one million soaps, trophy bases, and knife blocks

more from the GARFO show

with mom and her favorite piece, made of marble trophy bases

a soap workshop room, in process of being welded with water to a pedestal

one million soaps and where they used to stand

my new soap piece from the show Oh So Material at the GARFO of VAI in SLC.

one million awesome unexpected combos of Mexican artists and temples

Martin Ramirez and the St. George Temple

(thanks to Ben Howell for delighting me with this)

one million pipes on a roof

After three tries this year (rain and tardiness thwarted my first two visits) i was finally successful in reaching the roof of the Met to mingle with this masterpiece of plumbing by a favorite of mine, Mr. Roxy Paine

one million spectacles

Dear Music,
I'm late, but i'm back with a new hero.


Last night Jeffrey (on Paul Jacobsen's urging and jealousy) obtained free tickets to Spectacle, Elvis Costello's TV show, about songwriting. Its filmed in the famous Apollo theater of Harlem. The following clip is just for an example the interviewing that went on in addition to the concerts (i did not see the police).

The line up: JOHN PRINE - LYLE LOVETT - RAY LaMONTAGNE
Theme: one man (singer/songwriter) alone in the spotlight.


This song blew me away.


Lyle, always the gentleman, looked very sharp and complimented others sincerely profusely.



Mr. LaMontange, possibly even shyer than Michael Stipe (was).


All four legends kept talking about this one legend:
Townes Van Zandt, maybe my next hero.

one million spokes on post

3rd street and Avenue B.
Across the street from Mama's Foodshop...where you will find me tonight saying goodbye to New York.

one million Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere that sometimes form bands

That Punky Brewster post is a nice segue into this next love of my eighties youth: M.U.S.C.L.E.s.
The characters in Collin's latest video are the very ones i collected as a 3rd and 4th grader in Ann Arbor Michigan with Alex Bigelow.
We coveted that "Hand" character so i'm glad he made the cut.
Thanks to Collin who just started grad school yesterday at Bowling Green, OH working on a degree in eighties toy animation.

one million seventy sixers turn thirty three

its the last half hour of soleil moon fry's birthday. the significant detail to note is that my boyhood crush on punky brewster has been legitimized by the fact that we have been the same age this whole time!




if you are a seventy-sixer (and i know who some of you are) email me a first grade photo and i shall put you up here next to me and my girl punky.

one million loves and one million devotions

also shot by ben at black and white gallery

one million ducks

"Pond"































Images shot in Black and White Gallery of Chelsea
by Ben Howell
(who saved the day many times to make this show possible)

one million early works from my parent's basement

don't be fooled, i could never even ollie, but i was an excellent webelos scout.









































i could never convince my best friend, Alex Bigelow, that i hadn't traced Garfield, even after showing him the tiny newspaper image i copied it from.















my precociousness spilled over into literacy, i could spell my parent's names from early on.

one million new york adventures with an aritst prodigy

Meet "Granteeny", a visual/conceptual artist prodigy (seen here being jealously karate kicked at by his artist father) whose work you may find linked to the title of this post.






His father and I considered ourselves prodigies through college and on until we realized that the cut-off year for being a prodigy is age 33; a number i meet in less than seven days.
















Granteeny after critiquing my work at the opening of "Commune"






ShakeShack











Yayoi Kusama at one of the Gagosians


















Ernesto Neto at the Armory

The awe of the Guggenheim
The awe of Dylan's Candy Bar
































it was a great week

one million summer shows

BLACK & WHITE GALLERY is pleased to host COMMUNE – group exhibition organized by the independent curator and critic Dominique Nahas.





Curated by Dominique Nahas

May 21 - June 27, 2009

Opening Reception:
Thursday, May 21, 2009, 6-8pm







COMMUNE brings together twenty-two nationally and internationally recognized artists whose diverse and surprising works examine networks of forces brought to bear by exchange through the social bond, be it through family, fellowship of friends, lovers, school affiliations, secular and religious organizations, class structures, collectives, and nations.

NORIKO AMBE, OSVALDO BUDET, BRIAN BRESS, CAROLINA CAYCEDO, JARED CLARK, BLANE DE ST. CROIX, OANA FARCAS, CAOIMHGHIM O FRAITHILE, CHARLEY FRIEDMAN, CHITRA GANESH, ISHII HIDENORI, ODED HIRSCH, STEVE KEISTER, JULIA KUNIN, OLIVER LUTZ, MAURIZIO PELLEGRIN, JOHN POWERS, MICHAEL REES, PETER ROSTOVSKY, JULIANNE SWARTZ, JACQUES LOUIS VIDAL, ROBERTO VISANI





The Studio I've been sharing with Alexis Semtner to make work for the show

one million ways to paint like an electrician

These two pieces are also from the Swarm show (that just came down) in Oakland

I'm aware of a couple of blog entries on the show:

http://dailydujour.com/category/blogs/svea-lin-vezzone/

FecalFace
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1448&Itemid=27

one million balls that might be rocks

one million bouncy balls and glass

Installation at Swarm Gallery

Bouncy Balls and Glass (no adhesive: just friction and gravity to the wall)

one million bars and balls of color

Graphite, gouache, and map pins on digital giclee print on bfk of enlarged to-do list