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)

Hello there and welcome to 2011.

Welcome to 2011, and what better way to get back in gear with a new resolve to update more frequently than to start with a start of a 2010 piece.

So now it's two years later and you get to see the finished painting that I'll show  for the first time at the Gowanus Art Fair, Jan. 14, 2012

soothsLAIR, 2010, 26" in. x 24" in., Acrylic and Latex on Reused Wood Crate

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.