Kathakali

If you like hindu mythology and/or violence and/or dance and you live in New York go check out the kathakali performance at New York’s Downtown Dance Festival.

The current issue of the New Yorker (Aug 16-23) has an illustration by yours truly in their write up of the kathakali dance.

Pick yourself up a copy or go look at it online here.

The contrarietal stars are uprising tonight

As I posted the other week I went to Cooperstown on the 25th of July to install two shows at the Smithy Gallery. One of my own work and one a group show I curated.

It was a week full of hard work and little sleep, but it came off quite nicely I believe. There were a ton of people at the opening and so far I have heard a lot of positive comments.

Here are some pics of the two shows.
Uprising:

Contrariety:

Queens Ledger/Brooklyn Star

The Queens Ledger/Brooklyn Star newspapers printed a write up of me and “the Moth or the Flame” last week. I garnered the front page of the Entertainment section. Below are some pics. And you can go check it out online here.

Uprising and Contrariety

I have a solo show opening next Thursday at the Smithy gallery in Cooperstown, NY. Home of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Simultaneously there will be a group show I am curating.

There will be a lot of really good work on display. If you are in the area between July 29th and August 26th check it out!

Below is the postcard for the shows and also a list of the participating artists in the group show.

Here are the artists in the show, a really great list of eclectic creators:
Jordan Awan
Andrew Coates
Alison Corrie
Arden de Brun
Elliott Earls
Morgan Elliott-Awan
Ed Fella
Ryan Hobbs
Alyssa Kosmer
Kristin Lindner
Ali Madad
L Nichols
Luke Rotzler
Benjamin Santiago
Morgan Sheasby
R Sikoryak
Kenneth Smith
Patrick Smith
Katelyn Snyder
Seth Nicholas Stephens
Benjamin Teague
Chad Verrill
Daniel Wagner

More MonstrAUXity

Here is the packaging design for the AUX CD vol 2. If you will recall I designed the posters for the AUX Festival, an experimental arts and music festival held in Athens Ga., in April.

Well the AUX people also produce a CD anthology in conjunction with the festival. The design is below.

The first you see as it is unfolded with the CD in place. The second is after the CD is lifted.

Divinity at work

The Lord(s) work in mysterious ways.

Which is no excuse to blame the Lord(s).

How can we raise ourselves up to the life of Spirit?

Not claiming to be God,
but neither excusing ourselves as “only human.”
By which we mean “I give up.”

The responsibility is, rather, to attend to Divinity.
To listen, and integrate.

The Lord(s) work in mysterious ways.

Playing house, or what we’ve been doing

This is what Brother Cucumber and I have been doing with Summer.

Playing house.

Now, the Bird has a Home Office.

And our guests have a bedroom.

A Guest Bedroom.

Of sorts.

Some kind of heaven to me

“A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.”—Franz Kafka

“…books, the acute and excruciating acts of concentration by which humans aspire to self-transcendence, to capture forms of understanding more profound and rational and cosmic than they themselves are by nature capable of directly being…”—Kenneth Smith

Amen.

Smoke Signal 05

The new Smoke Signal has arrived.

Snatch one up.

Populated Desert Island

The release party for Static Fish has now come and gone.
Thanks to all who made it out.
To all who didn’t, you missed free beer and a store full of great books, people,
and gag toys.

Now, we have to get back to work on the next Static Fish and all the other things we all do.

Not to mention World Cup action has finally begun. Hurray!

Here are some pics from the show:

Kris looks on. The books vibrate with power. People commune. And, finally, Anthony makes his first grab with a set of chopsticks! Thumbs up Anthony.

Hunter, Anthony, and Kristin look on, skeptically intrigued, as Ben, blissfully ignorant, eats his cake donut while reading a book.

Reconnoiter for the first time

Last week I drove all alone Upstate.
What a beautiful and amazing place New York is.
Once outside the city that is.
Of course even Manhattan used to be beautiful.
If only the Red Indians had been a bit more cynical,
perhaps this natural wonder would have been allowed to remain.
I cannot help but think of the Red Indian.
He knew the natural paths and rhythms of this land.
The White Man came and destroyed all of that.
And thank the Great Spirit!
For where would we be without our highways, and interstates?
Where would we be without our Wal-Marts, and Targets, and Home Depots?

Here are some pics of places I swam at. And places I stopped at.
And 7444 Gallery where I installed a show.

Do oil slicked fish dream of Static Fish?

The world may never know.

We are having a release party for the new full-color Static Fish at Desert Island on Tuesday 08June10.
Come out. Meet the artists. Have a beer. Should be fun.

Choice Splints

A journey into the interior.
Upstate.
A scouting mission in Cooperstown.
An installation mission in Saranac Lake.
Boom.
Choice Splints: Muck, mire, and sublimated desire.
Opens Thursday.