although my website is now defunct (another geocities fatality) my art studio cam now has a temporary home. i'll be working like a banshee for the next few months, preparing for an upcoming exhibition with ARENA 1 gallery...thanks to chuck for hosting my cam until i get my website back up!

a martha stewart nightmare in the making...(click image to view video)

pipilotti rist, "Ever is all over"

easily one of my favorite video installations....i had the pleasure of experiencing this with my best friend at the st. louis art museum years ago. the luscious imagery, slow motion effects, and devilish antics of the main character not only pulled me in, but transported me into a faraway dreamlike trance. it's one of those rare pieces where i truly got "lost in the art."

today i took a walk up where i explored during the fires last month. below is the same vantage point, taken about a mile from our home. it looks similar to all the hillsides in our neighborhood and surrounding communities. i'm hoping a lot of the vegetation isn't completely dead and will reemerge sooner than anticipated.

during


after

visited one of my favorite places on earth today....apex electronics. made it out of there with a very full and heavy bag of miscellaneous metal bits - all for just $7 (the cashier said he'd throw in the dirt for free) i found most of my treasures lying on the ground out back in the scrap yard section, not unlike the way i usually find things.

i felt very at home there.

oh, how i love the sweet scent of old hawaiian dumpster wood...

why would a honey and pollination truck be parked outside the sheriff's station?





answer: bee-cuz.

alternate answer: it was a sting operation.

los angeles has recently been hit with its worst wildfire in over a century....this is my story.

see? crafts CAN be art...

i've been playing around with my new HD xacti camera....

wanna guess where i shot the above picture?
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sunny so cal has suddenly turned into a warzone.

as if it isn't hot enough....this is what our neighboring city, la canada, has been dealing with over the past 3 days. firefighters have been battling this blaze in the angeles national forest, and right now conditions don't appear to have anywhere to go but up....

as of today, the authorities reported it's 0% contained.

did i mention we live right up against the angeles national forest?

yes well, so far there have only been voluntary evacuations in la canada, so i'm crossing my fingers our little town will only suffer a foul smokey stench and maybe an inch thick layer of ash when it's all said and done. guess i should really think about packing a 'just in case' bag though.

needless to say, i'll be glued to the news and this cam all day....

my latest....

i'm glued to this site until october....artist, antony gormley's latest undertaking, a living sculpture entitled "one and other" in the middle of trafalgar square (london) is both mundane and riveting.

i watched last night as a young woman proceeded to text during her entire hour slot......boring, yes. but, as she stood there for nearly an hour, holding a contrapposto pose that is all too familiar to most beginning year art students, i thought to myself: she could very well represent the 'venus de milo' of our times.

here's an art community i just joined on ning that might interest some of you....

the current piece i'm working on...




i hope to have my current series wrapped up in the next week or so. i'll be starting a project in the coming weeks that involves making some rather large pieces (for me anyway) i'm on edge about this, mainly because i'm entering unfamiliar territory-but on the whole i'm very excited about the new challenge.

work in progress, from the 'regeneration' series....

A note from Coagula Publisher Mat Gleason:
A few years ago, I bought this cool Warhol-Basquiat poster on eBay. I never hung it up, just put it all rolled up on a shelf. It is 9 years later, now I am going thru all my junk and it has a little wrinkle but is otherwise good as brand new. It is a 1999 Tony Shafrazi reprint of the 1985 original, printed on great, thick paper. I bought it on eBay for $150 and I could sell it for that if I wanted to, but I want YOU to have it for free.

I also want you to see the new issue of Coagula Art Journal. After 17 years of being a freely distributed magazine, we have gone print-on-demand. You can download the issue as a pdf file at our http://COAGULA.net website. If you like it, you can buy the color glossy Coagula Art Journal book online as well.

If you want to enter a contest to win my Warhol-Basquiat poster, just download the new issue of Coagula at http://COAGULA.net for free. Your entry has to be in by late July so get the details now. There is NO purchase necessary to win this poster, but I am thinking you might want to buy the print-on-demand issue of Coagula after you check out your free pdf download of issue #98. There is a lot to enjoy in it: our interview of the artist collective Finishing School, art career advice from Alan Bamberger, the continuing saga of life as an artist from Gordy Grundy as well as photos and coverage of the Los Angeles art scene.

This contest is void where prohibited. It is quite simple to enter. Just download our free pdf of issue #98 and look for the contest rules as you catch up on the LowDown on High Art!
Coagula Art Journal Issue #98 now available as a free PDF file download.
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