Painting Flashback 2006

This is a painting I made back in 2006. Briarpatch is acrylic on canvas and measures 6 feet wide by 8 feet tall. It's from the series: Revenge of Gaia. Click to check out more images from the series.

Upcoming Group Exhibition

One of my paintings will be in this upcoming show at Hadas Gallery, Brooklyn. Stay tuned for details!

Pop-Up Piano Concert

Me and Manoela's piano we painted will debut at the Queens Jazz: Pop Up Pianos Borough Garden Concert at the Louis Armstrong House Museum garden. Come check it out Saturday, June 18 at 3 pm.

Pop-Up Piano at Louis Armstrong House Museum

A young pianist enjoys playing our Baby Grand at the opening concert of our Pop-Up Piano in the Louis Armstrong House Museum garden. It will be on view until the 4th of July.

SugarTone Brass Band plays an awesome set at the LAHM garden concert.

Pop Up Piano!

It's great to work with Sing For Hope on their 2011 Pop-Up Pianos installation. Here's a work in progress shot with my collaborator Manoela Madera.

Myrtle Windows Gallery

Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partership is hosting the Myrtle Windows Gallery Exhibition, curated by, Christina Vassallo. 11 artists including myself are participating in the organization's 7th show. Check out my painting, The Jig is Up, (Pangea Paradox) above! Here's the full brochure.

Evolution of Power Movements

ManoGray, Freedom isn't Free, (Detail)

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.

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

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

Now in MINISCULE

This is one from a series of mini paintings.

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, finished painting

Separate Soul

2010

34" x 28" inches

Acrylic on Wood Crate Lid

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.

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