New Painting for "15 Years of Thinkspace" - Group Exhibition
“Green House”, Oil on wood panel, 15 x 15 inches (16.5 x 16.5 including frame"), 2019-20
“15 Years Of Thinkspace”
January 11 - 25, 2020
Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 11, 6 - 9 pm
Miami Art Fairs 2019
I’ll have some new paintings in two separate art fairs Miami this December. I’ll be exhibiting with Thinkspace Gallery (Culver City, CA) at Scope Miami Beach, and with Spoke Art Gallery (NYC) at CONTEXT Art Miami.
“5:30”, Oil on wood panel, 12 x 12 inches, 2019
For availability, email contact@thinkspaceprojects.com
SCOPE Miami Beach
December 3 - 8, 2019
801 Ocean Drive
Miami Beach
www.scope-art.com
“Gully”, oil on wood panel, 16 x 20 inches, 2019
For availability, email NYC@spoke-art.com
CONTEXT Art Miami
December 3 -8, 2019
One Herald Plaza @ NE 14th St.
Downtown Miami
www.contextartmiami.com
New Etching Print Edition
Edition of 10
9 x 12 inches (including border). The plate itself is 3 x 4 inches
Zinc plate etching with aquatint, printed on Rives BFK 280g archival paper
Hand drawn, inked, and printed by me
Signed and numbered by me, as wall
For availability, visit the store here
“Window”, zinc plate etching on Rives BFK 280g, 9 x 12 inches
Up close, 4 x 3 inches
Check out some of the process in the slideshow below.
Limited Edition Print Release - "The Downhill"
Limited Edition Print Release - "The Downhill"
This new limited edition Giclee print will be available on Wednesday, November 13, at 12:00pm PST, at the store on my website here.
Limited edition of 60
Giclee print on Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag 310gsm
18 x 18 inches (including 1 inch border)
hand signed and numbered by me
New Etching Print Edition
Edition of 10
11 x 15 inches (including border). The plate itself is 4 x 5 inches.
Zinc plate etching with aquatint, printed on Rives BFK 280g archival paper, untrimmed
hand drawn, inked, and printed by me
signed and numbered by me, as well
Available on September 26 at 12:00 pm PST on the store page of this website. For questions or concerns, feel free to email me (see my contact page).
Zinc plate etching on Rives BFK 280g archival paper, 4 x 5 inches
#8/10, full size view
I used this etching as a study for a painting that was exhibited in Chicago at Vertical Gallery in September. You can see it in the “Paintings” section of my site. Below are some photos of the print making process. I did not get photographs of every single step of the way, but that’s because I was busy working. Enjoy!
Here’s a shot of the uncompleted drawing on the metal plate. The zinc is covered with a layer of “hardground”, and a metal drawing/scraping implement is used to remove that layer, leaving he exposed zinc below to make essentially a negative of the desired image.
Here’s the plate after it’s been inked up for printing, but before the aquatinting process has begun.
Printing the plate prior to aquatinting (I’ve got a small edition of this version to be released later).
Aquatinted plate, after it was run over by an automobile. Yes, it was run over by an automobile after I put it on top of my car then forgot about it and drove away. I found it in the street minutes later. Happily, though, there was little damage to the plate, and even added some nice atmospheric elements in there. I like to think that a small pick up truck ran it over. Goes with the theme.
Inked up plate.
Ready to print
Boom.
Dig those sweet, sweet textures.
New Painting for the Moniker Art Fair in London, England
“Blue Blocks”, Oil on wood panel, 12 x 12 inches, 2019
Moniker Art Fair
October 2 - 6, 2019
The Chelsea Sorting Office
90 - 100 Sydney Street
London
SW3 6NJ
Exhibiting courtesy of Thinkspace Gallery
“All Saints”, oil on wood panel, 12 x 12 inched, 2019
"LAX/ORD" - Upcoming Group Show at Vertical Gallery in Chicago, IL
“LAX/ORD II” - Curated by Thinkspace
Taking Place At:
Vertical Gallery
1016 N. Western Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 7 from 6 - 9pm
On view September 7 through September 28, 2019
This show features 100 artists, all working within a 12 x 12 inch format. For questions about availability, email info@thinkspaceprojects.com.
"Celestial Spaces" - Group Exhibition at Evoke Contemporary
I’ve got some new work for an upcoming group show at Evoke Contemporary in Sata Fe, NM, featuring: Seth Armstrong, Louisa McElwain, Christopher Benson, Christopher Burk, Gregory Ferrand, and Harriet Yale Russell.
“Pink”, oil on wood panel, 12 x 16 inches, 2019
“Hillside”, oil on paper adhered to wood, 18 x 24 inches, 2019
For availability, please visit www.evokecontemporary.com.
Opening Friday, August 16th 5 - 7pm.
Evoke Contemporary
550 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM. 87501
New Etching Print Edition
Edition of 10
14 x 17 inches (including border)
zinc plate etching with aquatint, printed on Rives BFK 280g archival paper
hand drawn, inked, and printed by me
signed and numbered by me, as well
This limited edition print will be made available on June 12 at 12:00 pm PST. For questions or interest, feel free to email me (see my contact page).
Zinc plate etching on Rives BFK 280g archival paper, 9 x 12 inches (14 x 17 in. with border)
Here’s a bit of the etching process, just to give a clear idea of what this thing actually is. Forgive my lack of technical terminology.
Drawing onto the plate with a metal etching needle. There’s a thin layer of “hardground” on the zinc plate, which the drawing implement basically scrapes off to make the image.
Finished with the drawing.
Acid bath. Dipping the plate in acid eats away at the exposed metal, allowing for grooves to form, in which the ink for the printing will sit. The longer it sits in acid, the more pronounced the line/value.
This is the first version of the etch, before aquatinting.
After applying aquatint, which is essentially melted granular plastic beads on the metal plate, which is a whole process in itself, I applied “stop-out” (a tar-like substance), over all the spots I wanted to remain white. Then I dipped it in acid for a few seconds, making everything that remained exposed a little bit darker. Then I covered everything that I wanted to remain that slightly darker color in more “stop-out”, dipped in acid, then repeated this process for each subsequent change in value, until I got to black, at which point most of the plate is covered in the stuff.
Cover the plate in ink…
Wipe the ink off, which takes forever…
Print that bad boy on a big ol’ press.
Upcoming Limited Edition Print Release - “Verdugo”
***SOLD OUT***
On Wednesday, May 8th at 10 am PST, Thinkspace Gallery here in LA will be releasing my newest limited edition giclee, “Verdugo”. Please visit shop.thinkspaceprojects.com for more info or to purchase.
“Verdugo”
Edition of 75
22 x 18 inches (including a 1 inch boarder)
Fine art print on Juniper Baryta Rag 305gsm
Hand signed and numbered by me
$90