It's time for Metro cards!

...The big show of little works is back. Thousands of tiny works of art, all done on NYC metro cards. Here are mine from this year:

The show was an enormous success this year, with tons of press and an absolutely packed opening. 

You can get info, and even see all the work online at the single-fare.com. You can even buy them online this year! Out of my nine, only this and this are left.  

To refresh your memory, you can see what I did for Single Fare 2 here and here.

This year I helped out at the opening, which was cool b/c I got to get a close and intimate look at all the work before the crowds rushed in:

The show is up until Friday. I hightly suggest you check it out if you are in the NYC area!!! It's an amazing collection of tiny artworks!!!

Here is a big painting in progress in my studio, continuing some of the imagery I explored in my metro cards. These little things are such a great way to work out ideas for bigger pieces: 

 

And finally, here are some links to the press the show has been getting. It is so fun to be part of such an exciting event! Enjoy!

Arte Fuse - http://artefuse.com/2013/02/single-fair-3-at-rh-gallery/

inhabitat - http://inhabitat.com/nyc/photos-single-fare-3-brings-even-more-cool-metrocard-artwork-to-tribeca/

According2G - http://according2g.com/2013/02/must-see-art-single-fare-3-at-rh-gallery/

Pattern Pulp - http://www.patternpulp.com/art/if-you-see-something-buy-something/

Art Sucks - http://www.artsucks.com/blog/2013/feb13/single-fare-2-13-13.php

Transportation Nation - http://transportationnation.org/2013/02/14/slideshow-art-on-nyc-metrocards/

Animal New York - http://animalnewyork.com/2013/single-fare-3/

Artinfo - http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2013/02/14/art-world-missed-connections-moma-cougar-subway-portraitist-and-more/

Halloween Exhibition!

I have two spooky owls in this spooktacular Halloween art show! Opening and B-Horror costume party this Wednesday night at Kraine Gallery in the East Village!

Open Studio!

Hope to see you there!

Diana and the Beast

My friend Diana Corvelle and I have done an art trade, and this is the painting I did of her, posing with one of my stags:

Diana and I met in St. Barths; she was the Artist in Residence arriving just as I was leaving. Here is the painting she did of me, from a photo she took before I left. She paints with gouache, amazingly, using teeny-tiny brushes, and the tail and water are cut-out bristol with blue paper underneath:

I'm actually a mermaid. 

:)

Upcoming Show!

I will have a few pieces in this show at the KGB gallery. Jimmy will also be showing a little something! Click the image for deets. 

Giraffe in Maine

This is the mural Jimmy and I just did for our friends' new baby's room!! Welcome home little Oona Lulu Lafayette Murphy!!!!!!!!

art books

this made me cry

click the image to see the whole strip. it's by an artist in norway called ida eva. love it.

sorry sorry

hi everyone, my most humble apologies for being just the worst blogger. i am lazy and out to lunch a lot but it's no excuse for going so long with no posts. to get back into it, here's a balthus cat as promised. there are lots of weird kitties in his paintings, but this one is my fave i think. anyway hopefully soon i'll have something of my own to show you. toodles!

bowl of milk

sticking with the cat theme, and in light of the current exhibition at the Met of his late interiors, i present to you another Bonnard. in this one the cat is not immediately perceptible; you have to look for him in the shadows. i love this painting - called The Bowl of Milk, circa 1919. i'm not sure if this piece is in the show, but i can't wait to get to the Met soon to see more of these weird and maniacally colorful interiors.

chat

this is a Bonnard's Le chat blanc. Bonnard has tons of cats in his paintings to keep me going here. and Balthus. don't even get me started on Balthus. you'll definitely be seeing some of his felines here soon.

sorry about the pin holes, this guy has been pinned to the last 4 studios i've inhabited.
:)

cats

i will have another little painting finished soon, but i've been thinking that even when i don't have something of mine ready to post i want to keep the blogging going. the painting of papi i just did gave me an idea: i've decided that for now i will fill in with pictures of the best cats from art history. like this guy:


isn't he ridiculous?! i love it. it's a detail from The Graham Children by Hogarth, 1742.

best presents ever

i received a couple of amazing prezies this weekend from my two ultimate bros.
the first one is from jimmy. every time i fly away somewhere he hides a card or note in my suitcase for me to find later. this year is the best one ever cuz it's a christmas card that he made (that also included a check for $5 to spend on ice cream). look at this dapper gentleman:



and the second one is the most amazing painting by christina of some adorable kittens. she got herself a paint by number kit and worked on it for weeks. she let the numbers serve as a guide but eventually went into it with her own colors, seriously taking paint by number to another level. how awesome is this???? words can't express how much i love it. thanks again buddy :) :)

The Met

how i love it so..
siobhan and i went to see the morandi show. this is the 3rd time i've had the opportunity to see his peaceful little still-lifes - i really love them so much:





everytime i go to the met i discover something new. like this awesome balthus painting i never knew was there:



and i finally made it to the rooftop for the first time ever, (on what happened to be the last day of the koons exhibit):

my new favorite painting

jimmy brought this painting, which he has titled "jesus on a jet ski", home from mexico:

he saw tons of these prayer paintings when he was in san miguel de allende, and chose this one out of the bunch. rightly so, it is awesome. the text at the bottom is the man's prayer to jesus that he be spared from getting rabies from the dog that is currently ravaging his shoulder.

apparently when leticia (jimmy's stepmom) purchased it, she talked the guy down from its original price of 300 pesos, (about 30 bucks). i need to get down the mexico soon - i want to start collecting these.

giving me a run for my money

these kids are totally saving my blogger-ass, providing me with wonderful posts. and their work is becoming so meaningfully nuanced. like these drawings by parker, i mean, what's going on in his subjects' minds?:

julian's work has really gone in a post-modern conceptual direction:

and last but definitely not least, josh's bird is back, only this time he appears to be part of some kind of gang; sporting dew rags, smoking doobies and rolling one deep:

more cuteness from the little red school house

because i don't have anything exciting to show for my time at the studio the last few days, i'm relying on jimmy's 10-year old friends to for today's post. he brought this drawing from katherine home today:

so sweet. he said when he arrived at little red today all the kids were like "ohmygosh, how's your kitty's pee-hole!?!"

5th grade fine art

a couple of jimmy's friends from the Little Red School House made drawings for me. here's the drawing josh did:



how cute is that? one question: is that a 100 dollar bill in that bird's pocket? curious. anyway, this drawing is very picasso, very cubist,... what with the eyes on one plane and the beak on another. now here's the drawing julian did, obviously inspired by jackson pollock:



and here's the note julian wrote on the back: