It's been wild seeing everyone remembering the old days of Williamsburg on Facebook after seeing the New York Times article about the gentrification of Williamsburg, I moved to Bedford ave in '95, but had been visiting friends there for a few years (that's where all my Pratt friends were!) Most people know me for my art director skills, but my background is in illustration.

Here's a series that I did back in 2002, they are based on my photos of the Maspeth tanks in East Williamsburg. I had been documenting them for a few years before they were imploded in 2001, I was taken by the fact that you could see them from almost everywhere in Williamsburg and have many photos of them from around the neighborhood (this was pre-camera phone and were shot on film.)

They are a mix of analog and digital, I project the photos and trace them with a sharpie. Then I scan the drawing and convert it to a vector file and add the color in Adobe Illustrator. Inspired by Japanese woodcuts.

Musicians art show at Brouwerij Lane

I realized that I haven’t had a solo show in a few years!

Please join me at Brouwerij Lane this Thursday, October 20th at 6pm.
l’ll be showing my musician pieces which I’ve been working on the past couple years. I’ve been making some larger pieces and the tall walls at Brouwerij are a perfect place to show them.

Please come by and enjoy some great beers and check out the art. The show will be up for a month

Opening Thursday October, 20th 6-9pm
Brouwerij Lane
78 Greenpoint ave.
Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

About the work
I've been going out and drawing live music in Brooklyn for many years at places like Troost and Pete’s Candy Store. I make small sketchbooks that fit in my back pocket and draw loose line drawings, mostly in the dark, so I really don't see the drawing until later. I then take those small drawings as starting points for larger pieces on canvas, wood panels and paper.

Check out the work on Instagram
@subtexture_works

RCR Farms - Sustainably Sourced Mayhem!

The Rental Car Rally is pretty hard to decribe, so I’ll just cut n’ paste from the “WTF” section on the website

”In 2007, two oddballs in Brooklyn named Supreme and Pants wanted to go on a road trip. Neither of them had a car. Neither of them had a license. The only logical thing to do was to get other people to drive them, and also get them to pay for it. Rental Car Rally was born. Enlisting the aid of their old friend and drunken wizard named Mustache, they created a rolling carnival of costumed humans who they led on an overnight journey to uniquely odd roadside attractions like a nudist bookstore run by America’s first male exotic dancer, abandoned hotels, amusement parks overgrown with graffiti and weeds, secret desert communities, and deserted military bases lost to time. Things got weird.”

I went on the first reconnaissance mission to Montreal in 2007 and was asked to design a logo for this insane event. I looked at all of the rental car agency logos past and present and stole some ideas, tossed in some flames for good measure and there you go.

Flash forward to 2021 and Supreme got in touch and said that this year things were gonna get even weirder!
Now there’s a wrestling belt that goes to the winning team. And they wanted to do custom egg cartons (egg-throwing is a big part of the competition) So I revisited the original logo and replace the car with a gap-toothed tractor. I also did a shirt design with a bad ass rat-rod tractor being driven by a defiant blonde.

CALICORNUCOPIA 10

For the 10th year I am taking part in Calicornucopia the annual end-of-year / small works / affordable art show at Calico Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I’ll be showing a couple of my musician paintings and will also have some Greenpoint t-shirts and refrigerator magnets for sale.

Please join us on Thursday, December 16th, for the opening reception or drop by during our pre-holiday hours on the 17th, 18th, and 19th. Full press release below - hope to see you soon!

PRESS RELEASE
Calico Presents:
CALICORNUCOPIA 10
December 16, 2021 - January 23, 2022
Opening Thursday, Dec 16, 6-9pm
67 West St, suite 203 • Brooklyn, NY 11222
calicobrooklyn.com • calicobrooklyn@gmail.com

Calico is pleased to present the 10th edition of our annual end-of-year / small works / affordable art show: Calicornucopia. Over 50 selected works by artists from NYC and beyond will be on display in this salon-style exhibition featuring paintings, drawings, prints, textiles, ceramics, and more. Everything is priced $300 or less, and sales for this show are cash-and-carry beginning the night of the opening reception, Thursday, December 16th. 

Calicornucopia is a yearly tradition at Calico, bringing together artists, art lovers, and neighbors from Greenpoint and the surrounding area. For those in the market for one-of-a-kind gifts and great deals, the gallery will also be open on Friday 12/17, Saturday 12/18, and Sunday 12/19, 1-6pm each day. All works in this show will also be available for secure online purchasing via our website beginning December 17th. 

Calico will be closed on Christmas weekend and New Year’s Day, then the exhibit will continue through January 23rd.

Exhibiting artists include: Adams Puryear, Adam Void, Allison Maletz, Amanda Browder, Anna Kiljunen, Anna Hart Turner, Caroline Burghardt, Chris Smith, Christian DeFilippo, Colleen Blackard, Elana Adler, Hannah Lamar, John Fleming, John Mckanna, Julian Rapp, Julie Parsons, Kate Nielsen, Kirkland Bray, Lauren Houston, Lauren Silberman, Mark Mann, Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Robert Raphael, Steph Becker, and more TBA.

For additional information please contact Scott Chasse, Gallery Director:  calicobrooklyn@gmail.com

Ham Sandwich - Group Show at AHA Fine Art

I'm in a group show called Ham Sandwich and it's about food, this piece from 2012 seems fitting.

AHA Fine Art Gallery in Bushwick,

56 Bogart Street, Suite 109 Brooklyn, NY

Exhibition on View: Fri., November 19th through Sun., December 12th, 2021.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 19th, 6 - 9pm

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A Ham Sandwich is a common “non-snob” food made up of the basics, typically bread and meat. It can be prepared with multiple condiments in endless arrangements, depending on the consumer's taste buds.

Ham Sandwich examines how contemporary artists use food as a means to address issues of politics, history and culture as well as how food can reveal views, passions, assumptions and personalities.

​Food is necessary for survival, yet its overall significance transcends the everyday need by acting as an integral part of our communities. Food is as an intermediary, connecting us with others through school lunches, work, holiday meals, parties, dates and more.

​For this exhibition, we welcome work that explores contemporary aspects of food culture such as globalization, imperialism, consumerism as well as depictions of food that may reveal allegories for certain virtues or values.

We paint as we dream, alone. Group show at SAGE

WE PAINT AS WE DREAM, ALONE

REFLECTIONS ON MUSIC, CARS & POP CULTURE FROM:

MONTE ANTRIM * MARK ALBRIGHT * JASON MITCHELL * CHRIS SMITH

Please join us for a group show of 4 artists who've lived in the same vicinity and have gotten drunk at the same bars for 20-odd years.

They haven't always known each other, but they've breathed the same air and drank the same water. We can't say that they see the world the same way, but there is a similar sensibility in the way that they work.

They all draw from life, collaging and working out ideas in spiral bound sketchbooks, homemade notebooks, and blackbooks held together with hot glue and duct tape.

This show has them getting out of the books and up on the walls. Enjoy!

November 18th to January 19th, 2022

SAGE
299 Graham ave, BK NY 11211
www.sageongraham.com

Radiator Winding Down

And just like that the studio has been converted into a gallery!

Come by today and see what I’ve been up to for the past month.

Plus, you can make an afternoon of it! Big Alice Brewery and IcoNYC Brewery are both a block away, and there's live music at IcoNYC in the afternoon.

You must be vaccinated to attend this event (duh!) and please wear a mask when using the restroom.

*All works are considered "in progress" so please be gentle with the art reviews :>

Sunday, 3-9pm

43-36 10th Street

Long Island City Queens

(Follow the signs and enter at side door on 43rd Road by the old school bus

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Radiator Residency update

The last 2 weeks in the studio have been great! I’ve been trying to get over here everyday (but skipped a couple of those heat wave days)

Doing a bunch of musician pieces abd slowly working on the Ratrods. I need to remind myself that it’s not a race, I don’t need to finish anything. That said, these are all works in progress.

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