Gay City News Show Feature

The handsome devils over at the Gay City News interviewed me,

 and here is the writeup of my show!

Heaps of big thanks to Michael Shirey and Paul Schindler

for their time, interest, and the beautiful article. 

Sarojini Naidu

2.5' x 5', Acrylic and Gouache on Pine

Currently on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum.

Interview with Posture Magazine

My recent interview with Posture Magazine just went up - I think it was a lot of fun!

Big thanks to Winter Mendelson, Oscar Lopez, and Manu Gupta for their work 

on this piece, they make a remarkable team.

Sarojini Naidu from Emblems of Things to Come

Sarojini Naidu (1879 – 1949) 

“The Nightingale of India, was a child prodigy, 

Indian independence activist and poet. 

Naidu was one of the formers of the Indian Constitution.  

Naidu was the first Indian woman to become 

the President of the Indian National Congress… 

Her birthday is celebrated as women's day all over India.”  (Wikipedia)

Above is another sneak peek at the show, which opens tonight!

Emblems of Things to Come Coundown

It is just shy of 36 hours until the reception for Emblems of Things to Come.

Big thanks to the team at the Leslie Lohman Museum for such a warm welcome

and promotional help. 

 Here are a few snapshot sneak previews of the mirror paintings

and a wood portrait detail.

Show Info - Reception this Friday

You can get all the details on my upcoming reception at the 

Leslie-Lohman Museum here on their website.

Emblems of Things to Come will be opening on October 18th from 6 - 8 pm.  

You can also check out the details on the Facebook Event Page.

Here is another work-in-progress flashback sneak preview of the show 

as it was wrapping up last week:

You can read all about Sarojini Naidu in many places, 

but her Wikipedia page is a fine place to start.

Sleep is overrated // Mirah show poster!

 I just started and finished this poster for the upcoming  

Mirah & Tender Forever & Lillie Ruth Bussey show in Philadelphia.

This lineup of these three bands / performers is a recurring set that is always well worth it.  

It is one of those minutes when I really miss living in Philly, even though

I am so glad to have moved to New York and taken change on in a big way.

Still, if anyone is able to make it to this show, go!

This piece is mostly gouache, though there is also some ink and watercolor.

I really enjoy collecting unusual pigments at the Dick Blick and A.I. Friedman when I 

end up by one.  Gouache comes in really fun hues, I'm glad that it only takes a

little to work with, or I'd never get my collection to expand.

It's all part of my Agent Dale Cooper plan.

When it isn't paint, it is almost always.  Always.  Coffee.

DIY Philly Poster - In Progress

This is a detail snapshot of the poster I am completing illustrating tonight for my friends on the DIY PHL team.   

In their own words, "DIYPHL is a show and event listing for Philadelphia and surrounding areas... 

to promote and support a music and arts community..."  

I have been thinking so much lately about the blight of white nose syndrome on bats, 

how we are watching the great Chiroptera order dissolve at a rapid pace. 

The entire poster is bat-themed, though not all about species of Philadelphia because 

that would be too narrow a scope and because I love those brown long-eared bats 

from the UK (pictured above). 

While this has been a subject dear to my heart and that of many of my friends and other conservationists,

 it sprung back to the front of my brain after reading about the debate over the Bracken Bat Cave, 

the largest bat cave in the United States, which is currently threatened by development. 

While we are on the subject, this is a shot of a painting I made 

of a vampire bat for a Bat Sanctuary benefit a year or two ago - 

it is acrylic glass paint on mirror and I am so sad that I don't have 

a final photograph of it any longer.