A pretty good month for me.

I've got 20 paintings hanging in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY right now. There's 7 at the Mark Bar (1025 Manhattan Ave, near Green Street) and 13 at TBD, just a block away (corner of Green and Franklin). There will be some kind of closing reception for this "Greenpoint Bar Residency." I'll post about it once return to the East Coast.

I'm also happy to say that I've got a painting in LA right now at the Manifest Equality show. These productions are a pleasure to experience and I recommend that you attend these events when they come to your region. If you run a search on the show, you can even see my painting in some of the installation shots published by the LA Times.

Sometimes I Just Paint Over It

(as of yet untitled)

Primer, Graphite, Marker, Watercolor Pencil, Acrylic and Urethane

on wood panel

21" x 21"

Some Friends of Mine Made a Music Video

The Video:

http://www.vimeo.com/7586952

(it isn't available to embed on this page)

Social Networking:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beaten-Awake/59785589407?ref=ts

http://www.myspace.com/beatenawake

The Label:

http://www.fatpossum.com/

Studio Shots- 9-26-09

This ain't the professional images.

Please smile more often.

New paintings coming soon!

Here's a quick studio shot from yesterday. These are 4 of a series of 10 paintings that should be finished up in the next week or two. The featured paintings here are in various stages of completion. Actual results may vary.

I'll post proper photographs as soon as possible, once everything's completed.

Francis Bacon at the Met

I'll keep this short-

If you like painting, or even just looking at things- Go See This Show.

No fancy pictures to prove it to you. No poetic witticisms. The proof is in the pudding.

But hurry, the show ends in, like, two days. It's "free," which in NYC is labeled as "Pay What You Wish."

I once heard someone refer to Bacon as England's Jackson Pollock...

Getting Back on the Wagon

I finally finished moving my studio gear out of my studio and into my apartment. And I finally got to work again.

My Funny Little Batman Painting

(not yet titled)

The Batman painting measures 2'x4' and will be a gift for Michael Brennan, who partly inspired it. The other painting measures 9"x14" and is my first non-square based (or double square based) painting in about five years It will be a gift to my friends Tim and Lali for their wedding. I may just let them title it themselves.

The materials are still graphite, Sharpie and acrylic/urethane paint.