Paintings Stolen!

Three of my paintings were stolen last night. "Breach", "Red Shift", and "Subsumption"  (all currently in unstretched form) were in the 3rd floor hallway of the Tyler School of Art, on display for tours of prospective students. Late last night someone took these three paintings. If anyone has any information on who might have these works, Please use my contact form in the navigation above, tyler offices, or contact the Temple Univerity Police Dept.. 

They mean a great deal to me, more than money. 

Promo Video for the National Wet Paint Exhibition

Well produced promo video for the show I was just in. Looks like the recent Chinese government crackdown is causing delays in getting the show over there, so it remains to be seen if that will happen.

News on recent shows

The Wet Paint Exhibition in Chicago was a success, so much show that the show will now be traveling to China. The two paintings "Natives 1 and 2" were selected to be a part of the traveling show. The first stop will be at the Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China. A second stop at the Shunde Museum was quickly added, and there is potential for the show to be extended to other Institutions in China. I am happy to see these works reach new audiences!

Tyler MFA Open Studio's this Thursday

Everyone in the Philly Area should definitely come to the Tyler Open Studios this thursday, it will be a lot of fun and you will see a ton of new work, including my own.

Thursday, November 11th, Tyler School of Art invites the public to attend the second annual MFA Open Studio Night. Graduate students in all departments will open their studio doors from 6-9pm to discuss their practice and work, in addition to highlighting Tyler’s new facilities on Temple’s North Philadelphia campus. Inaugurated in 2009, The Tyler School of Art building is located at 2001 North 13th Street. The MFA Open Studio Night will coincide with the second Thursday reception at another premiere North Philadelphia arts venue, The Crane Arts Building, located at Cecil B. Moore and 2nd Street. Tyler’s MFA Artists working in Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Printmaking, Fibers, Ceramics, Glass, Metals, and Graphic Design look forward to engaging with the community in an evening of multi-disciplinary exploration and art practice conversation.

Whats happening in my Studio

I am painting a lot of large work. Before grad school started, the largest work I was making at the time was about 2x5 feet. Anything larger was impractical to paint since I didn’t have that sort of space after graduating from Auburn. Now that I have space, walls (that I now wish were even taller) and storage, I feel I am only limited by my ambition to paint. So here are a few pics of stuff still in progress.

Some of the stuff closely adheres to the work I did before, while other things, like the Chrome skull painting, are more of an experimentation with imagery. Seeing how these different sorts of images play in context to the rest of my body of work. 

MFA Update 3

Grad school has been insane in so many good ways. Many of which I cannot even describe, partly for fear of incriminating myself. It is so funny to be in a group of people who are not only fun, but actually have more than a trace opinion about art. I think my work will benefit greatly from this new environment, It already has. People from all sorts of places coming together and actually getting along and being friends, that is something that MFA candidates can only hope for. I have heard so many stories of programs being so internally competitive that you feel that your contemporaries are enemies, but my group can't be more solid. It is going to be a pretty fun two years.

MFA Update 2

Underpainting that I am working on. Its going pretty quickly and already far past this stage. I am making much bigger paintings now that I have the room and the means, this one is going to be 4 by 6 feet. The next painting I stretch will probably be even bigger and landscape, two things that are pretty much uncharted territory. I am beginning to stretch out content-wise and go into new areas. Things are getting pretty interesting!