Category: work

  Bad Freestyle Rapper: You Get What You Pay For, white cotton t-shirt found on Billy Taylor basketball courts, plywood found at Billy Taylor park renovation/construction site, student grade acrylic paint found in the art store, staples found in the hardware store, drop-cloth canvas bits, my son’s old denim jean seams, 22.22233993982″ tall -+, 2012  ... Continue reading Bad Freestyle Rapper: You Get What You Pay For

  Spy Kids Two, slate board, acrylic paint, staples, paper, flour, water, mix well, 14 1/3″ tall -+, 2012   backside revealed        

Kinda miss Cholos, son’s old clean underwear with doodoo stain, found plywood, staples, 7.001″ tall, 2012 front-side revealed —– HA!      

Walk the Talk If You Can Talk the Walk, crazy-fresh-dope plywood w/ some dirty scum, ink, dimensions vary – 6.66663″ tall when compressed, 2012 front-side revealed    

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, wood, spray paint for graffiti, gesso for houses, a lot of angst. 14.4″ wide (three parts), 2012   3/4 view      

HOT bod 2D ResQ, plywood panel, KILLZ primer, GOLDEN acrylic, AMERICAN EAGLE bag, 8.12345″ tall -+, 2012     backside revealed…or I mean the front revealed…   (Now the top left piece is missing.) — I’ve got to document this on a non-white wall, but frankly, no pun intended, I heart the white wall. There... Continue reading HOT bod 2D ResQ

Handsaw Massacre, wood panel, professional artist paint, student grade paint, professional student acrylic paint, found white-sweaty-under t-shirt reeking of bad cologne, 9.99999994″ tall -+, 2012     backside and studio assistant revealed      

Speech Speech Speech Delay, found purchased wood, purchased found wood, fine academic artist acrylic paint, primer, junk mail, war story, 6 1/1″ tall, 2012   Backside revealed…or is it the front that is revealed?? I don’t know. Whatever you want. Front. Back. Side to Side. Tootsie Roll. Whoop! There it is.        ... Continue reading Speech Speech Speech Delay

  They Grow Up So Fast Not Fast Enough, my baby boy’s cotton onesie (unless you have been around babies or have one, it is unlikely you know what a onesie is), water-based paint, wood from an old home-made wooden entertainment center, no staples, stretched w/ NO STAPLES. This has been quite a feat using NO... Continue reading They Grow Up So Fast Not Fast Enough

Emerging Adulthood, wrinkled cotton t-shirt, staples, academic grade acrylic paint, professional grade acrylic paint, professional academic grade paint, wood bits, 14.14″ tall-+, 2012.   backside, and where I went to lunch, revealed      

If I Saw You I Would Look at You Then Look Away, super fine artist canvas for fine artist painting, academic acrylic paint, salvaged wood bits, staples, 8.939393939393″ tall, 2012      

R to the I to the P , plywood, found shirt, acrylic paint, tension, 5.949″ tall -+ (two parts), 2012         Found this shirt on the basketball court. If it was yours, I’m sorry you forgot it there.              

B xtra Careful 2day, wood, pastel, trouble, angst, anxiety, relief, 36/6″ tall -+ (three parts), 2012             These cut-out pieces, as I take the liberty of saying, have been an utterly painful pain in the side of my pain. I must have decorated (yes, I just said decorate), the surface... Continue reading B xtra Careful 2day

  Billy Taylor #7, newfound plywood, acrylic paint, staples, cotton T-shirt found at Billy Taylor Park basketball courts, dried sweat, 4.9” h, 2012       backside revealed — and toe fungus      

Adopt a Dawg, fine artist fine-artist pastels, fine-artist pastel dust, eraser dust from fine-artist pastel, a pinch of student-grade academic acrylic paint, wood from an old DIY entertainment center. 700/9.2″ tall more or less (two parts), 2012          

#GOOOOOOOOOOOL-D, repurposed dismantled wooden shelf, fine artist fine pastel, academic acrylic paint, filth, eraser dust, 10 22/22” tall, 2012      

  Intergalactic, acrylic paint, paint contractor’s canvas drop-cloth, plywood, staples, 14 1/43″ tall -+, 2012     Created to measure the level of a combination of feelings including euphoria, ecstasy, excitement (usually but not limited to non sexual excitement), light-heartedness, and general glee situated between two or more galaxies. Far out, man.        

You ll Always B Missd, found shirt, painter’s paint, plywood, two staples, hard time, but not hard time like prison time, just hard time as in pain in the rear, 6.66″ tall mas o menos, 2012.                                      ... Continue reading You ll Always B Missd

Wherever U R There U Go, slat board, found Boston Celtics basketball jersey via Billy Taylor Park, staples, sore inner-thigh muscle, little guilt, 7.333232323232″ tall more or less, 2012 backside revealed   360 dunk in your face. Tough guys and gals, hot and humid on the mid-day basketball court, strut their stuff. They take off... Continue reading Wherever U R There U Go

almost Relevant, fine artist’s fine art pastel, fine pastel dust, sample board from interior design company given to Paul Housberg Glass Project, 7″ x 7.11″ roughly, 2012.            

Suggested Reading, wood, pastel, paint (three parts, lots of fun). 5.5555555″ tall -+, 2012  

Next Time U Find Yoself N an Argument, Rather than Defend Ur Position, C F U Can C the Other Point of View 1st,  wood, pastel, paint, 4″ tall -+, 2012  

Understand Separate Realities, oil, canvas, filth, grime, wood. 17″ tall -+, 2011          

Smile at Strangers, Look into Their Eyes and Say Hello, found plywood, found sweatshirt, no staples, no screws. That s it. Dimensions: 11.11″ tall -+, 2012.      

  Imagine Everyone S Enlightened Except U, found wood, found shirt, purchased nail, borrowed hammer, stolen idea. 11″ tall -+, 2012            

Cut Yourself Some Slack, found plywood, paint, old Hanes undershirt, staples. Dimensions: 12″ tall -+, 2012  

Let Others be “Right” Most of the Time, found plywood, water-based paint, Hanes white undershirt, staples. Dimensions: 9.333″, 2012  

Adopt a Child Thru the Mail, floor board, children’s underwear (my son’s), water-based paint, staples. Dimensions: 7″ tall -+, 2012

  Please Try, bottom of orange bin, fine artist oil paint, 9″ tall -+, 2012  

  This Bud s Four U, floor board, plywood, particle board, board board, bored board, bored boar, 7″ tall -+, 2012      

  That s Not My Bunny That s Just a Guy w/ a Mustache, floor board, paper, black wash, white wash, splintered edges, 6.9390033030303309449″ tall -+, 2012      

  Next Mastapeace Lullaby, plywood, acid rain, pollution, global warming, ADHD, 49/2.3493920″ tall -+, 2012                

Practice Patience, orange wooden bin, hair, water-based acrylic paint for children 21 and under, sawdust, filth, grime, gross, 5.939″ tall, 2012       3/4 view     detail of a detail of detailed detail

Ol’ Wil’ Wes’ Paraphernalia, wood, staples, acrylic paint, old worn out cotton undershirt. Dimensions: 23.9393″ tall -+, 2012 3/4 view