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My Truck from space
So I am browsing google maps and decide to take a gander at the house in which I grew up – in La Mirada, spent my first 17 years, and lookie there, there is a RED TRUCK parked on the lawn – isn’t that the one i went and picked up from that very house…
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It hit like 94 degrees today. Cookin’. The reception for the Kinkade show was great. Lotta people, a good time, and great response to the exhibit. If you are sick of saccharine Americana, this show is for you. Otherwise, the # of projects on which I am working seems to grow every time I finish…
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Thomas Kinkade … yeah right
So Thomas Kinkade gets his reaming from yours truly in an art exhibit I have organizedSurviving: Kinkade It opens Saturday night. Should be a fun time and a poke at the true establishment of American art…
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I am not going to be anything for Halloween and am not going to go anywhere for Halloween either.
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Dan Douke
When I was a painting major at Cal State L.A. in 1988, two professors pretty much told me I wasn’t much of a painter. Lydia Takeshita was blunt: “You are not an artist. You are a writer. Quit making art and write.” The other, Dan Douke, was kinder, but gave the same message, during a…
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Artist Llyn Foulkes
Llyn Foulkes had two shows open tonight at Bergamot Station – at Craig Krull and Patricia Faure Galleries. I found a quote by Michel Foucalt that sums up neatly the space that Foulkes occupies in the between dwelling on the past and accepting its loss: All of this beauty of old times is an effect…