Author: Hggns
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Time for Schoolin’
The Tea Baggers are abandoning national priorities they are uniquely qualified to contribute to in favor of another battle in their ongoing war on the middle class and the American healthcare system. And why? Because they flunked American History, not to mention Civics. The holidays, for me, are the time of year for friends and…
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Doesn’t Follow
I have to say, I crack myself up a little when I do this stuff, and am not totally convinced that anyone else really gets the joke. This is a ghost of a fairly experimental picture that I called “Incomplete Still Life”, which contained the distressed table and distorted perspective of a floor, or maybe…
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Blu Xmas
Blu Xmas, Acrylic, 12×12″ My friend Dea down at Plastic Chapel on Colfax invited me to enter her Square Footage show. Plastic Chapel mostly sells cutting edge toys and collectibles, such as Smorkin’ Labbits, and Neo-Realism in her small gallery. So I decided something fun was in order. Here’s what I came up with, a…
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Checkin’ the List
Sun breaking through the clouds after a gray morning; shimmering on the lake, shining on dry fallen leaves. I’m on my second pot of coffee, catching up on blog and Facebook posting, and sorting work for a group show at Zip37 gallery. Last year at this time, I didn’t have a lot to do, so…
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An eventful fall around here, not you all might be expected to know it, from reading the World’s Worst Blogger! Here’s a quick recap of what I’ve been up to: *Two workshops, an eight-week and a one-day, completed this Fall. They were well attended and a lot of fun. The next one begins early in…
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I’m shocked- SHOCKED! to learn that I was off pursuing important projects in education , art marketing, and social networking, no one has bothered to update this blog. Eyes will roll! I thought I’d made a pretty savvy hire for a support staff, millions of monkeys armed with millions of cast-off Remington Selectrics, working for…
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I’ve learned one thing at my temporary job: not all workplaces are the same. The University of Denver Bookstore has none of the negativity and management bullying that is practically unwritten policy at Safeway. Thus the customers get experienced help and a genuine human interaction when they walk in, as opposed to Safeway, where they…
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The Art Students League is Richardsonian, referring to H.H. Richardson, prominent early 20th Century architect who had a big influence, though most of his actual projects are in the east (the state asylum building near the Albright-Knox in Buffalo, for example). I’m working at the University of Denver bookstore in their receiving department. It’s for…
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Catching Up
The sun has gotten gold-tinged, the temps have plunged into the 80’s. I had a week recently to try and collect my thoughts after a long brutally hot summer, and I’m thinking life is good. Last year at this time, things didn’t seem quite so sanguine. I’d had an unprecedented run of shows with no…
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another long break between posts. It does appear that launching oneself in the creative economy, and blogging about launching oneself in the creative economy, are two very different, and possibly mutually exclusive things. Like the year I spent 47 days walking a picket line, telling myself to keep a diary so I could write about…
