Turn Me On (You Fucker) v3, 2012 63cm x97cm acrylic on 60lb coated paper
Periodically I’ll repeat myself.
Turn Me On (You Fucker) v3, 2012 63cm x97cm acrylic on 60lb coated paper
Periodically I’ll repeat myself.
Hold it Down, 2011 36cm x 28cm acrylic on canvas
When things don’t go as planned, you must hold it down. When you start to feel yr ghost getting away from you, you must hold it down. When your caught unprepared, you must hold it down. When a sucka tries to test, you must hold it down. When you step onto the dance floor, you must hold it down. You simply must hold it down. Otherwise, what’s the point?
Austin Folks:
Hold it Down will be up for bids at the For Esme, With Love benefit for the family of Esme Barrera taking place Friday January 13th, 2012 at The Annex/Club 1808, 1808 e 12th St ATX 78702. Please go and bid high on any of the lots.
This is Ella. She is the familiar to one of my friends and patrons, Marc . Over the years I spent a fair amount of time with her. Our interactions usually consisted of her coming up to me at some point, sniffing my foot and running off. Though I am not one for close animal engagement, my encounters with Ella were always pleasant as it seemed we had a mutual respect for each other. So I was not unmoved when I learned, from Marc, of Ella’s passing a few days ago. In his email he described a particularly connected moment that reaffirms my feeling of there being a mutual respect between Ella and me.
“After I was living at my mom’s for a bit, I decided to lay out all of the art I had to see what I wanted to hang on the walls of my studio. When I rolled your piece out, Ella rubbed her face all over it and then proceeded to lay down on for about an hour. She was a fan.”
Goodbye… Ella, the black cat (1995-2011)
This is a rock show flyer from 2004. Since no one involved was making any money off of these endeavors it was important when designing a flyer that it be done as efficiently as possible, in regards to both time and money. Usually I would cannibalize something I was working on currently, scrawl out the text, scan it all, place the elements, convert to black and white, print and make copies.
For some strange reason this is the only photo I have of this painting. I found the canvas outside of a rehearsal space in Los Angeles. I took it with me to Portland where I eventually painted yet another rabbit and book on it. When I moved back to Austin I had a show and sold it to this friendly lady. I didn’t paint that much in 2005 and this is absolutely the best piece from that fallow period. It also helped me pay for my move to Oakland. Thanks magick metal stoners for helping me out on this one.
After a few years of employing rabbits to represent magnetism/attraction, conduits, and/or convenience, I began to sour to them.This lead to the making of a handful of commonly themed works, Barn Yard Leporicide, 2008 being the first. Here two masked rabbits rip apart a third while a fourth struggles with one of the masked attackers in the shadow of a moonlit barn.
Barn, 2009 is a sketch that carries over the mood set in Barn Yard Leporicide, 2008. It occurred to me, as my view of rabbits was darkening, that in Japanese the words for cute (kawaii) and scary (kowaii) rhyme so there’s that…