Halloween was fun and so are you

Well Halloween was business as usual this year. It involved me forgetting about Halloween until it was Halloween, rushing out to find a creepy/ cheesy/ creepy mask and drinking enough to forget most of the night. But it was quite fun... here's my costume:



When I'm not moving my brother cross-country and moving myself cross-city... I'm busy with group shows and band artwork. I'm much better at updating my Flickr site and I've posted most of my new work already. I'm in a show right now called Horrorwood at WWA Gallery... click on the flier to see the show:



Also did album artwork for the new The Republic Of Wolves album. Click on the image to go SimpleStereo.com



I have a clearer, less compressed version on my Flickr site and I released a print of it on my Etsy site.
Well that's it for now. More to come...

2 Shows in LA this weekend

Well I'm a little late on one of them. The opening was yesterday... Dang! But here's the info on it anyways. Click the banner to go to WWA Gallery's website... they should have the show up soon.

I finally got to do a happy painting for this show. I feel like most of the shows and paintings I've been doing lately have been a bit dark. Maybe it's because it's a brighter season now... so long winter. Click HERE to see my painting for the show.

The other show is tonight, June 12th. It's a dog themed show and 20% of all sales of art will be donated to Downtown Dog Rescue. My painting has already sold for this show... glad to be doing my part for the pups. Click the postcard for Gallery Meltdown's website.

Click HERE to see my painting for the show.

I also got to do a Q & A on the Juxtapoz website. It was for their Back Talk segment and was pretty fun. Back Talk With Ben Kehoe

Holy Fuck

Do I suck at blogging or what? I'm not sure why I'm not good at this. Maybe it's because I'm easily distracted. I think I can make it through this session... Come on Ben... Focus!! Ooo... iTunes Genius just picked a Portastatic song I really like.
So some things that happened recently that were kind of cool:

I was in a group show here in Pittsburgh at the Pittsburgh Center For The Arts called Cluster. The opening happened to fall on the first day of a blizzard that slammed Pittsburgh. It made for an interesting night. I'm pretty sure it affected the number of people at the opening because when I went outside cars were sliding everywhere. But we had a nice adventure in the blizzard later on that night where a tree almost fell on us... it was pretty awesome.
The PCA is also sending the work I had in Cluster out to Philadelphia for show called "Selections From Cluster" at the Center For Emerging Visual Artists from April 26th to May 21st.

I'm in a show right now at Gallery Meltdown called the TINY Show. Every painting had to be 3 inches or smaller. Pretty cool stuff and some really good artists. And all of my little guys sold... Yay! I have the paintings posted on my Flickr site.

My friend/ roommate/ talented filmmaker Ben Hernstrom who is Ambulantic did a short video on me for Pop City Media. It's a little awkward to see a video of myself but Ben did a great job making it not seem so. Here it is: Video

Here are some shows I have coming up:

May 21st - "Movers & Shakers II" - Ronin Gallery - Los Angeles, CA (Silverlake)
June 11th - "I Believe In Unicorns" - WWA Gallery - Los Angeles, CA (Culver City)

Well that's it for now. If I think of something else... I'll blog you.

Dark Pop 2.0

Just getting the word out about Dark Pop 2.0 at Last Rites Gallery. The show was put together by the gallery curator and all around good guy Andrew Michael Ford. Looks like it's going to be a great show... check it out if you can!
Here's my piece for the show:

Hey some stuff is going on

Well I have a couple of shows going on in December so I should probably let people know. Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving holiday. My holidays fluctuated between extremely busy days of painting and days of being very, very lazy... A delicate balance I executed quite well.

Okay, I have a group show coming up on December 4th in Pittsburgh at Fast>>Fwd Gallery. It's called 12"x12" and all of the paintings in the show will be... yep 12"x12". Some pretty sweet artists will have work there. I'll have 2 pieces in the show. Here's a flier:



I'm also in a group show at Gallery Meltdown in Los Angeles. Here's some info on that show:

AN AURORA OF POLAR BEARS: A Children’s Primer

New Works Based on Terms of Venery

Collected by Linda Pine

Curated by Linda Pine & Nicole Bruckman

OPENING RECEPTION
December 5, 2009
6-9 p.m.

Gallery Meltdown
7522 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90046
323.851.7223

I have group shows in January and February... More info on that soon~

New Prints!!! !! !

Hey finally got the resources to release some new prints. So check them out... if you want to that is. If you don't, it's cool... I guess.

Crunch time

Well I'm in the midst of a painting frenzy right now getting ready for a show with Mike Egan in August... so I have done very little of the updating thing. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
So my show is in Lancaster at Metropolis Gallery and the opening is Friday, August 7th. I plan on having around 10 brand new pieces done for the show. I guess they are posting the new paintings on the their Flickr site as I send them... so if you want to see them before the opening you can check them out on the Metropolis Flickr site. They have a photo set of the show with Mike Egan on the right. One of my paintings is not in the set though... it needs a little wrangling to get where it's supposed to. Maybe I'll send Metropolis a message.... maybe.
I have some more new, exciting stuff coming up... but I'll save that for another post.