David Foster Wallace, Author of Infinite Jest, Dead at 46

Wallace hung himself in his Claremont home.  I read Infinite Jest at a point in my life when I was as much between things as I ever was, and it was like my rock while I sailed the long route through its pages and passages.  I found a lot of me, of the isolation [...]

Your To Do List

Back on track.  Been too busy with my own end of things to have any idea what’s happening in the outside world.  Until now, that is.

Friday, September 12

Emerson vs. Nietzsche @ Cottage Home.  Tantalizingly named group show featuring Tom Allen, Joyce Pensato, Mason Cooley, Raymond Pettibon, Mary Heilmann, Tia Pulitzer, Thomas [...]

Your Moment of Hirst – For the Love of Tchotchke

Ally, this one’s for you, as usual, and it can be all yours for $24.95+shipping and handling.  The bottom, and I mean the bottom, of the art economy is Z Gallerie, and that’s where this stinking pile of bling is sold.  Kudos to the hack designer who made the above crappy knock off [...]

Jocelyn Foye: Derby Dolls Shoot #3

Last month, Jocelyn Foye asked me to photograph the third part of her Derby Dolls project.  Unlike the 1st and 2nd shoots for the project, this one would be different, however.  While the first two shoots were part of Jocelyn’s Performances in Clay body of work, this 3rd shoot was actually a photo [...]

Tyler Green on LACMA’s Cheech Marin Show

In what is a really well argued piece, Tyler says what needs to be said about the error that is the Cheech Marin Collection show at LACMA.  He’s right that there’s something insulting to the artists in the exhibition as their entree into the institution is through their association with a celebrity, and he’s [...]

In Black and White Artist Talk Tomorrow

Tomorrow at 1 PM at the El Camino Art Gallery, I, along with several of my fellow artists from In Black and White, including Pierre Picot and Angie Bray, will be speaking about our work, participating in a group discussion and taking questions from visitors and guests. Come pepper me with questions or throw [...]

Polyester Resin Heaven Opens to the Public Tomorrow

So this website is pretty much all Maize, when I have any time to update right now. We just finished putting on the finishing touches for Eric’s show, and Here are some teasers. At top, the hub of the rotary piece. Why haven’t I shown many pictures of it up to now? Because [...]

In Which the Getty Makes Me Sad…

As of Sept. 9, the Getty Center will close at 5:30 pm on all open days except Saturdays, when it will remain open until 9pm.

They’re cutting hours at the Getty Center. No more open galleries until 9 on Fridays (even when there is other stuff going on), in addition to other small cuts [...]

The Corn Has Landed

Dear Readers: After months of labour on the part of many, many extraordinary individuals, Eric Johnson’s Maize is up and complete in it’s home at the Torrance Art Museum. Today at around 6:30 PM I had the great honor of placing the final kernel (right before I engaged in the mundane taske of [...]

In Black and White Reception Tonight

Well, In Black and White opened last week, but tonight is the night for the reception. I’ve got one of those dreaded “summer colds”, so I’ve been out of it for the past two days. But I’ll be there, a coughing and a sniffling, and drinking the ECC Gallery’s punch and eating their [...]