A while ago, Timothy Buckwalter had me contribute to a series of essays for KQED. It's live now and you can read mine here.

Michele Ramirez at the San Leandro Museum

Yesterday was the grand opening of Michele Ramirez's solo show "Bypasses and Intersections: Scenes from the Other California" at the San Leandro Museum & Art Gallery. We went out to celebrate her first official museum show, then headed over to her place for some wine, carnitas w/ rice and beans. Boy oh boy were those carnitas tasty! Michele's work was brilliant - there were some really unexpected gems in the show, for example the ones of the freeway overpasses. I was, as usual, blown away. Also, she was just accepted into the Stonehouse Residency program for one month this summer. Congratulations Michele! Now I leave you with some of my personal picks from the show:

Finally got a chance to hang out at my friend Adam5100's studio a couple of sundays ago. Adam is working diligently on his solo show that opens at the Stussy Store in the Haight this month. Then, in late May he's going to have a solo show at Rowan Morrison Gallery. Adam works really hard on his work. I'm super impressed with not only his abilities and working style, but also his work ethic and humble approach to all art making in general. I'm starting to wonder where that SECA nomination is right about now... ya know?

Adam's studio is very small for the scale of work he's doing.






This is a view of layers upon layers of intricately cut stencils.


Adam also does some really great figure stencils that are a little more character-like rather than from life.




Lucky for him, he works in relative privacy, so his mess offends few.