isn't skating great

Chris Becker has assumed the crown of skatepond king since Jacob moved to LA.
Shayne
Duncan
The secret Alameda Taco Shell (aka the Melon Rhine). Where did it come from?
Elliot Flood

The Dunc.

long weekend

paint-a-pond

attending artist

Tonight, June 5th, at Anno Domini Gallery in San Jose, Scion's Installation 5: Self Portrait show continues its US tour. The festivities will be running from 8pm until late (about midnight) and, as advertised, I will be there. I will be the guy in the corner looking awkward and not knowing whom to talk to except Narangkar. Good times.

As always, the Scion events are a party so stay late and designate a driver. 

Here is the flyer thing:

and here is a little video thing I found:

Scion Installation Five: Self-Portrait San Jose Preview from Scion ART on Vimeo.

new New York and a little East Bay

Pete Glover invades New York City with work in two awesome art exhibitions. First up is the touring Scion Installation 5: Self Portraits exhibition, which is screening my collaborative film with David Choe, 23 Short Films. It is at The Showroom NYC, 117 2nd Ave (2nd Floor). This show opens on Thursday, May 7th, with a boozed-up party from 7 to 11pm. This exhibition is up until May 21st.

Two nights later will be the opening of A NY Print Show (aka Printed Matter 5) at Giant Robot NY. For those who are mathematically challenged, that is Saturday, May 9th, from 6:30 to 10pm. GRNY is at 437 East 9th St. in the East Village. This show runs until June 3rd.

For the Print Show, I finally got to use some old telepole stencils I had cut a while back but never printed. After spending a day in the yard with various papers and half-used cans of spray paint, these are what emerged...

Telephone Poles as Dusk

Telephone Poles at Night
You can click on the images to see larger versions.These are all artist's proofs rather than part of an edition. I wasn't able to frame them, but I think they will work pretty well within the group show. There are no promises that all 7 prints will be in the show, but I left specific instructions for how each group should be hung so I'm positive it will rule. And, as always, they are priced to be owned (by someone other than me)... like $20 each. If you cannot make it to the show but are interested in owning one or more of these, GR is really good about making all their exhibitions viewable and buyable online, so hit them up.
And for those in the Bay Area, both Narangkar and I will have pieces in the 9th annual 21 Grand benefit art sale. The sale starts Friday May 1st, but there is a preview at 6pm on Thursday. It is cash and carry so you had better get there early cause a lot of art goes in the first 20 minutes. 21 Grand is at 416 25th St. in Oakland. You can check out Narangkar's painting for the show on her website, narangkar.com. I'll be dropping this badboy for public scrutiny:

And, in related news, Darren Jenkins, who curates for 21 Grand and has always been a workhorse for the Bay Area art scene, invited me to join him for a live radio interview on KALX (90.7 on your FM dial) for their Arts In Review program on Thursday (tomorrow!) at 12noon. You can listen online through iTunes or whatever here. Tune in and here me tell it like it isn't!

presently...

Sunset out the window.
We have no less than four avocados growing in our yard. Avocados take almost two years to grow, so we hope some more get started this summer.
I recently spent an afternoon taking macro-pictures of the bees that hang out in the lavender growing next to the skatepond.


Speaking of skatepond, I've also recently been doing some patching and hope to get it repainted this spring. This photo shows 5 different paint layers! From bottom to top: red, light green, olive green, then 2 separate coats of the blue.I think we are going to repaint it with the same blue and yellow.
And, finally, a portrait of Snickers with her all time favorite thing in the whole world, the Fishy Toy. Snickers is pretty much fully grown now but still looks and acts like a kitten.