This June, I’ll be having my first solo art show since Spoke Up!, back in January 2007. The show is called Connected, which also happens to be the collective name of this piece. I’ve still got a little ways to go, as you can see, but I wanted to show it as a work in progress as an explanation for my lack of posting or anything internet-related lately.

I don’t generally dig on the artsy concepts behind artwork, but to explain: I see this piece as a visual representation of how I believe my brain works, full of weird interconnected thoughts, repeating iconic images, and unconscious wordplay. It was also a good way to use up some of the boxes and boxes of scrap and found wood I had around the house, waiting to be used. Lastly, I’ve been pretty obsessed with hand-drawn typography lately; I’ve been reading old books on sign painting and lettering, and it’s pretty much all coming out of me through these tiny ink paintings.

The show is being held at Skeleton Key Tattoo in lovely SE Portland, Oregon (1729 SE Hawthorne, to be exact). The opening will be on First Friday, June 6th. This will be the centerpiece of the show but I’ll also be showing a few older paintings and some of my newer prints. I’m hoping to have two new screenprints done too, based on two pieces in Connected, but those will be last minute additions, depending on how quickly I can finish the last pieces of this.

If you’re interested in more closely following my process, I will be updating this Flickr set at least once a day until I’m done. Also in that set is this nifty animated gif if you’re interested in my exact progress through the piece.

Tags :: Painting, Process Shot