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n e w s   a r c h i v e July/August 2008 Participated in the $2 Bill Show at I-5 Gallery and the Benefit Auction at Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825. June 2008 Review of the Bookish show in the Seattle Times. Sweetnsour Pie is placed in the Artists' books collection at the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York. May 2008 UC Irvine purchases All Done But None for their Artists' Books Collection. Participated in Incognito 4 at Santa Monica Museum of Art (Here's the piece I made) April 2008 Featured on the Huffington Post! Showing at the Lee Center for the Arts at Seattle University in a show called "Bookish." They're here! New Blogger Killings prints! 1-SELF accepted into Bibliotheque Kandinsky Artists' Books Collection at the Centre Pompidou in Paris! March 2008 New pages added to the An American Rhapsody series. 1-SELF was purchased by The Brooklyn Museum and Otis College of Art & Design. I am mentioned in an article about Self Help Graphics in the LA Times. Completed a new silkscreen print at Self Help Graphics. February 2008 writing an article about Rochelle Botello's last show for Coagula. Featured in the current issue of Influenza Magazine. January 2008 Participated in the Los Angeles Art Show with George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Sweetnsour Pie sells out. All Done But None was added to the National Museum of Women in the Arts by Ann Savage. Working on a project called, Ethereal Research Laboratories. December 2007 Sweetnsour Pie listed on Printed Matter. This review of the Sunnyview show in Schenectady, NY. showed in holiday group show at Sabina Lee Gallery in Los Angeles. Selections from the Sunnyview Exhibit at Mandeville Gallery at Union College in NY. showed at Flow - Miami Invitational Art Fair with Koelsch Gallery, Houston TX. also showed at Red Dot Fair Miami with George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. I made this piece for Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge show. November 2007 New article on Whitehot Magazine. I made this hankie for Edith Abeyta's Salty show. My blog has been updated. Now the old archive is here. My new chapbook Sweetnsour Pie from Islands Fold is released. October 2007 Spent my time putting stuff away. Moving is a bitch. September 2007 Left my studio at Angels Gate, moved across Los Angeles to the North East. Awarded Best-in-Show for the Acquisitions Exhibition at Sunnyview. my show in Houston was recommended by spacetaker. August 2007 opened a solo show at Koelsch Gallery in Houston, TX. group show: Circumnavigating the Soul at Pounder Kone Artspace. an interview with Angels Gate. July 2007 Showed in Outside the Box at Greene Contemporary. designed a bag with scribble couture. June 2007 wrote a book review for Whitehot Magazine. Awarded a grant from the Durfee Foundation for my solo show in Houston this fall. Pictures from the Marfa show. Art For Clare: A benefit auction to support the CLARE Foundation. May 2007 Featured in Platforms #13. Created a new project called SpyMart. All Done But None now additionally represented by Vamp and Tramp Book Sellers. NEW Limited Edition PRINTS for sale. April 2007 New specimens in Dark Objects, Light Matter at Galleri Urbane. Participated in Incognito at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Had Open Studios at Angels Gate Cultural Center. Unbelievably GREAT review on The Mat Gleason Seven, ArtScene Visual Radio. My Blogger Killing drawings on the Huffington Post. The George Billis show got #3 in Coagula Journal's Top Ten. Here's a nice little blurb I got in: The Jewish Journal. March 2007 George Billis show got favorpill press by Shana Nys Dambrot. posted images from the Billis reception and made some site updates. Participated in After the F Word at I5 Gallery and an all-women show at The Loft in San Pedro. February 2007 Got some press in the Long Beach Press-Telegram and in Redlands Daily Facts. Finished my newest artists' book edition, All Done But None. George Billis took my Blogger Killings to the Red Dot Fair. Did some updates to the site and added this new page. January 2007 Invited as guest speaker at Ryman Arts, a gifted high school scholarship program at USC. mentioned as one of his "favorite artists" on the Mat Gleason Seven radio show. Listen here! At the LA Art Show in Santa Monica with George Billis. In a Press-Enterprise feature about the Material Girls show at Riverside Art Museum. my art was used as the cover for bob hicok's This Clumsy Living. December 2006 offered a show of drawings at Koelsch Gallery in Houston, with tad lauritzen wright. Participated in Perspectives at the Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles. Participated in Postcards From the Edge at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NYC. November 2006 new etching available called, Small Mind's Afloat. 1-SELF was at The NY Art Book Fair via Zucker Art Books, NY. this piece in SURVIVING: Kinkade, curated by Mat Gleason at I-5 Gallery. Invited to show in Material Girls in January at the Riverside Art Museum. featured in issue 7 of Platforms. October 2006 my work was featured in Issue 6 of Platforms Magazine. Shear Through the Stock was selected for a show at the Craft and Folk Art Museum. 2 pieces of mine were selected for new RiffRAG. now I can post a collection of art whenever I want to. & I posted new drawings and map pieces. September 2006 did this written art piece in the September issue of Coagula Art Journal. August 2006 did an interview with Claudio Parentela for his blog, The eXTra finGer. A new PRESS page added, plus I updated my statement and added some brand new work. July 2006 Walking the Dog appears in Raw Vision Magazine as part of the Zetter Collection. I am working on a brand new artist book edition called All Done But None. June 2006 Dunces Bloom From the Rains was chosen by Jeremy Strick (MOCA Director) for Biannual. Exhibited in Multicultural Self-taught Artists, LA Artcore (catalog avaliable). I had work at the Affordable Art Fair at the George Billis Gallery's booth. San Pedro Magazine put out this article about the Getty purchase of my book, 1-SELF. May 2006 Participated in the Venice Art Walk. Participated in a slient auction benefiting the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation. Participated in Show & Tell: The Art of Time at The Zimmer Children's Museum. Open Studios at Angels Gate Cultural Center. April 2006 Participated in the New York Antiquarian Book Fair via Irving Zucker Art Books. Here's a nice little review of My Identity Lab. The Arts Council from LACMA visited my studio. group show at Bentley Projects in Phoenix. Solo show at Gallery 825/LAAA: My Identity Lab. March 2006 Featured in flavorpill, Issue # 161! New work added to the site. Check it out! I was mentioned on Fette's Flog last week, which means I'm real "hip!" Exciting: This feature appeared in Sunday's Daily Breeze, with full color pictures! Garrison Frost from LA South Bay's The Aesthetic interviewed me. Read it here. interview on Karen D'Amico's blog. February 2006 my book, 1-SELF, was purchased by The Getty Research Institute. 1-SELF, appeared in both the LA Book Fair and the San Francisco Book, Print, & Paper Fair. January 2006 took a larger studio at Angels Gate Cultural Center. my book was purchased by the Arthur & Mata Jaffe Collection at FAU. December 2005 participated in Night of 1000 Drawing at Artists Space in NY. participated in Incognito II at Santa Monica Museum of Art. my book becomes available at Vamp & Tramp + Califa Books. participated in Twisted Christmas at BGH Gallery in at Santa Monica. participated in a group show at George Billis Gallery in Culver City. participated in a group show at Gallery 825 at Bergamot Station. November 2005 my book is now in the UCLA Library Department of Special Collections. finished the clock for the Show and Tell show. participated in the Katrina Relief Auction. October 2005 I was awarded a solo show at Gallery 825 for next spring. went to NYC and Philadelphia. the Drawing Center's assistant curator used my work in a panel discussion at AFAM. featured in Tangent, a cool zine in the UK by Karen D'Amico. working on a clock diorama for Show and Tell to benefit the Zimmer Children's Musuem. September 2005 posted Coagula Interview from July 05: Page 1 and Page 2. Mat Gleason wrote a very nice review of my show here on Art Muscle! The George Billis show reception was great! Pictures here. Created these bunny prints on timecards to sell for $41.20. order one now!