t-shirt/poster design contest entry (i lost)

Melting Mass Run

2010

30"x 20" inches

Acrylic on Board

This was my entry for the 2011 Cooper River Bridge Run T-Shirt/Poster Design Contest. I didn't win but it was fun squirting this out before the deadline. Maybe next year. You can see the "spectacular" winning design on their website. I still think this would make a cool shirt, no?

'PAINTINGS' OPENING @ 21LUDLOW! 7/9/2010

Manoela, Gray, and Ian toast a great show, in front of my paintings, at the opening for 'Paintings' a group painting exhibition at 21 Ludlow, a new pop-up gallery in the Lower East Side.

The crowd outside. Spilling out into the street for air and cigs, the gallery opening drew a large crowd that really brought this block of Ludlow between Hester and Canal to life. Watch out for undercover open booze busters! There were undercover cops in a dark tinted out car rolling by real slow and then jumping out, in their awkward-looking 'street' clothes and writing tickets to anyone with an open container of alcohol on the sidewalk. Making money for the city 'protecting' the artists and art lovers from their hard-earned money. The conversations that ensued were classic, with opening attendees drawing the cops into explaining why they were there, asking them if they liked the art, etc.

Blah, blah, blah, and a little Da da. Many of my friends from all different networks and different neighborhoods came out to celebrate the opening. I did a lot of catching up with those I hadn' t seen in a while and talking about my paintings in the show.

 

Kick-ass Gallerist May Yeung and Gray pose for snaps. May is the founder of 21 Ludlow gallery. She saw an unrented commercial storefront and envisioned it could be perfect to host art shows. Paintings, is the second exhibition in the space.

Alex, Grant, Gray, and Ian sippin and spillin.

Why so smug you cocky sunuvagun? It certainly feels great to show this work that I have been making for the past couple years. Sharing it with others is a big part of art making.

Pen Drawing

cosmicolSwirlD

Ink on Paper

Group Show in Lower East Side

I was curated into a group painting exhibition at 21 Ludlow, a new gallery in the lower east side showcasing young contemporary artists. I included six of my most recent paintings in the show with six other artists showing a variety of paintings ranging from cut paper narrative works, portraiture, still-lives from observation, and my own multi-layered, colorful abstractions.

21 Ludlow Opening

Friday, July 9

&

Thursday, July 15

7 - 10PM

for the reception of

Paintings

Gray Edgerton, 2010

at 

21Ludlow

21 Ludlow St.

New York, NY 10012

347.387.4250

F - East Broadway

B/D - Grand St.

Featuring:

Gray Edgerton

Tim Mearini

Eddie Ochoa

Jason Shelowitz

Fedele Spadafore

Nicole Wilson

+ Posters and apparel by Clinton van Gemert a.k.a. Head Hood!

NEW YORK – Following Works on Paper, 21LUDLOW is hitting the warmest New York days in years with the presentation of PAINTINGS. Featuring the work by Gray Edgerton, Timothy Mearini, Charles Martin, Eddie Ochoa, Jason Shelowitz, Fedele Spadafore and Nicole Wilson and ranging in styles from new realism to groovy fantasies on canvas, their work will be on view July 9^th - August 2^nd.

Moreover, the show will include a selection of handprinted T-shirts and posters by Clinton van Gemert a.k.a Head Hood as well as a taste of highlights from Works on Paper. 

The hot Lower East Side streets will be chilled with 21LUDLOW art coolness!

Strobe lights are a party must, music will be provided by DJ Robostus and DJ Selim.

Summer 2010 can hardly get better.

21LUDLOW: Affordable art with edge and New York vibrancy. 

For questions or further information, please contact May or Daniel at: twentyone.ludlow@gmail.com

Visit our Website  View our Facebook  21 Ludlow St., New York, New York 10012 347.387.4250 twentyone.ludlow@gmail.com

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Mano Photobox

Mano Photobox

2010

Acrylic on Wood panel

22" x 19" inches

This painting was done from a poloroid photograph that I slid back inside the empty poloroid film cartridge as a frame. I recreated the photo and frame in the painting. This tribute to portraiture plays on photography's role in changing how people's images are recorded and captured. The aesthetic of the poloroid, now out-dated by digital, still holds a strong place in many photographers' and artists' hearts. Traditional painted portraiture is also still highly regarded by some, though a lot of it, is aided by photography. The skin tone in the painting is left the color of the wood panel, leaving the trace of the raw material calling to mind the alchemy of art. 

Faded Prodigy

Faded Prodigy

2010

22" x 18.5"inches

Acrylic and Latex on wood panel

Civilized Nuclear Power Vs. New Killer Powers

Brooklyn Naval Drawings

Demologos a.k.a. USS Fulton

after a drawing by Samuel Ward Stanton 1895

Ink on Paper

One more in the series of illustrations where I dug up (Googled) old pictures of Brooklyn Naval History and recreated them in ink. Thanks to Robert Fulton for designing the Demologos and Samuel Ward Stanton for drawing it for his book.

ol' melthead compooter

Ol' Melthead makes a return to the blog via Adobe photo/illustrate back-country roads. Sketchbook makes it through the compu in one piece and a nice digital piece it is. Shoot, I'd hire this guy for some design jobs or some shit. Blogs are soo biased. Agree?

handmaid a scene

This is an old doody I did a couple years ago. The handmaid is a handy one to have around. She's really hands on and certainly has a handle on handmade things.

Now in MINISCULE

This is one from a series of mini paintings.

ol' melthead sketch

workin hard @ hardly workin

After another long back-breaker week of art handling, back in the studio working on some paintings. This piece is the latest in a series of wood panel paintings on repurposed shipping crates. These crates were built to ship art, now they are it.

Separate Soul Sketch

A page from the 2009 daily planner/sketchbook containing the original drawing that went on to become the painting, Separate Soul. A quasi-figurative, mandala-esque puddle, swirling into a swiss cheese cosmos, with a half moon heart.

Separate Soul Digital Sketch

This is the photoshop sketch for Separate Soul. Shout out to my graphic designer/art director for "helping me" manipulate this image. Coming next, the orginal scan.

Separate Soul, finished painting

Separate Soul

2010

34" x 28" inches

Acrylic on Wood Crate Lid

Brooklyn Navy Yard Illustrations #1

USS Arizona leaving Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1915

(after a photo, of course!)

2009

Ink on Paper

This is the first in a series of ink drawings that I did based off old pictures of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Acting upon an idea from an unlikely source, I decided to showcase my drafting skills, drawing some realistic imagery of the history of the place where I live and work. (In ninth grade, I swore to myself that I would never copy pictures again, with the idea that I could always come up with things to create. Ten years later, here I am with this series.)

try UMPH!

try conquers umph

Opteek Mandaleek, finished painting

Opteek Mandaleek

2010

48"x 48" inches

Acrylic and Vinyl on Canvas

Born out of a desire to cover a dark, scary painting titled, Vineball, with something that would emit radiant life energy. This work is the combination of optical art patterning, sacred mandalas, a map-like contour, and a smiling dog with traces of its masters. The result is a charged concentric camouflage homage. To the square and to the boodar! More to come.

hey is that......?

Whaa? huh? Hey, is that? Are those gray's paintings back there?

Yes, they are indeed! Couple shots from an art party out in Ridgewood back in Feb. The salon style hanging wasn't my idea, but I loved how it turned out. This night was a blast, the bands were siick and what's more, they played in front of my work the whole time! Big thanks to Arkadiy and his crew.

opteek mandaleek

The digital drawing for a recent 48" x 48" inch painting canvas. (see studio shot of work in progress below) This drawing came out of a desire to cover a painting titled, "Vineball", which can be viewed by scrolling down on my spraygraphic project file: Revenge of Gaia

Image of finished painting coming soon.

why don't you?

why don't you quit bullshitting and draw something?

rattlesnakes n cute lil' field mice (in progress)

Couple pages in progress from the current sketchbook. Our cabin dweller tips in a rocker, squirrel gun trained on the mutant rattler about to swallow him whole. A gang of ratified field mice nibble on the snake and congregate.

one for the rode

"wat ta hale u no bout nuttin? i been grabbin hi-nees and flyin starz n barz since i wuz a youngan."

tryin ta learn digital drawing..........finally

two pages of a new sketchbook that went through the photochopper (ballpoint and photoshop)

canyon after thought

canyon after thought

2009

48"x 33" inches

Acrylic, Latex and Cut Canvas over Felt

This recent painting was inspired by a 2009 trip to the Grand Canyon. The departure point was a tattered canvas that I drew a topographical map of a section of the canyon in which the shadow areas were cut out revealing a black felt material beneath the surface of the canvas. I weaved an image of Rodin's "thinker" into the painting to express the insignificance of human scale and artistic achievement I felt before such a grand geologic "carving". With nods to geology, art history, sculpture, and nature, the references in this work become camouflaged into the final image.

studio 12/20/2009

In the studio, working on a new painting. (not finger painting, just wiping a drip and posing!) Photo taken by: Manoela