Saturday night was the Girl Skateboards Art Dump show “Make The Logo Wooden” at The Little Bird Gallery in Atwater village. It was a pretty small show with small mixed media works. Here are a few shots:
On Sunday we went up into the Angeles Forest and did a little swimming and a little wine & cheesing. The water was freezing, but it was a warm day, so it was pretty nice. We did some cliff jumps into the pool and sat in the sun.
After that, I made a stop by Cleon Peterson’s home studio to do a little interview for Anthem Magazine. The Peterson family is amazingly nice and Cleon’s work is ridiculously good. We had a nice talk about graphic design, what constitutes “real” painting, the Bush administration, and the controlled chaos that is captured in his work. The full interview and photos should post up on the site in a week or two and I will post a link when it does. Until then, here’s a little taste.
“Initially when I dropped out of high school, I was on the road to becoming a painter. I was into De Kooning and abstract expressionism, and modernist stuff. I was doing quirky landscapes and flower paintings and stuff like that. I’d had a lot of shows. But then I got into drugs and I just put it down; I just didn’t chase after it like I had initially.” - Cleon Peterson 4/26/09