so here’s a sculpture that will be for sale in my upcoming show. it was a last minute decision to include three dimensional work in the exhibit, and it is one of the few available pieces. a collector came along a couple weeks before my show and bought me out! all of the paintings have either sold or are on hold. pretty cool. so this sculpture is called Adam. the armature is made out of wire and aluminum window screen. it’s covered in bubble gum that i chewed almost entirely by myself. that’s 540 pieces of gum! just for an idea of scale, it’s a little larger than a basket ball.

The concept that was given to me was take these 4 coaches and place their heads on Mount Rushmore.

Heres the first round. They wanted more texture added to the mountains and for Bobby Knight to stand out a bit more.

Here is the final.

A recent drawing for Harper’s magazine

This was for an introspective piece from a book excerpt. The character in the story is a young boy describing his grandfather who is the best cement finisher in town. There was mention of an accident that left the grandfather with a limp. He was inside a commercial cement mixer, cleaning the walls, when someone accidentally hit the switch.

Here is the revised color palette. Although I felt it kind of bold to choose pink in the first version I like this one better. I think it gives it that summer vibe which was the season the story was set in.

This series is memorable for several reasons but mostly for the art direction given to me by D J Stout, who I knew socially. During our brief phone conversation he asked if the email he’d sent made sense (Yes) and then said “Great.” And that seemed to be the end of the conversation.I asked if he had any input re: art direction and he answered, “Have fun.” I pressed him again and asked if he had anything further. He answered, “Go nuts.” SF