Trophy Shot

2012-01-29T10:34:00.001-08:00

Sean Landers

2012-01-27T06:45:00.000-08:00

2012-01-26T17:26:00.000-08:00

i park in front of this rusting diesel engine every morning for work. it's pretty neat.

2012-01-25T17:57:00.000-08:00

this magic moment 2

2012-01-23T17:29:00.000-08:00

my new painting. oil on wood, 11"x14"

Wayne Billy 3

2012-01-19T18:36:00.000-08:00

Chooper action beat by Jesse Wiedel

a new collection of bloated guitar crud home recordings from me. let me know if you'd like a copy of it.

Tom Sanford

2012-01-14T10:22:00.001-08:00

I love Tom's new Dix-inspired portrait! Here's a link to this show.

Sonny Sharrock

2012-01-13T20:08:00.000-08:00

Sonny Sharrock plays wild guitar while Keith Haring draws

2012-01-11T17:22:00.000-08:00

Peter Doig

2012-01-08T11:19:00.000-08:00

"Echo Lake"

"Canoe Lake"

this magic moment

2012-01-05T20:55:00.000-08:00

my new painting. oil on wood. 11"x14"

2012-01-01T21:10:00.000-08:00

Top ten art shows of 2011

2011-12-30T11:53:00.000-08:00

1. Kenneth Anger at the LAMOCA. Wow! What a cool installation this was. His films were projected on screens hanging in a eerie red room with big red curtains. The man is the father of subversive filmmaking, and it's about time he had a retrospective!

2. "Art in the Streets" at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles. This was a great, crowded survey of graffiti art movements. The installations were over the top!

3. Michael C. McMillen "Train of Thought" at the Oakland Museum. What a treat to see a retrospective of McMillen's installations, paintings and films. It was like being transported into a haunted trailer park in the middle of a museum.

4. Ann Magnuson performs at the SFMOMA! Magnuson put on a dazzling performance of David Bowie and Jobriath songs, interspersed with her psychedelic monologues. She really utilized the dynamic museum entry space to full effect. It was like a rocknroll version of a Kenneth Anger film.

5. Nicole Eisenman at Suzanne Vielmetter gallery, Los Angeles. Great selection of new, large scale narrative paintings by the master! I felt really lucky to see this show.

6. "Five Car Stud, 1969-1972 Revisited" by Ed Keinholz at the LA County Museum. This powerful installation about racial hatred has been in storage for 40 years and now is finally restored and displayed beautifully at the museum. Being able to walk through this life-size piece is so unnerving. You look right into the eyes of the creeps.

7. Tracey Snelling "Ten Year Retrospective" at Rena Bransten gallery, San Francisco. It was such a treat to see so much of her detailed, intricate work all in one space. She combines sculptural constructions with film and photography to create a realistic looking fantasy world of strangeness.

8. William Leavitt "Theater Objects" at the MOCA, Los Angeles. I loved his painting of the Olive Motel.

9. "Hell" by Robyn O'Neil. I was lucky enough to see this epic artwork in person, which took her years of work to complete. It is three massive panels of graphite drawing, with thousands of hand-drawn cut-out figures forming the mountain shapes in this desolate landscape.

10. Matt Borruso at Steven Wolf gallery, San Francisco. I loved these intricate, sci-fi collages and his disturbing yet delicate drawings of deformed faces. Also, his film on display in this show was a two-panel projection of cinematic fight scenes on the subject of vision.

2011-12-23T10:36:00.000-08:00

2012 Jesse Wiedel calendars are here!

2011-12-19T12:41:00.000-08:00

click on this blog title for a link to this calendar if you'd like to order one! you can preview all the images for each month.

2011-12-18T19:45:00.000-08:00

land of evil, land of sin

2011-12-17T10:07:00.000-08:00

artwork and music by Exuma, early '70's

2011-12-15T22:30:00.001-08:00

wake

2011-12-14T17:36:00.000-08:00

by Trenton Duerkson

stanza

2011-12-12T17:06:00.000-08:00

by the great Dorothea Tanning. I was lucky enough to see this in person in Miami last week. such a strange image.

John Atherton

2011-12-11T09:05:00.000-08:00

2011-12-10T11:36:00.001-08:00

40 minutes of the Magik Markers live! what more can you ask for in life? except maybe better lighting?

2011-12-09T19:52:00.001-08:00

Stepanek and Maslin

2011-12-08T19:44:00.000-08:00

i loved the painting duo Stepanek and Maslin at the Purdy/Hicks booth at the Pulse fair. great to see collaborative painting that's not lame! click on this blog title to see more paintings by them.

more Basel highlights!

2011-12-06T20:46:00.000-08:00

this huge painting by Martin Wong at the PPOW part of the Seven fair. all the work at the Seven fair was top notch, but this thing was a life-size monster painting!

Nicole Eisenman's painting "What Would Torso Do?" at the Leo Koenig booth at Nada.

Monika Baer's painting "Rote Wand" at the Richard Telles gallery booth at Basel. i loved this baffling image.

Tracey Snelling with her intricate constructions at the Rena Bransten booth at Pulse!

some painting favorites from Basel

2011-12-05T18:30:00.000-08:00

Rodrigo Andrade, from a booth at Basel. the night sky was laid on really thick in this one. i liked it a lot.

Michael St. John, from the Andrea Rosen gallery booth at Basel

Brenden Lott, gorgeous painting from the Walter Maciel gallery booth at the Aqua fair.

David Kramer "Romantic Notions" from the Freight & Volume booth at the Pulse fair.

2011-12-04T23:28:00.000-08:00

a few photos from my trip to Miami Art Basel. more to come!

2011-11-27T17:03:00.000-08:00

poster i designed for this upcoming show in eureka.

2011-11-26T10:24:00.000-08:00

blowing chunks

2011-11-21T21:05:00.000-08:00

my new painting. oil on wood, 10"x20".

come all that is quiet

2011-11-21T17:10:00.000-08:00

by the great Robyn O'Neil

2011-11-20T09:30:00.000-08:00

2011-11-19T09:40:00.000-08:00

2011-11-17T19:53:00.000-08:00

2011-11-15T18:55:00.001-08:00

2011-11-13T21:28:00.001-08:00

2011-11-13T20:15:00.000-08:00

McKinley

2011-11-09T17:06:00.000-08:00

photo by Joel Gibson

2011-11-06T11:06:00.000-08:00

photo from my opening last night by Becky Gibson. i love it!

2011-11-04T22:32:00.000-07:00

sketch by my son

splinter cell

2011-11-03T16:48:00.000-07:00

illustration i did for a local band called Splinter Cell

Matt Borruso

2011-11-02T19:30:00.000-07:00

seen recently at Steven Wolf gallery in San Francisco

Tweeners Fall EP

2011-10-31T17:14:00.000-07:00

click on this blog title for a link to a free download of the Tweeners latest recordings. i did the little scratchboard drawing for the cover, and played some guitar on it.

carnival of faith

2011-10-30T08:53:00.000-07:00

clowns of turin

2011-10-26T18:20:00.000-07:00

by Jeffrey Vallance

mound

2011-10-25T17:25:00.001-07:00

Mound by Allison Schulnik from garaco taco on Vimeo.

by Allison Schulnik

2011-10-24T17:27:00.001-07:00

2011-10-23T18:51:00.000-07:00

2011-10-21T23:01:00.000-07:00

Guy Colwell

2011-10-18T19:12:00.000-07:00

"Epidemic", 2009. this was my favorite painting at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento.

Poultry Party!

2011-10-13T16:52:00.000-07:00

upcoming show in Eureka

2011-10-10T16:17:00.001-07:00

Lords of Myrtletowne

2011-10-09T12:00:00.000-07:00

my new painting. oil on canvas 24"x36"

psycho spaghetti western

2011-10-08T16:30:00.001-07:00

by Ed Ruscha

2011-10-07T20:41:00.001-07:00

2011-10-06T16:43:00.000-07:00

Four Rednecks are better than One

2011-10-02T12:04:00.000-07:00

a few selections from the terrific "Wild Wild West" show currently up at the Studio and Cheri Blackerby Gallery.

2011-09-30T19:41:00.000-07:00

harry crews

2011-09-29T17:43:00.000-07:00

i'm really enjoying reading his book "feast of snakes".

Heptu Bidding Farewell to the City of Obb

2011-09-25T16:46:00.001-07:00

John Duncan, 1909

Asian Women on the Telephone

2011-09-21T19:31:00.001-07:00

elle

2011-09-20T19:44:00.000-07:00

portrait of my co-worker. it came out really strange.
oil on panel 11"x14"

2011-09-16T18:14:00.001-07:00

Alexis Rockman

2011-09-15T16:30:00.000-07:00

a couple of his bigfoot-themed paintings from 2001.

2011-09-13T17:55:00.001-07:00

2011-09-12T20:06:00.000-07:00

Katarina Schmidl, "A Beautiful Piece of Austria," 2002

hell

2011-09-12T17:23:00.000-07:00

Charlie White

2011-09-11T10:49:00.001-07:00

the Tweeners at Bummerfest

2011-09-08T17:46:00.000-07:00

"Welcome to Eureka, pt 1"

"Welcome to Eureka, pt 2", and "A Certain Kind"

Bin Laden Hunter

2011-09-05T13:49:00.000-07:00

my new painting, oil on wood, 8"x10".

Faulkner is an unemployed construction worker who sold his tools to finance six trips to Afghanistan on what relatives have called a Rambo-type mission to kill or capture the al Qaeda leader. He was arrested when crossing into Pakistan carrying a pistol, a sword, and night-vision goggles.

Kienholz at LACMA 1969

2011-09-02T18:19:00.000-07:00

Tom Sanford

2011-08-31T17:10:00.000-07:00

sentimental and heartwarming new paintings by the great Tom Sanford currently on display at Poulsen gallery in Copenhagen.

Ana Mendieta

2011-08-30T18:11:00.000-07:00

"chicken piece" 1972.

Dan Attoe

2011-08-29T17:10:00.000-07:00

new works by the great Dan Attoe coming up at Peres Projects, Berlin.

the Cli-Ty

2011-08-23T19:03:00.000-07:00

Jim Dandy shows off the Black Oak Arkansas tour bus.

2011-08-22T16:32:00.000-07:00

2011-08-20T09:55:00.001-07:00

2011-08-19T16:40:00.001-07:00

Michael C. McMillen

2011-08-18T19:48:00.000-07:00

this show at the Oakland Museum was the summer blockbuster for me.

2011-08-17T19:06:00.000-07:00

potato sculpture

2011-08-14T17:03:00.000-07:00

a few highlights from the potato sculpture competition at the fair.

Brad Whitford of Aerosmith

2011-08-14T10:45:00.000-07:00

this was my favorite painting at the Humboldt County Fair. they get extra points for not painting Stephen Tyler or Joe Perry.

Forty Miles Behind

2011-08-12T19:47:00.000-07:00

i found some old flyers i "designed" back in the 80's for my band, 40 Miles Behind.

2011-08-09T16:57:00.000-07:00

the battle of evermore

2011-08-08T20:00:00.000-07:00

i reworked an older painting.

Llyn Foulkes

2011-08-06T21:08:00.000-07:00

i've been muttering this to myself a lot lately. the BASTARDS!

a river of beer

2011-08-03T19:18:00.000-07:00

my new painting. oil on canvas 30"x24"

Olivia Jaffe

2011-08-02T20:38:00.000-07:00

"Here we Are", photo as featured in the current issue of Beautiful Decay! click on this blog title for a link to her website. this photo reminds me of 29 Palms.

2011-07-30T16:24:00.000-07:00

my new painting. 11"x14" oil on panel.

target practice

2011-07-30T09:53:00.001-07:00

great series of photos by Nicole Jean Hill. click on this blog title for a link to the rest of this series.

ubergetrank

2011-07-23T18:27:00.000-07:00

my new painting. a illustration for a friend's upcoming movie. oil on canvas.

we, the masses

2011-07-23T11:39:00.000-07:00

We, The Masses Official Trailer from Eoghan Kidney on Vimeo.

trailer for a animated film based on the artwork of Robyn O'Neil.

Lucian Freud

2011-07-22T07:17:00.000-07:00

2011-07-21T07:19:00.000-07:00

cool performance by Glyn Styler.

mcville

2011-07-20T20:41:00.000-07:00

2011-07-19T20:22:00.000-07:00

mars bar

2011-07-19T07:08:00.001-07:00

sad to hear about the Mars Bar in nyc closing down. it was a truly grungy dive, and was always covered in original art inside and out.

2011-07-18T15:15:00.000-07:00

2011-07-14T19:46:00.000-07:00

here's another painting i did of Uncle Ray back in the '90's.

r.i.p. Uncle Ray of Light

2011-07-13T15:42:00.000-07:00

here's a painting i did a few years back of my uncle Raymond. sometimes referred to as "Uncle Ray of Light", or "Crazy Uncle Raymond". he was a chronic joke-teller and end-times prophet. the jokes and the prophecies blurred together until you wondered sometimes if the armageddon was somehow the punch line. when overhearing a conversation about art, Ray would always pipe in "I'm an artist, I draw flies."