A Private Look Inside The New Studio

Author's Tier! Here's a private look into a space I wasn't sure I wanted to share yet — my new art studio, and the unfinished pieces within. Typically I only like to show work that's completed, but I'm trying to be a little more open this year, since I think it will interest people to see in what utterly unprofessional conditions I choose to work. (The vibe I am going for here is, "Baseball games wafting quietly from the AM radio in grandpa's carport. Jar of mismatched screws represents my hella crazy thoughts." ) 

I'm also on track to complete enough pieces for a gallery showing in 2024. I love producing them, and love getting them to readers who connect with them. 

But I'm getting ahead of myself. The new Extreme Fixer-Upper has a basement — my first — in which I am finally setting up a proper painting and multimedia studio. (By "proper," I mainly mean ventilated.) At the cramped little old house I did all order fulfillment and art production in a slopey-ceilinged attic room roughly the size of an MP3, which was truly horrible. Since moving into this space a couple weeks ago I've been able to add many layers to nearly a dozen pieces at a time, my preferred working style. I'm also able to produce much larger canvases. 

At any given time I have about a hundred pieces in various stages, from the first errant swipe or crooked swath of color, all the way up to the hundredth or so pass which will fill them to completion. There is no conscious, deliberate composition going on — these are cathartic stream of consciousness pieces where I just add material from "the back of the house," so to speak.

(If any of these pieces is resonating with you and you might be interested in arranging for its eventual passage to your home or psychiatry lobby, please drop me a private message.)