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This might be the best thing I’ve ever printed. Details about this project are on this pdf.

In case it isn’t obvious, this is a site specific children’s toy/word art installation. The tiles are interchangeable by row. I made eighteen tiles for each column (not shown).

The tiles were cut out with a computer controlled router–a true gift of modernity:

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Thanks to zMom for the world’s fastest drying acrylic paints.

Up next: transforming this red shopping cart full of 1 square foot pine tiles into an art piece that is an improvement over an installation featuring a red shopping cart full of 1 square foot tiles.

This might be harder than it seems.  That’s a pretty sweet red shopping cart.

I sure am getting lots of mileage out of my Cliff House/Ocean Beach/Seal Rocks stencils, and here is a recent permutation. It is a birthday present for EB, and also an un-subtle homage to one of my favorite works by the artist Ed Ruscha that I have admired it in the DeYoung museum many times.

Ruscha is a West Coast artist who participated in the Warhol/Lichtenstein driven pop-art movement, and later went on make a series of highly awesome word art paintings in the seventies and eighties. He is one of my favorite American artists. As a mantra, “a particular sort of heaven” perfectly encapsulates my personal West Coast experience, the highlight of which has been finding EB.

(By the way, Ruscha’s “a particular sort of heaven” is incomplete without considering this companion piece)

A Particular Kind of Heaven | Screenprint on Paper | 19×19 inches | 2013

The April 2013 CityArt show is installed and open.  This month I am  experimenting with some heavy artillery.  I would be honored if you stopped by this month to check it out in person.  Thanks to EB for hanging helping.

Clockwise from top:

1. Crossroads on  Mount  Tamalpais w/ Traffic Cone (Marin County, CA) | Unique screenprint on handmade canvas | 48×24 inches | 2012

Permanently installed in a special rustic pine frame.

2. Seal Rocks | Ocean Beach, San Francisco CA | Unique screenprint and ink on paper | 30 x 24 inches | 2013

140 lb watercolor paper.  Archival mounted in a custom fir shadow box with double strength glass. Removable title plaque.

3. Something That Will Catch Their Eye | Unique screenprint and ink on oak tile | 16 x 16 inches | 2013

4. Michelle’s Print | Screenprint on Pine (2nd edition of 9) | 12 x 18 inches | 2013