Tag: chicago

  • Des Plaines river, after a storm

    Des Plaines river, after a storm

  • Sayre Park, Chicago

    Sayre Park, Chicago

    I just love the way this painting of a flooded field at Sayre Park turned out. This is my third daily painting.

  • Brooks Golden

    Brooks Golden

    I had the great pleasure of sharing a studio space with Brooks for a year or so just west of downtown. It was a great space and I spent countless hours there. Brooks was a friend and inspiration, and a stern critic and lover of my work. Tragically, Brooks passed away from health issues in…

  • Cut Watermelon

    Cut Watermelon

    This big cut watermelon is last and largest street installation by The Grocer in Chicago. I put this up on that great spot near Milwaukee and Damen. I love watermelon and I love this piece.

  • HOTBOX show

    HOTBOX show

    I got asked to make a few paintings for a mobile art gallery called the HOTBOX. The idea was that each month a different artist or group of artists would paint it, and then the inside would be a little gallery show/store or whatever. The theme was “Corner Store” and I made a big watermelon…

  • For Thee Viking

    For Thee Viking

    I made this banana boat paste-up as a note of appreciation for the street artist The Viking. I really liked a lot of the weird stickers and pasters he was doing at the time. A few photos I have of The Viking’s work. I met him once, and that was very nice. I think he…

  • The Grocer: more street work

    The Grocer: more street work

    More street installations from 2007 and 2008 by The Grocer.

  • The Grocer: summer 2007

    The Grocer: summer 2007

    More works by The Grocer from the summer of 2007.

  • An apple for Big Horse

    An apple for Big Horse

    There used to be a bar on Milwaukee avenue called Big Horse, but it had long since closed by the time we decided to feed this lovely horse an apple. A collaboration with my future wife, who painted her arm and hand whilst The Grocer painted the apple.