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.

The Blood Brothers, who are old, good friends of mine, were in town tonight, so I got to see them. Which was a nice excuse to take a break for doing schoolwork. I don’t get to see them that often, as they still live in Seattle, and I haven’t for about six years or so, but I get to see them a few times a year when they come through on tour.

I have finally had time to get some shooting in after a couple of weeks of pretty intense work.  The frustrating thing about practicing art is that for the majority of people, it is usually something that you do in addition to other things.  So even though I am in art school, sometimes finding the time to actually do art with all the other things that school and work require can be hard.  But such is life.

We had a going away party for my buddy TC who is moving back to NY today, and I have to say that after being here for a little over two years, I am a bit jealous of him.  If I didn’t have such a nice thing going for me at such great school, I would probably be doing the same.  Which isn’t to say that SF isn’t a great or beautiful city, because it is.  But lately I have been missing the East Coast, and want to go back.

At any rate, TC is a good friend, and I know that I will see him again.  And the circle of friends becomes even more spread out.

Anyways, on a technical note I also played with the page formatting so now I can (hopefully) post larger images without running into formatting issues.

Market Street, San Francisco

Found on Lower Haight Street

My school, The San Francisco Art Institute