Leaving 2011...

Mat Gleason at the Huffington Post lists FLAG STOP as #6 in top 11 shows in LA of 2011

HAPPY CREATIVE HOLIDAYS

coming soon:

In case you missed it...

Palimpsest closed at gallery 825 on November 11,2011. It was then shipped to SCOPE Miami and exhibited with Patrajdas Gallery for Miami Art Week receiving a tremendous amount of attention and interest.

SCOPE Miami

If you are at Miami please go check out my work at PATRAJDAS Contemporary at SCOPE Miami Art Fair
www.patrajdas.com

PATRAJDAS Contemporary now represents me on the East Coast.

Permanent Art Collection

I am very excited that Loyola's Law School (Los Angeles) just purchased this large collage sprawLA for their permanent art Collection. This is especially rewarding for me because I used to work for Frank Gehry who designed this campus in the 1980's. Some other notable artists in this collection are: Kerry James Marshall, Lita Albuquerque, Carlos Almaraz, Frank Gehry, Jaspar Johns, Astrid Preston, Kent Twitchell, John Valdez, James Doolin, Joe Fay, Dan McCleary, Cales Oldenburg, Chris Burden, Peter Hess, Jim Morphesis,  Betye Saar and Ruth Weisberg
to name just a few.

B.A.P.B.T.selected by Charlie Manzo of Gagosian Gallery, New York

Big Ass Paper Bling Thing (aka- "the paper chandelier") was selected by Charlie Manzo of Gagosian Gallery, NYC to participate in Los Angeles Art Associations Open Show-2011.

OPENING RECEPTION: December 10 6:00-9:00p at Gallery 825

trouble...

somewhere in LA?

last week for "palimpsest" at gallery 825- closes Friday!

just like being there...

Closing soon- WHITE OUT at Blythe projects- last week!

A flurry of activity...

The studio is a mess but it's all gearing up towards the solo show at gallery 825 which opens October 15.

LA Weekely review of FLAG STOP by Sahna Nys Dambrot

View Review Link HERE!

Interview by Tracey Harnish

see artist-interview-Tm Gratkowski

Video Interview by Ginger VanHook

Big Ass Paper Bling Thing is on the way...

 Come check out all its glory at my "WHITE OUT" solo show at Blythe Projects - opening September 10, 2011

Palimpsest _solo show at Gallery 825

WHITE OUT_ solo show at Blythe Projects Culver City

FLAG STOP- a must see!

www.flagstopoart.com
www.facebook.com/FlagStopArt?sk=wall

Additions

                                                    Merrick @ 4th St. Los Angeles, CA. - 3.29.11

Palimpsest

New works on the way for Solo Show at Gallery 825 _ October 15 - November 22, 2011.
Remember- The works on this blog are "in progress". You will have to go see the final pieces at the galleries. I promise they improve and get more intense.

News:

Decorati reviews SF art fairs/ artMRKT and me!

New works on the way

new works on the way as I've now started working on my solo show for gallery 825 which opens October 15. This solo show will follow the solo show at Blythe Projects in Culver City, CA (September 10- November 22) 

artMRKT San Francisco

I am please to announce that I will be exhibiting with Blythe Projects at the art MRKT contemporary art fair in
San Francisco May 19-22.

Booth 517.

Blythe-Projects-artMRKT-SF-2011-Announcement.pdf

 www.art-MRKT.com

CDX-30, 2010

Progress on the paper bling thing...

NEXT ART CHICAGO booth 11B

NEXTChicago Art Fair April 28- May 2

Im pleased to announce that I will be showing with Blythe Projects at this years NEXT art fair in Chicago.
Blythe Projects will be showing 12 new works created this year. The works are in a series of 50 small collages
(8 1/2"x11"ea.) made of only 3 pieces of paper each. Each piece is constructed of imagery from Classical Greek and Roman sculpture, classic Disney cartoon imagery, and hard-core pornography. CDX (Classical Disney Pornography) has combined these three seemingly unrelated social subjects into one simple beautiful line gesture to challenge the history of perception with 3 defining moments of cultural discourse.

CDX-2, 2011

blythe-projects-at-next-chicago-2011 

progress on the paper "bling"

paper

chandelier

WANTED: Studio Assistant

the dog just in't "cutting" it as a studio assistant. 

 

 

So...if anyone is interested, I am looking for some help- really!

SCRAPS:

more little bits and pieces pulled from the trash.

Guerrilla-

                                                          Washington Blvd. Culver City_ 3.6.11

Material....

                                                                         now what to do with it?

Mags

                                Glamour Art Vice Queen, 2011, 20 magazines on wood, 46in. x 32in.

Last of Twelve!

                                              Stay tuned for the Solo show at Blythe Projects in September 2011.

Playin' with magazines

As it comes to me

50 8-1/2" x 11" paper on paper

Research

New works on the way...

As I prepare work for my solo show(s) in September and October I will be posting some works in progress. You'll have to come to the show if you want to see the finished pieces.