TAKE OUR PLACE IN THE WARM SUN

The art of Guy Denning

2012-01-05T13:10:00.001-08:00

The Mixed Media art of William Goodman

2011-10-14T18:40:00.000-07:00

Beyond Eden Art Fair video

2011-09-30T10:02:00.000-07:00

Hey!!!!!!
I made a video of the process of making my installation piece for the Thinkspace Gallery section of the Beyond Eden Art Fair...check it!

5 Reasons why Serge Gainsbourg rules!!!

2011-09-09T15:07:00.000-07:00

Beautiful Debris video!!!

2011-08-08T12:33:00.000-07:00

Beautiful Debris

2011-07-29T14:07:00.000-07:00

Conjoined in 3D!!!!

2011-01-20T15:22:00.000-08:00

I have a piece in this show at Copro Gallery in Santa Monica, CA... opening on Saturday January 22...come check it out!

Here's my contribution to the show...it's an assemblage piece titled "Miss California 1964".

2011-01-04T10:13:00.000-08:00

I have a painting in this show...go check it out!!!!

Postcards From the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS

Hosted by CRG Gallery
548 West 22^nd Street NYC

January 7-9, 2011

Saturday, Jan. 8, 10 AM – 6 PM

Sunday, Jan. 9, Noon – 4 PM

Benefit Sale

Over 1,400 original, anonymously-displayed, postcard-sized artworks, each sold for $85. All sales first-come, first-served, artists’ names revealed only after purchase. $5 suggested admission.

Artists include: Craig “Skibs” Barker, John Baldessari, Ross Bleckner, Louise Fishman, Ann Hamilton, Mary Heilmann, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Marilyn Minter, Yoko Ono, David Reed, John Waters and many, many more.

Click here for link

VINTAGE SEATING

2010-10-22T11:56:00.001-07:00

Check out the lines on these vintage chairs (most of them from Eams/Herman Miller). I've really been looking closely at this kinda stuff lately...very similar to the female form!!!

RETRO COLOR!!!!

2010-10-13T15:04:00.000-07:00

Check out these vintage color charts...badass!!!

Late 50's Sears colors

Sherwin Williams/Coca-Cola

65' Ford Cortina colors

1956 Motorola T.V. colors

57' Ford Colors

59' Oldsmobile colors

NEW STUFF

2010-09-06T10:20:00.001-07:00

Here's a sneak peak at the paintings I have been working on this summer for shows coming up this fall...stay tuned for details...let me know what you think.

Fair Game

2010-08-20T17:57:00.000-07:00

I'm always sad to see the O.C. Fair end! I live a short walk or bike ride from the fairgrounds...close enough that they give us 20 free admission ticket a year for "inconveniencing" us. Here some of my favorite photos that Kristen took this year.

10 FINE EXAMPLES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HARDCORE RECORD COVERS. (sorry Rob west coast rules!)

2010-08-13T15:39:00.000-07:00

SUMMER IN THE CITY

2010-08-08T16:29:00.000-07:00

Well, summer is here (kinda) and I've been too busy to do any blogging, but I'm gonna try and play catch up a little bit. In late May early June Kristen and I went on a full tourist trip to NYC. We had an amazing time...we kind of switched back and forth between our two main interests there...one day we would go see art and the next we would go shopping and so on...all the while seeing the sights of the city and eating the phenomenal delights that it has to offer! Here are a few quick photos from our trip.

Street Art in Chelsea

Street Art in Chelsea

Street Art in Chelsea

Street Art in Chelsea by Becca

Street Art in Chelsea by Jeff Soto

We did this a lot!!!

Kristen in action!

Me N Rauschenberg

Richard Diebenkorn

Me N Warhol

FRANZ KLINE!!!

2010-06-18T14:33:00.000-07:00

Franz Kline is one of my favorites of the Abstract Expressionists...Bold simplicity....sometimes I wish I had that much restraint not to fill up the painting with tons of imagery.

Plus I just like to say his name FRANZ KLINE!!!!

Beach Blanket Bingo!

2010-06-11T13:26:00.000-07:00

I found these vintage swimsuit images while researching stuff for my new paintings...These are amazing!!!!

Fantastic!!!!

THE ART OF AARON NAGEL

2010-05-30T10:39:00.000-07:00

I've recently been checking out Aaron Nagel's artwork...he's been around for a while but I only found out about how serious this guys painting skills are in the last 6 months or so. I don't really know all that much about him other than that he paints the figure like a mad man! Then come to find out I'm in a show with him in London, England next month!!! His blog is filled with images of his and other artists work and a few art tips for oil painters too.

Here's links to his website and blog...check him out...you won't be disappointed.

website aaronnagel.com

aaron nagel blog

SILK SCREENS

2010-05-07T13:05:00.000-07:00

I'm super excited that I've gotten some large format silk screens burned to put into my new paintings. I have a ton of old family photos and vintage ad images that I'm making into screens. Here are a few of the first family photo screens I had done.

Grandma Carol (far right) and her crew...Circa approx. 1937-38

Photo that my Grandpa Dick took from the cockpit of his P51 Mustang of his crew! Circa approx. 1940-41.

Dick and Carol circa approx. 1937-38.
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Nick at Tugboat Studios hooked me up with the large screens...thanx Nick!!!

Wood stooges.

2010-04-24T08:17:00.000-07:00

My friend Ross does some amazing custom furniture building. I rent space from him out of his woodshop for my painting studio....it's a pretty cool set up... we have Ross making furniture in the main shop area...me and my painting zone... and our friends punk band The JunK uses the front office area to practice in the evenings. Makes for a pretty creative environment on any given day!

Here's some of his furniture stuff.

Ross gets tubed sometimes too.

Part of my zone

The JunK

ON ANY SUNDAY!

2010-04-18T18:12:00.000-07:00

Best Sunday ever! Spent all morning surfing P. street with a crew of friends....and all afternoon at Disneyland (well...California Adventure) with my wife, Kristen...going on rides and eating food...then a nap on the couch with the T.V. on!

I won Dumbo playing the carnival games!

We were terrified by the Tower Of Terror!

Seriously...TERRIFIED!

EXCHANGING PLEASANTRIES

2010-04-15T19:12:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick time lapse/process video that I made of my new painting 'Exchanging Pleasantries'. It's gonna be in a show that Thinkspace Gallery is putting together at London Miles Gallery in London, England...the show is called 'The Next Generation: A New Chapter in Contemporary Art' opening June 3, 2010.

Here's the link to the gallery London Miles Gallery

Background music form H.B.'s best punk band ever The Crowd!

Check it out!!!

THANKS FUZZ!!!

2010-04-14T22:13:00.000-07:00

My friend Fuzzy just today turned me on to Dan Eldon...if you've never heard of him (like me until today) here is a quick bit about his life and tragic death at the young age of 22.

By the time he was twenty-two, Dan Eldon had led a relief mission across Africa; worked as a graphic designer in New York; studied (intermittently) at four colleges; traveled through Europe, Africa, Japan, and the US; founded a charity for Mozambiquan refugees; directed a film; written a book; started up his own photography business; and become a photojournalist for Reuters news agency, covering the famine and civil war in Somalia. There, in 1993, he was killed in an eruption of mob violence while on assignment. In a world of rules and regularity, Eldon was a renegade, a risk-taker, and an adventurer. But, despite all his travels, he knew that the interior landscape is the only one truly worth exploring, and this is the journey he dedicated himself to recording. His is no ordinary journal; it is an astonishing seventeen-volume collage of photos, drawings, words, maps, clippings, paint, scraps, shards, and trash that reveals his strange and vivid life.

Here are some of his collages.

His life/art is an amazingly sad and beautiful story...look him up...buy the books...see the movies...it's worth it!

Thanks again Fuzz!!!

FIND IT!

2010-04-13T19:54:00.000-07:00

I've been doing a ton of swap meet, garage sale, antique swap meet time lately...finding some cool things for the house and some random stuff for assemblages/paintings...not to mention some kickass people watching and bad roach coach lunches!!!!

Here are some of my recent scores.

"Spaghetti" lamp shade $5.00

3 strings of colored plastic outdoor party lights $8.00

"Pulp" books $3.00 each

There's cool stuff out there if you wanna find it!!!

HERE WE GO!

2010-04-12T11:46:00.000-07:00

OK...so I've been reading a ton of blogs lately and it's inspired me to do one of my own...I guess I'll start by putting links to two of my main inspirations...my friend Kate does an AMAZING blog about fashion called The Fur Coat she also puts some music and art stuff in there too.

The other blog that's got me going on this is by artist Robert Mars...It's called Ghosts Of The Great Highway...He makes very cool art too...Here's a look.

Here's his website too...check him out!