...And here is the info for the GRNY Dime Bag 3 show:



Opening reception this Saturday (I won't be able to go because I have to work :( ) but you should go!

Reception Saturday Jul 18th 6:30-10pm.
Show up July 18-Aug 12th

Dime Bag Show

My old thesis teacher, Jordin Isip, who I helped as an intern last year, invited me to make a piece for a show he was curating, Dime Bag 3. It is being held at Giant Robot NY, going up sometime in the next few weeks and runs through August. I will have more specific details to follow.

This is a brief synopsis of the show from Jordin Isip and Rodger Stevens:


Each of the more than two hundred invited artists will receive a 3" x 3" clear ziplock-style bag, a "dime bag" of sorts, which is to be used as a container for their piece. The 200 bags will be installed in a grid-like arrangement, each hung with a single nail (unless special measures are required) across two walls of the space...There is no overt conceptual theme to the show beyond the device of the bag itself and each artist is free to interpret the simple parameters we've cooked up as they wish.

And my art that I submitted at itty bitty scale to fit in the 3x3 bag.




Thanks for the invite Jordin!

i love this song. something about these girls, some who can dance and some who seriously are trying really hard, make it hilarious.

please wait for 1:23, it's the funniest part.

Uh oh, Bill Cunningham is now instructing us to Spaahkle this Fouth of July...

spaahkle time

'From Jupiter' illustrated CD packaging

A year ago, I submitted a CD design for a band called, From Jupiter. My design won and I then had to design/illustrate the interior part of the album as well as the actual CD. Well, I kinda forgot about it for a few months and then followed up w/ the label's president. And, what do you know, I got this awesome present in the mail.















I tell ya, it feels good to see an actual product that is actually sold, to have your illustration work on it. It even is shrink-wrapped! Thanks Monica @ Third Eye Records and the guys of From Jupiter!

Settlin' in

It has been about 3 weeks since I moved in and things are starting to feel a little more homey. I am working on making my room a little sanctuary for myself. Being totally me, a total design freak, I made a mood board for what I want my room to look/feel like. If I don't have a set vision, I am soo all over the place and just buy stuff that is cute, but then it doesn't really mesh all together.

Anyways...here is my mental work in progress...bigger version on my flickr




I am refurbishing my existing dresser by painting it and replacing the knobs with ones I got from Anthropologie. I especially like the cute yellow bird! :)



I took these shots minutes before the movers arrived w/ all our stuff, so it looks really empty.



Peeking into our kitchen




My lovely large closet



View out of my window



Still gotta get a bookcase, hang art, and paint/put new knobs on my dresser...phew.

Michelangelo's first painting

My heart skipped a beat when I saw this feature article on NYTimes.com tonight. What is thought to be Michelangelo's first ever piece of art, let alone first painting, was recently bought by Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX and is now on view at the Met. This 'resurfaced' painting shows early signs of what Michelangelo developed into his aesthetic language: a distinguished palette and figures in motion showing their anatomy.


This article even stumped me! I took a Michelangelo class my Senior year where we analyzed all his works all the way from one of his known first sculptures, Madonna of the Steps, to his last piece, The Rondanini Pieta. We didn't even know about this piece of artwork when we were studying him! This is all very cool to me. I heart Michelangelo. I think I am going to have to see it before it leaves NYC in September.



Madonna of the Steps (what the world thought to be his 1st piece of artwork. This piece is 1 of 2 low relief sculptures Michelangelo completed during his apprenticeship at the school of Lorenzo de'Medici, the other sculpture is the Battle of the Centaurs).



Rondanini Pieta (the last sculpture that Michelangelo worked on until his death).