There Are Dots...There Will Be A Website

There are dots.

I did a few of these.
More than a handful, less than a dozen.
Linocut printed on silkscreen prints.

I have secured a domain for a new website:
hexopera.com
But that's about as far as I've gotten.
Hopefully soon.
In the meantime,
if you are interested in buying prints,
email me:
colin.burns@gmail.com.
Send me your mailing address
and I'll send you a postcard.

Viernes T Shirt

This t shirt of my Viernes design is available at glassinebox.com
in a small batch edition.

There Will Be Dots

This is my latest silkscreen.
From a photo shoot with Katie.
2 color.
22" x 30".
There are a handful of red only prints.
And I'm going to put some large white dots all over a few of these.
The linocut is ready and waiting.
For me to get back in the studio.

Witches Songbook Redux

New, larger, faster, silk screen versions of 2 of the Witches' Songbook linocuts.
Mount Dracula is nowhere to be seen.
Hidden deep inside.
22" x 30".

I like to use the word Redux.
I hear the guy from moviefone in my head:
You have selected Apocalypse Now Redux...

What We Do Is Secret

This is a new silk screen version of an old linocut
print from the early 2000s.
I was still living in NYC when I made the original.
With an eye on LA.
3 color silkscreen, 22" x 30".
Available at glassine box.com.

Traditional Roles

Gilda: Dead Cities

A Different Dream

Viernes

This is a recent series of screen prints. All 22" x 30"
All available.
They work nicely as a set.

A Different Dream

This is my latest print.
Part of a new series of 3.
It is from a drawing and painting I did a while back.
From a photo of Frances Farmer.

Is the text legible?
"I came to Los Angeles with a different dream"

New Witches Slow Start

This is the first (silkscreen) print in a new series.
The image size is (about) 19" x 14".
The series will include a couple of The Witches 'Songbook images.
And some (other) photo based screens.
And some other stuff I don't know yet.

The Witches' Songbook

This is a series of linocuts from 2004.

10" x 14" each.

I'm about to resuscitate a couple of these in a larger format.

The little triangular guy is Mount Dracula.

Brut Nrsk

This is my new music project.
Heavy.
There's a facebook page where you can listen.

San Pedro Boards

These are skateboards I did for the Hex Opera show at the Human Array Gallery in San Pedro last fall.

The first is carved and inked. The second is pencil. The third is linocut.

Marilyn. Katie. Leila.

Olympia

Another screenprint from last year.
This one 12" x 18".

A Caw A Caw Dots

Screenprint.
22" x 30".
From 2011.

Another Garden

This piece is called Garden Ghost.
From a few years back.
It's collage and linocuts and silkscreen and media on paper.
Maps from the Thomas Guide. 78" x 80".
It's going to be in the group show  LA-X at Sara Nightingale Gallery
Opening April 14.
688 Montauk Highway
Water Mill, NY 11976
saranightingale.com

Gardens

I recently did a new version of an old painting.

On the left is The Winter Garden from a few years back.

And on the right, The Forever Garden, now in London.

Sonnenschein

Getting My German On

This is a new-or more aptly-recently finished-series. They are silkscreens with a linocut and oil pastel and pencil and stamping and more silkscreens. Each one is 22" x 30".

The image is a portrait of Marilyn Chambers. I did a drawing from the poster of Behind The Green Door a few years back. I did a fairly straight forward 2 color silkscreen version in the 13 Altars series. Then collages. And more screens made from collages. The black and white version in the Hex Opera series is called Marilyn Venus.

I've had a longstanding appreciation and fondness for the sense of mystery the words Green Door evoke. A pre-adolescent fascination with newspaper ads for the film. The Cramps cover version. The NYC party... 

I generally think of series in terms of books, or records. This one is a book. The scientist in me really likes to title things. These are the titles from top to bottom:

Prolog

Chapter 1: New Ancestors

Chapter 2: Hex Berlin

Chapter 3: Hidden Upside Down Tree

Chapter 4: Half Scorpio

Chapter 5: Boreas

Chapter 6: Witch Behind The Door

Chapter 7: The Thief

Chapter 8: Der Blaue Engel

Chapter 9: Erdschatten

Chapter 10: Donna Hure

Chapter 11: Set Fire To The Air

Chapter 12: Der Immergeist

Chapter 13: The Serpent In The Soul Of The Serpent

Epilog

 When I was in Berlin with the Goldmine Shithouse back in 2007, Sabrina Calmels-who was filming a documentary about us-had a shirt that simply said Sonnenschein (sunshine) on it. In a beautiful san serif font. We printed a Leila Wadell face on her shirt at the silkscreen party. Still think about that shirt. I thought the word sunshine struck a nice balance with the all the darkness.

The Serpent In The Soul Of The Serpent is an episode title from Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz.