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.

Human Array Opening

 

Here are some shots from the Hex Opera opening and live silk screening at the Human Array Gallery in San Pedro on Thursday September 1.

Thanks to Kiyoshi Nakazawa for coming down and screening with me. And to Gordy Knouse for helping out all day and night, with everything.

Thanks to Jan Zwierstra and Haryn De Leon from Human Array. Most of these photos are from Jan.

And Thanks to Ben Ryan, and a huge thanks to Sencee Tagami for all her help putting the show up.

And thanks to everyone who came out.

If you missed the opening, we are doing a closing reception Saturday October 1, from 7-10pm. Sponsored by Judy Rivera from Sino Tequila. I would love to see you there.
Human Array Gallery 357 W. 7th St. San Pedro, CA 90731 www.humanarraygallery.com

Arroyo Cuerpo

This is my most recent print for the Hex Opera series.
It's a silkscreen version of the big lino, the albatross in my studio...
Tried to capture some LA summer gold and green.

Pedro, Baby!

I'm finally showing some of the prints-along with some other work-from the Hex Opera series.