works in progress april

i leave for marfa on thursday, so I wanted to post some of the pieces I am leaving in my studio, as they are what I have been working on as of late. Due to space, I probably won't bring them with.


I have begun a program for myself of $1 drawings. I pay myself $10 per hour and time six minutes of drawing on an index card. Some of the drawings are ideas I am working out in paintings, others are observational drawings. This one was commissioned by Tommy of our bikes (team Masi). I try to keep the drawings with me in a little box as examples of my work and for sale. They are "the people's drawings," or "the democratic drawings."


"Heart, Hearth, Home"
acrylic, ink, paint pen and fibers on denim


Sad Bastard of Technology
("But what's a substitute for bread and beans? I ain't seen it/ Do engines get rewarded for their steam?" -John Henry folk song)


Vija Celmins-inspired wax/oil and acrylic images


begun a while ago and in remission but present nonetheless.

studio mid-feb.

Here are some images from my studio right now.


"SWLABR (She walks like a bearded rainbow)"


the great inhaler, Michael Phelps: "I thought I saw an eagle, but it might have been a vulture, I never could decide" (this painting as taken on new significance in the past week +-. in the words of a co-worker's homemade protest shirt, "Leave Michael Phelps Alone!"


Canadian Goose, bird said to have caused the strike of the Laguardia plane headed for Charlotte that went down in the Hudson; part of diptych.


And the sad little plane, part ii, soggy in the river.


I am working on this painting of blinged-out late '80s Tour de Francers Greg Le Monde, et al. for Watts, owner of Friendly Bike.