yoko furusho @ destination art space this thursday

Hey everybody--

come check out yoko furusho's work in the flesh, this thursday evening @ destination art space.

under control

here are some paintings I did this weekend while visiting a good friend in d.c.

the cowgirl is on a card i'm sending a long-lost friend.

i'm home sick and feeling bad, so i thought i should at least try to be productive. i think i'll go back to bed soon though.

Yoko Furusho on Drawn!

The beautiful and talented Yoko Furusho was recently featured on Drawn!

I was real excited to see recent SVA grad cecilia granata's piece for Time Out New York here. Her site on bird beak has gone missing, I'm assuming a redesign is in the works.


happy fourth!

monstres invisibles

explosions and fires to put out in the personal arena. i finally drew in my sketchbook. i love it when people fall asleep next to me on the train, esp. when i'm in one of those corner seats and their side profile is right there, it makes things easier. the guy on the bottom right had fallen asleep while reading a copy of Chuck Palahniuk's "Invisible Monsters" in French.

more from the sketchbook

i got a wicked sunburn yesterday at Jacob Riis park, and am home rehydrating.

Here are some sketchbook pages. At some point after college, one goes into a panic and starts painting pictures of their breakfast. The boy with the kiddie ride is something I'm exploring further...

summatime

here are a few sketchbook pages from this week. the gouache painting is not so good, but check out my sweet ride...

I haven't made anything good in awhile, but here are a few recent subway and wandering drawings.





it's been too long. I dove headfirst into two new jobs before the semester ended, and have been in a weird place all month.

If you're in New York, there's a really good Neo Rauch show at David Zwirner, and Walton Ford is at Kasmin. The only bummer about seeing gallery work this weekend is that many are closed for the Monday holiday. The Darger show at the Folk Art Museum was pretty good, but it made me bummed because I realized I missed seeing Paula Rego's new work at Marlborough.

I'm working on some ice cream truck paintings...stay tuned.

Last week of classes. Totally insane. Here are two new portraits and a few other bits that slipped my radar earlier:

Gandhi:



Sarah Silverman:


Sarah Ritch (a soon-to-be celebrity):


Three self portraits for various assignments:

(A dream I had about Guitar Hero):


(World's fastest rocking chair racer):


(Self portrait as St. Lucy):




Later, alligators.

more gouaches

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof sketches:




Jane Goodall:


Sarah Silverman:


Girls hand fishing for large catfish (noodling):

(Read more about the art of grabbling here.)

bad week

Another bad week. I think they're all awful but I'd rather put something up than nothing. Slash came out ok.

Vince Vaughn:


Christina Ricci:


Erykah Badu:


Fiona Apple:


Olsens:


Slash:

finishes

Here are a few finishes from the previous batch of sketches:

The first Neil Young vesion:


The second (and better) Neil Young:


Jack:


Martha:


Woody Guthrie (no one knows who this guy is anymore, which depresses me):


But everyone recognized this lady (Donatella Versace), which I think is equally sad: