Sketchbooks galore

One of the things I love about my practice is that I have consistently kept a working sketchbook (filled with basically everything I am doing in life) for almost a decade now. These books become a record of my ideas, sketches, grocery lists, calendars, silly ideas, songs I am obsessed with and so on. Its rather rewarding to look back and see how characters have developed over time, along with my general aesthetic and style.

Work in progress

My work was featured in the Ground Teeth group show at Offwhite gallery about a month ago. It was an exhibition all about anxiety. So I created these drawings with my little guys worried and anxious about various things. Like flesh wounds and the Titanic filled with bears and of course the meaning of the art we make.

Breakfast of Champions

A good friend of mine put out a little zine on the topic of breakfast and so I submitted the following drawings. It was kind of nice to work in grey scale again. Mmm... pancakes. 

I stand for pie!

One of my projects from last summer was making a flag for the Temporary Allegiance project at University of Illinois at Chicago. An ongoing project that originated in 2004, a 25 foot flag pole was installed on the UIC campus and artist Philip von Zweck now runs the project in front of the College of Architecture and the Arts building.  This space is open to anyone in the greater-Chicago area to use for one week. For my week, I decided to make a pie flag.  So I drew a giant slice of berry pie.

Because who doesn't love pie?  More information about the project and how to sign up can be found on their website:http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/temporaryallegiance/project.htm

Long overdue post

It may seem as though I feel off the face of the internet, but that doesn't mean I have been madly working on art and other craftiness. Because I have been madly working. I promise. Since last March or whenever I last posted I have done a few small art shows around Chicago and had a handful of commissions. But I am back!  And ready to post lots of images of things I have been working on.

Stickers and buttons

So for the show on Saturday I made a bunch of buttons and stickers to hand out and sell. These are some of the designs I came up. I particularly love the last little guy with his snaggle teeth.

Shameless self promotion and some new characters

I am gonna be in an art show in a few weeks. Here are the details:

Lion VS Gorilla Presents: Mar(t)ch Madness!

Saturday, March 19 at 8:00pm-12:00am

Fulton Street Collective, 2000 W. Fulton St. Chicago, IL

Mar(t)ch Madness is an art show and event conceived in the spirit of a certain famous collegiate basketball tournament, and presented by Lion VS Gorilla. The show will begin with artwork from 16 established and emerging artists. Over the course of four bracketed rounds, viewers will vote to narrow down the playing field to their two favorite artists, and those artists will then compete for the championship trophy. We believe that art should be rowdy, that people should fight for it, and that viewing should never be passive. In short: this is going to be a fun, high-energy event, and an opportunity for members of Chicago's arts community to come together and celebrate some of the amazing work being produced in this city.

Doors open at 8pm. The first round of voting, along with artists' introductions, will begin at 8:30 sharp.

-Suggested donation: $5 at the door.
-Refreshments will be available.
-Part of the proceeds will go to benefit The Howard Brown Health Center.

Also I have a new breed of creature if you will that I have been drawing for about a month or two now and I thought it was high time these masked guys were formally introduced to the world. So here they are along with a bunch of other random doodles from my sketchbook.






If you ever see some girl madly drawing on the bus whilst listening to her iPod in the mornings, that is probably me.