Late Ghosts

This would've been perfect for a Halloween post, but ectoplasm doesn't have an expiration date, so November will have to do.

As I mentioned in a previous post about Russell's show at St. Mary's Art Center, the venue has quite a few ghost stories attached to it. Jenna took pictures of a few hauntings the night of the reception, which just recently came to my notice. I have a feeling she was more Paranormal Instigator than Paranormal Investigator, but then, I'm kinda jaded.

I talked last night

Just before my artist's talk last night, Nick came up to me and asked if I'd like a beer. I told him that in the course of my talk I had to connect fluorescent mice to Hieronymous Bosch, and I doubted I could do that with a beer in me.

Here are some images I showed in the course of the talk. Whether I was able to sensibly connect them is something I have to leave to the judgment of the audience.

Review in the RN&R

Brad Bynum did a nice write-up of the "she'd hallucinate ghosts" show for the Reno News and Review. Instead of pasting the picture they used for the article, in which I think I look kinda goofy, here's a picture of one of the drawings for the show, as it was in process. I figured having an exhibit would be a good excuse to play with scale, but I don't have enough clear wall space to let me attack a larger scale with ease. Fortunately, I'd done some productive dumpster diving several months earlier, rifling though the industrial-size dumpster in the parking lot of Lowe's with the help of Jose Navarette, Debby Kajiyama, and my wife Kristin, back when we were collaborating on "The Mapping Project."

We were looking for big enough piece of cardboard that we could create a person-sized cardboard house on stage. We abandoned the cardboard house idea, but I held onto our prize catch: a giant cardboard box that had been used to ship a lobster tank for The Red Lobster (hence the inverted stenciled words "LOBSTER TANK" on the leftward flap of cardboard). The lobster tank box (along with the patience of my wife, who put up with the lobster-tank-box invasion of the family room for a series of weeks), was what made the large-format drawings feasible -- a clean and solid surface I could pin oversize sheets of paper to.

"she'd hallucinate ghosts" is up

The show is up; here are a few hastily-taken pics. My lecture will be on Thurs., Oct. 23rd -- the reception goes from 5pm-7pm.

All in a Day's Work

Yesterday I was able to clear the deck and to mostly spend the day drawing, cranking out pictures of birds for my upcoming show. The soundtrack for the day was some Beethoven quartets and sonatas, a bunch of Timbaland-produced tracks, and a good chunk of the VP debate. When I got up this morning, the tablefull of pictures looked like a small installation had taken roost in the livingroom.

Postcard for Upcoming Show

At the Tahoe Gallery, from Oct 13-Nov7, with a reception and lecture on Oct 23, 5pm-7pm.