Category: Art

  • Radishes

    Radishes

    The Grocer’s little bunch of radishes went up on Damen avenue near a little cupcake bakery that I liked, i think it was called Sweet Cakes.

  • Carrots

    Carrots

    This bunch of carrots was painted and pasted up by The Grocer on Halsted near 18th in Pilsen in June 2007. This is one of my all-time favorite paintings in its street context. A few years later I created a version of this painting on panel for a friend.

  • Eggplants

    Eggplants

    One of The Grocer’s earliest, and never one of my favorites. I pasted this near Chicago avenue next to a great Rejoice piece, but i think it would’ve been better on a different colored wall. I revisited the subject of eggplants in depth later on a large panel for a show.

  • Asparagus

    Asparagus

    One of the first few Grocer paintings – a small and a large bunch of asparagus. The asparagus sketch shown below was what started the entire Grocer thing, but it wasn’t my first painting. These were both pasted up somewhere near Milwaukee and Damen in Wicker Park. The small one I put up near a…

  • Red Onions

    Red Onions

    This bunch of red onions was the first painting and paste-up The Grocer ever made. It was pasted on the iconic impromptu street art gallery building at the corner of Milwaukee and Grand.

  • Grocer sketches

    Grocer sketches

    A collection of sketches that became the first Grocer paste-ups.

  • Paintings from friends

    Paintings from friends

    This is a photo of my office wall from 2008. At the top is a triptych of Peabe’s. The blue bird stencil board is by Saro, and the lower right panel is by Revise. The white board was a work table that Vegan did a test spray on when he was over to tag a…

  • Sharpie drawings

    Sharpie drawings

    Just a couple of random sharpie drawings from 2006.

  • Small abstract paintings

    Small abstract paintings

    In the late 1990s my work was focused on small abstract paintings that were born out of the printmaking studio.