made me an offer: if I would show you my vagina you would give me $1.00. I accepted your offer. Together we walked to an abandoned fire pit behind your apartment building. There, out of the reach of prying eyes, …

Hot One Inch! Saturday, November 5 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm The Piranha Shop - 1022 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 I was in this show last year and it was one of the most fun evenings I had. I brought my kids and they had a great experience introducing themselves to other adults and bargaining for buttons. It was a blast. Featuring button art from Aaron Rutten, Andrew McIntosh, Andy Mathis…

Dart Accident, Latex on Canvas, 2011, 63" x 50. Thomas and I have begun work again, and we've begun sessions of RadioLab listening, and fits of laughter. By the way, Jad Abumrad just won a MacArthur! The conversation keeps going around and around. Intention, experience, responsibility. Kolya say's - who cares about the artist's intention? It doesn't matter in respect to the experience of the vi…

(I like this photo, his wife Tammy took it) Stephen King | On Writing A Memoir of the Craft I just completed Stephen King’s memoir On Writing. I picked up a few writing books out of necessity and began with this one. What struck me was how easily I could substitute the word “artist” for the word “writer” especially in the parts of the book that were most salient fo…

Chain Letter by Jeffrey Crussell released today featuring many artists including me. Available at Lulu Early in the summer of 2011 we received an email from a fellow artist requesting participation in an art show at Shoshana Wayne Gallery located in Santa Monica, California called Chain Letter. Within 48 hours we received the same request from several other artists. Suddenly our basic math …

And the rest is a faint echo. Oil on Canvas. 54” x 63” Provenance.: 2010 International Biennale de Pienture II, Ecuador. One of the 3 images submitted to Art Kudos. Dear Artist, On behalf of Artshow.com, I want to thank you for responding to our call to artists and submitting images of your work for consideration for the 2011 Art Kudos International Competition.  Your part…

Recently I came across a podcast on Harvard Business Review called Getting Networking Right, about networking. Since I’ve been focusing on rounding out and improving my business skills, and networking is one of the areas of that focus, this caught my attention. Sarah Green interviewed Rob Cross, professor at University of Virginia, author of Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How…

Recently I came across a podcast on Harvard Business Review called Getting Networking Right, about networking. Since I’ve been focusing on rounding out and improving my business skills, and networking is one of the areas of that focus, this caught my attention. Sarah Green interviewed Rob Cross, professor at University of Virginia, author of Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How…