Tuesday, November 10, 2009


Construction Site, Yolo County, California

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Damn Yankees


Franz Kline and Ludwig Sander at baseball game, ca. 1950-1
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
VIA The Parrish Art Museum


Today marks the beginning of that dark span of months widely known as the Major League Baseball off-season. In the meantime: hockey.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009


Daylight Saving

Sunday, November 1, 2009

The Responsive Eye


This is too good to be true. Experience the 1965 Op Art exhibit, The Responsive Eye, with none other than Mike Wallace. WEIRD. Also note Parts II and III. VIA MINUS SPACE.

Monday, October 19, 2009

ABSTRACT PAINTING DISCUSSION at MILLS COLLEGE 11/4/09


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Friday, October 16, 2009


Save the Last Dance for Me
Mary Heilmann
Oil on canvas
1979

Homer struggles to comprehend Marge's text paintings, 10/11/09

Wednesday, October 14, 2009


Desert Road
Helen Lundeberg
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 "
1960
((VIA Louis Stern Fine Arts))

Monday, October 5, 2009


Temp Tent, Yolo County, California

Wednesday, September 30, 2009


Morning, West Oakland

Friday, September 25, 2009


Oh That Is Such Classic Jen
Altered Screen Capture

Tuesday, September 22, 2009


Colbert vs. Munch, 9/14/09

Sunday, September 20, 2009



The Train (1964) is an excellent film that you can currently watch for free on Hulu (or simply by clicking the embedded video above). In many ways, it can be seen as a prototype of the generic action thrillers that became popular in the 1970's and continue to dominate at the box office today. The excessive explosions, Nazi antagonists, and distressed damsels are all there. However, these tropes merely serve to enhance an already-good, entertaining film.

The story is a mostly-fictive take on the art theft that occurred within Nazi-occupied France. As the opening credits unwind, we see Nazi henchmen carefully packing and crating various stolen treasures of the French state. Here is a crate of stolen Seurat masterpieces:



The sets throughout the movie are beautiful and anyone who likes the sights and sounds of trains and rail yards will not be disappointed. It is, of course, no surprise when the downtrodden heroes foil the Nazi's plan to steal a train full of French masterpieces. However, the battle is won by a sequence of unexpected French trickery, and ultimately the good guys prevail by doing what they do best: painting. To make matters even more strange, "the glory of France" is saved as a result of some frenzied, Jackson Pollock-style action painting. Sometimes fiction is stranger than truth, and this movie makes efficient use of both.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009


Fall Ball
Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
Altered Digital Image

Thursday, September 10, 2009

John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective


“Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of 36 Attempts)”
1973

Two enthusiastic, three-dimensional thumbs-up for the Baldessari show currently on display at San Francisco's Legion of Honor (through November 8, 2009). Composed of over 100 prints from his "post-painting" period, the exhibit provides a puzzling and colorful experience. Baldessari's imagery and ideas generate a stark sense of contrast as one walks through the basement galleries beneath the Legion's exquisite vaults. The upstairs chambers, lined chronologically with old masterworks, become stoic showrooms to the L.A. guru's mischievous visual laboratory below. What results is a clever and thoroughly satisfying curatorial provocation that enhances both ends of an art historical spectrum.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Dig, Digging, Doug


Here's an interesting video from one of the more confounding people I know, Doug Williams.

Monday, August 24, 2009



L.A. Stack
Walt Disney Concert Hall Parking Garage, Downtown Los Angeles

Thursday, August 20, 2009


Fake Lake, Oakland, California
Altered Digital Image

Monday, August 17, 2009

New Work from my Old Man


#164 - Periwinkle
John Pittman
Alkyd on wood
8 x 9 x 1.25"
2009

Last week I had a nice chat with John Casey over at the BayVan launching soiree. John is a phenom when it comes to drawing, and a very friendly guy to boot. If you see him around town, he will probably give you a really cool sticker.

Thursday, August 13, 2009


Dr. Simon Ingram is an artist from New Zealand who makes paintings with machines made from rudimentary electronics and Legos.

Rose Rows
Collage and colored pencil
8" x 8"
2008

Wednesday, August 12, 2009


B-Roll
Disposable Camera Photograph

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

video
"Painting," 2009, 13:32 min video by Vladimir Nikolić.
((THANK YOU VVORK))

Friday, August 7, 2009


Riverhead
Niles Spencer
Cassein on board
13.5 x 17.5"
1951

Wednesday, July 29, 2009


Bored Shorts

Thursday, July 23, 2009


Tan Stands, Oakland, California

Thursday, July 16, 2009


Oakland Painted Ladies (Pink)
Altered Digital Image

Wednesday, July 8, 2009


Red Shed II
Altered Digital Image

Red Shed, Jenner, California