Faces of Death 2024

For the past 14 years I've contributed to the Faces of Death project (aka F.O.D). Despite its morbid name, F.O.D is a celebration of cultural, creative and/or interesting souls that have left us in the past year. It's an open call, and there's a list of people to choose from, the famous ones get usually get picked quick. But you can write one in, which I did with Cale Yarborough.

Cale Yarborough reminds me of an earlier, simpler time, before NASCAR become what it is today. He started out racing on dirt tracks and went on to win 3 NASCAR championships in a row!

I’m reminded of being young, playing with my slotcars, and watching the races on TV. Sometimes my Dad would take us out to the track on a Saturday night to see the races and maybe a demolition derby.

The parameters of the project require you to do a black & white image, with no grey scale, that can be scaled down to 2". They print t-shirts with 50+ characters per side! The first image is the one I submitted, the other 2 were too detailed.
Check out the instagram to see all the great submissions! @fod_project

#caleyarborough #nascar #drawing #portraiture #racing #culturalicons

Holiday Art Market

Please join us at the Brooklyn Safehouse for our annual Holiday Market. Affordable art, apparel and more by local artists and Safehouse regulars.

Spend $20 and get a free pint of IPA!

Sat December 9th 2pm until....

Artists include
Michael Farmer
Robert Lecuyer
Christine Coco Murray
Carri Skoczek
Chris Smith

Brooklyn Safehouse 120 Franklin St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn 

#holidaymarket #locals #localartists #brooklynartist #affordableart #artistsoninstagram
@carriskoczek @christinecocomurray @robroy_ltd @michaelfarmer184 @brooklyn_safehouse @subtexture_works

Calicornicopia 12

Join us this Friday for the last opening at Calico. And if you can’t make it to the opening stop by until the 17th and also check out the @dustyrosevintage pop up

Happy Holidays!
I’m excited to announce the 12th and final installment of our annual end-of-year affordable sart show, Calicornucopia. Join us on Friday, December 1st, 6-9pm for the opening reception of this 35-person group show featuring works priced $300 or less. Expect a wide range of styles and mediums in this cash-and-carry exhibition (artwork can be taken home at time of purchase) from artists you’ve come to expect in the Calico roster as well as some newcomers.

Exhibiting artists include: Adam Void, Amanda Browder, Anna Kiljunen, Ben Cowan, Caroline Burghardt, Chris Bruneaux, Chris Smith, Christian DeFilippo, Colleen Blackard, Cyd Gottlieb, Damion Silver, David B. Smith, Deirdre McConnell, Eric Mavko, Hannah Lamar, Jennifer Caviola, Jessica Campbell, John Adam Blum Fahey, John Mckanna, Jon Legere, Julian Rapp, Julie Parsons, Kate Nielsen, Kit Tyson, Mark Mann, Michael Hambouz, Rich Cali, Rob Raphael + Lauren Houston, Sandy McGuire, Sara Cervantes, Scott Ackerman, Scott Chasse, Steph Becker, Todd Koelmel, and Victoria Cuenca
@subtexture @calico.ny

Odd Ducks at Mallard Drake

Join us for the opening night at The Mallard Drake and the opening of our group art show.
You might remember the space as The Diamond, Tony from the Brooklyn Safehouse has done a great job of transforming the bar and we've hung art throughout the space.
Friday February 17th
Mallard Drake
43 Franklin Street (at Calyer), Greenpoint Brooklyn
Free beer from 7-10pm!
Curated by Chris Smith, this group show features members of the Brooklyn-based Maggot Brain Collective, which started as figure drawing group 8 years ago and has fostered numerous collaborations and exhibits.
Featuring
Mark Albright @selfindulgence20
Monte Antrim @monteantrim
Christine Coco Murray @aperfectbag
Sharilyn Neidhardt @sharilynneidhardt
Carri Skoczek @carriskoczek
Chris Smith @subtexture
@the_mallard_drake @brooklyn_safehouse #grandopening #groupshow #artshow #brooklynartist #greenpointers #greenpoint

Musicians at Brouwerij Lane

Please join me at Brouwerij Lane where l’ll be showing some of the musician pieces that I’ve been working on for the past couple years. I’ve been making some larger pieces and the tall walls  at Brouwerij are a perfect place to show them. And they have some great beers to taste while you enjoy the art!

Opening Thursday October, 20th 6-9pm
Brouwerij Lane
78 Greenpoint ave. 
Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

About the work
I've been going out and drawing live music in Brooklyn for many years at places like Troost and Pete’s Candy Store. I make small sketchbooks that fit in my back pocket and draw loose line drawings, mostly in the dark, so I really don't see the drawing until later. I then take those small drawings as starting points for larger pieces on canvas, wood panels and paper.

This video is made from drawings I did while watching local band the Whimbrels practice.

CALICORNUCOPIA 11

For the 10th year I am taking part in Calicornucopia the annual end-of-year / small works / affordable art show at Calico Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I’ll be showing a couple of my musician paintings and will also have some Greenpoint t-shirts and refrigerator magnets for sale.

Please join us on Thursday, December 16th, for the opening reception or drop by during our pre-holiday hours on the 17th, 18th, and 19th. Full press release below - hope to see you soon!

PRESS RELEASE
Calico Presents:
CALICORNUCOPIA 10
December 16, 2021 - January 23, 2022
Opening Thursday, Dec 16, 6-9pm
67 West St, suite 203 • Brooklyn, NY 11222
calicobrooklyn.com • calicobrooklyn@gmail.com

Calico is pleased to present the 10th edition of our annual end-of-year / small works / affordable art show: Calicornucopia. Over 50 selected works by artists from NYC and beyond will be on display in this salon-style exhibition featuring paintings, drawings, prints, textiles, ceramics, and more. Everything is priced $300 or less, and sales for this show are cash-and-carry beginning the night of the opening reception, Thursday, December 16th. 

Calicornucopia is a yearly tradition at Calico, bringing together artists, art lovers, and neighbors from Greenpoint and the surrounding area. For those in the market for one-of-a-kind gifts and great deals, the gallery will also be open on Friday 12/17, Saturday 12/18, and Sunday 12/19, 1-6pm each day. All works in this show will also be available for secure online purchasing via our website beginning December 17th. 

Calico will be closed on Christmas weekend and New Year’s Day, then the exhibit will continue through January 23rd.

Exhibiting artists include: Adams Puryear, Adam Void, Allison Maletz, Amanda Browder, Anna Kiljunen, Anna Hart Turner, Caroline Burghardt, Chris Smith, Christian DeFilippo, Colleen Blackard, Elana Adler, Hannah Lamar, John Fleming, John Mckanna, Julian Rapp, Julie Parsons, Kate Nielsen, Kirkland Bray, Lauren Houston, Lauren Silberman, Mark Mann, Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Robert Raphael, Steph Becker, and more TBA.

For additional information please contact Scott Chasse, Gallery Director:  calicobrooklyn@gmail.com

Brooklyn Safehouse Holiday Art Show

We had a great time at the Annual Holiday Art Show at Brooklyn Safehouse last week. The opening reception was sponsored by Stella and their rep (and my old friend) Bob Levitt got some great shots of us with our art (and repping the product!). I curated the show which features 9 local artists and we had a successful art fair, almost everyone sold their wares!

We paint as we dream, alone. Group show at SAGE

WE PAINT AS WE DREAM, ALONE

REFLECTIONS ON MUSIC, CARS & POP CULTURE FROM:

MONTE ANTRIM * MARK ALBRIGHT * JASON MITCHELL * CHRIS SMITH

Please join us for a group show of 4 artists who've lived in the same vicinity and have gotten drunk at the same bars for 20-odd years.

They haven't always known each other, but they've breathed the same air and drank the same water. We can't say that they see the world the same way, but there is a similar sensibility in the way that they work.

They all draw from life, collaging and working out ideas in spiral bound sketchbooks, homemade notebooks, and blackbooks held together with hot glue and duct tape.

This show has them getting out of the books and up on the walls. Enjoy!

November 18th to January 19th, 2022

SAGE
299 Graham ave, BK NY 11211
www.sageongraham.com

Radiator residency update

The last few weeks in the studio have been great! I’ve been trying to get over here everyday (but skipped a couple of those heat wave days)

Doing a bunch of musician pieces abd slowly working on the Ratrods. I need to remind myself that it’s not a race, I don’t need to finish anything. That said, these are all works in progress.

@radiatorarts #radiatorresidency #studiolife #worksinprogress #artstudio #brooklynartist @subtexture #subtexture #painting #painter

Setting up

Day 1 - getting set up!

I brought over a bunch of supplies, let’s see where this goes.

Radiator Residency

I’m excited to announce that I have a residency at Radiator Arts in LIC for the month of August. I have a giant room with a view of the Queensboro bridge for the month! Psyched to have some big walls to work on, I brought some large panels that I’ve been hoarding. I’ll be working on few things including Ratrods on road signs and I’ll be scaling up my musician pieces. Stayed tuned for updates and follow @subtexture_works to see shots of works in progress

The Other Other Art Fair

For the past couple years I’ve been curating the “Other Other Art Fair” at Brooklyn Safehouse, which is located across the street from the Greenpoint Expo center where the Other Art Fair is located.
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The true alternative Art Fair!

Please join us at the Brooklyn Safehouse for a group show of 5 local artists.

July 22nd - 25th

Featuring:

Monte Antrim, Mark Albright, Rob Erickson, Sharilyn Neidhardt, Chris Smith

Located across the street from that other art fair that's happening at the Greenpoint Expo Center.

Brooklyn Safehouse
120 Franklin St., Greenpoint
G train to Greenpoint Ave.

Come and meet the artists!

Actual live Brooklyn-based artists will be on site live in-person.

We'll be hanging out all weekend and we will be sharing sketchbooks and there will be prints, drawings and other smaller works available for sale.

@monteantrim @sharilynneidhardt @visual_mechanics_inc @selfindulgence20 @subtexture #artfair #brooklynartist #alterativeart #greenpoint #artforsale #affordableart @brooklyn_safehouse

Self-Indulgence vs Subtexture

Self-Indulgence vs Subtexture

 In this corner, we have Subtexture a.k.a. Chris ‘Smitty’ Smith – Greenpoint’s champion.  For over 20 years, Smitty has been absorbing his neighborhood’s aesthetics, painting on signs and other found objects. His work is of the street and for the people. 

In the other corner, from the Southside of Williamsburg, we have Self-Indulgence a.k.a. Mark Albright.  Another artist who gets his inspiration from his Brooklyn neighborhood.  His love of spray paint and stencils, mirror the street art he admires. 

 Smitty and Mark met at the Brooklyn Ale House over a decade ago.  Both are members of the Maggot Brain art collective, of which Smitty is the founder.  We would like to thank our neighbor, Sage for hosting our art show.

A nice birthday present

Featured on Saatchi’s New This Week Collection

This is a great birthday present! One of my pieces has been chosen to be featured in the upcoming New This Week Collection on Saatchi Art's homepage on my birthday!

Maggot Brain Remote

Over the summer I’ve been hosting a remote drink and draw with our group the Maggot Brain Collective.
We’ve been using Zoom and the music thing started out rough, but once I learned how to share my music, we were all set! For those of you who may not know, we don’t rely on clocks, we have playlists and we draw to the length of the playlist, which is usually 7-11 minutes long and may include multiple songs.

I set up a life size video projection to draw from, which was pretty nice, but not the same thing!

The interesting thing is that we were all drawing from the same position, I want to do a group show where we show all the drawings of the same pose together.

Balancing Act

Here are some pieces that have been in the works for a while. The backgrounds have multiple layers that I’ve been adding to for a while. I was looking through a book of old circus photos and the connection was made.

Rumblers and Tacos

One of my Rumblers mashups was on SNL in the del Taco skit last Saturday, Jan 25th, 2020

An actor (Kyle Mooney) in a commercial gets notes on his delivery from the director (Beck Bennett) and an executive (Adam Driver).

The other piece next to it was done by Mark Richards, aka autovac. A close friend who is also part of the g-spot collective

An actor (Kyle Mooney) in a commercial gets notes on his delivery from the director (Beck Bennett) and an executive (Adam Driver).

streetshadows and a cup of joe

A trio of my streetshadows pieces was on the wall of “Domenico’s Coffee” in this skit on SNL on Sept 29th 2018

Newlyweds (Adam Driver, Cecily Strong) are shocked to find out a secret about the Domenico's coffee they're drinking.

Scavengers show at Brooklyn Fireproof

This is the piece I made for “Scavengers” a group show of art made or sourced via Scavenging. We were each given a case in which to install our work. So I made a custom piece that fit the space exactly.

”The increased adoption of found and salvaged materials in fine art is a response to the excesses and overproduction inherent to late-stage capitalism. As the global markets produce goods more cheaply and quickly, the value inherent in those things plummets resulting in a glut of garbage. Simultaneously, culture and media are experienced more and more in the realm of the digital, opening a space for artists to work with castoff materials to create something new and meaningful. One persons trash is another person's treasure, and as social media connects lofts in Manhattan to the alleys of Bangkok to the backwaters of Shenzhen, we see that cycle of production, waste, and reclamation in ever sharper resolution. Scavenging is an exercise of creative serendipity, and artists have an opportunity to show a drowning world a more resourceful way forward.”

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Ouija boards and bullying

My art was featured in the “Ouija” skit of SNL on May 18, 2019.

A group of girls (Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner) summon a demon (Melissa Villaseñor) using a Ouija board. Their father (Paul Rudd) chastises the girls for bullying the demon