July shows

The Way You Make Me Feel: 
Curating Loss and Resilience While the City Goes Boom!$$$$

This show addresses the impact of soaring rents, pending evictions, and growing homogeneity on San Francisco's dwindling bohemian class. Echoing the uncertainty felt by many artists and outliers who have called SF their home for decades, the exhibit seeks to create an environment that elicits communal longing, shared memory, and a gnawing, visceral sense of instability.

It also features the work of Matt Frederick, Randy Beckleheimer, Katja Liebenath, Sarah Newton, and Andrew McKinley

a.Muse Gallery
614 Alabama St.
open by appointment most days 10-5
through September 13

Places
Artwork+Network

Paintings and prints of built environments in California and Texas.

Thornton Tomasetti
reception July 29
email me to RSVP

Progress on work in the studio

Watercolor sketches

Spent a lot of time failing over and over with watercolor. These are the ones that didn't end up in the garbage. The bottom two were done from life. The top one is my aunt.

Some oil sketches

I spend a week playing in the studio trying to be as messy as possible and make situations that might be hard to get out of. Lots of thick gloopy paint. No falling back on habits with brushes. Trying hard to be at the edge of total failure. So much fun.

Work in Progress

Some things I've been working on.
Top to bottom:
A view of the southern coast of Iceland. 28"x50" Done over an old painting.
The lunar eclipse we had a few months ago shot from our roof by Jon. About 22"x34".
A little, 7"x5", waterfall done using a monotype I made last year as reference.
A study of the night sky in south Texas. 12"x16"
A larger painting of a similar view done over another old painting. 28"x50"

Canyonlands

Canyonlands National Park. 40"x60". Small study pictured above in the earliest shots.

Lake Mead

I started this painting on Monday, and this is two days worth of work. At the bottom is my palette while working on the sky. This one is a long and narrow 30"x60". Lots more to do on the land and water.

Capitol Reef

Progress shot. 34"x56"

Eucalyptus

72'x56". The bottom photo is the 20"x16" study that inspired the large painting.

Hoover Dam progress shots

Here's the progression over the past few weeks. This painting is 72"x56". As always, please excuse the exaggerated color of the crappy iPhone photos. Still a lot to do on this one...

Spring Open Studios!!!

Please join me in the Mission this weekend for Spring Open Studios.

1890 Bryant St. (btwn 17th and Mariposa)
Studio 212

Friday, April 17 6-9PM
Saturday, April 18 noon-6PM
Sunday, April 19 noon-6PM

Trace monotype

When it did finally rain here in December, it was too dark to paint, so I made lots of prints.