We Look Good on Paper

Haven't posted on this for a while but wanted to put a couple pics from an impromptu show I did along with my brother and lady at the University in the Sheppard Gallery. It opened a few days ago and runs through March 9. So if you are in Reno get up there and check it out. If you did come through for the opening, thank you for making it a night to remember! And if you don't like going to galleries (i'm with you on that) than hopefully you'll spot some of the new work from the gallery show that made its way to the street. Here's a link to more photos.

Minneapolis day 1

Yo, I'm living in that 21st century with good people making good people. Boarding a plane with a bag of dirty clothes and a 40lb roll of paper. What else do I need? Maybe a good auto-pilot.

Got a body of work I'm so excited to show. I get off the plane and am picked up by Mike Fitzsimmons of Broken Crow and Mike Bishop of XYandZ Gallery. Within 24 hours we have a big wall lined up. Life is good.

"The man who stood in from of bullets.." 4" x 6" detail of 30" x 96" piece

Reference for above piece. Seattle, WA, 2011. "The man who stood in front of bullets never felt so at home until it knocked on his door."

Helping Hand

I had the good fortune of working with my friend No Touching Ground from Seattle while he was in town. Veng of Robots Will Kill hooked up a wall in Bushwick and we got to it after the rain. I told Veng this new banger was gonna blow his dick off. Although hesitant to such a declaration, he admitted that yes, it's been blown (I apologize to his lady fanclunb). Horn tootin' aside I was really excited about this particular piece for a couple reasons.

First off, everybody knows that even if you are a guru of wheat paste like JR that paper is the most temporary of mediums. Especially when used on the street. So since No Touching Ground was proposing a large wheat paste I pitched the idea that we paint something on the wall under the wheat paste. That way, over time the piece would of course disintegrate, but also introduce a new mural.

We decided on a concept and NTG took photos of my hand for reference. He printed them and we got into an abandoned condo to lay them out in their entirety and paint in the details and color.

Some of my underlying inspirations... buZ with his keys, my bro with cee-lo, Sunset Justice with the bolt cutters, Read with the book...

NTG printed my notepad tattoo blank and I added a few "to do" things with spray. This part was my personal favorite and it gave me a chance to be self-referential, or self-referentially self referential since it is a note about what we did on a picture of a note about what we did.

With everything that is happening in the world today it seemed only right to make an addition to the notepad for Japan. It's good to practice what you preach, so I woke up and donated to Red Cross this morning. And to think, I've listened to so many NPR drives and not even the soothing voice of Alec Baldwin could get me to shell out a dime. Ha, take that Ira, Terry, Neil...

The last part I was excited about was the gates. Several of the gates have different words on them which might seem hopeful or maybe just utterly random. But really it was an attempt at using names of writers that describe my thoughts on Japan's situation. Optimist, Host, Cope, Give,  Heart.

Check out more of No Touching Ground
And please help out in any way that you can.
Red Cross

Art Makes Rent

For those people emailing if I got work for sale, the answer is Yes. The pieces are all aerosol and latex paint on leftover dry wall from building the cabin. Since dry wall isn't the strongest I will make sure to mail them secured between two sheets of MDF and bubble wrapped.

If interested you can contact me or send your payment through PayPal to eriktburke@gmail.com. All prices include postage and handling, except international shipping which depends on destination.

Thanks for your continued support!

Untitled, 23" x 18",  $75

Untitled 2, 13.5" x 40.5", $125

Limp wrist, 13" x 12", aerosol and latex on drywall, $50

Westside Arrow, 8" x 23", $75

Westside, 8" x 21", $75

Blood, 24" x 18", $75

Blood II, 24" x 18", $75

Nick the Amazing

One of my favorite video-shorts so far! And excited to see it featured on Brooklyn Street Art yesterday!

Nick The Amazing from Miss Tint on Vimeo.

MOHS exhibit show "Sail away" opens tonight

So we made it to Copenhagen after sleeping in many a bush, swamp, knoll, lot, pension, house, you name it. After staying in so many one-day homes it really got me thinking about homes, being homesick, and basic necessity. It will be odd to have more than a backpack to live out of soon. I just can't imagine what all I'll need.

So the real meat of this post is that I just finished a short video showing a few clips from the last few days of the 50 day trip. Had a great time with all the people of Copenhagen and meeting people on the street. If you happen to be in Copenhagen, go by MOHS exhibit at Sønder Boulevard 98 Friday night for the opening. I won't be there but Derek will be along with a ton of his great work.

Drawing Along The Way

Here's a few drawings I'm mailing over to the folks at Tompkins Project for their "Drawing Exhibion". Opens on May 28th at 127 Tompkins, Brooklyn

Bed and Wreckless

A compilation of the places we`ve called home for the night.

Travels with Other

Other and I are preparing for a cross-European bicycle ride. We arrive in Lisbon, Portugal on the 1st of April and begin our 2000+ mile ride to Copenhagen, Denmark. Check back to find out how it all goes down as zillions of Markals are guaranteed to be sacrificed. Until then enjoy some of these works by Other and if you want to donate a buck or two to the cause you can here at Kickstarter.

Postal Exchange

Work for Sierra Arts Show

Sleepytime bird lover and beard-plucking expert Anthony Alston just sent me these photos from my exhibit with Pete Froslie over at Sierra Arts. If you are in Reno stop by and check it out. And if you are a fan of John Wilkes Booth, drop everything you are doing and go see Pete's work now!

"Birds of a Desert" @ Sierra Arts

I'm really excited and honored to go back to Reno for a dual show with an amazing artist and friend. Pete Froslie and I will be showing "Birds of a Desert..." at Sierra Arts. It runs Sept 21 - Oct 18 and the opening reception is Monday (9/21/09) from 5-7pm.

Sierra Arts is at...
17 South Virginia Street | Suite 120 | Reno
Located in the Riverside Artist Lofts Building
directions here

New Mural w/ Cahil Muraghu

Painted yesterday with Cahil Muraghu over in Bushwick where we killed a suitcase of clogged, scrapped, and utterly unusable cans. Macgyver'd an impaling rod, inspired perhaps by my fanatic True Blood watching, to unpressurize the cans and explode the remaining color on the wall. Was an awesome day full of cheap tacos, new people, and supportive girlfriends. If you haven't seen Cahil's work yet, check it out! By far my favorite landscape painter rockin spray.

Blasting Off To Outer Space

Lynn Maharas and my game Ran Some Ransom won Best Use of Space at the 2009 Come Out & Play Festival. If you didn't get a chance to play this weekend you can learn more about our game on the site Ran Some Ransom. Expect more location-based projects from us in the future.

Ran Some Ransom

Stop by the Come Out And Play FESTIVAL this Fri, Sat, and Sun. at Times Square to play some awesome FREE games out in the streets! Lynn Maharas and I created Ran Some Ransom which will be happening throughout the weekend. And if you aren't into physical games than come for the mind games created by the city of NY through it's banishment of cars in Times Square. Truly a crazy scene in itself! Hope to see you there.

New Prints

Been screen printing a bit lately and wanted to share a few. Something about pulling ink across stretched silk is so addicting.
(writers bench poster with bHaminator Yale Wolf)