thinking & making
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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…
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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.
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Grocer sketches
A collection of sketches that became the first Grocer paste-ups.
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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…
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Sharpie drawings
Just a couple of random sharpie drawings from 2006.
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Small abstract paintings
In the late 1990s my work was focused on small abstract paintings that were born out of the printmaking studio.
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Grapefruit
A simple grapefruit drawing from 1997, ten years before the Grocer became a thing.
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Joe’s Chicken Shack
I always liked this simple drawing that I made in the shack back in 1995. So many good and strange memories in that place.
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Gesture drawings
Gesture drawings from my time at MCAD, 1994-1995