Tag: grocer
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New fruit for a friend
Finally got around to finishing this painting that i started maybe two years ago. I first completed the painting on paper, then mounted it on MDF, cut it out, sanded and painted the edges, then varnished. Now i just need to make time to drive to Madison so it can meet its owner, my long-time…
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Chopped the old tomato
The giant heirloom tomato painting that was hanging on the side of my garage for the past two years was getting ragged around the edges, so i finally took it down and chopped it up into these bits. Hopefully i can make use of them down the line. I’ll miss that big cheery tomato when…
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Tomatoes for Libby (process)
Started up on this painting I’m making for my lovely (former) coworker, Libby. These will end up pasted on an old window from her house 🙂
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The Grocer: more works on panel
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The Grocer: early works on panel
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The Grocer: more street work
More street installations from 2007 and 2008 by The Grocer.
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The Grocer: summer 2007
More works by The Grocer from the summer of 2007.
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The Grocer: first works
In the summer of 2007, I began making original fruit and veggie themed paste-ups and installing them on derelict walls in Chicago under the moniker “The Grocer.” At the time, these acrylic paintings on paper gave me a cathartic outlet that the “serious” paintings I was doing at the time didn’t provide. Below are some…
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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…