Paris 1-2006

I just ran across these snapshots of me in my studio at Cite des Arts in Paris from the winter of 2006. It was a gift that just dropped into my lap out of the blue. I'm going to try and get back there again soon.

Being Boring

A Year of playlists

In 2007 I made one drawing each month of the music I was listening to. Regency Arts Press published it as a book and all 12 drawings were exhibited at printed matter in April '08

Sparks

These Watercolor & Gouache pieces I did in 2003 and they were shown the following spring at MoMA/PS1 in a show called 'The Curious Crystals....." It was curated by Steve LaFreniere and Bob Nickas. I was thinking of the way music just takes up so much space, it's huge.

When I first came to NYC in the 1980's so many of the subway trains were covered in these massive graffiti pieces and it was so exciting when they would pull into the station, you never knew what you were gonna see and even though so many of these pieces were giant, they were painted with these dramatic 3d effects to make them look even more massive, bigger than big. Combined with the noise that these trains would make pulling in, this was some pretty powerful art.

"Heroes"

Sculpey & Gouache. Life Size

Disco Branch

I denied myself the pleasure of listening to disco when I was younger. For starters, I was known in Minneapolos as the guy with one of the best punk rock record collections so therefore i got a job DJing at the local punk club and I wouldnt have been caught dead admitting to a liking of disco. I was straight, disco was for gay people, 'nuff said..if i could have just trusted my taste and not been afraid of what people thought of me by liking disco and admitted to myself who I was, I could have had a lot more fun. These branches are a way to reclaim some of the beauty I denied myself...

George