🫟 Sixteen (!) New Paintings

An explosion of color and magic to break up your year-end affective drain spiral

✨ List of available works and print order details here ✨

All proceeds go to the insane cost of remediating a dangerous mold situation we just found growing under a leaky pipe below our kitchen sink.

Below the artwork: an amazing conversation you may have missed and what’s coming next…

Once upon a time I used to paint at concerts for a living. Here’s the manifesto and here’s a glimpse of that life from my own point of view:

After a while I realized that one of the best parts of that was getting to talk to the people who came up to check out my works in progress. Not long after, a lot of them suggested I start a podcast, and the rest is history. But when I announced my retirement from live painting right before the COVID pandemic it was mostly because I had a baby and a full-time job and I just couldn’t do all the things at once. Now that kid is six years old, that job is long gone, and even though the American festival scene isn’t what it once was I’ve learned that I can’t just stop making art.

Luckily, my friend Mikäl Möhr, owner of Dotfoil Computer Services, is also an artist and musician who decided to turn half of his firm’s office space into the Santa Fe Artists Network: a maker space, lessons studio, and gallery aiming to disrupt the this city’s elite gallery culture by letting artists keep 100% of their sales. Mikäl honored me with the request to do the first solo show for SFAN and so the podcast feed went dark for the last month so I can produce more art in a month than I ever have since I started painting in 2007.

Our opening on Friday December 5th was delicious, with live ambient music and projection mapping by Dream Magic Infinity Shadow of Taos (clips here, here, and here) and documentary film coverage by Monty Montgomery of Space Helmet Pictures, who caught a half-hour clip of me riffing on the inspiration and various psych-future weirdness. I’ll share that video as soon as possible! In the meantime….

The whole show takes up two floors and two rooms so it’s hard to really capture the vibe in photos but here are some glimpses, followed by close-ups of each new piece:

Most of these are still available and I am, as usual, happy to work out all kinds of creative arrangements to make it as easy as possible for you to grab one. The show also includes the few remaining unsold pieces from my prior catalogue. You can find the complete list, more details, and MSRP in my deck of available original works here. And importantly, since Humans On The Loop is fiscally sponsored by the wonderful folks at HAPPI, you can score any of these as gifts for the according value and write it off as a tax-deductible donation.

Also, signed 11”x17” cardstock prints are $30 each plus s/h (typically around $8 for domestic US mail) or three for $70. I killed my online store and do all of this directly because I like putting direct relationships before transactions, so smash that “Reply” button if you’d like any!

All of these were made with acrylic paint markers (no brushes, so all transparency layers and gradients are through meticulous advanced finger-painting). All of them are ready to hang except the praying mantis, which is on a panel and easy to frame.

I’m also finding it incredibly difficult to stop painting, so commissions are open…

And now the paintings!

🐙 Nine Brains

Progress pics and some rants about this piece on Instagram here and here and here.

🐦‍🔥 Onward

🐸 Dendrobates tinctorius studies [SOLD]

Some context here.

👽 Bad Time To Be A Bug

Some context here.

🥚 Easter in Space

🥚 Easter in Hyperspace

🐟 Puddle Prince

Some context here.

🐞 ¿Quieres Combate? [SOLD]

Some context here.

💜 Coral Heart

🪼 Look Don’t Touch

🪻 Thistle studies

🌵 Danger Pickles [GIFTED]

Some context here.

💨 Scale-Free Arabesques

👁️‍🗨️ Laconic Paisley Eye

In Case You Missed It:

A powerful conversation with “thrutopian” novelist and conscious (r)evolutionary Manda Scott about saving the world from the death cult:

Coming Up Next:

• “The Underview Effect,” a long-form essay on space tourism and the politics of emergent planetary culture

• A new live cyberguitar EP recorded at Make Santa Fe for the Creative Mornings edition on Innovation (talk by Make’s Executive Director James Johnson)

• Episode 29 of Humans On The Loop with psychonaut and hyperhumanist futurist Carl Hayden Smith of the University of East London (a recent paper and Voicecraft appearance to whet your appetite)

Stay tuned, stay well, and happy holidays!