Here is where I am recording the July 2012 configuration of my display at Coyote Counter Collective. 423 40th street in Oakland. This month I’m showing framed prints on cardboard, Michelle’s beach print on pine, and a mini installation of wooden tiles.
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Check it out:
Our first retail license at Coyote!
And I have been finding our screen printed signs popping up all around the Temescal environs of Oak-land.
All of this activity coincided with our grand opening party last night. To mark the occasion, EB and I printed some shirts re-appropriated by Rachel H.
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Thank you to the devoted lot who stopped by to mark the occasion.
I found an exciting new place to display my work. Coyote Counter Collective is what we in the industry call a re-tail space and those who have ever seen a coyote know that motherfucker has one serious tail. Upon reflection I guess it’s a little hard to imagine a coyote ever needing to re-tail so I am not exactly sure if we quite have that right yet. Or perhaps that’s the Counter part.
Anyway it’s a co-op storefront in Oak-land, where the trees are green but the Occupiers are not, and my first official duty as a member was to screenprint a fistful of signs for some to-be-determined guerrilla advertising. They came out well I think–a rehash of my go-to sign in one afternoon design–featuring glyphs from my beloved Remington 333 (eternal thanks for that, Kristin Roeder):
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And here’s what my inaugural hanging looks like in situ.
Remember Michelle Chandra?
She’s the photographer that individually shot all thirty of my screenprints of three cones in the woods at thirty different times of day.
I got the chance to return the favor last Monday by male-modelling for her new project. She’s been folding butterflies from translucent vellum and theatrically suspending them in a series of portraits she’s shooting at the SF City College studio.
Even though appearing happy and standing on my feet for extended periods are two personal weaknesses, I was happy to endure this four hour light-rigging nightmare freewheeling adventure that Michelle shot on black and white film and will assiduously hand develop.I think they worked out as well as photos of me could probably ever work out.
Here’s the best one out of sixty. (Erin’s turned out way better)
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