patrick costello

getting ready for next month!

2012-01-10T22:36:00.002-05:00

Bake 'n Bike is coming up soon!

apple butter!

2011-12-25T14:54:00.000-05:00

I finally finished making the screenprints for this year's batch of apple butter. The neon colors were inspired by a Leif Goldberg print that I have. The prints are actually only 3 transparent colors -- blue, yellow, and pink -- but my overlapping them, I was able to make orange, purple, green, and a brown-ish color. I am pretty stoked about the finished product!

canning done!

2011-12-15T22:26:00.001-05:00

I have finished canning all of the apple butter! There are 54 half-pint jars and 2 pints. Now I have to finish the prints for the lids!

charlottesville represent!

2011-12-13T22:16:00.000-05:00

A couple of days ago James McNew played in NYC with Asuna, and there was a little bit of Charlottesville decorating the merch table. (Victoria's power diamond and a very little cosmic quilt painting by yours truly!)

craft fair time!

2011-12-05T18:00:00.000-05:00

I have a couple of older (cheap!) prints and some new hand-painted sketchbooks available at the Great Gifts Holiday Shop this year. Great Gifts will be open all December from 12-8pm on weekdays and 12-6pm on weekends through Christmas Eve. There is some great stuff over there, so make sure to check it out! I will be bringing more stuff to the shop as the month goes on.

pigeon!

2011-11-28T21:54:00.000-05:00

November has been a month of finishing up big projects. I helped Greg Kelly with his book project called Pigeon. I just helped design/print the packaging, but it was a pretty large edition. The whole project turned out beautifully and I am so happy to have participated in it's completion.

I also have been working on cooking down all that applesauce into apple butter! There is going to be a huge amount -- more than double what I made last year. I will post pictures when I finish making the prints for the lids.

new city arts group show!

2011-11-03T12:26:00.001-04:00

I have some work in a group show at the NPR gallery this month! The show has 11 participating artists exhibiting works generated from the theme of a "Home." It is a preview for The Haven's annual auction in December, and all proceeds from the exhibit will benefit The Haven at First and Market.

Stop by on Friday between 5 and 7 if you are in town!

applesauce!

2011-10-29T00:10:00.000-04:00

Vicky and I made 32+ quarts!

It was amazing how all the different varieties of apples changed the color of the sauce from batch to batch. This last picture is kind of bad but it shows the variation really well. Cool!

new zine

2011-10-27T11:48:00.001-04:00

I am working on a new zine!

tree swagger!

2011-10-26T11:55:00.001-04:00

fall garden goodness!

2011-10-25T11:54:00.000-04:00

missing!

2011-10-19T18:18:00.000-04:00

I recently finished a small summer art class with some awesome kids and tomorrow marks the unveiling of a play we made together! It is called "MISSING!" and it will be performed for a small audience.

The play opens with three mystery-solving friends finding out that some of their friends and family have gone missing! With the help of some talking dolphins, they discover a villain and a machine that turns people into other people’s worst fears! Will they be able to stop the villain before it’s too late?

Here are some images from the program, with artwork courtesy of Willow and Gwen.

picture time!

2011-10-10T16:34:00.000-04:00

I have one photo of the piece from the show in Richmond. It's nice, but it doesn't show the colors really well and you can't see the fancy shelf. But until I find another, here it is!

richmond!

2011-10-09T10:21:00.000-04:00

I finished a canned food color spectrum for an art show in Richmond that opened on Friday. It sits on a fancy shelf and includes a jar of blue cabbage juice! Finally all of Roy G. Biv is represented. I will post a picture of it soon. I also made it to Richmond yesterday to present a workshop with Victoria at the Richmond Zine Fest! It was well attended and super fun. Hope to make it back to Richmond soon.

poster by Oura

working on another spectrum!

2011-10-02T10:38:00.000-04:00

Here is a janky picture of what I have so far:

paw paw picking!

2011-09-28T10:20:00.002-04:00

I went pawpaw picking a while back and it was awesome! Hannah, Claire and I made a pawpaw cake. It was so decadent and delicious -- too decadent?

better late than never!

2011-09-18T09:05:00.000-04:00

I finally got some seeds and starts planted in the house garden at the end of last week. I am hoping that this cold snap doesn't stick around so that everything has a chance to grow. At least I am not too late to plant garlic! I'll plant that in the first bed in about a month. Whatever happens, it's nice to finally have stuff in the ground at the new place.

more invites!

2011-09-06T13:04:00.001-04:00

So, I said I would be taking a hiatus from wedding invites and then I immediately agreed to another job. How could I resist -- Matt and Liz are so awesome! It was fun to work with them and make it happen. Thanks to Abby Pratt, who did the calligraphy that I then letterpress printed for the final product. She also hand addressed the front of every envelope!

The completed invites:

The rainy day bike transportation system:

letterpress!

2011-09-01T23:10:00.000-04:00

I have been spending lots of time with this old guy...

lots of projects!

2011-08-16T09:15:00.000-04:00

Lots of things are picking up for what looks like a super productive late-summer burst! Last night, Victoria and I made some chamomile honey ground cherry preserves. They are a great color, and they taste great too! Thanks to A and J for the fruit! I am excited to add a jar or two to the next color spectrum piece.

glitter bombing!

2011-08-07T11:35:00.001-04:00

Thanks to K-Dawg Smith, we got to do some public art the other night! It needs a few touch ups, but here is what we made.

copy machine magick!

2011-08-05T11:03:00.004-04:00

James Ford and I collaborated with some photocopiers to make this poster for a show coming up in town. It was fun!

brown paper bag!

2011-08-04T15:53:00.001-04:00

Cool! I was featured on Brown Paper Bag! I really like that blog, so I am pretty darn excited about it!

Click the picture for the original post!

new home!

2011-07-22T13:32:00.001-04:00

Hello, West Street!

goodbye, nalle street!

2011-07-15T15:24:00.001-04:00

Onwards and Upwards///////

Nalle Street, you shall be missed!

Hooray!

2011-07-02T13:44:00.000-04:00

Cabbage from the garden!

wedding invites!

2011-07-02T12:57:00.000-04:00

I recently finished another batch of wedding invites for some really good folks. These are screenprinted and letterpressed! I think I will be taking a hiatus from designing/printing wedding ephemera, but it has been a fun couple of projects!

Also, here are some more summer flowers from the garden in another of my wooden vases.

art show this friday!

2011-06-28T14:05:00.001-04:00

My friend Jason Kachadourian will be showing work at the Garage this Friday! Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, Jason makes prints and poured concrete sculptures and all sorts of wonderful things.

Come out for the opening!

The Garage
250 1st St. N (btwn Market St. and Jefferson St. across from Lee Park)

Opening Reception Friday July 1, 6-8 pm
There will be food, friends, and art!

Show title and statement:

The City is a Garden of Ideas by Jason Kachadourian
Paraphrased from the Peter Cook title The City, Seen as a Garden of Ideas (Monacelli 2003).

It's ironic that my newest pieces are being shown in a freestanding, single story, open air space away from a big city because over the past three years my work has become saturated with the city. It is inspired by the effects of stacking people and structures in such a compact space, and an attempt to organize something that is chaotic. Repetitive and obsessive processes like organizing movable type, woodcuts, finite drawing, sewing, etc. all provide a retreat from an ever changing environment, while also mirroring it.

Concrete, wood and textile forms, as well as some letterpress prints and found objects make up the five pieces in this exhibition. They are based on interior and exterior spaces that rely on one another, as well as the structures around them, for support. A city like this becomes a conscious organism, able to change constantly in spite of the people living in it.

summertime funtimes!

2011-06-21T18:55:00.000-04:00

I finally got around to canning some stuff today! I made some white cherry preserves. I am including the other pictures because the hydrangea blue looks so nice next to the warm yellow of the cherries!

and it begins!

2011-06-16T17:10:00.000-04:00

We are going to move out of our huge beautiful double porch Charlottesville mansion come mid-July and it is so full of JUNK. It's actually kind of amazing how much stuff has accumulated!

Upon seeing Angel and I carrying a couch through our neighborhood to the Salvation Army, one of our awesome neighbors loaned us her laundry-transporting shopping cart. We loaded it up a few times and began the bittersweet moving process.

Our most successful kinetic sculpture of the day:

back in town!

2011-06-14T23:23:00.000-04:00

For the last two weeks, I have been gallivanting about NYC and Philly. I saw some wonderful friends and lots of art. Also, I helped out with the play I mentioned in my last post! It was an awesome six night run with a whole bunch of completely talented and supremely lovely folks.

Here's a picture of one of the beautiful fabric pieces in the Louise Bourgeois show at Cheim and Read in Chelsea.

printing posters!

2011-05-22T22:41:00.000-04:00

I am printing an edition of posters for the Missoula Oblongata. Morgan of Puppet Uprising designed them and I am super excited to help with the show they are announcing!

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

(A secret location dessert theater piece of awesomeness!)

saturday morning!

2011-05-21T11:10:00.000-04:00

selected works!

2011-05-18T11:07:00.000-04:00

I finally finished scanning the work from Far Out, Right Here. It's a tight little series that I am still working on. Here are some images:

revel!

2011-05-09T15:45:00.002-04:00

The Bridge's Annual Revel Fundraiser was Saturday and the Revel Park Service (R.P.S.), including yours truly, decorated part of the gallery space to look like a park. Dumpstered paper and cardboard + good folks = silly times. Also, I made a little painting on a piece of wood for their silent auction -- nothing too fancy, but I like the way it turned out. Lastly, Shell and I had a photo shoot with her chickens and a little red bike, and it was also silly. Check out the first annual C'ville Tour De Coop on the 21st!

it's been a while!

2011-04-29T23:54:00.000-04:00

There has been all kinds of stuff going on lately! I am hoping that this busy spring leads to some chill summer fun times!

Been helping good folks with a lot of art projects, and today I was hanging out with Jesse while she printed some dank letterpress prints for her May show at the Garage. It is going to be awesome! Take a look at this nice collaborative drawing we made in between Vandercook runs.

pictures from the show!

2011-04-06T21:48:00.000-04:00

Far Out, Right Here opened last Friday! I don't have images of the individual works yet, but I will post them when I do. In the meantime, here are a few images from a post-opening visit. Thanks to Andy for the pictures!

it's coming together!

2011-03-30T21:27:00.000-04:00

making headway!

2011-03-20T18:52:00.000-04:00

This guy-in-progress is going to make an appearance at my show -- how about you join us?

show opening april 1!

2011-03-17T08:50:00.000-04:00

Far Out Right Here
New Work by Patrick Costello

WVTF and Radio IQ Studio Gallery
216 West Water St
Charlottesville, VA

Opening Reception April 1, 5-7 pm
On display through April 30

It's time for First Fridays with NPR, WVTF, Radio IQ, and New City Arts. April will host Patrick Costello’s “Far Out Right Here” at the WVTF and Radio IQ Studio Gallery on April 1st from 5-7 PM. Patrick's new work sits somewhere between small mounds of soil and the giant cosmic void. The paintings and prints in the show are inspired by canning food and geometric quilt and textile designs.

Food will be provided by Feast! and wine from Blenheim Vineyards.

Gallery Hours by appointment. Email Maureen: artsdirector [at] newcityarts.org to set up a time to come by!

Contact (for additional information):
Patrick Costello: ptack.costello [at] gmail.com
Maureen Lovett: artsdirector [at] newcityarts.org

finally finished!

2011-03-09T22:43:00.001-05:00

A while back, I said something about keeping an eye out for some new work I would be putting up on the blog. Well, I finally finished one of the paintings I had been working on, and there is lots of new stuff in progress! I know I haven't been posting too much lately, but it's pretty much springtime and C'ville Foodscapes is getting busy. You should see the Brassicas growing in the laundry room, waiting for good homes!

some stuff!

2011-02-28T23:27:00.000-05:00

Inspired by this old project, I made a kite for an art show up in Philly. Note the key -- B. Franklin stylz.

Here are some pics!

Also, I got this picture from Andy of my little painting in its new home in Japan!

warmers zine!

2011-02-21T18:53:00.000-05:00

I forgot to post this a while back. It is a nice catalog/zine from the group show I was in at Trance Pop Gallery in Japan.

Warmers (SDZ-002)
Art by Jeremy Seth Taylor, Kevin Hooyman, Erin Womack, Max Hubenthal, Andy C. Jenkins, Ron Rege. Jr., Patrick Costello, Allyson Mellberg, Kristin Smith, Travis Robertson
32 pages, 420yen
available at www.sweetdreamspress.com

early delivery and some new studio time!

2011-02-10T12:58:00.000-05:00

Today I made an early bike delivery for Bake 'n Bike. It was a big success! Aside from actually handing over the scones and a special rose to the stunned recipient, I got a lot of praise for the V-Day duds.

"Jerry, you gotta see this -- this guy has the best mustache I have ever seen!" "Can I take your picture?" "I'm on the phone with my psychiatrist and he thinks I am crazy..." "Jerry, this guy knows how to live -- either that, or he's died and come back as my savior." "He must be a politician... or a neurosurgeon."

The costume:

Now I am working on some projects at my new drawing studio! I am the inaugural NCAI artist-in-residence at The Haven. My studio is a former office, and it is nice to move some of my art stuff out of my bedroom (which is actually very small nursery made by inserting a wall at the landing at the top of the stairs). Now I am screenprinting at home and everything else is in this new space.

In exchange for the space, I will be initiating creative projects with Haven guests, which might include anything from a basic drawing class to a more formal project in PATCH Community Garden. Whatever the creative process may be, we hope to make some beautiful things together!

hurry up, spring!

2011-02-09T11:38:00.000-05:00

Getting ready!

bake 'n bike!

2011-02-06T18:45:00.000-05:00

Check it out! Bake 'n Bike is back for the seventh year! It's a fundraiser for Community Bikes and Books Behind Bars. Order scones for bike delivery on Monday, February 14th (Valentine's Day)! They are super delicious, and all the money goes to two great organizations! Did I mention that the deliveries are made in full Valentine's Day-themed costumes?

kale bicep!

2011-01-30T15:15:00.000-05:00

I designed a tattoo for Lune!

KALE AND CHARD FOR BREAKFAST FOREVER!

Now Lune is officially ready to move to NYC and take over the world.

nyc show pics!

2011-01-23T14:47:00.001-05:00

Here are a few pictures of the show that Jason put together in NYC!

The two little pieces to the right of my Rainbow Food screenprint are collaborative pieces by me, Jason, Sam and Mark!

Here is a detailed blurb about the show:

Jason Kachadourian presents One Night Only, a show of work by people who know each other and people who should.

New work by: Patrick Costello, Jason Kachadourian, Sam Kalda, Jimmy McBride and Mark Price.
The five featured artists use pattern, collage and a variety of other means to freeze a moment in time. They obsessively examine their relationship with the environment that surrounds them. By abstracting, modifying and re-using the familiar, they create images that represent select moments in a perpetual process.

This One Night Only is the second in a series of one night, pop up exhibitions that will take place in any available location.

And you can find more pictures HERE!

new york! philly! back to work!

2011-01-21T18:33:00.001-05:00

I just got back from a little trip up north, which was too short and also just right. I brought some work up for a group show in New York. My first time showing in the city! Jason organized the show and I think it is going to be great! I will post pictures when I get them.

web flier!

letterpressed handbills!

New York was lovely, despite the nasty weather. I am still singing and dancing to some rye rye jams and thinking about the awesome food I ate while I was there. I also saw this nice graffiti (thanks to Becca for the picture) where someone had written the word "whore" and someone finished it up into "whoreticulture" which seemed like a pretty funny way of handling the situation.

On the way back, I stopped off in Philly to see THIS PRETTY LADY and THIS LITTLE MAN. She is hard at work on some awesome stuff for her February art show at the Garage. We had a great time and I even got featured on her friend's street style blog. Hah!

Look out for some new paintings soon!

warmers pictures!

2011-01-11T23:06:00.000-05:00

I just got some pictures from the Warmers show at Trance Pop and Kyoto! It seems like the opening went really well! Thanks to everyone who made this so great! Here is a link to the Sweet Dreams Press Facebook note about the show, and here is a link to more pictures of the opening!

MAKE THINGS HAPPEN THAT YOU WANT TO SEE.

warmers goes to kyoto!

2011-01-04T19:07:00.000-05:00

Great news!

The group art show (Warmers) that Victoria organized in Tsuruga, Japan is now going to be shown at Trance Pop Gallery in Kyoto! It will be an expanded version of the show from December, and it sounds like it is going to be really nice! I will post more details and pictures from it when I get them... probably a bit later in January. For now, check out the new piece I made for the show...

new year! old art(ifacts)!

2011-01-01T11:52:00.002-05:00

While I was home for the holidays, I did a huge clean out of my room at my parents' house. I found all sorts of things in the process...

some trolls

a my little pony tracing

some troll stickers (The one with the cowboy hat inspired my Halloween costume that year -- a country singer treasure troll!)

evidence of my lofty career goals

And this is one of my first zines!

Happy New Year, Everyone!

road trip 2k10! (part three/bluefield)

2010-12-30T13:06:00.004-05:00

This is the last installment of the road trip 2k10 series! I thought Bluefield should have its own post because it is home to an intensely awesome painting that not many folks have seen. The painting is in a janitor's closet at Bluefield College, and it was done about 35 years ago by Earl Frankenfield, Sr.

The story goes that Mr. Frankenfield, who worked in the maintenance department at the school, would work on the painting during his lunch break and whenever he had some down time. It illustrates and narrates the old testament of the bible in jewel toned images and hand-drawn text boxes.

At some point, the mural was partially destroyed when the school needed to do some construction, but the part that remains is really incredible!

Here it is...

road trip 2k10! (part two)

2010-12-29T23:16:00.004-05:00

There are too many pictures! My last post went through Austin, TX. Here's the return trip!

Mermaids after the jump!

road trip 2k10! (part one)

2010-12-28T17:07:00.001-05:00

One nice thing about being a gardener is that you have a lot less work in the winter! One nice thing about having friends all over the country is that you get to visit them! Kristin, DeCarol and I organized a road trip that started December 8 and ended the 21st. The objectives: see lots of things, go lots of places, and get our friend Meg back east for the holidays.

We ended up eating dinner by candlelight in the woods, talking hip hop with philosophers, staying with long lost high school friends, visiting a cathedral of junk, falling in love with New Orleans, being interviewed for a documentary about pie shops, breaking into my sister's house, spending a whole day at the Civil Rights Institute, seeing mermaids at the largest aquarium in the world, eating delicious food with friends and family, meeting a few farm animals, viewing an amazing painting in a janitor's closet, and arriving just in time to spend the holidays with family.

Here was our trip:

DEC 8: Woodbridge VA --> Athens OH

DEC 9: Athens OH --> Nashville TN

DEC 10: Nashville TN --> Memphis TN --> Little Rock AR

DEC 11: Little Rock AR --> Austin TX

DEC 12: Austin TX

DEC 13: Austin TX --> New Orleans LA

DEC 14: New Orleans LA

DEC 15: New Orleans --> Greensboro AL --> Tuscaloosa AL

DEC 16: Tuscaloosa AL --> Birmingham AL --> Atlanta GA

DEC 17: Atlanta GA

DEC 18: Atlanta --> Charleston SC --> Darlington SC

DEC 19: Darlington SC --> Charlotte NC

DEC 20: Charlotte NC --> Bear Creek NC --> Chapel Hill NC --> Greensboro NC

DEC 21: Greensboro NC --> Bluefield WV --> Charlottesville VA --> Woodbridge VA

on the road!

2010-12-13T11:06:00.000-05:00

Stay tuned for pictures and tales from WINTER TOUR 2K10!

zine workshop!

2010-12-05T18:15:00.000-05:00

A couple of days ago I taught a zine making workshop for the Charlottesville Trade School! It was great fun! The premise is that people bring things to barter in order to take a class. The classes are held at a variety of beloved spaces around town (random row, the bridge, the garage, etc.), and you sign up ahead of time on the web.

For my zine class, I made a little zine about zines (how meta!) and we all made our own zines during the workshop. We also looked at a wide variety of zines and talked about the myriad of things a zine could be. After sharing our creations, everyone presented their barter items and they were all so thoughtful and awesome! I highly recommend getting involved with the trade school crew and teaching/attending a class. So rad!

the about zines zines

a couple of the great barters

group pictures!

2010-12-02T23:39:00.001-05:00

apple butter! screenprints! done!

2010-12-01T14:56:00.000-05:00

So, about a year ago I saw an awesome post on Theo Ellsworth's blog where he canned a whole bunch of enchilada sauce and screenprinted really great little images for the lids. I finally got around to doing my own version! As you may have seen in previous posts, I recently made a million billion quarts of applesauce, cooked them down into some tasty apple butter, and canned 26 half pints of it. Today I finished the 6 color screenprint for the lids. I am so excited about this project! Just in time for the holidays!

apple butter progress!

2010-11-29T08:56:00.000-05:00

the bevy tower

the peanut gallery

craft fairs!

2010-11-24T09:07:00.001-05:00

As usual, this time of year just seems to get busier and busier! I have been applying for a couple different grants for big (potential) projects in 2011, we have almost wrapped up our first year with C'ville Foodscapes, and I have put some stuff in a couple of craft fairs that will happen during this holiday season.

I made a whole bunch of prints, some wooden flower vases, and will finish some t-shirts pretty soon.

For more information for where you can find my wares (and the wares of some really awesome folks from all over VA!), click on the links:

Great Gifts Holiday Shop in Charlottesville (@ the Bridge)

Bizarre Market in Richmond (@ Chop Suey Books)

c-ville interview!

2010-11-23T14:15:00.004-05:00

Check out this week's C-ville Weekly for a nice little interview they did with me!

Read it here

Robin Macklin took the photo for the interview and I like it because I look silly happy. Like maybe I have a few screws loose...

fancy images!

2010-11-21T10:09:00.001-05:00

I just wanted to post a few of the beautiful pictures that Charlottesville photographer (and awesome lady) Barrie Humphries took of CHEER ON. I am only putting up a few of the shed, but she took a ton of awesome images of the whole installation. Thanks Barrie!

art show in japan!

2010-11-16T08:48:00.003-05:00

I am part of a group show in Tsuruga, Japan! The show is called Warmers and will be up for the month of December at Pinon Pinon! It will be up when Sharon Van Etten plays at the space on her Japan tour. More details soon!

Until then, here are the three pieces I sent over there:

starting on the holiday gifts!

2010-11-15T23:20:00.002-05:00

Step one of a few: make applesauce!

some print action!

2010-11-10T17:25:00.003-05:00

making stuff for the holidays!

2010-11-07T11:18:00.000-05:00

Just starting to get my act together:

*I did not make the apples or the flowers, I picked them.

new morning routine!

2010-11-06T08:52:00.001-04:00

Our awesome new housemate came with some little friends! One of them has taken to keeping me warm/helping me with my email correspondence/being really cute all over my computer!

feast!

2010-11-05T10:42:00.002-04:00

I worked on a collaborative piece for an awesome group show this month. The show is called Feast. In the spirit of feasting, the show features 22 local artists that were all paired to make 11 pieces. I worked with the wonderful Natalie Race, and we made a piece inspired by quilts and the moths that feast on them. The show opens tonight!

Here is a picture of my part (I will post one of the finished piece once I get a nice image of it!):

show in brooklyn!

2010-11-04T10:43:00.002-04:00

When I lived with Jason in New York, we talked about making a couple of different zine projects. One of them was called AWKHOLD. The original idea was that the zine would be awkward to hold -- hence the name. Anyway, I moved back to Virginia (again and again) and he went forward with the project, putting out the first zine as a collection of prints/drawings/things in a 7'' record sleeve. AWKHOLD2 is in the works. I have some work in the first issue. The pieces from these publications are included in an annex show of the New York Art Book Fair this weekend at Monster Island in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

happy halloween!

2010-10-31T23:32:00.002-04:00

I couldn't figure out what to be for Halloween this year, so I went to the thrift store and picked up some fake flowers and made a beard.

I now introduce you to Flower Beard Man.

Melissa made a beard too! We made such a lovely pair!

Here are a couple more detail pictures of my beard:

obama's visit!

2010-10-29T23:57:00.001-04:00

President Obama came to Charlottesville to support congressman Perriello in a big rally. It was a really big rally -- I read that 10,000 people showed up to hear him speak. Needless to say, the whole city was buzzing. The tea partiers had a protest, the anti-war folks had a protest; it seemed like everyone had something to say. It was pretty cool and also pretty funny. So, my (10 year old) friend Emerson and I decided to have our own rally (across the street from the tea party protest) to add to the hubbub. I don't have any pictures of us in action, but here are a few of our signs:

Someone also wrote an awesome article about our shenanigans:

screenprinting for PCA!

2010-10-27T20:39:00.000-04:00

Today, Thomas, Avery and I printed shirts at an event hosted by Piedmont Council for the Arts. They were launching their Arts Access Project, so each of us made our own design and then we printed shirts on the spot for folks that attended the event.

A rainbow formed while we were printing!

And, I really like this window:

super nice review!

2010-10-19T13:21:00.000-04:00

Peter Barnes from the C-ville Weekly just wrote a really thoughtful (and super nice) review of the show! It's particularly great because it is in the annual food and drink issue... yum!
Thanks so much!

Read it here.

fall times!

2010-10-18T16:38:00.001-04:00

You know how there are those trees that explode into colors just a few moments before all the rest of them do? There is one on my street and it is so flashy! That tree has so much swagger!

Also, I got an really sweet package from my Grandma a couple of days ago. From the contents of the package you can totally tell that we are related! Treats of all varieties! (I already ate some before I took this picture.)

i made a new flickr!

2010-10-12T13:10:00.000-04:00

So, I had a flickr once upon a time, but i never used it and today when I tried to log in to it, I accidentally created a new account! oh well!

here it is:

New Flickr!

I will be adding more stuff to it shortly!

Also, watch this wonderful animation!

"Story from North America" by Garrett Davis and Kirsten Lepore
Music written and performed by Garrett Davis

More animations at http://www.kirstenlepore.com
and http://garrettmdavis.googlepages.com

some individual works!

2010-10-08T13:47:00.000-04:00

A celebratory fake knuckle tat

Letterpress print (Waterfalls)

Two-color letterpress print (Leaf Diamond)

Acrylic and walnut ink painting on paper (Hole Diving)

Five-color screenprint on paper (Rainbow Food)

Acrylic and walnut ink painting on paper (Hole Face)

Shack made from found wood, drawers and old letterpress trays (notice the moss on the roof!)

Inside the shack (Canned Food Color Spectrum)

*The lanterns were made by my Grandpa!

Detail of one of the walls of the shack

a video and rainbow lights!

2010-10-07T23:45:00.001-04:00

The Black Swans at The Garage from ross on Vimeo.

Also, check out these awesome photos of the lanterns (in the shack) that my grandpa made! Kristin took these at the opening!

pictures from the CHEER ON opening!

2010-10-05T10:43:00.000-04:00

Fancy duds! Mom's pookie picture!

Me: "ehh"

Jesse: "oof"

Oh, that's right! There's art in here!

And lots of people!

All of them were super nice and wonderful!

So many great folks eating so much delicious food!

Erin and mom pose for the camera! Kristin looks fancy in her great outfit!

Mom tries to get a pookie picture of dad!

Then we all have to pose!

Later in the evening, Nelly Kate (above) and CJ Boyd played some toons!

>>>>>>AWESOME<<<<<<

awesome review!

2010-10-04T22:45:00.013-04:00

Laura Parsons of The Hook wrote an awesome (and super nice) review of CHEER ON!

Read it here.

Also, I am going to post some pictures of the opening, the installation and the individual works over the next week or two. Email me if want to see the show but couldn't make it to the opening!

warp speed!

2010-09-28T21:31:00.000-04:00

I love the Vandercook!

how about them poops?

2010-09-27T17:10:00.000-04:00

home stretch!

2010-09-27T00:20:00.000-04:00

printing editions!

finishing walls!

crowding the porch swing!

i think i can, i think i can...

2010-09-19T21:49:00.000-04:00

I have been feverishly trying to put this show together. Working on some new screen prints -- oh how I missed making positives!

In addition to a print/painting/drawing studio and a junk storage space, I have also turned my house/front porch into a carpentry shop!

It's been pretty funny to be on display for the neighbors while trying to figure out how to build stuff. I have no idea what I am doing! Which is probably why I almost crushed off on of my fingers today (the one right next to the one I rolled in an etching press a couple of years ago)!

Still, things are starting to take shape and they are looking pretty promising!

I hope it all comes together!

art show and bike tour!

2010-09-16T19:06:00.000-04:00

I just sent out the press release for my art show at The Garage in October. Yay! I still have a lot fo work to do, but I am getting pretty excited! Letterpress prints! Screenprints! Paintings! A little shack with a green roof!

The show is called "Cheer On"

There will be lots of new work focusing on people trying to figure out how to live in the world and with the earth in the face of human-made environmental destruction. The paintings, prints and sculptural pieces in the show take inspiration from geometric quilts, canning food, and the difficult summer growing season we have had this year.

The Garage
250 1st St. N (btwn Market St. and Jefferson St. across from Lee Park)

Opening Reception Friday October 1, 5-8 pm
There will be food, friends, and art!
Music to follow, beginning at 8:30 pm

If you can't make the opening, but can make it some other time during the month, send me an email!

ALSO! I designed the poster for Charlottesville's 1st annual Community Garden Bike Tour! It's going to be so much fun! Tell yr friends and join us!

floor pics!

2010-09-10T21:40:00.000-04:00

Now I am pretending to be a carpenter!

get ready!

2010-09-10T14:33:00.000-04:00

my letterpress plates came in the mail today!

a taste of things to come!

2010-09-07T00:14:00.000-04:00

more!

2010-08-30T17:30:00.000-04:00

I know, it is getting a bit ridiculous. I am always taking lots of pictures of jars of food! But I just can't get over how pretty they are! I canned almost 25 pounds of tomatoes yesterday.

Also, take a look at these awesome weeds that I found. I am drying them on our porch to see if they will still look cool. We shall see!

chugging along!

2010-08-23T10:42:00.000-04:00

I have been making lots of things for my show at the Garage in October! Here is a new painting and some details.

whoa lavender peach syrup!

2010-08-18T09:33:00.000-04:00

This stuff turned out so beautifully that I had to post some pictures!

more canning!

2010-08-17T23:17:00.000-04:00

Today I canned a whole bunch of peaches! I put a bit of lavender in the syrup and now I can't stop thinking about making lavender peach pie in the middle of winter! I also traded a friend for two kinds of beautiful pickles that she made! Yeah!

And below is the lavender peachy leftover juice/sugar/water that I am currently boiling down to a syrup to put on ice cream! I lit the juice mixture from behind to highlight the color, but the picture makes it look kind of crazy. Like a potion from Hogwarts or something...

Also, I got to paint for a lot of the day today! Hooray!

white oak canyon!

2010-08-08T00:27:00.000-04:00

nature time with nice folks!

a couple days late...

2010-08-06T15:51:00.001-04:00

printmaking!

2010-08-05T19:58:00.000-04:00

yeah yeah! Totally just finished my ewok linocut for Jason's Star Wars zine -- months after he requested it! Getting it in the mail tomorrow!

the seed eaters zine rack is almost ready!

2010-08-04T20:41:00.000-04:00

Jeremy and I have been working on this project for quite some time, and we are about ready to stock it with wares and install it at Random Row Books! We are hoping to make a rack for the Bridge, too! Hurray!

canning time!

2010-08-01T19:00:00.001-04:00

Nalle Street had a little canning extravaganza today! We canned a whole bunch of tomatoes, tomato sauce (with mushrooms!), and even made some lacto-fermented salsa. Call me a Professional Grandma, but I think canning is probably one of the prettiest, most fun things you can do with produce of all kinds. And it's yummy, too!

little drifters

2010-07-28T12:10:00.000-04:00

macarena frog

small island

The Booooooom blog had a project called Little Drifters. Kristin and I made some collaborative pieces for it while we were at the beach, but then I didn't get them submitted in time. So, I am posting them here!

whartscape fame!

2010-07-26T19:23:00.002-04:00

You can see the backs of our having tons-o-fun heads in this picture from the Baltimore Sun.


^Kristin (curly) ^me (suspenders)

summer bounty still life no. 4

2010-07-18T11:37:00.001-04:00