Hello!
A big warm November hello to you from my studio here in Ocean Park, Santa Monica. I'm zipping these bright little photons over to your home, phone, laptop, carphone, pager, Blackberry, or Nokia brick phone (man, I hope!) via my human-typed commands and hands. No divisive algorithms here.
I wanted to send you some recent art, news, and inspiring art shows I've seen lately, so let's do this!
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NEW PRINTS!
They're in stock at Christine Fail's shop in Austin or you can get them online here.
I painted CLOUDS, NM during quarantine from Los Angeles, dreaming of the West Texas and New Mexico skies. In homage to our patron saint of desert holiness, Georgia O’Keeffe.
I used avocado pits to make the dye for the paper and painted with lime paint from my favorite gay hardware store in the Castro, Cliff's Variety. Incidentally, the dark lines in the sky are burns from the oven rack where I cooked the paper to darken the avocado dye.
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Hop on it! I only made a limited edition of 25 prints.
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I have one Vessel wall hanging in stock. Check it!
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Let's talk scarves! I have a few back in stock here.
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Now for some other news:
It's been lovely seeing art emerge from the pandemic here in LA. I moved here a mere month before lockdown and all the LA galleries and museums stayed shut until 6 months ago. Now they're open and showing with fervor! Here are some recent shows that have especially touched me:
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Brittany Mojo's clay-mazing freak-me-out-with-the-goodness show at Craig Krull Gallery. It just closed but you can see the work here.
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Jennifer Boysen's peaceful show
PARADISE RANCH ROAD
at Five Car Garage in Santa Monica.
It's pretty hard to capture the feeling of the paintings in photos. Imagine soft subtle presences floating on the walls.
The show is up until Nov. 24. The address isn't listed publicly, but if you email the gallery, the owner will send you directions. Part of the fun is it's literally in a five car garage in an alley.
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^ THIS piece!! Grayson Perry's 2008 "Map of Nowhere"
(The artist wears some exceptional looks so had to include him)
You can see a version of the map that's zoomable here. Do yourself a favor and dive all the way into full screen, then zoom until you can read the text.
The purple version of this map was in the Fowler Museum's The Map & The Territory exhibition, which just closed. I went to the show twice just to study this piece again like I was going for an artist's pilgrimage. I was entranced. 👁
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Finally, I'm elated to see my friend Cheyenne Weaver, a "how are you so talented?!" type of artist, featured here in Sightlines Mag. Cheyenne's ceramics and paintings are beyond beyond.
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Here's a new Yaeji song to close us out. I just found it tonight and have now listened to it 4 times while writing this email.
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"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."
- Pema Chödrön
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