Texas
I took a two week road trip from California to South Carolina during which I drove through Texas for the first time. It was flat and beautiful and dry and hot and so huge.
posted September 10, 2009
Things old and new but mostly old
I just found a folder of images I’ve taken in the last year that I’ve been meaning to put up. They’re mostly old but I like them for what ever reason. So…
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- yesssss
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- top 5 favorite graffiti
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- literally a zip-lock bag of urine
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- mudding at Art Chicago 2008
reviews of Personal Lives at Verge Gallery!
Square Cylinder and the Sacramento Bee had some nice things to say about the Personal Lives show at Verge Gallery last month. Check out the full articles above and here’s a sneak peek from the Sac Bee …
Cynthia Yardley gives us fascinating images of interiors that allow us to contemplate what kind of people inhabit them. Made up of many small photos arranged in a grid so that you feel as if you are looking through windows, they are the most voyeuristic pieces in the show.
In one grouping, the anonymous inhabitant of a house is partly framed by a mirror in the entryway. Photographs and artworks on the wall around the mirror give us clues to his life – a picture of an older woman, perhaps a grandmother, and a shot of the Eiffel Tower are intriguing. Below them, the floor is cluttered with castoffs – tennis shoes, boots, Birkenstocks, backpacks – suggesting an active family of casual dressers, some perhaps students.
In another series of shots, we see the rather ornate interior of a living room or study with a picture of a military man at the center. Around the room are a curved dagger in an ornate scabbard, a sculpture of an Indian servant, and a formal chair. On the walls around the military man, 19th century prints of Indian regiments and battle scenes are hung over a photo of a multiracial family. The work offers a fascinating game of Clue as you try to figure out to whom the room might belong.
posted May 10, 2009| Tags: personal lives, reviews, sacramento bee, verge gallery
New Orleans
In early 2008 I took a week off to drive from Brooklyn down to New Orleans with Jackie Sumell and Jackson Durchfall to do some research, intox, and picture making.
posted March 29, 2009| Tags: jackie, jackson, nola
Things
My show at Spazio 522 closes this Saturday the 13th. I’ll be there all day taking it down and wrapping it so if you’re reading this before Saturday stop by and say hi. I’ll have some pictures of the show soon. I donated a piece to Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco for their Pachanga 2007 auction in November. If you live there, go check it out and support a fantastic place. In the mean time, here’s two pictures:
posted October 08, 2007
Spazio 522 show
So the show is installed and looking good… Spazio 522 Gallery 526 West 26th St. New York, NY 212-929-1981
Wednesday- Saturday 10am- 5pm or by appointment
posted September 12, 2007
1 millionth artist to move to Williamsburg
I’m safe and sound in Brooklyn. It’s fabulous here. The weather has really made some adjustments in it’s schedule for me and held off on the excruciatingly hot days, although the humidity is crazy. It even rained one day. I’ve been setting up my studio at home which has been really great.
My show “Seam-ingly” at 21 Grand Gallery in Oakland with Sarah Wagner is up until Sunday, September 9th. Go check it out! And many many warm thank yous to everyone who came to the opening to say goodbye and good luck. It was a fantastic send off for my trek out east. Which is a whole other story that I will illustrate with pictures. The trek was amazing. Prema, you are the best friend a girl could have. Thank you friend.
I have a solo show at Spazio 522 in Chelsea that opens Friday September 14th and runs until October 12th. I am very excited for the show, the space is beautiful. More on that soon.
In the meantime, here are some pictures from the road. A little note, a few years ago when my mom moved back to her native islands she gave me back all the ceramics I had done in high school. I didn’t want to throw them away so I packed them into the car and formulated a plan. Along the way to Brooklyn I left a piece in every state and took a picture. It’s like I still have them but now I don’t have to move them around with me every two years. Because I undoubtedly move every two years.
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- Bye bye Seleta and Jesse
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- Bye bye Oakland
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- bye bye weird box i made in high school that i left at Prema's house
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- one whole week of that position
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- our first hotel room, just outside SLC
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- SLC
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- SLC, Utah
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- Wyoming is the most beautiful state I have ever seen.
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- "Texan by birth, American by grace" Devil's Tower, SD
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- Devil's Tower, Wyoming
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- Sturgis. The Sturgis. What you might not be able to see is that there are ginormous Jack Daniels and Miller Lite blow up thingies. And what you can't hear is that ZZ Top is playing. The other things you can not see is the sea of naked biker.
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- Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota. Who knew South D had so much going on. I could have spent a week there.
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- Mt. Rushmore, South D. His shirt says "Bitchin Bod".
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- Wall Drug, SD. An amazing way to sign a letter.
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- Wall Drug, South D. The most amazing biscuits and gravy. I am a huge biscuits and gravy fan and these were amazing.
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- This looks a lot like Prema's husband Kevin's sweet wolf tattoo that he has on his chest. It is also covering up a sweet Filipino gang tattoo. This guy was eating next to us at Wall Drug where I was enjoying my amazing biscuits and gravy.
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- Badlands National Park, South D
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- Badlands National Park, South D
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- Badlands National Park, South D
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- yeah, i made this when i was 14.
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- Badlands National Park, South D
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- good dog.
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- somewhere, Minnesota
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- Amish land, Wisconsin. I hope someone loves me like this when I'm 65.
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- Wisco. So many dead bugs.
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- Rest stop in Illinois, war veterans memorial
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- Indiana rest stop
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- The back of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH
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- cleveland
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- It rained so hard in Cleveland that day. I've never driven in rain like that. And I'm from San Francisco. This was also the day there was a tornado warning an hour away from us. The emergency broadcast told us to pull over and find a place with a cellar or a deep ditch on the side of the road so we drove faster.
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- We did a lot of this.
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- Niagra Falls, NY
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- She wanted to get in so bad...
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- This last one is for Jackson Durchfall. It was taken by Niagra Falls at an ice cream place where we finally got to taste custard frozen yogurt and it was delicious.
posted August 28, 2007
Opening at 21 Grand in Oakland
I’m having a show at 21 Grand in Oakland, the opening party is August 3rd. And then the next day I move to Brooklyn. Wow. Come say hi and goodbye. Here are some studio shots of work in progress.
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- On a totally unrelated note, I saw this at a graveyard in Napa. There was no marker yet because the grave was so new, just flowers and this note.
posted July 07, 2007
more, more, more one a day photographs
I LOVE things like this. When we lived in the Mission in SF there was a stop sign on our street that someone wrote “collaborate and listen” underneath the word STOP. It made me so happy. And this does too.
