I HAVE RETURNED SORRY FOR BEING GONE SO LONG

OKAY, I know I have not posted on this blog in over three years but I am rededicating myself to a once a month post beginning today the 1st of Sept. 2019. Quick update for those that don't know LMAO cause who follows this and doesn't know but anyway. I have finished grad school, lived in Utah for a gorgeous summer to mid winter minute, moved in with my Rents for a while, started teaching at my old Junior College/Community College, and have moved now to the StL. So like I have said I moved to the StL this past spring its been tough being alone now and trying to make work while working and struggling to make ends meet. I got a pretty good deal at the moment I get a place to live while I work on a this place for the owner. But there is a time frame for the work to be done, gonna try to stay and get some roommates when that time comes. Not really into roommates but gotta do what I gotta do at this time.

I have shown work in KCMO since moving back to my home town area. I had a show last year (2018) with the Kiosk Gallery, if you are in KCMO check them out they are in the Livestock Exchange Building in the West Bottoms. https://kioskgallerykc.com/

Parts of Something, which was a collection of works from my time in grad school with one of the pieces being reworked due to damage with all of my recent moving, I think it looks better now.

After that I was contacted by one of the co-directors (Lisa Guavara) at Tugboat Gallery (http://www.tugboat.gallery/ ) in Lincoln, NE about participating in a group show with them this summer. And I was like yeah lets do it. That was in June and I drove up to install three large works and hang out for the opening.

 Overflow

88 1/2" x 61"

Acrylic, Spray paint, & Marker on Custom Cradled Panels

2016

 XXL Piano Dolly

60" x 24" x 7"

Acrylic, Spray paint, Vinyl Decals, Outdoor Carpet on Custom made Dolly with Casters

2016

Untitled (Dirty Clean Lungs)

48" x 99 1/4"

Acrylic, Spray paint, & Marker on Custom Cradled Panels

2016

After that adventure which it was due to the flooding of the Missouri river and the trek I drove into Kansas, I didn't do much till I drove back up to uninstall my pieces. Second trip much smoother as the flood waters had started to recede and I29 was open.

For the summer I have worked on the house and for the St. Louis Artist Guild, started on some paintings for the U-City Library (http://www.ucpl.lib.mo.us/) where I will be showing this coming March 2020. No real deets on that at the moment so here is a WIP

It doesn't even look like this as I type this, and will change even more tonight. So that catches ya up on the art making side. Oh SHIT I almost forgot I also installed a new Fake Rock False Boulder at the St. Louis Artist Guild the 1st week of August.

 

Unsurveillanced Osage House Rock (Do Rocks Die)

Acrylic Paint, Flocking, Minwax Polycrylic, & Spray paint on Drywall Joint Compound over Polystyrene Insulation Board & Great Stuff Insulation Spray Foam, with Non Functioning Security Camera, Spring Clamp on Pallet

2019

So that takes care of the art making I will address some of the other shit next month like how teaching is going what I am teaching/have been teaching.  And some stuff that is inspiring me lately too, see you all next month.

Summer Time!!

Hi all here we are again I late in getting this out so lets just Say this is my May post.  The last month has been overwhelming so many things to do so little time and it is go to go faster as we apporach the month of August.  Which is when I will be leaveing Kansas City and heading to UNC-Chapel Hill.

The open studios event that happened on the First of May was a success for me I sold over $400.00 dollars worth of painting/drawings and still have plenty more so if you want to get one still hit me up. The 31st of April was my last day at MWSU,  sad to go before some of my former students graduate but I will see them again in the future.  I still have lots of work to do before I leave and people to hangout with as well.  I will be selling many other items as well in the coming weeks trying to move with as little as possible.  I have been working on a group of paintings for the Leopold Gallery, hope to have them finished by the end of May and in the gallery.  

 Install shot from open studios of the curve pieces, no wants me to destory them but I kind of want to.

Still considering options for them one is to sell them to someone for use at the Nelson for a bean bag toss.  Which if they agree to destroy after there use and send me documentation of said destruction I might be okay with.

Three paintings

Bye Bye MOWest

Well March has come and gone

So March is over and April is starting.  I am still waiting to find out if I am going to graduate school.  The wait is stressing me out like no other.  I just want to know so I can plan appropriately for the future.  I really wish I had options but I applied to 5 schools and have been denied by 4. The school that was my number one choice has me on their wait list (Number 2), and I'm waiting to hear if someone (2 someones, that is) decides not to go.  I have decided that if I don't get in or get enough financial aid to go, that I have two options.  One is to apply again this fall/winter, but where and how many schools do I apply too.  Second is to rethink this graduate school thing all together and start applying to some good residencies.  Perhaps I need to do both.  One thing for sure is that I am going to start making some packets to send to galleries that I am interested in.  In hopes to show work outside of KCMO, the midwest art collectors are not ready for my type of work especially here in Kansas City.  I will for sure be moving come the end of July but to where is up in the air. Unless I get accepted to graduate school which will end up being North Carolina - Chapel Hill.  If I am not accepted I will be going to Bloomington, Indiana with my wonderful girlfriend Kendra.  What shall I do there I have no clue, but making art is going to be number one on the list, while finding a job that gives me free time to paint and pays a decent wage is the other.

  I am really in need of the of a CNC router and a large surface planer or surface sander.  With these tools I could start to make the shaped paintings that I think would be really excellent. I also need to think about the supplies in my studio that needs to be replenished. I need new brushes all around, new oil paints, more markers, and everything involved with using one shot paints. Off course I am needing to replace tools that have gone bad over the years, #1 on this list is a sander.  I wouldn't mind getting a kreg pocket jig and some plug cutters. I have been using the schools this semester. 

 My time at the Drugstore is coming to an end and I will be leaving these studios this summer. Which will be tough but I can only hope that the future is great and bright for all.  When I left the CSF residency I did not think I was going to find such a great place to work that the Drugstore has been.

  Also my time as the Tools & Tech instructor at MWSU is ending at the end of April.  It has had its ups and downs. My time there has made me discover that I would like to be teaching especially at the collegiate level.  I am hopeful for this to happen again in my future and I would love to teach painting and drawing classes, my heart is much closer to them than a shop class. Although I would have to say a foundations class would be a lot of fun to teach, in the fact that it is more interdisciplinary.