Drawn to Television 6

Mythbusters marathon

A Show I'm in - Searcher - part 3

The Brief Gallery

untitled (red)

2010

Gas Cans, zip ties and shop light

untitled (yellow)

2010

Diesel Can, zip ties, steel stand and lights

Manual Haiku 7 - Manual Motherload

I finally found my stash of old manuals. Now manual haiku can really get rolling.

Here's one from the first page of the Suzuki TS50 manual.

you are assured of

the latest innovations

in high performance

Inspiration - Advertising of my youth

From the April 1970 Mini Bike guide. Tattooed kid threatening violence, they really don't make ads like that anymore.

Album of the Week 5 - Painter

Another album I purchased just because of the cover.

Painter's self titled album from 1974. There's a decent amount of information about them on the web, but they suffer from a generic name problem. Its tough to google "Painter" and wind up with finding an obscurish 70s rock band from Calgary Canada.

Here are the tracks

A

West Coast Woman - I think of this as Painter's California Girls but singular. There doesn't seem to be much of a population on the west coast of Canada, so that could explain why there's only one. On the other other hand she does have "flowers on her cheeks" and "loves that back seat business".

Tell Me Why - not to be mistaken with the Bronski Beat song

Song for Sunshine

Goin' Home to Rock n' Roll - Is pretty great. It's basically an "anti-ramblin'" song. Things on the road are just messed up and hard and I'm tired, so I just want to go home to rock n' roll. It's a great message for the kids/

Space Truck - is a real gem, "drippin' moon dust in my space truck on my way to mars." Packing picnics and turning left at the milky way. It's up there with Steeleye Span's Rocket Cottage.

the B side is more of the same.

Kites and Gliders

Oh! You

Slave Driver

For You

Crazy Feeling

Goin' Down the Road

I do really enjoy this album. It has a good early 70s hippy blues rock feel combined with the politeness and good grammar of Canada.

One problem with Painter is a few too many "you"s in the songs. "She keeps you grinnin'", "that's where you'll find me", "would you like to ride?", "tonight I give my soul to you." I really don't like being implicated in other peoples songs, especially when I don't know them that well. Maybe it works better live? But do I want to take a ride in your Space Truck? I'm not sure, that's a big commitment who's bringing the picnic?. Sure the music is great but you don't need to drag me into it.

A Show I'm in - Searcher - part 2

Searcher continues from Car 23 in the lobby of the Laguna Art Museum down a flight of stairs and into the basement. There's a short hallway along the stairs where I've installed several pieces.

The first piece is the Light Wood Light which was inspired by the sea urchins of the Pacific coast.

light wood light

2010

acrylic on wood, zip ties and light fixture

Next to the lamp is Lock It Up, a painting created using silk screens of magazine covers on wood, in this case 4Wheel Drive, Mountain Bike and Backpacker.

Lock It Up

2010

acrylic silk screened on wood

and as you continue down the hallway there's a cluster of Dark Wood Lights. The lights are made of the same wood as the magazine cover pieces and the insides are silk screened with magazine imagery.

Dark Wood Light

2010

acrylic on wood, zip ties and light fixture

next up, out of the stairwell and into the Brief Gallery

Drawn to Television 5

Daily Show and some channel flipping

A Show I'm in - Searcher - part 1

I have a solo show, Searcher, up at the Laguna Art Museum through January 23rd.

The show starts in the lobby with Car 23.

It's inspired by my dad's race cars of the late 60s/early 70s.

I initially created the car for my show HiLites at the Miami Art Museum back in 2008 (I'll give you a walk though of that show on a later date).

It didn't have an engine for the Miami show. It got a new engine days before the opening at Laguna and I'm looking forward to the end of the show and getting a chance to do some final touches on it.

Next up the stairway of the Laguna Art Museum

Manual Haiku 6

We suggest that you

would carefully read through this

manual and keep it

Group Show 3

front

back

Old Gold 7

These are from my first year MFA show way back in 1991. The drawings and text are all from teen health books and remind me a bit of my current fascination with repair manuals. The wood was from a broken apart book shelf, the text was pencil and the drawing were made using an old phillips screw driver.

Manual Haiku 5

ASSEMBLY

Install the shift fork

to the shift shaft end and fix

with a cotter pin

patent pending - Puppy Lathe

Drawn to Television 4

We spent New Years Eve watching the Star Wars trilogy (aka the good ones). I didn't get much drawing in but I think the sentiment is there.