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As the flyer reads, new work by myself and Jen Price and some collaborative awesomeness as well. Music by Steve Gallam. More relevant updates to come!

Images below are of the two pieces from the Expression atMOCTphere show that opened this past Friday and runs for a little over a week longer. Both of these pieces are currently for sale. contact me for pricing.

SLOWPOKE #1, Acrylic, Enamel and Latex on Salvaged Materials, 18.5X34, 2010

SLOWPOKE #2 Acrylic, Enamel, and Latex on Salvaged Materials, 18.5X34, 2010

enjoy.

I’m really horrible at updating this thing.

So I’m  in a show that opened this past Friday at MOCT here in Milwaukee. The show consisits of myself and 25-30 other amazing and diverse artists from Milwaukee. The opening went off with a bang. Lots of music, dancing, and delicious eats. quite the event to say the least. lots of good feedback and interest in the new work I have up which bodes well for the next coming months.

Photo Documentation…the set up.

late nights and tall ladders and red-bull makes jason something, something…

art on one side, music and drinks on the other.big red wall of art.some of my crew.

better to give than to recieve.

I had a great time. I think everyone involved did. Mondo-huger-than-huge thanks to Chris Roze who dreamt the whole thing up, the Archie Andros crew for coming through with hardware the night before, Austin, Emily, Nick Naber, and all the other artists who were there to hang work and hang out. it was great to see the diverse creative forces we have at work here in Milwaukee.

so much fun.

yes, its not officially spring YET, BUT it is only a couple weeks away and not soon after that(mid june maybe), we should see some hint of warm weather. Things are lookin up.

SO what is new for spring you may ask? Well, if you’ve made it this far you now that the site as a whole is getting a facelift. New content, images and words, is being added to the various parts of the site. Check back often to see the thing as it develops into an actual website. YES!

Also, New work!

This is a detail of a new piece I recently completed for Steve, a longtime friend of mine and the guy behind the site.  You can find other images of some exercises on the paint page and probably soon at the flickr link to the right.

A little noisier, a little more fun. As always, more work to come!

A few new paintings have been added to the works page and at the flickr link to the right. They were pretty fun to make so go check em out.

for the past few weeks Lizann and I have been filling ourselves with good food, great family and friends, an annoying amount of driving, and more really good food. Work on new work has continued throughout. New images to come in the new year. ‘Til then, here are a few shots of some recent holiday festivities.

folks getting busy on some gingerbread houses

caroling to myself

an assortment of revelers…

just means I am not posting anything. work is still being created and there are certainly plenty of things to do right now.

I have been working at the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Drop in Studio for the past few Sundays, meeting some rad people and rad families and rad kids who are genuinely excited to be making art. did I say this is rad?

I have recently started volunteering at the Excel Academy here in sunny Milwaukee, teaching art to a group of highschoolers once a week. This is also super-rad and a really different experience from anything I have ever done as an Art Teacher. Volunteering is fun and the kids here seem to really enjoy it as many of them have never had ANY art classes whatsover in their education to this point. lots to learn here!

being surrounded by creativity, especially in the classes I work in really keep this vortex of art I seem to be in, churning. its not a bad thing.

My own art making is still on the move. things are definitely progressing/evolving/growing and its great. excitement abounds. The processes are on hold in the public realm as I can’t manage it with the weather these days. we’ll see if I can’t get at least one more experimental piece out there before the first snow. photos of new studio stuff by weeks end for sure.

last week was my birthday. 25. scary.

this is the most recent street-side piece I installed this past week here in Milwaukee. Titled, life is grand, because well, it is! It can be a celebration everyday if you want it to be, and that is freaking awesome! I used adhesive vinyl, some transparent, some not, and acrylic paint.

The design is similar to a piece I did in the early part of last month except I didn’t have a finished plan going into this one as I did perviously.  This piece is right next to a local mom&pop/corner-store shop and the shop-owner and her son and I chatted a bunch about art and art making. her son hung with me for the entirety of the application and he was super into the idea of art-making in the street. That and his new halloween costume, but really, who isn’t?

The afternoon was quite busy and I had alot of people asking me what I was up to. I told them about the concept and what I was using to execute it. When the inquirers found out that this is non-destructive, they were all smiles. enjoy.

the tenth calender month ends today with both the thermometer and leaves in free-fall. the wet, cold and all around crummy weather has kept the street side pieces on the down-low which is a little disheartening knowing that it only gets colder and darker each day from here on out. with that in mind, studio work is on the upswing and so are the spirits. the emotioal ones, not liquid.

I was able to get a final piece for this month put up in the nieghborhood a day or so ago. it turned out great and I met some super-nice people while doing it. A real post with all those fun photos will be up here by monday afternoon.

thoughts on how to create this sort of work under two feet of snow are brewing. it can be done, I think. the kids keeping knocking on our door but we have nothing to give. happy halloween.

just busy. created a few new studio pieces, sat around, worked a bunch, lived some life. intricacies aside,  here are some sneak-peek shots of the work still kinda, sorta in-progress.

mmm, sepia…

colour.

some actual hi-res photos should be up by the end of the week as well as some other fun stuff. rad.