Tag: painting
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Plums at Pontiac
The Grocer put up this collection of plums on one of the blue planters at Pontiac Cafe on Milwaukee avenue. The last photo was taken by someone else and posted to the internet.
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Mutant Cucumber
In 2008 I started looking for weirder source photos to work from, as I was wanting to branch out from all the normal fruit and veg. This painting came from a photo I found on the internet of a strangely grown cucumber. One of my all time favorite Grocer paintings. I believe this was on…
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Soup Fixins
The Grocer created these two small paintings for a food themed show that Revise was putting together in 2008. I purchased all of these veggies from the Wicker Park farmer’s market one day and photographed them in these exact arrangements. They were painted on paper and pasted on cutting boards. Both sold at the show.…
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The Grocer: early works on panel
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The Grocer @ Foursided Gallery
I had my first and only solo show as The Grocer at Foursided Gallery in October, 2007. I created over 20 works on panel and sold almost all but two of them.
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Grocer stickers and small stuff
I would often use the remaining paint on my palette to make little imaginary fruit paintings to paste up around.
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Ginger and Mushroom
These two 24×24″ panels was painted by The Grocer for his show at Foursided gallery. In the background of the ginger painting you can faintly see drawings of buildings that my son drew on the panel before I painted the background.
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The Grocer: more street work
More street installations from 2007 and 2008 by The Grocer.
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Trio of apples
These three apples by The Grocer went up on some scaffolding right above state street. You couldn’t miss them if you were walking north from Jackson.