my heroes died of syphilis

First Thursday, May 2010 (in photos)

The Molorazzi wasn't out this month to pound the pavement on First Thursday. Unfortunately for the camera-shy, I was shooting pretty incessantly throughout the night:



Julie Alpert and Amanda Ringstad at SOIL at ACT


Susanna Bluhm at SOIL at ACT

Sharon Arnold and Shawn Zeiger at Some Space Gallery


+Damon Mori


Joey Veltkamp, Cable Griffith, and Sharon Arnold: guest judges
for this month's Best Of Art Walk Awards


(were NOT messing around)


La Familia Gallery


Amy-Ellen Flatchestedmama Trefsger at Gallery 4Culture


Mimi Allin, Flatchestedmama Trefsger, Darla Rae Barry





Shaun Kardinal and Erin Frost


Jana Brevick (who is showing in the SOIL backspace)


Erin Shafkind


Last but not least, my electric blue boots,
which made it onto the CAB yesterday!

with camera

Scenes from another studio group meeting, this time at Margie Livingston's studio, which was brimming with all kinds of ensorcelling grids and dripping, marbling plastic and complicated, organic geometry. Her ability to patiently amass incredibly dense objects out of acrylics is impressive. Also snapshots from Joey Veltkamp's studio, Kiki Smith's recent lecture, and Daniel Carrillo's exhibit of ambrotypes at Gage Academy (hey, there I am, happily hanging between Troy Gua and Gala Bent!).

....this week in The Stranger

If you're in Seattle, grab a copy of this week's Stranger and check out Jen Graves' feature story on the artists who have shown at The New Guard dinners to date: Troy Gua, Gala Bent, Jason Hirata, and myself:

This was the first time in history that the pairing of an artist and a chef resulted in guests eating five flavors of pie—herbs and apple, bread and chocolate, pumpkin chocolate chiffon, chocolate malt, and huckleberry buckle—with large drawings of syphilitic vaginas on the side.

You can find the article (along with a few of Daniel Carrillo's recent photographs) online here.