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“10th Annual 50|50 Show” at Sanchez Art Center
For 50 days through June and July, I painted a series of gesture paintings. I enlisted 24 models (plus me, for one of these) for variety…and also to involve friends, family, and co-workers along the way,
Here are all fifty gestures. They’re each 6″ x 6″, and will be available at Sanchez Art Center on a first-come first-serve basis during the show. Go check it out!
Clap
Love
Cupped
Shaka
Air Quotes
So-So
Horns
Two-Finger Point
Thumbs Up
Dog Puppet
Ballet
Interleaved Thumbs Up
Fingers Crossed
Swoop
Family
Headpinch
Hidden
Secret
Little Bit
Lizardhead
Dance
Folded
Two Finger Guns
Peace
Flight
Live Long & Prosper
Knuckles
Bird Puppet
Crawler
Doghead
Itsy Bitsy
Claws
Interleaved
Two Thumbs Up
Pledge
Interleaved Point
Mockingjay
Rock
Paper
Scissors
Walking Fingers
You
Excellent
Fistbump
Fistpunch
Stop
Thumb Trick
Rabbit
More
Heart
50|50 Sneak Peek
Since May I’ve dived headlong into a few projects: showing at ZeroONE (an art fair/street market), prepping for (and now waiting on) the 100 Block mural project, and ramping up for the 10th Annual 50|50 show at Sanchez Art Center. Here’s a few work-in-progress pics of my theme, gestures. 50|50 is a little different as a show because it’s a benefit and is cash-and-carry – which means all works are available for purchase and can be taken home immediately.
There will only be one chance to see them all together: the opening night of August 31st, 2018. The first two hours are a preview fundraiser benefit for Sanchez Art Center (tickets for sale on Eventbrite – they often sell out!) and then it’s open to the public for the rest of the evening. I’ve been posting them in batches of 5 on the various social networks, and will post the full set in early August or so.
Stack of 50 boards
The first 10 paintings
Self-Portrait with Untapped
Self Portrait with Untapped • 8″ x 8″
I created this sketch for a self-portrait show at the Art NXT Level / 33 Contemporary Gallery space in Chicago. This opportunity popped up in the middle of my 50|50 efforts and I was feeling a bit overloaded with painting – hence the ink.
This is the first time I’ve drawn on mat board, which is usually used for framing. As a drawing surface it’s much “thirstier” than I expected. It absorbs ink pretty quickly and can get saturated easily so it starts degrading the paper itself. The texture also catches the ink in ways that can be unexpected. Tricky!
I started this during Caltrain commutes to the city to force myself to keep it loose and not get too precious about the lines. The art in the bottom is a pointillism rendering of one of my paintings, Untapped (which itself references the Mona Lisa).