I’m totally excited about this new year, and I feel very lucky to be in these two shows:

TIP OF THE BLADE: Pamela Belknap, George Pfau, Jason Winshell
Opening January 7th at The SFMOMA Artists Gallery, at Fort Mason: Loft Gallery, 5:30-7:30pm
I will be exhibiting a new series of work about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

OBSTINATE FLESH:
Opening January 12th at CCA’s PLAySPACE Gallery, 1111 8th St. San Francisco, 6-9pm
Featuring: Mara Baldwin, Tiger Brooke, Nicola Buffa, Natalia Gomez, Isaac Grey, Emily Hoover, Liesa Lietzke, Monique Lopez, George Pfau, Indhira Rojas and Suné Woods.
Curated by: Matthew Alexander Post,  Much thanks to: Rajkamal Kahlon

Opening December 11th, I’ll be showing paintings at San Francisco City Hall, by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s office.

Open Now!: Super Pop-Up Shop at the Alameda Towne Centre.  Our most mall-tastic days will be Sunday Nov 22nd, and of course…Black Friday: Friday Nov 27th.

Currently you can see three of my newest zombie works in “A Universe We Can Believe In: An exhibition about sciencefiction” at the Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, curated by David Huff, Jackie Im, and Josephine Zarkovich.

Thanks to everyone who participated in Tender Transmissions and Wonderland, especially Daryl at the Luggage Store, Chris at Bay Fitted, Mira at the Glide Foundation, and of course my fellow artists in the ScreenLab Collective.  Please check us out on the Wonderland site.

Summer is almost over, and I’m now in SF gearing up for year two of CCA MFA-extravaganza.

Take a look at http://wonderlandshow.org/ to read about the various art projects happening this October at this show throughout SF’s Tenderloin neighborhood.  I’ll be working within the ScreenLab Collective on an audio project called “Tender Transmissions”

I’m also working on a piece for the first Playspace Gallery show of the season

Thanks to those who were able to check out my drawings at Brooklyn gallery: Charlie Horse (28 Marcy Ave)… keep an eye out for their next show.

Friday April 17th at Space Gallery in SF, I’m in a group show called War! and Pictures. 8pm

Friday April 24th Klea McKenna and I are orchestrating a participatory drawing performance at the Studio for Urban Projects , which will coincide with various other video and sound projects by other artists in our collective: ScreenLab. 8pm

Coming up… Hare and the Hounds

Thanks to all the wonderful friends who stopped by the CCA open studios, the feedback was awesome.

Lots of new art is in the works right now.  Come visit me in my studio at CCA at the April 5th Open Studios.
I hope 2009 is getting off to a great start for everyone.

I’ll be participating in Southern Exposure’s Monster Drawing Rally Feb 27th, at Club Verdi!

click the sds link above for more info.

Written about on the KQED site!

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