Stephanie and the polar bears

My friend Stephanie and I went on a little trip down to the San Francisco Zoo on Monday. Surprisingly, it was my first time down there. Despite the issues with San Francisco’s less-than-stellar public transportation, we had pretty enjoyable time there.

Flamingos

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My best friend Zane was just in town for a few days, doing sound and tour managing. It was really good to see him, and catch up. He lives in LA and tours for a good part of the year, so we don’t get to see each other as much as we’d like to. So having him in town for two days was a real treat.

Karen in front of the de Young Museum

My friend Karen was in town this weekend from New York. We went around town, including the SFMOMA, and saw the new Felix Schramm exhibit there, which I would highly recommend if you happen to be in SF between now and September 30. Also, today we trekked out to Bernal Heights, to MaggieMudd’s, to get Karen a vegan sundae (which was pretty damn good).

Karen enjoying her vegan sundae and Philz coffee

Jenn Stein and Okwui Enwezor outside of the Shloss Wilhelmshohe, documenta 12, Kassel, Germany

I am back again from across the pond. Unfortunately, I was not able to post anything while I was there because a) internet connections were few and far between and b) I had a total of about 10 minutes the entire trip to check my email, we were so busy. But, it was an amazing trip. Follow the link for a chronological breakdown.

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Lunch with my good buddy, Josh

So, I am heading out for Europe tomorrow to do a couple of things. I will be posting updates and pictures here as often as I can, depending on what kind of connectivity I can get over there. See you on the other side.

If you are going to be in San Francisco, I’m going to have some work up at this show. It’s going to be up June 25th through the 29th with a closing party on the 29th. Check it out.

So, I really haven’t been posting much lately, but I have been really under the gun with the end of classes last week, this trip to Europe that coming up in a few weeks, work, and a few other assorted long term projects.

On the more immediate front, I have also been working on some new work for a show that will be going up at the end of June. (I will post the details when I get them, but the theme of the show is “Best Friends”) But the show goes up a few days after I get back from Europe, so I have been trying to get the work done before I go. I have been working with a new process, by combining low resolution GIFs into an HDR image. You can see one of the results up top. There are some problems that I am running into, but hopefully they will be solved by the time the show goes up.

So barrring some unforseen event, I am going to be going to Europe this June for some of the art fairs. I will be going to the Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Documenta, and skulptur projekte muenster. I will be going with my dean, Okwui Enwezor, who curated Documenta 11, and so we will be meeting with a lot of the artists and curators as we go to these different places. I am very excited about this, and it looks like it’s going be a lot of fun.

My friend Mego, né Meghan, surprised me and came into town this Friday, for an opening that I had. Last night we were able to finally catch up on the last year or so of goings on.