What you don’t know
I got many reminders this week of how uncomfortable it can be not knowing: from not knowing why someone is being rude to not knowing…
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Race you
Yesterday I didn’t feel up to being very vertical, thanks to a cold, so I spent a number of hours lying down, creating outlines of…
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On the bias
I made some small adjustments to my studio this week, and it reminded me how much even minor changes to your space can affect your…
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The size of it
Anselm Kiefer turned 70 this past Sunday. When I was 20, I lived in a flat in Richmond, Virginia, with no air conditioning. I have…
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Ripples
My letterpress Wood & Water pieces and the new All In mixed media series are in this new pop-up gallery over at PROXY, right by…
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Still life
One of my favorite places to draw, the cafe at the main library, is closing at the end of this month. Above is one of…
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In focus
In art school, other students would often ask “Who are you looking at?” Besides being tempted to some smart ass response like, “You,” I often…
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Lunch or this drawing
Here is the latest Wood & Water piece that I am working on. These are all destined to become a series of letterpress prints, and…
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Why you should hide your graduate degree and burn your artist statement
I was recently re-reading some of art critic Dave Hickey’s hilariously titled Air Guitar, a book of essays on “art and democracy.” If you are…
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The boats
Getting ready to draw the first round of images on all of these new pieces and revisiting some of my recent drawings for Wood &…