Leap of Faith
There are not enough superlative adjectives to describe the week that just transpired: excellent, magnificent, wonderful, marvelous, remarkable, unparalleled and of course…awesome. But before any of that could transpire, a tremendous leap of faith had to be taken by Boris, Vesa and myself. When I went to pick up Boris and his wife at the airport I […]
Do the Work
Do the work; this is my daily mantra and it has been extremely effective at keeping my emotions in check and the panic level manageable as hanging the show and the opening reception are looming just around the corner. No matter what happens next week, or even next month, I feel I have done the work and I have been […]
Go Big or Go Home
For those of you luckily enough to live near Seattle and will be able to attend the upcoming Toy Photography exhibition, you are in for a real treat. All three of the exhibiting artists prescribe to that popular slogan “Go Big or Go Home”. So when we originally talked about what size to print our […]
Rules are made to be broken!
I have certain rules I set for myself when editing down images into a cohesive set for exhibition. One of them is to not be too attached to any one image and always be suspect of any image I am too attached to. But rules are made to be broken, even this one. I have an […]
Promotion: the Artists Achilles Heel
I think a lot of artists are under the assumption that creating a body of work for a gallery show is the hardest part of any exhibition. I would like to propose that creating the work is actually the easiest part; promoting it is the most difficult part. Promoting ones work is never easy for an […]
It’s Not Art You’re Buying, its Time
When buying from an artist/maker, you’re buying more than just an object/painting; you are buying hundreds of hours of failures and experimentation. You are buying days, weeks & months of pure joy. You aren’t just buying a thing, you’re buying a piece of heart, part of a soul, a moment of someone’s life. Most importantly, […]
Fair Play
It seems that most fans in the Lego universe are more than happy to let Lego roll right over their creative rights without even a whimper. It seems they believe this issue only impacts those creatives who want to sell their work. To summarize, they feel that Lego is well within their legal rights to issue […]
Think Like an Artist
Today is the day that I wish I could write better. The concepts rattling around in my head are bigger than I can express coherently. All these thoughts began to percolate when I attended a talk last week at the Bryan Ohno Gallery that was billed as the first in a series of improvisational sessions around the topic “Think […]
What Else Did I Miss?
I have always felt that a university education is wasted on the young. I went straight to college after graduating from high school and I always felt this was a mistake. So when I picked up a new book last month called 101 Things to Learn in Art School I was intrigued to see what I had missed the […]
The Runaway Bunny
I try to not talk about projects I am working on until they are completed. There is this weird phenomena that takes place if you talk about a project too much…it never happens. At least that is my personal experience. This is why I am just now telling you about my all consuming fall 2014 project: recreating Margaret Wise […]