So in addition to a myriad of all sorts of other bad shit that was visited upon me on Sunday, Jan 25, a day in which the best parts were spent laying in bed in the morning and laying in bed at night, it appears that a bona fide art heist happened to me as…
Category: Art
Jackson Square Artist Group Photo
O’ Cypress, Beautiful Cypress
This summer past… wait, is Summer over yet? Let me rephrase. This past August, I stopped working in yellow pine. Just plain yellow pine and plywood and all construction-grade wood that really is in abundance, I stopped salvaging it and stopped using it in my work. This is the stuff you get at Home Depot…
Art Auction for Deborah Cotton
I’m donating a piece of art to the medical fund for the great Big Red Cotton. For all she has done for us over the years. This is a great opportunity to get a soulful piece of art for a good cause. Details below: Ebay auction is here. Starting bid is $1. 100% of the…
Poor, Poor Grendel
A portrait of the Beowulf monster Grendel as he is written in the 1971 novel “Grendel.” Title of the piece is lifted from a line in the book. Composition is directly depicted from cover portrait on paperback version of the novel by Emil Antonucci. On rough-hewn heart pine wall stud salvaged in New Orleans. Original…
On ‘betty and the black dog’
A few times a year, for no emotional reason, out of nowhere, I get depressed. My “medicine man” theory is that it is tied into my gut and there is certainly some science to back that up. My genetic bad stomach is often acting up around the same time the depression shows up and the chemical…
Why Aren’t There Any Blue Dog Plush Dolls?
After five years of working alongside, being associated with and thankfully developing friendships with visual artists, and since I avoided art school where perhaps a lot of this comes from, I find myself a bit vexed by a certain impulse I’ve noticed in them from time to time: Many deeply want to commodify their work, desperately want to…
A Sassy, Cool Soul
I was stopped in my tracks early Sunday morning on Jackson Square by this splendid painting by a fellow artist, Conroy. Perhaps the performance of Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild was still fresh in my head but never the less, the imagery in the painting was quite moving for me. Painted from…
12 Tips For The Proper Handling of Street or Market Artists
As a full-fledged, self-supporting, fedora-sporting member of the growing creative class, I present these 12 tips in the best ways to buy from and deal with street artists or market vendors… Do not devalue the art. One can try to bring the price of a piece down by pointing out what they perceive as flaws…
‘Sticking a Mummified Cat In One Of His Works’
Well, I do curse at the tourists though it’s more self-righteous, insulting cursing rather than “vicious.” Even though I know it violates Rule #3 under Ethical Conduct on The Noble Eightfold Path. Would totally put a mummified cat in a piece…if I only had a mummified cat. There are stories of him trashing art galleries…