MOMO SHOW PALACE

The Underbelly show opens in Miami tonight, at 78 NW 25th Street in Wynwood.  I sent these paintings on canvas to be stretched on location, and judging by the photos I’m seeing, they look perfect.

Thanks to Ian Cox for the photo

Like famine, means hunger in Italian.

A robusto experience this year; sleeping outside, showering with cold water, painting walls 12 hours a day.  It was like a survival program to get kids off drugs, but with perfect food and gelato. I painted two public walls and worked with three local artisans: a ceramist, a carpenter, and a print maker. See the work here, and a very nice post here.

And finally a sunny photo of the piece below, from last year. The whole point was to see the shadows on the tin roof run with the painted stripes.

Angelo’s made a great video!

Last July, Eltono invited me along on a non-permission project involving flags, for the Museum supported Outomatic festival in Leuven Belgium.

The festival’s organizer Hans explained that Leuven has many unused civic flag pole brackets on city streets that hadn’t seen use in ages. Eltono immediately thought of the flag inspired work we’d done in 2008 for PLAF…

The best part of this for me was the system we came up with to generate numerous related, but unique designs. It was a large puzzle of thick cardboard with alternating parts that acted as a stencil as parts were removed.

It was also funny that we tried to determine which street in Leuven was the dreariest, most devoid of color, so our intervention might have contrast. We choose Tiensestraat.

Thanks to Hans Geyens for putting this all together

I began this series at the Fountainhead Residency in Miami in January, and finished it five months later in a studio in New Orleans.

It’s serial like the MOMO Maker work, exploring vocabulary in combination, but every element is hand painted, so there is some room for play between the concept’s rules.

A computer script helped to preview all combinations. Custom acetate guides registered the forms consistently for shape and placement in pencil. Then each was rendered in watercolor and acrylic. Paper Monster will have these works-on-paper for sale starting October 5th.

I’m getting a color zine together, for my “shop” this fall.

Thanks to everyone who made these possible – Kathryn, Dan, Skai, Galt – Thanks too to John, Dennis, and Alex

I’ve just left Grottaglie where I worked two robusto weeks with the gracious stellar Fame Fest.  There’s less than 2 weeks to find a flight to the expo/opening/party, hot beaches, perfect food, & art (info), September 24.  This year I worked with three artisans for the show and painted two walls.  I’ll have documentation soon,  I’ve just arrived in Tilburg Holland for DIY culture fest Incubate Sept 12 – 18.

Note the custom Vespa windscreen on this Grottaglie “Rascal”.

Eltono and I collaborated a mural above the Leuven Museum, as a part of the Outomatic Festival.  Its visible from the Museum, street, and surrounding apartments.

With three walls, the idea was to connect them different ways.  The perpendicular wall shares an angle with the same facing side on the chimney above, and the top and bottom walls share an arc.  Then these two, arc and angle connect.

Thanks Rene!

I just returned from Leuven Belgium where I drank many delicious beers and had the great pleasure to work with Hans Geyens, The Leuven Museum, and Eltono for a festival called Outomatic.  We made a nice project, to be documented soon.  For now here’s some street work from moi.

Richard Brook and Nick Dunn have produced a very academic book dealing with public space interventions and the resulting artifacts as they relate to architectural issues.  We talked while they were doing research in NY two years ago.  Congratulations guys.

From Merrell Publishers, by Tate curator Cedar Lewisohn.  I’ve read half of it, it’s really interesting.  That’s me on the back cover (WHAT?!) collage done in New Orleans, 2005.  Cedar curated the Street Art at Tate Modern, 2008.

Last month I had the great luck to work with Eltono for Rojo’s NOVA.

We were there to make temporary sculpture in Rio’s Parque Du Lage.  So we explored ideas and designs, thinking first of interactivity, then info-art, and settling on a modular system that could be arranged numerous ways.

The number of arrangements turned out to be limited firstly by the state of our found wood, being old and soft. So we tried all gravity would allow, working from scale models, around our workshop, and then across the landscaping and into the wild.

Thanks to David, the NOVA team, and NOVA artists

Rio was great.  Documentation of the project there is next.  This street jam is with Eltono of course!