Has been a few months since a post here. As they say, no news is good news. I have been updating the site with new work, but no news updates because I'm afraid of news. Lately I have been exhibiting in group shows and traveling. I feel now as if I'm just about ready for my next solo show, but no time/place is yet determined. Here is a quick recap for all you news hungry citizens of Earth.

I participated in one of the newer New York art fairs, the Red Dot art fair. Located in a hotel in Gramercy Manhattan, the show actually takes place in hotel rooms. Many art veterans merely rolled their eyes when I first told them about this new art fair. "Yet another art fair?" or "Red Dot ...wow that’s a horrible name". Yes, these things are probably true, I understand the pessimism, but the fair overall was quite good and we had a blast! I visited many of the fairs that weekend (Scope, Armory, etc) and this one fits right in. Good deals too – a great place to find hot new emerging artists (like me?). Thousands upon thousands of people came into our Rule Gallery room over the weekend. I showed 2 video pieces, and both were UHF broadcasted from the bathroom (right under the toilet) into the room and hallway. Paula Ochoa also showed video pieces, viewable while lying down on the bed. Matthew Larson was there, he showed a real Gideon's Bible and his "Lint Sock" pieces in the dresser drawers. If asked the price of the Bible, the instructed reply given was something like "Well, what is the price of salvation?", which often greatly confused the ambitious art buyer and caused them to carefully place the Bible back in the drawer, leaving the room quickly and silently. I am pleased to report that I think we were the only gallery in the whole fair clever enough to use the bathroom, dressers, beds and such to display art, using the room as an 'installation' of sorts. Laura Fayer, Zing Magazine's Devon Dikeou, Mary Ehrin, and other Denver area artists showed sculptures and paintings on the walls. A great time was had by all, and we even had some cool bigtime art-world visitors that came to party with us.

Another recent show was at Rhinoceropolis in Denver called Draw Rings. A great collection of drawings by local artists such as Travis Egedy, Tiffany Kennedy, Justin Simoni, Terry Campbell, Lela Shields, Abigail Hays, Alicia Ordal, Justin Beard, and Harry Walters. This was an awesome show for sure, the finest drawing show I've seen in Colorado! Props to Travis for curating it. Travis, painter & musician (Picture Plane), worked with me on a piece entitled Drawing Explaint. A nod to Sol LeWitt's instructional pieces (incidentally he died since the show), and also a nod to Matthew Barney's nod to the 1960's process art movement, so anyway I created a rather simple list of drawing instructions, and Travis followed, or should I say 'interpreted' them.

Yet another recent show was called 'Pattern Recognition' at the Foothills Art Center in Golden. Ahhh, you could smell the Coors beer brewing nearby. Curated by Michael Chavez, this was a survey of Colorado artists experimenting with pattern. There was some critical brouhaha about how the show ended up being about the 'lack of pattern'. Perhaps this makes sense as it was about pattern recognition (not patterns per se). Pattern can only emerge from non-pattern. I think Michael made a great show, especially apropos in light of Colorado's strong history of pattern-based art (Criss Cross Magazine for instance). I showed a large painting on canvas, Datavis 1, which was situated opposite a new 45 minute projected video of mine called Stuff (or 1000 manipulative electronic deceptions). This title was randomly generated via dictionary algorithms, as were other elements of the video. I think this was the first ever video shown at the Foothills Art Center! Bruce Price, Emilio Lobato, Brian Bottenger, Lori Lynxe Murphy, Matthew Larson, Tshei Johnson were all rockin' the house too.

Then I went to Nepal for a couple months and backpacked 300 miles in the Himalayan Mountains. This was incredible indeed! I'm speechless. Now I’m back in Denver. Now I’m broke. Now its time for me to get back to work. It would probably make more sense in the future to post news about the shows while they are still up, in case you want to see them in person. A crazy idea. Thanks for listening!