LeQuivive Gallery

LeQuivive Gallery & Groundscore Collective Present...

Hello, my good friends at LeQuivive, Groundscore and Faultline have put together a Kickstarter project that is really important and relevant for Oakland right now.  As a proud resident and member of the Oakland Artist Community we all need your help in making this project come through and get off the ground!!! Please, please, please donate what you can to this great cause so that we can see the visual dialogue that exits in Oakland become one of the worlds most profound community voices!  This can inspire change everywhere! Donate!  Much Love to Michael, Dave, Lauren, Ernest, and all the homies that are working hard on this!  Please click on the link below to go directly to the Urban Renewal Kickstart Video link and donate. photo-main

 

 

January 16th Birthday Performance Piece at LeQuivive...

IMG_1679 So birthday was on January 16th, at which I celebrated 33 years on this planet earth.  I had a blast.  I was awarded a cake at 9:15 AM at my front door by my wonderful lady and proceeded to work hard at work, and then it was on to LeQuivive Gallery in downtown Oakland.  My good friends the brothers Tucci, also known as the Unstoppable Death Machines, from New York City were in town and we had organized an awesome little intimate engagement with Guy Culver and Laughters, in the form of a rock show with myself doing a live painting performance on a strange found object installation format.  We had an absolute blast and it was the best birthday of all time!  Thanks to everyone who made it awesome!

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Work For SF MOMA June 8th...

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I stand before you today to tell all of you how excited it makes me to say this.  If you have been following my sparse internet presence as of late, you have heard hints here and there of the news that I am going to be featured in the SFMOMA in downtown San Francisco.  The SFMOMA Artist Gallery (their more contemporary and larger artist representation wing located at Ft. Mason) is in charge of curating the windows that face Minna St. and Natoma St. on the sides of the Museum itself in Downtown San Francisco.  After making a personal goal years ago to myself of getting my work featured in these windows someday, it is happening.  I have them for a year, and the first installment in a four part saga that runs from June 2013-June 2014 begins this June 8th.   Beyond my wildest dreams this has become a reality.

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This above shot is from my Birthday Performance Art Show at LeQuivive Gallery in Oakland January 16, 2013.

I will be running my programming in the three window bay units on Minna St. and using the Natoma side here and there as a background for performance work and possibly for intimate special engagements and explorations in new installation environments from the world of Unstoppable Tomorrow.  The three pieces for the first installment of the Minna St. windows are complete.  I may add some smaller relics and mixed media pieces to the windows as the date moves closer, but for now, these are the pieces.   Two are brand new, and both as of yet un-named fully, and the third is in fact from July 2011.  It is called Event Elation and has only been shown once here in the Bay Area (it was out of my grasp for a year due to unforeseen issues with a curator but is now happily back in my hands).  So without further adieux here are images of these 8'x4' Mixed Media on Wood Panel Pieces!!!!

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