I'm in a group show at the L Street Fine Art Gallery at 628 L Street, SanDiego, CA 97101.
It's right across the street from the big crazy international comic convention that happens down there every year, so if you're headed that way check it out! I wish I could go.
The opening reception is July 25th from 6pm-9pm.
The show will be up until September 25th.

For the whole entire month of June, a bunch of my work will be on display at Stumptown Coffee at 3356 SE Belmont st, Portland, OR 97214.
I had fun making alot of new, small pieces for this show. The piece above is titled: Self Portrait in Bird Totem Suit.

have a picture in the Tree Show at the Giant Robot Gallery in SanFrancisco. The opening reception is Saturday, May 17th from 6:30pm- 10pm at 618 Shrader St., SanFrancisco, CA 94117. Part of the money from this show will be donated to the Friends of the Urban Forest. Art for planting trees! The show will be up untill June 17th and will be available online at http://www.gr-sf.com/

Here's the flier for the big group show I curated. I'm a little late posting this, but it's on viewfor the whole month of May 2008 at the Pony Club Gallery at 625 NW Everett #105, Portland, OR. The Opening night was a blast! I'll be posting some pictures in my 'Other Stuff' section soon.
My Friends Sean Christensen (AKA: Proff. Awesome But True), Amy Kuttab, and Ryan Cotton, hung out with me at the gallery for 3 days building an installation piece in the window featuring alien buildings, flying machines, seamonsters, floating seadpods, boats and more! Catherine Peach visited us and created a flying cat woman. Tragical Beast came along and built a cloud with reaching hands. It was an excellent time! My friend Peter Hamlin provided some amazing animation and I built an cyclops head box for it to be viewed inside of. You can see more of Peters work as http://www.hambot.com/.
A huge thanks to all thew amazing artists who came through with pieces for this show. It was a great experience and it truly became the community building event that I hoped it would be!

Above is on of the 5 pieces of mine that's in the Tides of March show at Giant Robot New York. I'll be showing the pieces along side a really exciting and awesome group of artists and I'm honored to have my work included in this show! The opening reception is March 15th from 6:30-10 PM at 437 E. 9th St, New York, NY 10009. You'll be able to see the whole show online a few days later at http://www.grny.net/

I was very excited to find a nice write up on Capacity#7 in the newest issue of Giant Robot Magazine (#51) ! I'll also be perticipating in a couple of Giant Robot group shows in the next few months! More on that later.

I'm going to have a number of pieces in the December group show at Pony Club Gallery.
The show is called "Dapple" and we'll be releasing a 56 page Art Zine of the same name to accompany the show.
The other artists involved are Jennifer Parks, Tim Karpinski, Zack Soto, Dylan Williams, and David Youngblood.
Opening Reception will be on Thursday Dec 6th at 625 NW Everett St #105, 6pm-10pm.
The show will be up until the 30th. I hope you can make it!

Capacity #7 is officially available online at the Secret Acres Emporium. It has a 3 color cover, hand-silkscreened onto blue paper, with 32 pages of new comic goodness, featuring a Witch Doctor, Cave Yetis, a Baby Land Squid, the 820th most powerful Wizard in the world, yelling brains, comics about You, and more! Yay!

Here's the title page to Capacity #7!
I'll be debuting it at the Stumptown Comics Fest this coming weekend (Sept. 29-30). you'll be able to order copies from Secret Acres in about a week or so!

Here's more news!

Thrusday, October 4th, is going to be a good night for gallery openings in down town Portland! I've done a piece for this month's group show at Reading Frenzy on 921 SW Oak St. The theme was to do a piece in memory of something that's been lost. Mine is in memory of forgotten memories (pictured above).
I also have a piece in a monster themed group show at an excellent new space called Tender Loving Empire on 921 SW Lovejoy St. #109.
It's going to be a fun show!
Meanwhile, my friend David Youngblood is having a solo show at Pony Club Gallery on 625 NW Everett #105.
The show is titled, The Fates of Fredrick the Thief, and is not to be missed. The entire show is a story told in silent panels mounted on wood that circle the entire gallery, turning the space into an obstacle course/choose your own adventure experience! Yes!
Also, when you're at Pony Club, look for a copy of the new Art Zine featuring drawings by all the members of Pony Club. It's called Bridle, and has a beautiful screen printed cover by Zack Soto. Seeing this zine in print made me extra excited to be working with this awesome group of artists!

I'm going to have 5 pieces in 'Snack Isle', a show at Giant Robot New York. It's a big show of small pieces by 60 or so artists.
I'm very excited to be showing my work along side some of my all time favorite artsits including: Mark Bell, Brian Chippendale, Austin English, CF, Matt Furie, Evan Harris, Kieth Jones, Luke Ramsey, Peter Thomson, Esther Pearl Watson, Justin B. Williams, APAK, and tons more!
I wish I could go to the Reception! It's on Saturday, Sept. 15th 6:30-10pm at 437 E. 9th st. (between 1st Ave. and Ave. A) New York, NY 10009. The show will be up until Oct. 17th and will be available online!

I've got a piece in the 'Outfits' show at Reading Frenzy this month!
It features works by an international cast of illustrators and I'm excited to be involved. This show is the first of an ongoing series of projects by Proffessor Awsome But True's Electric Institute. The show opens Thursday, September 6th, 6-9 pm at 921 SW Oak st., Portland, OR 97209.
Keep an eye out for all things involving the mysterious Proffessor Awsome But True, he is truly a mastermind of art madness!

The Portland FunBook 2 just came out!
It's a coloring/activity book with contributions from 60 or so Portland artists. It's fun!
It comes with stickers, buttons, and a 7 inch record of local musicians.
It's also helping to raise money for the Genocide intervention project. I have a drawing on page 3! You can find out more about this project at http://www.psilodesign.com/

I'm having a big solo art show at Pony Club Gallery for the month of August!
It's called Sacred Monsters and Thought Cloud Shrines. There's going to be tons of new work that no one has seen.
I hope you can come!

Here it is! An update! Finally!
I don't spend much time on the computer (cuz I'm always drawing) so keeping up on this imaginary cyber-realm we've created kind of goes out the window when I'm busy. Anyways, here's what I've been up to these past few months:

March:

Art Show at Floating World @ 20 NW 5th ave. Portland, OR.
The show also included artists, Sean Christenson and Abe Nelson.
Released a new Art Zine called Minnow.
Taught an all day drawing workshop at ArtFest in Port Townsend Washington on the last day in March.

April:

I had 5 pieces in a huge group show at City Hall @ 1221 SW 4th St, Portland, OR. Other artists involved included Bwana Spoons, Martin Ontiveros, and Carson Ellis.
I exhibited at the Alternative press Expo (APE) on April 21-22.
I released a narrative sketch-Book Zine called Always Somewhere Nearby.

May:

Solo art show at The Red Square Cafe @ 4505 SE Belmont st. Portland, OR.
One piece in a group show at Pony Club gallery. The theme: Naked Wilderness.
Other artists involved include, Daria Tessler, Scrappers, Matt Furie, Andrice Arp, Jesse Reklaw, and David Youngblood.

Upcoming:

Big solo art show at Pony Club in August, Plus more Comics and Art Zines underway. Stay Tuned!

Hi everyone.
A couple of other artists and I have teamed up to start Pony Club,
a Gallery/Studio/Store space in downtown Portland.

We're having our Grand Opening on February 1st from 6-10pm.
We're at 625 nw Everett #105, which is basically one door over from the corner of Everett and 6th.
We're kicking things off with a big group show featuring some of our most talented friends. The store will carry art zines, mini comics, art prints, handmade stuffed animals, silkscreened shirts, and handmade clothing.
I hope you can make it! If not, we've got alot of exciting plans and some wonderful future shows lined up, so keep an eye out for all things Pony Club!
I'll be there at least 3 days a week working on my newest things
and drinking lots of tea!

I'm having an ART OPENING on the first thursday of December (the 7th) Downtown Portland at ANTIC Studio on 328 NW Broadway #115 from 6-9 pm.
The Show is called Secret Hideout and will feature alot of never seen before drawings, paintings, and mixed media work. If you're in the area, stop by, have a glass of wine, and look at all the weird stuff that came out of my head, it should be fun!

----> Things have been crazy busy out here, but in the best kind of way!
I've got an art show hanging up along side the work of my new friends David Wien and Janina Angel Bath at Muse Art & Design on 4224 SE Hawthorne here in Portland. We're having an artist reception Wednesday, Sept 6th from 7-9 PM. If you happen to be near, do stop in! It should be fun for the whole family! The show will be up 'till Sept 16th.

On Sunday Sept 10th I'll be vending at Crafty Wonderland (Portland's monthly Arts & Crafts extravaganza)from 11am-4pm at the Doug Fir lounge on 830 E. Burnside. I'm pretty excited about this event, mostly because I'll be vending alongside some awsome artists! Check out their website: http://www.craftywonderland.com/

Lastly (for now) I just recently got accepted into the big Portland Saturday (and Sunday) Market! So every weekend You can find me there (10am-5pm Saturdays 11am-4:30 pm Sundays) somewhere around the Burnside bridge, downtown portland (I'm in a different spot every time, so it might take some searching). Check out their website: http://artcapac.ipower.com/www.portlandsaturdaymarket.com It's a wonderful crazy circus of an art Fair: Artists and Craftspeople all representing themselves and setting up shop. I'll be there at my Capacity Studio Booth making art, talking to people and selling hand printed sikscreen shirts, Fine Art prints, Comic Books, Art Zines, Art Cards, and whatever other oddities I end up coming up with. If you're in the area, you should stop by and say 'Hi'. If you tell me Elcabob Shphelbart sent you, I'll give you a free sticker.

Hi!
----> Everything art-wise has been moving in slow motion due to the epic struggle known as moving. But now that I'm officially living in Portland Oregon, projects are starting to be exhumed from their boxes. Capacity #7 (which is embarrassingly late) is still patiently waiting for completion. It's been a weird and surprising artistic process. Being away from it has given me a lot of time to reflect on what the story is really trying to tell me. As a result, I've been rethinking my approach. I've been reading as much as I can and soaking in art wherever I can find it, and it's got me feeling pretty inspired about coming back to this story with fresh eyes.
---> In the mean time I've been working on a small art book called 'Thought Cloud Shrines'. It's going to be my contribution to a limited edition box set being put out my an excellent Australian publisher called Art Visionary. Some of the other contributors include Alex Grey, Damian Michaels, HR Giger, Joe coleman, and Teesha Moore. I feel incredibly excited to have been invited to be a part of this! More on this at a later time
-----> In other news, My new apartment has a basement! Why is that so exciting? Because I can set up my silk-screening work shop!
-----> If you happen to be in the Portland area, I'll be at a number of great events with my work in the coming months. The two that are confirmed so far are:

---The Portland Zine Symposium: August 11-13th at the Portland State University in the Smith Memorial Ball room, Downtown Portland.
http://www.pdxzines.com/


---Stumptown Comics Fest: October 27-28th at the Oregon Convention Center
http://www.stumptowncomics.com/


I can also be found somewhere on Alberta street on the last thursday of every month dodging stilt-walkers and flame-jugglers while I try to sell comics
Ta Ta for now