Capitol CIty Arts Initiative

Later this month I get to put a piece of art in the Carson City courthouse. Being a rough artist not a fine artist, I have a hard time when it comes to these type of projects. Somehow people think of me as a contemporary artist, but in reality I'm an escape artist. I have Houdini not Dali on my walls. So I have to figure out what I'll do for this show. It struck me while I was visiting the capitol that I would find a wall and paint a mural on it, then SOMEHOW, connect it to the indoor space. Documentation is of course the most obvious, but what can I come up with in the next 4 weeks that will be better.
The attached photo is a section of the wall I am politicking to paint. The photo only shows 1/15th of the wall. IT'S THAT BIG!!!
http://www.arts-initiative.org/press_area/va/wu.html

New photographs from short distance travels

I always love going to S.F. On this occasion I was with my brother, whom I just picked up after his arrival in the states. He had been gone in Paris all summer. We drank Pastice in plastic, 11th floor hotel cups as our mom passed out on the bed. The fog drifted over concrete. Then erased itself. The next day became brand new.

Northwest project

I wanted to put down this link for an event I'm going to paint in towards the end of the month. Yale Johnson organized this one and it should be an amazing regrouping of Joins, Trens, Vern, Drabs, and yours truly.www.hightstreetfest.com

Exhibit at Never Ender

Last night was the opening for the Galleries Gallery exhibit and thanks to all the people that came. If you haven't checked it out yet, you better soon due to its short-termed existence.

Also, the show could not have been pulled off the same without the amazing help of what has jokingly been termed the factory. Starring Anthony Arvalo, as the hanging guru, Tony Alston on audio, and Ben Tedore with the Max MSP experimental video.

I was excited as all hell to combine all these elements together and play with the ideas of virtual graffiti on "public" space and recontextualizing the idea of artwork as it exists within a "gallery". I don't know how clearly I conveyed the ideas originally planned but I hope that the majority of the people understood the show for more than just a photo exhibit.

Ben recorded quick time files of some of the virtual gallery sessions and I will do my best to put them up on the blog.

NY Times Write Up

Two of the most hard-worrking and thoughful artists grace the NY Times today. The article is about Swoon and Barry McGee's recent show at the Deitch project in NY.