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If you're into Tumblr, you can follow me here: HELLO, INTERNET.

Happy 2011!

Wishing you all the best in 2011!

Finally, fall!

Anders Krisar

Hello all, I'm back! Check out these sculptures by Anders Krisar:


‘cuirass (front)’ by anders krisar, 2005 (silicone, fiber glass, oil paint, mdf, plastic padding, metal screws)


‘the birth of us (girl)’ by anders krisar, 2007 (fiber glass, oil paint, hardware)

Anders Krisar on Design Boom

Stone & Honey

More beautiful geometric things for you today - this time courtesy of Teresa Robinson's newest venture, Stone & Honey. Teresa combines crisp geometric design with the rough-hewn beauty of natural Brazilian agate to produce bold yet delicate ethereal pieces. Want!

Link: Stone & Honey

Thank You & Happy New Year!

photo by Mikaylah Bowman

Thank you to everyone who braved the rain and came out to my show on Saturday! My apologies for the venue. Beyond that, I was happy with my showing, and extra appreciative of the people who came out to see it. Thanks again.

If you're in the NYC metro area and haven't had enough of me already, a few of my smaller drawings are on display at LITM's Little Wonders group show which runs through January 3, 2010.

These will probably be the last shows I do for a while, as I try to refocus and work on some new drawings. Thanks for your continued support and readership. Happy New Year!

solo art show @ Public Assembly, Dec 26

I have my first little one day solo gig:

December 26, 2009
8:30pm

Public Assembly (formerly Galapagos)
70 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211

This is also the CD release party for Joga. Open bar 10pm - midnight!

Hope to see you.

Happy Birthday Lucian Freud!

Lucian Freud
Girl With a Kitten
1947
Oil on canvas
15 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (39.5 x 29.5 cm)

"At the outset there is always a mystery. We cannot know what a painter brought to painting or what drew him to it. Yet everything he paints throughout his life adds to our understanding of one or both these things. When his last picture is painted in that predestined way in which, one cannot help believing, an artist's work, and therefore art, unfolds when the last predestined picture is finished and the trajectory of his meaning completes its curve then we know all there is to be known about these first riddles and understand what can't be known, what remains unknowable about the sources and the resources of a painter..." (more at artarchive.com)

Little Wonders: 3rd Annual Small Works Exhibition

Hey local readers,

I'm part of this group show that opens tomorrow. Come check it out if you're free - they'll have a lot of small & affordable art for the holidays!

LITM’s Third Annual Group Exhibition of Small Works
December 1, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Opening Reception: Tuesday December 1 7-10pm

Here's a link to the Facebook event page.

Like Trains & Taxis // Tales From A Revolving Door

Here's a preview of the album artwork I recently completed for Like Trains & Taxis. There's a live person trying to breathe in there! Tales From A Revolving Door is due out early 2010.

Band t-shirts, etc.

Band t-shirts seemingly went out of style in high school, after we all got over our punk/hardcore/emo/whatever phases. My collection is long gone (somewhat regrettably), and I think it's time to bring some new and relevant band t-shirts back into the mix. Here is my wish list:


Radiohead // Trapped


Radiohead // New Suburbian


Fever Ray // Crossed Square



Mad Decent x Mishka: Logo (Blue) Limited Edition


No more band shirts, you say? Fine, let us not forget these gems:

Fountain - Great Moments of the 20th Century Series


Automatic Lovers


Gimme Gimme Gimme


Save The World

And please, don't all kill each other trying to buy me these all at once.

Artist Interview at ChristinaAlessi.com

I am featured in an interview today on Christina Alessi's blog as part of her Artist Feature Friday series! You can read the interview here. Don't forget to check out her cool fiber arts, illustration, photography and music sections while you're there. Thanks Christina!

Here are the two pieces that I showed in a group show at Paul Vincent Gallery this past weekend:


Cowardice
18"x 24"
pen & ink on paper




Excess
18"x 24"
pen & ink on paper

Like Trains & Taxis EP out now

I finally get to share the artwork I recently completed for the Like Trains & Taxis Charlie EP. I particularly enjoyed doing the hand-lettering. The EP is out now and available for purchase here!

And here are the corresponding poster and drop cards with track listing:



I just completed the artwork for their album, and am currently working on some things that will go with it. I'll post about it when it's done!

Other Like Trains & Taxis links:
Myspace
CD Baby
Facebook
Twitter

I hope you're all having a great October so far. Be well!

some new work - in progress

I'm working on some new things that I'm excited to share more fully with you soon. I just wish I had a better camera, gah. Here are some "sneak peek" photos for now. I'm working on larger paper than usual (18 x 24) which is both exciting and scary!

First Friday in Philly, late

I was pretty into First Friday in Philly two weeks ago. My favorite show was Ben Volta and
Hadieh Shafie at Pentimenti on 2nd Street. Impressive online but more awe-inspiring in person, I was completely sucked in by their presence.

I also fell in love with a lamp made by one very talented 12th grader. It reminded me of those scary spore things that you see Photoshopped on fingernails and nipples and such... I tried to Google it to no avail. Who knows what I'm talking about??

PS - I'm heading to “Archive” - Group Exhibition Opening & Catalog Release at Alfa gallery tonight (I'm in it!), hope to see you there if you're local.

xoxo C

Fall, finally

Ahh, hibernation is finally over. There go the last few days of summer. Sorry for disappearing for a while, I've been caught up in it all. I'm excited for my favorite season - fall always makes me feel crazy. I'm working on a few design and art projects too, excited to share them soon.

How was your summer?

Happy Birthday Man Ray!

Man Ray
Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin)



Man Ray
Larmes (Tears)



Man Ray
Le Retour A La Raison
1923

"More a work in experimental Dadaism than a film, Le Retour à la Raison was the first film to be made by the celebrated surrealist artist, Man Ray...The film is very short (three minutes in length) but includes some astonishing and evocative images. The early segments of the film iillustrates a technique which Man Ray pioneered in static photography, the rayograph (or photogramme). Here, an object is placed between a light source and photo-sensitive film, in contrast to traditional photography where photographic film captures light reflected off an object. For Le Retour à la Raison, Man Ray sought to extend the rayograph technique to a moving image. He sprinkled salt and pepper on one piece of film, pins on another, illuminated the film for a few seconds, then developed the film." - filmsdefrance.com

"Man Ray (August 27, 1890–November 18, 1976) was an American Dada and Surrealist artist. Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Man Ray showed evidence of being artistically and mechanically inclined from childhood. After graduating from Boys' High School in 1908, he was offered a scholarship to study architecture but chose to pursue a career as an artist instead. In 1911, the Radnitzky family changed their surname to Ray, a name selected by Man Ray's younger brother Sam, in reaction to the ethnic discrimination and anti-semitism prevalent at that time. Emmanuel, who was called "Manny" as a nickname, thereafter used the single name Man Ray." - wikipedia.org